Compare 1587 edition: 1 Eugenius in the meane time vnderſtãding y^e cõming of his enimies, muſtred his people,Eugenius pre|pareth an ar|mie to defend his countrey. & ap|pointed the aſſemble to be made in the countrey of Kyle, whiche way hee heard that his enimies would trauayle. Thither came alſo not only al the able men of the Scottiſh dominiõs, but like|wiſe a great number of luſtie and ſtrong womẽ apt to beare armure,Women vſed to the warres. according to the old accu|ſtomed guiſe of theyr nation, ſo that there were numbred in this armie .l.M.The number of the Scottiſh armie. perſons right fierce and hardie, deſirous either to vãquiſh the enimie with dinte of ſworde, or els to die preſently in the place.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Maximus hearing that the Scots were thus encãped in Kyle, marched towards thẽ, & lodged the ſame night not far off frõ the riuer of Mũda,The approche of Maximus towardes the Scottes. where knowledge was giuen vnto Eugenius, y^t Maximus was come within .v. miles of him, with a greater armie, than he had at his laſt en|coũtring w^t him in Galloway. Theſe aduertiſe|ments cauſed no ſmall ſturre to be rayſed in the cãpe, ſome being ſtrikẽ with preſent feare, where other cõtrarywiſe moued with high indignatiõ, deſired nothing ſo much as to ioyne in battell w^t the Romains, whoſe cruell tirannie they very much deteſted. Eugenius himſelfe ſhewed no countenance of feare at all, but encouraging his people with comfortable wordes,Eugenius cõ|forteth his people. he brought thẽ ſtreight in order of battell, deuided into thrée wardes, cõmitting one of them to the leading of his brother Ethodius, & the ſecõd to Doalus the gouernour of Argile, reſeruing the .iij. to himſelf. EEBO page image 89 This done, he made vnto them a pithie oration, declaring how neceſſarie it was for them to play the men, conſidering that in victorie conſiſted the onely hope of libertie, and in beeing vanquiſhed, theyr Countrey was endaungered to be brought into perpetuall bondage for euer, for the onelye marke which the Romains ſhotte at, was to op|preſſe the libertie of the whole Ilande, and to re|duce the lame into the forme of a Prouince, to be gouerned at the wil of the victorers, to the breach of all their olde auncient lawes, and long con|tinued cuſtomes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 With theſe and many other like reaſons hee went about to encourage the myndes of his ſub|iects, in ſuch wiſe, that in maner the moſt part of them determined rather to die with honour, than to liue in ſuch miſerie, as they feared woulde en|ſue if the victorie ſhoulde reſt vpon the Romains ſide.The ſodaine arriuall of Maximus. And as they were in ſuch talke togither, ſo|dainly commeth in one of theyr ſcoutes wyth newes, that Maximus with his armie was euen at hande.