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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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was in the morning anone after the Sunne was vp, whereas he was not looked for till the euening following, inſomuche that the fame his ſodaine arriuall chauncing ſo farre con|trarie to theyr former expectations, troubled all their heads, and brought them into a great maze, for that hereby they were conſtrained to chaunge the order of theyr battailes to haue the ſunne on their backes, as they had prouided at the fyrſt it ſhould haue bene, if the enimies had not come vn|till the after noone.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Yet notwithſtanding, they had no ſooner chaũ|ged their place, and gotten themſelues into array of battaile againe,The Scottes giue the onſe [...] but that with great violence they preaſſed forwarde to giue the onſet vpon the Romaines. Which Maximus perceyuing, made all the ſpeede he coulde, to ſet his men in order of battaile, that he might receyue his enimies com|ming thus to encounter him.

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