Compare 1587 edition: 1 So both ſides beeing fully bent to battayle, and approched within daunger of ſhot, they lette flie the ſame moſt egerly,The battailes ioyne. albeit that through ha|ſting forth to ioyne at hande ſtrokes, there was little hurt done with bowes or dartes.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottes crying vpon the name of their worthie and moſt famous auncetter king Gald, layde aboute them moſte fiercely after they came once to the ioyning: and lykewiſe the Romains being encouraged with the chearefull wordes of the Lieutenant Maximus,Doubtfull fight. boldely encountered them, ſo that it was doubtfull at the firſt whe|ther part ſhould haue the worſe ende of the ſtaffe: but ſhortly there followed variable ſucceſſe, for on the one part, they of Roſſe and Mar, being ap|poynted vnder Ethodius to encounter that wing of the enimies where the Pictes were, fought ſo egerly and with ſuch fierce willes,Ethodius ouer throweth the Pictes. that they eaſi|ly put the Pictes vnto flight, beating downe a great number of them as they woulde haue paſ|ſed the water of Dune, but ſtreight wayes after fallyng to the ſpoyle, they were ſlayn downright by a legion of ſuche Romaines as were ſente by Maximus vnto the ſuccours of the Pictes.The Scots ha|uing vanqui|ſhed the Picts, are ſlaine by the Romain [...]