Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were both the kings of Scots & Picts, Ferguſe and Durſtus,The Scottes and Pictes aſ|ſembled a|gaynſt the Romaines. with Dionethus naming himſelfe king of the Britaines, who had brought with him beſide the Welchmen a great number of thoſe Brytaynes that inhabited in the Coun|treys now accounted the marches of Wales, the which onely amongſt al other the Brytaines ac|knowledged him for king.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 When both the armies were come neare to|gither,The armies prepare to battaile. they camped for that night the one in ſight of the other, and in the morning following they prepared themſelues to battail Ferguſe firſt ma|king an earneſt oration vnto his people to encou|rage them the more boldly to giue the onſet,Ferguſe exhor+teth his people to do valiantly de|clared amongſt other things how the right was on theyr ſide,Right mini|ſtreth hope of good ſucceſſe. which alwayes ought to miniſter hope of good ſucceſſe in them, that enterpriſe any thing in defence thereof, where contrarily all ſuch as attempted to diſquiet other by iniury & wrong doing, could not but looke for an euill concluſion of their malicious intentes and purpoſes. Ney|ther were other of his captaines negligent in their duties, but that both in exhorting theyr bandes, they vſed moſt comfortable wordes, and in diſ|poſing them in good order of battaile, they ſhewed moſt readie and earneſt diligence.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the other ſide, Maximianus with hys Captaines and officers of bandes were as buſie on their ſide to array their battailes moſt for their aduauntage, as they ſaw cauſe and occaſion, ſo that both the armies being readie to fight,The onſet is giuen. the on|ſet was giuen, and that in moſte furious wyſe, the Romaines beeing at the firſt ſore annoyed [figure appears here on page 101] with arrowes and dartes, which ſlew ſo thicke from eche ſyde, that theyr ſight was in manner taken from them, the Skie ſeeming as it had beene couered ouer with a Pentiſe.Maximianus perceyuing the diſaduantage prouideth to remedie the l [...]e. So that Maximianus perceyuing this diſaduauntage, he cauſed a freſhe Legion of his Souldiers to ad|uaunce forwarde to the ſuccour of their fellowes, by reaſon whereof, the battayle was forth wyth moſt cruelly renued, the hyndermoſt wings of the Romaines ſore preaſſing vpon their [...] ſo that in the ende paſſing quite through theyr battayles,The Scottes diſordered. they cauſed a great diſorder and fears amongeſt thoſe Scottes and other theyr confe|derates, whiche were placed in the hindermoſt EEBO page image 102 rankes, but yet caſting themſelues in a ring, they made great and ſtout reſiſtance for a ſpace, and at length a great number euen of the moſt vali|ant perſonages of the whole hoſt cloſed themſel|ues togither, and with a maine force aſſayed to haue broken through the thickeſt preaſſe of theyr enimies, but being enuironed about on eche part, they were there ſlaine eche mothers ſonne. Whi|leſt the Romaines drew togither to reſiſt on that ſide, other of the Scottiſhe men, Pictes, Bry|taynes and Welchmen, founde a way to gette forth through their enimies on the other ſyde, and ſo being gotten paſt them, made away as faſt as their feete might beare them: But a great num|ber being notwithſtanding ouertaken, were ſlain and beaten downe right pitifully.