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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Diuers of the Scottes diſcomfited with this great miſhap, fell to running away: other kin|dled with more wrath layde aboute them more egerly. The Picts alſo, for their part fought moſt conſtantly, ſo that the battell continuyng till noone dayes with doubtful ſucceſſe, at length the Brytains were conſtreyned ſomething to giue backe,The Brytains are put to flight. and after taking themſelues to fearefull flight, declared that the victorie remayned with theyr enimies.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There died in this mortall battell neare to the point of .xvj. thouſande of the Brytains, and of the Scottes and Pictes aboue .xiiij. thouſand with Dongard the Scottiſh king.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conſtantine the daye nexte after the battaile, withdrew ſouthwardes. The Scots carryed a|way with them the corps of their dead king, and conueying it into the Ile of Iona, nowe called Colmkill, there buried it in kingly wiſe. Don|garde was thus ſlayne, in the fyfth yeare of hys reigne after the byrth of our Sauior .475. yeares and about the ſeconde yeare of Zeno the Empe|rour.465. H.B. S. of Leo. H. B.

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