Compare 1587 edition: 1 Congall the Scottiſhe king perceyuing the enimies to make readie for bataile,The Scottiſhe and Pictiſhe kings exhorte their people to fight valiãtly. went likewiſe amongſt his folkes, and exhorted them in the beſt wiſe he coulde, to play the men. The like did Galanus the Pictiſhe king amongſt his people, omitting nothing that might encourage them to fight manfully.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this,The battayle is beg [...]nne. the batayles on bothe ſides com|ming forewarde to ioyne, the arrowes and dartes flewe freſhly betwixte them, but neyther parte minding to giue place for all the ſhotte: at length they ioyned at hande blowes, firſte the Brytains in the right wing, with the Scottes in the left wing:The Bryta [...]s flee. but the Brytaines not able long to endure agaynſt the force of the Scottes, gaue backe and fledde. In the meane while came a great ſhower of rayne, mixte with ſuche a tempeſt of hayle, that the hardieſt there wiſhed himſelfe thence,A great tẽpeſt. the ſtorme beating ſo faſt vpon them, that one might vnneath ſee an other, ſo that the Scottiſh menne and Pictes wiſte not whether were better to purſue the Brytains that fledde, or to keepe their places.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the other parte the Saxons according to theyr maner in time of any preſent daunger,The Saxons cloſe them|ſelues togi|ther. clo|ſed themſelues togither and drewe neare vnto theyr chiefetayns ſtanderd. Finally the tempeſt no ſooner beganne to ceaſſe, but the Scottes and Pictes leauyng their order of battayle, fell to followe the chaſe of the Brytaines,The Scots & Pictes purſue the Brytains. ſuppoſing the victorie had bin wholly theirs. Which y^e Saxõs (now after that the element began to cleare vp) EEBO page image 115 playnely perceyuing, by commaundement of theyr generall Hengiſt,The Saxons aſſayle the Scots & Pictes diſordered in purſute of the Brytains. aſſayled the Scottes and Pictes here and there diſperſed aboute the ſpoyle and ſlaughter of the Brytains, and made ſuche murder of them on euery ſide where they found them, that pytie it was to beholde. Thoſe that eſcaped by flight, neuer ſtayed till they were gotten into places farre ynough out of daunger.