Compare 1587 edition: 1 Many other arguments were alledged & layd forth to remoue feare out of their hartes, and to incorage them to fight,The Scottes through com|fortable words of an oration recouer newe courages. inſomuch that in the end it appeared the ſame wrought the wiſhed effect, in ſuch wiſe, that they generally requyred bat|taile, offering to liue and die at theyr Captaynes feete, and to follow them whither ſoeuer it ſhould pleaſe theyr kings & liege lords to appoynt them.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herewith the kings being ſatiſfied, forth they march towardes their enimies, whome they found readie to receyue them, and that with ſuch rigorous violence, that in the ende after greate ſlaughter made on both partes,The Scots and Pictes are put to flight. the Scottes and Pictes were put to flight, the Saxons purſuing in the chaſe till the darke night cauſed them to withdraw and returne into their campe.