Compare 1587 edition: 1 Other of them iudging this to be but a craftie and ſome ſubtile practiſe of the enimies deuiſed of purpoſe, as it was in deede, to diſcomfort them with, abode by it ſtill, manfully continuing in fight, till they were beaten downe and ſlaine in maner euery mothers ſonne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This victorie beeing thus hardly got, coſt more mens liues than any other had done of ma|ny yeares before:Twentie thou|ſand of Scots and Pictes ſlaine. for of the Scottes and Pictes being vanquiſhers, there dyed in that mortal bat|tail aboue .xx. thouſand men togither with Mor|dred,Mordred is ſlaine. and a great number of the nobilitie of both the Nations.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Of the Brytains and ſuch other as were with them in ayde, there were ſlaine what in battaile and in the chaſe, at the poynt of .xxx. thouſand,Arthure with xxx. thouſand Brytains ſlain. Gawan is ſlain a|mong whom was Arthure himſelf, with Gawan or Galuan, (aſ ſome bookes haue) brother vnto Mordred, who bare ſuch good wil and entier loue vnto his Lord and maiſter the ſayd Arthur, that he fought that day moſt earneſtly on his ſide a|gainſt his own natural brother y^e ſayd Mordred.