Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Captaines of the Pictes waying with thẽſleues the loſſe of their king & great multitude of their mẽ,The pictes fled by night. thought it not beſt to abide any lon|ger in the field: wherfore leauing their wounded people behind them, with all their baggage in the cãpe, they fled inctõinently the ſame night, ſome into one place, & ſome into an other, where they thought beſt for their owne welth and ſafetie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scots had fled immediatly likewiſe, but that word was brought them, as they were a|bout to depart how the Picts were gone alredy, and had left their campe voyde of men of warre to defende the ſame. Whervpon the Scottes ta|ryed til it was day not far from the place of the battail. In the morning there wer certain horſ|men apoynted to ride abrode, & to viewe y^e fielde, therby to vnderſtand whether y^e Picts ment any deceite by their departure, as by laying of ſome embuſhmẽts, or otherwiſe, but vpon y^e return of thoſe horſmẽ: whẽ it was once known how ther was no ſuch mater, but y^t they wer fled in dede, y^e Scots reioycing therat,The Scots de|uide the ſpoile. fel to & gathered y^e ſpoile of the fielde, deuiding the ſame amongſt them|ſelues according to their accuſtomed order.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 171Alpine himſelfe commaunded the bodie of his enimie Feredeth to be layde in chriſtian buriall,Feredeth is buried. not farre from Forfair. After this cauſing the muſters of his people to be taken, he found that he had loſt y^e third part of his armie in that mor|tall and cruell battaile, and therevpon brake vp his campe for that tyme, licencyng thoſe that were left aliue to returne vnto their homes.