Compare 1587 edition: 1 Alpine beholding forth of the caſtell, how the Pictes approched to giue battayle, got him into the campe, & exhorting his people to ſhew them ſelues valiant, diſpoſed them in array.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Picts no leſſe deſyrous to fight thã their gouernours woulde haue wiſhed them,Raſhly the pictes begyn the battayle. beganne the battaile before they had commaundemente with ſuch violence, that the righte wing of the Scottes was ſore diſordered.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But Alpine perceiuing that, came ſpeedyly to their ſuccours, greatly reprouing them for their fayntneſſe of courage. To be ſhort, he didde ſo muche to enbolden them that by his meanes the fighte was renued in moſte cruell wyſe. In ſo muche that thoſe whiche before were put backe, began to winne grounde agayne, and to beate downe their enimies right fiercely.