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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The women that were amongeſt the Pictes, of whome there was no ſmall number, ſpecial|ly in the right wing,The women were ca [...]umber to the pictes. made ſuche a woeful noyſe when they behelde the men one kill an other, that they were a more encumber to the Picts thã ayd when it came to the poynt of ſeruice: by reaſon wherof, that wing was ſhortly beaten downe, and put to flight.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Kenneth with the horſmen diſordred the pictes aray.Whiche when Kenneth behelde, hee ſette in with his horſemen on the backes of the Pictes, now left bare by the running thus away of thoſe in the foreſayd wing: and ſo entring in amongſt them, diſordred their aray in ſuche wiſe, that by no meanes they were able to ayde themſelues, or come into any order agayne,The right wing of the pictes is put to flighte. ſo that in the ende they were fayne to throw down their weapons, and take them to their feete, thereby to eſcape the daunger.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Suche heapes of ſlayne men, armure & wea|pons lay here ſtrewed in the place of the battail, that the Scottes were inforced in followyng the chaſe to breake their araye, ſo to paſſe the more ſpeedily: by meanes wherof, fallyng amongeſt wholle bandes of the Pictes, manye of them were ſlayne.

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