Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The Romans therefore being well appointed with armor and broad targets, [...]lue downe right a great number of these Scots and Picts thus slenderlie furnished, without receiuing anie great damage a|gaine at their hands, till king Gald appointed his spearemen to step forth before those archers & kerns, to succor them, and therewith also the bilmen came forward, and stroke on so freshlie, that the Romans were beaten downe on heaps, in such wise that they were néere at point to haue bene discomfited, had A cohort of Germans re|stored the Ro|mane side néere at point to haue had the worse. not a band of Germans (which serued amongst the Romans) rushed foorth with great violence vpon the Scotishmen, where most danger appeared, and so re|stored againe the fainting stomachs of the Romans, whereby the battell renewed on both sides againe right fierce and cruell, that great ruth it was to be|hold that bloudie fight, and most vnmercifull mur|ther betwixt them, which continued with more vio|lence The night seuereth the armies in s [...]|der & parteth the [...]ray. The Romans withdraw to their campe, & the Scots to the moun|teins. on the Scotish side than anie warlike skill, till finallie the night comming on, tooke the daies light from them both, and so parted the fraie. The Romans withdrew to their campe: and the Scots and Picts with their confederats the Danes, Norwegians, and Irishmen, such as were left aliue, got them into the next mounteins, hauing lost in this cruell con|flict the most part of their whole numbers.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 ¶ Cornelius Tacitus agréeth not in all points with the Scotish chronicles, in a booke which he wrote of the life of Iulius Agricola, where he intreateth of this battell. For he speaketh but of thirtie thousand Sée more hereof in the historie of England. men (which he comprehendeth vnder the generall name of Britains) to be assembled at that time a|gainst the Romans, making no mention of anie Scots, Picts, Irishmen, Norwegians, or Danes, that should be there in their aid. The number of them The number of them that were slaine at this battell. that were slaine on the Britains side (as the same Tacitus recounteth) amounted to about ten thou|sand men, and of the Romans not passing three hun|dred and fortie. Amongst whom was one Aulus At|ticus, a capteine of one of the cohorts. But as the Scotish writers affirme, there died that day of Scots, Picts, and other their confederates at the point of twentie thousand, and of the Romans and such as serued on their side, as good as twelue thou|sand. Moreouer, the night following, when Galdus with the residue of his people which were left aliue was withdrawne to the mounteins, and that the huge losse was vnderstood by the wiues and kinswo|men of the dead, there began a pitifull noise among them, lamenting and bewailing their miserable case and losses.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 But Gald, doubting least the same should come Women be|waile their friends. to the eares of some espials, that might lurke neere to the place where he was withdrawne, caused an huge shout and noife to be raised by his people, as though it had béene in token of some re [...]ising, till EEBO page image 59 the women bewailing thus the deth of their friends, might be remooued out of the way. This doone, they fell to take counsell what was best to doo in this case: and in the end all things considered, it was determi|ned that somewhat before the dawning of the next morrow, euerie man should dislodge and withdraw himselfe into such a place as he thought most méet The Scotish men & Picts breake vp their campe. for his safegard, saue onelie such as were appointed to attend Gald and Garnard into Atholl, whither they minded with all spéed to go.