Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Diuers of the Scots discomfited with this great mishap, fell to running awaie: other kindled with more wrath laid about them more egerlie. The Picts also, for their part fought most constantlie, so that the battell continuing vntill noone daie with doubtfull successe, at length the Britains were constreined The Bri|tains are put to flight. something to giue backe, & after taking themselues to fearfull flight, declared that the victorie remained with their enimies. There died in this mortall battell néere to the point of 16 thousand of the Britains, and of the Scots & Picts aboue 14 thousand, with Don|gard and the Scotish king. Constantine the day next after the battell, withdrew southwards. The Scots carried away with them the corps of their dead king, and conueieng it into the Ile of Iona, now called Colmekill, there buried it in kinglie wise. Dongard was thus slaine, in the fift yéere of his reigne, after the birth of our Sauior 475 yeeres, and about the se|cond 465. H. B. 8. of Leo. H. B. Constan|tine. Constantine the first of that name is crea|ted king of Scots. yéere of Zeno the emperor.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 AFter him succéeded in gouerment of the Sco|tish kingdome Constantine the brother of the aboue rehearsed Eugenius, a prince vnlike in noble vertues vnto his brother the said Eugenius. For though in him there app [...]ered some good tokens of commendable towardlinesse, as he séemed out|wardlie to shew, yet was he giuen more vnto wan|ton pleasure and lust, than to the regard of the good rule and gouernment of his subiects, a deslourer of virgins, a rauisher of honest matrones, and aboue all, a fauourer of backbiters and slanderers; neuer shewing anie ioifull countenance amongst his no|bles, but amongst scoffing iesters and other vile per|sons he was as pleasant and merie as the iocundest man aliue. Thus though he represented the British Constantine the Scotish king nothing like in noble conditions vnto Con|stantine king of the Bri|tains. king Constantine in name, yet in manners he far differed from him: for the British Constantine stu|dieng to aduance the commonwealth of his subiects. trained them in laudable exercises, & reduced them from their former euill vsages vnto ciuill order and good customs. Contrariwise, the Scotish Constan|tine did nothing woorthie praise at all, after he was once instituted king, but followed still his owne in|ordinate lust and sensuall appetite.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 He granted peace vnto the Britains they scarse Peace gran|ted vnto the Britains, and diuers castels deliuered into their hands. requiring the same, releasing not onelie the tribute, but also deliuering vp into their hands by secret meanes diuers castels standing vpon the riuer of Humber. Manie other things he was about to haue doone to the great preiudice and hinderance of the Scotish estate, had not the nobles of the realme the sooner withstood his rash and vnaduised attempts. Such malice also was ingendred in the harts of the most part of the nobilitie towards him, that had it not béene through the wholesome admonition & per|suasion of Dongall of Galloway, a noble man of right reuerend authoritie amongst them, they had le|uied ciuill wars against him, but the foresaid Don|gall The good counsell of Dongall. declaring to them the great danger and incon|uenience that might thereof insue, restreined their wrathfull minds from enterprising anie thing a|gainst him by force, so that for certeine yéeres they suffered and bare with this his misordered gouern|ment.