Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The capteins of the Picts weieng with them|selues The Picts fled by night. the losse of their king, and great multitude of their men, thought it not best to abide any longer in the field: wherefore leauing their wounded people behind them, with all their baggage in the campe, they fled incontinentlie the same night, some into one place, & some into another, where they thought best for their owne wealth and safetie. The Scots had fled immediatlie likewise, but that word was brought them as they were about to depart, how the Picts were gone alreadie, and had left their campe void of men of warre to defend the same. Where|vpon the Scots taried till it was day, not farre from the place of the battell. In the morning there were certeine horssemen appointed to ride abroad, and to view the field, thereby to vnderstand whether the Picts ment anie deceit by their departure, as by lai|eng of some ambushments, or otherwise: but vpon the returne of those horssemen, when it was once knowne how there was no such matter, but that they were fled in deed, the Scots reioising there at, The Scots diuide the spoile. fell to and gathered the spoile of the field, diuiding the same amongst themselues according to their ac|customed order.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 EEBO page image 127 Alpine himselfe commanded the bodie of his eni|mie Feredeth to be laid in christian buriall not farre Feredeth is [...]. from Forfair. After this causing the musters of his people to be taken, he found that he had lost the third part of his armie in that mortall and cruell battell, and therevpon brake vp his campe for that time, li|cencing those that were left aliue to returne vnto their homes. This battell being fought in the first The Scots [...] to warre onlie with incur|sions. yéere of the reignes of the two foresaid kings, weak|ned the forces of both nations, so farre forth that the Scots doubting to bring the realme into danger of vtter ruine (if they should commit their whole puis|sance estsoones to the hazard of another foughten field) determined to pursue the warre by making of incursions and inrodes onelie vpon their enimies, so to vex the Picts, and to bring them vnto reason, if it were possible. And so much verely the Scotishmen did by such their continuall rodes & incursions which they made into Angus, that the countrie was left void and desolate of all the inhabitants.
Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 3 Neither did Brudus the sonne of Feredeth, Brudus suc| [...]deth his fa|ther Feredeth (whome the Picts had chosen to succéed after his fa|ther in the kingdome) find anie spéedie rédresse to withstand those dailie inuasions thus made by the Scots vpon his countries and subiects. For he was but a slouthfull person, and verie negligent in his of|f [...]ce, wherevpon he was had in derision of his owne people, who in the end s [...]ue him amongst themselues The Picts [...]e their sloth [...]ll king. Keneth king of the Picts. The king ca|sting off his [...]rmor fléeth. He was slaine by [...] [...]lowman. before he had reigned fullie the terme of one whole yeare. Then succéeded Keneth, the second sonne of Feredeth, with no better hap or end than his brother. For gathering togither an armie of his subiects, and comming with them into Angus, he came no sooner within sight of his enimies, but that casting off his armor, he fled incontinentlie, leauing his people in the field; and for that his haste, was slaine by a plow|man that met him by chance, and knew him not, but yet perceiuing how he had fled from his companie, and therefore deserued not to haue anie other fauour. His people seeing themselues destitute of their head capteine and gouernor, retired from their enimies, kéeping themselues in order of battell without anie further attempt.