Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane ſeaſon, whileſt he thus occupied the Brytains in fight on one ſide,Reuther eſc [...]|peth. Reuther with the reſidue of his people brake foorth by an other way, and eſcaping to the ſea ſide, got ſhippes and fled ouer into the weſterne Iſles, where he found a great number of other Scottiſh men, that were gotten thither, being compelled by Denus king of the Brytains, to auoyde foorth of the coun|treys whiche they before inhabited.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Reuther remayned not long in the Iſles,Reuther p [...]ſ|ſeth into Ire|land. but paſſed ouer into Ireland. The Brytains not a littell moued for his eſcape with the other of the Scottiſh Lordes, reuenged theyr diſpleaſure on ſuch cõmons and other meane people as fell into their handes, ſo that ſuche as might eſcape, gotte them into the moũtaynes, & liued there by rootes,They inhab [...] the moun|taines. berries, & other wilde fruytes in ſommer, and in [figure appears here on page 16] EEBO page image 17 winter by ſuch veniſon and fleſh of wilde beaſtes as they killed in the wilderneſſe: and ſometimes they came downe & made reyſes vpon the Bry|taines that occupied theyr houſes and [...]andes, fetching great booties very often from amongſt them.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This cruell warre laſted a .xij. yeares, t [...]ll in maner all ſuch Scottes and Pictes as remayned in Albion were brought vnder ſeruitude to the Brytains. In which meane while, Gethus king of the Pictes kepte his ſiege royall in Pomonia the chiefeſt Iſle of the Orkeneys.Reuther is [...]te for out of Ireland. Reuther alſo begot of his wife a ſonne named Thereus, and ſhortly after being procured by letters and meſ|ſengers ſent vnto him from the foreſayd Gethus and ſuch Scottes as were yet remayning in Al|bion, he aſſembled a number of ſhippes togither, & firſt with a choſen power of warriours ſayled to the weſtern Iſles, where increaſing his num|bers, he paſſed ouer into Albion, landing on the weſte halfe of Roſſe at Lough Bruum,A cuſtome. & there comming a land, the firſt perſon that they mette with (according to a cuſtome vſed amõgſt them in thoſe dayes) they ſlew, & wetting the pointes of theyr weapons in his bloud, they firſte taſted thereof after theyr manner, then holding vp their weapõs into the ayre, they deſired of the Goddes that they might reuenge the bloud of their elders with happy battaile againſt the Brytons their e|nimies. After this, heating that Gethus king of the Picts was alſo entred the lãd with a mighty power of Germains which were come to his ayd and was not paſt a .xxx. miles of,The Ger|mains in ayde of the Pictes. he ſtayed there abidyng for his comming, to the intent that ioy|ning theyr powers togither, they might be the better able to furniſh theyr enterpriſe.