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Compare 1587 edition: 1 He is hated of the Brytaines.By this wicked gouernment, the Brytaines baganne ſo ſore to hate him, that had it not beene for the loue of their king, the foreſayde Lucius, (who holpe to appeaſe them) there had beene ſome Rebellion practiſed agaynſte him in the South part.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Now the Scottes and Pictes hauing know|ledge of this miſliking in the Brytayns towards the Romaine Lieutenant,The Scottes and Pictes re|nue the warre againſt the Romaines. thought it a time con|uenient for them alſo to be doing, to the ende they might reuenge their former iniuries: and here|vpon leuying an armie, they came to the oft re|mẽbred wall, & ouerthrowing the ſame in diuerſe places they entred into the Britiſh cõfines with great ſpoyle and crueltie.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Trebellius being hereof informed, haſted forth with all the power he coulde make, to reſiſt their inuaſions: but finding the enimies readye in the field, and encountring them ſooner than he looked for,Trebellius fighteth with his enimies, is forſaken of his owne men, and chaſed out of the fielde. he was euen vpon the firſt ioyning abãdoned of the moſt part of his whole armie, whiche con|ſiſted of Britains & Frenchmẽ, thẽ called Gauls, ſo that the reſidue beeing beaten downe, he was glad to ſaue himſelfe as well as he might be ſet|ting the ſpurs to his horſe, and galloping away.

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