Compare 1587 edition: 1 Eganus mur|thereth his brother.Whileſt things paſſed thus in Scotlande, E|ganus the ſeconde ſonne of king Hungus the Pictiſh king, found meanes to murther his bro|ther Dorſtolorgus, to the ende he might raigne in his place: and through ſupport of ſome of the nobilitie he atteyned to his purpoſe. And for that he woulde aſſure himſelfe the more firmely in the eſtate, he frankly beſtowed his fathers treaſure a|mongſt his Lordes and chiefeſt peeres of hys realme, and tooke to wife alſo Brenna the king of Mertia his daughter, which his brother the fore|named Dorſtolorgus had maried, that thereby he might aſſwage the ſayde king of Mertia his diſ|pleaſure, which otherwiſe he ſhould happely haue conceyued for the death of his other ſonne in law the ſame Dorſtolorgus.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 His feare was great on eche ſide, and there|fore had ſmall affiance in any perſon,Eganus liueth in feare. doubting leaſt one or other ſhould ſeeke to reuenge his bro|thers death. He durſt neuer go any wayes forth abrode without a garde of men of warre aboute him, whome he had wonne and made his faſt friends by his paſſing great larges and dountifull liberalitie. At length yet, his wife in reuenge of hir former huſbandes death, founde meanes to ſtrangle him as he lay one night faſt a ſleepe, ha|uing drunke a little too muche in the euening be|fore,Eganus is ſtrangled of his Queene. and in this ſort he came to his ende after he had raigned much what about the ſpace of two yeares.