Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer, the Brytiſhe Nation was then vnſkilfull, and not trayned to feates of warre, for the Brytons then beeyng onely vſed to the Pictes and Iriſhe enimyes, people halfe naked throughe lacke of ſkill, eaſily gaue place to the Romayns force, ſo that Ceſar myght onely as it were glorie in this, to haue paſſed in that iour|ney ouer the Ocean ſea.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 See Diodotus Siculus lib. 6. cap. 9. vvho ſayeth they should inhabite a portion of Britayne.Heereby it ſhoulde ſeeme, that the Pictes and Iriſhe, did diſquyet the Brytons before the commyng of Iulius Ceſar into thys Ile of Brytaine: But whether they inhabited at that tyme in ſome parte of Irelande, or in ſome of the out Iles by Scotlande, eyther in any parte of Germanye, or Scandinauia, or elſe whe|ther they were already ſettled in the fartheſt par|tes of Scotlande, as in Cathneſſe, towardes Dungeſbie heade, wee haue not to affirme, o|ther than that whyche in Scotlande wee haue written,Hector Boe|tius. in followyng Hector Boetius, whoſe opynion howe farre it is to bee ſuſpected in matters of antiquitie, I leaue to the conſide|ration of others.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But for the fyrſte comming as well of the Pictes as Scottes, (whome hee maketh inha|bitauntes within thys Iſle ſo long before) ey|ther the name of the one nation or the other is remembred to haue had any gouernement h [...]re, by any auncient or approued writer. I cannot perſwade my ſelfe, that eyther Scottes or Pic|tes hadde any ſettled ſeates within the boundes of this Ile of Britayne, till after the birthe of oure Sauiour: but that rather the Scottes, as yet inhabiting in Irelande, and in the weſterne Iſles called by the Romayne writers Hebrides, and the Pights, in the Iſles of Orkneye called in Latin Orchades, dyd vſe to make often inuaſi|ons vppon the Britons, dwelling vpon the coa|ſtes that flye neere to the ſea ſyde ouer againſte thoſe Iſles.