Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aulus Didius departeth this life at Londõ.This peace continued a .vj. yeares during the life of Aulus Didius, who at the end of thoſe .vj. yeares, departed this life at London, leauing be|hinde him all things in good quiet.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After his deceaſſe the Emperour Ne [...]o who ſucceeded Claudius,Verannius is made Lieute|nant of Bry|taine. appointed one Verannius to be lieutenant of Brytaine, a man very ambi|tious and muche deſirous of honour, by meanes wherof, in hope to aduaunce his name, he ſought occaſiõs to haue warres with the Scottiſh men: And at length hearing that certaine of them be|ing borderers had fetched booties out of Picte land, he ſent a great power of Romains to make a rode into the nexte Marches of the Scottes, from whence they brought a great ſpoyle, bothe of men and goodes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 With which iniuries the Scottes being mo|ued, ſought dayly in ſemblable ſorte to be reuen|ged, ſo that by ſuche meanes the warre was re|newed.Verannius de|parteth this lyfe. But before any notable encounter chaũ|ced betwixte them, Verannius died. His laſte woordes were full of ambitious boaſtes, wiſhing to haue liued but twoo yeares longer, that hee might haue ſubdued the whole Iſle of Albion vnto the Romaine Empyre, as if he might haue had ſo muche tyme he doubted not to haue done.