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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aboute the ſame time Agricola heard newes, from his nauie (as thẽ riding at auere in Argile) what miſhap had chaunced to the ſame in Pict|land Frith.Agricola is certified of the miſchaunce of his nauie. But herewith being not greatly diſ|couraged, he gaue order that the ſhippes whiche had eſcaped ſhould be newe rigged and furniſhed with all neceſſarie prouiſiõs, & manned through|ly, bothe with able mariners and men of warre. This done, he appoynted them eftſoones to at|tempt fortune, and to take theyr courſe agayne to come rounde aboute by the Orkeneys,The Romaine fleete ſayleth round aboute the north point of Albiõ and ſo vp alongſt by the eaſt coaſte: whiche enterpriſe they luckely accompliſhed, and in the water of Taye they brente the Daniſh fleete lying there in herbrough.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Here is to be noted, that before the fore remẽ|bred ouerthrow of the Scottes and their confe|derates at the foote of Gra [...]zbene, there happened many ſundry vnkithes & ſtrange ſightes in this Iſle.Straunge viſi|ons. Amongſt other there appeared flying in the ayre certaine firie viſions, muche to be wondered at. Alſo a great peece of Kalendar wood, ſeemed in the night time as it had bin on a flaming fire, but in the morning there appeared no ſuch tokẽ. There was in lyke manner ſeene in the ayre the ſimilitude of certayne ſhippes.Shippes ſeene in the ayre. It rayned frogges. A monſtruous childe borne. And in Angus it rayned Frogges. At Tuline there was a childe borne hauing bothe ſhapes, ſo filthie a ſight to beholde, that foorthwith they ridde it out of the way for offending others eies. Theſe prodigious things were diuerſly interpreted, according to the variable fancie of man.

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Domitian the Emperour en|uieth the pro+ſperous ſuc|ceſſe of A|gricola.

Agricola is ſente for to Rome, one Cneus Trebel+lius appointed in his place whiche cauſeth the ſouldiers to make a mu|tinie.

After that the proſperous ſucceſſe of Agrico|la was once notified to the Emperour Domi|tian, he tooke ſuche enuie thereat, that ſhortly af|ter, vnder a colour to ſende him into Syria to be lieutenant there, he countermaunded him home vnto Rome, appoynting one Cneus Trebel|lius to ſucceede him in the gouernment of Bry|taine, but ye armie bearing more fauour vnto one Trebellianus being couſin to Agricola, cauſed no ſmal trouble amongſt the ſouldiers, ſo that in the end after certaine bickerings betwixt them, Trebellianus tooke a ſort of ye beſt ſoldiers away with him, & went ouer with them into Fraunce.

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