Compare 1587 edition: 1 Victorine anſwered herevnto, that the Scottes and Pictes had fyrſt begonne to breake downe the foreſayde Wall,Victorines anſwere to Ethodius re|queſt. and to buylde a Tower vppon the ſame, fortifying it wyth a number of menne of warre, who running day|lye into the Brytiſhe confines, fetched prayes thence from amongeſt the Romaine ſubiects, and thoughe hee had ſent dyuerſe tymes to the Scot|tiſhe and Pictiſhe Wardens for reſtitution, yet coulde hee neuer haue anye towardly anſwere, ſo that hee was conſtrayned to begynne the warre in manner and fourme as hee had done alreadie.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Ethiodius ex|horteth the king of Picts to make warres againſt the Romains.Ethodius not a little kyndled with this an|ſwere, wrote ſtreyght wayes vnto the King of the Pictes, exhorting him in reuenge of ſuche in|iuries as his ſubiectes had lately receyued at the handes of the Romaines, to inuade the Wall on the ſyde where it deuided his Countrey from the Brytaynes, and to breake in vppon the eni|mies by the ſame, and for his parte hee promiſed ſhortly after to come, and to ioyne with him in ſuch a neceſſarie enterpriſe agaynſt the common enimies of both their Countreyes.