Compare 1587 edition: 1 Maximianus hauing thus driuen his enimies beyond this wall, cauſed them to make aſſurance by theyr othe of couenant neuer to paſſe the ſame againe by way of hoſtilitie, eyther agaynſt the Brytaynes, or Romaines.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There were that counſelled Maximianus ei|ther vtterly to haue deſtroyed both the Scottes and Pictes, either elſe to haue dryuen them out of the whole Ile. But he being ſatiſfied with that whiche was alreadie done, thought good to re|turne vnto Yorke, and there to winter, that in the beginning of the next ſpring hee might go into Wales to chaſtiſe Dionethus and other of that Countrey for theyr rebellion, in ayding the e|nimies of the Empyre.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But when the time came that he ſhould haue ſet forward on that iourney, he heard ſuch newes from the parties of beyonde the Seas, into what ruinous decay the Empyre was fallen, without any likelyhoode of recouerie, that chaunging his purpoſe,Maximianus taketh vpon him the abſo|lute gouernãce of Brytayne, with the Em|perial rytle. he determined to vſurpe the crowne of Brytayne as abſolute king thereof himſelfe, and to haue the more fauour of the Brytiſhe Nation without any impeachment in the beginning of his raigne, he took to wife one of the daughters of Dionethus, being the elder of thoſe two, He marieth Othilia, the daughter of Dionethus. which he only had without iſſue male, by the ſiſter of king Ferguſe.