Compare 1587 edition: 1 But not ſo largely as here is expreſſed. The anſweare of Etius.Paulus Diaconus, Beede, Geffray of Mun|mouth, Veremound, and other, make mention of theſe foreſayde letters. Wherevnto Etius aun|ſwearing, declared that thoſe calamities, infor|tunes & loſſes ſuſtayned by the Brytains were right diſpleaſant vnto him, & ſo muche the more for that through the ſundry inuaſions made, aſ|well into Fraunce as alſo into Italy it ſelfe, and into other parties of the Romaine Empyre by people of ſundry nations, he coulde not as then ſpare any men of warre to ſend ouer vnto them, and therfore he willed the Brytons to make the beſt ſhifte they could, to defend themſelues for a time, till things were better quieted in other par|ties, & then ſhould they ſee ſuche redreſſe of their iniuries prouided, as they ſhould thinke them|ſelues to be very well reuenged.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Aboute the ſame time that the ambaſſadours returned with this anſwere vnto London from Etius, the other alſo came backe foorth of the north without hope to ſpeede of that aboute the which they had bene ſent:The Scottes & Picts would agree vpon no reſonable con|dition of peace. for the Scots & Pictes woulde encline to no reaſonable conditions of peace, onleſſe the Brytains would wholly ſub|mit themſelues as ſubiectes vnto them.