Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vortigerne then reſtored thus vnto the crowne, ſhewed ſuche diligence in cauſing due adminiſtration of iuſtice without rigour to be executed, and prouiſion made for the reſiſting of all inuaſions that might be attempted by a|ny forraine power, that his prayſe was greate amongſt all his ſubiectes, who to ſhewe theyr good willes likewiſe towardes him as to theyr naturall prince, were not ſlacke in honoring him aſwell by giftes and preſentes, as by all other maner of wayes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He founde meanes alſo to renew the league with the Scottes and Pictes with like conditi|ons and articles,The league renewed be|twixt Br [...]tons Scots & Picts. as it was concluded laſtly be|twixt them and his ſonne Vortimere.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 But notwithſtanding his politike procee|ding thus to auoyde all incouenience that might happen: ſhortely after Hengiſt returned,Hengiſt retur|neth. & what by force and ſubtill ſhiftes, at length got poſſeſ|ſion of the more parte of Brytaine, ſo that the Brytons were conſtreyned to flee into Wales, whither alſo Vortigerne fledde and remayned there a certaine time, til at length Aurelius Am|broſius and Vter the ſonnes of king Conſtan|tine came ouer out of little Brytaine, and be|ſieging Vortigerne in a caſtell,Vortigerne brent. brente him with the houſe and all, when they could not otherwiſe come by him, according to that which Merlyne the Brytiſh ſoothſayer had propheſied before. It is fooliſhly ſuppoſed that this Merlyne was got by a ſprite of that kinde whiche are called Incu|bi, that is to vnderſtand, ſuch as cõueying mans ſeede from him, and therewith by illuſion (taking vpon them the ſhape and figure of man) do lie with women, and vſe them after the manner of carnal copulation. In this place Hector Boetius by the way reciteth a like tale or two, of ſuche il|luſions of ſprites wrought not long before his time in Scotland, whiche ſomewhat abridging the ſame we haue here infarſed.