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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But at what time ſoeuer this victorie thus chaunced, certaine it is, the Brytaynes waxing prowde thereof, nothing regarded the power of the Saxons, nor tooke any heede for prouiſion of further defence:The Brytayns giue themſel|ues vnto all kindes of vice and abhomi|nations. but after that thoſe holy Biſhops Germain and Seuerus were returned into theyr Countrey, they fell to all kyndes of gluttonie and exceſſe, in following onely their ſenſual luſts and fleſhly concupiſcence: which abuſes, the Bi|ſhops and other godly men lamenting,The threat|ning of ven|geance to ſuc|ceede vicious liuing. ceaſſed not moſt earneſtly to reproue, menacing deſtru|ction vnto the whole Countrey, if the people lea|uing their wicked liuing and moſt heynous of|fences towards God, did not amende and repent in due time and ſpace.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Neither were they deceyued herein: for with|in fewe yeares after, Occa eftſoones beganne to make warres vpon the Brytaynes agayne, and gaue them a notable ouerthrow, ſleaing of EEBO page image 125 them to the number of .xv. thouſande, with theyr generall Nathaliod;The Brytaines receiue a great ouerthrow. but yet this victorie was not greatly pleaſant vnto the Saxons, for in the ch [...]ſe they loſt their king the foreſayde Occa, be|ing aduaunced a good way of from the reſidue of his armie with fiue hundred horſemen,King Occa ſlaine. and a few footmen, in purſute of hi [...] enimyes, whiche was the only cauſe, that as the [...] the Saxons attemp|ted no further exployte agaynſt the Brytaynes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And yet for that they woulde not be without a gouernour,The yonger Occa nephew to the former Occa by his brother Oiſcus. they created a [...] other Occa to their king, the nephew of the former Occa by his bro|ther Oiſcus. And then turned all their force to make warres agaynſt the Pictes, for that Loth king of the Picts, contrarie to his othe of credence had ayded the Brytaynes in the laſt battaile,Lo [...]h contrary to his othe of credẽco ayded the Brytaynes agaynſt the Saxons. as by certaine priſoners taken in the ſame, they had perfite vnderſtanding.

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