Compare 1587 edition: 1 But howe ſoeuer wee ſhall giue credit to this hiſtorie of the firſt comming of Pictes into this lande, if we grant that to be true which Ge [...]rey of Monmouth reporteth of this victorie obteyned by Marius agaynſt the Pictes, yet haue I thou|ght good to aduertiſe the Reader, that the Bry|tons of this Ile were diſquieted by y^e nation long before the ſuppoſed tyme of the ſayde king Ma|rius. For Mamertinus in his Oration entitled Panaegiricus, Max. Dictus hathe theſe woordes, (ſpeakyng of the conqueſt whiche Iulius Ceſar had heere agaynſt the Brytons) but in that age (ſayeth he) Brytayn was neyther furniſhed with anye ſhippes of warre for battayle on the Sea, and the Romaynes after the warres of Affrike and Aſia, were well practiſed wyth the late war|res agaynſte Pyrates, and after that agaynſte Mithridates, in whiche they were exerciſed as well by ſea as lande.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer, the Brytiſhe Nation was then vnſkilfull, and not trayned to feates of warre, for the Brytons then beeyng onely vſed to the Pictes and Iriſhe enimyes, people halfe naked throughe lacke of ſkill, eaſily gaue place to the Romayns force, ſo that Ceſar myght onely as it were glorie in this, to haue paſſed in that iour|ney ouer the Ocean ſea.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 See Diodotus Siculus lib. 6. cap. 9. vvho ſayeth they should inhabite a portion of Britayne.Heereby it ſhoulde ſeeme, that the Pictes and Iriſhe, did diſquyet the Brytons before the commyng of Iulius Ceſar into thys Ile of Brytaine: But whether they inhabited at that tyme in ſome parte of Irelande, or in ſome of the out Iles by Scotlande, eyther in any parte of Germanye, or Scandinauia, or elſe whe|ther they were already ſettled in the fartheſt par|tes of Scotlande, as in Cathneſſe, towardes Dungeſbie heade, wee haue not to affirme, o|ther than that whyche in Scotlande wee haue written,Hector Boe|tius. in followyng Hector Boetius, whoſe opynion howe farre it is to bee ſuſpected in matters of antiquitie, I leaue to the conſide|ration of others.