Quid rigor aeternus caeli? quid frigora prosunt? 
  Ignotumq; fretum? maduerunt Saxone fuso
  Orcades, incaluit Pictonum sanguine Thule,
  Scotorum cumulos fleuit glacialis Hyberne.

What lasting cold? what did to them the frostie climats gaine?  And sea vnknowne? bemoisted all with bloud of Saxons slaine The Orknies were:  with bloud of Picts [Sidenote:  Thule some take to be Iseland, some Scotland.] hath Thule waxed warme, And ysie Ireland hath bewaild the heaps of Scotish harme.

The same praise giueth he to Stilico the sonne in law of Honorius, and maketh mention of a legion of souldiers sent for out of Britaine in the periphrasis or circumlocution of the Gotish bloudie warres: 

  Venit & extremis legio praetenta Britannis,
  Quas Scoto dat fraena truci, ferroq; notatas
  Perleget exanimes Picto moriente figuras.

A legion eke there came from out the farthest Britains bent, Which brideled hath the Scots so sterne:  and marks with iron brent Vpon their liuelesse lims dooth read, whiles Picts their liues relent.

He rehearseth the like in his second “Panegerycus” of Stilico, in most ample and pithie manner insuing: 

  Inde Calidonio velata Britannia monstro,
  Ferro Picta genas, cuius vestigia verrit
  Caerulus, Oceaniq; aestum mentitur amictus,
  Me quoq; vicinis pereuntem gentibus inquit,
  Muniuit Stilico, totam quum Scotus Hybernam
  Mouit, & infesto spumauit remige Thetis,
  Illius effectum curis, ne bella timerem
  Scotica, ne Pictum tremerem, ne littore toto
  Prospicerem dubijs venturum Saxona ventis.

Then Britaine whom the monsters did of Calidone surround, Whose cheekes were pearst with scorching steele, whose garments swept the ground, Resembling much the marble hew of ocean seas that boile, Said, She whom neighbour nations did conspire to bring to spoile, Hath Stilico munited strong, when raised by Scots entice All Ireland was, and enimies ores the salt sea fome did slice, His care hath causd, that I all feare of Scotish broiles haue bard, Ne doo I dread the Picts, ne looke my countrie coasts to gard Gainst Saxon troops, whom changing winds sent sailing hitherward.

[Sidenote:  Britaine afflicted by inuasion of barbarous nations.] Thus maie it appeere, that in the time when the Romane empire began to decaie, in like manner as other parts of the same empire were inuaded by barbarous nations, so was that part of Britaine which was subiect to the Romane emperors grieuouslie assailed by the Scots and Picts, and also by the Saxons, the which in those daies inhabiting all alongst the sea coasts of low Germanie, euen from the Elbe vnto the Rhine, did not onelie trouble the sea by continuall rouing, but also vsed to come on land into diuerse parts of Britaine and Gallia, inuading the countries, and robbing the same with great rage and crueltie.