Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vpon the meſſengers return home with this anſwer,Dongall hys diſpleazure with the Pictes aunſweare. Dongal ſhewed himſelf to be in no ſmal chafe, that the Pictes ſhoulde thus goe aboute by ſuche ſubtill argumentes and contriued in|uentions to defraude Alpine of his righte. And thervpon the ſecond tyme he ſente his ambaſſa|dors vnto them,Ambaſſadours are ſent again. requiring them eyther to doe him reaſon without any further ſurmiſed ca [...]l|lations, eyther elſe within .iij. moneths ſpace af|ter, to looke for open warres at the Scottiſhe mens handes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Theſe Ambaſſadours paſſing foorth on theyr iourney, at their approching vnto Camelon, cer|taine ſergeants at armes met them,Ambaſſadours are not recey|ued. and did for|bid them to enter the citie: alſo they further cõ|maunded them in name of Feredeth their king to auoyde out of the confines of his dominion within foure dayes ſpace, vpon pain of death.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Ambaſſadors being terrified with ſuche maner of inhibitions, they went no further:Warre is pro|nounced vnto the Pictes. but yet according as they had in commiſſion, they pronoũced the warre in the name of Alpine and Dongal, requiring thoſe that thus came to meet them, to giue ſignification therof vnto their mai|ſter Feredeth, and to the whole Pictiſhe nation: and ſo returned home the ſame way they came.