Compare 1587 edition: 1 In theſe quarters he coulde not ſettle hym|ſelfe, but that he was oftentymes aſſayled by the Britons that bordered next vnto him, and at length his chaunce was to be ſlayne, but the kingdome continued ſtill in the handes of his ſucceſſours:The amitie be|tvvixt Scottes and Picts. and the Pictes and Scottes grew in frendſhip togither, permitting eche other to lyue in quyet.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scots neſtled them ſelues in the Iles and coaſts alongſt the ſea ſide. The Picts held the middle part. But ſhortely after, the peace began to hang doubtfull betwixt them: for the diuerſitie of people, place, cuſtom & language,Their fallyng out. together with the memorie of olde grudges, moued ſuch iealoſy and inward hate betwixte thoſe nations, that it ſeemed they were redy to breake out into open diſſention vpon the firſte occaſion. And as in ſuche caſes there neuer wanteth one deuiſe or other to rayſe tumults: it chaunced that certaine of the Scottiſh no|bilitie had got out of Greece (as ſome write) a Moloſſian hound, which both in ſwiftneſſe of foot, and pleaſantneſſe of mouth, was accomp|ted peerleſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This hounde being ſtollen by a Picte, was cauſe of the breache of peace,Stryfe about a dogge. ſo that cruell warres therof enſued (as in the Scottiſh hiſto|rie more at large appeareth. But where ſome write, that Eugenius ſhoulde reigne ouer the Scottes when this quarell fell out for ſtea|ling of this hound, Hector Boetius ſayeth, it was in king Crathlinths dayes.