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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Moreouer it ſhould ſeme by that which the ſame Boetius writeth, that the hound or grei|hound for the which this trouble roſe, was not fetched ſo far as out of Grecia, but rather bred in Scotland: notwithſtãding bicauſe the La|tiniſts call ſuch kinde of dogs Moloſsi, for that the firſt generation of them, or the like, came from a citie of Gretia called Moloſſe, it may be, that ſome haue thoughte, that this grey|hounde came from thence, for that he was ſo called after the name of that place frõ whence the breed of him firſt came. But to returne to the hiſtorie.