Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length, the Brytaynes perceyuing hap|pily ſome grudge or enuie to bee entred amongſt them,The Brytaines ſend an Am|baſſadour vnto the Pictes. they ſente ſolemne Ambaſſadours vnto the Pictes, declaring that it were more honou|rable for them to ioyne in league with the Bry|taynes, than with the Scottes: whiche Bry|taynes were knowne to bee right famous, both in peace and warre,A craft [...]e ſug|geſtion. and inhabited a Countrey moſt fruitefull and repleniſhed with all commo|dities neceſſarie, hauing therein riche mynes of diuerſe kindes of mettall, where the Scottes be|ing a rude Nation, wilde and ſauage, inhabi|ted a barraine Countrey, full of roughe and fruitleſſe mountaynes, delyting therto in nothing but in the ſlaughter of men and beaſtes: And herevnto they added that, (whiche moſt moued the Pictes) howe it was foretolde by prophecies,Prophecies. that the Scottes through treaſon ſhoulde vtter|ly in time to come extinguiſhe and deſtroye all the Pictiſhe blo [...]de,A league con|cluded with the Brytaynes. whiche pre [...]ations in|duced the Pictes at the laſt, to make a league with the Brytaynes, who promiſed their ayde at all tymes in whatſoeuer enterp [...]iſ [...] the Pictes ſhoulde take in hande agaynſt the Scottes, and as often as occaſion ſhould require.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 EEBO page image 7Thys league thus beeyng confirmed wyth the Brytaynes,The Picts be|c [...]me enimies to the Scots. encouraged the Pictes ſo, that they ſought dayly howe to pyke quarelles, and fall out with the Scottiſhe men: wherevppon making Proclamation that no Scottiſh man ſhoulde enter into their borders, vpon paine of death:The Scots re|uenge the in|iurie done vn|to them. ſome ſuche as they tooke within the ſame, they cruelly ſlue, other they ranſomed at exceſſiue ſummes: wherevpon the Scottes beeing kynd|led with iuſt diſpleaſure, on the other ſide, requy|ted them with the like, euer as they caught any of the ſayd Picts by hap or otherwiſe amongs them or in their walkes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The one nation ſeeking thus to bee reuenged of the other,Open warre. there enſued open warre betwyxte them:Scottes ſende for ayde into Irelande. wherevpon the Scottiſhe men, to the ende they mighte bee the better able to maintaine their quarell, ſent ouer their Ambaſſadours vnto their kinneſmen in Irelande, requyring them of ayde in that preſent daunger, as hauing nowe not onely warres with the Pictes, but alſo wyth the Brytaynes, who mynded nothing, but the vtter deſtruction of them and their linage, ex|cept ſpeedie remedie were founde.They require a gouernour. And for that they ſaw it needefull, to haue one onely head and gouernor, they made ſute alſo to haue ſome cap|tayne of honour wyth them into Albion, vnto whome as vnto their king they woulde ſubmyt themſelues.