Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevpõ alſo he required their aduiſe what they thought good to be don: declaring that according as they counſayled him he would worke therin. This matter being thus propoſed, as there were diuerſe heades,Diuerſe heads, diuerſe opi|nions. ſo were there ſundrie opinions. Some iudged that in no wiſe they coulde enter friendſhip againe with the Scottes, who had ſo cruelly ſlaine and murthered a great number of the Pictiſh nation: and had ſhewed ſuch tokens of a beaſtlyke furious nature, that there was no hope to continue long in amitie with ſuche a ra|ging kind of people: & hereto they held that it was not vnknowne how the prophecie went that the Scots ſhoulde in the ende deſtroy all the Pictiſh progenie.A Prophecie. So that it were wiſdom to keepe their power vnder ſo lõg as was poſſible, & not to en|creaſe the ſame by ioyning with thẽ in frendſhip.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Other were of a contrarie minde, eſteeming that in no wiſe the Scottiſh mens friendſhippe ought to be refuſed, vnleſſe they would determin to ſeeke newe dwellings in ſome other forrayne parties, ſith the Brytaines would not fayle, but vpon occaſion take what vantage they could to expulſe them both, aſwel Scottes as Pictes, out of the countreys now by them poſſeſſed. And as for that, which was alledged touching the pro|phecie, if the Goddes had ſo determined, then might no policie of man preuent it: and if there were no ſuch thing appointed by the ſame gods, what follye then were it to caſt ſuche dreadfull doubtes where no cauſe was. Ouer and beſides this, they had taken them wiues of the Scottiſh nation, and therby ingraffed their ſeede (the hope of their poſteritie) in that ſtock, which is the nea|reſt meane and forcibleſt occaſion to nouriſhe friendſhip, that is or may be amongſt people de|uiſed: therefore it ſhould not be onely profitable but neceſſary alſo, to haue peace with the Scots, to renue againe with them the former league to the perpetual ſtrengthning and aduancement of both the nations.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whileſt the Picts were thus in debating the matter,The Pictes admoniſhed by their wiues to peace. their wiues alſo being preſẽt there in the armie, came in amongeſt them with their chil|dren, & in moſt lamentable wiſe beſought their huſbands to haue pitie vpon them, in their ſo ſo|rowfull caſe, and not to ſuffer their handes to be defiled with vnnaturall murther, ſithe it were leſſe diſcõfort to them with their ſillie little ones to die any kynd of death whatſoeuer it were, ra|ther than to behold theyr huſbands with their fa|thers, their brethren, and other kinneſfolke ioyne togyther in battaile, and there to kill one another wythout all mercie and compaſſion.