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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Bryttains go homeward diſapointed of their purpoſe.Before this, & after the firſt meeting betwixt the Scottes and Pictes, I meane ſo ſoone as the Brytains had vnderſtanding of this agreement, they had no luſt to tarie longer in the fielde, but rayſing their power, they departed their wayes homewardes, doubting leaſt the ſayd agreement might turne ſmally to theyr gayne.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Scottes and Pictes re|turne home in peace.The Pictes and Scottiſh men alſo after they had thus fully ratified the peace and league be|twixt them, brake vp their campes, euery man repayring to the place of his abode.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The kyng alſo of the Bryttaines named Coil (ſoiournyng in that ſeaſon neare aboute Yorke,This Coilus by the circũ|ſtance of the time, & other conſideratiõs, ſhould ſeeme to be the ſame whom the Bryttã [...] name Gutteline.) beyng informed of this ſodeyne reno|uation of the league betwixt the Scottiſh men and Pictes, was nothing ioyfull of the newes: for he doubted leaſt in time to come their confe|deracie might be occaſion of their further increa|ſing in puiſſance, and after that ſome new occa|ſion of his trouble. Wherefore ſtudying by what wayes and meanes he might beſt prouide reme|die for ſuche inconueniences as might enſue,Coilus his ſubtiltie. he attempted nothing openly for the ſpace of twoo yeares, but onely watched his time, to the ende that if he might in that ſeaſon chaunce (through the inſolent courage of eyther nation) to eſpie a|ny occaſiõ ſeruiſeable for his turne, he might ſet vpon and be a plague vnto them bothe.

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