Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this,Keneth fortifi|ed the realem. Kenneth deuiſing for the ſuretie of his ſubiectes, furniſhed all the holdes and caſtels on the frontiers of his enimies with men & mu|nition, according as he thought expedient. And moreouer tooke order, that all the youth of the realme ſhould be in a readineſſe vpon an houres warning, to goe forth againſt the Pictes, if they attempted any new inuaſions.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But the Scottiſh lordes had no great luſt to take any enterpriſe in hand eftſoones againſt the Pictes, remembring how infortunatly they had ſped the laſt time: ſo that for the ſpace of .iij. yea|res there was no great exployte atchieued, ſaue certaine roades and incurſions, whiche both the nations cõtinually vſed to make one vpon an o|ther, as tyme and occaſion ſerued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At length king Kenneth beeing very deſirous to be reuenged of the Pictes,Keneth cal|led his nobles to reuenge his fathers death. for the death of his father king Alpine, and other iniuries by them done and attempted againſt the Scottiſh natiõ, in the fourth yeare of his reigne, he aſſembled the peeres and chiefeſt nobles of his realme, truſting to perſuade them to ayd him in al ſuch enterpri|ſes as he mente to take in hand againſt the Pic|tes, whom he purpoſed to purſue with opẽ war|res, till he had them at his pleaſure.