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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But calling his lordes and peeres thus aſ|ſembled one day before him, and going earneſtly about to moue them to the warres, he could ſtir them no more to his purpoſe, than if he had ben in hand to haue coũſelled them vnto that which in no wyſe had appertained vnto their dueties: which their lacke of ſtomacks, Kenneth percey|uing, he began to deuiſe a pretie ſhift, wherby to induce them to his accorde.