Compare 1587 edition: 1 Kenneth for that he would not ſeeme to re|fuſe any indifferent offers, was cõtented to come to a cõmunication, & ſo thervpon both the kings in preſence of both their armies arraunged in the field ready to fight, came togither in a place ap|pointed, either of the [...] being accompanied with a like number of their nobles, as by the herauldes it was accorded.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Here Druſkene with many reaſons going about to perſwade peace,The perſua|ſion of peace by Druskene. ſhewed howe neceſſary the ſame was betwixt the twoo nations. And a|gaine how doubtfull fortune was to them that truſted to much in hir vnſtedfaſt fauour at lẽgth he [...] to this end, that if Kenneth could be cõ|tẽted to graunt a peace, the Picts ſhould releaſe al ſuch right, title and intereſt as they had in the countreys of Mernes, Angus, & Fyfe,Merns, Angus and Fyfe is re|quired of the Pictes to re|leaſe. vnto him and his ſucceſſors the Scottiſh kings for euer, ſo that he ſhould make no further clayme to any o|ther of thoſe countreys whiche the Pictes as yet poſſeſſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevnto Kenneth anſweared,Kenneth his anſwere. that he well vnderſtoode how vnſtable fortunes lawes were, but, ſithence the Pictes fought in an vniuſt qua|rell, as to defraude the poſteritie of theyr lawfull king Hungus, who lately reigned amongſt thẽ of the rightfull inheritaunce of theyr kingdome, they themſelues had iuſt cauſe to doubt fortunes chaunce, where the Scots hauing put vpõ law|ful armure, and ſeeking to attaine that by warre, whiche by other meanes they could not attayne at the handes of the vniuſt poſſeſſors, they had leſſe cauſe to miſtruſt hyr fauour, and therefore if the Pictes were deſirous of peace, they ought to cauſe a ſurrender to be made of theyr king|dome into his handes, accordingly as they well knewe it was reaſon they ſhoulde: and what commoditie might thereof enſue to both nations being by ſuche meanes once ioyned & vnited into one entier kingdome hee doubted not but they vnderſtoode it ſufficiently enough. And as for other conditions of peace than this, he told them plainely there would be none accepted.