Compare 1577 edition: 1 At length, the Britains perceiuing happilie some grudge or enuie to be entred amongst them, they The Bri|tains send ambassadors vnto the Picts. sent solemne ambassadors vnto the Picts, declaring that it were more honorable for them to ioine in league with the Britains, than with the Scots: which Britains were knowne to be famous, both in peace and war, and inhabited a countrie most fruit|full A craftie sug|gestion. and replenished with all commodities necessarie hauing therein rich mines of diuers kinds of met|tall, where the Scots being a rude nation, wild and sauage, inhabited a barren countrie, full of rough and fruitlesse mounteins, delighting thereto in no|thing but in the slaughter of men and beasts. And herevnto they added that (which most mooued the Picts) how it was foretold them by prophesies, that Prophesies. the Scots through treason should vtterlie in time to come extinguish and destroie all the Pictish bloud. Which persuasions induced the Picts at the last, to make a league with the Britains, who promised their aid at all times, in whatsoeuer enterprise the Picts should take in hand against the Scots, and as often as occasion should require.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 This league thus being confirmed with the Bri|tains, The Picts become eni|mies to the Scots. incouraged the Picts so, that they sought dai|lie how to picke quarels, and fall out with the Sco|tishmen: wherevpon making proclamation that no Scotishman should enter into their borders, vpon The Scots reuenge the in iurie doone vnto them. paine of death: some such as they tooke within the same, theytruellie flue; other they ransomed at ex|cessiue summes: wherevpon the Scots being kind|led with iust displeasure, on the other side requited them with the like, euer as they caught any of the said Picts by hap or otherwise amongst them, or in their walks.

Compare 1577 edition: 1 2 The one nation séeking thus to be reuenged of the other, there insued open war betwixt them: whervp|on the Scotishmen, to the end they might be the bet|ter Scots send for aid into Ireland. able to [...]ainteine their quarell, sent ouer their ambassadors vnto their kinsmen in Ireland, requi|ring them of aid in that present danger, as hauing now not onelie warres with the Picts, but also with the Britains, who minded nothing but the vtter They require a gouernor. destruction of them and their linage, except speedie remedie were found. And for that they saw it néed|full to haue one onelie head and gouernor, they made sute also to haue some capteine of honor with them into Albion, vnto whom as to their king they would submit themselues. In that season amongst the I|rish Ferg [...]hardus king in Ire|land. Scotishmen, there reigned a king named Fer|guhardus, who inclining to the petition of the Bri|tish Scots, caused an huge armie forthwith to be le|uied, and thereto he appointed [...] owne sonne Fer|gustus to be generall of the same, a worthie yoong Fergusins sent into Scotland. The marble stone. gentleman, and an expert warrior: whome hee sent ouer with his puissant companie, in such speed as was possible. He had also with him the marble stone, that he might conceiue the better hope to reigne there as a king, bicause he went foorth vnto such a dangerous warre.