He had in that kingdom an army of forty thousand men.

An eighth part of such an army would scarcely be missed there, and might, united with the clans which were in insurrection, effect great things in Scotland.
Dundee received such answers to his applications as encouraged him to hope that a large and well appointed force would soon be sent from Ulster to join him.

He did not wish to try the chance of battle before these succours arrived, [347] Mackay, on the other hand, was weary of marching to and fro in a desert.

His men were exhausted and out of heart.

He thought it desirable that they should withdraw from the hill country; and William was of the same opinion.
In June therefore the civil war was, as if by concert between the generals, completely suspended.