Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Mal|colm through exhortation of his wife, gy|ueth himſelfe to deuotion.All ciuill trouble and commotion being thus quieted, king Malcolm (ſpecially by the good ad|moniſhment & exhortation of his wife Queene Margaret, a woman of great zeale vnto the re|ligion of that time) gaue himſelfe in maner alto|gither vnto much deuotion, and workes of mer|cie, as in doing of almes deedes, by prouiding for the poore, and ſuch like godly exerciſes, ſo that in true vertue hee was thought to excell all other Princes of his time. To be briefe herein,A godly ſtrife. there ſeemed to be in maner a certaine ſtrife betwixt EEBO page image 257 him, and that vertuous Queene his wife, which of them ſhould be moſt [...] of god, ſo that man y^e people by [...] of them were brought vnto better [...] and hir daughter Chriſtine alſo [...] example of theſe two holy liuers,Agatha and Chriſtine re|nounce the worlde. [...], and got them to a priuate [...], wherein they gaue thẽſelues wholy [...].

Compare 1587 edition: 1 2 Furthermore Malcolme by the [...] of the Queene his wife, ceaſſed not to ſet his ende|uor wholy to the aduauncement of the chriſtian religion, and to reſtore [...] decayed by the negligence of his predeceſſors. Therefore whereas before his time, there were but four Bi|ſhops Seas in Scotland, as Saint Androwes, Glaſgew, Galloway, and Murthlake, and two of them,Biſhops ſeas re [...]ed and newly erected by king Mal|colme. that is to ſay, Saint Androwes and Murthlake, remayning onely in good [...]eparation (the other being decaieth he reſtored the other two to their former beauties, and furthermore erected two other of new, as Murrey, and [...], pla|cing men of ſingular vertue and pureneſſe of life in the ſame. But to proceede. It is ſays, that ſuch outrageous riot entred at this time, and be|gan to growe in vſe amongeſt the Scottiſhmen,Riot and ſu|perfluous cheat brought into Scotland. togither with the language and maners of the Engliſh nation (by reaſon that ſuch a multitude of the ſame, flying out of their Countrey, were dayly receyued as then into Scotlande to inha|bite there, as before is ſhewed) that diuerſe of the nobles perceiuing what diſcommoditie & decay to the whole realme would enſue of this kinde of intemperaney,The lamenta|tion of the Scottiſh nobi|litie for the intemperate darkening be|gan to grow in vſe in theſe Countrey. came to the king, lamenting grie|uouſly the caſe, for that this venemous infection ſpred ſo faſt ouer the whole realme, to the peruer|ting and vtter remouing of the auncient ſobrietie of dier vſed in the ſame: wherefore they beſought him to prouide ſome remedie in time, before hope of redreſſe were paſt, that the people might be a|gaine reduced vnto their former frugalitie,The auncient ſureneſſe of diet amongſt the Scottes. who hitherto vſed not to eate but once in the day, and then deſiring no ſuperfluous meates & drinkes to be ſought by ſea & land, nor curiouſly dreſſed or ſerued forth with ſances, but onely feeding to ſa|tiſfie nature, and not their greedy appetites.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Sober fare cauſe of ſtrẽgth and hugeneſſe of bodie.Through which their ſober fare, with the ex|erciſing of their bodies herewith in continual tra|uaile, they grew more ſtrong and greater of bo|die, than their ofſpring are founde to be in theſe dayes: for they were more in reſemblance like vnto Giantes than vnto men of our time, with great and huge bodies, mightie armes and lims, preſſing vppon their enimies like fierce Lions, bearing downe all before them, without dread of any daunger, for that they exceeded all humane ſtrength and power.