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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Herevpon king Malcolme tooke great paines to haue redreſſed this infectiue poyſon, and vtter|ly to haue expelled it forth of his realme, howbeit the nature of man is ſo prone & ready to embrace all kinds of vice,Mans nature prone to vice. that where the Scottiſhe people before had no knowledge nor vnderſtanding of [...] fact or riotous [...], yet after they had once taſted the [...] poyſoned bai [...] thereof, there was now nẽ meane to be found to reſtrain theyr [...]ed|rous deſires. Anny or thoſe corrupted abuſes and victour ſuperfluities (which came into the realme of Scotland with the Engliſhmen planted ther|in by the dayes of king Malcolme are not to bee compared in [...] with things vſed in our time, for in thoſe dayes as yet the nature of man was not ſo ouercome with the abuſe of ſuperflu [...]ties, as it is now adayes, for then [...]ought they were gone [...] the auncient ſpa [...]eneſſe of diet, they yet did not eate paſt twice a day,The greedie taſt of mens inſatiable luſt. and had but two diſhes at a meale: but nowe the greedie taſt of mens inſatiable luſt is ſuche, that no kinde of fleſhe, fiſhe, fruite, or whatſoeuer maye be got|ten, is vneth able to quenche theyr gluttonous appetite and rauenous gurmandize: ſo that ney|ther lande, Sea, nor ayre, is left vnſought to ſa|tiſfie the ſame, as though they were worthie of moſt high cõmendation that may deuoure moſt:Men compa|red to Wolues & Cormarãts. wherein they may be iuſtly compared to greedie Woolues and Cormorants.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But to bewaile that in wordes which can|not be amended in deedes, is but a folly, for the infection is ſo entred into the inner partes of the intrayles, that neither with purging, cutting, nor ſearing, it may be holpen. Sooner ſhall you de|ſtroy the whole Nation than remoue this vice.