[1] But now in the meane time whileſt the aſtate of the common wealth in Scotland, ſtood in high felicitie, vnder the proſperous gouernmẽt of king Dauid,Queene Mauld deceaſ|ſe [...]. there happened to him an heauie loſſe: for the Queene his wife the foreſayd Mauld deceaſ|ſed in hyr flouriſhing age, a woman of paſſing beautie and chaſtitie, whiche two poynts (as is thought) commende a woman aboue all the reſt.