Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Pictes of|fended with Maximus.But the Pictes being offended herewith, and ſpecially for the putting to death of their men, ſundrie of their Nobilitie came vnto Maximus, and began to make a ſore complaint in that be|halfe, declaring that the deſertes of their Nation had not beene ſuche towarde the Romaine Em|pyre, as to haue their people put to execution for a womans ſake, being both an enimie and a pri|ſoner: therefore they requyred that ſhe might be confined into Brytayne, and according to the tenor of the proſcription, ſpoyled of all hir goodes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Cartandis la|menteth hir infortunate eſtate.Here Cartandis being preſent hirſelfe, began to make pitifull lamentation, bewayling hir moſt vnhappie eſtate, in that contrarie to the order of hir wretched caſe and preſent miſerable fortune, ſhe ſhoulde nowe be forced to returne againe into hir Countrey: wiſhing rather than ſhe ſhould be inforced ſo to doe, that ſhe might offer vp hir life, as a ſacrifice in the place of hir huſbandes burial: and therefore holding vp hir handes vnto Maxi|mus in moſt pitifull wiſe, ſhe beſought hym in|ſtantly, that it might pleaſe him, either to ſuffer hir to paſſe the reſidue of hir life after ſuch ſort as ſhee thought beſte agreed wyth hir widow like eſtate, or elſe to take the ſame from hir preſently by ſome violent meanes of execution.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 There was not a man other than the Pictes, that ſame and heard hir at that inſtant, but la|mented hir wofull diſtreſſe, ſo that in the end the requeſt of the Pictes was diſallowed, and Car|tandis hauing liuing aſſigned hir for the main|tenance of hir degree, was licenced to depart into what place ſhee thought expedient, there to liue as ſhee thought beſt withoute lette or diſtur|baunce.