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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Fitz Girald re|turneth to Rome.The yong Fitz Giralde returned with a rich bootie to Malta, from thence to Rome, ha|uing ſpent in thys voyage, not fully one yeare.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Cardinall enhaunceth Fitz Giraldes penſion.Proude was the Cardinall to heare of hys proſperous exploytes, and for his further ad|uauncement, he enhaunced his pencion of three hundred Crownes, to three hundred poundes, ouer and aboue three hundred crownes, that the Duke of Mantua allowed him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after he preferred him to the ſeruice of the Duke of Florence, named Coſmo, wyth whom he continued maiſter of his horſes three yeares,He is Maſter of the horſe to the Duke of Florence. hauing alſo of the Duke three hundred Duckets for a yearely penſion during life, or vn|till be were reſtored, in like maner as the Cardi|nall Poole and the duke of Mantua in their an|nuities had graunted him.

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