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1 In this meane tyme the
Scottiſh king Do|nald being reſtored againe to his Countrey, was receyued with
more ioy and honour than hee had deſerued, in hope yet by this ſcourge of
aduerſe fortune, that he woulde haue reformed his former abuſes.
Neuertheleſſe,King Donald falleth to hys old vices
againe. he had not bin at home any long time, but that he fell to his
old vicious trade of life againe, remouing from his companie ſuche honorable
perſonages as wiſhed the ſuretie of his eſtate, with the aduãcement of the
cõmon welth, to the reliefe and eaſe of his poore miſerable ſub|iects. At
length the nobles of the realm perceiuing the daunger that their countrey
ſtoode in, by rea|ſon of Donaldes inſolent miſorder, vndiſcrete rule and
gouernment,King Donalde is laid in priſõ. they
found meanes to ap|prehend and commit him vnto ſafe keeping, but the monſtrous
creature within a fewe dayes after he was thus put in ward,
He ſlaieth him ſelfe in priſon. 860.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame yeare that the realme of Scotlande was brought vnto ſuch miſerable ſtate by the pu|iſſant force of the Engliſh men and Brytains, as aboue is rehearſed, there were ſundrie wonders heard of in the countrey:A young babe giueth warning vnto hys mo|ther. as in Lothian a childe of one Moneth olde and a halfe, admoniſhed the mother to flie out of that countrey, for it woulde come to paſſe, that the enimies ſhoulde come and take that region out of the Scottiſh mens hands. Beaſts alſo as they were paſturing abrode in the fieldes there, roaring after a ſtraunge ſort,Beaſtes roa|ryng dyed. ſoden|ly dyed. Fiſhes likewiſe in ſhape reſembling the figure of man,Fiſhes lyke in ſhape to men. were founde deade in the ſandes of the Scottiſh ſea. In Galloway there fell ſuch a|bundance of Adders and Snakes out of the ſkie,Adders & ſna|kes fell downe out of the sky. that the ayre being corrupted with the ſauour of them lying on the grounde, both men and beaſtes dyed of certain diſeaſes, which they tooke through infection thereof.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 Such as were accounted to be ſkilfull in di|uination, affyrmed that theſe things did ſignifie an infortunate raigne with an euill ende vnto king Donalde, as afterwardes it happened,The interpre|tation of the prodigious things. who hauing made away himſelfe in priſon (as before is expreſſed) Conſtantine the ſonne of king Ken|neth was crowned king at Scone,King Cõſtan|tine Crowned. in the Chayre of Marble there, according to the maner as then vſed.