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Compare 1587 edition: 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.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 King Dauid therefore tooke ſuche griefe for hyr death, that he woulde neuer after giue his minde to marie any other, but paſſed the reſidue of his life without companie of all women. She was buried in Scone, in the yeare of our lorde God .1132.1132.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Whileſt theſe things came thus to paſſe in Scotland, Henry Beauclerke king of England, cauſed all the nobles of his realme to take theyr othes, that after his deceaſſe they ſhould receyue his daughter Mauld the Empreſſe for their ſoue|raine Ladie and Queene.Mauld the Empreſſe.

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