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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But yet for that he lefte iſſue behynd him. iij.Prince Henry his iſſue. ſons and. iij. daughters (as before is mencioned) the Realme was not thoughte vnprouided of heires.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The king alſo being mortified from the world, tooke the death of his ſonne very pacient|ly,The lawe of nature. conſidering that al men are ſubiect vnto death by the lawe of nature, and are ſure no longer to remaine here, than their day appointed by the e|terne determination of him that giueth and ta|keth away lyfe and breath when pleaſeth him, as by dayly experience is moſt manyfeſt.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Therfore that king Dauid wayed the loſſe of his ſonne in ſuche balance, it maye appeare by an Oration which hee made to his nobles, at what tyme after his ſonnes deceaſe, they came to com|forte hym. For he perceyuing them to be ryghte heauie and ſorowfull for the loſſe whiche he and they had ſuſteyned by the death of ſo towardly a prince, that was to haue ſucceeded him, if God had lent him lyfe thereto: in the ende of a royall feaſt the whiche he made vnto thoſe nobles that came thus to viſite hym, hee beganne in this wyſe.

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