Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Douglas to make his manhod and pro|wes the more knowne in all partes where hee came, offered the king of Aragone, to ſerue vn|der hym in thoſe warres againſt the infidels, and ſo fought at ſundry times in his ſupport againſt the enimies with proſperous ſucceſſe, til at lẽgth hauing to much confidence in fortunes fauour, (whiche hathe broughte ſo manye noble men to their deaths) he waxed negligent, and toke ſmall regarde of daungers that myghte enſue, ſo that in the ende he was incloſed by an ambuſhe layde for him by the enimies,Iames Dou|glas ſlayne by the Saraſins in Spayne. and there ſlayn amongſt them with all ſuche as he had about him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This was the ende of that noble Douglas, one of the moſt valiant knightes, that lyued in his days.How often Ia|mes Douglas had got the victorie. He had gotten the victorie .lvij. ſundry tymes in fight againſt the Engliſhmen, & .xiij. tymes againſte the Turkes, as it is written at length (ſayth Balentine) in Scoticronicon.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He might haue bin right neceſſary for the de|fence of Scotland, if his chance had bin to haue returned home in ſafetie. He ended his life in ma|ner (as is before mencioned) on the .xxvj. day of Auguſt,

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King Dauid.