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Compare 1587 edition: 1 On the ſame maner, another woman through a long reede, fedde him with milke of hir owne breſts, and was likewiſe diſpatched as ſoone as her doings were perceyued.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Then after this,The Duke of Rothſay fa|miſhed to death. the Duke deſtitute of all worldly ſuſtenaunce through very famine, was conſtreyned to eate not onely all ſuche filth as hee could finde within the Towre, but alſo in ye end, hee gnawed off his owne fingers, and ſo finally in this miſerable ſtate of Martirdome (as I may call it) ended his wretched life, and was buryed in Lundoris,Miracles. where (as the fame wente many fayre miracles were done neere to his graue, till tyme that Iames the firſt began to puniſh the murthe|rers, for ſithens that time ſuch miracles ceaſſed.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame time,The diſplea|ſures done by George Earle of March. George Earle of March did many diſpleaſures to the Scottes, makyng ſundry rodes into their countrey, greatly to hys profyte.

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