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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The griefe of his father king Robert.After it was ſignifyed vnto his father Kyng Roberte, that his ſon was thus arreſted in Eng|land, he made full great and dolorous moue, ſore lamenting that euer he matched himſelfe in ma|riage with a woman of ſo meane degree (to the diſperagement of his bloud) as was Queene An|nabell, on whome he begate his ſonnes, whiche (as he tooke it) was the onely cauſe why aſwell forayne Princes as his owne ſubiectes had hym thus in contempt.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He tooke this matter ſo ſore to hart, that with|in three dayes after the newes came vnto hym, he departed this world through force of ſickneſſe,The death of King Roberte the thirde. now encreaſed by melancoly, whiche had vexed hym a long time before.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He dyed in the ſixtenth yeere of his raigne cõ|plete, and from the incarnation. 1408.1408

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