Compare 1587 edition: 1 Thus was hee ſtill in extremities, keepyng no temperaunce nor laudable meane in any of hys doings.His negligẽce in chaſtiſing his ſonnes. Heereto was hee ſo negligente in chaſtiſing hys ſonnes Walter and Alexander, (whether through ſoftneſſe and lacke of witte, or by reaſon he bare ſuche a fonde and tender fa|therly loue towardes them) that they hauyng hym in ſmall regarde, played many outra|gious partes, to the ſore offendyng of a number. At length, one of them taking diſpleaſure with hys Father, for that hee woulde not gyue hym a Faulcone, the whyche hee hadde long before greatly deſyred, ſtepped to hym, and EEBO page image 376 plucking hir beſide his fiſt,An inſolent part of one of his ſonnes. wrung hir necke from hir body euen preſently before his face. Wherevp|pon the father ſomewhat kindled with this pre|ſumptuous deede of the ſon:The words of Duke Mordo to his ſonne. Walter (ſaid hee) for ſo was his name that had thus miſuſed him, ſith it is ſo that thou and thy brother will not be ru|led by my ſoft and gentle gouernemente, I ſhall bring him home ere ought long, that ſhall chaſtiſẽ both you and me after another manner.Duke Mordo trauelleth for there ſeeming of Iames the firſt. And after this, he reſted not to trauell ſtill for the redeeming of Iames the firſt out of captiuitie, till at length hee broughte hym home indeede, to the greate wealthe, ioy, and good happe of all the Scottiſhe nation.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the meane time, y^e French King Charles the ſeuenth, beeing ſore vexed with warres by the Engliſhmen, ſente to the Earle of Buchquhan his conneſtable, requiring him to returne againe with all ſpeede into Fraunce, and to bring ſo ma|ny Scottiſhmen with him, as hee conueniently myghte.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This Earle therefore, founde meanes to per|ſwade Archimbald Earle of Dowglas father to the foreſaide Earle of Wigtoun to paſſe with him into Fraunce, whiche two Earles with an army of fiue thouſand mẽ (or after ſome writers tenne thouſand tooke the Seas,The Earle of Buchquhan returneth into Fraunce. and arriued with proſperous winde and weather at Rochell, and comming to the Frenche King, were receyued of him with all ioy and gladneſſe.