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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The eldeſt of his daughters the Hamilton had in mariage, as before is, and alſo after ſhall bee mentioned.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Some ſtraunge ſightes there appeared before the death of this King Iames the ſecond, for the day before he was ſlayne, [...]. a blaſing Starre was playnely ſeene, which ſignified as was thought, the death of the ſayd King.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeere before the ſeege, there was in Dundee an Hermophrodite, that is, a perſon with both ſhapes,An Hermo|phrodite, that is a perſon [...] both [...] and wo| [...]. but eſteemed for a woman onely, till it was proued, that lying with hir maſters daughter nightly where ſhe dwelt, ſhe had gote ye yong Damoſell with childe, for the whiche acte, bycauſe ſhe had counterfeted hir ſelfe a woman, and yet had wrought the part of a man, ſhe was condemned to be buried quicke, and ſuffered ac|cording to that iudgement.

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