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Compare 1587 edition: 1 In the yeare .1536. the King tooke the Sea,1536 with fiue ſhippes without knowledge of the moſt part of the Lordes of his Realme, and ſayled a|bante the Iles of Skie and Lewes,The kings voyage about the Iſles. and the other Iſles, and by ſtorme was driuen to take lande at Saint Ninians in Galoway, and ſo returned to Striueling from whence he paſſed a foote in pyl|grimage vnto our Ladie Chapell of Lauret be|ſide Muſkelbourgh, and afterwarde ſent for dy|uerſe of his Lordes, and by their counſaile tooke his voyage againe by ſea with fiue ſhips to paſſe into Fraunce, as he was minded to haue done the firſt time, but what cauſed him to alter his pur|poſe then, we find not.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This ſecond time he embarked at Kirckaldy the laſt of Auguſt,He ſayleth in|to Fraunce. and with good and proſperous winde, he ſhortly after arriued in Fraunce, there being with him in companie the Earles of Ar|gile, and Arane, the Lordes Boyd and Fleming, with diuerſe other barons, knights, & gentlemen, and before him there were in Fraunce the Erles of Murrey, Lennox, and Caſſels, the Lorde Erſ|kyn, the Abbot of Arbrothe and other.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Immediately after his arriuall,Herydeth to Vandoſme. he made in ſecrete maner diſguiſed vnto Vandoſmes in Pi|card [...]e, taking with him but one ſeruaunt named Iohn Tennent, whom he cauſed to take vppon him as he had beene maiſter, and ſo comming to the Duke of Vandoſme his place, got ſight of the Ladie who ſhuld haue bin his wife, but not liking hir, hee returned againe without talking eyther with hir or hir friendes, and comming to Rouen where his companie were abyding for him, hee paſſed from thence towarde Paris, where the Dolphin of Fraunce was appoynted by the king his father to meete him ſeuen leagues from the Citie, who brought him to the King, who recey|ued EEBO page image 443 him in ſuch heartie maner, as if he had beene his owne ſonne,He is receiued into Paris. and with as muche honour as might haue beene ſhewed to the greateſt Prince in earth.

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