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Compare 1587 edition: 1 But Ormond ſurmiſing that this drift was entended for ſome further treacherie, that if hee woulde ſtretche out his hande, it had bin percaſe chopt off, refuſed that proffer, vntill Kildare ſtretcht in his hand to him, and ſo the dore was opened,The Earles reconciled. they both embraced, the ſtorme appea|ſed, and all their quarrels for that preſente, ra|ther diſcontinued than ended.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 This later quarrell beeyng lyke a greene wounde, rather bunglerly botcht, than ſoundly cured, in that Kildare ſuſpected, that ſo greate an army (which the other alledged, to be brou|ght for the guarde of his perſon) to haue bin of purpoſe aſſembled, to outface hym and his po|wer in his owne Countrey: and Ormonde mi|ſtruſted, yt this treacherous practiſe of the Dub|linians, was by Kildare deuiſed. Theſe and the like ſurmiſes lightly by both the noble men miſ|deemed, and by the continuall twatling of fly|ring clawbackes in their eares whiſpered, bred and foſtered a malice betwixte them and theyr poſteritie, many yeares incurable, which cauſed muche ſturre and vnquietneſſe in the Realme, vntill the confuſion of the one houſe, and the noneage of the other, ended and buryed theyr mutuall quarrels.

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