Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Cardinall enhaunceth Fitz Giraldes penſion.Proude was the Cardinall to heare of hys proſperous exploytes, and for his further ad|uauncement, he enhaunced his pencion of three hundred Crownes, to three hundred poundes, ouer and aboue three hundred crownes, that the Duke of Mantua allowed him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Shortly after he preferred him to the ſeruice of the Duke of Florence, named Coſmo, wyth whom he continued maiſter of his horſes three yeares,He is Maſter of the horſe to the Duke of Florence. hauing alſo of the Duke three hundred Duckets for a yearely penſion during life, or vn|till be were reſtored, in like maner as the Cardi|nall Poole and the duke of Mantua in their an|nuities had graunted him.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 During the time that he was in ſeruice with the Duke of Florence, he trauayled to Rome a ſhrouing, of ſet purpoſe to be merie: and as hee road an hunting with Cardinall Ferneiſe the Pope his nephew, it happened that in chaſing the Bucke,He falleth in|to a deepe pit. he fel into a pitte. xxix fatham deepe, and in the fall forſaking his horſe within two fathams of the bottom, he tooke holde by two or three rootes, gryping them faſt, vntill his armes were ſo wearie, as he coulde hang no longer in that paine. Wherefore betaking himſelfe to God, he let goe his gripe by little and little, and fell ſoftly on his horſe, that in the bottome of the pit lay ſtarke dead, and there he ſtoode vp to the Anckles in water, for the ſpace of three houres. When the chaſe was ended, an exceeding good Greyhoũd of his named Grifhound, not finding his maiſter in the companie,His Greyhoũd fin [...]eth him out. followed his tracte vntill hee came to the pitte, and from thence woulde not depart, but ſtoode at the brimme in|ceſſauntly houling. The Cardinall Ferneiſe and his traine miſſing Fitz Girald, made towardes the dogge, and ſurueying the place, they were verily perſwaded that the Gentleman was ſqui|ſed to death.