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Compare 1587 edition: 1 No Ladie, quoth the Earle, with a lowde voyce, and the teares trilling downe his lecres, ſay not ſo, I truſt to ſee the day, when my yong couſin Edwarde, and the remnant of your chil|dren (as little reckning as hee maketh of them) ſhall diſdain the cõpanie of any ſuch ſkip Iack. Which prophecie fill out as truly as he foretold it, only ſauing that it ſtoode with God his plea|ſure, to call him to his mercie before he could ſee that day, after which doubtleſſe he longed and looked, I meane the reſtitution of the houſe of Kildare.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this noble Earle his vntimely deceaſe,Sir Anthonie Sentleger retur|neth Lorde Deputie. ſir Anthony Sentleger was returned into Ire|lande Lorde Deputie, who was a wiſe and a wary Gentleman, a valiant ſeruitour in warre, and a good Iuſticer in peace, properly learned, a EEBO page image 115 good maker in the Engliſhe, hauing grauitie ſo enterlaced with pleaſantneſſe, as with an excee|ding good grace he would attaine the one with|out pouting dumpiſhneſſe, and exerciſe the other without loathfull lightneſſe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Th [...]r [...]fell in his time a fat benefice, of which be as Lord deputie had the preſentation. When diuerſe made ſuyte to him for the benefice, and offred with diſhoneſtie to buy that which with ſafetie of conſcience he could not ſell, hee anſwe|red merily, that he was reſolued not to commit Simonie:Sentleger his [...]nie. yet notwithſtanding he had a nagge in his Stable that was worth fortie ſhillings, and he that woulde giue him fortie poundes for the nagge, ſhoulde bee prefereed to the benefice. Which he rather of pleaſure vttered, than of a|ny vnconſcionable meaning purpoſed to haue done.

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