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Compare 1587 edition: 1 The nobles he had in ſuſpect, fauouring one|ly ſuche as through flatterie were by him prefer|red: And where he was drowned beyond all the termes of honeſtie in fleſhly and ſenſual luſt, yet was his couetouſneſſe ſo great, that all was to little which he might lay handes vpon.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 He alſo put to death diuers honorable perſo|nages,His coſin Car|dorus & other ſuche as hee perceyued to grutche at his doings. Hee likewiſe purpoſed to haue made a|way the Sonnes of his predeceſſour Corbreide, but his trayterous practiſe being diſcloſed,The commõs rebell. the moſte parte of the Nobles and commons of the Realme rebelled againſt him, and ſending for Corbreide Galde the eldeſt ſonne of the former Corbreide, remayning as then in the Iſle of Man, (where hee ſhoulde haue bene murthered) they choſe him to their King. And at length beating downe all ſuche as made reſiſtance, they gotte that cruell tyrant Dardane into their handes, and bringing him foorth before the mul|titude,Dardane is beheaded. they cauſed his heade to bee openly ſtri|ken of.

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