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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conſtantine the daye nexte after the battaile, withdrew ſouthwardes. The Scots carryed a|way with them the corps of their dead king, and conueying it into the Ile of Iona, nowe called Colmkill, there buried it in kingly wiſe. Don|garde was thus ſlayne, in the fyfth yeare of hys reigne after the byrth of our Sauior .475. yeares and about the ſeconde yeare of Zeno the Empe|rour.465. H.B. S. of Leo. H. B.

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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Conſtantine the firſt of that name is crea|ted king of Scottes.AFter him ſucceeded in gouernment of the Scottiſhe kingdome Conſtantine the bro|ther of the aboue rehearſed Eugenius, a Prince vnlike in noble vertues vnto his brother the ſayd Eugenius. For though in him there appeared ſome good tokens of commendable towardely|neſſe, as hee ſeemed outwardly to ſhew, yet was he giuen more vnto wanton pleaſure and luſt than to the regard of the good rule & gouernment of his ſubiectes a deflourer of vyrgins, a raui|ſher of honeſt Matrones and aboue all a fauou|rer of backbiters and ſlaunderers. Neuer ſhew|ing any ioyfull countenaunce amongſt his no|bles, but amongſt ſcoffing ieſtours and other vile perſons be was as pleaſant and merie as the iocundeſt man aliue.

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