Compare 1587 edition: 1 Patrike of a chylde was brought vp in lear|ning,The life of S. Patrik in brief. and well inſtructed in the faith, and muche giuen to deuotion.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The Iriſhmenne in thoſe dayes aſſiſted with Scottes and Pictes were become archpyrates, ſore diſquieting the ſeas about the coaſts of Bri|tayne, and vſed to ſacke little ſmall villages that laye ſcattered along the ſhore, & wold often leade awaye captiue the inhabitantes home into theyr countrey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 And as it chaunced, Patrike being a ladde of xvj. yeares olde,S. Patrike vvas taken priſoner vvhen he vvas yong. and a ſcholer then in ſecular ler|ning, was taken among other, and became ſlaue to an Iriſh lord called Mackbuain, from whom after .vj. yeares terme he redeemed himſelfe with a peece of gold which he found in a clod of earth, that the ſwyne had newly turned vp as he follo|wed them in that tyme of his captiuitie, beeyng appointed by his maiſter to keepe them.