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Compare 1587 edition: 1 After this Mogall liued many yeares in good quiet without any trouble of enimies. But being puffed vp in pryde by ſuche notable victories as he had thus got of the Romaines the conque|rours of the worlde,Mogal throgh priſe abuſeth himſelfe in ſundrie kindes of vices. hee coulde not in tyme of peace maiſter hys owne vnruly appetytes, but that drowned in the fylthie luſtes of the bodye, hee ſpared neyther Mayde, Wydowe, nor wyfe.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Againe hee was giuen to ſuche vnquench|able couetyſe, that nothing mighte ſuffice hym, fynding many forged matters agaynſt the riche, whereby to bereue them both of life and ſubſtaunce. Hee was the fyrſt whiche ordey|ned that ſuche as were baniſhed or condem|ned for anye cryme,A couetous and cruel or|dinance. ſhoulde forfeyte all theyr landes and goodes wythoute any conſideration had, eyther to wyfe or chylde, whiche is ob|ſerued at the full euen vnto theſe oure dayes, where before it was otherwyſe in that Coun|trey.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 But theſe ſo notable vices in the Prince coulde not long continue vnpuniſhed, for at length a conſpiracie was practiſed agaynſt him, whereof hee hauing knowledge (whether by witchcraft or otherwyſe by relation of friends,A conſpiracie attempted a|gaynſt Mogal. the certaintie is not knowne) in the deade of the night hee armed himſelfe,Mogall fleeth out of his owne houſe. and with two of his ſeruauntes onely fledde to the next wood, not gyuing notice of his departure to any other of his houſeholde.

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