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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Vnkyth fights and ſtraunge wounders ap|peared.In theſe dayes alſo many ſtraunge ſightes were ſeene in ſundrie partes of Brytaine before the laſt mentioned ouerthrow: the Moone be|ing in playne oppoſition to the Sunne when it ſhould be moſt round appeared in a quadrant fi|gure.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 At Yorke it rayned bloud: and trees in ſun|drie places bring blaſted, wythered and died. The market place or rather if ye will ſo terme it Cheapeſide in London opened, ſo that a great hole apeared & many houſes were ſwallowed vp.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 About the ſame ſeaſon alſo (as is ſuppoſed) li|ued that huge perſonage Fyn makcoel,Fynmakcoel [...] the great hũ|ter. a Scot|tiſh man borne, of. vij. cubites in heyght. He was a great hunter, and ſore feared of all men by rea|ſon of his mightie ſtature, and large limmes: many fables goe abroade of him, not ſo agreable to the likelihoode of a truth, as ought to be regi|ſtred in an hiſtorie, and therefore here paſſed ouer with ſilence.

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