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Compare 1587 edition: 1 At the ſixte monethes ende, thoſe twoo ver|tuous perſons taking their leaue eche of other, not without ſheeding of teares, departed in ſun|der, Kentigerne returning vnto Glaſkew, & S. Colme into Irelande,Saint Colme returneth into Ireland. where reporting many things, touching the great vertue and holineſſe of king Conuall, and with what deuotion he had bene receyued both of him and his people, he mo|ued many to wounder greatly thereat, to heare that a king in the middeſt of all his allurements to pleaſure, ſhoulde yet be ſo mindfull of diuine meditations and godly exerciſes.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The yeare following S. Colme prepared to returne into Scotland,Saint Colme commeth a|gaine into Scotlãd, brin|ging with him Aydan ſonne to king Con|ranne. taking Aydan ouer with him thither, by commaundement of king Con|uall, whiche Aydan as ye haue heard to auoyde the traynes of Eugenius, fledde ouer into Ire|land with his mother, for doubte to bee made a|way by the ſame Eugenius.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 S. Colme taking the ſea with this Aydan, and comming a lande on the coaſtes of Scot|lande, was no ſooner there arriued,The death of Conuall. but that pre|ſently hee had knowledge howe the king was dead, being the yeare of his reygne the .x. & after the birth of our Sauiour .579.578. H.B.

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