Compare 1587 edition: 1 Of wines and other ſtrong drinkes he would participate abundantly at all times and places without regard of health or honor,A drunckard he was alſo. being excee|dingly giuen vnto moſte beaſtly drunkenneſſe. He cuſtomaryly vſed to ſit at ſupper till it were EEBO page image 148 very late in the night, hauing his banketting di|ſhes and cuppes to come in one after an other, till he were ſo miſtempered, that being layde to ſleepe he would ſtreyght vomite out ſuch heauy gorges as he had in ſuche moſt gluttenous wiſe receiued. Herevnto he was ſo drouned in the fil|thie luſt of the fleſhe, that hee defiled his owne doughters: and for that his wife was aboute to diſwade him from ſuch vilanie, he ſlew hyr with his owne handes.
Compare 1587 edition: 1 A prophecie.Thus continuing in his wickedneſſe certain yeares at length the nobles began to conſpire a|gainſt him, ſo that they wold haue deuiſed mean howe to haue rid him out of the waye, if Biſhop Colman had not forbidden them that practyſe, propheſying as it wer by diuine inſpiration, that Ferquhard ſore deteſting his owne wicked do|ings, ſhould ſhortely be puniſhed by the handes of Almightie God, according to his deſeruings.