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Compare 1587 edition: 1 Malachias being demaunded of his brethren the Monkes of Benchar, where and when hee would wiſh to die and to be buried, if it lay in his choyce, he anſwered: If in Ireland, beſide the bo|die of S. Patrik, if beyond the ſeas at Clareuale where S. Bernarde was then reſiant, and in the feaſt of all ſoules. He purpoſed within few dayes to ſue to Pope Eugenius for increaſe of the nũ|ber of Metropolitans, whiche requeſt was ſhort|ly after accompliſhed. And in this voyage which he thus made, hee ſtayed at Clareuale, and ſhore diners tymes openly foreſhewed, that the yere of his departure foorth of this world was come, and accordingly when he had taken leaue of Sainte Bernarde and the brethren, hee wente downe from his chamber to the churche, and there bidde communicate: Whiche doone, hee returned to his lodgyng, and there on All Soule daye in the yere of his age .54. he gaue vp the ghoſt ſo myld|lye and quietlye that it ſeemed rather a ſleepe than a death.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 Malchus.Malchus, thoughe borne in Irelande, yet he ſpente the moſte parte of his tyme in the mona|ſterie of Wrncheſter in Englande, and from the [...] was taken & admitted biſhop of Liſmore. Saint Bernard remembreth of him by occaſion, he cured a lunatike childe in confirming, or elſe (as they termed it, in biſhopping him.) This mi|racle ſeene and confeſſed by many hundredes of people was blowen through the world.

Compare 1587 edition: 1 The ſame tyme happened diſcord betwixt the king of Mounſter and his brother,Diſcorde be|tvvixt the king of Moun|ſter and his brother. and as the matter was handled, the king was ouermatched and fled into England, wher he viſited Malchus in his Abbey, and would by no meanes departe from hym, but remayne there vnder his rule and gouernmente ſo long as it pleaſed God to denie hym quiet returne into his countrey: hee contented himſelfe with a poore celle, vſed dayly to bathe himſelfe in colde water, to aſſuage the wanton motions of his fleſhe, and for his dyet receyued none other delicates than breade, wa|ter and ſalte, daye and nyghte ſobbing and be|wayling with greate remorſe of conſcience his former myſdemeaned lyfe.

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