ought fullye to bee satisfied by oath from thē that demaund the fielde if that which they pronounce be their true quarrell because many times some men will not stick to determine to themselues one pretence of their fight yet make known to the world another which abuses gentlemen ought diligently to take heed of because many times such malice hath been discouered Touching all such matters whereon anye controuersie or dissencion maye growe men ought specially to beware not to be self-willed but are rather to take counsail and aduise both of their freends and experienced men and if there be cause to iudge this course necessarie in anye matter it ought cheefelye to bee in such cases wherein a mans life and honour is touched for we see that euen the wisest sorte to study and endeuour by all meanes possible to furnish themselues with men experienced and seene in chiualrye and armes that they maye bee counsailed and aduised by them and may in such sort wish them to the field as may best stand with reason which office may onely be executed by learned men and gentlemen wherof the first are tearmed counsailors and the second Padrini Padrini are those that are chosen by the combators on either side but if happily one man be seen in both hee maye very well suffice to execute both offices but because the charge consisteth principally on the Padrini we will speak somwhat of them First then my opinion is that they were so called either because such gentlemen as had remitted themselues vnto them ought to account of them as their fathers or els that this mutation of letters is deriued from the latine which termeth those patrones Patrones Padrini Pattini which take vpon them the defence of another some also cal them not Padrini but Pattini which if we wil allow it must be for that they do make the matth of the cōbate but howsoeuer they be called or whencesoeuer their denomination be deriued they are very necessary and their very office is to defend as aduocates do their clients and as this is their duety so methinketh they deserue no lesse priuiledge then aduocates doe And therefore as in ciuile controuersies aduocates are not to satisfie or paye anye parte of that wherein their clyents are bound or condemned There ought no controuersie to arise betwixt the Padrini so in reason the other oght not to be charged to the field in those quarrels wherein they are but as it were proctors for the iniuries the lyes the cartels and challenges that are alreadie past betwixt the principalles and the Padrini speake but as procurators which is as much as if the principalles themselues spake and if happilie the principals should haue any words together after the quarrell concluded yet new charge or lies should be of no force which if it be betwixt the principals grāted much more ought to be to them that speake for them which as it is reasonable so is it to be obserued for the better conseruation of the right vse of chiualry and to the end euery man may freely execute his function which thing I note because it happeneth sometimes that such men take vpon them to be Padrini who doe it more to take holde of a newe quarrell then for the defence of their gentilitie And this is a wonderfull abuse as it hath been shewed before as also for that the nature of Duello is rather to restraine a man than to giue him libertie beeing verie vnmeete then vpon one combate should still ensue another In which respect gentlemen ought strictlye to obserue this rule before and as oft as it happeneth to growe anye quarrell betwixt Padrini gentlemen ought to condemne it as vnlawfull The dutie of gentlemen and seeke by all meanes possible to preuent such dishonest actions That men should not fight without weapons of defence THe opinion of our ancients is that whēsoeuer any man is licensed to the Combate in al other cases except for infidelitie hee is to fight with a staffe and a Buckler wherby I conclude that duello was not instituted for the honor of chiualrie as our late combators haue wrested it but onely for the sifting out of the truth which was not doone with the weapons of a Gentleman but with a staffe and therfore to goe about to reduce our customes now a daies to those of former ages were more ridiculous then possible to be done but I will onely treat of the weapons belonging to Gentlemen which I thinke meetest for Combats Firste therefore it is to bee vnderstoode that the wisedome and discretion of a man is as great a vertue as his magnanimitie and courage which are so much the greater vertues by how much they are accompanied with wisedome for without them a man is not to be accounted valiant but rather furious neither is hee valiant that rashly and without aduise hazardeth himselfe in great matters or endaungereth himselfe most but hee that aduisedly behaueth himselfe in actions belonging to a gentleman and where a publique benefite or his owne honor requireth it doth not retire himselfe from danger for as a Philosopher well saith neither is hee valiant that is afraide of euery bugge nor yet he that doth not temper his feares Againe as the courage of the minde imboldeneth a man to assault his enemy so wisedom teacheth him likewise how to defend himselfe so as I will neuer holde him couragious that will be led to fight without sufficient weapons of defence And albeit the common sorte thinke the single Rapier in the shirte or the poniard or such like weapons wherein there is a manifest iudgement of death to one most honorable neuertheles I am not of that opinion nor will I account them that enter the combate in such sorte more honorable then wilde beastes that wilfullye run vpon their own death And touching such as think it an honorable thing not onely not to esteme their life but voluntarilye to runne on their death I will account their life at a very lowe and base price seing they themselues set no greater reckoning on it It is helde a most shamefull matter if when the custodie of a Castell shall be committed to a man hee shall without licence forsake it and shall wee that haue our liues lente vs in keeping from our creator haue no respect of so goodly a receptacle of our soules but wilfully destroye it making our selues as it were rebels vnto God and so bring both bodye and soule to perdition Moreouer if a Gentleman goe to the warres wee see him so esteemed of as hee is in shewe of his armour and therefore I see no cause at all that a man should in publique matters seeke to be well armed and in priuate quarrelles come naked and me thinketh a man should at all times and in all places shewe him selfe valiant and desire the victorye which if it be granted they should likewise in al matters of moment prepare themselues armed And if Gentlemen
of his dagger as you shall finde occasion so doe that is if his dagger hand be high thrust a stoccata to him vnder his dagger if lowe make a stoccata to his face either close by the hand or by the middest of his arme and and if you will thrust as you are in your warde you may or else with retiring Moreouer if your enemie turne his dagger point toward his right side charge him on that side with a punta riuersa to his face remaining in your warde or retiring as you please Againe if he lying in that warde carry his point out of the warde of your dagger any whit a little too high charge him close and holding forth your Dagger you may suddenly take his point with your Dagger or if you will you may by remouing the right foote a little forward giue him a stoccata but keepe stedfast your dagger hand as I taught you before least otherwise he make an imbroccata to your face Againe if he carrye his point any whit too much toward your right side turn your body on your left side in a good ward charging him on the right side and bring your right foote cleane without his right foot and hauing so doone thrust your rapier vnder his about the middle and so make a passata vpon him or you may charge with a riuersa to his throte or such like either abiding in your warde or suddenlye scaping away with your body If you perceiue he holde his rapier farre out and not turned charge him below turning your body on the right side and turne your dagger point somewhat lowe vpon your enemies point and hauing gotten this aduantage being within measure thrust either to his bellye or face as you shall best see cause Z. I finde now that after a man hath the arte hee must also haue great exercise and practise to bring his bodie to a true frame But as you haue hetherto shewed me to charge mine enemie in due time so now I praie you teach me to defend my selfe when my enimie chargeth me V. If your enemie charge you and haue gotten anie aduantage of you either with his foot or turning of the bodie or rapier or dagger or by what meanes soeuer seeke to put your selfe in a sure warde and retire a little keeping your selfe still in gard least else by retiring if you moue vp your bodie or dagger your enemy might by dexteritie and quicknes offend you greatly but whilest hee chargeth you couet to turne your bodie to one side or other as you find the point of your enemies rapier and euen at that instant that he moueth his foot in charging you as you finde him open in any place so seeke to offend him and beware as I sayd before in what sort you retire for somtime there is a fit time when you thrust to retire and some times not therefore take diligent heed thereunto Moreouer when he hath gotten aduantage being in his ward if he wold thrust a stoccata to you vnder your dagger you shall be nimble to auoide it by turning your daggers point downward you shall answere him with a stoccata or imbrocata or punta riuersa as you shall finde opportunitie but if he make an imbrocata aboue your dagger you may auoide it by lifting vp a little the point of your dagger and by turning the wrist of your hand to the left side for that his imbrocata shall go cleane without your left side you may make a thrust to him as you shall finde him open in anie place Againe if hee make an imbrocata to your bodie you may giue backe a little with your bodie and beat it awaie with your right side may make to him a punta riuersa to his bodie or face likewise if he be towards your right side thrust at your face you may yet beat it awaie answere him with a punta riuersa or a passata Againe if he make an imbrocata aboue your dagger beware that your rapiers point be within his and make vnto him a meza-incarta turning the pointe either to the belly face or throate but you must with greate agilitie turne your point bodie on your right side Againe if he make a blow to your head at the instant that he moueth his hand make you sodainly a stoccata vnto him and if you be in a good ward you may make a punta riuersa to his thigh but if he make a blow to your leg stand fast in your warde with your bodie farre out and in his thrusting come forwarde with your right foote whereby you shal cause him to leese the greatest part of his rapier and turne your dagger point low receiuing the blow on the same and you may make vnto him either a stoccata to the face or a riuersa to his necke or arme Again when he thrusteth to your leg remoue your right foote to your right side as it were making a circle so offend your enimy as if he make a riuersa to the head you may take it vpon your rapier dagger passing with your left foot turning your rapier hand making a stoccata and if you will you may by passing receiue the riuersa vpon your dagger onely but looke you carrie your dagger point aloft as I haue told you before Againe if hee make the riuersa to your leg you may sodeinly passe with your left foot to his right take the riuersa on your dagger for thereby you get the strength of his rapier and are master of it and may easily strike him Again if he make anie violent blow at your head retire a litle on your lefte side receiue it with your rapiers point passing with your left foote turning your point to his face clapping your dagger on his rapier all other blowes and riuersaes you may easily receiue on your dagger but it behoueth you to receiue thē with the point of your rapier otherwise your enemie might thrust his rapier between your rapier dagger especially if he cast his hande vpward and his pointe downward therefore take heed how you thrust for these are all good times If your enemie come furiouslie vpon you to assault you keep you still in your gard and in his comming neere to you thrust at him for he is neither in ward nor yet standeth firme and the more resolutely he commeth vpon you the more he is in danger and the woorse is it for him because hee may easily with a little pricke bee slaine but courage ioyned with skill and knowledge is verie good Againe if a tall man should assault a little man this ward is exceeding good for the tal man because if he charge the other the tall man thrust being within rech he loseth his point the litle man may giue him a stoccata or make a passata at him but if the tall man know how to put himself in ward thrust he might haue great aduauntage by the length
were most iust and reasonable because he will not vse the meanes which God hath appointed and therefore must blame himselfe only for his ill hap and successe Wherefore it cannot be denied but that this knowledge and skill which groweth and riseth from this art of Defence is necessary And therfore I say that when vpon iust ground and occasion a man shall take a quarrell in hand and shal haue courage reason boldnes and force to maintaine it hauing also the meanes and helpe of this art it will seldome or neuer chaunce but that he shall ouercome his aduersary and vpon this reason and ground proceedeth my argument But when he forsaketh the fauour and benefit graunted by God in that he wil not learne how to defend himselfe if the quite contrary happen to him he must impute the fault and blame to himselfe And therefore I must tell you this also that he hath most neede of this art which lacketh courage and strength because that by this art and practise he groweth in vre with his weapon and to haue skill and iudgement to defend himselfe And this also I saye that strength and valiant courage is not it which giueth victorye but a skill and knowledge in the vse of his weapon and a certaine nimblenes and actiuitie aswell of the body as of the hand and the foot L. In sooth by that which you say it seemes to me that nature is she which worketh and perfourmeth all and not art because that from nature commeth courage force and a right frame and aptnes of the body therefore he which shal be furnished with these partes and shall vndertake a right and iust cause is like to beare away the victory without hauing any or very little skil in the art of Defence V. Certes we may graunt that nature may doo very much to frame a man apt and fit for this exercise both in respect of conuenient courage and strength but all these abilities and giftes which nature can bestow on a man are nothing except he haue knowledge or arte for we see that the very thinges themselues which are brought foorth by nature good and perfect if they be not holpen by arte by very course of nature become naught and vnprofitable As the Vine if it be not holpen by art comes to no proofe nor profit so likewise other trees how apt so euer they be to bring forth excellent frutes if they are not husbanded growe wilde and degenerate from their naturall perfection Suppose that nature bring foorth a most goodly and beautifull tree if it begin once to growe crooked and be not holpen it looseth all his beautye and therefore as you see arte is an aide and helpe to nature so that one hauing those good partes and abilities by nature before mentioned yet not knowing them he cannot vse them to his benefite but by the meanes of skill and iudgement which a man by his industrie and practise attaineth vnto And although he may strike right and crosse blows and giue the foyne and thrust yet these being not guided by reason and skill may as well harme him as profit or procure him any aduantage but art which imitateth and perfiteth nature if a man apply his minde therunto by many experimentes and much practise will make him skilfull and capable of great perfection And to proue that this is true we see little infants which although as soone as they are borne they haue a tung yet they cannot speake and after when they haue learned to speake yet they want eloquence nature maye bestowe a gift of memory which when it is accompanied with art and knowledge they are able in good sorte to expresse their minde and conceipt How can you be skilfull in riding if you haue not learned the arte nature may helpe but not bring to perfection how is it possible that you should proue a skilfull Carpenter or Saylor if you haue not by practise acquainted your selfe with those thinges which appertaine thereunto how can a man be a professour in any art or science vnlesse he haue learned it first himselfe and therefore they which make so small reckoning of art in my fancie and conceipt in this respect are worse than beastes especially those which are practised in fight in which a man may perceiue a kinde of reason and arte and for proofe of this take a young Dog which hath not been accustomed to fight and set him on a Bull and you shal see him assaile him with more courage and fiercenes then another which hath beene beaten and practisde in the matter but you shall see him by and by hurte and wounded whereas in the other you shall see the quite contrary for before he set vpon his aduersary you shall see him spie all aduantages that maye be and hauing found his aduantage he wil after make an assault wherfore these braggers which without iudgement and reason will take vpon them to kill the whole worlde at the least wise should order and gouerne themselues more discreetely then beasts and if they being without reason can help themselues with art which is taught them how much rather should a man which is indued with reason make his profit therof seeke to learne it and not to scorne and despise it especiallye in such a case where so deepely it concerneth a mans life that in the stirring of a foote he may be soddenlye ouertaken and slaine but the more skill a man hath of his weapon the more gentle and curteous should he shewe himselfe for in truth this is rightly the honour of a braue Gentleman and so much the more is hee to bee esteemed neither must he be a bragger or lyer and without rruth in his word because there is nothing more to be required in a man then to know himselfe for me therefore I thinke it necessarye that euery one should learne this arte for as a man hath voice and can sing by nature but shall neuer doo it with time and measure of musicke vnlesse he haue learned the arte and as a horse may be strong and fyt for fight by nature but can not serue a man to any vse in the feelde vnlesse he haue beene first broken and taught and framed to be obedient to his maisters pleasure and minde So much more should a man learne how to mannage and vse his body his hand and his foote and to know how to defend himselfe from his enemy And heereupon we see that how stoute or couragious soeuer a man be yet when he is challenged into the feelde he seeks then to learn the skill and practise of his weapon of some braue and skilfull man against the daye of the fight and combate and for no other cause but that he knoweth that it is necessarye for him that it concerneth his honor and life and they which affirme the contrary if euer they haue occasion to fight shall perceiue to their disaduantage and discredit how much they haue erred and bene out of the
therefore note it well for if your aduersary be a man of iudgement and valour and you be the first in offering you bring your lyfe in ieopardye for either of you being within distāce obseruing time the first offerer is in danger to be slain or wounded in the coūter time especially if he thrust resolutelye but if you be skilfull and not the other then may you gain time and measure and so hit him sauing your selfe then the more furiouslie your enemie commeth on the more he runneth headlong vpon his owne danger Some are of opinion that they can hit him that shall hit them first but such as haue neuer fought or if by chance in one fight they haue beene so fortunate let them not thinke that Summer is come because one swallow is seene Mee thinketh more commendable for a man to defend himselfe and not offend his enemie than to hurt his enemie and bee wounded himselfe for when you shall perceiue the danger that insueth by euery assault without time and measure you wil change your opinion and some others there are that hold it a shame for a man to retire L. In deede it is accounted disgracefull to giue ground because therein a man seemeth to feare his enemie V. There is difference betweene retiring orderly and running backward for to hit and retire is not discommendable though the other be shamefull hee that holdes the contrarie vnderstandeth little the danger of weapons L. And I praie you what good doth retiring V. If you be assaulted on the sodain your enemy hauing gained time and measure so that you are in euident danger to bee slaine had you rather die than retire a foot L. Some are resolute rather to die than yeelde an inch V. But if such knew they should bee slaine that so small a matter would saue their liues I doubt not but they would retire with both feete rather then faile Many talke as they haue heard and not as they know whereupon I will recite a Combate perfourmed by a great Captaine called Signior Ascanio della Cornia L. Truly I haue heard of one such but I know not whether it were he that was a master of the Campe in that great armie of Don Iohn d'Austria against the Turke V He was the very same but to come to the matter touching the opinion of the ignorant this Captaine being entred the listes against his aduersarie in the presence of many Princes and great men which listes enuironing the circuit appointed for the Combate and being touched by either of them the same person is helde vanquished as if he had beene driuen out was very furiouslye charged by his enemie and sought at the first onely to saue himselfe by retiring which the other perceiuing began to scoffe at him bidding him beware of the listes wherewithall the Captaine espying aduantage made a resolute stoccata cleane through his bodye and so slew him now whether of these think you wonne most honour L. In my iudgement Ascanio who entertained the furie of his aduersarye till in discretion hee found oportunitie to execute his purpose V. I am glad to heare you of that opinion for wee see the like in martiall policye where oftentimes retraites are made of purpose to drawe the enemye either into some imboscata or place of aduantage and such as are most insolent and presumptuous are easiest drawne into those plots who runne headlong on their death like beastes In like sorte hee that vnderstandeth the true vse of his weapons will suffer his aduersarye in his rashnes vntill he finde time and aduantage safely to annoy him And sithens I haue begun to speake of combates I wil recite one other perfourmed in Piemont in the time of Charles the 5. betweene two Italians and two Spaniards as I haue heard it deliuered by diuers Gentlemen present at the action A Spanish Captaine more braue in shew then valorous in deede to insinuate himselfe with the Emperour began in scornfull sorte to finde fault with other nations and among the rest with Italians where the Spaniard had neuer had foote of ground if the Italians themselues had not beene made instruments of their owne conqueste but to let that passe this Spaniard hauing in woords disgraced the Italian nation it came to the Italians eares whereupon two Italians the one of Padua and the other of Vicenza wrote a cartell vnto the Spaniard which was carried by him of Vicenza who finding the Spaniard accompanied with diuers Gentlemen deliuered him the cartell which he receiued saying that hee would go to his Chamber and read it whereunto the Vicentine replyed that he should read it ere hee departed and that it was a cartel Which the Spaniard hauing read in presence of the whole companye asked the Vicentine whether he or his fellow would maintaine the cartell to whome the Vicentine answered that the woords repeated in the cartell was a lye and that hee was present to auouch it wherewithall hee offered to draw foorth his sworde and so the Spaniard and his companion accepted the combat against the two Italians of which matter the Emperour hauing aduertisement conceiued displeasure against the presumption of the Spaniard and so place of combate was prepared in presence of many great personages the combatters being entered the listes one of the Italians who were both in their shirts onely rent of the lefte sleeue of his shirt which the Spaniard beholding saide hee needed not take so muche paine for he meant to haue cut of his arm sleeue and all to whom the Padouan replyed that he meant to haue cut of the Spaniards head firste and therefore prepared his arme for the purpose wherwithall they encountred all very furiouslye so that the Vicentine was first wounded who crying out to his fellow that he was hurt the Padouan comforted him with hope of better successe to come and began warely to keep his garde but the Spaniards presuming on the victorie charged them so much the harder without regarde till at length the Padouan finding his time with a resolute stoccata ranne the one through the bodie and with a sodaine riuersa cut the others neck almost quite in sunder and so they were both slaine together I haue induced these examples for two causes the one for that many contemne this art and make no account therof and the other because there are some so insolent as they seek nothing but to sowe discension between frendes and allies which if they were restrained it might saue the liues of many men for as wee see in the last example there wanted not much to haue caused a generall mutiny between the Spaniard the Italian through the insolencie of the Spaniard if the Emperour had not drawne the matter to a shorter triall by forbidding any one to offer the first blow amongst them vpon paine of death pronouncing the Italians victors that had acquited themselues in so honourable sorte Therefore you may see how dangerous the company of these
will haue this respect of curtesie towarde their enemie as to giue him weapons wherewith he may end the controuersie I thinke it reason they should be such as may arm him and not burden him The dutie of euerye Gentleman is to temper his courage with wisedome that it may be knowne that neither he setteth so highlye by his life that for safegarde of it he will commit any vile fact nor yet that he so slightlye regardeth it as that without iust cause he will depriue himselfe thereof albeit I doe not account it a dishonourable act to come armed like a man at armes if the weapons be such as belong to a Gentleman and hurt not a man priuilie Again I would that armes should incōtinently be vsed and that a man should not then enter the combate when the time is for him to leaue and aboue al that the weapons of defence were both weapons of armes and warre and if so be a man would fight with weapons only of defence the gentlemen should in no case admit it but that they should fight like gentlemen as it hath been many times done Touching the choice of your weapons and of the inequalitie of them The aduantage of the Defendant and the imperfections of the bodie the Defendant hath great aduantage and it is not without iust cause for seeing hee is both accused and constrained to fight it is great reason that hee should haue all the honest fauour that might be and it is no little honor to him that in case he onely be not ouercome hee is accounted the vanquisher where contrarily the Challenger is to ouercome vnles hee will altogither loose the quarrell whereof there is great reason because to the one it appertaineth to prooue and to the other it is sufficient onely to defend Likewise it is as great a fauour that hee hath to choose the weapons which is also very meete for if a man choose to call me to fight the election of the weapons is mine In this choic it is certain that there is not the liberty giuen as is thought for this parte also as all other partes of duello is grounded vpon reason and if wee will be nyce to see how a man is authorised to make the choyce wise men are of opinion that gentlemen should receiue their sentence of weapons from diuine iudgement if in case the iustification cannot by other meanes be made How to appoint the weapons and if they will haue the benefite of that it is necessary that they abandon all violence and deceite which as Cicero saith are the properties of the Lyon and the Foxe and farre from the nature of man Now if these things should in the whole course of our life be helde and perfourmed much more should they be desired in the sifting out of a truth and in the direction of iudgement And touching violence me thinkes the law hath well prouided by giuing the aduantage of the weapons to the Defendant which if it were not so euerie naughty man would embolden himselfe to make wrong accusations and vrge euerie man of lesse strength to fight perswading himselfe to be able to beate him downe to the ground But seeing the law hath so well prouided against this seeing that deceit as the same Cicero likewise affirmeth is worthie of much hatred it is a commendable thing that it is so For in the choise of weapons it belongeth to vs to make some lawe for the Defendant which should be such as he should not vse anie deceit in nor graunt such wepons as fit not with the disposition of a mans bodie For albeit a man maie sale that wee are natuly apt in all exercises to vse both handes yet it is manifest that vse dooth ouercome nature to make vs right or left handed And therfore if I shall be knowen to be right handed I cannot force my aduersarie to fight with a weapon for the lefte hande seeing the disposition of my bodie is not such And if I haue no defect in my arme or my thighe or legge I cannot come to fight with vambraces or such lyke harneis for those partes which hinder the bending of the elbow or of the knee for this is an apparent deceit and ought to bee refused in the Combat and the Padrini ought not to admit such weapons If in case I be lame or hurt in one of mine armes or my hands or want an eie I may verie wel appoint my enemie such weapons as maie in lyke sorte bind his legge his arme or his hand or that may hide one of his eies but yet if he bee lame of one arme I maye sure appoint him such armour as may hinder the other that is sound And to conclude if it be lawfull for me to appoint such weapon or armour to mine enemie as may hinder him in the same sort that I am hindred yet I must not hinder him vnlesse my selfe be also hindered as thus If I be blinde of my right eie and he of his left I must not therefore also hinder his right eie for this is not to make equalitie of my wants but to take his whole sight from him Likewise a right handed or left handed man or a man weakned or maimed so of his hand as he cannot well close it or that wanteth a finger whereby hee is not able to holde his weapon in his hand in my opinion is not to be constrained to fight with his imperfect hand but may lawfully and iustly denie the challenge which is also to bee vnderstoode of all other members and lims so as it is requisite that all things be guided with reason and iudgement for both parties that it doo not appeare that that which is done is done for reuenge or to infame another but onely for the iustifieng of the truth Of the time for Duello THe time appointed for Duello hath alwaies bene twixt the rising and setting of the Sunne whosoeuer in that time doth not prooue his intent can neuer after bee admitted the Combat vppon that quarrell And in case the day be spent without any combat it cannot be remited to the daie following without the consent of the Defendant who being challenged for that daye and appearing there hath performed all partes of his honour and dutie vnlesse thorough anie default of his the combat was not attempted and is farre from all matters touching that quarrell But it is not sufficient for the Defendant onely to consent except like wise the Lord that granteth the field do condescend thervnto for hauing once admitted the field in a prefixed daie that being past he is discharged Againe such may the case be as the first daie being gone the combat may bee lawfull on the second daye but without newe conditions in ordinarie course wee are to obserue that which we sayd before Of accidents that happen in the Combat AS I haue alredie begun for to treate of Duello so I doo meane to prosecute it according to our vse