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A10718	A right exelent and pleasaunt dialogue, betwene Mercury and an English souldier contayning his supplication to Mars: bevvtified with sundry worthy histories, rare inuentions, and politike deuises. wrytten by B. Rich: gen. 1574.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1574 (1574)	STC 20998; ESTC S106077	75,348	199

aunswers doubted exceedingly of his cace thus pondering and weying the matter within him selfe he immediately desired the iudgements of diuers expert and well learned Phisitions and Surgeons whiche all sayde that the deceassed was dead by the violence of some one that had strangled hir Then the Iudge layde handes on the louer of the Lady of Chabry and sente him to espouse marry the hole of the prison house in leu to enioy the free imbracements desired in the premeditate bed of his wife promised whom he would haue made lieftenant of his wife deceassed The next day the corpes was set in a publike place where both men and women of all estates did deplore hir with infinite teares not without cursing a thousand times the cruel fellon which had caused to die so vertuous chast honest a wife notwithstanding the corpes was buried honorably in the collegeat church of the place with suche lamentations and teares that it appeared that a verie Matron of the Citie had finished hir dayes The Father ceased not too pursue the prisoner for the death of his daughter that with such diligence that the prisoner was heard confessed the crime without question or constraynt which stroke suche horror into the heart of the Prouost that he wrote thereof to the Lords of the Parliament of Aix before whome the case was brought The Lady of Chabry hauing vnderstoode the discourse of this Imprisonment and the voluntarie confession of the Doctor knowing hir selfe to be gyltie of the whole matter and fearing the sequell and future mischéefe least he should open and discouer all hir practises and shoulde confesse all the murthers perpetrated in hir house deliberated with hir self to flée away before the tempest least the lightnings and thunderboltes thereof shoulde fall vppon hir head Therefore taking with hir a good rounde summe of money with the best of hir Iewels she retired to Poget in the territories of the D. of Sauoy In the meane time the Doctor was led bounde towards the famous Citie of Aix where his processe béeing made and he newly examined confessed further all the enormities and detestable sinnes that he had cōmitted with the L. of Chabry without omitting any of the haynous murthers the occasion of them the names of the persons by whom he had bin ayded concerning the same The Court séeing the abhomination gréeuousnesse of the cryme condemned him to be led backe agayne to La grasse where he should be executed in the publike place of the Towne according to his demerites This being don he was led back to the place where he was borne and put agayne into prison within the which hearing the day of his deathe to approch bathed in teares knowledging his sinne and earnestly repenting him of hys faultes knéeling down vpon the earth and addressing his blubbered eies vnto the heauens began to speake in this sort Ah cruel fate that from so highe degrée of honor and reputation am nowe in one moment fallen into the depthe of infamie perpetuall shame O what a notable example maye they take in me that put their confidence in the subtiltie of their iudgements and humayne prudence what a looking glasse is offered to those that put necessitie to the mobilitie of fortune what a liuely picture am I to aduertise secrete sinners to acknowledge their faults seeing that at the end the wicked liuers althogh they haue long enioyed the contentments of their cruell appetites they shall yet at the last be discouered with their iniquities leauing as I doo their renowme defaced their life which finally shall ende ignomious the memorie wherof shall be left to the posteritie This is the rod that beateth my soule this onely thought is to me more gréeuous thā the death the which I haue demerited as beeing the most mischieuous moste cursed creature that euer nature brought foorth This his oration thus ended he was led to the place of execution where he ended his wretched life to the great contentment of his father in lawe and all the dames of the countrey sauing that mischieuous miserable dame the Lady of Chabry which knowing that diligent inquisition was made of the place wherevnto she was retired and that they went about by al meanes to recouer hir to the ende to do iustice on hir not knowing hir selfe sufficiently assured in Poget determined to take the way to Genes and so hauing taken and transported hir baggage tooke his iourney accompanied with a gallant who robbed hir of that she had after béeing in these extremities she addressed hir selfe to an honest widdowe where declaring hir extreme necessitie thys good widdowe receyued hir very beningly and perceyuing hir by hir demeanours to be some Gentlewoman cōmitted vnto hir hir daughters in gouernment In thys house she poorely but much more honorably than she deserued finished hir dais Thus in such sort she which al hir life had cōmaunded ruled a great troupe of seruantes maids was now constrayned to obey vnto suche a one which was muche inferior to hir and agayne shée which in hir young yeares had béen delicately and with great care nourished brought vp now drawing vpon the end of hir days she suffred perpetual exile subiect to the pleasure of another prest and ready as she did in déede to die out of hir country to receyue sepulcher in another place then in the Monument tombe of hir Progenitors This is then the ende of the vnhonest loue of these laciuious adultrers beholde the frutes of a trée so detestable pernitious These are the pleasures that in the ende accompanie these inordinate louers sée howe the lowryng eyes of beautyes vading Ioyes hath so inchaunted these Venerians that now quite forgetting all grace and goodnes do plunge them selues in the pitte of perpetull shame and infamie beholde whither thys outragious and beastly lust couered with the name of pure and earnest loue is able to draw these gentle subiects to cause them to commit most heynouse murthers to imbrue theyr hands in the shedding of innocent bloud This History thus finished my thought was very straunge but in specially to be told in Venus Court which tēded so much to the deprauation of her Lawes wherfore I asked of Lady Countenance what he should be that had vsed such lauish speache who aunswered that it was one Bandelio an Italian not far vnlyke in condicions to the Emperour Marcus Aurelius who many times vsed by words to inuay againste that which actually he so much frequented so ther be many which with sharp and bitter words wil outwardly seme to reproue such as yelde themselues to loue and yet in their déedes shew thēselues so earnest professours of Venus and her Lawes as they worthely demerite to be shryned Saints But aboue all these deuises I had a speciall regard to the bewti of the Chamber which was wonderful to behold In the middle of the Roofe ther was artificially wrought a knot of massy gold

ther haue broken forth wherefore his enemyes beleuing he might in no wise escape that way where he him self had cast the ditche withstood him with all their power on the other syde thē did Pericles cast Bridges prepared for the nonce ouer the ditche that way conuaid out his Army wher ther was no man to let him Whē Spartacus was inclosed by L. Varinus Proconsul he pitched vp stakes here and there before the entring of his Campe and set theron dead carkases clad Harnised lyke men to make a show vnto them that were farre of that watch and ward was diligently kepte leauyng also fyers in euery quarter of the Campe vnder the which deceiptful colour he deceiued his enimyes and conuayed away hys Hoast by night Darius to deceyue the Scithes at his departing left Dogs and Asses in his Tents whose barking and braying the enemyes hearing thought Darius to be ther still With the lyke errour the Genowayes blynded the Romaynes And now to speak something of such as hath bin inuaded some hath sent their own men with their enemyes Aunsyentes to spoyle and burne their owne Countrey whereby the enemy beleuing them to bée some of their owne company or some that wer come in their ayd running forth with out respect hath bin therby made a pray By this meanes Alexander hauing a company of Epirotes agaynst them the Illiriens sent forth certayne of his men in the Illiriens apparell giuing them commaundement to wast and destroy his own countrey Epirus the which when the Illiriens espied they now carelesse began to run forth on euery syde to pillage and thus they wer intised brought into daungerouse places where many of them were slayne and the rest put to flight Some haue suffered the enemy to take many Townes to the intent that by putting in the same Garisons he might by that meanes deminish his power and be made weake and then by assaughting them they haue ouercome them Wher Souldiers hath bin found to be fugitiue or to run to the enemy I think ther may be no better meane then that vsed by Haniball who knowing certayne of his mē to be fled the night before wist well that the enemyes spyes were in his Campe he pronounced openly that those runagates were gon by his commaundement to harken and spye what his enemyes pretended this being known to the Romanes spies returned told these newes to their company whervpon these runawaies wer taken and their hands cut of and thus they wer sent agayn to Haniball When Hanno Captayne of Carthage in Cicilia vnderstood that Gaulls which hée had hyred about 4000. would leaue hym and go to the Romaynes bycause they were behynde vnpayde for certayne monethes wages and durst not punish them for feare of sedicion but promised very liberally to recompence the iniury they had by prolonging the tyme which something appeased them and at conuenient he sent his most trusty Steward to Otacilius consull fayning as though hée had fled away for a controuersy betwéene hys Captayn and him in a certayn compt making and shewed him the nexte night hée might take at aduantage 4000. Galleys which should be sent to get pray pillage Otacilius neyther geuing credit by and by to the runaway neyther yet thought it a matter to be despised layd an ambushment for thē of the most piked men that he had which incountring with the Galleyes satisfied the drift of Hanno double they slew many of the Romaines were themselues all slayne Noble Captaynes hath vsed great circumspection in their affayres for being preuented with spyes wherefore aboue all thinges it behoueth him to be secret One demaunded of Metellus pius being in Spayne what he was minded to doo the day folowing who aunswered if I wist the shirt on my back did know it I wold surely burne it When one asked Lucinius Crassus what tyme he would remoue his Army he aunswered art thou aferd thou shalt not know that by the Drum. But forasmuch as in al this time ther hath yet bin nothing sayd appertayning to thée besieged I will therefore shew thée something what respects they ought to haue and so will end To shew thée what prouision of victuall Artilery shot Powder and such other firnitures they ought to be prouided of were but in vayne here to make rehersall considering they be thinges that euery man vnderstandeth and is requisit to be prouided before the siege doth come I thinke it should as litle neede to aduertise them to beware of treasons for those examples are likewise as generall But this ought to be had in regard amōgest them that the enemy take no comodity of their cattel victual hey strawe or any other prouision in the Coūtrey neare about them for these thinges ought rather to bée destroied thē to be left as prouisions wherwithall to serue the enemy The besieged ought to haue a speciall care to haue good watch to be kept yea euen in those places wher they thinke they may take least hurt for many Towns haue bin lost when the enemy hath assaulted it on that part which the besieged hath thought to be inuincible By this policy Fabius Maximus wan the Citye Arpos by the same meanes Marius in the war against Iugurth obtained a castel Let them lykewyse take héede for being drawne out of the Towne by any deuyse as if the enemy fayneth to flye or to make some other staall for by these means many hath bin deceiued Haniball by these meanes obtayned the Citie Hymera Himilco of Carthage at Agrigentum layd priuily in wayte neare to the Town part of his Army and commaūded that when the Townes men wer issued out a good way of they should set gréen● wood on fyre and in the morning very early with the other part of his Army he wen● to intise out his enemyes and making a● though he fled reculing backe drewe the● a good way from the Citye then they tha● lay in ambushment neare the wals as the● wer commaunded set the greene Wood on fyre the Agrigentiues beholding the smother ryse vp supposed verily their City had bin on a fyre thus fearfully running back to defend it they wer incountered by those that had layne in ambushment and thus betwéene them and the other which pursued they wer discomfited and slayne The besieged are sometymes beguyled by signifying vnto them some victory gotten as did Pelopidas of Thebes who pursuing to conquer twoo Townes at one instant of the Magnecians and which stood not far a sunder he cōmaunded that foure Knightes shuld come from the one siege to the other with Garlands on their heades as though they brought tydings of victory and to help forth this dissimulation he ordayned that a Wood which stood betweene both the Townes should be set on fyre to make a show as though the Towne had burnt besides that he caused certayne men to be brought as prisoners in Townes mens apparell by which assuraunce hee so amased the besieged that