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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66697	The honour of merchant-taylors wherein is set forth the noble acts, valliant deeds, and heroick performances of merchant-taylors in former ages, their honourable loves, and knightly adventures ... together with their pious acts and large benevolences, their building of publick structures, especially that of Blackwell-Hall, to be a market place for the selling of woollen cloaths ... / written by VVilliam VVinstanley.	Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698.	1668 (1668)	Wing W3064; ESTC R41412	58,050	83

heresay cannot be good since misreport hath wronged many defer your guar●el therefore till you are fuller satisfied of the grounds of it and if William hath done you wrong no doubt but he will acknowledge it and given you satisfaction Ralph herewith as half perswaded but principally because he could not do otherwise in the presence of his Captain put up his sworn res●rving his r●venge tell another season and so without speaking any more words he went his way Sir John Hawkwood perceiveing that Ralphs malice was implacable perswaded William to list himself under some other Captain till such time as he had gotten some experience when he would not be wanting to use his best endeavour to give him preferment William according to his directions went and listed himself under that renowned Champion Edward the black Prince where in a short space through his industry and Sir John Hawkwoods good word who loved him entirely he attained to an Ensigned place This vexed Ralph to see his Rival advanced for where envy is harboured in the brest of a man he takes anothers good to be his hurt and now his only studdy was revenge but wanting other means to effect it he sent him a challenge in these words If thy heart be as good to fight as it hath been to invent mischeif then meet me to morrow morning at thy own appointed place and weapon where I shall attend ye to revenge those injuries and affronts offer●d unto me and to the fair Arabella which if thou shalt refuse to perform I shall proclaim thee a Coward and not fit to bear Armes or to usurp the name of a Souldier Ralph William having received the challenge was very much discontented for though he was of an invincible courage not dreading any danger yet being conscious to himself of the injury he had offered to Ralph he could willingly have wished the challenge might have been waved yet being loath to undergo the aspertion of a Coward he resolved what ever hapned to undertake it and thereupon returned him this answer Lievtenant Ralph What passion moves you to these extreame I know not but seeing you will needs be so fool hardy as to venture a Duel upon it your challenge shall be answered and since you have put it to me for the choice of the place and weapon I shall appoint the field on the North side of the Camp for the one and back-sword for the other so till I see you farewel William The next morning accer●ing to appointment they met with a full resolution the sword should end all difference betwixt them but Sir John Hawkword having some inkling of the business was in the field as soon as either of them where seeing them come fully resolved to fight he spake unto them in this manner What desperate folly or madness rather hath thus bewitched you as I am not of your counsel so I wish it had never come to my knowledge If your stock of valour be so surpassing great bestow it upon the common enemy and let it not be employed to private disadvantage there you may fight your belly full with honour whereas here he that gains the victory purchases only disgrace and danger what is your feud so deadly that nothing can wash it away but blood or is your malice so irreconcilable that the breaches may not be made up again is life of so little worth to throw it away thus idlely and doe you set so slieght a price of your souls as to hazard them thus for a thing of nothing what is there no other remedy but that one of you must dye and can death only make expiation I you can no better command your own passions then thus you will never be fit to command others CHAP. VII The valiant Acts of Sir John Hawkwood in Italy and how he married with the Daughter of Duke Barnaby THe renowned Marchant Taylor Sir John Hawkwood having now compleated his army consisting of sir thousand Horse and Foot took his march towards Italy making great spoyl all the way he went in the East harts of the Kingdome of France his name carrying such a terrour before it as struck dead the hearts of all opposers coming into Italy he joyned himself with the Marquess of Mountferrat under whom he ●ectormed such noble services as equalled if not exceeded that of the Antient Romans he having an exceeding ripe and quick conceit to force occasions to frame his resolutions and to make speedy execution being also as occasion required both hot in his fights and notable for his delays so that he soon grew to be the wonder and admiration of all that Nation for martial Discipline Soon after Lionel Duke of Clarence sonne to Edward the third King of England came into Italy to marry the Lady Violent● Daughter to Galeasins Lord of Millain Sir John Hawkwood hearing thereof resolved to make one in that royall solemnity and thereupon forsook the Marquess and attended the Duke to his marriage At which time Barnaby the brother of Galeasius had great warrs with the State of Mantua who having heard of the noble acts of Sir John Hawkwood humbly desi●ed his assistance for he being himself a warlike Prince had a great desire to make some tryal of the discipline prowess of the Englishmen Sir John accepted of his proffer in a short time gave such proofs of his manhood valour as made Duke Barnaby highly to admire him defeating his Enemies in several skirmishes so that those who before were almost Conquerers now became humble suppliants and them who ere while stood on high demande now come to as lowly terms Duke Barnaby having now found by experience that Fame was sar short in the praises of the noble Hawkwood he grew into such a likeing of him and that likeing producing such love that he greatly desired to have him his sonne in law and thereupon bestowed on him in marriage his daughter Domnia a Lady of a most transcendent beauty and whose wit and eloquence ran paralel with her beauty one in whom he found such ●acts as he l●st in his Arabella who could not choose but beleved being an lovely one of such a rare fortune and composition that had the Trojan Paris seen her naked he would have strighted his Hallen of Grece for her This alliance bring made in respect of his valour in war was the occasion of the encrease both of his pay and of the renown of the Englishmen throughout all Italy that a most pulssant Prince in war●● had not without sufficient cause to induce him conceived so good opinion of the valour of a man that was a stranger and for this cause his hel● was desired by all the Princes and free Cities of Italy For at that time all marital affairs amongst the Italians were managed by forrain forces and Captains But Prince Barnaby growing ungrateful for those many benefits received by the English men the noble Hawkwood notwithstanding their alliance revolted from him and joyned