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A11204	A view of valyaunce Describing the famous feates, and martiall exploites of two most mightie nations, the Romains and the Carthaginians, for the conquest and possession of Spayne. Translated out of an auncient recorde of antiquitie, written by Rutilius Rufus, a Romaine Gentleman, and a Capitaine of charge vnder Scipio, in the same warres. Very delightfull to reade, and neuer before this time publyshed.	Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607.	1580 (1580)	STC 21469; ESTC S103186	35,382	100

valour And being deuoide of hope fought without stop till they were al killed Whē y e fiftie of the towne perceiued y t they dispatched the women the children set the woode a fire and killed themselues Martius had their noble hearts in admiration and refrained from ruine of their houses It chaunced that Scipio fell sicke and left the charge of all the campe to Martius wherefore such soldiours as had spent their gaines vpon pleasure and thought they were not sufficiently rewarded and that Scipio did attribute their trauailes to his glory were not content but rebelled against Martius They cāped by thēselues they made their own captains and gouernours they prouided all things sware to hold together Many of y e coūtry tooke their part Mago sent money to them to allure thē to their sids They alwayes tooke the mony abode stil together Scipio wrot his letters to them that were occasiō of this mutinie excusing the matter saying y t his sicknes had béen cause why he had not condignly rewarded them according to their deserts and y t he would do it immediatly vpon his recouerye Some of them with faire words he caused to be entreated and generally wrote to them all to leaue their opinion and come to him to receiue their reliefe some had y e letters in suspect and some thought good to giue credite and so by accorde they went toward Carthage When Scipio vnderstoode their comming he commaunded the chiefe Gentlemen to accompany them that were the Capitaines of the ryot and vnder pretence of entertainment to haue them into their tentes and make them sure He also gaue order to the Liefetenants and Marshals of the army that the next morning they should be redie with their trustie men and if any made any businesse while hée spake forthwith to dispatch them He betimes in the morning called them to y e assembly had al things accordingly The soldiers wer scarsly vp made them ready with hast being ashamed that their sicke Capitaine should be vp before them and came vnarmed and vnready He lamented at their fact and saide I will with your helpe chastise the causers of your offence Then he caused way to be made that the gentlemen might bring in the Capitains who cryed to the Souldiours for helpe and by and by y e Marshals dispatched thē When the multitude saw this and how they wer naked and enclosed with harnessed men they were heauy sad He caused all the remnaunt of the chief heades to be beaten at the pale and after beheadded and to the residue hée proclaimed a frée generall pardon And thus he redressed his Armie There was a Prince of Spayne that had to name Indibilis was in league with the Romaines Scipio went against him and he refused not to fight but hauing lost twentie thousand of his men he was compelled to aske peace which was graunted him vpon paiment of certeine summes of money Massimissa came to Scipio to confeder with him moued by a displeasure wrought against him at Carthage He was brought vp in the Citie and espoused to Sophonisba daughter vnto Asdrubal y t was Generall of the Armie King Siphax also was in loue with the same Gentlewoman whose beautie was renoumed ouer all Africa bicause he saw an other man preferred he tooke disdain allied himselfe w t y t Romains The Carthaginians cōsidering what a losse they shold haue of such a prince sent him word y t if he would returne againe to them they would giue him Sophonisba to his wife He tooke y e cōdition forsooke y e Romains they maried hir to him in y e absence of hir father hir former husband not making thē priuy to it When Asdrubal heard of it he thought to beare w t it bicause it stoode with y e benefit of his coūtry wold not tell Massinissa of it who was w t him in campe but yet he had priuie intellygence of it secretly went to y e Romaines w t whom euer after most faithfully he continued Then Mago that was Admirall perceiuing that Fortune beganne to lowre frown vppon them left the streightes of Gades and went into Fraunce and Liguria and so the Romaines tooke it and after that time sent yearely Officers to gouerne the coūtry Scipio reduced the Zanthianes into the forme of a Citie of y t name of Italy called it Italica which was the countrey of Traiane and Adriane that after wer Emperours of Rome He retourned to Rome with a great Nauy a rich pray ther triumphed to y t admiration of all men Whē Scipio was departed to Rome Indibilis rebelled again the presidents of the countrey to withstand him made an armie of such garisōs as wer ther left of such other help as tooke part with thē had y e day against him where he was slaine y e rest of the countrey was punished according to their deserts This was y e end of y e first expeditiō y e Romaines made into Spaine After a seson whē they had to do w t Philip of Macedon more trouble begā in Spain Sēpronius Tuditanus M. Claudius and Minutius were successiuely sent thether and did no great good Wherefore at length Cato went in person a young man in déed but a seuere and painefull Capitaine and an eloquent Oratour insomuch that he was worthely compared to Demosthenes When he was come into Spaine hée had an armie of xl M. men whom he cōtinually trained in feats of armes and when he was appointed to fight he sent away his Nauie to Marsyles declaring to his souldiours that only victorye must be their refuge which standeth not in huige multitudes but in valyaunt courages And so when he had vsed such wordes vnto them as men vse rather in reproofes than in exhortations he began the fight in euery place encouraged his men valyantly The field continued equal till the euening he with thrée bands of men went vp to an hill to beholde in euery place how the battaile went and saw that in the midde battaile his men had the worst wherefore hée ranne thether with such a fury with his fresh men that he himselfe was the forwardest in the conflict crying fighting so fiercely that the enimies were put to flight whom he chased al the night and tooke their Campe and all the whole armie attributed y e enterprise and thankes onely to him as the chiefe and first author of the victory he deuided the spoyle among his men and required pledges of the citties He sent his letters to euery cittie commaunding the messengers so to appoynt their iourneyes that although they wer sent seueral wayes some to one cittie some to an other yet they might arriue debate their letters all in one daye The letters commaunded euerye Magistrate of the sayd Citties that immediately vppon the sight thereoff they should beat

¶ A View of Valyaunce Describing the famous feates and Martiall exploites of two most mightie nations the Romains and the Carthaginians for the conquest and possession of Spayne Translated out of an auncient Recorde of Antiquitie written by Rutilius Rufus a Romaine Gentleman and a Capitaine of charge vnder Scipio in the same Warres VERY DELIGHTFVLL to reade and neuer before this time publyshed ¶ Imprinted at London by Thomas East 1580. ¶ To the Right worshipfull Sir Henry Lee Knight Maister of the Armarie and Leash vnto hir most excellent Maiestie SIr if I were to yeeld a reason of my present presumption for thus boldly offering vnto your worshipful view this little hystoricall Abridgemēt of Martiall exploits by sundrye most famous warriours and renowmed Capitaines long since atchieued I thinke besides many other allegations I might aunswere that iustly wherein also I am perswaded that the general consent of your Coūtrey wil ioine in opiniō with me that the title of the book bearing the name of Valyaunce the matter or argument therein comprised entreating of warlike affaires knightly prowesse doth as it were by peculiar choice challenge your fauourable patronage For omitting the large Seas of your sundry other deserued commēdations praises which I know such is your Christian modestie you loue not to heare to your own face emblazed which I am far vnmeete vnable fully to decipher what inuincible courage in the cause and quarrell of your Prince and Country harboureth within your vndaunted breast what dexteritie with shocke and launce followeth your vigorous arme what prompt readinesse and alacritie to march against the enimie hath appered in you abroad what courtesie affabilitie bountie heroicall generositie at home both Courte resoundeth Country plausibly attestifieth According where-vnto I know I need not to dwel vpō any curious sute vnto your Worship for the cheereful acceptaunce heere-off but rest very assured of your accustomed goodnesse wherein I beseech the Almightie long to continue you with dayly increase of the same At Butley in Chesshyre the. 20. of Iune 1580. Your Worships humble Thomas Newton To the Reader WHat gaine groweth to studious Readers by diligent pervsing of Hystories as there is none I thinke so insensate who féeleth not so after so many worthy clerkes whiche haue from time to time displayed the profite the pleasure the vse yea the necessitie thereof I déeme labour néedelesse and persuasion superfluous Onely by the way and euen at a worde it may suffice to say that by the benefite hereof the practises pollices the drifts dealings y e aduauncements and calamities the victories ouerthrowes the welfare decay the alteration and continuance the good state and the badde aswel of great Monarchies kingdoms States Seignidries as of the affaires of priuate persons and inferiour subiects are manifestly layd open vnto the perfite view of our eyes and without the leauell of any daunger plainely discouered presēted vnto our cōsiderations For they without either feare or fauour affectiō or parcialitie doe effectuallie describe vnto vs the order and meanes howe Common weales begā how they grew how they continued howe they flourished and how they fall into decay and finall declination what wayes aduaunced their honour what wennes and disgraces emblemished their estimation and what disorders eclypsed their maiesties howe worthy persons for their worthy seruice haue bene worthelye inuested with titles of honour and how drousie drones and carpet capitaines lulled in the cradle of ease and dandeled in the lappe of sensuall securitie haue in the ende condignely had their memoryes obscurely raked and buried with their bodies in the pitte of Obliuion Finallie how vertue hath bene notablye rewarded and vice shamefully reproached All which be good inducements to trayne our mindes to the due consideration of their ends and may serue for readie directions as it were with the finger to poynt vs to the embracing of honestie and meanes to terrifie vs from pursuing of loosenesse and villanie To this ende doe all hystories generallye tende and to this effecte affoordeth this little Booke plentifull stoare varietie of delectable matter and the same so compendiouslye couched together y e within a small roome it caryeth as great substance of memorable actes and venturous exploytes as many perhappes that beare a bigger volume and bragge it out with a loftier countenāce Among other praises worthily due vnto it this surely is none of the least that it is a Monument of great antiquitie and nowe of late by a studious Gentleman of this our countrey in his trauaile into Italye there happilye founde and by him sensiblye translated The copie whereof being vnto mée vpon trust long agoe committed to peruse and my symple aduise therein required I coulde doe no lesse at the request of my friende but both peruse the booke conferre the matter with other Hystroriographers enlighten it with some néedefull marginall Notes and finally with the glaunce of my poore pen commende the same as a new found treasure vnto thy curteous consideration Friendly therfore and thankefully accept it that the paines here-in taken and susteyned in thy behalfe may be thought well bestowed Farewell Thomas Newton ¶ THE VIEW OF Valyaunce THe auncient name of Spayne was sometime called Hiberia A prouince of such largenesse as hath bene thought incredible Conteining by the olde accompt .xij. C.L. miles as wel in length as bredth It hath the same Confines that it hath euer had vz. y e Pyrenaei Mountains to the North Occean and the Tyrrhene Sea to the Pillours of Hercules The first inhabitaunce of it is diuers as of al Countryes of the which to make much a doe I doe not intend sauing y t I will not omit how y t the Phoenicians traded Merchandise and toke vp place of habitation ther that Arganthonius King of Tartesso gaue certeine Grecians that came to visite him conuenient grounde to dwell in Which king as stories telleth vs liued an C.L. yeares This Region so rich aboundant the Carthaginians coueted to possesse before the Romaines and vexed them so cōtinually that the Romaines wer called of one part to giue them ayde Amilcar of Carthage surnamed Barcha was the first y t did any great feat in Spayne who béeing accused at home for his doings abroad and afrayd to come to aunswere immediately after the warre of Africa which was caused of his vntruth not keping promise with y e souldiors y t serued him in Sicily he went with his armie into Spayne spoyled y e country which had not offended Wherfore the Lords and princes of Hiberia cōfedered together slew him after this sort In y e front of their hoast they had placed certeine carres of woode which went afore they followed in order The Carthaginians not knowing what they ment made a laughter at y e matter but whē they began to buckle y e Hiberians set the carres a fire which made the Oxen so in rage y t