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 inflamed his mind as the desire of excercising himself in feats of arms: and he was the more encited to it by reading the famous adventures of knights errant: how successful they were in overcoming giants and monsters, and rescuing beautiful ladies from death and misery. And as those heroic thoughts increased, so he found his strength abound: Nature not sparing to give him strength according to his limbs so that in his very childish encounters, those who surpassed him in years, were not able to resist his force, nor came they near him in wrestling, jumping, throwing the hammer, stone, or dart; which made his parents not a little proud of such a blessing, whom they named Aurelius, as one that promised great things. CHAP.