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60 60 ITALIAN WARS. II. PART tain on a step which he had been some time medi- tating. The new levies placed him in a condition for assuming the offensive. His stock of provis- ions, moreover, already much reduced, would be obviously insufficient long to maintain his increased numbers. He resolved, therefore, to sally out of the old walls of Barleta, and, availing himself of the high spirits in which the late successes had put his troops, to bring the enemy at once to battle.^* 34 Garibav, Compendio, torn. ii. cap. 16. — UUoa, Vita di Carlo V., lib. 19, cap'. 15. — Zurita, Hist, fol, 17. del Rey Hernando, torn. i. lib. 5,