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 ROMANES AND ALBANES. 2 I

fpoiles of the Curatiens, sayinge : " Can you abide to fee this noble

Champion (O ye Romaines) whom lately ye behelde to go in

order of triumphe in victorious maner, to lye nowe bounde vnder

the gibet, expecting for tormentes of death : Which cruell and

desormed fight, the Albanes eyes can not well be able to beholde,

goe to then thou hangman, and binde the handes of him, who hath

atchieued to the Romaine people a glorious Empyre : Goe, I

faye, and couer the face of him that hath deliuered this citie out

of thraldome and bondage. Hang him vpon some vnhappie tree,

and fcourge him in some place within the Citie, either amongs

these our triumphes, where the fpoiles of our enemies do remaine,

or els without the walles, amonges the graues of the vanquimed.

Whether can yee deuife to carrie him, but that his honourable

and worthye actes, fhal reueng the villanie of his cruel death."

The people hearing the lamentable talke of his father, and feinge

in him an vnmoueable minde, able to sustaine al aduerfity,

acquited him rather through the admiration of his vertue and

valiance, then by iuftice and equity of his cause. Such was the

ftraite order of iuftice amonges the Romaines, who although this

yonge gentleman had vindicated his countrie from seruitude

and bondage (a noble memorye of perfecte manhode)

yet by reason of the murder done vppon his owne

fifter, were very ftraite and flacke to pardon :

because they would not incourage the pof-

teritie to like inconuenience, nor pro-

uoke wel doers in their glorye and

triumphe, to perpetrate

thinges vn-

lawfull.

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