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Somme of money to anye man that dooth apprehend or slea a traitor, yf a man in shootinge at a deere or other beaste doe happelie let flie his arrowe & kill the saide traitor where as for feare he lieth hidden, he shall not receave nor ought to challenge the rewarde, because he hath done yt seruice by fortune, vnwares & not wth intencion before determined. But yf a like fall & mishap had happened in combat for life & death the case had bene otherwise. ffor (as in the former books is at lardge discoursed) it is lawfull for him yt fighteth for life to vse all frawde & aduauntage he maye to overcomme his ennemie and winne victorie Liuio writeth yt Hanibal findinge Fuluio the Romaine capteine vsed not any frawde or deceipt in his Campe, vppon a daye darkned wth clowdes he lodged his soldiers behinde a hill, where they coulde not be decerned, and wth a fewe horse purposely appointed offred skirmish to the Romaines who suppozing there had not bene other nombers then those they sawe, forthwth issued owte & beinge by reason of the darke daye beguiled fell into the handes of the Carthaginenses. where Fuluio wth fowre skore thowsande soldiers were overthrowne and slaine. By wch cruell historie we are taught that in everie conflict that towcheth life & death all ~ crafte arte & conninge is to be allowed. ~ . ~ . ~ .

Off one that brought certaine prickes of Yron, And by suche meanes ouercame his Ennemis. ~ . ~ .

Ca. 17.