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A11537	Vincentio Sauiolo his practise In two bookes. The first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger. The second, of honor and honorable quarrels.	Saviolo, Vincentio.; Muzio, Girolamo, 1496-1576. Duello. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 21788; ESTC S116779	158,351	306

their owne ouerthrowe of their parents and freends and also of their countrie We read in histories of ancient times that a King of the Persians dying left two sonnes each demaunding the Empire and yet while the matter was a debating they conuersed and liued together in al kindnes and brotherly louingnes till it was in the end declared by the peeres of the Empire which of them was chosen and elected to be the King which the other tooke so well that hee would not in any case be brought to think either vnkindely of his brother or euill of the electors he hauing what he aspired vnto and they doing what they thought best and conuenientest for the Countrie Such discretion would doe well in all men to cut from them manye inconueniences debates strifes and quarrels The nobility of Women HAuing discoursed of the inequalitie in nobility and especially of priuate noblemen and gentlemen I wil not take occasion now to say any thing of the meanes and maner whereby men rise vnto honour and dignitie nor of the greatnes and nobilitie of kingdomes prouinces and citties considering that this matter hath been so largelye and laudablye handled by many as appeares by the reading of the ancient and moderne histories which are filled with discourses tending to this purpose this I will onelye saye by the way that those places haue beene famed for most noble and had in greatest account which haue produced brauest men commended vnto posteritie for their vertue either intellectuall or actiue morall or politicke ciuile or militarie and as places are made famous or enobled by reason of the excellēt men that are there borne so also can no place how barbarous soeuer it be drowne or darken the glorie and commendation due vnto a man ennobled by valour prudence or other vertues whatsoeuer as Anacharsis being noted by one to be a Scithian answered as sharpely as readily true indeed by birth but not by bringing vp so that howbeit he was a Scithian borne yet were his manners not barbarous nor his life Scithian like but deserued the commendation due to ciuile and vertuous education But I will leaue the vertues and nobilities of men and turne my speech to women hoping they will not be offended with me if I discouer the vertues and noble disposition of their sexe which being such as deserue highest commendation I vtterly disalow of their opinion that not onely not attribute nobilitie vnto women but also abridge them from power and abilitie to ennoble and imparte nobilitie vnto others We read of many excellent women both of high and low estate in diuers histories whose fame hath been carried through the world for rare vertue some for valour others for learning others for wisedome others for chastitie others for other singular vertues and commendable partes manye Queenes and noble Ladies haue gotten great renown and become glorious for armes and warlike exploites many haue had their names dedicated to euerlasting remembrance euen by the memoriall of their owne pennes hauing been most exquisite writers and pen-women themselues both for prose and verse In my opinion then are women greatly wronged by them that seeme to take from them power of transferring nobilitie to others excluding them from so great an honor they notwithstanding hauing great reason to be copartners with men therein for excellency consisting in vertue of the body and the minde and women being endewed with both beautye and vertue and seeing that women can learne whatsoeuer men can hauing the full vse of reason or else nature who doth neuer do any thing in vaine should haue to no purpose giuen them the gifte of vnderstanding I thinke they deserue fellowship and communing in honor with men considering nature hath bestowed on them aswel as on men meanes to attain vnto learning wisedome and al other vertues actiue and contemplatiue which is made manifest by the example of many that haue cōfirmed the opinion of their valour and excellencie by their rare vertue and almost incredible prowes And to recite the worthy actes of some I will wholye commit and passe by the Amazones their story being counted fabulous and mention some whose valiant vertuous acts haue been recorded in true histories aswell of olde times as of our times The king Argus hauing by reason of long continued wars great want of men Theselide a woman of a cittie wherin Argus was besieged by Cleomenes king of Lacedemony prouoked the other women in the cittie to take armes and leading them out at the gates deliuered the Cittie from siege and put their enemies to shameful flight I wil not heer speak of the valour of Artemisia of Isicrate of Semiramis of Tomiris of the women of Lacedemony of Debora of Iudi●h and other vertuous and magnanimous yea holye and sacred Ladies whose historyes are contained in the holy Scripture but I will come vnto those whose life was not so long since but that we may well remember them About the time that the Englishmen vnder Charles the 6. had brought in subiection the gretest part of that kingdom there was a yong maidē called Iane Pulzela daughter to a sheph●ard of the Duke of Loraine who not yet reaching to the fifteenth yeere of her age was accounted to be a Prophetesse and of many helde to be a witch but this maketh not to the purpose the King beeing in great doubt of his fortune sent or her to know whether he should lose the rest of his kingdome also or no and hauing answere that hee should become victorious in the end gaue the more credite vnto it because many of his noblemen assured him that she had the spirite of prophecie recounting many things vnto him which she had declared in priuate mens estates Afterward she tooke armes her selfe and behaued her selfe in such sorte among the other Captains and men of armes that in a verye shorte time she was made Captaine generall of the whole armye and being armed and mounted on a barbed horse in such sorte as she was not knowne but to be a man made a sally with all her troupes both horse and foote and assailing the enemie with an vndaunted courage followed her enterprise with suche valour and prudence that she freed the Cittie of Orleance from the siege being her selfe shot through the shoulder with an arrow thence she led her companye to Troe in Campanie where beeing encamped against the expectation of all the Captaines and Souldiers tooke the cittie in very shorte time and caused Charles the seauenth to be crowned in Rheymes as the ancient custome is hauing first deliuered the cittie from the siege which the enemie had laide vnto it Shortly after battering Paris and clambring on the walles as being famous amongst the stoutest Souldiers notwithstanding her legge was pierced quite through with an arrowe gaue not ouer the enterprise for all that but persisted till she had effected it Petrarch writeth that he knewe a damsell at Pozzuelo called Marie who borrowing the habit of a yong

it is no meruayle if diuers persons giuing themselues wholye to the bent of their owne indiscretion and wante of iudgement esteeme of thinges cleane contrarye to their nature and qualitye For if a man frame himselfe to leade a ciuill and temperate course of life some will saie hee is a foole if hee be not quarrell-some hee is a cowarde if no gamester hee is of base education if no blasphemer an hipocrite if neither whore-monger nor baude hee is neither man nor courteous but altogether ignorant of the rules of humanity and good fellowship A lamentable state is that where men are so misled by ignorance and selfe loue as thus to ouersmoothe and colour their vices and imperfections with the names of vertues and to thinke any action currant that is doone by them and authorysed by their vnresistable swaye and distempered appetites What is become of the gentilitie and inbredde courtesie of auncient noble Gentlemen where is the magnanimitye of the honourable Knightes of fore-going times whose vertues as they are recorded in histories wherin we read of them so ought to haue beene lefte to their posteritye that in them we might see the image now forgotten of auncient true Nobilitye But since all thinges fall to decaye it is no meruaile though vertue I speake with all due reuetence and fauour bee not found but in few for surelye there be many in whome nothing remaineth but the bare tytle of nobilitye in that they be Gentlemen borne who in their manners wholy degenerate from their auncestors and make no account either of honour or dishonour giuing themselues to such pleasures as their vnbrideled appetite leadeth them vnto Neither can I ascribe any reason to this their slyding from vertue vnto vice contrarie to the course taken by their honourable auncestours but this that whereas while their fathers liued their bringing vp was committed to tutors of good government and discretion their parentes beeing dead they withdrawe themselues from their vertuous kinde of life leauing and reiecting the sage counsailes of their instructors and cleaning to their owne deuises To whom if they amend not and take a better course will lighten shame and destruction Wherfore by way of aduise I wish all men to auoid euill companie which for the most part is the cause of great and infinite losse as well of honor and life as of goods and possessions and to followe vertue bearing themselues with a sweet and curteous carriage towards euery man by which course they shall gaine commendation and credite and shall be esteemed of all men and auoiding all such occasions of dislike as may be offered obtaine a good and honorable reputation Doth not God forbid a priuate man to kill his neighbour as it is manifested in sacred scriptures against Caine to whome God saide that the bloud of Abel his brother cryed from the earth for vengeance against him shewing therby that he abhorreth murder and wil reuenge it in due time Moreouer he created vs naked without anie thing naturally giuen vs wherwith to offend or hurt wheras other creatures haue some of them hornes others clawes others strong and sharpe teeth and others poyson And thus were we created of almightie God to to the end we might liue in peace and brotherlye concorde as the sonnes of God and not as the children of the Deuill who are the inuentours that found out the vse of weapons therewith to offend their neighbours and to maintaine the authoritie of their father the Deuill who was a murderer from the beginning and taketh pleasure in the destruction of men raising discention between families cities prouinces and kingdoms Vpon which occasion the necessary vse of armes hath gotten such credit in the worlde as Kings and Princes haue nobilitated some with the name of Knights for their excellencie therein which name is made noble and that vpon great reason for such men as haue purchased nobilitie by conquering kingdomes for their Princes more respecting their honour and countries good then any other thing and esteeming lesse of life then of death in regarde of preseruing that honor vnblotted which belongeth to Knights ought not in any wise to be destitute of high reward In so much that armes being doubled by so many valorous men it were a great shame for one of noble of-spring not to be able to speake of armes and to discourse of the causes of Combats not to know how to discerne the nature and qualitie of wordes and accidents which induce men to challenges not to bee acquainted with the manner of sending cartels and challenges and how fitlye to answere the same and in a word not to haue so much experience in these affaires as to accorde the parties challenging and challenged bringing them from their hostile threates to louing embracementes and of quarreling foes to become louing freends al causes of disconcontent beeing taken away on either side The ignorance wherof hath in these times bred great mischeefe for many thinke that an iniurie being offred in deed or worde the matter may not with their credits be taken vp before they haue fought not regarding if they bee iniuried indeed that they ought first to examine what hee is that hath doone it and vpon what occasion hee might doe it if in woorde what qualitie the person is that spake iniuriously and whether hee deserue an answer or no. For a man beeing carried away with chollor or wine maye chaunce to vtter that for which his fury being past he will be willing to make any satisfaction wherfore it were fondly done by him that would fight vpon euery worde Neither can I be induced to thinke that there is any iniury which is not accompanied with villanie for which with due satisfaction all cause of fighting may not be taken away But if the iniurie be such that either murder be committed by trecherie or rape or such like villanies then is it necessarye to proceede in revenging it as in due place I will more largely declare In the meane time I thinke it necessary to set foorth some considerations of circumstance belonging to this subiect of quarrels not because I take vpon me to teach or correct any man for that belongeth not to me but onlye by way of aduertisement to warne gentlemen to auoide all dangerous occasions growing for want of fore-sight And firste considering the little vnderstanding and small discretion of manye with the dayly danger which such men runne into by indiscretion it is fitte for a man to consider his owne estate for if hee bee a Gentleman borne hee ought euen for that respect with great regarde abstayne from any acte whatsoeuer whereby his woorthye calling may be stayned hee ought to embrace myldenes and curtesie as one that hath a hart of fleshe not of stone more enclyned to clemencye then to crueltye to the ende his conuersation bee acceptable by reason of his sweete and louing behauiour he must also be in minde magnanimous not base or abiecte as one ill borne