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A08554	The ninth part of the Mirrour of knight-hood eing the fourth booke of the third part thereof: wherein is declared, the high and noble actes of the sonnes and nephewes of the noble Emperour Trebacius, and of the rest of the renoumed princes and knights, and of the high cheualrie of the gallant ladyes: wherein also is treated of the most cruell warre that euer was in Greece, with the amorous euents, and the end thereof.; Espejo de principes y cavalleros. Part 4. Book 2. English.	Martínez, Marcos, fl. 1598-1601, aut; Parry, Robert, fl. 1540-1612, attributed name.; Parke, Robert, fl. 1588, attributed name.	1601 (1601)	STC 18871; ESTC S113630	237,526	334

oration The Oration IT hath pleased him valorous Princes and excellent Knights which hath formed the mould of the whole world this day to put the Greeke valour in these spacious fields to the end that the world may know the force of your armes In praise whereof I would spend some speaches but that the necessitie of the time doth force mee to be briefe Onely this I would call to memorie The royall blood from whence we are descended and that we haue a cause in hand which may be for our aduantage The lot is already cast and the destinies haue permitted it that at ease wee may see our selues not compassed with enemies for that your noble hearts could not endure But at the point to let vs vnderstand that wee defend our Countrie with the edge of our swords I speake to my Knights for to returne to our Countrie it is impossible except we ouercome or lose our liues And so seeing the Greekes themselues haue chosen and called vs to their aide consider that it is honour to die to aduance theirs our enemies exceed vs in number and we excell them in valour and courage equitie is on our side and we shall haue as firme ground to fight vpon as they There resteth nothing but to fight with discretion for that and readinesse to be commaunded maketh the most doubtfull enterprises easie neuer any nation made but one Generall vnder whose commaund an Armie be it neuer so great is to be gouerned attributing to him the glory of the conquest or the dishonour of being ouercome This I haue said in regard of mine honour and of the Office which you haue bestowed vpon mee for fighting in order and vpon firme land and the enemies in the water if they should get any thing vpon vs we should lose the hope of any good successe as for me it shall be glorie to liue or die in your seruice and there is no more to bee said but to march forwards whither victorie shall call vs. THe valorous young Gallant pulled downe his Beuer leauing them all much affected vnto him for the discrete Oration which hee had made vnto thē being al wel pleased to haue such a Captaine and so they drew néere to the shore spreading themselues at large ouer all those fields where it was a world to see the wauing of their ensignes the soundings of Drummes and Trumpets the neighing of horses the deuices of the Commanders which to describe requireth an eloquenter tongue and riper wit then mine All the Ladies were put into Venus Castell which stood towards the Sea from whence some with sighes beheld their Louers praying to God to saue their liues they which could doe it did publikely giue them skarfes and fauours the better to encourage them to aduenture their liues for them Already was the mightie Astrusio on the Shores side who leaping into a Friggot went to the Emperour reciting to him all that passed and how neere they were to the enemies Fléet Wherefore if your Maiestie please commaund what people you like of to enter into this Ship Royall with you for your Gard for wee are in readinesse for the most memorable battell that hath béene fought vpon the Sea where if fortune be our friend they shall dearely buy their comming although I assure you that Xerxes Fleete was but small in comparison to that which now commeth But I haue so great confidence in the valour of your souldiers and in mine owne desire to fight with them that I doubt not but that we shall ende it with honour Do valorous Captaine in all as to you shall seeme good answered the noble Emperour for neither now nor at any other time none shall resist your order Presently he embarked with the company aforesaid all the Princes which remained repaired to their Gallies where it was a thing worth the séeing to behold so many Gallies together so many standardes so many flagges streamers and penons such thundring of Ordinance the brightnesse of the armours did so glister that it beat backe Apolloes glistering beames the valiant Warriours made so faire a shew on the toppes of the poopes as gaue good hope of victorie and so being put in forme of a Crescent or halfe Moone they beganne to make towards the enemies Fleete the which they discouered in order veering in the wide Sea holding their direct course towards Constantinople with resolution although there were among them many opinions to winne the mayne Port with pure force of armes The desire which the Ladies had to be on land did moue them thereto and so the two Nauies came to encounter where they discharged sundry Cannon shotte in token that they should charge The mightie Astrusio had in the vauward of his Fléet fiftie great Brigandines which had no other commission but on the one and other side to discharge great Cannon shot which put the valorous Captaine in good hope The valorous Thebane with an hundred Gallies gaue many sudden assaults and was euer in readinesse to giue aid where néed was the battell being ioyned the Sea waxed calme Oh who had euer séene so vnhappy a day when almost all was betwéene the water and the flaming fire the noyse of the shotte bereaued many of their hearing with such furie that all the world séemed to shake for the smoke the fire the noise of prows and broken mastes the callings cryings and sundrie noises made a confusion Priamus his Citie did not make so great a fire neither were there so many braue swords drawne neyther with such spéed and noise as these two Nauies made the one shewing to the other the valour of their souldiers A thousand masts were broken in pieces their high carued workes swamme vpon the water it séemed that the water the fire and the winde had concluded a peace whose effect was so fearefull that the sea was on fire as if heauen and earth would come together the sundry deaths which were giuen that day my slender wit is not able to expresse neither would the great confusion which was therein giue place to a man although he had Argus eyes to see the particular encoūters for after the furie of the Ordinance was past they came so néere as to strike with their swords they were so néere on boord where with much shedding of blood and many deadly wounds were made many braue assaults In this most cruell battell death which daunteth the stoutest was not of power to discourage them or put them in feare for no man refused any labour or perill although he saw the Cānon bent against his brest they entred by the began to burne in a light flame Death was not there feared but yet séeing before their eyes so manifest danger they began to fly from her and to abandon the ship The great Astrutio his people followed so hard in chace who were most expert at sea that some of those Princes were almost in danger But there is no danger where Commaunders are diligent onely the

him armelesse being desirous to hasten his death shée came to the ships side where with a thrust shee pierced him cleane thorow she escaped not so scotfrée but that another smote her on the top of the crest whose good temper gaue her life yet not so but that she set both her hands to the floore the Pagan would haue giuen a second when the warlike Spaniard Don Clarus drew néere cutting both passage and life from the renounced Infidell In many parts they began to crie Uictorie Uictorie but chiefly there where the foure pillars of fortitude Claramante and his companions went who as there wāted not on whō to try their swords so was it a pitifull thing to sée how many they slaughtered No lesse went they ouercomming euery where where the braue Astrutio went encouraging his Souldiers to doe well in hope of the reward which they expected which made the Spanyards draw force out of weaknesse and the most tired to shew himselfe couragious of such force are the spoyles of warre But the enemies were so many and their Ships Gallies so innumerable that they neuer mist any that were wanting for all the care that Bembo going from one part to another nor of the mighty Pagans Brauoran●e and Brufaldoro could take were not sufficient but that they gaue ground vpon the water In this conflict the Pagans were very desirous notwithstanding they were mortall enemies to meet with Claramante and his companion fortune here in gaue them their wish for those Princes Galley came where they were that made way wheresoeuer they passed well were they knowne by their Armes the two valiant yong Gallants Claridiano and Claramante whom with his Battell-axe no man would abide so great was the damage that he did therewith And the vnknowne Louer séeing himself in presence of his Lady who tooke pleasure to see him not knowing him for Claridiano it was wonderfull what hee did The foure rare men at Armes of the world séeing one another with an excellēt grace and terrible boldnes came to ioyne The braue Mauritaniā fell with Trebatius his nephew at their encounter they gaue together so mighty blowes that they were inforced to receyue them with ordinary curtesie they rose againe and returnd to giue other being assured to receyue the third for they came not to the fourth but that they first saw the starres of the heauēs in their Helmets Behind thē as a bird some space was Claramante who brandishing his axe smote the Pagan vpon the rich Helmet more hard thē Diamant his ●●xteritie nothing auailed him but that he made him giue two steps backwards with apparant shew of falling hée gaue him a lucky thrust which tooke him on the side of the brest plate bar●●way the ma●les and therewith the flesh that blowe did so much trouble him that the Gréeke had time to leap aboord his Galley and to cry Grecia and for it Uictorie His speaches cost him deare for Brufaldoro returning to it finding him neere at hand and out of order with his leap with all the force that he was able he smote him vpon the rich Helmet he made a thousand sparkles fly out of it and the bloud out at his mouth By this time came Brauorante as fierce as a Basiliske seeing his Galley entred he threw his shield to ground and with both his hands he smote at him a cruell blow The Greeke well saw it cōming and vnable to sh●n it he crost it with his strong halbert for if he has stricken him at full he had bene in great danger he smote it backe to his Helmet tormenting him so that he had almost lost his senses With another came Brufaldoro which put him more to his shifts It greatly grieued his Nephew to see what past and although that with his Uncles leap the Galley was put off yet taking his rising in his owne Galley he leapt aboue twentie foote at a iumpe With the force wherewith he came he fell on his knées at Brauorante his feete who was about to fasten another blowe on the warlike young man but séeing him so neere vnto him and knowing him by his Armes he addressed it vnto him discharging with all his power a cruell blow vpon the Gréeke● there were but few Knights within boord and those so busied and some wounded that they let these foure proceed in their battell which was wonderfull to behold Claramante let slip no occasion to take reuenge on the Moore who séeing him busied with his Nephew before that the Mauritanian could come at him making roome in the Galley he came at him in such sort with his battel-axe as would haue made Mars afeard The valorous young Gallant mist not of his blowe for striking him with great force on the one side of the Helmet hee made him fall downe vpon his hands to the ground Claridiano closed with him meaning to haue kild him and had done it had not Brufaldoro come so soone who to rescue him was likely to haue lost his owne life for againe striking a downe right blow with his axe the blow lighted on his left shoulder leauing it all disarmed and with a small wound they all betooke them to their weapons where they began a battell worth the seeing for those which fought it were gréedie thereof and angry for former matters which was the occasion that made it farre more cruell The night came so fast on that for all that they could doe they could not end it the Greekes being cōstrayned except they would lose themselues to returne to their Galley where they might sée their enemies Nauie burning in a light fire for there comming a fresh gale of wind from the shore it was a fearefull thing to behold the slaughter that there was made if Nero had séene it I beleeue he had séene that which he so much desired The Greeke Nauie was not free from that danger for as there were many Galleyes grappled together the flame tooke hold on them and had done much mischiefe had not the Captaine wisely preuented it casting on much water and with all possible spéed as the case required cutting the grapples and tackling falling off from the fire The enemies vsed the like policie and were forced to take landing much lower then they would haue done hauing lost great part of their Nauies but séeing so great a multitude of people they were recomforted purposing to make amends by land That night and the next day they landed all their people in the Hauen of Hircambela ten miles from Constantinople which they would haue razed but for staying They presently ordred their battels according to Bemboes direction who that night came forth of the Campe accompanied with the best men in the armie with a hundred thousand men of warre to leuell the passages betwéene that and the Citie and to pitch their Tents The victorious Gréekes although with some losse of their Gallyes returned to their Port went ashore there was great ioy made in