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The combat betwext the two gentlemen commonly taketh ende
in short space. And kinge Piero therfore appearinge in
such time as he might have foughte, and therfore directlie he
fled not the fighte, and it is written of certeine Romaines
that thorough fraude & deceipte vanquished their ennemies
as in the seconde booke alredie we declared. wherfore to dys:
cuss this doubtfull question betwext two kings let vs remem:
ber that worthie aucthor wch saith yt no man can Iudge ye
doings of kings but God only. And for yt, none ought to
condemne the Royall order, and yf my simple iudgement
suffizeth not to conclude of two kinges, to thende neither of
them may have cause to saye of me, that wch kinge Corradi:
no saide to a Iudge, wch condemned him to die at ye Cittie of
Naples by the decree of kinge Carlo, speaking thease
wordes Serue negua Serue negua, condemnas ti filiu
Principis, nescis quia par in pare non habet imperiu, wch
wordes import this. wicked sruannt condemnest thowe
the sonneof a Prince, knowest thowe not that one equall
hath no powre of an other. But because Princes be my:
nisters of lawe, and will willinglie humble them selues to iustice
accordinge to lawe, herein I saye yt ys he yt appeared firste, &
attended the accustomed howre to departe and then departed
wth licence of the Iudge, or yf the Iudge be rysen before the
ennemie commeth his life is determined, the iudgemt of disobe:
dience shalbe pronounced against him that is alsent in the
favour of him that is present, for he is disobedient yt differreth
his cominge to the laste howre vnles he alleadge som iuste
excuse of lett, & that beinge proued, the combat shalbe defer:
red till an other daye. But yf of purpose he fled the
fighte havinge none impediment or els vppon frawde he
shall not afterwardes be herde. And this was reputed a
greate wisedome & iudgemente in kinge Piero who beinge
interrupted of kinge Charles in the Isle of Sicilia not
knowinge howe otherwise to remove him from his enterprise
was contented to answere him in personall combat, wth an
hundred knights, by wch meanes he removed him from his
entente, for kinge Carlo had conceyved great hope to winne
the daye, and so to gaine the Crowne of Sicilia wthout
further lett. And kinge Piero havinge thus removed
kinge Carolo owte of Italie thought lykewise to defraude
him of his enterprise wth this deceipte vsinge subtelties