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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 for:
mer 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.