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furious Anotamie vpon a dead body, and wherein there was no
longer feeling? But what? Ire beyng wythout measure, and anger
wythout Brydle or reason, it is not to be wondred, if in al his
actes the Captayne ouerpassed the iust measure of vengeance.
Many would thinke the committed murder vppon Nicholas, to be
good and iust: but the Iustice of an offense, ought not so longe
time to be conceyled, but rather to make him feele the smart at
the very tyme the deed is done, to the ende that the nypping
gryefe of pestilent treason wrought against the betrayed party,
be not obscured and hydden by sodayne rage and lacke of reason
rising in the mindes first motions, and thereby also the faulte
of the guilty, by hys indiscretion couered: otherwyse there is
nothyng that can colour sutch vice. For the law indifferently
doth punish euery man, that without the Magistrates order taketh
authority to venge his own wrong. But come we againe vnto our
purpose. The Captayne all imbrued in bloude, entred the Chaumber
of the Duke of Camerino, whom with al the rest of the strangers
that were wythin the Castle, hee lodged (without speakynge any
worde) in a deepe and obscure pryson. Beholde, what reste they
tooke that nyghte, whych were come to hunt the Wylde Boare. For
wythout trauaylyng farre, they were intrapped in the subtill
engines and Nettes of the furious Lieuetenaunte, who when the
morning bedecked with hir vermilion cleare began to shewe hir
selfe, when all the Hunters dyd put them selues in readynesse,
and coupled vp theyr Dogges to marche into the Fielde, beholde,
one of the Captayne’s cruell Ministers wente into the City,
to cause the Lord Cæsar to come and speake with hys brother
Nicholas, and intreated him not to tarry, for that he and the
Duke were dysposed to shewe hym some disport. Cæsar whych neuer
suspected the least of these chaunced murders, desired not to be
prayed agayne, but made haste to the Butcherie like a lamb, and
in the company of the Wolues themselues that were in readynesse
to kyll hym. He was no sooner in the Court of the Castle, but
seuen or eyght Varlets apprehended hym and hys Men, and carryed
hym into the Chaumber (bound lyke a thefe) wherin the Membres of
hys Myserable Brother were cut of and dispersed, whose corpse
was pitifully gored and arrayed in Bloud. If Cæsar were abashed
to see himselfe bound and taken prysoner he was more astonned
when he perceyued a body so dysmembred, and which as yet he
knewe not. “Alas,” (sayd he) “what sighte is this? Is thys the
bore whych thou hast caused vs to come hyther to hunt within our
very Fort?” The Captayne rising vp, al imbrued wyth bloud, whose
face and voyce promised nothing but Murder to the miserable
young Gentleman sayd: “See Cæsar, the Body of thine adulterous
brother Nicholas, that infamous whoremonger, and marke if this
be not his head: I woulde to God that Conrade were here also
that ye might all three be placed at this sumptuous Banket,
which I haue prepared for you.
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