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generally conspiring, grudging and alleaging how by their great
trauayle, paynes, and carefull ministery, they prouided all
furniture, and mayntenaunce for the belly, and that he like a
sluggish Beast stoode still, and enioyed sutch pleasures as were
geuen him, in this murmure and mutine, al they agreed that the
hands should not minister, the Mouth should not feede, the Teeth
should not make it seruiceable, the Feete should not trauayle,
nor Heade deuise to get the same: and whylest euery of them did
forsake their seruice and obedience, the belly grew so thin, and
the Members so weake and feeble, as the whole body was brought
to extreme decay, and ruine, whereby (sayd Agrippa) it appeareth
that the seruice due vnto the Belly (as the chiefe portion of
man) by the other Members is most necessary, the obeying and
nurssing of whom doth instil force and vigor into the other
parts through which we doe liue, and bee refreshed, and the same
disgested and dispearsed into the vaynes, and vitall powers
ingendreth mature and fine bloud, and mayntaineth the whole
state of the body, in comely forme and order. By which trim
comparison, applyed to ciuile warre was deflected and mollified
the stout corage and attempts of the multitude. Euen so agreing
with Agrippa, if the Members grudge, and disobey against their
chiefe, the state must grow to ruine. To be short, in certaine
haps a Trayter may be chearished, and that hath falsified his
first fayth: but treason and periury euermore be detested as
vices execrable. In this deede neyther the thing, nor yet the
doer hath any colour of excuse, the trespasse and cause for
which it is don being considered. Suffiseth it Sir, for so mutch
as there is neyther time nor cause of further discourse, what
neede we to decide the matter, whych of it selfe is euident?
Beholde mee heere a poore Trinician Brother without brethren,
ioylesse without a Fort at Nocera. On the other part confider
the Duke of Camerino in great distresse and daunger, to passe
that strait of death my Brethren did. Let vs goe (I pray you) to
deliuer the Captiue, and by reuenging these offenses and
murders, to settle my Citty in former State, and freedome, which
the villayne goeth about to take from me, by encouraginge my
Subiects to reuolt and enter armes, thereby to expel our house
from the Title of the same.” As Conrade spake these woords, and
wyth great grauity, and constancy pronouncing sundry tokens of
sorrow, the Conestable of Naples, wroth beyond measure for these
vnpleasant newes, and full of griefe and choller against the
trayterous Lieutenaunt, swore in the hearing of them all, that
he would neuer rest one good sleepe vntill that quarell were
auenged, and had quited the outrage done to the Lord Conrade,
and the wrong which he felt in him for the imprisonment of the
Duke of Camerino. So he concluded, and the Souldiours were
assembled thorough out all the parts of the Conestable’s Lands,
vpon the ende of the weeke to march against the Fort of Nocera,
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