Study was _Machiavil's_ Art of War, and _Marcus Aurelius;_ his exercise a good Horse, with his Lance and Ring; his Food was thought to be more of Venison than any thing else; what he wanted his Man brought him. The Country wondering at such an Hermite, his Friends perswaded one Seignior _Theodora Polaloga,_ Rider to _Henry_ Earl of _Lincoln,_ an excellent Horse Man, and a Noble _Italian_ Gentleman, to insinuate into his Woodish Acquaintance, whose Languages and good Discourse, and Exercise of Riding drew him to stay with him at _Tattersall._ Long these Pleasures could not content him, but he returned again to the Low Countries. * * * * * CHAP. II. _The notable Villany of four_ French _Gallants, and his revenge;_ Smith _thrown over-board; Captain_ La Roche _of Saint_ Malo _relieves him._ Thus when _France_ and _Netherlands_ had taught him to Ride a Horse, and use his Arms, with such Rudiments of War, as his tender Years in those Martial Schools could attain unto; he was desirous to see more of the World, and try his Fortune against the _Turks,_ both repenting and lamenting to have seen so many _Christians_ slaughter one another. {MN} Opportunity calling him; into the Company of four _French_ Gallants well attended, faining to him the one to be a great Lord, the rest his Gentlemen, and that they were all devoted that way; over-perswaded him to go with them into _France,_ to the Dutchess of _Merceur,_ from whom they should not only have Means, but also Letters of Favour to her Noble Duke, then General for the Emperour _Rolduphus_ in _Hungary;_ which he did, with such ill Weather as Winter affordeth, in the dark Night they arrived in the broad shallow In-let of St. _Valleries sur Soame_ in _Picardie;_ His _French_ Lord knowing he had good Apparel, and better furnished with Money than themselves, so Plotted with the Master of the Ship, to set his and their own Trunks ashore, leaving _Smith_ aboard till the Boat could return, which was the next day after, towards Evening: The reason he alledged, was, the Sea went so high he could come no sooner, and that his Lord was gone to _Amiens,_ where they would stay his coming; which treacherous Villany, when divers other Soldiers, and Passengers understood, they had like to have slain the Master, and had they known how, would have run away with the Ship. * * * * * {MN} _A notable Villany of four_ French _Gallants._