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fpoiles of the Curatiens, sayinge : " Can you abide to fee this noble
Champion (O ye Romaines) whom lately ye behelde to go in
order of triumphe in victorious maner, to lye nowe bounde vnder
the gibet, expecting for tormentes of death : Which cruell and
desormed fight, the Albanes eyes can not well be able to beholde,
goe to then thou hangman, and binde the handes of him, who hath
atchieued to the Romaine people a glorious Empyre : Goe, I
faye, and couer the face of him that hath deliuered this citie out
of thraldome and bondage. Hang him vpon some vnhappie tree,
and fcourge him in some place within the Citie, either amongs
these our triumphes, where the fpoiles of our enemies do remaine,
or els without the walles, amonges the graues of the vanquimed.
Whether can yee deuife to carrie him, but that his honourable
and worthye actes, fhal reueng the villanie of his cruel death."
The people hearing the lamentable talke of his father, and feinge
in him an vnmoueable minde, able to sustaine al aduerfity,
acquited him rather through the admiration of his vertue and
valiance, then by iuftice and equity of his cause. Such was the
ftraite order of iuftice amonges the Romaines, who although this
yonge gentleman had vindicated his countrie from seruitude
and bondage (a noble memorye of perfecte manhode)
yet by reason of the murder done vppon his owne
fifter, were very ftraite and flacke to pardon :
because they would not incourage the pof-
teritie to like inconuenience, nor pro-
uoke wel doers in their glorye and
triumphe, to perpetrate
thinges vn-
lawfull.
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