This while it happens, that a Woolfe is descryed: away runne
the boyes: fast abides the imaginary Felon, and so fast, that for
want of timely rescouse, the breath poasted out of his body, and left
the same a liuelesse carkase. The which notifyed to the Samnites,
quitted the striplings (or slipstrings) of their punishment, but
encreased the dismay of the elder people.
A like accident befell sithence, hy testimony of the ceremonious
Texera, as a presage of Lewes the prince of Condyes death, 1569.
Foure daies before which, at Xaintes, the youth of all sorts, from
9. to 22. yeres age, assembled, and (of their owne accord) chose
two Commaunders, one they entitled the Prince of Condy, the other
Mounsieur, who then lay in the field against him. For three dayes
space, they violently assaulted each other, with stones, clubs, and
other weapons, vntill at last it grewe to Pistoles: by one of which,
the imaginary Prince receiued a quelling wound in his head, about 10.
a clock in the morning: the very howre (saith this Portugall
confessour) that the Prince himselfe, by a like shot was slaughtered.
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