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Ill.
Royal
Gommentariei~
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at
Cards at which his Game
was
commonly
Prtmera;
he would ofien vye with
his
worff
Cards·
and
if
he had
the fortune to have Fluili or
Prim_era
he
would
lhuffie up his
Ca~ds,
and
not {hew them, feeming to
be
angry or d1fpleafed
a~
h
ill
luck:
by
fuch ways
as
thefe he
gai~ed
him(elf
fo
much
good- \
ill
and affechon,
as
were due to his
W
orrhy
and
HeroICk Menes.
.
.
Comara
treating of the Death of this P:ince ( nay more than
a Pnnce; for, .m
reality,
I
know no title
upo~
Earth
fu~c1enc
to
expreiS the Grandure and
Mems
of chis
Hero) faith that which follows
m
the Chapter
t45.
" He was the,Ball:ard Son of
Gon~alo
Pif arro,
Captain in
N av arre,
''as
born
~t
cc
Truxillo
and laid in the Church Porch : he fucked
a
Sow
for
feveral days,
nll
1 '
another' Nurfe was provided for him. Afterwards his Father acknowl_edged
'' him,
and employed
?im
in keeping Hogs,
f
<?
cha~
he
w~s
never educated in any
" learning. One day
it
happened,
rbat
the Fhes d1d
fo
bite the Hogs,
chat
they
'' all
ran away, and were lofl: ; upon which he durfl: not return home
aga~n
for
'' fear but attended fome Travellers
to
Sevil,
from whence he embarked h1mfel
" for
~he
Indies
;
and being arrived at
St.
Domingo,
he went
with
A lonfa ile
Hojeda
" co
Vraua
and with
Y1tfco Nunnez.. de Balhoa,
to difcover the
Sea
of
Sur,
and
'f
thence w'ith
PedraritU
to
Panama;
at
l~ngth
he difcovered and con9uered
that
" Countrey which they call
Peru,
&c.
which
are the very Words of this Authour.
Upon which one
might
make
(if
it were lawfull) many
refle~ions
both
in
re–
ference
to
him who wrote
it,
as
well
as
to him who related
it;
fo~
if the things
had been true, yet
it
had not been convenient or de<..:ent to report fuch mean anGi
low things of a Gentleman ,
~hofe
T riumphs and great ACl:ions he h4d wrote
with fuch wonde and applaufe ; rnuc
lefs
was it
fit
to mention them, feeing
.
that they
were
doubtfull, and admitted onely of a probability.
I
would know of
him,
who gave ch· relation, how
he
came to the knowledge
of fuch particulars, which related to the :Birth of a poor child, that was expofed in
the Porch of a Church, and was fuckled by a Beafi, for wane of a better Nurfe
?
When things of this nature happen to the Sons of great
Kings
and Princes,
it
is
difficult
to .learn the particular circumfiances thereof; how much lefs of
a
poor
boy thrown
at
a
Church door
?
And then to fay, after he was acknowledged by
his
Father,
that he was fent
to
keep S
'ine,
mull:
be
a
piece of envy and
malice,
and
nothing elfe ;
for
'tis not probable that
fuch
a principal
perfon
as
Gon~alo
Pi f a;·ro,
Captain of his Majefl:y's Troops in
N avarre,
fhould fend his Son after he
had acknovi. ledged him to keep Swine. Nor is
it
probable
th~~
the
Elies
fhould
take the Hogs in fuch manner
as
to make them !hay; where they could never
more be found ;
and
therefore that he dur{l not return home for
fear
:
To
confut~
which,
I
have particularly enquired of fome Paifi nts, or Conntrey people, whofe
bulinefs
it
was to breed up Hogs, whether the Fly doth bite them
at
any time
in
fuch manner, as to
canfe
them
to
firay abroad;
and
they have generally affured
me, that fuch a thing cannot be.
Bue Envy in Countries where parties and faetions prevail, doth often raife
re–
ports
of chis nature to ecllpfe the glory of"!
or~hy
Men;.
for
fi9d!ng they are not
able to deny,
or
darken the lull:re of their mighty ACl:10ps, which are manifeft
and apparent ro.all the World as were tbofe of the Marquis
Don Francifao Picarro;
they
feign and mvent fome mean paflages relating to their Birth and Education
which being obfcure, are
not
eafily refuted.
'
The truth of all is this: The Marquis
DrrA
Francifco Pifarro,
who was
onque–
r~ur
and
Governour of that
great
Empi ·e called
Peru
was
the Natural Son of
his Father
and
~other,
and
ack~owl_edged
by them at
~e
iI}ll:ant of
his
Binh.
Afterwards his Father Captain
Go~lo
Picarro
Married her who was
Mother
to our .Marquis, and one
by
extrac:tion of
an
ancient Family
~f
Chrillians, unto
a
cercam C6untrey Farmer of good repute, called Goodman fuch a one-------of
Alcantara,.
by whorr'l he had a Son
named
Fran4ifco Martin de A lcantara .
whom
Gomara_
faith was the halfBrother to the Marquis
Picarro,
and
V'l as
killed
~vith
the
Marqms, as we have before declared.
..
_Wherefore I
conclud~
, that though fuch Peports
as
thefe fuould have fome
thmg of
pro~able
truth m them, yet they ought not to be related
~o
the prejudice
-Qf Cuch a Prince, whofe
famtt
may be equalized with thofe of highelt renown.
Kkk k
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Antl
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