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Royal Commentaries.

VIII..

Jndian

Servants, ~bofé lnduftry ánd faühfulnefs .they migh encruíl: with

all confidence. But they anfwered, That they would upon no Terms what–

fo.ever

far abafe and degrade themfelves:, for being Gentlemen, they

tnore efteerntd their G entility, than ali the Gold and Silvei· in

Peru.

The

which Anfwer the Steward making known to his Mafter, and how much the

young Gentlemen ftood on the Punétilio's of their Noble•Blood; their

good Kín(man

Lorenfo de Aldana,

with much calmnefs made anfwer,

If thefe.

are fuch G1nttlemen, how come they

poor

And

_if th_ey

are

poor,_how come they

fuch Genrlemen? .

Aldana

never troubled h1s Kinfmen, nof h1mfelffarther,

to put them in a way of livelyhood, but, fuffered theni to pafs meanly,

- and in neceility, as I have feen them; ,tho' not

much as to want Oier,

or Cloathing. Por 'when they carne · from

Arequepa

Coz.co,

they lodged in

-che Houfe of my Lord

Garfila.J!o,

where they were provided

'Wit'b

all things'

nereffary; and when they paífed to ocher Cities, the Houfcs of their ·Coun–

try-men of

Eftremad:,wa

were always open to them:, .for in thofe days the

very name of a Country-man, was fufH'cient to make them as _wekome, as

·chey had been Sons, or the neareft relatíon to a Family. Thefe four ,Gen–

tlemen, whom we have mentioned in tbis place, were all of the Ancient

Conquer:ours of

Pen!

who dyed in their Beds of a ·natural Death; the which

we (peofie as a thmg rare, and ftrange; for as appears by the preceding

Hiíl:ory, there is not an Example of any who have dyed .in this manner,

but all have com~ to their Ends by violent deaths. Wherefore thefe wor–

thy Perfans, hav-ing been Conquerours, and Planters of this·Empire, and

dying in a Happy and Bleffed manner, were greatly lamented

the

People, for the fingular Vertue, Honour, and Goodnefs, with which they

were endued.

Tho' there were no exprefs Law of God, which íhould command us

to–

honour-our Parents,

yet

the Law of Nature teaches it to the moíl: bar–

barous People of the World, and inclines them to omit no occafion where–

to eocp,:-efs the Outy aod ,Refpeél: they owc to .tbem. The which con–

Jideration, inciced by Divine and Humane Laws, and even eníl:amped on

the Héarcs of Heathe-ns, obliges

to publifh the· Vertues of

ather

after bis Death, which I had not opportunity to do, duríng ·the time of

his Life. . And chat the Praifes,, and Commendations, which I attribute

to my Father, may not feem partía!,- and proceeding from Affeél:ion; I

will here repeat an

Elogi11m

made by a Fryer, of a devout and religious

Life, which he delivered afcer his death_, for the Comfort and Confola–

t ion of his Chíldren, and Friends, and• as an Exam¡:,le for ,other perfons

to imítate. l fhould here name the good Man, who wrott this Oration,

bue be engagecl me not to do it, bue to conceal him when

publiíhed

rhe Writing : and

wifh

were not uoder that Engagement, that

his

Aut hority, che praiíes of my Father might appear che mor~ Authentick.

fhall omit the Exordium, and the many Oratori~al Flights, and Colours

he ufes. And, as becomes an Hiftorian, I íhall be very íhort in this · pi–

ous Oigreflion.