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II.

Royal

Commentariet.

. A cercain Souldier, na:ned

fohn de Samañieg~,

who had formetÍy been affionted1

Pedrode Lerma,

made enquiry afrer him, chaé he might take a revenge for che

affi-onc : Two days afcer che Baccel he wás informed thar he lay wounded in ch~

Houfe of

Pedro de los Rios

;

and going chicher with che infolence of a viél:oriou~

Souldier; he found free enrrance inro che Houfe, for in chis time of War chere

was none

oppofe him ; fo that he wenc from Ghamber to Chamber, uncill he

carne to a poor Bed on which

de Lerma

was laid ; fitting thereupon ; he began

to difcoqrfe with much fobriety and phlegm :

' '' Senior

Pedrode

lmna,

faid he,

am come in fatisfaétion

my Honour,

'' kill you, for a box o'ch' Ear which you once gave me: Sir, anfwered

Pedro

dé

~' Lerma,

you may well remember, chac you were che

firft

Aggreífour, and that by

" your infolendes you gave me juíl: provocation.

can

lictle or no fatisfac...

" cion to your Honour to kili a Man thac is wounded, and dying in his bed.

" God íhall fpare my life, Ido here Vow, and engage my Faich to give you all

i.c

che fatisfaél:ion you íhall requ'ire eicher by_word of mouch, or in wricing, wich

" all ihe formalicies and circumfiances whích che Rules of Souldiers can require

' 1

in reparacion ofHonour. No, Zounds, faid

Samaniego,

I will not íl:ay

long;

'' out

will

kili

you prefently, .for my Honour requires ic.

deny chat, replied

Lerma,

for yciu muíl: rather lofe than gain Honour by killing a

Man

wlio

" half dead already : bue

li~e;

wilJ give you entire fatisfaél:ion.

Theíe were the precife Words

bo'th _

one

'and

the other, whlch were

tépl!a,;.

ted three or (our times , the one threatrilrig death, and the other promifing

far&

faél:ion. At lengch when

Pedro de Lerma_

irnagined that bis Adverfary was conreo•

ted wich his prornife, and wich che fatisfaél:iop he had ofrered him according

the

formalities and rules of aSouldier ;

Samaniego

arofe, and laying bis hand

ap–

on bis Dagger, gave him many fiabs cherewith i:mtill he died; afcerwards going

out into d-ie Market-place, he boaíl:ed, how in fatisfafüon ofhis Honour he had

-fiabbed Captain

Pedro de Lerma :

And farther to magnifie che glory of

bis

Exploir,

recounred word for word all the difcourfe which had paíled becweerJ tnem

and

how often che fame words were repeated ; wich whidt he was troublefome

all that heard hirn, for he would adrnic of no othe~ difcouríe wherefoever

he'

was, than onely the vapours and boaíl:s he made of chis Aétion ; in whích imper–

tinency he continued, untill bis infolence effeél:ed bis ruine ; and that as he was

authour of bis crirne,

he broughc the punifhment ofit on his own head. The

manner whereof we íhall relate in chis place ; for though it be out of die order

of time ; yec noc to lofe the opportunity of affeél:_ing che rninds of che Readers

with a deteíl:acion of che mercilefs bowels of this

Samaniego,

whofe villany was

abominated in all pares of

Pm,,

it will

b'e

moíl: feafonable to deliver

Narracive

of ic, as follows.

Five years after chis villany was perpecrated, when che Kingdom was quiet, and

peace, and freed from che DHfencions becween che

Pifarrifts

and

Almagrians:

rohn de San:aniego

W~S

then

_an lnhabitant,in

Puerto Viejo,

W~ere,.ac~ordltig

~is,

ufual praébce, he íhll coótmued tQ magmfie the glory of bis Explo1ts, vapounng

ac every turn, thac he had in fatisfaétion of his Honour killed a Captain·with bis

Dagger, who had been Lieutenant-General of che Governoi.Jr

DoH

Francifco Pi- '

fªrro,

and thac none duríl: ever queftion him for-ic, adding n~oreover mariy thing~

of intolerable infolences. The ,Governour,

who

was chief

ufüciary

óf

_thls plaée~

being tired out with,the inceífant repeticlon of thefe matters, gave

Samaniego

tó

underíl:and by a cercain friend of bis, that ic were be'tter; and more agreeable

tóJ

his Honour, to bury thefe maccers in filence, chanto make fatthet talk of chení ;

for thac lince he had revenged che injury, he fhould remain concenced1 and en~

large no farcher on chac unpleafant fu~jeéL

Samaniego,

infiead of caking chis kind

admonicion in good part, was violently enraged ; and going into

the

Markec–

plaée, efpied the Governour wich about fifceen or cwency

Sp_aniardt,

(

for chere

were very

few

more Inhabitams in chac Town) and as chey were difcour..:

fing pleafantly togechet, he füoíl:ed che company, ancl wich an angry Look

faid;

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