55I Learne in this letter, that don Peter of Arragon

66comes this night to Messina.

77Mess. He is very neare by this, he was not three

88leagues off when I left him.

99Leona. How many gentlemen haue you lost in this action?

1110Mess. But few of any sort, and none of name.

1211Leona. A victory is twice it selfe, when the atchiuer brings

1312home ful numbers: I find here, that don Peter hath bestowed

1413much honour on a yong Florentine called Claudio.

1614Mess. Much deseru'd on his part, and equally remembred

1715by don Pedro, he hath borne himselfe beyond the promise of

1816his age, doing in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion, he hath

1917indeed better bettred expectation then you must expect of me

2018to tell you how.

2119Leo. He hath an vnckle here in Messina will be very much

2220glad of it.

2321Mess. I haue already deliuered him letters, and there ap-

2422peares much ioy in him, euen so much, that ioy could not shew

2523itselfe modest enough, without a badge of bitternesse.

2724Leo. Did he breake out into teares?

2825Mess. In great measure.

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