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ned in bataile, that men say was betwene Camos and Hanibal prince of Cartage, the whiche discomfit before duke Camos in Puylle be suche power that the ringis of golde take frome the fingers of ded bodies of the said Romains, whiche were men of price and renomme, and Titus Livius seiethe in his booke of Romayne batailes were extendid and mesurid to the quantite of mesure of .xij. quarters or more, whiche Hanibal brought withe hym to his countre of Cartage in signe of victorie. [Sidenote: Nota de experiencia armorum ex parte Romanorum.] How after the seide gret descomfiture that a few nombre of Romans expert in werre (_unfinished_) But the worthy Romains, for alle that, left not the hope and trust of recovering on another day, whan God lust, onnere and fortune, theyme so exercised daily armes, [and] after accustumyng hem ayene {27} to werre, were by experience lerned and enhardid, that, as by the exorting and comforting of one of theire princes, he assembled another time in bataile ayenst the litille residue that were left of the said Romayns, and by subtile craft of wise policie and good conduyt in actis of werre they fille and tooke uppon theym and charged theym so moche that by unware of theire purveiaunce met withe the said Haniballe at certen streightes and narow places fille into the handis of Romains, to the gret discomfiture and destruccion of Haniballe his gret oost of Cartage. [Sidenote: Exercitium armorum excedit divicias.] How men of armes welle lerned and excercised is of a grettir tresoure then any precious stones or riche tresour. Dame Cristen saiethe in the first booke of the Tree of Batailes that there is none erthely thing more forto be allowed than a countre or region whiche be furnisshed and stored withe good men of armes well lerned and exercited; for golde, silver, ne precious stones surmountethe not ne conquerithe not ennemies, nother in time of pease wardithe the peple to be in rest, the whiche thing a puissaunt man in armes dothe. How a few nombre of the Romains that were expert and connyng in the werre descomfited .c.iiij^{xx}.M^l. of Frenshemen that the prince of hem tolde and set right litille by. [Sidenote: Magister Alanus de Auriga. Id est compilam de libro suo.] [Sidenote: In multitudine gencium non consistit victoria, ut infra. Nota bene.] [Sidenote: Averaunces. D'n's Talbot. D'n's Fauconberge. Harflete.] [Sidenote: J. dux Som', Ed's Dors'. Cane.] [Sidenote: Fastol
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