The XXII. ADVERTISEMENT.
Apollo being greatly moved to compassion, by seeing a poor Souldier, who had lost both his hands in the Wars, goe a begging, doth sharply reprehend Princes for their ingra∣titude to Military men.
THis morning, as Apollo went out of dores, a souldier who had lost both his hands in the Wars, came before him and beg'd an alms: Apollo asked him how he came to be so maimed; the souldier answered, That whilst he was handling his Pike in a battel, in the service of a great Prince, both his hands were shot off by a Canon. Apollo commanded a liberal alms to be given to the poor man, and bad some Princes who were by him, remove away that unfortunate witness of their ingratitude, from the eyes of the world, that sad example of the miserable condition of souldiers in these modern daies: For it was a spectacle which did too much afflict the soul of the Vertuosi, to see that miserable souldier beg his bread, who had deserved from the Prince whom he had served, a rich patrimony, whereby to give that alms to o∣thers, which he was now forced to beg for himself.