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THE SIEGE OF ANTWERPE.
GIve me leave,* 1.1 (warranted by Livies example) to tel you by way of preface in this part of my work, (which in the beginning most annuall writers use o∣penly to professe,) that I am to speake of a siege more memorable by farr,* 1.2 then ever yet was laid to any citty: for never were rivers bridled with stronger bulwarkes, nor wits armed with more adventurous stratagems, nor by Souldiers, who in many sieges had gathered both skill, and courage was it ever more gallantly fought. Here Castles were erected on violent rivers, mines discovered amongst the waters, Rivers overflowing rampiers, and a∣gaine, rampires outtoping the rivers;