how moche silence, and how the capitain commaundeth the menne of armes, that thei sustain, and not charge, and that thei breake not from the order of the footemen:  see how our light horsemen be gone, to give the charge on a band of the enemies Harkebutters, whiche would have hurt our men by flancke, and how the enemies horse have succoured them, so that tourned betwene the one and the other horse, thei cannot shoote, but are faine to retire behinde their owne battaile:  see with what furie our Pikes doe also affront, and how the footemen be now so nere together the one to the other, that the Pikes can no more be occupied:  so that according to the knowlege learned of us, our pikes do retire a little and a little betwen the targaettes.  Se how in this while a great bande of men of armes of the enemies, have charged our men of armes on the lefte side, and how ours, accordyng to knowlege, bee retired under the extraordinarie Pikes, and with the help of those, giving again a freshe charge, have repulced the adversaries, and slain a good part of them:  in so moche, that thordinarie pikes of the first battailes, be hidden betwene the raies of the Targaettes, thei havyng lefte the faight to the Targaet men:  whom you maie see, with how moche vertue, securitie, and leasure, thei kill the enemie:  see you not how moche by faightyng, the orders be thrust together?  That thei can scarse welde their sweardes?  Behold with how moche furie the enemies move:  bicause beyng armed with the pike, and with the swerd unprofitable (the one for beyng to long, the other for findyng thenemie to well armed) in part thei fall hurt or dedde, in parte thei flie.  See, thei flie on the righte corner, thei flie also on the lefte:  behold, the victorie is ours.  Have not we wonne a field moste happely?  But with more happinesse it should bee wonne, if it were graunted me to put it in acte.  And see, how there neded not the helpe of the seconde, nor of the third order, for our first fronte hath sufficed to overcome theim:  in this part, I have no other to saie unto you, then to resolve if any doubt be growen you.

[Sidenote:  Questions concerning the shotyng of ordinaunce.]

LUIGI.  You have with so moche furie wonne this fielde that I so moche mervaile and am so astonied, that I beleve that I am not able to expresse, if any doubt remain in my mynde:  yet trustyng in your prudence, I will be so bolde to tell thesame that I understande.  Tell me firste, why made you not your ordinaunce to shoote more then ones?  And why straighte waie you made them to retire into tharmie, nor after made no mension of them?  Me thought also, that you leveled the artillerie of the enemie high, and appoincted it after your own devise:  the whiche might very well bee, yet when it should happen, as I beleve it chaunseth often, that thei strike the rankes, what reamedie have you?  And seyng that I have begun of the artillerie, I will finishe all this question, to the intente I nede not