them to succour him with all possible speed, for his own house was on fire.  Then every one for fear of his owne danger came running out to aid him, wherewith we fearing our present peril, knew not what was best to be don, whether wee should leave our companion there, or yeeld ourselves to die with him:  but we by his consent devised a better way, for we cut off his arm by the elbow and so let it hang there:  then wee bound his wound with clouts, lest we should be traced by the drops of blood:  which don we took Lamathus and led him away, for fear we would be taken:  but being so nigh pursued that we were in present danger, and that Lamathus could not keepe our company by reason of faintnesse; and on the other side perceiving that it was not for his profit to linger behinde, he spake unto us as a man of singular courage and vertue, desiring us by much entreaty and prayer and by the puissance of the god Mars, and the faith of our confederacy, to deliver his body from torment and miserable captivity:  and further he said, How is it possible that so courageous a Captaine can live without his hand, wherewith he could somtime rob and slay so many people?  I would thinke myself sufficiently happy if I could be slaine by one of you.  But when he saw that we all refused to commit any such fact, he drew out his sword with his other hand, and after that he had often kissed it, he drove it clean through his body.  Then we honoured the corps of so puissant a man, and wrapped it in linnen cloathes and threw it into the sea.  So lieth our master Lamathus, buried and did in the grave of water, and ended his life as I have declared.  But Alcinus, though he were a man of great enterprise, yet could he not beware by Lamathus, nor voide himselfe from evill fortune, for on a day when he had entred into an old womans house to rob her, he went up into a high chamber, where hee should first have strangled her:  but he had more regard to throw down the bags of mony and gold out at a window, to us that stood under; and when he was so greedy that he would leave nothing behinde, he went into the old womans bed where she lay asleep, and would have taken off the coverlet to have thrown downe likewise, but shee awaked, and kneeling on her knees, desired him in this manner:  O sir I pray you cast not away such torn and ragged clouts into my neighbours houses, for they are rich enough, and need no such things.  Then Alcinus thinking her words to be true, was brought in beleefe, that such things as he had throwne out already, and such things as hee should throw out after, was not fallen downe to his fellowes, but to other mens houses, wherefore hee went to the window to see, and as hee thought to behold the places round about, thrusting his body out of the window, the old woman marked him wel, and came behind him softly, and though shee had but small strength, yet with sudden force she tooke him by the heeles and thrust him out headlong, and so he fell upon a marvellous great stone and burst his ribs, wherby he vomited and spewed great flakes of blood, and presently died.  Then wee threw him to the river likewise, as we had done Lamathus before.