will infallibly be the cafe, for I fhall march to meet them) to draw op my men with prudence, and to take every advantage in the combat » for they were all men of fuch ability and refolurion, that the meancft: would not fly, to avoid death. They have undertaken this expedition, as the duke writes me, folely through valour, to do fome deeds of arms that may gain them renown. . For this I feel myfelf thankful to them j and their de-fire for arms fhall be gratified within three months from this time, when, perhaps, they may have more than fnfficient/ CHAP. XXX¥ A DIGRESSION FROM THI PRINCIPAL HISTORY TO EXPLAIN WHV JOHN OALEAS OF MILAN WAS MOVED TO GIVE THE TURK INFORMA-TION OF THE EXPEDITION IJNTl|ÎDED AGAINST HIM*. reipeâiàg the information he had received from the lord of Milan, muft furprife every one. It wasfupp?fcd he had been ba pdfed and was re-generated in our faith, and yet he had fought the friendfbip and alliance of an infidel king, an enemy to our religion, and had every year fent him pre-fents of bounds and hawks, or the fincft linen cloth 'HAT Bajazet had told the fultan of Babylon that S39