Howbeit, he who wrote the
letter saith that it is secretly said in Constantinople that a
great part of his army shall be shipped and sent either into Naples
or into Sicily.
ANTHONY: It may fortune, cousin, that the letter of a Venetian,
dated at Constantinople, was devised at Venice. From thence come
there some letters--and sometimes from Rome, too, and sometimes
also from some other places--all stuffed full of such tidings that
the Turk is ready to do some great exploit. These tidings they blow
about for the furtherance of some such affairs as they have
themselves then in hand.
The Turk hath also so many men of arms in his retinue at his
continual charge that, lest they should lie still and do nothing,
but peradventure fall in devising of some novelties among
themselves, he is fain yearly to make some assembly and some
changing of them from one place unto another, and part some
asunder, that they wax not over-well acquainted by dwelling
over-long together. By these ways also, he maketh those that he
intendeth suddenly to invade indeed, to look the less for it, and
thereby to make the less preparation before. For they see him so
many times make a great visage of war when he intendeth it not, but
then, at one time or another, they suddenly feel it when they fear
it not.
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