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On the 23d of May, then, 1598, "having learnt, with no little

displeasure, that the number of bravoes and vagabonds is

increasing daily in this state and city, and that nothing is

heard of them but wounds, murders, robberies, and every other

crime, to the commission of which these bravoes are encouraged by

the confidence that they will be sustained by their chiefs and

abettors," he prescribes again the same remedies, increasing the

dose, as is usual in obstinate disorders. "Let every one, then,"

he concludes, "carefully beware that he do not, in any wise,

contravene this edict; since, in place of experiencing the mercy

of His Excellency, he shall prove his rigour and his wrath-he

being resolved and determined that this shall be a final and

peremptory warning."