Foure paradoxes, or politique discourses 2 concerning militarie discipline, written long since by Thomas Digges Esquire. 2 of the worthinesse of warre and warriors, by Dudly Digges, his sonne. All newly published to keepe those that will read them, as they did them that wrote them, from idlenesse.
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             Foure paradoxes, or politique discourses 2 concerning militarie discipline, written long since by Thomas Digges Esquire. 2 of the worthinesse of warre and warriors, by Dudly Digges, his sonne. All newly published to keepe those that will read them, as they did them that wrote them, from idlenesse.
             Digges, Thomas, d. 1595.
             Digges, Dudley, Sir, 1583-1639. aut
          
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           Foure
           Paradoxes
           ,
           or
           politique
           Discourses
           .
           2
           Concerning
           Militarie
           Discipline
           ,
           written
           long
           since
           by
           
             Thomas
             Digges
          
           Esquire
           .
           2
           Of
           the
           worthinesse
           of
           warre
           and
           warriors
           ,
           by
           
             Dudly
             Digges
          
           ,
           his
           sonne
           .
           All
           newly
           published
           to
           keepe
           those
           that
           will
           read
           them
           ,
           as
           they
           did
           them
           that
           wrote
           them
           ,
           from
           idlenesse
           .
        
         
           
             Horace
             .
          
           
             Me
             castra
             iuuant
             &
             lituo
             tubae
          
           
             Permistus
             sonitus
             ,
             bellaque
             matribus
          
           
             Detestata
             .
          
        
         
           Imprinted
           at
           London
           by
           
             H.
             Lownes
          
           ,
           for
           
             Clement
             Knight
          
           ,
           and
           are
           to
           be
           solde
           at
           his
           shop
           at
           the
           Signe
           of
           the
           holy
           Lambe
           in
           Saint
           Paules
           Churchyard
           .
           1604.
           
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           Honourable
           THEOPHILVS
           HOVVARD
           ,
           Lord
           HOVVARD
           of
           Walden
           ,
           sonne
           and
           heire
           apparent
           to
           the
           Right
           Honorable
           Earle
           of
           Suffolke
           ,
           Lord
           Chamberlaine
           to
           his
           Maiestie
           .
        
         
           A
           Generall
           report
           (
           worthy
           Lord
           )
           of
           your
           honourable
           disposition
           bred
           in
           mee
           euen
           at
           my
           first
           cōming
           into
           France
           ,
           an
           earnest
           desire
           to
           see
           you
           ,
           which
           through
           your
           courtesy
           &
           my
           good
           fortune
           was
           happily
           effected
           :
           But
           when
           I
           perceiued
           with
           what
           vertuous
           industrie
           you
           indeauored
           to
           make
           the
           best
           vse
           ,
           of
           your
           wel
           spent
           time
           ,
           in
           those
           parts
           ;
           I
           cōceiued
           great
           hope
           to
           receiue
           much
           greater
           contentment
           ,
           in
           so
           truly
           honourable
           acquaintance
           ,
           and
           the
           tast
           I
           had
           of
           your
           fauours
           assureth
           me
           I
           had
           beene
           happy
           in
           my
           hopes
           ,
           had
           not
           my
           vntimely
           returne
           ,
           such
           were
           my
           vnfortunate
           crosses
           ,
           depriued
           mee
           of
           the
           comfort
           I
           tooke
           ,
           in
           the
           company
           of
           your
           admired
           vertue
           .
           Notwithstanding
           I
           haue
           hitherto
           fed
           my selfe
           with
           the
           hope
           of
           your
           returne
           &c.
           
           
             Hoc
             equidem
             occasum
             Troiae
             tristesque
             ruinas
             solabor
             ,
          
           this
           shall
           bee
           my
           refuge
           .
           In
           the
           meane
           time
           as
           Lewes
           of
           France
           did
           his
           country
           friends
           rape
           roote
           ,
           or
           as
           the
           Percian
           King
           did
           the
           poore
           mans
           Apple
           ,
           I
           intreat
           your
           Lordship
           to
           accept
           these
           sleight
           discourses
           as
           a
           token
           of
           the
           dutifull
           respect
           I
           owe
           you
           :
           They
           are
           I
           know
           most
           vnworthy
           your
           Maiden
           patronage
           ,
           yet
           my
           first
           fruites
           they
           bee
           ,
           and
           I
           earnestly
           desire
           ,
           that
           my
           first
           borne
           should
           beare
           your
           honours
           Name
           .
        
         
           
             
               Your
               Honors
               deuoted
            
             Dudly
             Digges
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           To
           the
           Reader
           .
        
         
           THat
           there
           are
           many
           faultes
           in
           these
           fewe
           leaues
           I
           doubt
           not
           ,
           neither
           would
           I
           but
           you
           should
           finde
           fault
           ,
           yet
           not
           maliciously
           with
           wrested
           and
           vnnaturall
           applications
           ,
           yet
           not
           too
           peremptorily
           till
           you
           haue
           children
           of
           your
           owne
           :
           onely
           this
           ,
           if
           you
           bee
           such
           a
           Merchant
           as
           hateth
           a
           Souldier
           ,
           thinke
           it
           no
           victorie
           to
           picke
           matter
           of
           aduantage
           out
           of
           my
           weake
           handling
           of
           their
           good
           cause
           :
           If
           on
           the
           contrarie
           you
           loue
           the
           profession
           ,
           take
           in
           good
           part
           these
           slight
           endeauors
           ,
           till
           some
           one
           of
           better
           abilitie
           speak
           more
           effectually
           ,
           and
           let
           this
           publike
           protestation
           assure
           you
           I
           am
           no
           dissembler
           ,
           but
           one
           that
           heartily
           desireth
           to
           shew
           himselfe
           a
           louing
           countreyman
           to
           men
           that
           so
           well
           deserue
           the
           loue
           of
           their
           Countrey
           .
        
         
           Farewell
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           The
           First
           Paradox
           .
        
         
           
             That
             no
             Prince
             ,
             or
             State
             doth
             gaine
             ,
             or
             saue
             by
             giuing
             too
             small
             entertainement
             vnto
             Souldiers
             ,
             Officers
             ,
             or
             Commaunders
             Martiall
             :
             but
             doe
             thereby
             extreamely
             loose
             ,
             and
             vnprofitably
             waste
             their
             Treasure
             ,
             besides
             the
             dishonour
             and
             foiles
             ,
             that
             necessarily
             thereof
             ensue
             .
          
        
         
           I
           Confesse
           sparing
           of
           Treasure
           ,
           and
           all
           due
           prouidence
           for
           the
           preseruation
           thereof
           ,
           to
           bee
           a
           thing
           verie
           necessarie
           ,
           especially
           in
           the
           warres
           of
           this
           our
           age
           ,
           where
           treasure
           is
           indeed
           becom
           
             Neruus
             Belli
          
           ;
           and
           therefore
           by
           all
           reasonable
           prouisions
           to
           be
           regarded
           .
           But
           there
           are
           in
           all
           actions
           some
           sparings
           ,
           or
           pretence
           of
           profit
           ,
           that
           are
           vtterly
           vnprofitable
           ,
           fond
           ,
           and
           foolish
           ,
           and
           woorking
           effects
           cleane
           contrary
           to
           that
           end
           ,
           for
           the
           which
           such
           pinching
           is
           pretended
           .
           As
           ,
           who
           seeth
           not
           ,
           that
           ,
           if
           a
           husbandman
           (
           that
           hath
           first
           allotted
           a
           reasonable
           proportion
           of
           graine
           ,
           for
           euerie
           Acre
           of
           his
           arable
           ground
           )
           shall
           (
           of
           a
           couetous
           minde
           )
           abate
           a
           quarter
           ,
           or
           one
           third
           part
           of
           his
           due
           proportion
           of
           seede
           ,
           thinking
           thereby
           to
           saue
           somuch
           ;
           who
           ,
           (
           I
           say
           )
           seeth
           not
           ,
           that
           by
           
           this
           foolish
           sauing
           in
           the
           seede
           ,
           in
           the
           crop
           hee
           shall
           loose
           thrice
           as
           much
           ,
           besides
           the
           hurtfull
           Weeds
           ,
           that
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           seede
           sufficient
           ,
           grow-vp
           ,
           and
           spoile
           the
           rest
           ?
           Or
           ,
           if
           a
           Merchant
           ,
           setting
           forth
           his
           Ship
           to
           the
           seas
           ,
           fraught
           with
           Marchandize
           ,
           shall
           know
           that
           (
           to
           rigge
           her
           well
           ,
           and
           furnish
           her
           with
           all
           needfull
           Tackle
           ,
           furniture
           and
           prouision
           )
           it
           will
           cost
           him
           full
           500.
           pounds
           :
           Yet
           ,
           of
           a
           coueteous
           and
           greedie
           minde
           to
           saue
           thereof
           some
           100.
           pounds
           ,
           or
           two
           ,
           hee
           shall
           scant
           his
           prouision
           ,
           wanting
           perhaps
           some
           Cables
           ,
           Ankers
           ,
           or
           other-like
           necessaries
           ,
           and
           after
           (
           by
           a
           Storme
           arising
           )
           for
           fault
           thereof
           shall
           loose
           both
           Ship
           and
           goods
           .
           Who
           will
           not
           condemne
           this
           miserable
           foolish
           Merchant
           ,
           that
           (
           peeuishly
           to
           saue
           one
           hundred
           pounds
           ,
           or
           two
           )
           hath
           lost
           both
           ship
           and
           goods
           ,
           perhaps
           of
           10.
           times
           greater
           value
           ?
           Much
           more
           is
           the
           folly
           of
           this
           error
           in
           Martial
           causes
           ,
           where
           the
           Tempests
           are
           as
           sodaine
           ,
           and
           no
           lesse
           perrilous
           .
           And
           therefore
           such
           fond
           sparing
           ,
           is
           farre
           more
           absurd
           in
           these
           Actions
           ,
           than
           in
           eyther
           of
           those
           ,
           of
           the
           Husbandman
           or
           Merchant
           .
           For
           proofe
           whereof
           ,
           if
           I
           should
           produce
           Antique
           Examples
           out
           of
           the
           Romane
           and
           
             Graecian
             Chronicles
          
           of
           such
           Kings
           and
           Princes
           ,
           as
           (
           by
           such
           fond
           sparing
           of
           their
           Treasure
           )
           had
           lost
           both
           their
           Treasure
           ,
           and
           their
           Kingdomes
           also
           ,
           I
           could
           easily
           make
           of
           this
           subiect
           a
           great
           volume
           :
           but
           for
           breuitie
           sake
           (
           leauing
           many
           Antiquies
           )
           I
           come
           to
           our
           present
           age
           and
           time
           ,
           and
           to
           matters
           of
           our
           owne
           Remembrance
           ,
           and
           Experience
           .
           For
           who
           knoweth
           not
           ,
           What
           course
           the
           States
           of
           the
           
             Vnited
             Prouinces
          
           tooke
           ,
           for
           payment
           of
           their
           souldiers
           ,
           before
           the
           arriuall
           of
           her
           
             Maiesties
             Lord
             Generall
          
           ,
           the
           Earle
           of
           Leicester
           .
           Who
           ,
           for
           sparing
           ,
           or
           to
           make
           (
           as
           they
           pretended
           )
           their
           treasour
           stretch
           ,
           did
           pay
           their
           Bands
           after
           48.
           daies
           to
           the
           Moneth
           ,
           their
           pay
           being
           so
           scant
           and
           bare
           at
           30.
           onely
           to
           the
           Moneth
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           verie
           hard
           for
           souldiers
           ,
           or
           Captaines
           ,
           to
           liue
           honestly
           vpon
           it
           :
           And
           the
           same
           being
           now
           stretched
           to
           48.
           daies
           ,
           vtterly
           impossible
           for
           them
           to
           liue
           without
           
           Frauds
           in
           Musters
           ,
           and
           pickories
           ,
           besides
           on
           their
           Countrey
           and
           friends
           .
           Hereof
           it
           came
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           the
           honest
           ,
           and
           valiantest
           men
           retired
           themselues
           from
           the
           warres
           ,
           and
           the
           worst
           disposed
           Free-booters
           were
           readiest
           to
           enter
           with
           these
           base
           conditions
           .
           For
           such
           a
           Captaine
           (
           as
           intendeth
           onely
           dishonestly
           ,
           by
           Fraud
           and
           Robberie
           to
           enrich
           himselfe
           ,
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           his
           Countrey
           )
           will
           especially
           desire
           to
           serue
           on
           such
           base
           conditions
           ,
           as
           honestly
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           euerie
           man
           to
           liue
           vpon
           :
           And
           so
           hauing
           iust
           colour
           thereby
           to
           shift
           ,
           hath
           all
           these
           meanes
           ensuing
           infinitely
           to
           enrich
           himselfe
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           (
           in
           the
           choise
           of
           his
           officers
           )
           to
           get
           ,
           or
           accept
           such
           Free-booters
           and
           Theeues
           ,
           as
           (
           onely
           to
           haue
           the
           name
           and
           priuiledge
           of
           a
           souldier
           ,
           to
           escape
           the
           paine
           due
           by
           Martiall
           lawe
           to
           such
           vnsouldierlike
           persons
           )
           will
           serue
           without
           pay
           ,
           or
           with
           halfe
           pay
           .
        
         
           Then
           ,
           euerie
           of
           these
           his
           officers
           
             Lieutenaunt
             ,
             Ensigne
             ,
             Serieants
             &c.
          
           (
           being
           men
           of
           that
           Crewe
           )
           will
           draw
           in
           as
           many
           also
           as
           they
           can
           of
           the
           same
           Moulde
           ,
           to
           liue
           on
           pickorie
           without
           pay
           ,
           and
           therefore
           very
           readie
           to
           serue
           in
           their
           loose
           manner
           with
           halfe
           pay
           .
           Of
           such
           Rakehels
           then
           the
           Captaine
           hauing
           rayzed
           an
           Ensigne
           ,
           passeth
           his
           Muster
           ,
           and
           is
           sent
           to
           his
           Garrison
           ,
           or
           place
           of
           Seruice
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           the
           Prince
           or
           State
           that
           is
           serued
           with
           such
           as
           will
           accept
           these
           vnhonest
           base
           conditions
           ,
           is
           much
           deceiued
           ,
           if
           hee
           thinke
           to
           bee
           souldierly
           serued
           .
           Viz.
           To
           haue
           their
           Watches
           and
           Wardes
           strong
           ,
           vigilant
           ,
           and
           carefull
           :
           For
           in
           steede
           of
           one
           thousand
           fiue
           hundreth
           souldiers
           past
           in
           Muster
           ,
           they
           shall
           neuer
           finde
           fiftie
           on
           Guard
           ,
           or
           Sentinels
           ,
           vpon
           any
           Round
           :
           As
           all
           honest
           Serieant-Maiors
           ,
           and
           other
           officers
           (
           that
           haue
           past
           their
           Rounds
           )
           can
           testifie
           :
           The
           rest
           (
           if
           he
           keepe
           any
           more
           )
           being
           eyther
           abroad
           in
           the
           country
           at
           the
           Picoree
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           
           garrison
           more
           vnhonestly
           occupied
           ,
           in
           abusing
           some
           honest
           Burgh●r
           his
           wife
           or
           seruants
           :
           (
           for
           ,
           to
           drudge
           in
           watch
           or
           ward
           the
           gallantest
           of
           this
           crew
           disdaine
           .
           )
           If
           any
           faults
           bee
           complained
           off
           ,
           the
           excuse
           is
           readie
           :
           Alas
           their
           pay
           is
           so
           small
           ,
           as
           wee
           must
           winke
           at
           faults
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           at
           any
           time
           the
           Commissarie
           of
           Musters
           come
           with
           treasure
           to
           passe
           a
           Muster
           ,
           ye
           shall
           euer
           finde
           them
           strong
           150.
           present
           and
           absent
           orderly
           set
           downe
           in
           Muster
           Rolles
           .
           And
           for
           their
           Absents
           such
           formall
           Testimonials
           ,
           Protestations
           ,
           and
           oathes
           ,
           as
           among
           Christians
           were
           horrible
           to
           discredit
           ,
           and
           their
           fraudes
           so
           artificially
           conueyed
           ,
           as
           will
           bee
           hard
           to
           trie
           :
           But
           the
           treuth
           is
           ,
           Forgery
           &
           Periury
           are
           the
           first
           lessons
           such
           Freeboters
           learne
           ,
           and
           then
           
             Pallardize
             ,
             Murder
             ,
             Treachery
          
           ,
           and
           Treason
           are
           their
           Attendants
           .
           Heereof
           it
           came
           to
           passe
           (
           for
           many
           yeares
           together
           )
           that
           after
           the
           death
           of
           
             Don
             Iohn
             de
             Austria
          
           ,
           the
           States
           lost
           such
           a
           number
           of
           Cities
           ,
           Townes
           ,
           Forts
           ,
           Castles
           and
           Sconces
           ,
           yea
           whole
           and
           entier
           Prouinces
           reuolted
           from
           thē
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           exextorsions
           ,
           oppressions
           ,
           &
           robberies
           insolently
           committed
           on
           the
           Country
           people
           ,
           and
           best
           Subiects
           ,
           by
           these
           insatiable
           Cormorants
           ,
           Lyons
           to
           their
           friends
           ,
           and
           Hares
           in
           presence
           of
           their
           enemies
           ,
           hauing
           not
           only
           ,
           
             Linguas
             sed
             animas
             venales
             ,
             manus
             rapaces
             ,
             pedes
             fugaces
             ,
             &
             quae
             honestè
             nominari
             non
             possunt
             inhonestissima
             ,
             verè
             Galeati
             Lepores
             et
             Hyrudines
             Aerarij
             .
          
           And
           this
           base
           beggerly
           pay
           the
           onely
           ground-plot
           of
           all
           these
           horrible
           villanies
           ,
           odious
           to
           God
           and
           man
           ,
           and
           not
           tollerable
           in
           any
           Christian
           Gouernment
           .
        
         
           For
           ,
           if
           Princes
           or
           States
           will
           giue
           such
           conuenient
           pay
           ,
           as
           men
           of
           value
           ,
           and
           honesty
           may
           sparingly
           liue-on
           without
           fraud
           and
           robbery
           ,
           they
           may
           boldly
           execute
           Martial
           discipline
           ,
           &
           purge
           their
           Army
           of
           these
           idle
           Drones
           ,
           and
           carowsing
           picking
           Caterpillers
           :
           And
           in
           stead
           of
           these
           ,
           they
           shall
           (
           in
           short
           time
           )
           haue
           their
           Ensignes
           compleat
           with
           valiant
           ,
           honest
           ,
           sober
           ,
           loyall
           souldiers
           ,
           that
           shall
           
           carefully
           and
           painefully
           in
           watch
           and
           ward
           execute
           their
           Martiall
           duties
           .
        
         
           The
           Earle
           of
           Leicester
           with
           his
           owne
           eyes
           beheld
           before
           Zutphen
           campe
           nigh
           Arnhem
           two
           or
           three
           Regiments
           of
           Scotts
           and
           Dutch
           in
           the
           States
           pay
           ,
           sent
           for
           by
           Count
           Hollock
           as
           the
           most
           choise
           bands
           that
           followed
           him
           ,
           hauing
           sixteene
           or
           eighteene
           Ensignes
           in
           their
           Regiments
           ,
           and
           paid
           for
           nigh
           three
           thousand
           souldiers
           :
           That
           (
           marching
           in
           ranke
           ,
           and
           after
           embattailed
           )
           were
           found
           not
           full
           one
           thousand
           ,
           besides
           their
           officers
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           if
           the
           States
           had
           paid
           truely
           but
           10
           Ensignes
           after
           30.
           daies
           to
           the
           moneth
           ,
           (
           as
           her
           Maiestie
           did
           )
           and
           by
           Martiall
           discipline
           haue
           kept
           them
           strong
           ,
           they
           should
           haue
           had
           500.
           more
           heads
           and
           hands
           to
           fight
           at
           least
           in
           such
           10.
           than
           in
           these
           18
           Ensignes
           paid
           after
           48.
           daies
           .
           And
           at
           the
           very
           same
           time
           ,
           &
           the
           same
           place
           his
           Excellency
           saw
           eight
           English
           Ensignes
           embattailed
           in
           the
           same
           Field
           ,
           that
           for
           heads
           of
           men
           were
           more
           than
           16.
           of
           the
           other
           Ensignes
           ,
           and
           for
           Armes
           &
           weapon
           ful
           double
           so
           strong
           :
           And
           yet
           these
           eight
           Ensignes
           stood
           not
           her
           Maiesty
           (
           paying
           honourably
           )
           in
           somuch
           as
           the
           other
           18.
           so
           dishonourably
           paid
           by
           the
           States
           ,
           by
           many
           thousand
           Gilders
           a
           moneth
           .
        
         
           Most
           foolish
           therefore
           ,
           and
           peeuish
           is
           such
           sauing
           in
           these
           Martiall
           causes
           ,
           being
           more
           absurd
           farre
           and
           fond
           than
           other
           of
           those
           my
           first
           Examples
           of
           the
           paltering
           Husbandman
           or
           miserable
           Merchant
           that
           stumbleth
           at
           a
           straw
           ,
           and
           swalloweth
           a
           blocke
           ,
           and
           by
           greedie
           pinching
           for
           a
           penny
           ,
           fondly
           looseth
           or
           wasteth
           pounds
           .
        
         
           But
           that
           dishonour
           that
           falleth
           out
           in
           these
           actions
           is
           much
           more
           to
           bee
           respected
           :
           For
           ,
           if
           eight
           Ensignes
           (
           well
           and
           truely
           paid
           )
           shall
           euer
           bee
           stronger
           in
           all
           Martiall
           encounters
           than
           18.
           of
           the
           other
           :
           how
           much
           more
           honour
           shall
           it
           bee
           with
           eight
           Ensignes
           to
           haue
           performed
           any
           honourable
           action
           than
           to
           haue
           done
           the
           same
           with
           eighteene
           ?
           As
           contrariwise
           the
           foile
           ,
           to
           loose
           eight
           Ensignes
           
           is
           farre
           lesse
           than
           to
           loose
           eighteene
           .
        
         
           Againe
           ,
           if
           the
           States
           had
           rayzed
           a
           meane
           Army
           (
           not
           of
           such
           Mercenarie
           vagabondes
           as
           would
           serue
           on
           any
           conditions
           ,
           resoluing
           by
           pickorie
           and
           extortion
           to
           enrich
           themselues
           )
           but
           of
           temperate
           ,
           honest
           ,
           painefull
           ,
           valiant
           souldiers
           which
           full
           easily
           with
           sufficient
           and
           compleat
           pay
           they
           might
           haue
           done
           ,
           and
           then
           haue
           kept
           a
           steddy
           hand
           on
           Martiall
           discipline
           ,
           seuerely
           to
           haue
           punished
           such
           cormorants
           as
           should
           any
           way
           haue
           spoyled
           or
           extorted
           on
           the
           countrey
           Booer
           ,
           or
           honest
           Burgher
           .
           They
           had
           neuer
           tasted
           those
           horrible
           Ruines
           of
           their
           townes
           and
           desolation
           of
           their
           countries
           ,
           that
           afterwards
           for
           many
           yeares
           they
           did
           .
           For
           it
           was
           not
           the
           great
           Subsidies
           or
           Leuies
           made
           on
           Brabant
           ,
           and
           Flaunders
           ,
           and
           other
           vpland
           Prouinces
           by
           the
           States
           vnited
           that
           made
           them
           all
           reuolt
           afterward
           to
           the
           Prince
           of
           Parma
           ,
           but
           onely
           these
           abuses
           ,
           spoiles
           and
           pickories
           .
           For
           in
           Holland
           and
           Zealand
           they
           haue
           euer
           since
           ,
           and
           doe
           still
           leuie
           as
           great
           and
           farre
           greater
           contributions
           than
           euer
           they
           did
           on
           those
           malcontēted
           Prouinces
           :
           But
           it
           was
           the
           wrongs
           ,
           iniuries
           ,
           Insolencies
           and
           Extorsions
           committed
           by
           this
           crew
           of
           degenerate
           bastardly
           souldiers
           or
           rather
           picke●s
           ,
           the
           seruants
           or
           rather
           idolatrous
           slaues
           of
           their
           misbegotten
           Mistresse
           Madam
           Picorea
           that
           alienated
           the
           harts
           vtterly
           of
           these
           Prouinces
           .
           The
           people
           hauing
           reason
           to
           reuolt
           to
           the
           gouernment
           of
           Papists
           or
           Turks
           rather
           than
           to
           endure
           the
           outrages
           committed
           on
           them
           ,
           their
           wiues
           and
           daughters
           by
           those
           their
           owne
           hirelings
           so
           deepely
           wounding
           them
           in
           wealth
           and
           honor
           .
           For
           what
           Tribute
           ,
           Subsidie
           or
           Taske
           had
           not
           beene
           farre
           more
           tollerable
           to
           any
           honest
           or
           Christiā
           people
           than
           to
           haue
           such
           a
           crew
           of
           hell-hounds
           laid
           vpon
           them
           ?
           As
           ,
           not
           content
           to
           haue
           the
           best
           chambers
           ,
           beds
           ,
           and
           fare
           that
           their
           host
           could
           yeeld
           them
           ;
           yea
           wine
           also
           bought
           and
           farre
           fet
           for
           them
           ,
           but
           would
           enforce
           them
           to
           pay
           money
           also
           ,
           and
           yet
           at
           their
           parting
           (
           in
           recompence
           or
           their
           good
           Entertainment
           )
           
           rifle
           them
           of
           all
           that
           was
           portable
           of
           any
           value
           ,
           besides
           other
           indignities
           not
           to
           bee
           spoken
           of
           by
           honest
           tongues
           ,
           or
           heard
           by
           modest
           eares
           .
           The
           horror
           of
           these
           villaines
           hath
           made
           Holland
           wisely
           and
           prouidently
           these
           douzen
           yeares
           and
           more
           yearely
           to
           giue
           ten
           folde
           greater
           contributions
           (
           yearly
           I
           say
           respectiuely
           weighed
           )
           than
           the
           greatest
           Subsidie
           or
           beneuolence
           that
           euer
           our
           Nation
           gaue
           during
           all
           these
           34.
           yeares
           of
           her
           Maiesties
           most
           gracious
           and
           happie
           Reigne
           .
           The
           which
           they
           doe
           most
           frankly
           and
           willingly
           stil
           continue
           to
           maintaine
           the
           warres
           out
           of
           the
           bowels
           of
           their
           owne
           country
           ,
           and
           to
           free
           themselues
           of
           those
           horrible
           oppressions
           which
           they
           sawe
           executed
           among
           their
           Neighbours
           ,
           which
           wise
           Resolution
           of
           theirs
           God
           hath
           also
           so
           fauoured
           and
           blessed
           with
           extraordinarie
           aydes
           and
           fauors
           many
           waies
           ,
           as
           these
           of
           Holland
           are
           not
           the
           poorer
           ,
           but
           rather
           much
           richer
           than
           they
           were
           before
           the
           warres
           began
           ,
           Notwithstanding
           their
           huge
           contributions
           are
           such
           ,
           as
           in
           commō
           reason
           a
           man
           would
           thinke
           were
           able
           to
           begger
           any
           mightie
           Kingdome
           :
           That
           little
           countrey
           of
           Holland
           onely
           (
           being
           for
           scope
           of
           ground
           and
           firme
           land
           not
           comparable
           with
           the
           least
           of
           any
           one
           of
           many
           Shieres
           in
           England
           )
           yealdeth
           to
           the
           warres
           yearely
           a
           greater
           contribution
           than
           halfe
           the
           fiftie
           Shires
           of
           England
           euer
           yet
           did
           in
           any
           one
           yeare
           by
           any
           Subsidie
           .
           It
           is
           not
           therefore
           the
           great
           charges
           or
           contributions
           that
           beggereth
           or
           spoyleth
           any
           countrey
           ,
           but
           the
           ill
           disposing
           of
           the
           Treasure
           leuied
           ,
           and
           the
           ill
           gouernement
           of
           the
           Souldierie
           therewith
           maintained
           ,
           which
           becommeth
           indeed
           more
           odious
           and
           intollerable
           to
           any
           Christian
           Nation
           or
           people
           farre
           ,
           than
           any
           Tax
           or
           Subsidie
           that
           is
           possible
           to
           bee
           cessed
           or
           imposed
           on
           them
           :
           Neither
           is
           it
           the
           multitude
           of
           Ensignes
           that
           terrifieth
           the
           Enemy
           ,
           but
           choise
           election
           of
           the
           Souldiery
           ,
           and
           the
           true
           execution
           of
           Martiall
           discipline
           .
        
         
           Herof
           it
           hath
           come
           to
           passe
           that
           so
           smal
           handfuls
           of
           Spaniards
           (
           while
           they
           were
           wel
           paid
           &
           discipline
           )
           did
           at
           sondry
           
           times
           foile
           so
           many
           Ensignes
           of
           these
           Mercenary
           Freeboters
           :
           And
           contrariwise
           after
           those
           Spaniards
           fell
           to
           mutenies
           (
           for
           want
           of
           pay
           )
           and
           to
           committing
           of
           like
           extorsisions
           and
           insolencies
           on
           the
           Country
           people
           ,
           they
           caused
           a
           sodaine
           reuolt
           of
           all
           the
           Prouinces
           .
        
         
           But
           for
           our
           owne
           Nation
           I
           holde
           it
           a
           Maxime
           most
           assured
           ,
           and
           hardly
           by
           any
           one
           Example
           ,
           to
           be
           disprooued
           :
           That
           euer
           wee
           receiued
           any
           foile
           where
           our
           Ensignes
           were
           compleat
           ,
           but
           only
           in
           such
           places
           ,
           and
           at
           such
           times
           ,
           as
           our
           Ensignes
           were
           maintained
           (
           not
           like
           the
           eight
           Ensignes
           before
           mentioned
           in
           the
           Earle
           of
           Leicesters
           time
           in
           her
           Maiesties
           pay
           )
           but
           rather
           as
           the
           other
           eight
           in
           the
           States
           pay
           ,
           as
           will
           bee
           found
           too
           too
           true
           ,
           if
           it
           bee
           deeply
           examined
           .
        
         
           The
           like
           I
           say
           in
           pay
           of
           Officers
           and
           superiour
           Commaunders
           ,
           that
           to
           giue
           them
           honourable
           and
           conuenient
           entertainment
           is
           not
           onely
           not
           vnprofitable
           ,
           but
           most
           profitable
           and
           gainefull
           to
           any
           King
           ,
           Prince
           ,
           or
           State
           :
           And
           the
           contrary
           (
           I
           meane
           by
           accepting
           or
           admitting
           such
           Commaunders
           or
           Officers
           as
           will
           offer
           themselues
           to
           serue
           for
           small
           or
           base
           entertainment
           )
           is
           a
           thing
           vnto
           the
           King
           or
           State
           not
           onely
           dishonourable
           ,
           and
           most
           hurtfull
           (
           in
           respect
           of
           the
           seuice
           )
           but
           also
           euen
           in
           regard
           of
           their
           Treasure
           onely
           most
           vnprofitable
           ,
           damageable
           ,
           and
           discommodious
           ,
           as
           I
           will
           prooue
           by
           manifest
           and
           true
           reasons
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           the
           Discourse
           would
           be
           ouer-long
           &
           tedious
           ,
           if
           I
           should
           particularly
           enter
           into
           the
           office
           or
           charge
           of
           euerie
           seuerall
           kinde
           of
           Officer
           or
           Commaunder
           ,
           I
           will
           only
           choose
           two
           ,
           of
           either
           sort
           one
           ,
           which
           (
           to
           coniecture
           and
           discerne
           of
           all
           the
           rest
           )
           may
           aboundantly
           suffice
           to
           prooue
           my
           present
           Proposition
           .
        
         
           Among
           Commaunders
           therefore
           I
           will
           onely
           entreate
           of
           the
           Collonell
           or
           
             Maestro
             del
             Campo
          
           .
           And
           among
           chiefe
           Officers
           of
           the
           
             Comptroller
             ,
             Censor
          
           ,
           or
           
             Muster
             Master
             Generall
          
           .
        
         
         
           And
           first
           of
           Collonels
           I
           say
           ,
           if
           they
           take
           vpon
           them
           that
           charge
           to
           command
           any
           conuenient
           number
           of
           Ensignes
           appropriat
           to
           their
           Regiment
           ,
           it
           is
           fit
           their
           entertainment
           bee
           proportionall
           to
           their
           reputation
           and
           charge
           :
           The
           which
           as
           it
           farre
           surmounteth
           a
           priuate
           Captain
           ,
           so
           ought
           his
           allowance
           to
           bee
           accordingly
           ,
           as
           wel
           for
           maintenance
           of
           a
           conuenient
           Table
           ,
           to
           entertaine
           the
           chiefe
           officers
           of
           his
           regiment
           .
           As
           chiefely
           such
           gentlemen
           of
           value
           as
           many
           times
           (
           without
           charge
           or
           office
           to
           see
           the
           warres
           vpon
           their
           owne
           priuate
           expences
           )
           will
           follow
           him
           .
        
         
           For
           if
           this
           Collonell
           ,
           haue
           not
           such
           entertainment
           from
           his
           Prince
           or
           State
           ,
           hee
           must
           of
           necessitie
           eyther
           spoyle
           or
           vndoe
           himselfe
           to
           maintaine
           that
           port
           is
           fit
           ,
           which
           fewe
           in
           these
           daies
           will
           ,
           or
           sor
           remedie
           helpe
           himselfe
           by
           tollerating
           frauds
           in
           Musters
           ,
           and
           suffering
           the
           Captaines
           of
           his
           Regiment
           to
           keepe
           their
           bands
           halfe
           emptie
           :
           Out
           of
           the
           which
           both
           Captaines
           and
           Coronell
           may
           pay
           themselues
           double
           and
           treble
           the
           greatest
           entertainment
           that
           euer
           any
           King
           yet
           gaue
           ,
           but
           not
           without
           the
           very
           ruine
           and
           vtter
           dishonour
           of
           their
           Nation
           .
        
         
           For
           what
           Captaine
           is
           there
           so
           foolish
           miserable
           ,
           (
           if
           hee
           make
           no
           conscience
           to
           gaine
           by
           robbing
           of
           his
           Prince
           or
           State
           ;
           )
           that
           will
           not
           bee
           content
           to
           giue
           one
           halfe
           of
           these
           his
           foule
           and
           corrupt
           gaines
           ,
           to
           enioy
           the
           other
           ?
           Knowing
           otherwise
           hee
           shall
           not
           onely
           quite
           loose
           that
           base
           gaine
           ,
           if
           hee
           bee
           called
           to
           account
           for
           it
           ,
           but
           his
           reputation
           and
           life
           also
           ,
           if
           Iustice
           bee
           duely
           executed
           .
           But
           if
           by
           his
           chiefe
           Collonels
           fauour
           ,
           hee
           may
           bee
           paid
           for
           150.
           and
           keepe
           scarce
           60.
           to
           defend
           his
           Ensigne
           ,
           and
           so
           gaine
           a
           thousand
           pounds
           a
           yeare
           cleare
           ,
           to
           giue
           the
           moytie
           yearely
           thereof
           to
           go
           scot-free
           with
           the
           rest
           ,
           and
           escape
           the
           shame
           thereunto
           due
           ,
           hee
           maketh
           a
           verie
           profitable
           bargaine
           if
           such
           dishonest
           lucre
           deserue
           the
           name
           of
           profit
           ,
           which
           course
           of
           gaine
           is
           so
           much
           the
           more
           damnable
           and
           perrilous
           to
           bee
           suffered
           ,
           because
           it
           vtterly
           discourageth
           the
           honest
           valiant
           Captaines
           ,
           and
           enricheth
           
           the
           contrary
           :
           And
           so
           tendeth
           to
           the
           verie
           Ruine
           and
           ouertherthrow
           of
           all
           true
           vertue
           and
           value
           .
        
         
           For
           if
           the
           chiefe
           Commaunder
           bee
           so
           affected
           as
           hee
           will
           bee
           by
           any
           such
           deuice
           to
           supply
           his
           wants
           :
           In
           very
           gratitude
           and
           pollicy
           hee
           must
           most
           countenance
           those
           that
           yeeld
           him
           most
           benefit
           :
           And
           those
           Captaines
           may
           be
           most
           beneficiall
           to
           him
           ,
           that
           (
           by
           keeping
           their
           Bands
           most
           feeble
           )
           doe
           most
           rob
           their
           Prince
           or
           State.
           And
           so
           the
           worst
           persons
           (
           of
           such
           Commaunders
           )
           must
           of
           force
           bee
           most
           fauoured
           and
           countenanced
           .
        
         
           Farther
           these
           Fauorites
           if
           they
           commit
           any
           other
           Extorsions
           on
           their
           Countrimen
           ,
           Friends
           ,
           or
           Allies
           ,
           being
           entered
           into
           such
           a
           League
           with
           their
           Commaunders
           ,
           it
           is
           likely
           they
           may
           finde
           the
           more
           Fauour
           also
           ,
           and
           thereby
           more
           boldly
           by
           all
           deuices
           and
           extortions
           rake-in
           Wealth
           to
           maintaine
           themselues
           ,
           their
           Patrones
           ,
           and
           Followers
           in
           excessiue
           brauerie
           .
        
         
           Whereas
           the
           right
           valiant
           Captaine
           indeed
           ,
           that
           (
           keeping
           his
           Band
           strong
           and
           compleat
           with
           armed
           souldiers
           ,
           gaining
           nothing
           aboue
           his
           bare
           Wages
           ,
           nor
           will
           extort
           vnhonestly
           vpon
           any
           Friend
           or
           Allie
           ,
           and
           his
           wages
           (
           besides
           his
           meat
           and
           Atmes
           )
           scarcely
           sufficient
           twice
           in
           a
           yeare
           to
           buy
           him
           a
           Sute
           of
           Buffe
           )
           Remayneth
           as
           a
           Man
           contemned
           and
           disgraced
           :
           Where
           the
           other
           by
           his
           Robberies
           and
           pickories
           can
           florish
           in
           Monethly
           change
           of
           sutes
           of
           silke
           ,
           dawbed
           with
           Embroderies
           of
           golde
           and
           siluer
           lace
           ,
           and
           Iewels
           also
           :
           And
           so
           countenanced
           by
           such
           Commaunders
           Fauour
           ,
           and
           by
           such
           other
           mightie
           Friends
           as
           his
           spoiles
           may
           procure
           .
           That
           〈…〉
           road
           and
           at
           home
           also
           generally
           this
           picking
           ,
           〈…〉
           rousing
           Freebooter
           shall
           bee
           called
           a
           braue
           〈…〉
           ●●llant
           souldier
           ,
           yea
           Fit
           to
           bee
           a
           Collonell
           or
           great
           ●●●●ander
           that
           can
           drinke
           ,
           and
           dice
           &c
           ,
           with
           the
           proudest
           :
           When
           the
           true
           ,
           valiant
           ,
           honest
           ,
           and
           right
           Martiall
           Captaine
           indeed
           is
           not
           able
           in
           such
           riotous
           Expences
           to
           keep
           port
           with
           the
           others
           waiting
           Seruants
           .
        
         
         
           But
           whether
           these
           silken
           ,
           golden
           ,
           embroydered
           delicate
           Captaines
           (
           with
           their
           demy
           feeble
           Ensignes
           )
           Or
           the
           other
           plaine
           leather
           ,
           well
           armed
           ,
           sober
           ,
           painefull
           ,
           valiant
           Captaines
           (
           with
           their
           compleat
           Ensignes
           of
           armed
           souldiers
           maintained
           as
           their
           companions
           )
           shall
           doo
           their
           Prince
           or
           Countrey
           more
           honour
           at
           a
           day
           of
           Seruice
           ?
           If
           wee
           haue
           not
           yet
           learned
           ,
           wee
           shall
           I
           doubt
           hereafter
           ,
           if
           these
           abuses
           bee
           not
           reformed
           ,
           with
           the
           dishonourable
           losse
           of
           many
           more
           English
           Ensignes
           ,
           than
           all
           the
           Chronicles
           these
           500.
           yeares
           before
           could
           tell
           vs
           of
           ,
           to
           remaine
           for
           an
           vnhonorable
           monument
           of
           these
           our
           errors
           ,
           to
           all
           posteritie
           .
        
         
           For
           I
           haue
           euer
           found
           it
           in
           my
           experience
           a
           Rule
           almost
           infallible
           among
           priuate
           Captaines
           :
           The
           more
           braue
           and
           gallant
           the
           Captaine
           is
           in
           his
           apparrell
           ,
           and
           Wastfull
           in
           Expences
           ,
           the
           more
           poore
           ,
           feeble
           ,
           weake
           and
           miserable
           ye
           shall
           for
           the
           most
           part
           finde
           his
           souldiers
           full
           of
           lice
           many
           times
           ,
           &
           stinking
           for
           want
           of
           a
           shirt
           to
           change
           thē
           ,
           when
           such
           Commaunders
           with
           some
           few
           Fauorites
           are
           ouer
           sweete
           and
           fine
           .
        
         
           And
           then
           is
           it
           any
           Meruaile
           if
           so
           braue
           and
           gallant
           a
           Gentleman
           (
           perfumed
           perhaps
           with
           Muske
           and
           Syuet
           )
           disdain
           to
           haunt
           the
           filthy
           
             Corps
             du
             gardes
          
           of
           ragged
           ,
           lothsome
           ,
           lowsie
           souldiers
           ?
           Or
           is
           it
           any
           meruaile
           then
           ,
           (
           where
           Captains
           giue
           this
           Example
           :
           )
           If
           Lieutenants
           &
           Ensignes
           also
           do
           take
           their
           ease
           ,
           and
           liuing
           in
           like
           delicacy
           ,
           disdaine
           to
           associate
           themselues
           with
           their
           poore
           flocks
           .
        
         
           If
           Townes
           of
           great
           Importance
           haue
           beene
           lost
           by
           the
           cowardize
           of
           some
           one
           
             Corps
             du
             gard
          
           ,
           that
           beastly
           haue
           abandoned
           without
           blowes
           ,
           a
           ground
           of
           such
           aduantage
           as
           was
           defensible
           against
           any
           Royall
           Army
           :
           Onely
           ,
           because
           at
           the
           approach
           therof
           ,
           there
           was
           neither
           Captaine
           ,
           Lieutenant
           nor
           Ensigne
           present
           on
           the
           guard
           ,
           but
           a
           knot
           only
           of
           these
           poore
           Ghosts
           :
           And
           thereby
           dishonorably
           a
           town
           of
           great
           Importance
           lost
           ,
           very
           experiēce
           (
           me
           thinks
           )
           should
           teach
           vs
           rather
           to
           choose
           such
           Captains
           as
           would
           
           so
           apparrell
           themselues
           ,
           and
           regard
           their
           fellow-souldiers
           ,
           as
           they
           should
           not
           disdaine
           their
           company
           ,
           or
           abhorre
           their
           stinke
           .
        
         
           I
           haue
           read
           ,
           that
           a
           worthy
           Generall
           of
           the
           Graecians
           ,
           after
           hee
           had
           with
           a
           small
           Army
           of
           valiant
           ,
           rude
           ,
           plaine
           ,
           sober
           ,
           obedient
           souldiers
           conquered
           ten
           times
           as
           many
           of
           the
           rich
           ,
           silken
           ,
           golden
           ,
           riotous
           perfumed
           Persians
           ,
           abounding
           with
           horses
           and
           chariots
           and
           Armours
           of
           golde
           ,
           because
           (
           quoth
           hee
           )
           the
           Persians
           were
           so
           delicately
           and
           daintily
           bred
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           not
           able
           to
           abide
           the
           sauor
           of
           my
           souldiers
           arme-holes
           .
        
         
           I
           would
           therefore
           wish
           no
           Captaines
           chosen
           but
           such
           as
           should
           contemne
           vtterly
           such
           feminine
           delicacy
           in
           apparrell
           and
           wastfull
           riotous
           expences
           ,
           and
           could
           be
           content
           to
           make
           himselfe
           a
           companion
           of
           his
           fellow
           souldiers
           ,
           and
           think
           his
           honour
           consisted
           (
           not
           in
           gay
           garments
           )
           but
           in
           good
           Armes
           ,
           in
           the
           strength
           of
           his
           band
           ,
           in
           his
           trauels
           ,
           paines
           ,
           watchings
           ,
           and
           aduentures
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           c●rowsing
           or
           perfuming
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           delitious
           ,
           idle
           ,
           or
           rather
           effeminate
           vnmanly
           vanitie
           .
           For
           as
           Marius
           the
           Romane
           Generall
           auerred
           :
           
             Munditias
             mulieribus
             ,
             viris
             laborem
             conuenire
          
           :
           So
           ,
           if
           Souldiers
           and
           Captaines
           would
           contend
           one
           to
           excell
           another
           therein
           ,
           (
           I
           meane
           in
           Military
           labours
           and
           carefull
           aduenterous
           endeauours
           ,
           contemning
           all
           delitious
           pompes
           and
           idle
           ease
           ,
           as
           effeminate
           and
           vnworthy
           their
           professions
           )
           then
           should
           wee
           see
           a
           great
           alteration
           ,
           both
           of
           the
           fortune
           and
           fame
           of
           our
           Nation
           which
           heeretofore
           hath
           euer
           been
           comparable
           with
           the
           best
           and
           most
           renowned
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           onely
           or
           chiefe
           meanes
           to
           bring
           this
           to
           passe
           ,
           is
           ,
           first
           to
           allow
           vnto
           the
           Generall
           and
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           so
           honourable
           and
           conuenient
           Entertainment
           ,
           as
           may
           suffice
           to
           maintaine
           the
           port
           and
           honour
           of
           their
           place
           ,
           without
           practising
           or
           consenting
           to
           any
           corruptions
           ,
           especially
           such
           as
           vtterly
           disgrace
           the
           good
           ,
           and
           enrich
           the
           bad
           ,
           deface
           the
           painfull
           ,
           carefull
           ,
           sober
           ,
           valiant
           
           Captaine
           ,
           and
           aduance
           the
           idle
           ,
           negligent
           ,
           riotous
           coward
           .
           But
           aboue
           all
           things
           to
           haue
           him
           detested
           more
           than
           a
           coward
           ,
           that
           (
           of
           a
           base
           corrupt
           minde
           )
           shall
           seeke
           to
           make
           his
           gaine
           by
           keeping
           his
           band
           feeble
           and
           weake
           ,
           and
           by
           deceipts
           ,
           fraud
           and
           periuries
           at
           Musters
           to
           contriue
           the
           same
           :
           For
           by
           this
           meanes
           hee
           doth
           not
           onely
           rob
           his
           Princes
           treasure
           ,
           but
           is
           also
           guiltie
           of
           the
           bloud
           of
           those
           souldiers
           that
           are
           slaine
           for
           want
           of
           hands
           to
           fight
           when
           the
           honour
           of
           their
           Nation
           comes
           to
           triall
           .
        
         
           As
           all
           true
           Martiall
           Discipline
           therefore
           is
           not
           to
           be
           reuiued
           and
           put
           in
           execution
           among
           our
           Nation
           :
           So
           especially
           that
           part
           which
           concerneth
           this
           mightie
           and
           grosse
           abuse
           (
           aboue
           all
           other
           )
           ought
           most
           seuerely
           to
           bee
           regarded
           .
           And
           to
           the
           end
           Officers
           of
           Musters
           may
           by
           the
           Generall
           or
           chiefe
           Gouernours
           be
           countenanced
           in
           their
           honest
           proceedings
           (
           for
           discouerie
           and
           correction
           of
           such
           abhominable
           frauds
           and
           Robberies
           as
           so
           vsually
           and
           shamelesly
           haue
           beene
           practized
           )
           I
           would
           wish
           their
           owne
           particular
           bands
           (
           where
           they
           haue
           any
           )
           should
           alway
           bee
           allowed
           them
           without
           checke
           ,
           for
           any
           default
           :
           presuming
           in
           honour
           they
           would
           bee
           the
           more
           carefull
           to
           bee
           an
           example
           to
           other
           ,
           when
           they
           shall
           see
           themselues
           by
           their
           Prince
           so
           trusted
           .
           And
           then
           hauing
           lesse
           cause
           (
           in
           respect
           of
           their
           priuate
           profit
           )
           to
           fauour
           any
           such
           deceipt
           in
           others
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           doubt
           ,
           but
           (
           hauing
           also
           honorable
           entertainmēt
           )
           they
           will
           (
           as
           they
           are
           by
           a
           double
           duty
           bound
           )
           honorably
           aduance
           that
           course
           of
           discipline
           which
           shall
           make
           their
           Armies
           victorious
           ,
           themselues
           famous
           ,
           and
           their
           Countrey
           felicious
           ;
           especially
           if
           due
           regard
           bee
           had
           in
           the
           choise
           of
           such
           chiefe
           and
           principall
           Commaunders
           ,
           who
           ought
           indeed
           to
           bee
           honorable
           and
           not
           base
           minded
           persons
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           good
           trees
           are
           not
           iudged
           by
           the
           blossomes
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           fruits
           :
           So
           surely
           are
           men
           rather
           by
           their
           deedes
           than
           by
           shewes
           or
           partial
           Fame
           to
           be
           discerned
           :
           For
           ,
           as
           in
           all
           other
           vocations
           ,
           so
           chiefly
           in
           the
           warres
           by
           common
           
           Fame
           such
           Commaunders
           euer
           shall
           be
           most
           extolled
           of
           their
           Followers
           ,
           as
           most
           content
           their
           humors
           .
           Now
           if
           Captaines
           humors
           in
           this
           age
           of
           corruption
           ,
           be
           for
           the
           greater
           part
           infected
           or
           depraued
           ,
           to
           make
           choise
           yet
           by
           common
           fame
           or
           opinion
           ,
           should
           be
           an
           error
           exceeding
           great
           :
           For
           as
           in
           the
           pestilent
           Feauers
           &
           like
           violent
           diseases
           ,
           the
           Patient
           many
           times
           doth
           farre
           better
           like
           that
           Phisition
           which
           suffereth
           him
           to
           take
           colde
           liquors
           ,
           &
           other
           pleasing
           phancies
           ,
           agreeable
           to
           his
           appetite
           ,
           which
           as
           very
           poysons
           doo
           cause
           his
           death
           ,
           than
           such
           a
           Phisition
           as
           prescribeth
           a
           seuere
           dyet
           ,
           accompanied
           with
           such
           bitter
           Medicines
           as
           only
           is
           able
           to
           saue
           his
           life
           ,
           and
           restore
           his
           health
           and
           strength
           .
           And
           as
           the
           error
           therein
           were
           great
           to
           choose
           a
           Phisition
           after
           such
           sick-mens
           appetites
           :
           so
           surely
           for
           reformation
           of
           these
           Martiall
           diseases
           ,
           the
           error
           were
           no
           lesse
           absurd
           at
           the
           beginning
           ,
           to
           choose
           such
           Generals
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           by
           common
           Fame
           ,
           or
           liking
           of
           most
           Captaines
           .
           But
           after
           Martiall
           discipline
           is
           againe
           in
           some
           good
           measure
           restored
           ,
           &
           that
           Captaines
           begin
           to
           detest
           riotous
           expences
           in
           meate
           ,
           drinke
           ,
           and
           apparell
           (
           as
           effeminate
           delicacie
           )
           and
           contend
           who
           may
           exceede
           other
           in
           labour
           ,
           paines
           ,
           watchings
           ,
           diligence
           ,
           and
           vertuous
           Martiall
           Actions
           ,
           hauing
           a
           right
           taste
           and
           sence
           in
           deede
           of
           true
           honour
           and
           Martiall
           valour
           ,
           and
           wherein
           the
           same
           consisteth
           ,
           and
           by
           some
           conuenient
           continuance
           of
           Exercise
           and
           vse
           made
           the
           same
           not
           greeuous
           but
           familiar
           vnto
           them
           :
           Then
           were
           there
           no
           more
           compotent
           Iudges
           (
           of
           the
           abilitie
           and
           sufficiencie
           of
           a
           Generall
           ,
           )
           than
           such
           ,
           as
           (
           aduenturing
           their
           lyues
           with
           him
           )
           haue
           greatest
           neede
           and
           vse
           thereof
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           that
           famous
           Generall
           and
           
             Censor
             Cato
          
           at
           Rome
           exclamed
           in
           his
           time
           ,
           The
           publique
           had
           neede
           of
           a
           sharpe
           and
           mercilesse
           Phisition
           ,
           and
           a
           violent
           purgation
           :
           And
           that
           therefore
           they
           were
           to
           choose
           (
           not
           such
           Commaunders
           as
           should
           be
           gratefull
           and
           gracious
           ,
           )
           but
           resolute
           and
           seuere
           :
           So
           surely
           much
           more
           in
           this
           time
           and
           state
           
           of
           warres
           haue
           wee
           cause
           to
           proclaime
           such
           choise
           ,
           or
           rather
           great
           Princes
           and
           Magistrates
           to
           haue
           especiall
           care
           and
           regard
           thereof
           .
        
         
           Now
           therefore
           if
           the
           Collonell
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunder
           be
           chosen
           such
           an
           honourable
           person
           ,
           as
           of
           himselfe
           abhorres
           deceipt
           ,
           feare
           God
           ,
           contemne
           gourmandize
           and
           quaffing
           ,
           and
           other
           more
           base
           and
           beastly
           pleasures
           ,
           or
           effeminate
           delicacies
           ,
           by
           the
           example
           of
           many
           worthie
           Romaine
           Generals
           ,
           as
           also
           of
           that
           famous
           victorious
           Lacedemonian
           Generall
           King
           Agesilaus
           ,
           it
           shall
           be
           easie
           for
           him
           (
           hauing
           conuenient
           and
           honourable
           pay
           )
           to
           banish
           these
           Monsters
           out
           of
           his
           Campe
           or
           gouernment
           ,
           as
           vnworthie
           for
           Souldiers
           professing
           Armes
           ,
           &
           fitter
           for
           the
           pompous
           rich
           slaues
           of
           Persia.
           
        
         
           But
           if
           contrariwise
           any
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           be
           persons
           that
           will
           winke
           at
           deceipts
           or
           fraudes
           in
           Musters
           ,
           and
           make
           their
           profit
           (
           as
           infinitely
           they
           may
           thereby
           )
           no
           wonder
           if
           all
           the
           inferiour
           Captaines
           insolently
           put
           the
           same
           in
           execution
           ,
           and
           keepe
           their
           Counsels
           and
           ordinarie
           Consultations
           how
           to
           exploite
           and
           execute
           those
           deceipts
           ,
           and
           by
           all
           vnhonest
           practises
           ,
           slaunders
           ,
           and
           lybels
           ,
           &c
           ,
           to
           disgrace
           any
           Officer
           that
           shall
           oppose
           himselfe
           dutifully
           against
           it
           :
           And
           so
           their
           Bands
           continued
           euer
           feeble
           ,
           weake
           ,
           and
           miserable
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           this
           Coronell
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunder
           be
           a
           person
           that
           hath
           no
           compassion
           on
           the
           poore
           priuate
           Souldiers
           ,
           nor
           care
           to
           preserue
           and
           maintaine
           their
           lyues
           ,
           but
           rather
           (
           respecting
           how
           largely
           he
           may
           make
           his
           gaine
           by
           their
           deaths
           (
           expose
           them
           to
           the
           Butcherie
           ,
           yee
           shall
           presently
           haue
           almost
           all
           the
           Captaines
           regard
           thē
           lesse
           than
           dogges
           .
        
         
           Or
           if
           the
           Collonell
           or
           Generall
           (
           forgetting
           that
           right
           Lacedemonian
           law
           ,
           that
           whosoeuer
           did
           saue
           his
           life
           by
           flight
           in
           the
           field
           ,
           was
           infamous
           euer
           after
           euen
           to
           his
           graue
           )
           doo
           take
           so
           little
           shame
           (
           of
           running
           away
           in
           the
           field
           )
           as
           hee
           will
           haue
           for
           himselfe
           a
           horse
           of
           swift
           cariere
           
           alway
           in
           readinesse
           vpon
           any
           daunger
           to
           take
           his
           leaue
           :
           What
           meruaile
           if
           yee
           haue
           inferiour
           Captaines
           prouided
           for
           the
           like
           ?
           Yea
           many
           times
           Liuetenants
           ,
           and
           Ensignes
           also
           ?
           And
           what
           is
           then
           to
           bee
           expected
           ,
           but
           dishonourable
           flight
           ,
           shame
           and
           confusion
           ,
           whensoeuer
           they
           are
           roundly
           charged
           by
           any
           souldiers
           ?
        
         
           If
           the
           Collonell
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunder
           bee
           a
           man
           ,
           that
           (
           regarding
           wholy
           his
           profit
           )
           will
           winke
           at
           the
           extorsions
           of
           his
           Captaines
           ,
           they
           haue
           reason
           to
           spare
           him
           halfe
           their
           pay
           ,
           or
           all
           their
           Imprestes
           ,
           for
           that
           they
           can
           full
           easily
           (
           from
           the
           Booer
           or
           Burgher
           vnder
           their
           crushing
           )
           extort
           much
           more
           than
           the
           greatest
           pay
           any
           Christian
           King
           yet
           gaue
           ,
           and
           thereby
           so
           enrich
           themselues
           with
           Golde
           and
           Iewels
           ,
           as
           they
           haue
           no
           reason
           any
           more
           to
           hazard
           their
           life
           ,
           but
           to
           prouide
           themselues
           good
           horses
           to
           escape
           away
           with
           their
           wealth
           whēsoeuer
           they
           shal
           be
           charged
           :
           Leauing
           their
           souldiers
           to
           the
           slaughter
           ,
           by
           whose
           deaths
           also
           there
           may
           grow
           a
           good
           Diuidend
           ,
           to
           bee
           shared
           among
           such
           artificial
           Fugitiues
           .
        
         
           If
           Coronels
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           of
           their
           ease
           ,
           pleasure
           or
           priuate
           respects
           holde
           it
           no
           disgrace
           or
           shame
           to
           bee
           absent
           from
           their
           Regiments
           :
           No
           meruaile
           if
           any
           inferiour
           Captains
           bee
           readie
           to
           follow
           such
           discipline
           also
           ,
           and
           consequently
           all
           their
           Fauorites
           and
           persons
           best
           appointed
           .
           And
           then
           what
           meruaile
           if
           the
           silly
           Remnant
           of
           the
           feeble
           flocke
           (
           hauing
           scarcely
           Sheepeheard
           or
           Sheepeheards
           Dogge
           left
           to
           take
           the
           care
           and
           charge
           of
           them
           )
           become
           a
           pray
           to
           the
           Rauening
           Wolfe
           ,
           that
           will
           not
           let
           slip
           so
           good
           an
           opportunitie
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           the
           Coronell
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunder
           himselfe
           be
           such
           a
           one
           as
           takes
           no
           shame
           in
           Field
           to
           saue
           his
           life
           by
           flight
           :
           It
           is
           not
           strange
           that
           Captaines
           vnder
           his
           charge
           should
           imitate
           his
           discipline
           .
           And
           then
           much
           lesse
           reason
           haue
           priuate
           souldiers
           to
           stand
           so
           much
           vpon
           their
           honour
           ,
           or
           rather
           to
           die
           than
           turne
           their
           face
           .
           But
           if
           such
           indeed
           bee
           the
           true
           profession
           of
           a
           souldier
           rather
           to
           die
           
           reasolutely
           in
           his
           ranke
           ,
           than
           turne
           his
           face
           ,
           or
           cowardly
           by
           flight
           to
           saue
           his
           life
           .
           If
           this
           bee
           the
           dutie
           of
           the
           meanest
           and
           most
           priuate
           souldier
           ,
           then
           how
           much
           rather
           is
           the
           Captaine
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           the
           Coronell
           bound
           to
           such
           an
           honorable
           Resolution
           ?
        
         
           If
           in
           the
           most
           honorable
           and
           Martiall
           Nations
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           Such
           cowardize
           in
           a
           priuate
           souldier
           hath
           beene
           noted
           with
           perpetuall
           shame
           ,
           how
           much
           more
           ought
           it
           to
           bee
           detested
           in
           Captaines
           ?
           And
           then
           
             à
             fortiori
          
           in
           their
           Superiors
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           by
           corrupt
           custome
           and
           education
           in
           licentious
           loose
           warres
           ,
           such
           principall
           persons
           bee
           growne
           so
           farre
           past
           Shame
           ,
           as
           not
           onely
           to
           commit
           these
           base
           and
           vnsouldierlike
           errrors
           ,
           but
           also
           (
           that
           most
           miserable
           is
           )
           in
           their
           ordinarie
           Discourses
           and
           banquets
           amids
           their
           Sacrifices
           to
           Bacchus
           at
           open
           Tables
           to
           vaunt
           of
           these
           their
           Stratagems
           ,
           Recounting
           in
           how
           many
           Encounters
           ,
           the
           places
           where
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           fled
           gallantly
           ,
           and
           spurred
           their
           horses
           in
           their
           
             Violent
             Retreits
          
           ,
           who
           might
           runne
           swiftest
           :
           What
           shall
           wee
           say
           but
           that
           such
           degenerate
           shamelesse
           persons
           might
           (
           with
           much
           better
           reason
           )
           vant
           how
           many
           Bastinadoes
           they
           had
           receiued
           brauely
           ?
        
         
           For
           surely
           cowardize
           in
           a
           Man
           (
           especially
           professing
           Armes
           )
           hath
           euer
           beene
           accounted
           the
           foulest
           vice
           :
           As
           Incontinency
           the
           greatest
           dishonestie
           in
           a
           woman
           .
           And
           as
           an
           honest
           woman
           may
           fortune
           by
           violence
           to
           bee
           abused
           ,
           and
           yet
           all
           her
           life
           time
           after
           cannot
           but
           blush
           to
           haue
           it
           spoken
           of
           :
           So
           though
           an
           honest
           man
           (
           I
           meane
           a
           valiant
           man
           in
           the
           Field
           )
           by
           violence
           and
           multitude
           of
           Enemies
           vnhappily
           should
           be
           enforced
           to
           turne
           his
           face
           :
           Yet
           ashamed
           should
           hee
           bee
           euer
           to
           heare
           it
           spoken
           of
           .
           But
           as
           that
           State
           were
           horribly
           wicked
           where
           women
           should
           aduant
           openly
           of
           their
           Incontinency
           :
           So
           ,
           desperate
           is
           their
           disease
           that
           are
           so
           farre
           past
           shame
           to
           aduant
           of
           their
           cowardize
           :
           And
           miserable
           that
           State
           must
           needs
           become
           ,
           where
           such
           impudency
           should
           bee
           tollerable
           
           for
           men
           professing
           Armes
           shamelesly
           to
           vaunt
           of
           their
           fearefull
           flights
           ,
           or
           as
           they
           are
           termed
           in
           their
           new
           Discipline
           ,
           
             Their
             violent
             retraitz
          
           .
        
         
           But
           (
           that
           most
           lamentable
           is
           )
           many
           times
           it
           may
           come
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           these
           impudent
           Runawaies
           being
           escaped
           (
           consorting
           themselues
           )
           shal
           by
           Rumors
           ,
           letters
           ,
           or
           printed
           Pamphlets
           perhaps
           sometimes
           disgrace
           those
           valiant
           men
           that
           resolutely
           died
           in
           the
           place
           ,
           rather
           than
           they
           would
           shame
           themselues
           ,
           and
           dishonour
           their
           countrey
           with
           a
           cowardly
           flight
           .
           And
           then
           such
           Fugitiues
           (
           extolling
           one
           another
           with
           Heroicall
           names
           ,
           hauing
           also
           by
           their
           former
           pikories
           store
           of
           crowns
           to
           purchase
           friends
           ,
           by
           such
           
             Thrasonicall
             Stratagems
          
           )
           of
           the
           ignorant
           multitude
           bee
           counted
           gallant
           souldiers
           ,
           and
           fit
           for
           newe
           imployments
           .
           An
           error
           of
           all
           other
           the
           most
           daungerous
           :
           That
           (
           contrarie
           to
           all
           Martiall
           discipline
           )
           that
           fault
           that
           deserueth
           death
           or
           dishonourable
           disarming
           vnder
           a
           Gallowes
           ,
           should
           bee
           honoured
           with
           new
           imployments
           ,
           or
           greater
           credit
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           the
           disgrace
           of
           a
           few
           Ringleaders
           of
           Runawaies
           and
           other
           corruptions
           would
           wonderfully
           repaire
           the
           honour
           of
           any
           Nation
           :
           So
           the
           tolleration
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           much
           more
           the
           imploying
           of
           them
           again
           in
           new
           charges
           by
           their
           Example
           may
           breed
           effects
           most
           dangerous
           and
           fearefull
           ,
           if
           in
           time
           (
           by
           due
           execution
           of
           right
           Martiall
           discipline
           )
           such
           weeds
           bee
           not
           eradicate
           .
        
         
           The
           Lacedemonians
           (
           by
           due
           obedience
           to
           their
           Martiall
           lawes
           )
           were
           become
           the
           most
           mighty
           and
           puissant
           State
           of
           all
           the
           Graecians
           ,
           which
           then
           for
           Heroical
           prowesse
           surmoūted
           all
           the
           world
           besides
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           multitude
           of
           their
           victories
           on
           the
           Orientall
           Nations
           ,
           and
           Asiaticall
           mightie
           Empires
           is
           apparant
           :
           Whose
           huge
           Armies
           and
           innumerable
           Forces
           they
           vanquished
           in
           a
           number
           of
           Battailes
           with
           a
           very
           few
           ,
           but
           choise
           ,
           painefull
           ,
           sober
           ,
           well
           trained
           and
           disciplined
           Bands
           ,
           being
           accustomed
           from
           their
           infancy
           to
           trauaile
           ,
           paines
           ,
           sobriety
           ,
           and
           hardnes
           .
           And
           by
           
           the
           same
           custome
           and
           education
           learned
           also
           with
           all
           dutie
           to
           obey
           their
           Superiors
           ,
           Reuerence
           the
           Elders
           ,
           and
           to
           feare
           nothing
           but
           shame
           and
           infamie
           :
           And
           of
           all
           infamies
           none
           so
           great
           to
           a
           man
           there
           as
           cowardize
           ,
           being
           by
           their
           verie
           lawes
           noted
           with
           disgrace
           perpetuall
           to
           his
           death
           that
           ran
           away
           from
           his
           Enemies
           in
           the
           field
           ,
           or
           saued
           his
           life
           by
           flight
           :
           Which
           fault
           was
           held
           so
           soule
           and
           base
           ,
           as
           the
           very
           Mothers
           abhorred
           and
           renounced
           them
           ,
           yea
           and
           some
           with
           their
           owne
           hands
           haue
           killed
           such
           of
           their
           sons
           as
           by
           flight
           in
           the
           field
           haue
           saued
           their
           liues
           ,
           as
           Traitors
           to
           their
           countrey
           ,
           and
           dishonorable
           to
           their
           parentes
           :
           Yea
           they
           were
           disgraded
           from
           all
           honour
           and
           imployment
           ,
           marked
           by
           shauing
           of
           halfe
           their
           heades
           and
           beards
           ,
           derided
           and
           disdained
           of
           all
           their
           countrimen
           ,
           and
           lawfull
           for
           all
           men
           to
           abuse
           and
           beat
           them
           as
           seruiceable
           Slaues
           .
           These
           were
           the
           shames
           ordained
           for
           Fugitiues
           in
           those
           warlike
           Nations
           .
           Whereupon
           a
           King
           of
           theirs
           being
           demanded
           how
           it
           came
           to
           passe
           that
           the
           Lacedemonians
           so
           farre
           excelled
           all
           others
           in
           prowesse
           and
           armes
           ?
           Because
           (
           quoth
           he
           )
           they
           are
           taught
           from
           their
           infancy
           not
           to
           feare
           death
           ,
           but
           shame
           .
           As
           Marius
           also
           that
           famous
           Romane
           Generall
           said
           of
           himselfe
           ,
           hee
           had
           learned
           to
           feare
           nothing
           but
           Infamy
           .
           They
           therefore
           that
           by
           education
           in
           lawlesse
           warres
           grow
           so
           impudent
           as
           to
           vant
           of
           their
           foiles
           and
           flights
           (
           which
           by
           true
           Martiall
           lawes
           ,
           especially
           in
           leaders
           and
           Commanders
           should
           bee
           noted
           and
           punished
           with
           perpetuall
           shame
           )
           are
           so
           farre
           of
           frō
           true
           Souldiery
           ,
           and
           Martial
           honor
           as
           they
           are
           fitter
           (
           like
           most
           dangerous
           contagious
           sheep
           )
           to
           be
           expelled
           &
           seuered
           in
           time
           ,
           lest
           they
           infect
           with
           their
           leprosy
           the
           whole
           troup
           &
           Military
           flock
           :
           howsoeuer
           the
           corruptiōs
           of
           this
           age
           &
           ignorāce
           of
           the
           dāgers
           that
           ensue
           by
           contēpt
           of
           true
           Martial
           honor
           may
           excuse
           or
           delay
           their
           due
           punishmēt
           or
           shame
           for
           a
           time
           .
           For
           if
           a
           chief
           Commander
           shal
           neither
           blush
           to
           saue
           himself
           by
           flight
           ,
           nor
           corruptly
           to
           make
           his
           gain
           by
           the
           death
           
           of
           his
           poore
           Souldiers
           through
           Frauds
           ,
           periury
           ,
           and
           deceipt
           in
           Musters
           :
           his
           readiest
           plot
           to
           grow
           rich
           and
           puissant
           is
           ,
           presently
           so
           soone
           as
           hee
           can
           finger
           his
           souldiers
           pay
           ,
           or
           Princes
           Treasure
           ,
           To
           deuise
           some
           desperate
           vnfeasible
           Seruice
           ,
           where
           he
           may
           bring
           his
           Fantery
           to
           haue
           their
           throats
           cut
           ,
           and
           then
           hauing
           choise
           horses
           to
           saue
           himselfe
           by
           flight
           ,
           and
           his
           confederate
           Fauorites
           with
           the
           pay
           of
           the
           dead
           ,
           they
           may
           banquet
           and
           riot
           their
           fill
           ,
           and
           haue
           so
           great
           Masses
           of
           Treasure
           to
           make
           friends
           ,
           as
           none
           of
           these
           Tragedies
           can
           come
           to
           vnripping
           ,
           if
           once
           it
           bee
           perswaded
           lawfull
           or
           intollerable
           for
           a
           Generall
           or
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           to
           saue
           themselues
           by
           flight
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           tollaration
           thereof
           and
           of
           these
           Fraudes
           and
           abuses
           in
           Musters
           ,
           and
           the
           immeasurable
           sweete
           gaines
           that
           bad
           consciences
           see
           they
           may
           make
           thereby
           (
           if
           they
           can
           also
           shake
           of
           shame
           ,
           and
           extinguish
           true
           Martiall
           discipline
           )
           is
           the
           chiefest
           ●●
           use
           of
           all
           base
           and
           dishonorable
           corruptions
           ,
           and
           will
           still
           encrease
           such
           impudency
           and
           insolency
           as
           corrupt
           persons
           by
           sufferance
           will
           grow
           vnto
           :
           Which
           ought
           so
           much
           the
           more
           seuerely
           and
           speedily
           with
           the
           sword
           of
           Iustice
           and
           true
           
             Militarie
             Lawes
          
           in
           time
           to
           bee
           corrected
           ,
           as
           the
           continuance
           doth
           make
           the
           disease
           more
           desperate
           and
           perrilous
           to
           their
           State
           ,
           and
           more
           hard
           to
           bee
           recured
           ,
           when
           wealthie
           wickednes
           thereby
           getteth
           such
           authoritie
           and
           purchaseth
           such
           parties
           ,
           as
           after
           by
           Iustice
           shall
           hardly
           bee
           suppressed
           ,
           vnlesse
           the
           
             Souereigne
             Maiestie
          
           or
           Ephores
           of
           the
           State
           in
           time
           I
           say
           minister
           the
           bitter
           Medicine
           ,
           that
           onely
           must
           cure
           this
           pestilent
           and
           contagious
           sicknesse
           .
        
         
           For
           if
           Demetria
           of
           Sparta
           with
           her
           owne
           hands
           killed
           (
           for
           cowardize
           )
           her
           sonne
           Demetrien
           as
           a
           degenerate
           Monster
           not
           worthy
           to
           bee
           called
           a
           Lacedemonian
           or
           to
           walk
           on
           the
           earth
           ,
           being
           (
           as
           she
           said
           )
           a
           monument
           dishonourable
           to
           his
           countrey
           and
           parents
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           done
           by
           diuers
           other
           Ladies
           and
           worthy
           Women
           of
           that
           State
           to
           their
           owne
           children
           ,
           for
           abandoning
           onely
           of
           their
           
           Ranke
           ,
           to
           saue
           their
           liues
           when
           they
           were
           forced
           with
           violence
           and
           Multitudes
           of
           their
           Enemies
           :
           What
           could
           these
           woorthy
           women
           haue
           done
           to
           such
           sonnes
           as
           premeditately
           before
           hand
           prouided
           them
           horses
           of
           swift
           carrier
           to
           saue
           themselues
           ,
           so
           soone
           as
           they
           shall
           finde
           any
           danger
           growing
           .
           Or
           if
           this
           fault
           of
           Flying
           or
           abandoning
           their
           Rank
           only
           hath
           beene
           in
           a
           priuate
           souldier
           so
           abhorred
           ,
           as
           his
           owne
           Mother
           hath
           executed
           Martiall
           Iustice
           vpon
           him
           ,
           with
           detestation
           of
           his
           cowardize
           as
           vnworthie
           to
           drinke
           of
           the
           Riuer
           Eurotas
           ,
           or
           to
           beare
           the
           name
           of
           a
           Lacedemonian
           :
           How
           much
           more
           is
           the
           same
           to
           bee
           detested
           in
           a
           Commaunder
           ,
           On
           whose
           error
           or
           cowardize
           the
           liues
           of
           so
           many
           as
           are
           vnder
           his
           charge
           dependeth
           ,
           besides
           the
           dishonour
           of
           his
           Nation
           ?
        
         
           Or
           if
           that
           fault
           could
           receiue
           in
           that
           Martiall
           Nation
           no
           excuse
           ,
           though
           they
           were
           enforced
           therto
           by
           the
           violence
           and
           Multitude
           of
           their
           enemies
           :
           How
           much
           more
           abhominable
           is
           it
           in
           them
           that
           of
           purpose
           before
           hand
           are
           prouided
           of
           their
           meanes
           to
           runne
           away
           and
           abandon
           those
           for
           whose
           safetie
           it
           were
           their
           duty
           to
           sacrifice
           their
           liues
           ?
           And
           by
           leauing
           their
           souldiers
           to
           the
           butchery
           ,
           to
           make
           their
           excessiue
           gaines
           by
           the
           payes
           of
           the
           dead
           and
           Robberie
           of
           their
           Prince
           and
           Countrey
           .
           If
           so
           many
           woorthie
           Generals
           both
           Greekes
           and
           Romanes
           (
           that
           full
           easily
           at
           sundry
           battailes
           might
           haue
           escaped
           and
           saued
           their
           owne
           liues
           )
           haue
           refused
           vtterly
           both
           horses
           and
           all
           other
           meanes
           offered
           them
           to
           saue
           themselues
           ,
           and
           chosen
           rather
           (
           when
           all
           hope
           was
           past
           )
           to
           sacrifice
           their
           liues
           among
           their
           troupes
           ,
           than
           to
           returne
           to
           yeeld
           a
           dishonorable
           account
           of
           the
           blood
           of
           their
           souldiers
           :
           How
           much
           more
           should
           wee
           abhorre
           such
           as
           not
           onely
           commit
           these
           base
           errors
           ,
           but
           impudently
           also
           are
           not
           ashamed
           to
           make
           their
           vauntes
           thereof
           ?
        
         
           If
           
             Manlius
             Torquatus
          
           when
           his
           sonne
           was
           challenged
           by
           a
           chiefe
           Commaunder
           on
           the
           contrary
           side
           ,
           (
           onely
           
           because
           without
           leaue
           he
           did
           accept
           the
           particular
           Combate
           ,
           although
           hee
           had
           the
           Victorie
           ,
           and
           strake
           of
           his
           Enemies
           head
           in
           sight
           of
           both
           Armies
           )
           would
           neuerthelesse
           haue
           executed
           the
           Martiall
           law
           vpon
           his
           valiant
           Son
           (
           Onely
           )
           because
           he
           brake
           one
           point
           of
           Martial
           discipline
           :
           What
           reward
           doo
           wee
           thinke
           this
           Generall
           would
           haue
           bestowed
           on
           one
           of
           our
           shamelesse
           Fugitiues
           ?
        
         
           If
           this
           famous
           Generall
           so
           highly
           respected
           the
           honor
           and
           safety
           of
           his
           countrey
           ,
           as
           hee
           resolued
           to
           execute
           the
           lawes
           Martiall
           of
           this
           his
           onely
           and
           most
           valiant
           sonne
           :
           Not
           for
           any
           cowardize
           or
           corruption
           ,
           but
           onely
           for
           want
           of
           due
           obedience
           (
           in
           accepting
           without
           leaue
           the
           Combate
           )
           choosing
           rather
           to
           depriue
           himselfe
           of
           his
           onely
           sonne
           and
           incomparable
           Iewell
           ,
           than
           the
           Martiall
           discipline
           of
           his
           countrey
           should
           in
           the
           least
           point
           bee
           corrupted
           .
           How
           much
           more
           hath
           the
           sacred
           Maiestie
           of
           a
           Prince
           and
           honourable
           Ephores
           of
           any
           State
           cause
           with
           seueritie
           in
           time
           to
           see
           due
           execution
           of
           Martiall
           Iustice
           on
           such
           (
           as
           not
           mooued
           by
           Magnanimitie
           or
           hautie
           courage
           ,
           but
           contrariwise
           of
           a
           corrupt
           custome
           and
           base
           minde
           ,
           for
           lucre
           ,
           pleasure
           ,
           or
           ryot
           onely
           )
           commit
           (
           premeditately
           )
           not
           one
           but
           many
           of
           those
           grosse
           and
           shamfull
           abuses
           and
           breaches
           of
           true
           Martiall
           discipline
           :
           That
           in
           those
           daies
           and
           States
           the
           most
           inferiour
           souldier
           of
           an
           Armie
           for
           feare
           of
           perpetuall
           shame
           would
           not
           :
           Faults
           I
           say
           so
           farre
           surmounting
           this
           error
           of
           the
           worthy
           Manlius
           sonne
           ,
           as
           the
           foulest
           leprosie
           or
           pestilent
           Feuer
           doth
           the
           Ephimeris
           Ague
           ,
           Tending
           indeed
           not
           onely
           to
           the
           robbing
           of
           their
           Prince
           and
           publique
           Treasure
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           spoyle
           and
           betraying
           of
           their
           fellow
           souldiers
           (
           Men
           many
           times
           of
           better
           valour
           and
           woorth
           farre
           than
           such
           Leaders
           or
           superiour
           Commaunders
           )
           but
           also
           to
           the
           vtter
           ouerthrowe
           of
           all
           true
           Martiall
           valour
           ,
           and
           dishonour
           perpetuall
           of
           their
           Nation
           ,
           and
           smally
           tending
           to
           the
           vtter
           ruine
           of
           their
           Prince
           and
           Countrey
           .
        
         
         
           But
           to
           passe
           ouer
           infinite
           honorable
           Praecedents
           of
           Antiquitie
           ,
           to
           returne
           againe
           to
           our
           owne
           Age
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           That
           euen
           by
           experience
           of
           the
           warres
           ,
           and
           Nations
           of
           our
           owne
           time
           it
           is
           manifest
           ,
           that
           these
           abuses
           and
           corruptions
           haue
           beene
           the
           verie
           ruine
           of
           the
           Realmes
           and
           States
           where
           they
           haue
           beene
           practized
           ,
           as
           in
           time
           they
           will
           be
           also
           of
           all
           other
           that
           shall
           admit
           the
           continuance
           of
           them
           .
           And
           first
           for
           France
           that
           woorthy
           souldier
           Mounsier
           
             de
             la
             Nôe
          
           in
           the
           Military
           Discourses
           plainely
           sheweth
           ,
           how
           with
           these
           ciuill
           warres
           these
           corruptions
           there
           began
           ,
           and
           by
           what
           vnlawful
           Generation
           Mistresse
           Picorea
           was
           at
           Boygenye
           first
           begotten
           ,
           which
           bastard
           in
           short
           time
           had
           such
           a
           Multitude
           of
           Seruants
           both
           in
           France
           ,
           and
           after
           in
           the
           Low-Countries
           ,
           as
           they
           created
           their
           mistresse
           a
           Ladie
           :
           And
           that
           mightie
           Ladie
           Madam
           Picorea
           hath
           now
           so
           many
           braue
           seruants
           ,
           (
           not
           onely
           among
           the
           French
           and
           Dutch
           ,
           but
           of
           other
           Nations
           also
           )
           as
           it
           is
           to
           bee
           feared
           they
           will
           make
           her
           a
           Queene
           ,
           to
           the
           Ruine
           of
           all
           
             Kings
             ,
             Queenes
          
           and
           Realmes
           that
           shall
           endure
           her
           ,
           and
           not
           suppresse
           in
           time
           both
           her
           ,
           and
           her
           shamelesse
           presumptuous
           ,
           lewde
           ,
           licentious
           seruants
           .
        
         
           What
           extreeme
           misery
           they
           haue
           within
           these
           thirtie
           yeares
           reduced
           all
           France
           vnto
           ,
           wee
           see
           :
           What
           desolation
           in
           
             Flaunders
             ,
             Brabant
          
           ,
           and
           other
           base
           countrey
           Prouinces
           ,
           by
           the
           Ruines
           remaining
           ,
           is
           manifest
           .
           Shal
           wee
           suffer
           her
           and
           her
           followers
           also
           in
           our
           Nation
           ,
           to
           see
           what
           they
           can
           likewise
           doo
           of
           
             England
             ?
             Absit
             omen
          
           .
           But
           the
           French
           Prouerbe
           saith
           most
           truly
           ;
        
         
           
             Qui
             par
             son
             peril
             est
             Sage
             celuy
             ,
             est
             Sage
             malhereux
          
           :
           And
           ,
           
             Foelix
             quem
             faciunt
             aliena
             pericula
             cautum
             .
          
        
         
           He
           telleth
           of
           an
           honorable
           Executiō
           done
           by
           that
           worthy
           souldier
           the
           Armirall
           of
           France
           in
           hanging
           vp
           a
           Captaine
           &
           5
           or
           6
           other
           chief
           seruāts
           of
           this
           basterdly
           lady
           Picorea
           adoring
           their
           gallows
           with
           their
           booties
           ,
           which
           honorable
           
           souldier
           (
           Shattillion
           I
           meane
           )
           he
           commendeth
           highly
           to
           haue
           beene
           a
           most
           fit
           and
           meete
           Phisition
           to
           cure
           this
           Maladie
           :
           For
           hee
           was
           (
           saith
           
             La
             Nòe
          
           )
           seuere
           and
           violent
           ,
           neither
           could
           any
           Fauour
           or
           vaine
           friuolous
           excuses
           take
           place
           with
           him
           if
           the
           partie
           were
           faultie
           :
           Which
           is
           indeed
           the
           onely
           way
           to
           cure
           it
           ,
           For
           it
           is
           most
           fond
           and
           vaine
           to
           imagine
           that
           eyther
           by
           verball
           perswasions
           ,
           or
           printed
           Lawes
           or
           proclamations
           it
           is
           possible
           to
           cure
           this
           fore
           ,
           but
           with
           armed
           Iustice
           some
           of
           the
           Ring-leaders
           must
           be
           seized
           and
           roughly
           chastized
           ,
           to
           bring
           a
           terror
           vpon
           the
           rest
           .
           For
           if
           these
           mischiefes
           (
           saith
           that
           woorthy
           Souldier
           )
           were
           like
           to
           other
           crimes
           ,
           where
           men
           (
           condemned
           by
           publique
           Sentence
           )
           are
           quietly
           content
           to
           bee
           led
           by
           the
           Executioner
           to
           receiue
           their
           due
           ,
           they
           might
           full
           soone
           bee
           banished
           .
           But
           they
           fare
           more
           like
           a
           rough
           and
           restife
           horse
           ,
           that
           (
           being
           touched
           with
           his
           Riders
           spurre
           )
           lasheth
           ,
           yerketh
           ,
           and
           biteth
           ,
           and
           therefore
           such
           a
           Iade
           must
           roughly
           and
           rigorously
           bee
           corrected
           and
           made
           to
           know
           his
           fault
           :
           For
           if
           ye
           spare
           him
           or
           seeme
           to
           feare
           him
           ,
           hee
           will
           sure
           vnhorse
           you
           ,
           for
           generally
           these
           Militarie
           vices
           are
           presumptuous
           .
           And
           if
           they
           smel
           you
           feare
           them
           they
           will
           braue
           you
           :
           But
           giue
           them
           the
           terror
           of
           Lawes
           ,
           and
           their
           due
           punishments
           seuerely
           ,
           and
           so
           shall
           you
           cure
           their
           maladie
           .
           For
           most
           mercifull
           is
           that
           rigour
           ,
           that
           (
           by
           dispatch
           of
           foure
           or
           fiue
           )
           many
           saue
           the
           liues
           of
           so
           many
           hundreds
           ,
           or
           rather
           thousands
           ,
           and
           recure
           such
           a
           pestilent
           contagion
           as
           is
           able
           in
           time
           to
           subuert
           the
           most
           mightie
           Realmes
           and
           Monarchies
           .
           When
           yron
           is
           fouly
           kankored
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           inough
           to
           annoint
           it
           with
           oyle
           ,
           but
           it
           must
           bee
           roughly
           and
           forcibly
           scoured
           and
           polished
           ,
           to
           make
           it
           returne
           to
           his
           perfect
           brightnes
           .
           And
           if
           in
           Pleuresies
           and
           other
           like
           corrupt
           exulcerations
           wee
           haue
           no
           remedie
           but
           to
           open
           a
           veine
           ,
           and
           content
           our selues
           to
           part
           with
           many
           drops
           of
           our
           blood
           to
           saue
           the
           whole
           bodie
           from
           destruction
           :
           So
           must
           we
           be
           content
           (
           though
           it
           were
           with
           the
           losse
           of
           many
           such
           corrupt
           persons
           )
           to
           
           recure
           our
           Militarie
           bodie
           from
           vtter
           confusion
           :
           Seeing
           thereupon
           dependeth
           the
           health
           or
           ruine
           also
           of
           the
           whole
           politique
           body
           of
           the
           Realme
           :
           For
           the
           French
           haue
           a
           true
           Prouerbe
           .
        
         
           
             Le
             Medicin
             piteux
             fait
             vne
             mortelle
             plaie
          
        
         
           And
           most
           wisely
           the
           Poet.
           
        
         
           
             Obsta
             principijs
             ,
             serò
             Medicinaparatur
             ,
          
           
             Cum
             mala
             per
             longas
             inualuêre
             moras
             .
          
        
         
           As
           France
           and
           Flanders
           both
           our
           next
           Neighbours
           by
           their
           calamities
           may
           teach
           vs
           ,
           where
           no
           kinde
           of
           abuse
           or
           corruptions
           haue
           beene
           practized
           :
           Their
           Bands
           not
           40.
           for
           100.
           strong
           .
           Which
           kinde
           of
           Picoree
           Mounsier
           
             de
             la
             Nôe
          
           termeth
           
             Desrober
             enfalquin
             non
             pas
             engentilz
             homes
          
           :
           But
           of
           gentlemen
           all
           piciories
           ought
           indeed
           to
           be
           detested
           ,
           as
           fitter
           for
           base
           minded
           slaues
           ,
           than
           honouable
           free
           minded
           souldiers
           .
           But
           for
           other
           extortions
           and
           Robberies
           vpon
           the
           poore
           Payzants
           ,
           Booers
           ,
           or
           husbandmen
           ,
           it
           were
           as
           hard
           to
           name
           any
           one
           kinde
           that
           hath
           beene
           omitted
           ,
           as
           to
           recite
           particularly
           euery
           sort
           that
           hath
           bene
           executed
           by
           these
           insatiable
           cormorants
           ,
           whose
           maw
           is
           neuer
           full
           though
           their
           gourmandize
           be
           infinite
           ,
           besides
           the
           defacing
           of
           so
           many
           goodly
           Churches
           and
           stately
           Pallaces
           in
           the
           countrey
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           Remnants
           of
           their
           Ruines
           is
           to
           bee
           seene
           ,
           and
           the
           Ransacking
           of
           Villages
           ,
           Castles
           ,
           Townes
           and
           Cities
           ,
           and
           infinite
           outrages
           otherwise
           committed
           in
           all
           places
           where
           this
           misbegotten
           Ladies
           seruants
           or
           filching
           followers
           could
           lay
           their
           gracelesse
           hands
           .
           But
           seeing
           the
           first
           pretext
           and
           colour
           they
           had
           in
           France
           to
           engender
           this
           monster
           ,
           and
           since
           in
           the
           base
           countries
           to
           foster
           her
           ,
           was
           by
           reason
           of
           want
           onely
           of
           conuenient
           pay
           :
           Which
           enforced
           euen
           the
           most
           famous
           Generals
           of
           our
           time
           (
           I
           meane
           the
           Prince
           of
           Condee
           ,
           and
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           )
           at
           the
           first
           to
           tollerate
           these
           cankers
           ,
           which
           after
           wrought
           the
           very
           Ruine
           ,
           of
           those
           
           States
           .
           It
           is
           a
           singuler
           warning
           to
           King
           and
           Princes
           that
           haue
           Realmes
           to
           commaund
           ,
           that
           not
           yet
           so
           farre
           corrupted
           ,
           and
           able
           to
           yeelde
           maintenance
           for
           honest
           and
           right
           Martiall
           souldiers
           ,
           by
           no
           meanes
           (
           for
           want
           of
           conuenient
           wages
           ,
           stipend
           ,
           and
           pay
           )
           to
           giue
           any
           colour
           or
           excuse
           to
           this
           degenerate
           bastardly
           kinde
           of
           Seruitors
           ,
           or
           rather
           Pickers
           ,
           to
           excuse
           their
           corrupt
           Artes
           ,
           or
           Diuellish
           craftes
           and
           abuses
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           their
           Subiects
           of
           all
           degrees
           rather
           to
           giue
           double
           and
           treble
           Subsidies
           yearely
           to
           continue
           an
           honourable
           pay
           ,
           for
           maintenance
           of
           sober
           ,
           valiant
           ,
           painefull
           ,
           honest
           ,
           obedient
           souldiers
           in
           true
           Martiall
           discipline
           ,
           than
           to
           become
           a
           praye
           to
           these
           mercilesse
           carrowsing
           ,
           degenerate
           insatiable
           monsters
           .
           And
           it
           is
           to
           bee
           hoped
           the
           present
           King
           of
           Fraunce
           (
           if
           God
           blesse
           him
           with
           any
           obedience
           of
           his
           Subiects
           (
           as
           were
           to
           bee
           wished
           ,
           and
           his
           constancie
           in
           Religion
           ,
           and
           other
           Heroicall
           vertues
           meriteth
           )
           will
           no
           doubt
           by
           all
           due
           meanes
           in
           his
           Territories
           endeuour
           to
           procure
           a
           Reformation
           of
           these
           horrible
           disorders
           ,
           which
           is
           yet
           vtterly
           impossible
           for
           him
           to
           redresse
           ,
           being
           in
           that
           state
           ,
           by
           long
           continuance
           growne
           to
           a
           most
           difficile
           and
           hard
           cure
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           the
           Estates
           of
           the
           vnited
           Prouinces
           (
           by
           meanes
           of
           such
           bad
           pay
           and
           collections
           of
           corruptions
           in
           their
           Martiall
           or
           rather
           mercenarie
           Commaunders
           )
           did
           also
           for
           many
           yeares
           together
           continually
           lose
           by
           peacemeale
           a
           number
           of
           strong
           Fortes
           ,
           Towers
           ,
           and
           Prouinces
           in
           their
           possessions
           ,
           being
           driuen
           almost
           on
           euery
           side
           downe
           into
           their
           Marches
           where
           they
           were
           enforced
           to
           implore
           her
           Maiesties
           present
           ayde
           to
           escape
           their
           impendent
           ruine
           :
           So
           ,
           hauing
           of
           late
           (
           by
           honourable
           Example
           of
           her
           Maiesties
           Bands
           )
           well
           reformed
           that
           their
           base
           kinde
           of
           pay
           ,
           and
           in
           part
           thereby
           also
           their
           other
           abuses
           (
           which
           of
           late
           yeares
           hath
           crept
           in
           among
           their
           Enemies
           )
           
           haue
           beene
           able
           to
           make
           head
           and
           recouer
           againe
           ,
           many
           of
           those
           important
           places
           that
           before
           they
           lost
           :
           Repayring
           thereby
           somewhat
           the
           fault
           of
           their
           former
           Errors
           .
        
         
           Yet
           when
           I
           perswade
           to
           giue
           vnto
           all
           Colonels
           and
           such
           like
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           such
           Entertainment
           as
           may
           suffice
           them
           contentedly
           to
           liue
           ,
           without
           seeking
           so
           much
           as
           (
           by
           tolleration
           or
           suffering
           of
           Frauds
           to
           enrich
           themselues
           ,
           or
           to
           supply
           their
           wants
           .
           It
           is
           no
           part
           of
           my
           meaning
           to
           haue
           Collonels
           so
           commune
           ,
           or
           such
           multitude
           of
           needlesse
           Officers
           ,
           as
           in
           disorderly
           warres
           hath
           beene
           accustomed
           .
           For
           one
           Collonell
           or
           
             Maestro
             del
             Campo
          
           may
           very
           well
           suffice
           for
           three
           or
           foure
           thousand
           men
           ,
           and
           the
           contrarie
           is
           but
           an
           abuse
           and
           embasing
           of
           that
           name
           which
           should
           not
           bee
           bestowed
           but
           on
           olde
           souldiers
           of
           iudgement
           and
           experience
           ,
           able
           to
           discharge
           a
           place
           of
           that
           importance
           .
           And
           this
           Officer
           hauing
           (
           for
           himselfe
           ,
           his
           Martiall
           ,
           his
           
             Serieant
             Maior
          
           ,
           and
           other
           necessary
           chiefe
           Officers
           of
           his
           Regiment
           )
           conuenient
           allowance
           to
           maintaine
           on
           honourable
           Table
           ,
           the
           inferiour
           priuate
           Captaines
           may
           and
           ought
           to
           content
           themselues
           with
           meaner
           port
           till
           (
           by
           vertue
           and
           desert
           )
           they
           bee
           aduaunced
           to
           higher
           place
           :
           And
           (
           abhorring
           all
           vanitie
           in
           apparrell
           ,
           and
           wastefull
           expences
           in
           baser
           appetites
           )
           endeuour
           themselues
           by
           trauell
           ,
           care
           ,
           good
           Armes
           ,
           and
           trayning
           of
           their
           companies
           (
           in
           right
           Martiall
           exercises
           and
           exploits
           in
           the
           Field
           vpon
           their
           Enemies
           )
           to
           make
           their
           value
           knowne
           ,
           and
           by
           such
           Aemulation
           one
           to
           excell
           another
           ,
           whereby
           they
           may
           bee
           chosen
           and
           aduanced
           to
           higher
           offices
           :
           The
           priuate
           Captaines
           place
           being
           indeede
           but
           the
           first
           steppe
           toward
           Martiall
           honour
           :
           And
           therefore
           not
           to
           bee
           accompanied
           with
           such
           pompe
           ,
           as
           now
           is
           too
           too
           vsuall
           .
        
         
           It
           may
           perhaps
           be
           replied
           .
           So
           long
           as
           men
           are
           content
           to
           accept
           these
           glorious
           names
           only
           (
           without
           any
           charge
           to
           
           their
           Princes
           purses
           ,
           or
           crauing
           any
           encrease
           of
           pay
           )
           it
           is
           a
           small
           matter
           to
           content
           phantasies
           with
           Feathers
           .
        
         
           I
           answere
           ,
           it
           it
           a
           matter
           of
           farre
           greater
           consequence
           than
           is
           conceiued
           :
           For
           ,
           first
           it
           embaseth
           those
           degrees
           of
           honor
           which
           chiefly
           should
           allure
           right
           Martiall
           mindes
           ,
           and
           makes
           them
           seeme
           vile
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           so
           common
           as
           they
           fall
           to
           the
           the
           lot
           of
           persons
           vnworthy
           such
           degree
           ,
           and
           so
           grow
           in
           contempt
           ;
           and
           not
           affected
           after
           by
           the
           true
           honourable
           mindes
           :
           Besides
           wanting
           maintenance
           for
           the
           due
           port
           of
           that
           place
           ,
           they
           are
           enforced
           to
           bee
           patrons
           to
           all
           or
           many
           of
           those
           disorders
           and
           abuses
           before
           mentioned
           ,
           vnlesse
           they
           would
           choose
           to
           vndoo
           themselues
           and
           friends
           to
           maintaine
           it
           otherwise
           ,
           which
           fewe
           I
           thinke
           now
           a
           daies
           vse
           to
           doo
           .
        
         
           Farther
           hauing
           once
           taken
           a
           greater
           name
           ,
           they
           disdain
           euer
           after
           to
           serue
           in
           any
           inferiour
           calling
           ,
           fitter
           indeede
           for
           their
           Experience
           :
           And
           so
           become
           persons
           altogether
           vnprofitable
           ,
           and
           to
           maintaine
           those
           glorious
           names
           enforced
           (
           by
           shift
           of
           braine
           )
           to
           trie
           conclusions
           :
           And
           so
           by
           all
           these
           meanes
           the
           cause
           of
           greater
           inconueniences
           .
        
         
           I
           conclude
           therefore
           by
           all
           these
           reasons
           before
           alleaged
           ,
           and
           the
           successe
           of
           plaine
           experience
           also
           (
           both
           of
           old
           time
           ,
           and
           in
           our
           owne
           age
           )
           that
           as
           it
           is
           more
           honourable
           for
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           most
           necessary
           for
           the
           aduancement
           of
           the
           Seruice
           ,
           to
           haue
           all
           chiefe
           needefull
           Commaunders
           to
           haue
           such
           compleat
           Entertainment
           ,
           as
           they
           may
           (
           without
           extortion
           or
           corruption
           in
           themselues
           ,
           or
           alteration
           of
           abuses
           in
           others
           )
           maintaine
           their
           place
           with
           Reputation
           ,
           and
           execute
           Martiall
           discipline
           with
           seuerity
           .
           So
           discharging
           their
           duties
           honorably
           and
           honestly
           they
           shal
           saue
           at
           least
           one
           third
           part
           of
           the
           royal
           or
           publike
           Treasure
           ,
           and
           yet
           the
           forces
           (
           though
           not
           in
           shew
           of
           Ensignes
           to
           scare
           Dawes
           )
           yet
           in
           armed
           hands
           to
           conquer
           Enemies
           farre
           more
           strong
           and
           puissant
           than
           those
           multitudes
           of
           colors
           farced
           with
           Freebooters
           or
           other
           seely
           vnarmed
           Ghosts
           or
           disordered
           Mutinous
           persons
           ,
           
           that
           by
           licentious
           education
           will
           scarcely
           endure
           the
           paines
           of
           Watch
           and
           Ward
           ,
           or
           abide
           the
           due
           execution
           of
           any
           true
           Martiall
           discipline
           .
           And
           as
           these
           superiour
           Gouernours
           and
           Commaunders
           (
           doing
           their
           duties
           )
           are
           worthie
           of
           all
           reputation
           ,
           credite
           ,
           aduauncement
           ,
           and
           honour
           :
           So
           contrariwise
           ,
           after
           they
           haue
           conuenient
           entertainment
           ,
           if
           they
           shall
           be
           found
           the
           Patrones
           or
           Pandars
           to
           such
           corruptions
           and
           abuses
           as
           tend
           to
           the
           ruine
           of
           all
           true
           discipline
           Militare
           ,
           I
           would
           wish
           them
           disgraded
           ,
           and
           with
           all
           shame
           disarmed
           as
           vncapable
           euer
           after
           to
           their
           graue
           ,
           of
           any
           true
           Martiall
           honour
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           proofe
           of
           this
           Proposition
           in
           all
           the
           chiefe
           officers
           also
           of
           an
           Armie
           ,
           for
           a
           taste
           of
           the
           rest
           hauing
           chosen
           to
           treate
           of
           the
           
             Martiall
             Censor
          
           ,
           or
           generall
           Comptroler
           of
           Musters
           .
        
         
           I
           say
           there
           are
           of
           this
           kinde
           of
           Officers
           (
           as
           likewise
           of
           all
           others
           )
           two
           sorts
           :
           The
           one
           ,
           honest
           ,
           iust
           ,
           fearing
           God
           ,
           &
           respecting
           the
           honour
           ,
           commoditie
           ,
           and
           aduauncement
           of
           their
           Princes
           Seruice
           .
           The
           other
           ,
           neither
           iust
           ,
           nor
           honest
           ,
           nor
           possessed
           with
           any
           Feare
           or
           Reuerence
           of
           God
           :
           but
           (
           ayming
           onely
           at
           fauour
           ,
           wealth
           ,
           and
           aduauncement
           in
           this
           corrupt
           world
           )
           care
           not
           what
           becomes
           of
           the
           Seruice
           ,
           so
           they
           may
           by
           any
           meanes
           enrich
           themselues
           ,
           and
           purchase
           friends
           to
           backe
           them
           in
           all
           their
           vnhonest
           proceedings
           .
           But
           more
           briefely
           or
           plainly
           to
           set
           forth
           the
           different
           or
           repugnant
           pathes
           of
           these
           two
           sorts
           of
           Officers
           ,
           I
           cannot
           better
           than
           by
           these
           
             Briefe
             Conferences
          
           of
           the
           Good
           and
           Bad
           ensuing
           .
        
         
           
           
             
               
                 
                   A
                   conference
                   of
                   a
                   Good
                   and
                   Bad
                   Muster-maister
                   ,
                   with
                   his
                   inferiour
                   Commissaries
                   of
                   Musters
                   ,
                   by
                   the
                   fruites
                   to
                   discerne
                   the
                   Tree
                   .
                
                 
                   
                     The
                     Good.
                     
                  
                   
                     THis
                     Officer
                     will
                     not
                     willingly
                     serue
                     ,
                     but
                     with
                     such
                     a
                     competent
                     &
                     conuenient
                     entertainment
                     both
                     for
                     himselfe
                     and
                     for
                     his
                     inferiour
                     Commissaries
                     ,
                     Clerkes
                     ,
                     and
                     Substitutes
                     ,
                     as
                     hee
                     neede
                     not
                     take
                     Bribe
                     or
                     Beneuolence
                     ,
                     or
                     depend
                     on
                     the
                     fauour
                     of
                     any
                     ,
                     but
                     the
                     Generall
                     alone
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     will
                     bee
                     in
                     his
                     Expences
                     temperate
                     ,
                     rather
                     sparing
                     than
                     wasting
                     :
                     that
                     hee
                     bee
                     not
                     by
                     want
                     enforced
                     to
                     straine
                     his
                     conscience
                     ,
                     and
                     deceaue
                     his
                     Prince
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     seeketh
                     by
                     all
                     meanes
                     to
                     cause
                     the
                     Generall
                     to
                     establish
                     Lawes
                     and
                     Ordinances
                     ,
                     whereby
                     orderly
                     Entrances
                     and
                     discharges
                     of
                     Souldiers
                     may
                     bee
                     registred
                     ,
                     and
                     thereby
                     neither
                     the
                     Prince
                     ,
                     nor
                     the
                     Souldier
                     abused
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     deliuereth
                     these
                     Lawes
                     to
                     his
                     inferiour
                     Commissaries
                     with
                     other
                     strait
                     particular
                     Instructions
                     ,
                     and
                     calleth
                     them
                     to
                     account
                     how
                     they
                     haue
                     discharged
                     their
                     Duties
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     will
                     not
                     set
                     down
                     any
                     penny
                     check
                     certaine
                     vpon
                     any
                     Captaine
                     or
                     Band
                     without
                     apparant
                     proofe
                     :
                     and
                     for
                     such
                     as
                     cannot
                     bee
                     decided
                     ,
                     wil
                     respite
                     them
                     to
                     farther
                     triall
                     ,
                     That
                     neither
                     Prince
                     ,
                     Captaine
                     ,
                     nor
                     Souldier
                     be
                     defrauded
                     or
                     iniured
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     officer
                     if
                     any
                     such
                     doubt
                     arise
                     in
                     the
                     Checques
                     as
                     hee
                     cannot
                     determine
                     by
                     the
                     Lawes
                     established
                     ,
                     hee
                     either
                     desireth
                     the
                     Resolution
                     of
                     the
                     General
                     ,
                     or
                     that
                     it
                     may
                     bee
                     determined
                     by
                     a
                     Counsell
                     at
                     warre
                     ,
                     or
                     some
                     Commissioners
                     ,
                     especiallie
                     aucthorized
                     to
                     assist
                     him
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     (
                     if
                     the
                     Captains
                     shew
                     any
                     reasonable
                     cause
                     to
                     be
                     relieued
                     out
                     of
                     the
                     Checques
                     ,
                     either
                     in
                     respect
                     of
                     the
                     losse
                     of
                     horse
                     ,
                     or
                     armour
                     in
                     Seruice
                     ,
                     or
                     such
                     like
                     that
                     deserueth
                     consideration
                     )
                     hee
                     presenteth
                     his
                     proofes
                     thereof
                     ,
                     together
                     with
                     his
                     checke
                     to
                     the
                     Lo
                     :
                     Generall
                     ,
                     desiring
                     his
                     Lordship
                     to
                     haue
                     honorable
                     cōsideration
                     thereof
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     (
                     if
                     hee
                     see
                     ouermuch
                     familiaritie
                     betweene
                     anie
                     of
                     his
                     Commissaries
                     and
                     Captaines
                     )
                     is
                     presently
                     iealous
                     of
                     them
                     ,
                     and
                     calleth
                     them
                     to
                     account
                     :
                     And
                     if
                     hee
                     finde
                     them
                     conniuent
                     or
                     faultie
                     ,
                     presently
                     displaceth
                     them
                     ,
                     or
                     if
                     he
                     finde
                     no
                     other
                     proofe
                     but
                     vehement
                     suspition
                     ,
                     yet
                     remoueth
                     them
                     to
                     another
                     Garrison
                     ,
                     and
                     placeth
                     such
                     other
                     in
                     their
                     roomes
                     ,
                     as
                     may
                     sift
                     and
                     examine
                     their
                     former
                     behauiour
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     ,
                     as
                     hee
                     would
                     not
                     (
                     to
                     gaine
                     a
                     Million
                     )
                     doo
                     anie
                     Captaine
                     apennie
                     wrong
                     ,
                     so
                     wil
                     he
                     not
                     for
                     the
                     fauour
                     of
                     the
                     greatest
                     persons
                     in
                     the
                     Armie
                     ,
                     or
                     his
                     neerest
                     kinne
                     or
                     friends
                     staine
                     his
                     conscience
                     to
                     abuse
                     his
                     Prince
                     one
                     pennie
                     :
                     and
                     therfore
                     presents
                     the
                     Checque
                     truly
                     as
                     he
                     findes
                     it
                     ,
                     and
                     leaues
                     all
                     fauour
                     to
                     be
                     shewed
                     by
                     the
                     Lord
                     Generall
                     onely
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     procureth
                     orders
                     also
                     to
                     bee
                     established
                     for
                     trayning
                     of
                     the
                     Souldiers
                     ,
                     and
                     
                     himselfe
                     requireth
                     the
                     Captaines
                     to
                     performe
                     them
                     :
                     And
                     to
                     encourage
                     men
                     to
                     doo
                     well
                     ,
                     will
                     not
                     spare
                     out
                     of
                     his
                     owne
                     purse
                     to
                     giue
                     rewards
                     to
                     such
                     shott
                     as
                     by
                     proofe
                     hee
                     findes
                     the
                     best
                     marke-men
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     will
                     not
                     accept
                     penny
                     nor
                     penni-worth
                     of
                     any
                     Captaine
                     ,
                     or
                     Souldier
                     ,
                     more
                     ,
                     than
                     the
                     fee
                     due
                     to
                     his
                     Office
                     ,
                     and
                     that
                     not
                     as
                     a
                     beneuolence
                     secretly
                     ,
                     but
                     as
                     his
                     due
                     openly
                     .
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     reposing
                     himselfe
                     onely
                     on
                     GOD
                     and
                     his
                     cleere
                     conscience
                     ,
                     laboreth
                     not
                     to
                     make
                     other
                     friends
                     but
                     his
                     Prince
                     and
                     Generall
                     :
                     And
                     for
                     the
                     Generall
                     himselfe
                     will
                     not
                     straine
                     his
                     conscience
                     any
                     way
                     ,
                     though
                     hee
                     bee
                     sure
                     of
                     many
                     enemies
                     and
                     small
                     backbiting
                     and
                     euen
                     to
                     his
                     Prince
                     for
                     faithfull
                     seruice
                     store
                     of
                     false
                     backebitings
                     :
                     yea
                     the
                     Swanne
                     must
                     bee
                     made
                     a
                     Crowe
                     ,
                     and
                     the
                     Faulcon
                     a
                     Bussard
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     as
                     hee
                     is
                     thus
                     precise
                     himselfe
                     as
                     neyther
                     to
                     giue
                     penny
                     for
                     such
                     an
                     Office
                     ,
                     nor
                     to
                     receiue
                     Bribe
                     or
                     Beneuolence
                     more
                     than
                     due
                     fees
                     :
                     So
                     maketh
                     hee
                     a
                     matter
                     of
                     conscience
                     whilest
                     hee
                     carrieth
                     such
                     office
                     to
                     giue
                     to
                     any
                     of
                     his
                     honourable
                     friendes
                     any
                     present
                     ,
                     lest
                     they
                     or
                     others
                     should
                     haue
                     cause
                     to
                     suspect
                     ,
                     hee
                     did
                     it
                     to
                     bee
                     borne-out
                     in
                     any
                     lewde
                     Action
                     .
                  
                
                 
                   
                   
                     The
                     Bad.
                     
                  
                   
                     This
                     Officer
                     careth
                     not
                     howe
                     little
                     Entertainment
                     certaine
                     hee
                     haue
                     for
                     himselfe
                     or
                     his
                     Substitutes
                     :
                     presuming
                     hee
                     can
                     make
                     what
                     gaine
                     hee
                     list
                     of
                     his
                     Office
                     :
                     &
                     make
                     such
                     Friends
                     thereby
                     also
                     ,
                     as
                     may
                     beare
                     him
                     out
                     of
                     his
                     lewdnes
                     .
                     &c.
                     
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     hauing
                     so
                     good
                     meanes
                     to
                     get
                     immeasurablie
                     by
                     playing
                     the
                     good-fellowe
                     ,
                     wil
                     spend
                     infinitely
                     ,
                     especially
                     in
                     keeping
                     company
                     with
                     such
                     as
                     must
                     ioyne
                     with
                     him
                     in
                     deceauing
                     the
                     Prince
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     can
                     no
                     more
                     abide
                     Lawes
                     and
                     Ordinances
                     in
                     Musters
                     ,
                     than
                     lucrous
                     Captaine
                     ,
                     saying
                     ,
                     It
                     barreth
                     the
                     Officer
                     of
                     his
                     discretion
                     ,
                     whereby
                     the
                     Office
                     ought
                     to
                     be
                     directed
                     ,
                     &
                     braue
                     men
                     gratified
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     likes
                     none
                     of
                     these
                     strict
                     Courses
                     ,
                     saying
                     ,
                     Among
                     Martiall
                     men
                     a
                     man
                     must
                     play
                     the
                     good-Fellowe
                     ,
                     and
                     not
                     to
                     be
                     too
                     pinching
                     of
                     a
                     Princes
                     purse
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     officer
                     calleth
                     this
                     Examination
                     nice
                     Curiositie
                     ,
                     and
                     sayeth
                     ,
                     So
                     there
                     bee
                     some
                     Checques
                     for
                     fashion
                     sake
                     it
                     is
                     no
                     matter
                     :
                     make
                     them
                     little
                     enough
                     that
                     the
                     Captaines
                     be
                     not
                     angry
                     ,
                     and
                     all
                     is
                     well
                     .
                     One
                     good-fellowe
                     must
                     pleasure
                     another
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     saith
                     ,
                     It
                     is
                     great
                     folly
                     to
                     loose
                     that
                     prerogatiue
                     of
                     his
                     Office
                     ,
                     to
                     resolue
                     these
                     doubts
                     as
                     he
                     sees
                     cause
                     ;
                     And
                     to
                     subiect
                     him selfe
                     to
                     Commissioner
                     that
                     is
                     Maister
                     of
                     the
                     Musters
                     himselfe
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     will
                     bee
                     Chauncellor
                     himselfe
                     ,
                     &
                     neuer
                     trouble
                     the
                     
                       Lord
                       Generall
                    
                     with
                     these
                     matters
                     ,
                     who
                     hath
                     matters
                     of
                     greater
                     importance
                     to
                     thinke
                     vpon
                     :
                     saying
                     ,
                     Princes
                     purses
                     may
                     not
                     be
                     spared
                     ,
                     &
                     braue
                     men
                     must
                     be
                     rewarded
                     ,
                     &
                     Officers
                     must
                     get
                     loue
                     &
                     honor
                     by
                     dealing
                     bountifully
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     likes
                     none
                     of
                     these
                     seuere
                     Iealousies
                     ,
                     but
                     liketh
                     well
                     such
                     Officers
                     as
                     be
                     plausible
                     and
                     gratefull
                     to
                     the
                     Captaines
                     ,
                     knowing
                     the
                     Captaines
                     bee
                     liberall
                     ,
                     and
                     will
                     not
                     be
                     vngratefull
                     to
                     him
                     ,
                     seeing
                     hee
                     mindes
                     and
                     hath
                     good
                     meanes
                     to
                     requite
                     their
                     curtesie
                     tenne
                     folde
                     out
                     of
                     the
                     Princes
                     purse
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     ,
                     being
                     of
                     another
                     molde
                     ,
                     will
                     none
                     of
                     these
                     melancholie
                     courses
                     :
                     hee
                     will
                     pleasure
                     his
                     Friends
                     ,
                     and
                     crosse
                     his
                     Enemies
                     ,
                     and
                     make
                     them
                     know
                     he
                     is
                     an
                     Officer
                     can
                     please
                     or
                     displease
                     thē
                     :
                     but
                     displease
                     he
                     will
                     not
                     for
                     all
                     that
                     ,
                     and
                     for
                     his
                     excuse
                     alledgeth
                     that
                     Princes
                     Cookes
                     may
                     giue
                     a
                     good
                     fellowe
                     a
                     piece
                     of
                     Beefe
                     ,
                     and
                     the
                     Butlers
                     or
                     Cellarers
                     a
                     cup
                     of
                     Wine
                     or
                     Beere
                     ,
                     and
                     that
                     he
                     wil
                     shew
                     his
                     Friends
                     a
                     cast
                     of
                     his
                     Office
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     will
                     none
                     of
                     this
                     ,
                     saying
                     ,
                     it
                     is
                     but
                     a
                     turmoyling
                     of
                     Captaines
                     and
                     
                     souldiers
                     ,
                     and
                     intruding
                     on
                     the
                     Captaines
                     Offices
                     to
                     offend
                     and
                     discontent
                     them
                     ,
                     and
                     that
                     braue
                     men
                     should
                     not
                     be
                     comptroled
                     ,
                     or
                     the
                     imperfection
                     of
                     their
                     souldiers
                     discouered
                     by
                     such
                     open
                     exercises
                     ,
                     and
                     that
                     such
                     expences
                     are
                     foolish
                     ,
                     and
                     make
                     more
                     Enemies
                     than
                     friends
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     wil
                     accept
                     any
                     thing
                     money
                     or
                     ware
                     ,
                     so
                     it
                     come
                     secretly
                     :
                     and
                     like
                     a
                     good-fellow
                     will
                     (
                     on
                     the
                     Princes
                     purse
                     )
                     requite
                     it
                     tenfolde
                     ,
                     as
                     easily
                     he
                     may
                     doo
                     ,
                     and
                     none
                     but
                     his
                     fellowetheeues
                     able
                     to
                     accuse
                     him
                     .
                  
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     will
                     not
                     onely
                     for
                     the
                     Generall
                     ,
                     but
                     for
                     any
                     other
                     person
                     of
                     authority
                     strain
                     his
                     conscience
                     any
                     way
                     ,
                     and
                     to
                     all
                     other
                     Captaines
                     also
                     so
                     kinde
                     and
                     liberall
                     of
                     his
                     Princesse
                     her
                     Maiesties
                     purse
                     ,
                     as
                     he
                     is
                     generally
                     extolled
                     for
                     a
                     braue
                     man
                     ;
                     An
                     honorable
                     Officer
                     ,
                     an
                     honorable
                     minde
                     ,
                     yea
                     &
                     his
                     Prince
                     also
                     whom
                     he
                     deceiues
                     horribly
                     shal
                     be
                     perswaded
                     the
                     Daw
                     is
                     an
                     Eagle
                     ,
                     &
                     the
                     Cucko
                     a
                     Nightingale
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     Such
                     an
                     Officer
                     hath
                     no
                     melancholy
                     conceipt
                     ,
                     but
                     as
                     hee
                     will
                     take
                     lastly
                     ,
                     so
                     will
                     hee
                     giue
                     frankly
                     to
                     thē
                     that
                     cā
                     beare
                     him
                     out
                     :
                     and
                     such
                     a
                     one
                     as
                     Captains
                     ,
                     Collonels
                     ,
                     great
                     Officers
                     and
                     all
                     shall
                     extoll
                     ,
                     how
                     shall
                     his
                     Prince
                     but
                     like
                     of
                     too
                     ,
                     considering
                     the
                     more
                     he
                     robs
                     ,
                     the
                     more
                     friends
                     he
                     maks
                     ,
                     &
                     the
                     more
                     he
                     shal
                     be
                     praised
                     :
                     So
                     as
                     if
                     there
                     were
                     no
                     God
                     ,
                     the
                     honest
                     were
                     indeed
                     to
                     be
                     begged
                     for
                     a
                     right
                     natural
                     foole
                     .
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           But
           this
           Conference
           of
           either
           kinde
           I
           hope
           it
           appeareth
           plainly
           both
           how
           many
           Enemies
           the
           honest
           must
           of
           necessitie
           in
           this
           age
           of
           Militarie
           corruptions
           drawe
           vpon
           him
           :
           And
           likewise
           how
           great
           a
           multitude
           of
           friends
           the
           vnhonest
           may
           make
           by
           their
           confederacy
           with
           others
           of
           that
           humor
           in
           robbing
           of
           the
           Prince
           or
           publique
           Treasure
           :
           And
           therefore
           how
           necessarie
           it
           is
           that
           aswell
           the
           honest
           bee
           honoured
           with
           Entertainment
           and
           maintenance
           answerable
           to
           their
           reputation
           and
           credit
           of
           their
           place
           ,
           as
           the
           contrarie
           well
           sifted
           and
           extraordinarily
           punished
           in
           terror
           of
           abuse
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           it
           is
           apparantly
           best
           for
           the
           honor
           of
           any
           Prince
           or
           State
           to
           haue
           this
           honest
           office
           so
           backed
           with
           honourable
           Entertainment
           &
           authority
           as
           he
           may
           boldly
           without
           feare
           or
           regard
           of
           any
           offence
           controll
           fraud
           ,
           thereby
           to
           enforce
           all
           Captains
           to
           keep
           their
           Bands
           compleat
           ,
           or
           dul
           to
           checke
           their
           defaults
           aswell
           for
           Armes
           as
           men
           :
           So
           is
           it
           also
           asmmuch
           for
           the
           profit
           &
           benefit
           of
           the
           king
           Prince
           ,
           or
           State
           (
           in
           respect
           of
           the
           sauing
           of
           their
           Teasure
           ,
           which
           no
           way
           in
           the
           world
           shall
           bee
           so
           extremely
           and
           vnprofitably
           wasted
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           ignorance
           ,
           confederacie
           
           or
           abuses
           of
           these
           Officers
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           vnskilful
           ,
           base-minded
           or
           dishonest
           :
           As
           none
           can
           better
           testifie
           (
           if
           they
           wil
           truly
           confesse
           their
           errors
           )
           than
           the
           States
           of
           the
           Low-Countries
           ,
           who
           I
           think
           haue
           had
           ful
           exeperiēce
           of
           the
           extreme
           mischief
           ensuing
           by
           imploymēt
           of
           base
           cōmissaries
           with
           poore
           wages
           ,
           in
           place
           of
           so
           great
           trust
           &
           importāce
           .
        
         
           But
           somwhat
           to
           say
           of
           our
           own
           Nation
           ,
           omitting
           theirs
           ,
           I
           thinks
           there
           is
           no
           indifferent
           person
           but
           will
           confesse
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           Earle
           of
           Leycesters
           time
           of
           Gouernment
           ,
           the
           English
           Bands
           generally
           in
           the
           Queens
           pay
           (
           a
           very
           few
           excepted
           )
           were
           maintained
           euer
           farre
           stranger
           than
           eyther
           before
           or
           since
           ,
           and
           great
           reason
           it
           should
           be
           so
           :
           For
           as
           neither
           her
           Maiestie
           ,
           nor
           any
           Prince
           of
           Europe
           euer
           paid
           more
           iustly
           and
           honorably
           than
           in
           his
           time
           ,
           hauing
           euery
           foure
           or
           six
           moneths
           at
           farthest
           till
           the
           last
           ,
           a
           full
           pay
           :
           So
           was
           there
           also
           so
           facile
           &
           easie
           meanes
           for
           all
           Captains
           in
           her
           M.
           pay
           frō
           time
           to
           time
           thē
           stil
           to
           supply
           &
           Reinforce
           their
           Bands
           without
           the
           Captains
           charges
           ,
           as
           neuer
           was
           neither
           before
           nor
           since
           .
           For
           besids
           the
           40
           ,
           Footbdās
           &
           10
           Cornets
           of
           horse
           (
           by
           contract
           in
           her
           Ma.
           pay
           )
           there
           was
           euer
           at
           the
           charge
           of
           the
           countrey
           also
           many
           other
           English
           Ensignes
           all
           the
           Earle
           of
           Leicesters
           time
           ,
           somewhile
           20
           ,
           somtime
           fortie
           ,
           and
           sometime
           70
           ,
           Ensignes
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           which
           being
           by
           the
           States
           as
           extreme
           badly
           paid
           then
           ,
           as
           the
           Queenes
           Maiesties
           were
           honorably
           &
           well
           :
           Any
           English
           souldier
           that
           could
           get
           out
           of
           their
           Bands
           into
           the
           Ensignes
           of
           her
           Maiestie
           thought
           themselues
           aduanced
           from
           Hel
           to
           Heauen
           .
           Hereof
           it
           came
           to
           passe
           that
           all
           the
           Earle
           of
           Leicesters
           time
           the
           Captains
           in
           her
           Maiesties
           pay
           needed
           not
           to
           send
           into
           England
           for
           souldiers
           at
           great
           charge
           ,
           for
           their
           leuying
           ,
           arming
           ,
           &
           transporting
           to
           supply
           their
           Bands
           as
           since
           they
           haue
           :
           but
           continually
           Suite
           was
           made
           vnto
           thē
           by
           souldiers
           of
           this
           ill
           paid
           voluntary
           Bands
           to
           be
           receiued
           into
           the
           Queens
           Maiesties
           pay
           :
           For
           those
           soldiers
           would
           rather
           frely
           forgiue
           their
           own
           pay
           to
           their
           Captains
           ,
           thā
           tary
           in
           the
           States
           pay
           ,
           if
           they
           could
           obtain
           a
           place
           in
           any
           of
           her
           Ma
           :
           Bands
           :
           And
           so
           the
           Captains
           
           of
           her
           Maiesties
           Bands
           (
           without
           any
           charge
           at
           all
           )
           had
           meanes
           then
           still
           to
           maintaine
           and
           keepe
           their
           Ensignes
           compleat
           ,
           which
           (
           neither
           before
           nor
           since
           )
           they
           euer
           could
           (
           without
           their
           charges
           in
           sending
           for
           and
           transporting
           of
           new
           souldiers
           out
           of
           England
           )
           for
           the
           which
           they
           can
           haue
           no
           allowance
           but
           vpon
           speciall
           petition
           to
           her
           Maiestie
           .
        
         
           Farther
           the
           Earle
           in
           his
           time
           of
           Gouernment
           tooke
           such
           courses
           to
           make
           the
           Captaines
           keepe
           their
           Bandes
           strong
           ,
           as
           neuer
           were
           before
           nor
           since
           .
           For
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           finding
           many
           Bands
           of
           fooftemen
           left
           vnto
           him
           extream
           weake
           ,
           not
           60.
           souldiers
           in
           a
           Band
           of
           150.
           and
           halfe
           a
           doozen
           such
           Bands
           at
           one
           Muster
           and
           one
           place
           :
           his
           Excellency
           gaue
           a
           generall
           day
           to
           all
           Captaines
           in
           her
           Maiesties
           List
           to
           haue
           their
           Bands
           reinforced
           strong
           ,
           or
           else
           to
           be
           checked
           according
           to
           to
           their
           weaknes
           at
           the
           next
           future
           Muster
           :
           As
           they
           should
           likewlse
           for
           his
           time
           receiue
           the
           benefit
           for
           the
           time
           past
           ,
           not
           to
           bee
           checked
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           found
           compleat
           ,
           and
           strong
           for
           Seruice
           at
           that
           their
           appointed
           day
           .
        
         
           This
           generally
           made
           them
           all
           ,
           or
           the
           greatest
           part
           contend
           ,
           who
           might
           Reinforce
           their
           Bands
           strongest
           .
        
         
           Againe
           his
           Excellency
           (
           being
           both
           Gouernour
           for
           the
           States
           ,
           and
           Generall
           for
           her
           Maiestie
           )
           had
           the
           commaundement
           of
           both
           forces
           ,
           and
           thereby
           caused
           Musters
           Generall
           in
           his
           time
           to
           bee
           alwaies
           made
           of
           all
           souldiers
           in
           euery
           Garrison
           at
           one
           instant
           :
           Whereby
           the
           souldiers
           in
           the
           States
           pay
           could
           not
           fraudulently
           bee
           lent
           or
           borrowed
           to
           fill
           the
           Queenes
           Bands
           at
           Musters
           ,
           as
           otherwise
           they
           might
           haue
           doone
           .
        
         
           There
           was
           also
           such
           Ordinances
           for
           Musters
           established
           by
           his
           Excellency
           as
           neuer
           the
           like
           in
           those
           Prouinces
           (
           or
           better
           in
           any
           other
           )
           can
           be
           shewed
           ,
           to
           enforce
           the
           Captaines
           that
           for
           feare
           of
           due
           checke
           (
           if
           for
           their
           owne
           credit
           any
           Reputation
           otherwise
           they
           would
           not
           )
           to
           keep
           their
           Bands
           compleat
           :
           By
           which
           Precedents
           the
           States
           
           haue
           since
           much
           reformed
           their
           Militia
           .
        
         
           And
           with
           all
           so
           honourable
           Entertainment
           allowed
           the
           Muster-Master
           General
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           as
           (
           if
           he
           would
           haue
           but
           winked
           willingly
           at
           corruptions
           )
           he
           had
           beene
           worthie
           of
           all
           shame
           and
           blame
           :
           Who
           thereby
           (
           hauing
           conuenient
           meanes
           ,
           carrying
           a
           seuere
           hand
           (
           according
           to
           his
           dutie
           )
           to
           execute
           his
           office
           iustly
           ,
           was
           so
           maligned
           of
           the
           licentious
           sort
           of
           Captaines
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           vow
           to
           keepe
           their
           Bands
           more
           than
           compleat
           ,
           rather
           than
           he
           should
           haue
           a
           penny
           checke
           out
           of
           their
           Bands
           toward
           his
           Entertainment
           ,
        
         
           The
           honest
           therefore
           and
           honourable
           (
           for
           their
           owne
           commendation
           )
           and
           the
           licentious
           and
           malignant
           (
           for
           feare
           of
           checke
           and
           enuie
           against
           the
           Muster-Master
           )
           contend
           all
           ,
           who
           might
           keepe
           their
           Bands
           fairest
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           I
           thinke
           there
           will
           bee
           found
           more
           checks
           certaine
           ,
           notwithstanding
           in
           the
           Earles
           gouernment
           fiuefolde
           for
           respectiue
           time
           ,
           than
           other
           before
           or
           after
           ;
           When
           the
           Bands
           were
           farre
           weaker
           ,
           besides
           the
           checkes
           respited
           to
           farther
           Examination
           ,
           which
           would
           haue
           amounted
           vnto
           much
           more
           ,
           if
           by
           conning
           practises
           they
           had
           not
           procured
           his
           disgrace
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           the
           bestowing
           some
           time
           of
           a
           thousand
           or
           two
           thousand
           pounds
           a
           yeare
           on
           the
           maintaining
           of
           Sluces
           and
           Milles
           for
           the
           drayning
           of
           Marshes
           ,
           may
           in
           some
           Leuelles
           by
           clearing
           of
           the
           waters
           encrease
           their
           goodnesse
           &
           value
           of
           their
           grounds
           twentie
           thousand
           pounds
           a
           yeare
           to
           be
           bestowed
           on
           these
           necessarie
           Engines
           may
           leaue
           them
           so
           insufficient
           as
           they
           shall
           not
           bee
           able
           to
           drayne
           the
           waters
           .
           And
           thereby
           the
           whole
           leuell
           of
           Marshes
           improfitable
           ,
           or
           many
           score
           thousand
           of
           pounds
           in
           their
           value
           yearely
           lost
           .
           So
           fareth
           it
           in
           the
           due
           maintenance
           of
           these
           important
           Officers
           in
           causes
           Militarie
           .
        
         
           The
           Like
           I
           say
           of
           the
           Marshall
           and
           Serieant-Generall
           ,
           and
           many
           other
           ,
           who
           if
           they
           haue
           wil
           and
           skil
           to
           execute
           
           their
           duties
           without
           regard
           of
           offence
           to
           the
           bad
           and
           licentious
           in
           matter
           of
           Iustice
           ,
           and
           vse
           their
           office
           as
           they
           ought
           ,
           to
           aduance
           the
           profit
           and
           seruice
           of
           the
           Prince
           (
           which
           without
           compotent
           and
           honourable
           Entertainment
           is
           not
           to
           bee
           expected
           )
           they
           may
           not
           onely
           be
           able
           ten-folde
           in
           the
           aduancement
           of
           the
           Seruice
           to
           deserue
           their
           wages
           ,
           but
           euen
           (
           in
           sauing
           of
           Treasure
           )
           requite
           it
           ten-folde
           also
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           soundly
           may
           conclude
           ,
           That
           neither
           the
           sparing
           of
           Seede
           by
           the
           fond
           Husbandman
           ,
           nor
           the
           pinching
           of
           pence
           before
           mentioned
           by
           the
           miserable
           Merchant
           ,
           in
           the
           rigging
           and
           furnishing
           of
           his
           Ship
           ,
           Nor
           want
           of
           due
           allowance
           for
           Drayning
           of
           Marshes
           by
           conuenient
           Engines
           is
           halfe
           so
           fond
           and
           absurd
           ,
           as
           the
           omitting
           of
           such
           necessarie
           Officers
           in
           
             Martiall
             causes
          
           ,
           Or
           the
           sparing
           of
           such
           Entertainment
           as
           should
           enable
           them
           to
           discharge
           their
           offices
           iustly
           and
           honourably
           ,
           That
           by
           corrupt
           and
           lucrous
           pettie
           companions
           may
           be
           managed
           to
           the
           extreme
           Robbing
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           and
           confusion
           of
           all
           true
           Martiall
           discipline
           .
           For
           euen
           as
           in
           this
           office
           of
           Censor
           or
           Comptroller-Generall
           of
           Musters
           a
           corrupt
           person
           may
           with
           farre
           greater
           gaine
           giue
           his
           Prince
           two
           thousand
           pounds
           a
           yeare
           to
           farme
           that
           Office
           thā
           an
           honest
           officer
           can
           take
           two
           thousand
           pounds
           yearely
           Entertainment
           for
           him
           and
           his
           Substitutes
           faithfully
           to
           discharge
           it
           :
           So
           shall
           the
           2000
           ,
           pounds
           giuen
           by
           the
           Prince
           to
           such
           a
           one
           ,
           bee
           ten-folde
           more
           gainfull
           and
           beneficiall
           to
           his
           Seruice
           ,
           than
           the
           2000.
           pounds
           taken
           :
           Which
           by
           due
           consideration
           of
           the
           frauds
           and
           deceipts
           practized
           ,
           and
           by
           mee
           at
           large
           in
           a
           particular
           Treatise
           thereof
           alreadie
           reuealed
           ,
           And
           hy
           the
           very
           triall
           or
           experiences
           alreadie
           made
           (
           duely
           weighed
           )
           will
           euidently
           appeare
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           may
           truly
           say
           ,
           that
           aswell
           for
           the
           profit
           of
           all
           Princes
           and
           States
           ,
           as
           for
           the
           honour
           and
           aduancement
           of
           the
           seruice
           ,
           it
           is
           fit
           this
           Officer
           (
           as
           likewise
           all
           other
           Officers
           or
           Commaunders
           of
           like
           importance
           and
           
           necessitie
           )
           should
           haue
           such
           conuenient
           Entertainement
           for
           the
           Reputation
           of
           their
           place
           ,
           as
           they
           may
           (
           without
           feare
           or
           regard
           of
           any
           )
           syncerely
           censure
           and
           controll
           all
           deceipts
           and
           abuses
           ,
           by
           whom
           soeuer
           they
           finde
           then
           boulstered
           or
           patronized
           .
           And
           hauing
           indeed
           such
           allowance
           as
           the
           Reputation
           of
           their
           place
           requireth
           ,
           if
           any
           such
           be
           found
           (
           for
           any
           respect
           )
           to
           become
           partie
           or
           pander
           of
           such
           corruptions
           and
           Robberies
           ,
           whereby
           the
           Royall
           Treasure
           should
           bee
           vnduly
           wasted
           ,
           the
           forces
           enfeabled
           and
           Martiall
           discipline
           corrupted
           
             Tanquam
             reum
             lasae
             Maiestatis
          
           ,
           I
           would
           haue
           such
           a
           one
           Exemplarly
           to
           bee
           corrected
           with
           all
           blame
           and
           shame
           .
        
         
           And
           for
           a
           finall
           conclusion
           of
           this
           true
           Paradox
           may
           confidently
           confirme
           .
           
             That
             the
             most
             thriftie
             ,
             and
             sparing
             course
             that
             any
             Prince
             or
             State
             can
             take
             to
             continue
             a
             warre
             ,
             (
             without
             wasting
             of
             their
             treasure
             ,
             or
             ouer-burdening
             of
             their
             Subiects
             with
             intollerable
             Taxes
             )
             is
             still
             to
             allow
             all
             necessary
             Commaunders
             ,
             Officers
             ,
             Captaines
             ,
             and
             Souldiers
             such
             conuenient
             ,
             large
             ,
             and
             sufficient
             Entertainment
             ,
             as
             men
             of
             true
             value
             and
             honestie
             may
             indeed
             rest
             therewith
             contented
             :
             And
             then
             to
             execute
             seuere
             Martiall
             Discipline
             on
             all
             frauds
             ,
             Robberies
             ,
             and
             Extorsions
             ,
             without
             respect
             of
             Persons
             .
          
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           second
           Paradox
           .
        
         
           
             That
             the
             Antique
             Romane
             and
             Graecian
             discipline
             Martiall
             doth
             farre
             exceede
             in
             Excellency
             our
             Modern
             ,
             notwithstanding
             all
             alterations
             by
             reason
             of
             that
             late
             inuention
             of
             Artillerie
             ,
             or
             fire-shott
             .
             And
             that
             (
             vnlesse
             wee
             reforme
             such
             corruptions
             as
             are
             growne
             into
             our
             Moderne
             Militia
             ,
             vtterly
             repugnant
             to
             the
             Ancient
             )
             wee
             shall
             in
             time
             loose
             vtterly
             the
             renowne
             and
             honour
             of
             our
             Nation
             ,
             as
             all
             other
             also
             that
             haue
             or
             shall
             commit
             or
             tollerate
             like
             errors
             .
          
        
         
           WHereas
           among
           many
           Captaines
           and
           Commaunders
           of
           the
           newe
           
             Moderne
             Martiall
             Discipline
          
           ,
           it
           is
           maintained
           for
           a
           Maxime
           :
           That
           all
           ancient
           Romane
           or
           Graecian
           Militarie
           Lawes
           and
           Orders
           of
           the
           Field
           (
           aswell
           for
           Gouernment
           ,
           as
           trayning
           of
           their
           Souldiers
           )
           are
           for
           the
           warres
           of
           our
           age
           meere
           Mockeries
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           fury
           of
           the
           Ordinance
           and
           other
           rare
           .
           Inuentions
           of
           our
           time
           is
           such
           ,
           as
           hath
           enforced
           a
           necessarie
           change
           of
           Discipline
           and
           Order
           in
           all
           those
           matters
           :
           I
           thinke
           it
           fit
           to
           open
           the
           Error
           and
           absurditie
           of
           this
           opinion
           ,
           held
           eyther
           of
           such
           as
           of
           ignorance
           discommend
           
           that
           they
           neuer
           vnderstood
           ,
           or
           vnaduisedly
           are
           miscaried
           with
           the
           authoritie
           of
           others
           ,
           or
           of
           malitious
           subtilty
           seeke
           to
           aduance
           such
           opinions
           ,
           as
           may
           reduce
           all
           Martiall
           Actions
           to
           a
           turbulent
           confusion
           ,
           whereby
           such
           corrupt
           ,
           base
           minded
           persons
           (
           as
           seeke
           the
           warres
           for
           gaine
           )
           may
           excessiuely
           enrich
           themselues
           ,
           euen
           with
           the
           ruine
           of
           their
           countrey
           .
        
         
           I
           therefore
           to
           the
           contrarie
           auerre
           :
           That
           neither
           the
           furie
           of
           Ordinance
           ,
           nor
           any
           other
           like
           inuentions
           of
           this
           our
           age
           ,
           hath
           or
           can
           worke
           any
           such
           alteration
           :
           But
           that
           the
           auncient
           discipline
           of
           the
           Romane
           and
           Martiall
           Graecian
           States
           ,
           (
           euen
           for
           our
           time
           )
           are
           rare
           and
           singuler
           Praecedents
           .
           And
           that
           many
           such
           customes
           as
           wee
           haue
           taken
           vp
           (
           contrarie
           to
           those
           honorable
           and
           right
           Martiall
           Praecedents
           )
           will
           worke
           our
           vtter
           shame
           and
           confusion
           ,
           if
           we
           should
           encounter
           with
           such
           warlike
           Troops
           and
           souldiers
           as
           their
           discipline
           then
           bred
           :
           And
           yet
           not
           impossible
           but
           facile
           for
           any
           King
           in
           his
           owne
           Realme
           (
           especially
           of
           our
           Nation
           )
           by
           those
           ancient
           Praecedents
           to
           select
           and
           frame
           a
           Militia
           as
           farre
           surmounting
           in
           value
           vulgar
           Moderne
           as
           the
           Lacedemonian
           ,
           the
           Macedonian
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Graecian
           did
           the
           effeminate
           Persian
           ,
           who
           in
           sundrie
           battailes
           haue
           vanquished
           them
           when
           in
           number
           they
           were
           double
           ,
           treble
           ,
           yea
           manifold
           the
           greater
           ,
           and
           in
           wealth
           and
           riches
           farre
           exceeding
           .
           And
           to
           enter
           into
           the
           opening
           of
           this
           truth
           (
           so
           much
           repugnant
           to
           the
           conceipt
           generally
           receiued
           of
           the
           greater
           multitude
           professing
           Armes
           )
           First
           I
           say
           ,
           That
           like
           as
           in
           all
           other
           Artes
           and
           Sciences
           it
           is
           a
           matter
           of
           verie
           great
           importance
           to
           haue
           sure
           grounds
           and
           true
           Principles
           without
           abuse
           or
           error
           .
           So
           in
           this
           Art
           Military
           (
           whereupon
           dependeth
           not
           onely
           the
           liues
           of
           so
           great
           multitudees
           ,
           but
           also
           the
           defence
           or
           ruine
           of
           the
           greatest
           Realmes
           &
           Monarchies
           )
           it
           were
           to
           be
           wished
           that
           men
           were
           not
           to
           be
           misled
           with
           such
           false
           and
           fraudulent
           opinions
           as
           may
           bring-forth
           fruits
           most
           poysonous
           and
           perrilous
           .
        
         
         
           Seeing
           therefore
           by
           the
           ciuill
           warres
           which
           haue
           risen
           in
           this
           our
           age
           ,
           diuers
           disorders
           haue
           spung
           vp
           ,
           and
           for
           want
           of
           abilitie
           to
           make
           due
           pay
           to
           souldiers
           ,
           the
           Generals
           and
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           to
           haue
           beene
           enforced
           to
           tollerate
           many
           abuses
           which
           in
           time
           haue
           growne
           vsuall
           ,
           and
           by
           vse
           of
           some
           disciples
           (
           bred
           in
           such
           lawlesse
           discentions
           )
           not
           onely
           learned
           and
           practised
           ,
           but
           peruersely
           maintained
           to
           bee
           not
           onely
           tollerable
           ,
           but
           also
           laudable
           ,
           yea
           farre
           excelling
           the
           auncint
           discipline
           of
           the
           Romane
           and
           Greeke
           Armies
           .
        
         
           This
           error
           because
           it
           tendeth
           to
           the
           aduancing
           of
           vice
           :
           and
           defacing
           of
           vertue
           ,
           to
           the
           extolling
           of
           many
           corrupt
           new
           practised
           abuses
           and
           licentious
           delicacies
           ,
           and
           the
           reiecting
           or
           contemning
           of
           the
           sober
           painefull
           ,
           strict
           ,
           seuere
           ,
           and
           sacred
           Militarie
           discipline
           of
           the
           Antiquitie
           .
           I
           thinke
           it
           fit
           to
           touch
           some
           principall
           points
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Moderne
           Militia
           (
           which
           I
           reprooue
           )
           doth
           dissent
           from
           the
           Antiquitie
           (
           which
           I
           commend
           )
           and
           propone
           as
           a
           Praecedent
           for
           vs
           to
           imitate
           :
           That
           any
           Souldier
           of
           iudgement
           (
           not
           caried
           wilfully
           with
           corrupt
           affection
           )
           may
           see
           ,
           how
           farre
           awrie
           they
           are
           ,
           that
           somuch
           extoll
           the
           one
           ,
           or
           disdainefully
           contemne
           the
           other
           .
        
         
           But
           first
           (
           lest
           I
           bee
           misconceiued
           )
           I
           must
           explaine
           a
           little
           farther
           ,
           My
           meaning
           not
           to
           bee
           precisely
           to
           binde
           our
           Nation
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           ,
           to
           the
           same
           very
           Rules
           or
           Lawes
           which
           the
           Romanes
           or
           any
           Graecian
           State
           was
           ruled
           by
           ,
           which
           most
           florished
           in
           Martiall
           prowesse
           ,
           I
           thinke
           the
           same
           as
           great
           an
           error
           as
           that
           of
           some
           Diuines
           ,
           who
           would
           haue
           all
           Nations
           ruled
           by
           the
           verie
           same
           politique
           Lawes
           and
           paynes
           that
           Moyses
           praescribed
           to
           the
           Iewes
           or
           people
           of
           Israell
           .
           For
           albeit
           those
           diuine
           Lawes
           were
           prescribed
           by
           the
           infinite
           wisedome
           of
           GOD
           himselfe
           ,
           and
           for
           those
           people
           (
           no
           doubt
           )
           the
           most
           conuenient
           ,
           yet
           ,
           as
           times
           ,
           and
           States
           ,
           and
           dispositions
           of
           Nations
           are
           variable
           and
           different
           ,
           So
           
           may
           the
           paines
           or
           punishments
           bee
           made
           more
           seuere
           or
           remisse
           ,
           as
           the
           Magistrates
           and
           choise
           members
           of
           each
           State
           ,
           (
           assembling
           as
           Physitions
           to
           cure
           the
           maladies
           growing
           in
           the
           bodie
           of
           their
           Realmes
           )
           shall
           finde
           conuenient
           :
           So
           as
           they
           make
           nothing
           Lawfull
           that
           is
           by
           Lawes
           Diuine
           prohibited
           ,
           for
           that
           were
           flat
           impietie
           .
           So
           say
           I
           also
           ,
           there
           is
           in
           the
           discipline
           Militarie
           of
           those
           Martiall
           States-antique
           ,
           many
           things
           ,
           which
           (
           according
           to
           the
           nature
           and
           disposition
           of
           our
           people
           )
           wee
           may
           mitigate
           or
           encrease
           ,
           alter
           or
           accommodate
           .
           But
           the
           dissent
           in
           the
           verie
           chiefe
           grounds
           and
           principall
           Axiomes
           of
           the
           Art
           Martiall
           (
           as
           such
           men
           of
           warre
           of
           the
           new
           Discipline
           doo
           )
           I
           holde
           it
           a
           daungerous
           error
           ,
           and
           fit
           to
           bee
           effectually
           regarded
           ,
           and
           speedily
           reformed
           .
           Neyther
           is
           it
           any
           part
           of
           my
           meaning
           ,
           and
           to
           taxe
           or
           reprooue
           all
           
             Generals
             ,
             Commaunders
             ,
             Collonels
          
           or
           Captaines
           that
           serue
           in
           these
           our
           Moderne
           warres
           ,
           as
           men
           corrupted
           or
           depraued
           with
           these
           erronious
           opinions
           .
           For
           my selfe
           in
           mine
           owne
           experience
           haue
           knowne
           many
           ,
           that
           highly
           esteeme
           the
           auncient
           and
           true
           Martiall
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           condemne
           as
           much
           the
           intollerable
           abuses
           that
           haue
           growne
           in
           by
           the
           late
           intestine
           &
           ciuill
           discentions
           .
        
         
           As
           in
           France
           ,
           how
           much
           that
           worthie
           Prince
           of
           Condie
           and
           Admirall
           Shattilion
           abhorred
           those
           disorders
           which
           in
           their
           time
           began
           (
           and
           are
           since
           growne
           to
           their
           ripenesse
           or
           rather
           full
           Rottennesse
           )
           may
           partly
           appeare
           by
           their
           Campe-Lawes
           ,
           sauouring
           altogether
           of
           the
           Antique
           true
           Martiall
           Discipline
           ,
           as
           farre
           forth
           as
           the
           corruptions
           of
           this
           age
           ,
           and
           their
           wantes
           to
           pay
           their
           Troopes
           would
           permit
           .
           As
           by
           that
           I
           haue
           at-large
           set-downe
           in
           my
           Stratioticos
           touching
           their
           Militarie
           lawes
           ,
           more
           manifestly
           will
           appeare
           .
           Likewise
           in
           the
           Militarie
           Treatize
           of
           that
           famous
           
             Generall
             ,
             Guillame
             de
             Bellay
             Seignior
             le
             Langey
          
           of
           
             Discipline
             Military
          
           ,
           more
           euidentlye
           dooth
           appeare
           :
           Howe
           much
           
           hee
           disliked
           also
           of
           the
           corrupt
           customes
           in
           his
           time
           ,
           growne
           into
           the
           warres
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           how
           hee
           laboured
           to
           reduce
           it
           to
           the
           perfection
           of
           those
           auncient
           Martiall
           States
           ,
           that
           for
           many
           hundred
           yeares
           together
           (
           hauing
           made
           that
           Art
           and
           profession
           ,
           and
           thereby
           mightily
           aduanced
           their
           Realmes
           in
           Fame
           ,
           honour
           ,
           and
           wealth
           ,
           and
           also
           encreased
           their
           Territories
           )
           had
           indeed
           attained
           to
           the
           high
           perfection
           thereof
           .
        
         
           How
           much
           also
           that
           famous
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           disliked
           with
           these
           moderne
           abuses
           (
           albeit
           for
           want
           of
           meanes
           to
           pay
           ,
           and
           also
           authoritie
           sufficient
           to
           gouerne
           as
           hee
           would
           ,
           hee
           were
           enforced
           to
           tollerate
           in
           his
           Mercenary
           Commaunders
           many
           of
           those
           corruptions
           )
           my selfe
           know
           by
           that
           I
           haue
           diuerse
           time
           ,
           heard
           ,
           euen
           from
           his
           owne
           mouth
           ,
           besides
           that
           appeareth
           otherwise
           by
           his
           Remonstrances
           and
           Military
           Ordinances
           .
           The
           like
           I
           could
           say
           of
           many
           of
           our
           owne
           Nation
           ,
           Men
           of
           honour
           ,
           experience
           and
           value
           ,
           that
           both
           know
           and
           acknowledge
           how
           necessarie
           it
           were
           to
           haue
           a
           Reformation
           of
           Moderne
           abuses
           ,
           and
           Restitution
           of
           true
           Martiall
           discipline
           ,
           but
           are
           loath
           to
           make
           themselues
           odious
           to
           such
           multitudes
           ,
           as
           (
           hauing
           beene
           bred-vp
           in
           those
           base
           ,
           easie
           ,
           corrupt
           lucrous
           customes
           )
           would
           extremely
           hate
           such
           a
           Gouernour
           ,
           or
           Commaunder
           as
           should
           crosse
           their
           profit
           ,
           and
           in
           his
           owne
           Regiment
           first
           with
           seueritie
           begin
           such
           Reformation
           :
           Which
           is
           indeed
           not
           to
           bee
           performed
           but
           by
           the
           authoritie
           and
           Maiestie
           of
           a
           Prince
           and
           Royall
           State
           ,
           that
           is
           able
           both
           to
           pay
           and
           punish
           .
        
         
           So
           farre
           am
           I
           therefore
           from
           condemning
           all
           Commaunders
           of
           this
           age
           ,
           eyther
           of
           our
           owne
           Nation
           or
           theirs
           ,
           for
           Patrones
           of
           these
           Moderne
           corruptions
           and
           basterdly
           degenerate
           Souldierie
           ,
           as
           cleane
           contrariwise
           in
           mine
           owne
           experience
           and
           knowledge
           I
           can
           cleare
           many
           :
           Hauing
           my selfe
           knowne
           and
           conferred
           with
           diuers
           of
           our
           owne
           Nation
           that
           asmuch
           abhorre
           them
           ,
           as
           
           that
           famous
           souldier
           of
           
             France
             Mounsier
             de
             la
             Nôe
          
           ,
           whom
           I
           haue
           my selfe
           also
           heard
           ,
           aswel
           in
           his
           priuate
           speeches
           ,
           as
           since
           in
           his
           Military
           discourses
           discouer
           his
           extreme
           dislike
           of
           such
           our
           modern
           vnsouldierly
           corruptions
           ,
           which
           neuerthelesse
           my selfe
           saw
           hee
           was
           in
           part
           inforced
           to
           tollerate
           ,
           euen
           then
           ,
           when
           hee
           was
           Martiall
           of
           that
           mighty
           Armie
           by
           the
           States
           leuied
           against
           
             Don
             Iohn
             de
             Austria
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Prince
           of
           Parma
           in
           Brabant
           vtterly
           against
           his
           will
           and
           liking
           .
           I
           can
           therefore
           the
           lesse
           blame
           any
           such
           of
           our
           Nation
           ,
           as
           beare
           for
           a
           time
           with
           these
           errors
           ,
           when
           they
           see
           (
           by
           contending
           for
           redresse
           without
           sufficient
           authoritie
           )
           they
           shall
           little
           preuaile
           ,
           and
           yet
           make
           themselues
           extreme
           odious
           .
           But
           for
           such
           as
           will
           not
           onely
           tollerate
           ,
           but
           (
           of
           purpose
           to
           make
           profit
           by
           them
           )
           will
           impudently
           maintain
           their
           moderne
           costomes
           good
           ,
           and
           better
           for
           this
           age
           ,
           than
           the
           Auncient
           ,
           As
           I
           know
           them
           most
           hurtfull
           members
           ,
           So
           I
           cannot
           but
           wish
           such
           bad
           Patriotts
           reformed
           by
           better
           reason
           ,
           or
           in
           time
           reiected
           as
           infected
           sheepe
           ,
           that
           are
           able
           with
           their
           leprosie
           and
           infection
           to
           corrupt
           great
           multitudes
           ,
           to
           the
           excessiue
           danger
           of
           their
           Prince
           and
           State.
           
        
         
           First
           therefore
           to
           shew
           some
           principall
           points
           ,
           wherein
           the
           
             Moderne
             Militia
          
           I
           speake
           of
           ,
           dissenteth
           from
           the
           Ancient
           by
           mee
           commended
           ,
           I
           say
           .
        
         
           1
           It
           was
           a
           very
           laudable
           custom
           of
           Antiquity
           to
           haue
           in
           their
           States
           or
           Realmes
           
             Cōscriptos
             milites
          
           their
           chosen
           enrolled
           souldiers
           ,
           not
           of
           the
           base
           ,
           loose
           ,
           abiect
           ,
           vnhonest
           sort
           ,
           by
           
             Cornelius
             Tacitus
          
           wel
           termed
           
             Purgamenta
             vrbiū
             suarū
          
           ,
           but
           of
           the
           honest
           ,
           well-bred
           ,
           and
           renowned
           Burghers
           and
           other
           country
           Inhabitants
           that
           had
           some
           liuing
           ,
           Art
           ,
           or
           trade
           to
           liue
           vpon
           when
           the
           warres
           were
           finished
           ,
           aswell
           to
           haue
           them
           practized
           and
           trained
           in
           all
           Martial
           exercises
           before
           they
           came
           to
           deale
           with
           their
           Enemies
           :
           As
           also
           that
           hauing
           somewhat
           to
           loose
           ,
           they
           more
           dutifully
           and
           obedienly
           behaue
           themselues
           during
           the
           Seruice
           .
           And
           hauing
           whereupon
           to
           liue
           when
           the
           warres
           
           were
           done
           ,
           neede
           not
           commit
           such
           Pickories
           ,
           extorsions
           ,
           and
           Outrages
           ,
           as
           the
           common
           crew
           of
           such
           Caterpillers
           and
           Vermine
           doo
           :
           As
           ,
           (
           hauing
           nothing
           at
           home
           to
           loose
           ,
           or
           Art
           to
           liue
           ,
           )
           seeke
           the
           warres
           onely
           (
           like
           Free-booters
           )
           for
           rauine
           and
           spoile
           .
        
         
           2
           I
           say
           ,
           it
           was
           also
           a
           commendable
           custome
           in
           those
           States
           and
           common-weales
           to
           choose
           Captaines
           and
           Commaunders
           of
           credit
           and
           account
           in
           their
           Countries
           ,
           Cities
           ,
           or
           Townes
           ,
           that
           might
           traine
           and
           exercise
           neighbours
           in
           all
           Martiall
           and
           Militarie
           Exercises
           at
           home
           ,
           before
           they
           led
           them
           to
           the
           warres
           :
           whereby
           the
           very
           children
           in
           those
           States
           (
           only
           by
           looking
           on
           )
           knew
           farre
           better
           both
           the
           vse
           of
           euerie
           sort
           of
           weapon
           ,
           and
           how
           to
           march
           and
           raunge
           themselues
           into
           any
           forme
           of
           battell
           ,
           yea
           ,
           how
           to
           defend
           themselues
           (
           like
           souldiers
           )
           from
           euery
           kinde
           of
           charge
           or
           assault
           of
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           farre
           better
           I
           say
           than
           many
           of
           our
           braue
           men
           that
           haue
           haunted
           such
           licentious
           warres
           or
           pickories
           many
           a
           yeare
           .
        
         
           3
           I
           say
           also
           that
           it
           was
           a
           commendable
           course
           to
           make
           such
           choise
           of
           Captaines
           in
           those
           Antique
           warres
           (
           as
           being
           men
           of
           Reputation
           of
           the
           same
           countrey
           or
           Citie
           from
           whence
           their
           souldiers
           were
           leuied
           ,
           might
           haue
           the
           greater
           care
           to
           performe
           their
           duties
           towards
           their
           countrimen
           and
           neighbours
           ,
           among
           whom
           they
           should
           liue
           at
           their
           returne
           from
           the
           warres
           ,
           and
           thereby
           receiue
           euer
           after
           vnto
           their
           death
           from
           them
           and
           their
           friends
           ,
           eyther
           conuenient
           praise
           and
           loue
           ,
           or
           infamie
           and
           hatred
           as
           their
           Gouernement
           had
           merited
           )
           So
           in
           these
           daies
           that
           the
           Captaines
           are
           become
           not
           onely
           the
           leaders
           ,
           but
           also
           the
           Pagadores
           or
           Pay-Masters
           of
           their
           Bandes
           ,
           there
           is
           greater
           cause
           to
           haue
           them
           chosen
           not
           onely
           of
           skill
           and
           reputation
           ,
           but
           also
           of
           abilitie
           to
           aunswere
           an
           accompt
           of
           such
           Treasure
           as
           shall
           come
           to
           their
           handes
           ,
           for
           the
           payment
           of
           their
           souldiers
           :
           
           Seeing
           otherwise
           (
           if
           they
           bee
           base-minded
           corrupt
           persons
           )
           they
           may
           full
           easily
           wrong
           ,
           starue
           ,
           and
           waste
           their
           Souldiers
           many
           waies
           ,
           to
           make
           their
           owne
           profit
           by
           their
           death
           and
           consumption
           of
           their
           Band
           ,
           especially
           where
           fraudes
           in
           Musters
           by
           lewde
           custome
           shall
           also
           growe
           tollerable
           .
           For
           if
           any
           such
           Captaines
           bee
           chosen
           as
           eyther
           haue
           nothing
           of
           their
           owne
           at
           home
           to
           liue
           vpon
           ,
           or
           neuer
           meane
           to
           turne
           into
           the
           Countrey
           ,
           whereas
           the
           Souldiers
           were
           leuied
           ,
           to
           receiue
           from
           them
           and
           their
           friendes
           the
           honour
           or
           infamy
           ,
           the
           loue
           or
           hatred
           that
           their
           behauiour
           hath
           merited
           what
           hope
           is
           there
           that
           such
           a
           one
           will
           leaue
           the
           excessiue
           sweete
           gaine
           hee
           may
           make
           by
           the
           fliecing
           or
           rather
           flaying
           of
           his
           flocke
           ,
           and
           not
           (
           according
           to
           the
           Moderne
           Discipline
           )
           scrape
           and
           rake-in
           what
           hee
           may
           to
           liue
           afterward
           :
           hauing
           neither
           land
           liuing
           ,
           nor
           Art
           otherwise
           to
           maintaine
           himselfe
           when
           the
           warres
           are
           done
           .
        
         
           4
           Likewise
           where
           Captaines
           were
           rightly
           chosen
           of
           such
           Reputation
           and
           credit
           as
           is
           before
           repeated
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           a
           speciall
           care
           in
           health
           and
           sicknesse
           to
           prouide
           things
           necessarie
           to
           preserue
           the
           liues
           of
           their
           Souldiers
           (
           being
           their
           Tenaunts
           or
           Neighbours
           ,
           that
           euer
           after
           to
           their
           death
           would
           honour
           and
           loue
           them
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           the
           kindred
           and
           friends
           of
           those
           Souldiers
           also
           ,
           whensoeuer
           it
           came
           to
           any
           fight
           with
           the
           Enemie
           ,
           they
           were
           euer
           most
           assured
           and
           faithfull
           to
           such
           Leaders
           ,
           and
           they
           likewise
           to
           them
           .
           In
           such
           sort
           as
           it
           was
           almost
           impossible
           to
           breake
           such
           a
           knot
           ef
           vnited
           mindes
           :
           but
           being
           otherwise
           leuied
           (
           as
           too
           too
           commonly
           in
           our
           Moderne
           warres
           hath
           beene
           accustomed
           ,
           where
           the
           Captaine
           neither
           knowes
           his
           Souldiers
           ,
           nor
           the
           Souldiers
           their
           Captain
           before
           the
           Seruice
           ,
           nor
           euer
           meane
           to
           meete
           againe
           when
           the
           warres
           are
           ended
           )
           As
           the
           loue
           is
           small
           betweene
           them
           ,
           So
           is
           their
           fidelitye
           and
           confidence
           much
           lesse
           .
           And
           as
           the
           
           Captaine
           taketh
           small
           care
           to
           prouide
           for
           them
           eyther
           in
           health
           or
           sicknesse
           for
           any
           necessaries
           to
           preserue
           liues
           ,
           So
           haue
           as
           smal
           deuotion
           to
           aduenture
           their
           liues
           for
           him
           or
           his
           honour
           (
           to
           whom
           indeed
           the
           chiefe
           reputation
           of
           their
           good
           seruice
           alwaies
           should
           redound
           )
           But
           rather
           in
           all
           Encounters
           with
           the
           Enemie
           ,
           how
           to
           make
           shift
           by
           flight
           to
           saue
           their
           liues
           .
           If
           then
           these
           kinde
           of
           Captains
           also
           (
           very
           prouidently
           foreseeing
           the
           worst
           which
           is
           likely
           to
           happen
           )
           will
           not
           bee
           vnprouided
           of
           a
           beast
           ,
           to
           run-away
           ,
           trusting
           rather
           to
           the
           legs
           of
           his
           horse
           than
           to
           all
           the
           hands
           in
           his
           Band
           :
           What
           can
           bee
           conceiued
           ?
           But
           that
           heereof
           chiefely
           it
           comes
           to
           passe
           ,
           that
           in
           these
           moderne
           warres
           wee
           heare
           of
           so
           many
           violent
           Retraits
           ,
           (
           For
           so
           in
           their
           new
           discipline
           they
           terme
           that
           which
           in
           the
           olde
           warres
           was
           called
           shamefull
           flight
           )
           I
           meane
           when
           the
           Captaine
           and
           some
           of
           his
           Officers
           spur-away
           on
           horsebacke
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           throwe
           away
           both
           armour
           and
           weapons
           to
           leape
           ditches
           the
           more
           lightly
           ,
           and
           are
           shamfully
           slaine
           without
           resistance
           :
           and
           many
           times
           by
           multitudes
           (
           pressing
           to
           get
           boats
           )
           do
           drowne
           themselues
           .
           Now
           whether
           such
           accidents
           bee
           too
           vsuall
           or
           no
           ,
           I
           referre
           it
           to
           their
           owne
           consciences
           that
           most
           boldly
           will
           commend
           this
           base
           moderne
           discipline
           .
           And
           if
           it
           be
           true
           whether
           there
           bee
           any
           more
           likely
           cause
           thereof
           than
           the
           diffidence
           before
           recited
           betweene
           the
           Captaine
           and
           his
           souldiers
           ,
           and
           the
           want
           of
           shame
           (
           which
           in
           the
           Antique
           Souldiery
           was
           euer
           accounted
           the
           highest
           vertue
           )
           But
           now
           by
           depraued
           custome
           in
           our
           licentious
           degenerate
           warres
           vtterly
           lost
           and
           abandoned
           :
           and
           such
           accounted
           brauest
           men
           that
           are
           become
           of
           all
           others
           the
           most
           impudent
           .
        
         
           5
           I
           say
           also
           it
           was
           a
           most
           honorable
           order
           to
           haue
           it
           punished
           with
           great
           shame
           in
           any
           souldier
           to
           lose
           or
           throw-away
           his
           Armes
           ,
           being
           held
           among
           the
           Graecians
           a
           perpetuall
           disgrace
           for
           any
           priuate
           souldier
           so
           much
           as
           to
           loose
           his
           Target
           .
           But
           if
           now
           both
           Captaines
           and
           some
           
           chiefe
           Commaunders
           also
           of
           the
           Moderne
           new
           Militia
           will
           bee
           much
           offended
           to
           haue
           any
           of
           their
           Band
           so
           much
           as
           checked
           by
           the
           Censor
           or
           Muster-Master
           for
           lacke
           of
           his
           Curates
           or
           Caske
           .
           And
           to
           encourage
           either
           to
           leaue
           their
           Armes
           ,
           wil
           seldome
           themselues
           euer
           weare
           any
           ,
           but
           take
           it
           for
           a
           great
           brauerie
           and
           Magnanimitie
           in
           Seruice
           to
           bee
           seene
           vnarmed
           .
           What
           shall
           I
           say
           but
           that
           indeed
           (
           for
           them
           that
           neuer
           meane
           to
           fight
           ,
           but
           to
           escape
           by
           flight
           )
           to
           bee
           the
           lighter
           for
           a
           swift
           carrier
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           verie
           politique
           inuention
           and
           a
           gainfull
           Discipline
           .
        
         
           6
           It
           was
           also
           an
           honourable
           course
           of
           Antiquitie
           (
           besides
           the
           choise
           of
           the
           Captaines
           of
           such
           credit
           in
           their
           Townes
           &
           Countries
           at
           their
           entring
           also
           into
           Seruice
           )
           to
           binde
           them
           and
           their
           Souldiers
           all
           with
           a
           sacred
           solemne
           Militarie
           oath
           ,
           being
           holden
           no
           better
           than
           a
           thiefe
           or
           Free-booter
           that
           followed
           the
           warres
           ,
           vnlesse
           hee
           were
           enrolled
           vnder
           some
           Ensigne
           ,
           and
           had
           receiued
           his
           Militare
           oath
           ,
           whereby
           hee
           vowed
           both
           obedience
           and
           fidelitie
           ,
           and
           rather
           to
           die
           than
           dishonourably
           to
           abandon
           his
           Leader
           and
           Ensigne
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           such
           new
           Discipline
           these
           ceremonies
           are
           scoffed
           at
           ,
           and
           Captaines
           chosen
           sutable
           to
           their
           loose
           depraued
           Soulderie
           ,
        
         
           7
           It
           was
           also
           a
           laudable
           custome
           to
           haue
           the
           Captaine
           cary
           his
           own
           Armes
           in
           his
           Ensigne
           ,
           besides
           the
           Ensignes
           of
           the
           Regiments
           which
           were
           among
           the
           Romans
           alway
           Eagles
           .
           And
           that
           hee
           that
           lost
           his
           Ensigne
           should
           bee
           held
           a
           disgraced
           man
           ,
           not
           fit
           to
           carrie
           Armes
           till
           hee
           had
           wonne
           like
           honour
           againe
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           in
           our
           new
           Militia
           in
           stead
           of
           Ensignes
           we
           haue
           learned
           to
           carry
           colours
           ,
           because
           many
           Captaines
           perhaps
           are
           yet
           to
           winne
           their
           Armes
           ,
           and
           thereby
           make
           small
           account
           to
           loose
           their
           Maisters
           colours
           ,
           which
           may
           bee
           one
           cause
           (
           among
           many
           other
           )
           that
           the
           Spaniard
           within
           these
           20
           or
           30
           yeares
           can
           make
           his
           vant
           of
           the
           
           taking
           of
           more
           English
           Ensignes
           ,
           than
           I
           thinke
           they
           could
           truly
           these
           500
           yeares
           before
           .
        
         
           8
           It
           was
           also
           a
           most
           laudable
           Discipline
           ,
           wherby
           men
           from
           their
           infancye
           were
           taught
           in
           those
           Martiall
           Schooles
           rather
           resolutely
           in
           the
           Field
           to
           die
           ,
           than
           to
           saue
           their
           liues
           by
           flight
           ,
           the
           Mothers
           detesting
           and
           abhorring
           their
           owne
           children
           that
           saued
           their
           liues
           by
           flying
           :
           yea
           and
           some
           with
           their
           owne
           hands
           doing
           execution
           on
           such
           children
           of
           their
           own
           as
           were
           Fugitiues
           ,
           rather
           than
           they
           would
           haue
           so
           dishonourable
           a
           Monument
           (
           as
           they
           said
           )
           to
           their
           parents
           and
           country
           to
           walke
           vpon
           the
           earth
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           in
           our
           Moderne
           Militia
           this
           error
           bee
           thought
           so
           small
           ,
           as
           many
           such
           braue
           men
           will
           among
           their
           cups
           vsually
           vaunt
           thereof
           ,
           and
           recount
           at
           how
           many
           places
           they
           haue
           fled
           and
           runne
           away
           :
           Taking
           as
           it
           were
           a
           glory
           to
           tell
           who
           had
           fled
           fastest
           ,
           the
           chaunge
           is
           ouer
           great
           .
        
         
           As
           in
           the
           ancient
           Martial
           States
           it
           was
           (
           euen
           in
           a
           priuate
           souldier
           )
           held
           a
           perpetuall
           shame
           to
           haue
           ronne
           away
           ,
           or
           somuch
           as
           onely
           abandoned
           his
           Ranke
           wherein
           hee
           was
           placed
           (
           vnlesse
           it
           were
           to
           step
           forward
           into
           the
           place
           of
           his
           precedent
           fellow
           slaine
           )
           So
           in
           a
           Captaine
           or
           Superiour
           Commander
           it
           is
           much
           more
           dishonorable
           and
           shamefull
           :
           Which
           hath
           caused
           many
           famous
           Generals
           (
           that
           ful
           easily
           might
           haue
           escaped
           &
           saued
           themselues
           )
           vtterly
           to
           refuse
           horses
           offered
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           meanes
           to
           flye
           ,
           and
           haue
           voluntarily
           sacrifized
           themselues
           with
           their
           souldiers
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           in
           our
           new
           Militia
           many
           braue
           souldiers
           (
           as
           they
           are
           tearmed
           by
           their
           owne
           crewe
           )
           will
           not
           shame
           to
           vaunt
           :
           In
           how
           many
           places
           they
           haue
           escaped
           by
           flight
           (
           belike
           of
           Zeale
           to
           fight
           againe
           for
           their
           countrey
           )
           the
           change
           indeed
           is
           great
           .
        
         
           10
           In
           the
           
             Antique
             Militia
          
           it
           was
           a
           shame
           for
           a
           Leader
           or
           Commaander
           of
           footmen
           to
           bee
           seene
           mounted
           on
           
           any
           horse
           of
           seruice
           ,
           but
           eyther
           a
           foote
           ,
           or
           for
           his
           ease
           (
           being
           wearied
           )
           on
           some
           small
           Nagge
           ,
           which
           no
           man
           could
           suspect
           was
           any
           way
           reserued
           to
           escape
           by
           flight
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           in
           such
           Moderne
           Militia
           ye
           shal
           haue
           both
           Captaines
           and
           Collonels
           on
           horses
           of
           swift
           carrier
           mounted
           ,
           and
           brauely
           leading
           their
           men
           euen
           to
           the
           place
           of
           Butcherie
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           take
           their
           leaue
           (
           vnder
           pretence
           to
           fetch
           supplies
           )
           The
           Discipline
           is
           greatly
           altered
           .
           And
           yet
           these
           shamelesse
           Fugitiues
           perhaps
           highly
           commending
           one
           another
           (
           when
           the
           valiant
           men
           that
           resolutely
           died
           in
           the
           place
           ,
           by
           slaunderous
           inuentions
           shall
           be
           lewdly
           defaced
           )
           These
           Fugitiues
           I
           say
           may
           bee
           aduanced
           ,
           and
           the
           valiant
           disgraced
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           buried
           in
           obliuion
           .
        
         
           11
           In
           these
           
             Antique
             Martiall
          
           Commonweales
           they
           vsed
           to
           make
           Statuas
           and
           Epigrams
           in
           their
           honour
           that
           resolutely
           died
           in
           the
           Field
           for
           the
           seruice
           of
           their
           countrey
           :
           and
           detested
           such
           base
           minded
           cowards
           as
           saued
           thēselues
           by
           flight
           .
           But
           if
           contrariwise
           wee
           burie
           their
           names
           in
           obliuion
           that
           valiantly
           died
           in
           the
           field
           ,
           and
           extoll
           Fugitiues
           ,
           and
           thinke
           them
           not
           vnworthy
           of
           new
           charges
           :
           There
           is
           a
           great
           alteration
           indeed
           of
           Martiall
           Discipline
           .
        
         
           12
           In
           the
           auncient
           Martiall
           States
           and
           Monarchies
           ,
           there
           were
           publike
           places
           of
           Exercise
           ,
           where
           the
           youth
           (
           before
           they
           went
           to
           the
           warres
           )
           vsed
           to
           inure
           thēselues
           to
           more
           heauie
           armes
           and
           weapons
           farre
           than
           the
           vsuall
           for
           seruice
           ,
           making
           thereby
           their
           ordinarie
           Armes
           seeme
           light
           and
           easie
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           such
           Patrones
           of
           the
           new
           Discipline
           scoffe
           at
           these
           painefull
           exercises
           (
           because
           they
           neyther
           trouble
           thēselues
           nor
           the
           souldiers
           with
           the
           wearing
           of
           such
           Armes
           )
           it
           seemeth
           that
           as
           they
           of
           the
           Antiquity
           prepared
           themselues
           to
           fight
           and
           conquer
           .
           So
           these
           Moderne
           Commaunders
           to
           escape
           and
           carowse
           with
           the
           dead
           paies
           of
           their
           slaine
           Souldiers
           .
        
         
         
           13
           The
           Antique
           Martiall
           discipline
           was
           to
           range
           their
           Souldiers
           into
           forme
           of
           battaile
           by
           due
           proportions
           of
           Rankes
           ,
           teaching
           the
           succeeding
           Rankes
           (
           where
           any
           of
           the
           former
           were
           slaine
           )
           to
           reinforce
           their
           places
           maintaining
           their
           first
           Ranks
           still
           full
           with
           armed
           handes
           of
           fighting
           men
           in
           Martiall
           order
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           such
           Ringleaders
           of
           the
           Moderne
           pudled
           discipline
           ,
           as
           would
           haue
           all
           brought
           into
           a
           confusion
           ,
           scoffe
           at
           such
           order
           &
           Ordinances
           ,
           &
           say
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           better
           way
           to
           make
           a
           battaile
           than
           aduance
           4
           pikes
           ,
           &
           make
           their
           Souldiers
           runne
           in
           and
           fil
           them
           :
           And
           that
           all
           other
           Arithmeticall
           Rules
           (
           for
           speedie
           dispatch
           thereof
           )
           are
           vnfeazible
           toyes
           ,
           because
           their
           owne
           skills
           will
           not
           reach
           it
           as
           a
           matter
           they
           neuer
           set
           their
           wits
           vpon
           .
           Whether
           they
           were
           fitter
           to
           fould
           sheepe
           ,
           or
           embattell
           Souldiers
           I
           leaue
           it
           to
           the
           censure
           of
           honourable
           &
           right
           Martiall
           Commaunders
           .
        
         
           14
           The
           discipline
           was
           to
           reduce
           their
           Armies
           into
           sondrie
           Battalions
           and
           sundry
           seuerall
           Frounts
           whereby
           the
           General
           and
           his
           chiefe
           Officers
           and
           Collonels
           might
           orderly
           bring
           new
           succours
           to
           fight
           ,
           and
           relieue
           such
           as
           were
           tired
           or
           weakned
           by
           slaughter
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           renue
           many
           fights
           upon
           the
           Enemy
           still
           with
           corragious
           fresh
           men
           till
           they
           had
           entier
           victorie
           .
           And
           for
           that
           cause
           had
           they
           so
           many
           Fronts
           and
           seuerall
           kinde
           of
           Commaunders
           ,
           as
           
             Turmarum
             Praefectos
          
           ,
           ouer
           their
           
             Principes
             ,
             Hastatos
             &
             Triarios
             :
             Tribunos
             Militum
          
           also
           Drungarios
           or
           
             Chiliarchas
             ,
             Turmarchas
             Merarchas
             ,
             Celerum
             Praefectos
             ,
          
           and
           many
           others
           as
           in
           my
           Stratioticos
           is
           set
           down
           more
           lagely
           for
           their
           Fanterie
           onely
           :
           Whereon
           those
           right
           Martiall
           Nations
           reposed
           their
           chiefest
           trust
           ,
           and
           yet
           no
           idle
           Leaders
           or
           Officers
           ,
           but
           euerie
           one
           to
           so
           necessarie
           a
           purpose
           as
           they
           might
           not
           conueniently
           bee
           spared
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           such
           men
           of
           warre
           of
           the
           new
           Mould
           scoffe
           at
           all
           these
           Ordinances
           and
           Supplies
           ,
           saying
           :
           A
           battell
           is
           
           woon
           and
           lost
           in
           the
           twinkling
           of
           an
           eye
           at
           the
           first
           ioyning
           ,
           and
           therefore
           needlesse
           :
           Wee
           may
           indeede
           confesse
           it
           too
           true
           ,
           where
           they
           bring
           their
           braue
           men
           like
           flocks
           of
           sheepe
           hudle
           confused
           to
           fight
           ,
           or
           rather
           to
           flight
           :
           The
           battaile
           is
           many
           times
           indeed
           gotten
           before
           the
           crossing
           of
           pikes
           .
           The
           terror
           onely
           of
           Armes
           glistering
           is
           sufficient
           to
           scare
           such
           pilfering
           vnsouldierlike
           Freebooters
           .
        
         
           15
           The
           auncient
           discipline
           was
           euer
           to
           encampe
           their
           souldiers
           close
           together
           strongly
           ,
           and
           so
           orderly
           to
           deuide
           their
           Quarters
           ,
           and
           set
           downe
           their
           Regiments
           :
           As
           their
           campe
           was
           like
           a
           well
           fortified
           Towne
           ,
           where
           ten-times
           so
           many
           Enemies
           durst
           not
           assault
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           our
           new
           discipline
           ,
           to
           lodge
           our
           Armie
           in
           Villages
           farre
           and
           wide
           a
           sunder
           ,
           as
           euery
           Captaine
           may
           be
           prouided
           most
           for
           his
           ease
           and
           commoditie
           like
           pettie
           Princes
           ,
           and
           thereby
           in
           no
           place
           more
           easily
           defeated
           than
           in
           their
           owne
           lodgings
           .
        
         
           16
           The
           auntient
           Martiall
           men
           thought
           it
           not
           dishonourable
           with
           their
           owne
           hands
           to
           Entrench
           their
           Capms
           .
           And
           their
           great
           Generals
           would
           take
           the
           Shouell
           in
           hand
           themselues
           when
           occasion
           so
           required
           .
        
         
           But
           our
           braue
           men
           of
           the
           new
           Discipline
           disdaine
           to
           bee
           Pioners
           ,
           and
           will
           rather
           lodge
           abroad
           in
           villages
           at
           their
           pleasure
           and
           ease
           like
           gallant
           fellowes
           ,
           where
           they
           may
           take
           their
           pleasure
           ,
           and
           carouse
           lustily
           .
        
         
           17
           The
           auncient
           Discipline
           reposed
           their
           chiefe
           confidence
           in
           their
           Fanterie
           ,
           whom
           they
           so
           trained
           ,
           armed
           and
           ordered
           :
           As
           twentie
           or
           thirtie
           thousand
           footemen
           forced
           not
           of
           fiue
           times
           so
           many
           horsemen
           .
        
         
           But
           as
           our
           footmen
           of
           the
           new
           Discipline
           are
           armed
           and
           ordered
           ,
           a
           thousand
           horse
           is
           able
           to
           defeat
           fiue
           times
           as
           many
           such
           footmen
           .
           And
           yet
           might
           the
           footmen
           of
           our
           time
           carry
           weapons
           of
           farre
           greater
           aduantage
           against
           horse
           being
           well
           ordered
           ,
           than
           were
           knowne
           in
           those
           daies
           .
           So
           great
           is
           the
           error
           of
           the
           Martial
           Discipline
           
           of
           our
           age
           among
           such
           Leaders
           ,
           as
           haue
           beene
           trayned-vp
           in
           Freebooter
           warres
           ,
           and
           haue
           vowed
           their
           seruice
           to
           their
           Ladie
           Picorea
           ,
           being
           carelesse
           of
           any
           thing
           appertaining
           to
           Victory
           and
           Honour
           ,
           respecting
           rather
           their
           owne
           priuate
           profit
           and
           commoditie
           .
        
         
           18
           The
           auncient
           Martiall
           Discipline
           tended
           chiefely
           to
           this
           scope
           ,
           to
           carry
           such
           an
           Army
           to
           the
           Field
           ,
           as
           boldly
           durst
           march
           on
           all
           grounds
           ,
           as
           well
           Champion
           ,
           as
           by
           Straights
           .
           And
           in
           Ordinance
           readie
           to
           fight
           with
           the
           Enemie
           by
           their
           exercise
           ,
           order
           ,
           and
           assurance
           ,
           not
           doubting
           of
           victorie
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           scope
           of
           such
           Moderne
           Discipline
           seemeth
           to
           bee
           rather
           to
           carrie
           men
           (
           so
           lightly
           armed
           and
           loosely
           disciplined
           )
           as
           they
           may
           bee
           nimble
           to
           stray
           abroad
           to
           picke
           and
           steale
           ,
           and
           to
           escape
           by
           flight
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           charged
           with
           any
           Enemie
           of
           force
           .
           And
           as
           for
           losse
           of
           Ensignes
           or
           shamefull
           flight
           ,
           they
           make
           it
           a
           trifling
           matter
           ,
           being
           readie
           to
           doe
           as
           much
           againe
           at
           any
           time
           .
        
         
           19
           The
           auncient
           Discipline
           would
           neuer
           suffer
           any
           souldiers
           to
           go
           abroad
           to
           spoile
           ,
           but
           with
           Leaders
           and
           commaunders
           to
           direct
           and
           guide
           them
           :
           hauing
           intelligence
           before
           hand
           ,
           which
           Quarters
           was
           best
           replenished
           with
           commodities
           needfull
           for
           the
           Army
           ,
           and
           then
           sent
           such
           forces
           as
           might
           not
           faile
           to
           set
           it
           in
           ,
           or
           honourably
           defend
           themselues
           if
           they
           were
           encountred
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           new
           discipline
           will
           send
           their
           souldiers
           to
           spoile
           by
           handfuls
           ,
           without
           Captaine
           ,
           Lieutenant
           or
           Ensigne
           to
           guide
           them
           :
           if
           they
           get
           any
           Pickorie
           ,
           the
           Captaine
           hath
           his
           share
           :
           But
           if
           their
           throats
           bee
           cut
           ,
           the
           Captaine
           will
           haue
           their
           pay
           ,
           aswell
           due
           before
           their
           death
           as
           after
           ,
           by
           mustering
           them
           absent
           ,
           &c
           ,
           til
           the
           Muster-master
           discouer
           it
           .
           And
           whereas
           such
           a
           Captaine
           should
           bee
           disarmed
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Prouost
           hanged
           for
           such
           abuse
           :
           By
           this
           new
           Discipline
           hee
           will
           raile
           at
           the
           Muster-master
           lustely
           ,
           if
           hee
           cheeke
           him
           onely
           the
           stollen
           pay
           .
        
         
         
           20
           The
           auncient
           true
           Martiall
           Discipline
           was
           ,
           That
           all
           Prayes
           (
           so
           orderly
           in
           the
           warres
           takē
           )
           should
           be
           brought
           to
           one
           place
           ;
           where
           Magistrates
           and
           Officers
           of
           purpose
           appointed
           should
           dispose
           thereof
           for
           the
           Ransoming
           of
           prisoners
           ,
           and
           the
           remounting
           of
           such
           as
           had
           their
           horses
           slaine
           in
           Seruice
           ,
           and
           for
           reward
           aswell
           of
           those
           that
           made
           the
           Stand
           ,
           as
           of
           those
           that
           fet
           in
           the
           pray
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           our
           new
           Discipline
           it
           is
           
             Catch
             who
             catch
             may
          
           ,
           and
           no
           order
           in
           the
           world
           for
           distribution
           of
           the
           pray
           for
           any
           publique
           vses
           ,
           nor
           for
           redemption
           of
           prisoners
           ,
           or
           remounting
           of
           such
           as
           in
           Seruice
           lost
           their
           horses
           .
        
         
           21
           The
           auncient
           Discipline
           was
           that
           no
           armed
           man
           on
           paine
           of
           death
           should
           step
           out
           of
           his
           Ranke
           in
           time
           of
           Seruice
           ,
           to
           catch
           or
           spoile
           ,
           which
           they
           easily
           obeyed
           ,
           because
           by
           their
           Martiall
           Discipline
           then
           ,
           they
           had
           as
           good
           reward
           out
           of
           the
           pray
           (
           that
           stood
           in
           battaile
           armed
           )
           as
           the
           loose
           men
           that
           brought
           it
           in
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           our
           Moderne
           warres
           (
           where
           no
           such
           order
           is
           established
           ,
           but
           
             Catch
             who
             catch
             may
          
           )
           there
           is
           nothing
           but
           confusion
           :
           Which
           cannot
           be
           but
           to
           their
           vtter
           ruine
           and
           shame
           .
           Whensoeuer
           such
           vnsouldierly
           Freebooters
           shall
           encounter
           with
           any
           Enemie
           of
           good
           gouernment
           .
        
         
           22
           By
           the
           auncient
           Discipline
           (
           besides
           the
           reward
           of
           the
           souldiers
           which
           was
           left
           to
           the
           discretion
           of
           the
           Generall
           )
           there
           were
           euer
           great
           masses
           of
           Treasure
           brought
           home
           to
           the
           publique
           Treasurie
           to
           maintaine
           the
           future
           warres
           ,
           and
           thereby
           no
           Cesses
           or
           Subsidies
           on
           the
           people
           for
           many
           yeares
           together
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           treasure
           so
           saued
           and
           gained
           by
           their
           well
           disciplined
           warres
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           by
           our
           Moderne
           Discipline
           of
           
             Land
             Seruices
          
           the
           Prince
           or
           State
           hath
           no
           benefit
           by
           the
           spoiles
           ,
           but
           is
           riotously
           wasted
           among
           such
           Freebooters
           and
           their
           assotiates
           and
           the
           best
           souldiers
           least
           part
           of
           the
           pray
           ,
           and
           by
           
           such
           disordered
           warre
           ,
           no
           ceasing
           of
           Taxes
           or
           Subsidies
           ,
           but
           continuāce
           or
           rather
           encrease
           of
           both
           ,
           in
           al
           Realmes
           and
           States
           serued
           by
           such
           spoilers
           :
           It
           is
           easie
           to
           discerne
           which
           were
           the
           better
           Discipline
           for
           the
           Prince
           and
           people
           .
        
         
           23
           By
           such
           auncient
           Discipline
           Kingdomes
           and
           States
           by
           their
           warres
           haue
           encreased
           their
           wealth
           ,
           and
           their
           Subiects
           haue
           growne
           more
           wealthie
           and
           mightie
           .
        
         
           But
           by
           our
           Moderne
           warres
           both
           Prince
           and
           Subiects
           grow
           poore
           ,
           &
           few
           of
           these
           vnruly
           vnsouldierlike
           Free-booters
           (
           how
           hugely
           soeuer
           they
           get
           by
           their
           corruptions
           or
           abuses
           )
           grow
           wealthie
           by
           it
           ,
           for
           ,
           
             Badly
             gotten
             is
             euer
             commonly
             worse
             spent
             .
          
        
         
           24
           The
           scope
           of
           the
           auncient
           Martiall
           Discipline
           was
           chiefly
           to
           preserue
           the
           publique
           Treasure
           of
           the
           coūtry
           ,
           and
           to
           maintaine
           the
           warres
           on
           the
           treasure
           gotten
           by
           conquests
           on
           their
           Enemies
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           scope
           of
           our
           Moderne
           Discipline
           seemeth
           to
           bee
           to
           enrich
           priuate
           Captaines
           and
           Commaunders
           ,
           and
           to
           conuert
           both
           the
           spoiles
           &
           the
           wages
           of
           the
           souldiers
           also
           to
           their
           particular
           benefits
           .
           And
           so
           new
           Taxes
           and
           Subsidies
           of
           necessitie
           still
           on
           the
           people
           to
           maintaine
           the
           warres
           .
        
         
           25
           The
           auncient
           Generals
           and
           great
           Commanders
           had
           their
           chiefest
           care
           how
           to
           preserue
           their
           own
           people
           which
           caused
           them
           so
           carefully
           to
           arme
           them
           ,
           traine
           thē
           ,
           and
           entrench
           them
           strongly
           ,
           &c.
           saying
           the
           held
           it
           more
           honorable
           to
           saue
           one
           of
           their
           owne
           Souldiers
           than
           to
           destroy
           ten
           Enemies
           .
           As
           they
           likewise
           sought
           to
           make
           their
           Souldiers
           and
           Countrey
           wealthie
           ,
           respecting
           nothing
           for
           themselues
           but
           the
           honour
           onely
           of
           well-doing
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           our
           Moderne
           Discipline
           it
           seemeth
           ,
           The
           more
           of
           their
           Souldiers
           are
           wasted
           and
           consumed
           ,
           the
           richer
           grow
           such
           Commanders
           as
           by
           deceipts
           in
           Musters
           haue
           the
           conscience
           to
           conuert
           all
           the
           dead
           payes
           to
           their
           own
           
           profit
           :
           Which
           wicked
           game
           of
           all
           other
           is
           most
           abhominable
           before
           God
           &
           perrilous
           to
           any
           State
           :
           the
           strength
           and
           glory
           of
           a
           Prince
           onely
           consisting
           in
           the
           multitude
           and
           force
           of
           his
           people
           which
           are
           wasted
           and
           consumed
           by
           such
           Moathes
           and
           Caterpillers
           .
        
         
           26
           These
           auncient
           worthie
           Generals
           and
           Commaunders
           in
           the
           Field
           bent
           their
           wits
           and
           inuentions
           onely
           for
           such
           exploits
           as
           might
           be
           honourable
           and
           profitable
           to
           their
           countrey
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           Commaunders
           of
           the
           new
           discipline
           deuise
           onely
           Exploits
           to
           waste
           and
           consume
           the
           Treasure
           of
           their
           Prince
           or
           State
           :
           And
           care
           not
           (
           to
           supply
           their
           owne
           prodigall
           Expences
           )
           though
           they
           spoyle
           their
           friends
           thereby
           ,
           not
           onely
           doing
           their
           best
           to
           breake
           amitie
           and
           make
           more
           Enemies
           to
           their
           Prince
           and
           Countrey
           ,
           but
           also
           commit
           such
           foolish
           spoiles
           as
           their
           Prince
           or
           State
           shall
           bee
           sure
           to
           repay
           again
           double
           and
           treble
           any
           commoditie
           or
           aide
           they
           receiued
           thereby
           .
           This
           abuse
           surely
           ought
           to
           bee
           amended
           .
        
         
           27
           In
           those
           auncient
           right
           Martiall
           States
           wee
           shall
           heare
           of
           Generals
           and
           Dictators
           (
           after
           they
           had
           deposed
           Kings
           conquered
           great
           Princes
           ,
           and
           brought
           home
           to
           the
           Treasure
           of
           the
           countrey
           mightie
           masses
           of
           Gold
           &
           Siluer
           )
           were
           neuerthelesse
           contēt
           to
           returne
           home
           to
           their
           poore
           houses
           ,
           no
           whit
           enriched
           in
           wealth
           ,
           but
           only
           in
           honour
           ,
           liuing
           soberly
           and
           temperately
           as
           before
           on
           their
           priuate
           patrimony
           ,
           and
           scarcely
           a
           peece
           of
           Siluer-plate
           to
           be
           seene
           in
           their
           own
           houses
           ,
           that
           haue
           brought
           in
           millions
           to
           their
           State
           and
           Realme
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           in
           our
           Moderne
           Discipline
           wee
           shall
           see
           pettie
           Commaunders
           (
           that
           neuer
           brought
           into
           their
           Princes
           Realme
           or
           State
           the
           hundred
           part
           of
           any
           such
           masses
           of
           Treasure
           ,
           but
           rather
           haue
           had
           their
           share
           in
           wasting
           huge
           sums
           to
           little
           purpose
           )
           to
           abound
           in
           brauery
           ,
           wast
           infinitely
           in
           all
           kinde
           of
           vanities
           ,
           that
           I
           say
           no
           worse
           ,
           And
           more
           Siluer
           dishes
           on
           their
           Table
           than
           
             Quintus
             Dictator
          
           
           or
           Scipio
           that
           conquered
           Hanniball
           and
           razed
           Carthage
           :
           It
           seemeth
           these
           men
           serue
           themselues
           ,
           as
           the
           other
           did
           their
           countrey
           .
        
         
           28
           Wee
           may
           read
           of
           
             Romane
             Generals
          
           that
           by
           conquering
           some
           Prouinces
           brought
           so
           great
           a
           masse
           of
           wealth
           to
           the
           publique
           Treasurie
           of
           Rome
           ,
           that
           it
           ceased
           Taxes
           ,
           Tributes
           ,
           or
           Subsidies
           there
           for
           many
           yeares
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           our
           Moderne
           Militia
           (
           cleane
           contrarie
           )
           doo
           still
           waste
           and
           consume
           the
           publique
           Treasure
           ,
           and
           bee
           the
           cause
           not
           of
           ceasing
           ,
           but
           rather
           of
           encreasing
           of
           Tributes
           or
           Subsidies
           on
           their
           countrey
           ,
           the
           difference
           of
           Discipline
           indeed
           is
           great
           :
           But
           which
           were
           the
           better
           for
           the
           honour
           and
           commodity
           of
           our
           Prince
           and
           countrey
           ,
           is
           easie
           by
           the
           wise
           ,
           honest
           ,
           and
           right
           honourable
           to
           bee
           discerned
           .
        
         
           By
           the
           
             Auncient
             Discipline
          
           little
           Macedonie
           conquered
           all
           the
           large
           and
           spacious
           Orientall
           Empire
           of
           the
           proud
           ,
           rich
           ,
           &
           populous
           Persians
           :
           And
           that
           smal
           Realme
           of
           Rome
           subdued
           so
           many
           Nations
           vnder
           their
           obedience
           in
           
             Europe
             Africke
          
           ,
           and
           Asia
           ,
           and
           made
           Tributarie
           so
           many
           mightie
           Kings
           ,
           as
           their
           Monarchie
           was
           of
           the
           whole
           world
           admired
           :
           And
           that
           their
           
             discipline
             Militarie
          
           was
           the
           chiefe
           or
           onely
           cause
           thereof
           :
           That
           famous
           Romane
           Emperour
           
             Alexander
             Seuerus
          
           in
           his
           Oration
           to
           his
           Souldiers
           declareth
           ,
           saying
           .
        
         
           
             Disciplina
             Maiorum
             Rempub.
             tenet
             ,
             quae
             si
             dilabatur
             ,
          
           
             Et
             nomen
             Romanum
             ,
             &
             Imperium
             amittemus
             .
          
        
         
           If
           then
           not
           onely
           by
           the
           censure
           or
           prophesie
           of
           that
           famous
           Emperour
           ,
           concerning
           ,
           that
           State
           ,
           but
           by
           verie
           experience
           also
           in
           our
           owne
           age
           of
           many
           others
           our
           Neighbours
           round
           about
           vs
           ,
           wee
           may
           plainely
           beholde
           the
           successe
           of
           this
           corrupt
           degenerate
           Moderne
           Militia
           ,
           so
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Auncient
           :
           It
           were
           wilfull
           blindnesse
           not
           to
           discerne
           which
           were
           the
           better
           .
           And
           no
           
           lesse
           negligence
           to
           permit
           the
           continuance
           of
           so
           daungerous
           a
           disease
           .
        
         
           30
           Wee
           shall
           also
           read
           of
           Generals
           in
           those
           warlike
           Common-weales
           ,
           that
           so
           highly
           esteemed
           of
           the
           Martial
           Discipline
           of
           their
           Nation
           ,
           and
           were
           so
           zealous
           therein
           ,
           as
           they
           would
           not
           haue
           it
           violated
           in
           the
           least
           point
           .
           As
           
             Manlius
             Torquatus
          
           that
           would
           haue
           executed
           his
           own
           sonne
           for
           encountring
           in
           particular
           combate
           with
           his
           Enemie
           without
           leaue
           ,
           and
           before
           the
           Signall
           of
           battaile
           giuen
           ;
           Albeit
           hee
           had
           the
           victorie
           and
           strake-of
           his
           enemies
           head
           in
           the
           sight
           of
           both
           Armies
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           encouragement
           of
           the
           Romanes
           ,
           and
           terrour
           of
           the
           contrarie
           side
           ,
           that
           tooke
           that
           particular
           Encounter
           as
           Ominous
           for
           the
           successe
           of
           the
           battaile
           ,
           as
           it
           fell
           indeed
           out
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           honour
           of
           the
           Romanes
           ,
           and
           vtter
           ruine
           of
           their
           Enemies
           .
           Yet
           after
           the
           victorie
           this
           honourable
           and
           famous
           Generall
           ,
           considering
           the
           daunger
           that
           might
           haue
           fallen
           out
           if
           his
           sonne
           had
           not
           beene
           victorious
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           discipline
           Romane
           was
           broken
           by
           this
           attempt
           (
           to
           fight
           without
           licence
           )
           hee
           would
           not
           spare
           it
           in
           his
           owne
           sonne
           ,
           but
           commaunded
           the
           Serients
           to
           apprehend
           him
           ,
           and
           (
           after
           hee
           had
           beene
           whipped
           with
           rods
           )
           to
           bee
           openly
           executed
           :
           wherein
           hee
           so
           constantly
           perseuered
           ,
           as
           his
           whole
           
             Victorious
             Armie
          
           on
           their
           knees
           could
           scarcely
           obtaine
           his
           pardon
           .
           If
           then
           this
           breach
           of
           one
           point
           onely
           of
           Militarie
           obedience
           (
           committed
           of
           Magnanimitie
           and
           noble
           courage
           ,
           and
           aboundance
           of
           Zeale
           to
           his
           countrey
           )
           was
           in
           those
           daies
           so
           seuerely
           censured
           :
           As
           the
           father
           would
           not
           haue
           pardoned
           his
           owne
           sonne
           ,
           notwithstanding
           by
           his
           happie
           successe
           also
           hee
           was
           the
           chiefest
           cause
           of
           that
           honourable
           victorie
           .
        
         
           What
           shall
           wee
           say
           of
           such
           Ring-leaders
           of
           corruptions
           in
           the
           new
           discipline
           ,
           As
           shall
           not
           of
           any
           such
           Magnanimitie
           or
           haughtie
           courage
           or
           Zeale
           to
           their
           
           countrey
           ,
           but
           of
           a
           base
           ,
           corrupt
           ,
           and
           lucrous
           minde
           breake
           not
           one
           or
           two
           ,
           but
           many
           points
           of
           Martiall
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           therby
           not
           get
           victorie
           ,
           but
           more
           than
           once
           or
           twice
           receiue
           those
           dishonourable
           foiles
           and
           disgraces
           ,
           that
           for
           shame
           in
           those
           daies
           no
           priuate
           souldier
           would
           neuer
           returne
           home
           to
           abide
           the
           due
           shame
           and
           disgrace
           of
           .
           What
           can
           be
           said
           ?
           But
           that
           it
           is
           high
           time
           to
           haue
           these
           important
           Errors
           looked
           into
           ,
           least
           the
           same
           succeed
           heere
           ,
           which
           in
           all
           other
           States
           haue
           done
           ,
           where
           Martiall
           Discipline
           hath
           beene
           so
           neglected
           ,
           and
           corruptions
           triumph
           vnpunished
           .
        
         
           It
           were
           infinite
           to
           recite
           all
           the
           disorders
           of
           our
           Moderne
           warres
           ,
           and
           would
           require
           a
           long
           Treatise
           to
           lay-open
           all
           the
           commendable
           Ordinances
           ,
           Customes
           ,
           and
           prouisions
           of
           the
           famous
           Graecian
           and
           Romane
           Armies
           ,
           whereby
           they
           honoured
           and
           immortalized
           their
           Generals
           ,
           and
           amplified
           and
           enriched
           their
           States
           and
           Countries
           .
           But
           these
           few
           notes
           may
           suffice
           to
           shew
           how
           great
           a
           difference
           there
           is
           betweene
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           .
           Neither
           is
           it
           my
           meaning
           to
           call
           in
           question
           the
           doings
           of
           any
           particular
           persons
           ,
           but
           onely
           to
           open
           the
           daungerous
           error
           of
           that
           opinion
           :
           That
           the
           loose
           customes
           of
           our
           time
           should
           be
           better
           than
           the
           Auncient
           :
           Or
           of
           such
           excellency
           as
           wee
           neede
           no
           reformation
           or
           amendement
           .
        
         
           For
           I
           doubt
           not
           by
           due
           consideration
           of
           these
           few
           by
           mee
           recited
           it
           is
           manifest
           how
           great
           a
           difference
           there
           is
           betweene
           that
           Auncient
           Discipline
           (
           whereby
           meane
           and
           poore
           Estates
           were
           aduāced
           to
           mighty
           Monarchies
           )
           And
           these
           
             Moderne
             corruptions
          
           (
           whereby
           flourishing
           States
           haue
           beene
           spoyled
           and
           defaced
           ,
           and
           mightie
           Realmes
           and
           Empires
           brought
           to
           ruine
           .
           )
        
         
           But
           because
           some
           Patrones
           of
           these
           new
           corruptions
           (
           for
           defence
           of
           their
           bad
           cause
           )
           alleage
           :
           That
           the
           late
           famous
           inuention
           of
           
             Great
             Artillerie
          
           and
           Fireshott
           ,
           vnknowen
           to
           the
           Antiquitie
           ,
           and
           so
           farre
           surmounting
           all
           
           the
           Auncient
           Romane
           and
           Graecian
           Engines
           both
           in
           terror
           and
           effect
           )
           hath
           necessarily
           enforced
           so
           great
           an
           alteration
           of
           Armes
           ,
           Weapons
           ,
           and
           Militarie
           Order
           ,
           as
           the
           discipline
           also
           must
           cleane
           chaunge
           :
           I
           thinke
           it
           fit
           to
           set
           downe
           some
           of
           their
           chiefe
           and
           principall
           Reasons
           .
        
         
           1
           
             First
             therefore
          
           (
           say
           they
           )
           
             it
             is
             now
             to
             small
             purpose
             to
             weare
             Armes
             ,
             seeing
             the
             furie
             of
             the
             Fireshott
             is
             such
             ,
             as
             no
             Armour
             is
             able
             to
             holde
             it
             out
             .
          
        
         
           2
           
             It
             is
             vaine
             to
             make
             Battailes
             or
             Battalions
             in
             such
             order
             and
             forme
             ranked
             ,
             as
             among
             the
             Graecians
             or
             Romanes
             were
             accustomed
             .
             Because
             the
             furie
             of
             the
             great
             Artillerie
             is
             such
             as
             it
             o●●●eth
             ,
             breaketh
             and
             dissolueth
             all
             Orders
             or
             Ordinances
             that
             yee
             can
             imagine
             to
             make
             :
             And
             therefore
             experience
             hath
             taught
             us
          
           (
           say
           they
           )
           
             to
             leaue
             those
             massie
             Bodies
             of
             armed
             Battailes
             that
             serue
             but
             for
             Buts
             for
             the
             great
             Artillerie
             to
             play
             upon
             :
             And
             to
             seeke
             more
             nimble
             and
             light
             Fanterie
             that
             may
             bee
             readie
             to
             take
             and
             leaue
             at
             their
             pleasure
             .
          
        
         
           3
           
             And
             for
             the
             seueritie
             of
             Discipline
             in
             the
             warres
          
           (
           they
           say
           )
           
             it
             is
             like
             the
             Phrensie
             of
             some
             Diuines
             ,
             that
             would
             haue
             men
             in
             this
             world
             passe
             an
             Angelicall
             life
             ,
             without
             any
             fault
             or
             errors
             :
             which
             being
             so
             farre
             aboue
             the
             nature
             of
             man
             to
             performe
             :
             In
             aspiring
             to
             it
             many
             times
             they
             commit
             more
             foule
             and
             grosse
             faults
             than
             the
             vulgar
             sort
             ,
             that
             neuer
             reach
             at
             such
             perfection
             :
             and
             thereby
             become
             ridiculous
             to
             the
             world
             as
             they
             also
             will
             bee
             that
             shall
             attempt
             such
             praecise
             Discipline
             Militarie
             ,
             as
             is
             vtterly
             impossible
             to
             put
             in
             execution
             ,
             and
             vnnecessarie
             for
             this
             our
             age
             ,
             where
             Weapons
             and
             Orders
             of
             the
             warres
             are
             so
             altered
             and
             changed
             .
          
        
         
           These
           are
           the
           most
           effectuall
           Reasons
           that
           euer
           I
           could
           heare
           alleaged
           on
           that
           side
           to
           maintaine
           their
           hereticall
           opinion
           .
           But
           as
           there
           is
           no
           cause
           so
           bad
           ,
           but
           may
           by
           finenesse
           of
           wit
           be
           cleered
           and
           made
           appeare
           probable
           .
           So
           is
           there
           no
           doctrine
           so
           false
           but
           by
           craft
           &
           subtilty
           of
           mans
           inuentions
           shall
           bee
           made
           plausible
           and
           to
           appeare
           matter
           of
           good
           truth
           .
           These
           reasons
           indeed
           at
           the
           first
           appearance
           
           seeme
           probable
           ,
           but
           being
           duly
           weighed
           are
           no
           thing
           woorth
           .
        
         
           1
           And
           first
           for
           leauing
           Armes
           in
           respect
           of
           the
           furie
           of
           the
           Fireshot
           which
           no
           portable
           Armor
           is
           able
           to
           resist
           ,
           is
           both
           friuolous
           and
           false
           .
           For
           there
           are
           many
           reasons
           to
           vse
           conuenient
           Armes
           ,
           albeit
           that
           were
           true
           that
           they
           profited
           vs
           nothing
           against
           the
           Fireshot
           .
           For
           they
           defend
           vs
           from
           the
           Launco
           ,
           from
           the
           Pike
           ,
           the
           Halberd
           ,
           the
           Iauelin
           ,
           the
           Dart
           ,
           the
           Arrow
           ,
           and
           the
           Sword
           :
           yea
           and
           from
           the
           greater
           part
           of
           the
           fireshot
           also
           that
           any
           way
           endaunger
           vs
           in
           the
           field
           :
           I
           meane
           euen
           the
           portable
           and
           indifferent
           Armor
           that
           is
           made
           (
           n●t
           of
           Musket
           or
           Caleuer
           proofe
           )
           but
           onely
           against
           the
           Launce
           and
           Pistoll
           .
           For
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           fireshot
           that
           touch
           the
           bodies
           of
           any
           man
           in
           the
           field
           ,
           graze
           first
           and
           strike
           vpon
           the
           ground
           :
           And
           from
           all
           such
           shot
           ,
           a
           meane
           Armor
           verie
           portable
           and
           easily
           to
           bee
           worne
           by
           any
           souldier
           ,
           sufficeth
           to
           saue
           a
           mans
           life
           ,
           as
           ordinary
           experience
           in
           the
           field
           daily
           teacheth
           .
           For
           indeed
           to
           lade
           men
           with
           armes
           of
           Musket
           proofe
           (
           I
           am
           of
           their
           opinion
           )
           were
           not
           possible
           to
           endure
           ,
           and
           meere
           folly
           to
           put
           in
           vre
           for
           many
           respects
           :
           too
           long
           to
           commit
           to
           writing
           in
           this
           place
           .
           But
           this
           light
           and
           meane
           Armour
           is
           still
           to
           bee
           continued
           in
           all
           battailes
           and
           battalions
           that
           shall
           encounter
           with
           Pike
           or
           Launce
           ,
           because
           it
           assureth
           the
           life
           of
           man
           greatly
           from
           all
           other
           weapons
           ,
           yea
           and
           from
           the
           most
           part
           of
           the
           fireshott
           also
           .
        
         
           2
           Neyther
           is
           there
           any
           Martiall
           Commaunder
           of
           iudgment
           ,
           that
           will
           obiect
           his
           Battailes
           or
           Battalions
           as
           a
           But
           for
           the
           great
           or
           small
           Artillerie
           to
           play
           vpon
           :
           But
           will
           alway
           aduance
           forward
           their
           owne
           shot
           and
           lightest
           armed
           loose
           men
           to
           encounter
           their
           enemies
           shot
           ,
           and
           surprize
           his
           Ordinance
           before
           the
           battailes
           or
           battalions
           come
           within
           daunger
           of
           the
           Artillerie
           great
           or
           small
           ,
           to
           bee
           plaied
           on
           at
           
             Poinct
             Blanke
          
           .
           And
           thereby
           
           shall
           the
           enemie
           bee
           enforced
           eyther
           to
           put
           forward
           his
           Light-horse
           or
           Fanterie
           before
           his
           great
           Ordinance
           to
           guard
           and
           defend
           them
           :
           Or
           else
           they
           shall
           bee
           possessed
           or
           cloyed
           .
        
         
           If
           hee
           protect
           them
           with
           horse
           and
           foote
           of
           his
           owne
           from
           surprize
           ,
           then
           may
           the
           Squadrons
           march
           on
           safely
           ,
           and
           so
           (
           by
           good
           discretion
           )
           the
           armed
           battailes
           are
           in
           no
           daunger
           at
           all
           of
           their
           Enemies
           Artillerie
           ,
           but
           may
           aduenture
           forward
           in
           safety
           to
           backe
           their
           owne
           shott
           and
           light
           armed
           ,
           which
           were
           sent
           to
           surprize
           or
           cloy
           their
           enemies
           Artillery
           .
           And
           thē
           without
           any
           more
           annoyance
           of
           the
           great
           Ordinaunce
           ,
           the
           Battailes
           come
           to
           ioyne
           with
           Launce
           ,
           Sword
           ,
           or
           Pike
           ,
           as
           in
           olde
           time
           in
           auncient
           warres
           hath
           beene
           accustomed
           .
        
         
           Farther
           all
           men
           know
           (
           that
           are
           of
           skill
           or
           experience
           )
           that
           great
           Artillerie
           verie
           seldome
           or
           neuer
           can
           hurt
           any
           footeman
           ,
           that
           vpon
           giuing
           fire
           onely
           doo
           but
           abase
           themselues
           on
           their
           knee
           till
           the
           volew
           bee
           past
           ,
           being
           much
           more
           terrible
           to
           vnskilfull
           and
           vnexpert
           new
           Besoignes
           ,
           than
           any
           way
           hurtfull
           to
           trayned
           Souldiers
           .
           And
           therefore
           (
           as
           is
           apparant
           )
           no
           reason
           in
           respect
           eyther
           of
           the
           great
           or
           small
           Artillerie
           or
           Fireshott
           eyther
           to
           leaue
           conuenient
           armes
           ,
           such
           as
           the
           Antiquitie
           vsed
           ,
           and
           were
           able
           to
           march
           withall
           many
           hundred
           miles
           ,
           or
           such
           Battalions
           as
           the
           Romanes
           vsed
           .
           If
           any
           man
           will
           obiect
           that
           Ruytters
           with
           their
           Pistolles
           ,
           and
           Argoletires
           with
           their
           Pettronels
           ,
           (
           which
           the
           Romanes
           had
           not
           )
           would
           beat
           your
           massie
           Phalanx
           of
           Pikes
           (
           vsed
           by
           the
           Graecians
           )
           downe
           to
           the
           ground
           ,
           without
           receiving
           any
           dammage
           at
           all
           by
           them
           .
        
         
           Heereunto
           I
           say
           ,
           if
           we
           had
           not
           eyther
           Pistolles
           or
           Lances
           on
           horsebacke
           to
           encounter
           these
           Ruytters
           and
           Argoletires
           ,
           they
           said
           somewhat
           .
           Or
           if
           we
           had
           not
           Musketers
           on
           foot
           to
           empale
           or
           line
           our
           battailes
           ,
           that
           
           should
           more
           spoile
           their
           Squadrons
           of
           Ruitters
           before
           they
           could
           approach
           nigh
           the
           place
           where
           they
           should
           discharge
           their
           pistols
           .
           For
           there
           is
           no
           souldier
           of
           iudgement
           that
           commendeth
           the
           ancient
           Romane
           or
           Graecian
           Discipline
           that
           would
           haue
           vs
           reiect
           all
           Moderne
           weapons
           to
           cleaue
           to
           theirs
           onely
           .
           But
           embracing
           the
           Moderne
           fireshot
           also
           to
           leaue
           the
           abusing
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           vsing
           them
           rightly
           to
           vse
           still
           the
           auncient
           and
           right
           Martiall
           Discipline
           also
           of
           the
           Romanes
           and
           Graecians
           .
           Wee
           see
           (
           long
           since
           the
           fireshot
           hath
           beene
           vsed
           )
           that
           the
           Zwitzers
           notwithstanding
           haue
           continued
           their
           massie
           battailes
           of
           armed
           pikes
           like
           the
           
             Gaecian
             Phalanx
          
           ,
           and
           verie
           honourably
           dischargd
           themselues
           both
           in
           
             Italie
             ,
             France
          
           ,
           and
           Germanie
           .
           In
           such
           sort
           as
           the
           Emperour
           Charles
           &
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           both
           relied
           on
           them
           greatly
           ,
           and
           to
           this
           day
           (
           of
           the
           Mercenaries
           )
           they
           carry
           the
           reputation
           with
           the
           best
           .
           So
           that
           no
           furie
           of
           the
           fireshot
           hath
           euer
           caused
           them
           to
           leaue
           their
           massie
           Phalanx
           by
           the
           Graecians
           vsed
           .
        
         
           How
           much
           lesse
           then
           should
           the
           Romane
           Order
           of
           Battallions
           feare
           our
           Fireshot
           ?
           Nay
           rather
           is
           it
           not
           the
           most
           excellent
           ordinance
           that
           possibly
           can
           be
           imagined
           ?
           As
           well
           to
           open
           themselues
           (
           without
           disorder
           )
           to
           giue
           a
           way
           to
           their
           Fireshot
           to
           saly
           forth
           ,
           and
           retire
           in
           safety
           without
           any
           daunger
           of
           any
           charge
           by
           their
           Enemies
           horse
           ,
           and
           so
           more
           fit
           and
           conuenient
           for
           our
           warres
           and
           weapons
           now
           in
           vse
           ,
           than
           they
           were
           for
           the
           weapons
           of
           that
           age
           wherein
           they
           were
           first
           practized
           ?
           And
           if
           neither
           the
           small
           nor
           great
           artillery
           of
           our
           age
           could
           euer
           make
           the
           Zwitzers
           or
           Launce-Knights
           to
           leaue
           their
           massie
           mayne
           Battaile
           or
           Phalanx
           ,
           but
           that
           in
           all
           warres
           they
           haue
           so
           honourably
           discharged
           themselues
           ,
           as
           all
           Princes
           are
           glad
           to
           embrace
           their
           friendships
           and
           aydes
           :
           how
           much
           more
           wold
           they
           haue
           excelled
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           reuiued
           also
           the
           Roman
           Embattailing
           in
           Battalions
           ,
           which
           they
           inuented
           onely
           to
           defeat
           the
           Macedonian
           and
           
             Graecian
             
             Phalanx
          
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           Now
           for
           the
           3.
           
           Inuectiue
           against
           their
           Phrenzie
           that
           would
           haue
           in
           Souldierie
           or
           Diuinitie
           such
           refined
           Discipline
           ,
           as
           is
           impossible
           for
           men
           ,
           and
           more
           fit
           for
           Angels
           .
        
         
           I
           answere
           I
           am
           indeede
           of
           their
           opinion
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           fantasticke
           and
           phanaticall
           to
           aduise
           such
           a
           Discipline
           any
           way
           ,
           as
           is
           impossible
           for
           men
           to
           obserue
           .
           But
           if
           the
           Graecians
           and
           Romanes
           also
           (
           being
           men
           in
           flesh
           as
           we
           are
           )
           many
           hundred
           yeares
           together
           did
           obserue
           and
           keepe
           such
           Discipline
           as
           I
           perswade
           ,
           Then
           I
           cannot
           see
           any
           such
           impossibility
           as
           they
           inferre
           ,
           Or
           would
           make
           Princes
           beleeue
           .
           But
           the
           truth
           is
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           for
           the
           profit
           or
           priuate
           benefite
           of
           such
           mercenarie
           Commaunders
           as
           most
           cōmonly
           manage
           the
           wars
           of
           our
           age
           ,
           to
           haue
           that
           honorable
           auntient
           seuere
           discipline
           reuiued
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           cheefe
           impedimēt
           .
           Yet
           somewhat
           also
           I
           confesse
           in
           Europe
           the
           great
           wealth
           that
           most
           Nations
           are
           in
           this
           age
           growne
           vnto
           ,
           and
           the
           delicate
           education
           of
           their
           children
           from
           their
           infancie
           doth
           make
           that
           seuere
           discipline
           more
           strange
           vnto
           vs
           ,
           and
           somewhat
           more
           difficile
           to
           put
           in
           execution
           ,
           As
           all
           things
           of
           highest
           Excellencie
           are
           also
           accompanied
           with
           greater
           difficultie
           .
           But
           if
           it
           be
           compared
           with
           the
           greatnes
           of
           the
           good
           that
           therby
           shall
           ensue
           ,
           and
           the
           great
           necessity
           without
           delay
           to
           haue
           it
           done
           ,
           (
           If
           we
           esteeme
           libertie
           and
           abhorre
           to
           be
           slaues
           to
           strangers
           )
           it
           may
           perhaps
           be
           found
           more
           easy
           far
           than
           at
           the
           first
           it
           seemes
           .
           Or
           if
           at
           first
           for
           meaner
           faultes
           we
           mitigate
           the
           paines
           ,
           and
           by
           conuenient
           degrees
           proceede
           to
           cure
           the
           maladie
           that
           groweth
           too
           too
           dengerous
           ,
           we
           shall
           at
           least
           do
           some-what
           if
           not
           the
           best
           ,
           which
           is
           rather
           to
           be
           wished
           than
           naught
           at
           all
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           these
           Patrones
           of
           the
           new
           Militia
           haue
           one-other
           arch
           Argument
           (
           
             a
             Verisimili
          
           )
           to
           abuse
           the
           world
           withall
           ;
           I
           will
           also
           set
           it
           downe
           with
           such
           answere
           as
           briefly
           may
           open
           the
           fallacie
           thereof
           ,
           and
           the
           necessitie
           of
           Reformation
           without
           delay
           .
        
         
         
           The
           fourth
           Reason
           .
        
         
           
             If
             (
             say
             they
             )
             the
             alteration
             of
             weapons
             considered
             ,
             there
             were
             any
             better
             Discipline
             for
             the
             warres
             ,
             the
             inuention
             of
             man
             is
             so
             excellent
             in
             this
             age
             ,
             and
             their
             wittes
             so
             refined
             ,
             as
             they
             would
             put
             it
             in
             vre
             ,
             aswell
             as
             they
             haue
             inuented
             these
             fire-weapons
             ,
             So
             farre
             exceeding
             all
             their
             Antique
             Romaine
             Rammes
             ,
             Scorpions
             ,
             Balistes
             ,
             and
             Arcubalistes
             ,
             as
             we
             see
             those
             old
             Engines
             now
             (
             in
             respect
             of
             them
             )
             meere
             toyes
             :
             Euen
             so
             is
             also
             their
             auntient
             Discipline
             ,
             in
             respect
             of
             the
             rare
             Militia
             moderne
             of
             our
             Age.
             
          
        
         
           To
           this
           reason
           of
           theirs
           I
           answere
           :
           That
           no
           doubt
           the
           inuention
           of
           man
           in
           this
           age
           is
           in
           deede
           excellent
           ,
           and
           farre
           exceeding
           the
           former
           ages
           for
           500.
           or
           1000.
           yeares
           past
           :
           as
           may
           appeare
           by
           all
           Artes
           and
           Sciences
           that
           haue
           of
           late
           more
           flourished
           than
           in
           a
           thousand
           yeeres
           before
           .
           But
           if
           we
           haue
           regard
           to
           the
           more
           auntient
           times
           of
           the
           triumphant
           Graecian
           States
           ,
           and
           Rothose
           mane
           Empire
           ,
           we
           shal
           finde
           for
           al
           Arts
           &
           Sciences
           ages
           far
           excelling
           ours
           ,
           &
           no
           persons
           of
           our
           age
           (
           either
           for
           learning
           or
           Chiuallrie
           )
           yet
           comparable
           with
           them
           :
           If
           comparing
           the
           actions
           and
           bookes
           of
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           ,
           we
           will
           by
           the
           fruites
           iudge
           vnpartiallie
           of
           the
           trees
           .
           But
           euen
           as
           Diuines
           ,
           Phisitions
           ,
           Lawyers
           ,
           Philosophers
           ,
           Mathematicians
           ,
           and
           Rethoricians
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           (
           studious
           of
           any
           liberall
           Sciences
           in
           our
           age
           )
           are
           inforced
           to
           repaire
           vnto
           those
           antique
           fountaines
           ,
           where
           all
           Arts
           liberall
           were
           in
           their
           high
           perfection
           :
           So
           surely
           for
           the
           warres
           much
           more
           we
           ought
           ,
           Seeing
           there
           was
           not
           one
           Science
           or
           Art
           then
           ,
           more
           reduced
           to
           her
           full
           and
           supreme
           perfection
           .
        
         
           Neuerthelesse
           I
           deny
           not
           ,
           that
           the
           Commaunders
           of
           
           our
           time
           for
           that
           scope
           and
           end
           perhaps
           they
           shot
           at
           ,
           haue
           finely
           framed
           a
           Discipline
           as
           profitable
           &
           perfect
           ,
           as
           the
           antique
           was
           for
           theirs
           .
           For
           in
           this
           our
           age
           (
           especiallie
           these
           fortie
           or
           fiftie
           yeares
           ,
           since
           the
           Emperour
           Charles
           left
           his
           Martiall
           actions
           :
           And
           our
           renowned
           King
           Henry
           the
           eight
           ,
           and
           Francis
           the
           French
           King
           dyed
           )
           there
           hath
           scarcely
           beene
           any
           King
           of
           Europe
           that
           hath
           at
           any
           time
           in
           any
           royall
           war
           gone
           to
           the
           field
           himselfe
           ,
           but
           only
           committed
           their
           Martiall
           actions
           chiefelie
           to
           the
           execution
           of
           their
           Lieuetennauts
           and
           inferior
           Commaunders
           ,
           which
           must
           of
           necessitie
           make
           great
           alteration
           .
           For
           where
           a
           King
           is
           
             Oculatus
             testis
          
           ,
           he
           seeth
           that
           which
           his
           Lieuetenants
           wil
           neuer
           acquaint
           him
           with
           ,
           being
           not
           for
           their
           commodities
           .
        
         
           When
           Kings
           goe
           to
           the
           warres
           themselues
           ,
           they
           see
           what
           is
           profitable
           or
           discommodious
           for
           themselues
           and
           their
           Realmes
           ,
           and
           aduance
           such
           Discipline
           as
           may
           be
           most
           beneficiall
           to
           them
           and
           their
           State
           ,
           As
           their
           Deputies
           will
           such
           Discipline
           as
           may
           be
           most
           commodious
           for
           themselues
           ,
           howsoeuer
           it
           be
           good
           or
           bad
           for
           their
           King
           or
           State.
           
        
         
           Againe
           in
           this
           our
           age
           Kings
           generally
           haue
           made
           their
           warres
           (
           not
           so
           much
           with
           their
           owne
           people
           ,
           as
           with
           mercenaries
           and
           hired
           Souldiers
           .
           Who
           haue
           reason
           for
           their
           priuate
           benifite
           to
           vse
           a
           gouernment
           and
           Discipline
           farre
           different
           from
           that
           they
           ought
           &
           would
           if
           they
           were
           led
           and
           commaunded
           by
           a
           King
           of
           their
           owne
           .
           Their
           scope
           perhaps
           for
           the
           most
           part
           being
           to
           enrich
           themselues
           .
           Howsoeuer
           the
           successe
           of
           the
           wars
           be
           for
           the
           King
           or
           State
           that
           paies
           them
           .
        
         
           I
           deny
           not
           but
           the
           Moderne
           Discipline
           and
           Customes
           for
           inriching
           of
           themselues
           ,
           (
           I
           meane
           of
           Superior
           Commaunders
           )
           is
           most
           singular
           and
           refined
           to
           the
           vtmost
           .
           As
           ,
        
         
           If
           a
           Generall
           will
           be
           content
           his
           Captaines
           shall
           keepe
           their
           Bands
           halfe
           emptie
           ,
           and
           yet
           by
           fraudes
           in
           
           Musters
           make
           his
           Prince
           or
           State
           pay
           nigh
           compleate
           .
        
         
           If
           he
           will
           suffer
           them
           to
           pill
           and
           spoile
           the
           Countrey
           where
           they
           lie
           ,
           oppressing
           their
           friends
           more
           than
           their
           enemies
           .
        
         
           If
           when
           he
           hath
           fingred
           their
           pay
           ,
           he
           will
           be
           content
           to
           leade
           them
           ,
           or
           haue
           them
           led
           to
           some
           butcherie
           ,
           where
           most
           of
           their
           throats
           shall
           be
           cut
           ,
           that
           their
           dead
           paies
           may
           be
           shared
           among
           the
           Leaders
           .
        
         
           Or
           generallie
           for
           all
           those
           pointes
           of
           the
           moderne
           custome
           or
           discipline
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Antique
           :
           who
           seeth
           not
           they
           are
           as
           finelie
           and
           wittelie
           inuented
           for
           the
           profit
           and
           commoditie
           of
           the
           mercenarie
           lucrous
           Commaunders
           ,
           as
           possibly
           can
           be
           deuised
           :
           and
           surelie
           the
           wit
           of
           men
           can
           inuent
           no
           more
           than
           hath
           beene
           ,
           To
           pretend
           cunninglie
           the
           benefite
           of
           the
           Prince
           and
           State
           they
           serue
           ,
           and
           yet
           finelie
           indeede
           to
           inrich
           themselues
           with
           the
           impouerishing
           and
           very
           ruine
           of
           their
           Prince
           or
           State
           that
           payeth
           thē
           .
           And
           surelie
           if
           Mercenary
           (
           Leaders
           that
           serue
           not
           for
           any
           Zeale
           ,
           conscience
           ,
           or
           duetie
           they
           owe
           to
           that
           Prince
           or
           Countrey
           ,
           but
           only
           seeke
           the
           warres
           for
           gaine
           )
           haue
           framed
           such
           a
           discipline
           ,
           I
           cannot
           so
           much
           blame
           them
           though
           they
           carrie
           no
           such
           Lacedemonian
           or
           Romane
           resolution
           (
           rather
           to
           dy
           in
           the
           fielde
           ,
           than
           saue
           themselues
           by
           flight
           )
           But
           choose
           rather
           to
           inrich
           themselues
           and
           their
           confederates
           by
           such
           escapes
           ,
           hauing
           thereby
           the
           sharing
           of
           all
           their
           dead
           Souldiers
           paies
           without
           contradiction
           ,
           Seeing
           dead
           dogges
           barke
           not
           .
           But
           after
           they
           haue
           learned
           abroad
           in
           these
           mercenarie
           warres
           this
           foule
           ,
           base
           ,
           couning
           and
           corrupt
           cowardly
           Discipline
           ,
           to
           bring
           it
           home
           into
           their
           natiue
           Countries
           :
           who
           seeth
           not
           it
           must
           of
           necessity
           worke
           in
           time
           the
           very
           ruine
           of
           their
           State
           ?
           For
           as
           a
           woman
           that
           hath
           once
           made
           shipwracke
           of
           her
           honestie
           ,
           easilie
           maketh
           a
           relaps
           :
           So
           fareth
           it
           in
           these
           mercenary
           Fugitiues
           ,
           that
           hauing
           once
           cast
           away
           shame
           (
           which
           onlie
           or
           cheifelie
           maketh
           men
           resolutelie
           to
           sacrifice
           their
           
           Liues
           for
           their
           Countrey
           )
           afterward
           become
           so
           far
           past
           shame
           ,
           as
           they
           hold
           it
           no
           disgrace
           by
           shamefull
           flight
           at
           any
           time
           to
           saue
           themselues
           .
           This
           error
           alone
           creeping
           into
           England
           (
           if
           euer
           we
           be
           inuaded
           by
           a
           puissant
           Enemie
           )
           is
           sufficient
           vtterly
           to
           ouerthrow
           the
           State
           :
           For
           it
           is
           the
           honorable
           resolution
           of
           our
           Nation
           (
           
             To
             conquere
             or
             dye
             in
             the
             fielde
          
           )
           that
           must
           deliuer
           England
           ,
           If
           we
           be
           inuaded
           by
           a
           forceable
           Enemie
           .
        
         
           For
           we
           haue
           no
           such
           multitudes
           of
           strong
           Townes
           as
           other
           Countries
           :
           Our
           Armes
           and
           weapons
           are
           our
           wals
           and
           Rampiers
           .
           We
           therefore
           of
           all
           other
           Nations
           ought
           to
           reuiue
           the
           auntient
           most
           Honorable
           Lacedemonian
           Resolution
           .
           
             To
             account
             the
             shame
             of
             dishonorable
             flight
             worse
             than
             ten
             deathes
             .
          
           But
           seeing
           it
           is
           hard
           in
           this
           age
           of
           delicacie
           to
           worke
           in
           mothers
           that
           honorable
           Spartan
           Resolution
           (
           
             To
             abhorre
             their
             own
             children
             that
             were
             Fugitiues
          
           )
           Yet
           surelie
           for
           all
           men
           to
           detest
           their
           company
           ,
           And
           for
           Magistrats
           to
           disgrace
           them
           ,
           (
           as
           persons
           vnworthy
           euer
           after
           to
           beare
           Armes
           )
           is
           a
           thing
           not
           onelie
           necessarie
           ,
           but
           of
           such
           necessity
           as
           (
           if
           it
           be
           omitted
           ,
           and
           not
           in
           time
           put
           in
           due
           execution
           )
           I
           doubt
           we
           shall
           too
           late
           repent
           it
           when
           all
           remedie
           will
           be
           past
           :
           the
           Wiseman
           saith
           not
           
             Had
             I
             wist
          
           .
        
         
           My
           meaning
           is
           not
           to
           call
           in
           question
           any
           priuate
           persons
           of
           our
           Nation
           ,
           for
           any
           errors
           committed
           in
           forraine
           countries
           :
           for
           surely
           these
           foule
           depraued
           customes
           were
           growne
           so
           common
           among
           the
           Mercenary
           Seruitors
           of
           all
           Nations
           ,
           as
           many
           valiant
           men
           by
           Example
           of
           others
           their
           Superiors
           or
           Leaders
           haue
           fallen
           into
           them
           .
           But
           when
           we
           come
           to
           serue
           (
           not
           mercenarie
           for
           pay
           of
           strangers
           )
           but
           our
           naturall
           Prince
           and
           Country
           ,
           (
           to
           whom
           we
           owe
           our
           bodies
           and
           liues
           )
           it
           is
           fit
           this
           part
           of
           auntient
           true
           Martial
           Discipline
           be
           seuerelie
           reuiued
           and
           published
           ,
           and
           remerkable
           Exampels
           made
           vpon
           the
           first
           breakers
           ,
           As
           also
           a
           due
           reformation
           of
           all
           such
           other
           abuses
           ,
           fraudes
           ,
           and
           deceits
           ,
           as
           allure
           men
           
           thereunto
           ,
           and
           tend
           to
           the
           robbing
           of
           our
           Prince
           ,
           the
           defacing
           of
           true
           valour
           ,
           and
           aduancing
           onely
           of
           subtile
           ,
           base
           minded
           ,
           lucrous
           cowardly
           caterpillers
           ,
           tending
           finallie
           to
           the
           very
           ruine
           and
           ouerthrow
           of
           the
           honour
           of
           our
           Prince
           and
           Nation
           ,
           &
           faelicious
           estate
           of
           our
           Countrey
           .
        
         
           I
           meane
           not
           at
           this
           time
           to
           enter
           into
           the
           meanes
           how
           this
           Discipline
           should
           be
           reformed
           ,
           or
           how
           Souldiery
           should
           be
           made
           obediēt
           ,
           for
           it
           would
           require
           a
           great
           volume
           :
           but
           by
           that
           I
           haue
           read
           of
           the
           Roman
           &
           Greeke
           warres
           ,
           and
           by
           mine
           owne
           experience
           conferred
           with
           the
           opinion
           of
           other
           worthie
           Souldiers
           and
           great
           Commaunders
           of
           our
           owne
           age
           I
           dare
           boldly
           affirme
           and
           with
           good
           reasons
           and
           authoritie
           maintaine
           ,
           That
           it
           shal
           be
           much
           more
           easie
           to
           frame
           such
           an
           honorable
           Militia
           or
           Souldiery
           by
           a
           leauie
           of
           our
           Contrey-men
           (
           neuer
           in
           warres
           before
           )
           than
           of
           such
           as
           haue
           bene
           depraued
           and
           corrupted
           in
           the
           loose
           ,
           lewde
           ,
           lucrous
           ,
           licentious
           liberties
           of
           the
           warres
           of
           this
           time
           :
           As
           by
           that
           I
           haue
           more
           at
           large
           set
           downe
           in
           diuers
           parts
           of
           my
           Stratiotic●s
           concerning
           the
           offices
           and
           dewties
           of
           euery
           seueral
           degree
           from
           the
           priuate
           Souldier
           to
           the
           Generall
           ,
           and
           the
           Military
           lawes
           of
           seuerall
           Nations
           )
           there
           set
           downe
           also
           ,
           more
           euidently
           will
           appeare
           .
           This
           much
           only
           in
           this
           place
           I
           may
           ad
           .
           That
           albeit
           Premium
           and
           Paena
           be
           most
           Souereigne
           medecines
           to
           cure
           all
           Vlcers
           and
           infections
           that
           happen
           to
           the
           politique
           bodie
           of
           any
           State
           ,
           whether
           it
           be
           in
           ciuill
           or
           Martiall
           causes
           ,
           yet
           Example
           speciallie
           with
           our
           Nation
           is
           the
           cheife
           .
        
         
           For
           as
           in
           the
           meanest
           matters
           (
           if
           it
           be
           but
           only
           in
           apparrell
           ,
           or
           attyres
           )
           the
           Example
           of
           our
           Court
           is
           able
           to
           reforme
           or
           deforme
           the
           whole
           Land
           ,
           and
           by
           bare
           Example
           only
           to
           doo
           tenne
           times
           more
           than
           
             Proclamations
             ,
             threatnings
             ,
             and
             Statutes
             paenall
             :
          
           So
           in
           Martiall
           causes
           much
           more
           wee
           haue
           regard
           to
           such
           actions
           as
           great
           Commaunders
           doe
           ,
           which
           in
           Court
           are
           fauoured
           ,
           aduaunced
           ,
           
           or
           countenanced
           .
           If
           they
           doo
           well
           ,
           full
           easely
           will
           all
           inferiors
           conforme
           themselues
           :
           But
           if
           they
           either
           by
           custome
           continue
           courses
           inconuenient
           ,
           or
           by
           facilitie
           of
           nature
           be
           seduced
           but
           to
           tollerate
           onlie
           the
           abuses
           which
           are
           too
           currant
           in
           these
           daies
           ,
           and
           not
           seuerely
           chastise
           the
           delinquent
           without
           regard
           of
           pleasing
           or
           discontenting
           the
           diseased
           multitude
           (
           how
           good
           lawes
           so
           euer
           be
           established
           ,
           or
           proclamations
           made
           )
           it
           is
           in
           vaine
           :
           For
           the
           loose
           licentious
           sort
           iudge
           them
           either
           published
           onely
           for
           fashion
           sake
           without
           regard
           whether
           they
           be
           obserued
           or
           no
           ,
           or
           els
           their
           lewde
           faction
           to
           be
           so
           strong
           as
           Magistrates
           dare
           not
           punish
           them
           :
           And
           either
           of
           these
           conceiptes
           ioyned
           with
           the
           profit
           and
           sweetenes
           these
           licentious
           Commaunders
           make
           by
           their
           corruptions
           ,
           is
           sufficient
           to
           embolden
           them
           more
           audaciouslie
           still
           to
           put
           their
           fraudes
           in
           execution
           :
           But
           ,
           what
           succeedeth
           thereof
           ,
           by
           example
           and
           experience
           in
           all
           ages
           we
           may
           behold
           .
        
         
           First
           in
           Rome
           (
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           Ciuill
           warres
           between
           Caesar
           and
           Pompey
           ,
           and
           after
           beetwne
           
             Augustus
             Caesar
             ,
             Anthony
             ,
             Brutus
          
           and
           ,
           Cassius
           )
           the
           Martiall
           Discipline
           grewe
           to
           corruption
           ,
           no
           one
           side
           daring
           to
           vse
           the
           auncient
           due
           seueritie
           ,
           lest
           they
           should
           reuolt
           to
           his
           aduersaries
           .
           But
           what
           ensued
           ,
           after
           the
           right
           Martial
           Legions
           were
           decaied
           ,
           and
           a
           licentious
           Praetorian
           Guard
           maintained
           ?
           but
           the
           ruine
           of
           that
           famous
           and
           mightie
           Empire
           ,
           ransacked
           ,
           and
           spoyled
           by
           the
           
             Hunnes
             ,
             Gothes
          
           ,
           and
           Vandales
           ,
           the
           most
           base
           of
           all
           the
           Barbarous
           people
           that
           they
           before
           had
           conquered
           .
           The
           like
           I
           might
           particularlie
           set
           downe
           of
           diuers
           of
           the
           most
           Martiall
           Graecian
           common-weales
           ,
           if
           we
           had
           not
           our
           next
           neighboure
           the
           mightie
           Kingdome
           of
           Fraunce
           (
           euen
           in
           our
           owne
           age
           ,
           by
           the
           very
           like
           depraued
           Customes
           first
           learned
           among
           the
           Italians
           ,
           and
           nourished
           in
           that
           Realme
           likewise
           by
           Ciuil
           discentions
           )
           brought
           into
           most
           lamentable
           miserie
           .
           A
           spectacle
           to
           stirre-vp
           all
           Princes
           (
           while
           
           they
           may
           )
           to
           preuent
           those
           calamities
           whic●
           〈…〉
           will
           be
           too
           late
           .
        
         
           For
           after
           ciuill
           warres
           were
           once
           begunne
           ,
           〈…〉
           the
           King
           ,
           nor
           the
           Prince
           his
           enemies
           ,
           could
           keepe
           〈◊〉
           seuere
           hand
           on
           Martiall
           iustice
           ,
           lest
           these
           dissolute
           So●●●diers
           should
           reuolte
           ,
           and
           so
           were
           indeede
           rather
           Suppliants
           than
           Commaunders
           of
           their
           Armies
           :
           which
           beeing
           for
           the
           most
           part
           composed
           of
           mercenary
           hirelings
           ,
           deuised
           all
           meanes
           prodigally
           to
           maintaine
           themselues
           ,
           whatsoeuer
           became
           of
           their
           Prince
           ,
           or
           Countrey
           ,
           the
           successe
           whereof
           wee
           see
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           is
           that
           
             Moderne
             discipline
          
           which
           so
           greedilie
           the
           licentious
           of
           all
           Nations
           swallow
           vp
           ,
           and
           are
           infected
           withall
           by
           the
           contagion
           of
           such
           as
           they
           haue
           conuersed
           with
           ,
           Tending
           chieflie
           to
           the
           maintenance
           of
           themselues
           inexcessiue
           riotous
           wastings
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           vtter
           ouerthrow
           of
           all
           Princes
           or
           States
           that
           shall
           beserued
           with
           them
           .
        
         
           To
           conclude
           therefore
           this
           true
           and
           needefull
           Paradoxe
           ,
           I
           hope
           (
           by
           the
           conference
           of
           these
           fewe
           repugnant
           points
           of
           the
           Auntient
           and
           
             Moderne
             Martiall
             Discipline
          
           )
           It
           doth
           sufficiently
           appeare
           .
           That
           as
           the
           latter
           are
           deuised
           wholly
           for
           the
           profit
           of
           corrupt
           persons
           (
           and
           both
           dishonorable
           and
           extreame
           dangerous
           to
           any
           State
           or
           Realme
           that
           shall
           endure
           them
           ,
           So
           the
           former
           which
           I
           haue
           named
           of
           the
           Antiquitie
           )
           are
           both
           for
           the
           honour
           ,
           profit
           and
           aduancement
           of
           the
           seruice
           of
           any
           Kinge
           or
           State
           that
           shall
           embrace
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           therefore
           too
           apparant
           (
           not
           only
           by
           euident
           discourse
           of
           reason
           ,
           but
           also
           by
           plaine
           experience
           and
           successe
           in
           other
           Realmes
           &
           States
           )
           That
           where
           such
           abuses
           &
           corruption
           of
           true
           Martial
           Discipline
           shall
           be
           permitted
           ,
           there
           can
           in
           time
           ensue
           no
           better
           than
           confusion
           &
           vtter
           ruine
           .
           And
           yet
           nothing
           doubt
           ,
           but
           that
           our
           Nation
           ,
           As
           by
           nature
           it
           is
           as
           warlike
           as
           any
           other
           vnder
           the
           Heauen
           (
           hauing
           in
           times
           past
           while
           they
           were
           trained
           &
           
           led
           by
           honorable
           Generals
           ,
           conquered
           their
           enemies
           being
           tenne
           to
           one
           ,
           as
           appeareth
           by
           the
           Chronicles
           and
           confessions
           of
           our
           very
           enemies
           themselues
           )
           So
           hereafter
           also
           (
           by
           due
           regard
           in
           choice
           of
           such
           Commaunders
           ,
           and
           redresse
           of
           such
           moderne
           Errors
           )
           we
           shall
           leaue
           to
           our
           posteritie
           also
           like
           monuments
           of
           Fame
           ,
           as
           haue
           beene
           left
           to
           vs
           by
           those
           our
           right
           Martiall
           and
           Honorable
           Auncestors
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           third
           Paradox
           .
        
         
           
             That
             the
             sometimes
             neglected
             souldiers
             profession
             deserues
             much
             commendation
             ,
             and
             best
             becomes
             a
             Gentleman
             ,
             that
             desires
             to
             liue
             vertuously
             ,
             or
             die
             Honorablie
             .
          
        
         
           Proeludium
           .
        
         
           I
           Will
           neither
           deny
           ,
           nor
           commend
           ,
           my
           loue
           to
           Poetry
           ,
           some
           little
           idle
           time
           spent
           in
           it
           for
           my
           priuate
           recreation
           I
           repent
           not
           ,
           it
           hath
           good
           vse
           ,
           and
           is
           a
           good
           exercise
           for
           busie
           yonge
           heads
           :
           The
           noble
           adorner
           of
           that
           practise
           Sir
           
             Phillip
             Sidney
          
           though
           he
           liued
           an
           age
           before
           me
           ,
           I
           yet
           honor
           ,
           I
           loue
           his
           memorie
           ,
           and
           in
           my
           best
           wishes
           to
           my
           Countrie
           ,
           I
           sometimes
           sadly
           wish
           our
           Nobility
           and
           Gentrie
           would
           be
           his
           followers
           :
           yet
           being
           as
           he
           was
           a
           man
           of
           Armes
           by
           nature
           ,
           a
           
             quem
             Pallas
             nutriuit
             in
             antris
          
           ,
           of
           Pallas
           bringing
           vp
           ,
           one
           that
           suckt
           milke
           from
           both
           her
           brests
           ,
           a
           learned
           souldier
           ;
           I
           would
           he
           had
           left
           the
           patronage
           of
           Poetrie
           to
           some
           more
           priuate
           spirit
           ,
           and
           saued
           me
           a
           labor
           by
           bestowing
           his
           much
           better
           witte
           on
           some
           requisite
           Apologie
           for
           
           souldiers
           ,
           whose
           profession
           is
           now
           as
           much
           contemned
           as
           to
           be
           a
           b
           Graetian
           ,
           or
           as
           a
           Scholer
           was
           wont
           to
           be
           in
           Rome
           ,
           whose
           name
           is
           as
           vnpleasing
           as
           c
           Iehan
           in
           France
           ,
           or
           d
           Ione
           in
           Naples
           ,
           whose
           nature
           is
           esteemed
           so
           vile
           ,
           that
           some
           men
           thinke
           it
           iustice
           to
           make
           a
           conuertible
           reciprocation
           betwixte
           them
           and
           wandring
           houseles
           men
           :
           But
           when
           I
           call
           to
           minde
           howe
           e
           Homer
           the
           best
           Poet
           chose
           as
           the
           best
           subiect
           to
           describe
           
             
               f
               Res
               gest●s
               regumque
               ducumque
               &
               tristia
               bella
               :
            
             
               The
               exployts
               of
               Captaines
               ,
               Kinges
               and
               dismall
               combatinges
               .
            
             
               Tyrtaeusque
               mares
               animos
               ad
               Martia
               bella
               versibus
               exacuit
               .
            
             
               And
               how
               mens
               mindes
               to
               Martiall
               fight
               ,
            
             
               Tyrtaeus
               did
               with
               rimes
               excite
               .
            
          
        
         
           When
           I
           remember
           how
           Leonidas
           and
           his
           companions
           had
           in
           memoriall
           of
           their
           euer
           to
           be
           remembred
           seruice
           certaine
           Poeticall
           songs
           sunge
           by
           the
           Graetians
           how
           euen
           the
           g
           rude
           inhabitants
           of
           Hispaniola
           like
           our
           auncient
           Bards
           haue
           their
           customarie
           rimes
           ,
           
             Ad
             praelia
             excitantes
             auorum
             gesta
             recitando
             ,
          
           to
           quicken
           their
           courages
           by
           reciting
           the
           acts
           of
           their
           forefathers
           ;
           all
           which
           I
           know
           Sir
           
             Phillip
             Sidney
          
           so
           great
           a
           scholer
           ,
           could
           not
           but
           know
           :
           then
           loe
           I
           enuie
           not
           the
           Muses
           good
           happe
           ,
           that
           had
           one
           of
           Mars
           his
           followers
           to
           be
           their
           Champion
           :
           since
           his
           worthie
           deeds
           and
           honorable
           death
           assure
           me
           he
           would
           haue
           spared
           that
           defence
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           not
           assured
           himselfe
           that
           it
           was
           Poetries
           best
           vse
           
             
               h
               Vt
               dignos
               laude
               viros
               vetet
               mori
               .
            
             
               To
               labour
               that
               the
               memorie
            
             
               of
               worthy
               men
               may
               neuer
               die
               .
            
          
        
         
           Sure
           then
           I
           thinke
           some
           thankefull
           Poet
           ,
           that
           hath
           drunke
           store
           of
           Castalian
           liqour
           and
           is
           full
           of
           fury
           ,
           cannot
           doo
           better
           than
           in
           requitall
           of
           his
           kindnes
           indeuour
           i
           
             Vt
             gratus
             insigni
             referat
             Camena
             ,
             dicenda
             Musis
             proe●lia
             .
          
        
         
           
           
             To
             singe
             in
             verse
             excellinge
          
           
             wars
             worth
             the
             Muses
             telling
             .
          
        
         
           Nor
           needes
           he
           feare
           to
           want
           attention
           ,
           vnlesse
           he
           want
           a
           Poets
           wit
           to
           tell
           the
           contents
           of
           his
           booke
           in
           proaeme
           with
           
             
               k
               Bella
               per
               Aemathios
               plus
               quam
               ciuilia
               campos
               &c.
               
            
             
               I
               singe
               the
               Ciuill
               warres
               tumultuous
               broyles
               &c.
               
            
          
        
         
           Assuredly
           had
           it
           befallen
           me
           ,
           l
           
             in
             bicipiti
             somniasse
             Pernasso
          
           ,
           to
           steale
           a
           nap
           amongst
           the
           rest
           in
           the
           top
           of
           the
           mountaine
           ,
           or
           
             si
             quid
             mea
             carmina
             possent
          
           ,
           if
           my
           verses
           were
           of
           any
           vertue
           ,
           I
           would
           desire
           to
           write
           some
           worthy
           souldiers
           praise
           in
           dust
           and
           bloud
           as
           
             dù
             Bartas
          
           hoped
           to
           doo
           Henrie
           of
           France
           his
           
             in
             Pampeluna
          
           .
           But
           foole
           that
           I
           am
           .
        
         
           
             m
             I
             neuer
             dranke
             of
             Aganippe
             wel
          
           
             nor
             euer
             did
             in
             shade
             of
             Tempe
             sit
             .
          
        
         
           Nor
           am
           I
           able
           to
           perswade
           our
           Poets
           to
           intreate
           of
           warres
           indeede
           .
        
         
           
             n
             Praelia
             virginum
          
           
             Sectis
             in
             iuuenes
             vnguibus
             acrium
          
           
             Dum
             cantant
             vacui
             .
          
           
             While
             idlely
             they
             sing
             the
             scarres
          
           
             that
             yonge
             men
             catch
             in
             wenching
             warres
             .
          
        
         
           What
           then
           ,
           shall
           souldiers
           want
           their
           due
           ,
           because
           I
           want
           abilitie
           to
           doe
           them
           right
           ?
           shall
           I
           not
           speake
           what
           I
           can
           ,
           because
           I
           cannot
           speake
           what
           I
           would
           ?
           no
           sure
           ,
           that
           were
           iniustice
           ,
           this
           were
           folly
           .
           Horace
           can
           tell
           .
        
         
           
             o
             Est
             aliquidprodire
             tenus
             ,
             si
             non
             datur
             vltra
             .
          
        
         
           T
           is
           somewhat
           to
           doe
           somewhat
           ,
           though
           not
           well
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           inough
           sor
           me
           to
           breake
           the
           Ice
           ,
           and
           let
           the
           world
           see
           what
           may
           be
           said
           for
           the
           warres
           and
           souldiers
           when
           one
           whose
           whole
           kyndred
           almost
           by
           Father
           and
           Mother
           lost
           their
           liues
           or
           spent
           their
           liuings
           in
           the
           wars
           ,
           is
           able
           through
           bare
           loue
           without
           learninge
           ,
           without
           
           Arte
           to
           speake
           as
           fellowes
           in
           defence
           of
           Souldiers
           .
        
         
           I
           euer
           thought
           nothing
           worse
           for
           Gentlemen
           than
           idlenesse
           ,
           except
           doing
           ill
           ,
           but
           could
           not
           at
           the
           first
           resolue
           how
           they
           might
           be
           fitliest
           busied
           :
           To
           play
           the
           Merchants
           was
           only
           for
           Gentlemen
           of
           
             Florence
             ,
             Venice
          
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           that
           are
           indeede
           but
           the
           better
           sort
           of
           Citizens
           :
           ploughing
           and
           grazing
           I
           esteemed
           worse
           than
           mechanicall
           occupations
           :
           the
           Court
           was
           but
           for
           fewe
           ,
           and
           most
           of
           thē
           liued
           too
           luxuriously
           :
           to
           study
           or
           trauel
           was
           good
           ,
           but
           directed
           to
           this
           ende
           ,
           that
           they
           might
           be
           fit
           for
           some
           profession
           the
           thing
           in
           question
           :
           For
           Diuinity
           they
           many
           times
           thought
           themselues
           too
           good
           ,
           and
           I
           was
           sure
           they
           were
           most
           times
           vnfit
           :
           Lawe
           was
           but
           a
           mony
           getting
           trade
           ,
           and
           Physicke
           a
           dangerous
           tickle
           Arte
           ,
           at
           last
           I
           thought
           on
           the
           warres
           ,
           where
           the
           learned
           might
           perfect
           their
           contemplation
           by
           practise
           and
           the
           vnlearned
           helpe
           that
           defect
           by
           well
           gotten
           experience
           :
           and
           this
           was
           my
           15
           yeares
           meditation
           :
           afterwards
           that
           impression
           was
           strengthned
           dayly
           by
           the
           remembrance
           of
           my
           fathers
           courses
           ,
           by
           the
           experience
           of
           some
           other
           occurrents
           and
           by
           the
           obseruation
           of
           as
           many
           things
           as
           my
           litle
           reading
           encountred
           that
           might
           make
           for
           that
           purpose
           .
           So
           I
           grew
           to
           affect
           scholers
           such
           as
           would
           speake
           that
           ,
           that
           might
           be
           vnderstoode
           ,
           and
           could
           reduce
           their
           studie
           in
           histories
           the
           Mathematickes
           or
           the
           like
           from
           speculation
           to
           practise
           for
           the
           profitable
           pleasure
           of
           their
           friendes
           or
           honorable
           seruice
           of
           their
           Country
           .
           I
           liked
           trauelers
           so
           they
           would
           be
           silent
           ,
           yet
           were
           able
           when
           time
           serued
           to
           discourse
           iudiciously
           of
           the
           state
           and
           power
           of
           more
           Countries
           ,
           of
           the
           strēgth
           and
           situation
           of
           more
           Cities
           ,
           of
           the
           forme
           and
           force
           of
           more
           seuerall
           fortifications
           ,
           than
           other
           Corkeheaded
           counterfeits
           could
           recken
           vp
           of
           
             Bonna
             robbas
             Bordeaus
          
           or
           apish
           fashions
           :
           aboue
           all
           the
           perfection
           of
           the
           endeuors
           of
           the
           former
           2.
           
           I
           loued
           souldiers
           ,
           such
           as
           hated
           
           Cheating
           ,
           Drinking
           ,
           Lying
           ,
           whooring
           ,
           Prating
           ,
           Quarreling
           and
           lewde
           behauiour
           .
           And
           either
           maimed
           ,
           growne
           olde
           or
           wanting
           imploiment
           ,
           had
           retired
           themselues
           to
           some
           priuate
           (
           perhaps
           poore
           )
           life
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           liued
           contented
           :
           and
           though
           mine
           owne
           ability
           were
           then
           in
           minoritie
           ,
           my
           heart
           esteemed
           him
           not
           a
           Gentleman
           ,
           would
           suffer
           such
           as
           these
           to
           want
           ought
           he
           could
           helpe
           them
           to
           :
           thus
           I
           spent
           the
           fiue
           yeares
           following
           .
           And
           now
           my
           almost
           freede
           body
           is
           readie
           for
           the
           warres
           which
           I
           before
           resolued
           was
           most
           fit
           for
           men
           of
           my
           place
           :
           But
           want
           of
           imploiment
           imposes
           on
           me
           an
           vnacceptable
           idlenesse
           which
           I
           sorrily
           passe-ouer
           with
           laughing
           at
           the
           lamentable
           folly
           of
           our
           besotted
           Gētry
           ;
           one
           thinks
           it
           is
           commendation
           to
           weare
           good
           cloathes
           with
           iudgment
           ,
           another
           for
           that
           he
           is
           a
           handsome
           man
           ,
           a
           third
           for
           cunning
           carding
           ,
           but
           if
           some
           youth
           of
           hopeful
           expectation
           attaine
           some
           skil
           in
           Musicke
           ,
           some
           tricks
           in
           Dauncing
           or
           some
           Fencing
           qualitie
           ,
           the
           World
           consisting
           most
           of
           Women-fooles
           and
           cowards
           will
           peremptorily
           pronounce
           this
           compleate
           Gentlemās
           worth
           too
           great
           for
           one
           Cronicle
           .
        
         
           
             
               p
               At
               quis
               ferat
               istas
            
             
               Stultiae
               sordes
            
          
           
             
               But
               who
               can
               quietly
            
             
               Indure
               such
               foppery
               .
            
          
        
         
           I
           that
           desire
           a
           man
           should
           be
           more
           worth
           than
           his
           cloathes
           ,
           the
           inside
           best
           ,
           I
           that
           thinke
           it
           my
           good
           fortune
           to
           haue
           small
           skill
           in
           ga●●ing
           ,
           I
           that
           hate
           vnnecessarie
           qualities
           ,
           as
           the
           q
           Aegyptians
           did
           Musicke
           for
           making
           men
           effeminate
           ,
           cannot
           but
           dislike
           our
           Gentry
           should
           be
           of
           Taylors
           meere
           creation
           or
           spend
           there
           time
           in
           pastime
           or
           make
           their
           recreation
           there
           vocation
           ,
           me
           thinkes
           our
           Citie-Gentlemen
           as
           for
           their
           slouthfull
           life
           ,
           
           the
           
           French-men
           scoffing
           terme
           thē
           might
           for
           their
           recreation
           sometimes
           read
           how
           
           Phillip
           reprehended
           Alexanders
           skill
           in
           singing
           .
           How
           s
           Anthisthines
           condemned
           Ismenias
           his
           playing
           on
           the
           Flute
           ,
           or
           the
           like
           Examples
           and
           so
           learne
           to
           leaue
           mispending
           of
           their
           pretious
           time
           into
           too
           too
           well
           affected
           fruitlesse
           courses
           They
           might
           remember
           how
           much
           one
           t
           Alexander
           did
           in
           poore
           12.
           yeeres
           ,
           what
           u
           Scipio
           was
           ere
           he
           was
           twenty
           foure
           and
           weghing
           well
           how
           z●ni●-like
           their
           actions
           imitate
           their
           Forefathers
           whose
           honour
           they
           vniustly
           challenge
           me
           thinks
           they
           might
           euen
           hate
           themselues
           for
           letting
           the
           world
           see
           they
           haue
           the
           leasure
           to
           spend
           whole
           daies
           at
           cardes
           yet
           haue
           done
           nothing
           worthie
           memory
           saue
           idely
           wasted
           their
           wealth
           to
           purchase
           infamy
           .
           But
           you
           whose
           Countrey
           life
           hath
           best
           affinitie
           with
           your
           true
           calling
           the
           warres
           as
           least
           subiect
           to
           luxurie
           as
           most
           affected
           of
           auntient
           Souldiers
           can
           you
           not
           loue
           hunting
           because
           it
           resembles
           the
           warres
           but
           you
           wil
           neuer
           leaue
           hūting
           ?
           
           is
           there
           more
           Musicke
           in
           a
           stinking
           curres
           howling
           qualitie
           than
           a
           Drumme
           or
           Trumpet
           ?
           will
           you
           in
           these
           times
           giue
           men
           occasion
           to
           aske
           whether
           your
           Countrey
           haue
           no
           Men
           you
           make
           so
           much
           account
           of
           Dogges
           that
           your
           life
           seemes
           brutish
           still
           with
           Dogges
           &
           your
           discourse
           vnreasonable
           still
           of
           Doggs
           ?
           O
           rather
           let
           the
           Example
           of
           our
           Great
           Great
           Maister
           that
           worthely
           loues
           hunting
           as
           the
           Noblest
           sport
           yet
           only
           followes
           it
           at
           vacante
           times
           teach
           you
           henceforth
           to
           vse
           your
           sports
           as
           sports
           and
           not
           still
           to
           dwell
           in
           them
           nor
           in
           the
           taedious
           discourse
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           whither
           doth
           contempte
           of
           follie
           carry
           me
           ?
           Both
           th'
           one
           &
           th'
           other
           sort
           of
           our
           decaied
           Gentry
           ,
           haue
           but
           the
           bare
           name
           of
           some
           auntient
           house
           but
           few
           sparks
           of
           English
           vertue
           they
           are
           so
           farre
           from
           being
           Gentlemen
           they
           neither
           speake
           nor
           liue
           like
           men
           ,
           yet
           if
           their
           charmed
           Sences
           can
           indure
           to
           heare
           of
           remedy
           as
           *
           Phillip
           was
           put
           in
           minde
           of
           death
           or
           x
           Xerxes
           of
           the
           losse
           
           of
           Sardis
           .
           I
           le
           play
           the
           young-man
           once
           ,
           and
           crye
           to
           them
           in
           the
           middest
           of
           their
           vaine
           life
           and
           idle
           talking
           ,
           Remember
           z
           Pyrrhus
           whose
           life
           and
           studie
           spent
           and
           imploied
           in
           military
           affaires
           doth
           shew
           what
           course
           of
           life
           best
           fits
           the
           better
           sort
           of
           men
           ,
           who
           being
           askt
           who
           plaide
           best
           on
           the
           Fluite
           ,
           Python
           or
           Cephesias
           answered
           wisely
           though
           indirectly
           ,
           Poliperchon
           in
           his
           iudgment
           was
           the
           best
           Captaine
           to
           teach
           the
           standers-by
           how
           noble
           spirits
           should
           discourse
           .
           O
           then
           remember
           Pyrrhus
           ,
           be
           as
           you
           ought
           your selues
           ,
           leaue
           vanity
           &
           let
           your
           liues
           your
           words
           be
           warlike
           ,
           your
           truest
           honour
           will
           be
           to
           be
           Souldiers
           ,
           and
           your
           most
           vertuous
           course
           of
           life
           the
           warres
           .
        
         
           But
           alas
           ,
           as
           through
           the
           indirect
           proceeding
           of
           desparate
           Censurers
           ,
           men
           oft
           condemne
           the
           warres
           for
           murdering
           our
           men
           ,
           and
           wasting
           our
           mony
           in
           lingring
           fruitlesnesse
           ,
           where
           many
           times
           the
           fault
           is
           in
           our
           souldiers
           disabilitie
           ,
           poore
           hunger-starued
           snakes
           halfe
           dead
           ere
           they
           go
           out
           of
           England
           :
           such
           as
           were
           a
           cumber
           rather
           than
           an
           ayde
           to
           the
           auncient
           Romaines
           :
           such
           as
           with
           our
           moderne
           a
           Spaniardes
           are
           sent
           a
           yere
           or
           two
           to
           take
           hart
           at
           grasse
           (
           as
           we
           say
           )
           in
           Italy
           ,
           before
           they
           suffer
           them
           to
           come
           to
           seruice
           ,
           whereas
           most
           times
           the
           corruptnes
           of
           Officers
           (
           such
           as
           seeke
           the
           wars
           for
           gaine
           only
           ,
           and
           make
           no
           conscience
           to
           cousin
           Princes
           ,
           and
           the
           ignorance
           of
           leaders
           ,
           such
           decayed
           vnthriftie
           gallants
           as
           to
           gett
           a
           little
           money
           by
           the
           sale
           ,
           spoile
           or
           slaughter
           of
           their
           Companies
           make
           meanes
           to
           be
           fauorabl●
           sent
           ,
           from
           the
           Court
           to
           the
           Camp
           ,
           as
           Commanders
           ,
           before
           they
           knowe
           how
           to
           obey
           )
           are
           true
           causes
           of
           extraordinarie
           spoile
           of
           Treasure
           ,
           of
           making
           the
           warres
           seeme
           (
           if
           not
           be
           ,
           dilatorie
           and
           fruitlesse
           :
           So
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           those
           officers
           ,
           those
           Captaines
           ,
           and
           those
           Souldiers
           ,
           being
           in
           their
           kinds
           the
           worse
           part
           of
           our
           people
           ,
           are
           indeed
           of
           such
           inuincible
           lewdnes
           that
           either
           dronelike
           sucking
           wax
           only
           frō
           sweetest
           flowers
           ,
           or
           worse
           cōuerting
           holesomest
           
           things
           to
           poyson
           ,
           they
           only
           vse
           the
           warres
           as
           naughty
           ●en
           doe
           learning
           ,
           to
           increase
           their
           wickednesse
           .
           Pro●●ing
           the
           axiome
           in
           Phylosophy
           most
           true
           ,
           b
           
             Quicquid
             recipitur
             ,
             recipitur
             secundum
             modum
             recipientis
             .
          
           That
           which
           is
           receiued
           ,
           is
           receiued
           according
           to
           the
           qualitie
           of
           the
           receiuer
           :
           so
           that
           men
           seeing
           them
           spende
           that
           most
           vitiously
           which
           they
           got
           most
           lewdly
           are
           readie
           grounding
           themselues
           on
           their
           example
           to
           raile
           at
           souldiers
           as
           a
           profession
           of
           licentious
           lawlesse
           libertie
           ,
           and
           repute
           souldiers
           for
           dissolute
           rakehels
           in
           whom
           there
           is
           c
           
             Nulla
             fides
             pietasue
          
           ,
           noe
           feare
           of
           God
           ,
           no
           thought
           of
           goodnesse
           .
           Yet
           as
           the
           studie
           of
           Philosophie
           was
           not
           to
           be
           condemned
           ,
           because
           some
           Phylosophers
           were
           d
           Epicures
           ,
           as
           the
           name●
           of
           Kings
           was
           not
           to
           haue
           bin
           hated
           because
           Tarquine
           was
           a
           Tyrant
           :
           No
           more
           I
           thinke
           are
           souldiers
           to
           be
           contemned
           or
           their
           profession
           ill
           esteemed
           of
           for
           that
           some
           bawdiehouse
           Captaines
           or
           alehouse
           souldiers
           liue
           loosely
           ;
           e
           or
           for
           that
           many
           that
           followe
           the
           warres
           of
           our
           time
           where
           discipline
           is
           too
           too
           much
           corrupted
           are
           such
           as
           only
           liue
           by
           the
           warres
           and
           so
           indeuor
           gaine
           by
           all
           the
           meanes
           they
           can
           saue
           honest
           courses
           :
           For
           were
           our
           military
           discipline
           as
           in
           truth
           it
           ought
           of
           that
           powerfull
           sanctitie
           that
           our
           armes
           the
           most
           perfect
           politicke
           bodies
           might
           for
           the
           goodnesse
           of
           their
           lawes
           and
           orders
           and
           the
           iustnes
           of
           their
           exscucion
           ,
           attaine
           their
           true
           perfection
           of
           surpassing
           the
           best
           ruld
           Citties
           in
           Ciuilitie
           ,
           that
           our
           Commanders
           like
           the
           auncient
           Romans
           that
           held
           their
           faith
           more
           firme
           with
           enemies
           than
           some
           men
           now
           doe
           neerest
           bonds
           of
           duetie
           and
           alleagiance
           ,
           might
           know
           it
           is
           their
           office
           to
           punish
           euen
           their
           deerest
           freinds
           offences
           ,
           that
           our
           souldiers
           worthely
           indeuoring
           in
           God
           their
           Prince
           or
           Countries
           quarrell
           to
           exchange
           their
           liues
           for
           honor
           onely
           might
           learne
           to
           account
           it
           their
           greatest
           honor
           to
           be
           an
           honor
           to
           their
           calling
           by
           performing
           the
           necessarie
           duties
           of
           their
           calling
           .
        
         
         
           Then
           as
           the
           Romaines
           with
           their
           victories
           droue
           away
           barbarisme
           out
           of
           our
           countries
           by
           leauing
           vs
           a
           patterne
           of
           more
           ciuill
           life
           ,
           from
           their
           warlicke
           gouernmēt
           ,
           of
           which
           most
           parts
           of
           Europe
           yet
           to
           this
           day
           retaine
           some
           remnants
           I
           see
           not
           but
           it
           might
           please
           God
           to
           reward
           our
           industrie
           by
           making
           our
           conquering
           swordes
           the
           instruments
           to
           plante
           religion
           amongst
           Turkes
           and
           infidelles
           ,
           and
           reforme
           the
           errors
           of
           wandring
           Christians
           ,
           when
           they
           seeing
           our
           souldiers
           such
           as
           the
           f
           Indians
           did
           Albuqueria
           and
           his
           company
           of
           Portingalls
           may
           stedfastly
           beleeue
           that
           God
           omnipotent
           as
           they
           did
           that
           King
           worthy
           ,
           that
           hath
           such
           vertuous
           seruāts
           :
           thē
           would
           our
           warriours
           like
           true
           aunciēt
           souldiers
           striue
           to
           be
           religious
           ,
           vertuous
           ,
           full
           of
           honesty
           ,
           and
           we
           might
           iustly
           thinke
           with
           the
           g
           Thessalian
           those
           of
           our
           countrimē
           most
           dull
           and
           sottish
           that
           went
           not
           to
           the
           warres
           :
           or
           say
           with
           the
           h
           Aetolian
           the
           warre
           is
           better
           farre
           than
           peace
           for
           him
           that
           hath
           a
           minde
           to
           proue
           an
           honest
           man.
           
        
         
           For
           then
           our
           Campe
           would
           be
           a
           schoole
           of
           vertue
           where
           (
           by
           dutifull
           obedience
           )
           men
           should
           be
           trayned
           vp
           and
           taught
           what
           appertaind
           to
           wise
           cōmanding
           :
           where
           religion
           perhaps
           the
           cause
           of
           the
           quarrell
           should
           be
           so
           feruent
           ,
           that
           men
           would
           thinke
           it
           their
           cheifest
           ioy
           ,
           in
           midst
           of
           greatest
           miseries
           ,
           to
           haue
           the
           feare
           of
           God
           their
           meditation
           and
           an
           vnspotted
           life
           their
           comfort
           .
           For
           thē
           the
           memorie
           of
           Alexander
           that
           the
           night
           before
           the
           battell
           with
           i
           Darius
           cald
           for
           Aristander
           to
           winne
           the
           fauour
           of
           Gods
           with
           sacrifice
           :
           or
           of
           k
           Aeneas
           .
           
             
               —
               Quo
               iustior
               alter
            
             
               Nec
               pi●tate
               fuit
               ,
               nec
               bello
               maior
               et
               armis
               :
            
             
               Than
               whom
               there
               was
               none
               more
               vpright
            
             
               in
               goodnesse
               ,
               nor
               more
               great
               in
               fight
               .
            
          
           that
           in
           Virgil
           leaues
           his
           companions
           busied
           ,
           et
           
             
               l
               Arces
               quibus
               altus
               Apollo
            
             
               Praesidet
               horrendaeque
               domus
               Secreta
               Sibillae
            
             
               antrum
               immane
               petit
               &c.
            
             
             
               To
               high
               Apollos
               temple
               hies
            
             
               and
               to
               those
               dreaded
               mysteries
               .
            
             
               the
               horride
               vault
               where
               Sibil
               lies
               &c.
               
            
          
        
         
           Or
           of
           m
           Camillus
           that
           would
           begin
           and
           end
           his
           skermishes
           with
           prayers
           ,
           or
           of
           the
           n
           Romans
           whose
           victories
           built
           Churches
           ,
           with
           whom
           contempt
           of
           the
           Gods
           was
           a
           certaine
           signe
           of
           ouerthrow
           ;
           would
           make
           our
           souldiers
           call
           to
           minde
           it
           is
           their
           dutie
           to
           be
           as
           earnest
           in
           holy
           workes
           of
           piety
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           zealous
           in
           their
           superstition
           ,
           they
           blindly
           did
           they
           knew
           not
           what
           ,
           and
           though
           through
           the
           soules
           strugling
           to
           ascend
           from
           whence
           it
           came
           ,
           there
           arose
           some
           sprakes
           ,
           that
           gaue
           them
           light
           to
           see
           there
           was
           
             ens
             entium
          
           :
           a
           power
           aboue
           all
           humane
           power
           that
           lookt
           for
           reuerence
           ,
           yet
           wanting
           meanes
           to
           apprehende
           that
           rightly
           ,
           their
           best
           endeuors
           proued
           but
           fruitles
           workes
           of
           darkenesse
           ,
           but
           out
           of
           doubt
           our
           Christan
           souldiers
           as
           they
           haue
           much
           more
           hope
           ,
           more
           helps
           ,
           and
           more
           incitements
           ,
           I
           do
           presume
           are
           much
           more
           truely
           and
           more
           earnestly
           religious
           .
        
         
           These
           haue
           assurāce
           grounded
           on
           infallible
           witnesses
           that
           they
           serue
           the
           only
           true
           and
           euerliuing
           God
           that
           giues
           the
           victory
           to
           thē
           that
           rightly
           call
           vpon
           him
           for
           it
           ,
           
           and
           rewards
           plentifully
           those
           that
           deserue
           it
           .
           These
           by
           the
           orders
           of
           their
           discipline
           ,
           as
           helps
           to
           their
           weakenes
           ,
           cōforts
           to
           their
           miseries
           ,
           and
           Ministers
           of
           Gods
           blessings
           haue
           necessary
           Leuites
           to
           performe
           to
           them
           all
           rites
           that
           may
           prepare
           them
           ,
           that
           are
           in
           health
           and
           therefore
           lesse
           hindred
           frō
           being
           prepared
           for
           death
           that
           hourely
           hāgs
           ouer
           them
           .
           To
           assure
           them
           when
           they
           sometimes
           beseiged
           suffer
           famine
           as
           fearefull
           as
           that
           of
           o
           Ierusalem
           ,
           as
           great
           as
           King
           p
           Sous
           his
           souldiers
           that
           would
           not
           sorbeare
           drinke
           to
           gaine
           a
           Kingdome
           ,
           yet
           choose
           to
           die
           miserably
           ,
           rather
           than
           yeeld
           to
           change
           their
           faith
           ▪
           that
           that
           faith
           shal
           be
           rewarded
           with
           a
           happy
           crowne
           of
           Immortalitie
           .
           To
           teach
           thē
           that
           to
           be
           sometimes
           for
           Christs
           cause
           made
           gallis●aues
           ,
           where
           with
           the
           constant
           spirits
           
           of
           true
           Christian
           souldiers
           they
           indure
           afflictions
           ,
           that
           would
           make
           softehearted
           men
           such
           perhappes
           as
           speake
           against
           souldiers
           ,
           euē
           forsake
           their
           great
           captaine
           Iesus
           :
           is
           a
           sure
           meanes
           to
           gaine
           in
           exchange
           of
           those
           bonds
           the
           freedome
           of
           Heauen
           .
           To
           exhort
           them
           last
           of
           all
           if
           by
           Gods
           mercifull
           preseruation
           when
           death
           came
           a
           tithing
           on
           any
           side
           ,
           whē
           multituds
           of
           enimies
           encōpassed
           them
           about
           ,
           they
           proue
           the
           sole
           remnant
           of
           many
           hundreds
           ,
           to
           returne
           to
           their
           natiue
           Countrie
           there
           to
           dye
           in
           peace
           ,
           that
           whiles
           they
           liue
           they
           cannot
           haue
           a
           better
           president
           to
           imitate
           than
           the
           worthy
           Captaine
           q
           Cornelius
           .
        
         
           Besides
           these
           Minesters
           ,
           these
           souldiers
           haue
           the
           Scriptures
           ,
           where
           contemning
           play
           bookes
           and
           base
           pamphlets
           vnfit
           studies
           for
           dying
           men
           )
           they
           may
           reading
           learne
           to
           imitate
           r
           Iosua
           before
           the
           battell
           ,
           that
           prayed
           the
           Israelites
           might
           not
           be
           deliuered
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Amorites
           :
           or
           s
           Moses
           in
           the
           battell
           that
           lifted
           vp
           his
           hands
           to
           heauen
           for
           victorie
           :
           or
           t
           Dauid
           after
           the
           battell
           that
           praised
           God
           the
           author
           of
           his
           conquests
           with
           ioyfull
           songs
           of
           thankesgiuing
           :
           where
           they
           may
           reading
           learne
           to
           giue
           continually
           all
           honor
           and
           religious
           worshippe
           to
           that
           God
           v
           
             That
             teacheth
             their
             fingers
             to
             fight
             and
             their
             hands
             to
             Battell
             ,
          
           euen
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           their
           armies
           from
           whence
           he
           pleases
           to
           appropriate
           vnto
           himselfe
           one
           of
           his
           great
           &
           glorious
           titles
           w
           
             The
             Lord
             of
             Hostes.
          
           
        
         
           But
           perhaps
           some
           one
           obseruing
           how
           great
           y
           Anthony
           ,
           did
           sacrifice
           himselfe
           to
           luxurie
           ,
           or
           hauing
           reade
           the
           true
           cause
           of
           x
           Charles
           the
           8
           of
           Fraunce
           his
           posting
           pilgrimage
           to
           Paris
           when
           he
           should
           haue
           gone
           for
           Naples
           may
           thinke
           he
           sees
           good
           reason
           to
           condemne
           a
           souldiers
           religion
           as
           consisting
           of
           too
           much
           Deuotion
           to
           shee
           Saints
           :
           I
           must
           confesse
           the
           folly
           of
           some
           souldiers
           in
           time
           of
           Idlenesse
           hath
           giuen
           some
           colour
           to
           the
           fable
           of
           Mars
           and
           Venus
           ,
           but
           I
           cannot
           see
           how
           the
           profession
           ,
           
           can
           deserue
           that
           imputation
           :
           for
           either
           that
           fable
           is
           a
           Poets
           mere
           fiction
           ,
           and
           so
           not
           to
           be
           credited
           ,
           since
           through
           their
           lyinge
           madenesse
           euen
           Heauen
           i●
           selfe
           is
           defiled
           ,
           or
           els
           is
           grounded
           on
           some
           naturall
           cause
           ,
           and
           then
           as
           Sol
           and
           Mercurie
           the
           Patrons
           of
           Poets
           Lawiers
           and
           the
           like
           are
           in
           the
           Celestiall
           Globe
           neerer
           to
           Venus
           as
           oft
           in
           coniunction
           and
           for
           their
           naturall
           proprietie
           more
           concordant
           ,
           In
           reason
           me
           thinkes
           those
           Poets
           ,
           Lawiers
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           that
           leade
           
             Vitam
             sedentariam
          
           ,
           a
           quiet
           life
           ,
           sleepe
           their
           fill
           and
           eate
           their
           meate
           at
           due
           seasons
           must
           of
           necessitie
           be
           much
           more
           subiect
           to
           incontinency
           than
           Souldiers
           ,
           that
           may
           well
           with
           z
           Scipio
           contemne
           lasciuiousnesse
           ,
           since
           thinking
           still
           how
           to
           conquere
           men
           ,
           their
           leasure
           serues
           them
           not
           to
           become
           slaues
           to
           women
           ,
           a
           that
           may
           learne
           of
           Scanderbreg
           to
           liue
           long
           vnmarried
           and
           yet
           most
           honest
           ,
           that
           their
           bodies
           may
           be
           the
           stronger
           and
           better
           able
           to
           do
           or
           suffer
           what
           pertaines
           to
           Souldiers
           :
           that
           may
           as
           b
           Pericles
           willed
           Sophocles
           euen
           keepe
           their
           eies
           from
           lusting
           ,
           their
           course
           of
           life
           being
           of
           such
           singlnes
           that
           they
           are
           seldom
           or
           neuer
           troubled
           with
           the
           sight
           of
           womē
           that
           are
           last
           of
           all
           daily
           mortifyed
           with
           colde
           ,
           hunger
           losse
           ,
           of
           blood
           ,
           and
           perpetual
           labour
           :
           so
           that
           if
           c
           Henry
           the
           maiden-King
           of
           Portingal
           could
           ,
           they
           may
           well
           be
           
             per
             totum
             vitae
             spatium
             libidinis
             expertes
          
           euen
           al
           their
           life
           time
           free
           frō
           incontinēt-desires
           ,
           at
           least
           able
           with
           d
           Alexander
           to
           resist
           the
           temptatiō
           of
           a
           Philoxenes
           or
           an
           Ephestion
           though
           their
           temper
           were
           as
           hotte
           as
           Alexanders
           that
           by
           reason
           of
           heat
           brethed
           forth
           sweete
           sauors
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           not
           neede
           to
           coole
           their
           complexions
           with
           too
           much
           liquour
           :
           the
           death
           of
           e
           Clitus
           and
           the
           burning
           of
           Persepolis
           may
           assure
           them
           Alexanders
           drunkennes
           drowned
           al
           his
           other
           vertues
           :
           f
           so
           Seneca
           pronounced
           his
           happie
           rashnesse
           farre
           from
           fortitude
           ,
           tainted
           with
           cruelty
           ,
           the
           badge
           of
           Cowardize
           ,
           and
           I
           may
           well
           condemne
           his
           wisedome
           for
           loosing
           the
           benefite
           of
           his
           victory
           
           which
           g
           Caesar
           the
           best
           Captaine
           thought
           was
           only
           this
           ,
           
             victis
             donare
             salutem
          
           .
        
         
           
             For
             to
             bestoe
          
           
             Life
             on
             the
             vanquishtfoe
             .
          
        
         
           It
           is
           an
           idle
           fond
           infirmity
           fit
           for
           immodest
           h
           Babilonish
           women
           that
           first
           drinke
           then
           daunce
           &c.
           or
           for
           vnwise
           womenish
           men
           louers
           I
           meane
           twixt
           whom
           and
           drunkards
           there
           is
           such
           affinity
           that
           i
           
             &
             in
             ebrietatē
             amans
             ,
             &
             in
             amorem
             ebrius
             procliuis
             admodum
             ,
          
           the
           louer
           is
           soone
           drunke
           ,
           the
           drunkard
           apt
           to
           be
           in
           loue
           :
           But
           the
           ouerthrow
           of
           the
           victorious
           k
           Scithians
           in
           Iustine
           hath
           made
           me
           euen
           from
           the
           infancy
           of
           my
           reading
           ,
           afraide
           to
           think
           such
           weakenesse
           should
           be
           in
           a
           Souldier
           ,
           as
           was
           in
           those
           l
           
             German●●s
             Pantaleon
          
           speakes
           of
           that
           after
           many
           valiant
           exploites
           falling
           to
           drinking
           on
           Saint
           Martins
           day
           were
           al
           slaine
           by
           the
           Turkes
           that
           inuaded
           them
           ,
           as
           the
           Graecians
           did
           Troy
           where
           the
           inhabitants
           were
           m
           
             vino
             sommoque
             sepulti
          
           .
        
         
           
             Dead
             in
             a
             deepe
          
           
             And
             drunken
             sleepe
             .
          
        
         
           Let
           the
           barbarous
           n
           Brasilians
           drinke
           drunke
           before
           they
           enter
           into
           consultations
           ,
           let
           their
           light
           heads
           be
           far
           from
           bringing
           forth
           weightie
           counsailes
           :
           but
           you
           in
           whose
           hands
           consists
           the
           safety
           of
           kingdomes
           ,
           whose
           affaires
           stande
           so
           tikle
           that
           as
           o
           Gui●●ardine
           obserues
           
             One
             commaundement
             ill
             vnderstoode
             ,
             one
             order
             ill
             executed
             ,
             one
             rashnesse
             ,
             one
          
           *
           
             vaine
             voice
             euen
             of
             the
             meanest
             Souldior
             carries
             oft
             times
             the
             victory
             to
             those
             that
             seemed
             vanquished
             ,
          
           keepe
           you
           your
           wittes
           about
           you
           still
           perfect
           and
           still
           readie
           to
           settle
           vnexpected
           Accidents
           ,
           though
           some
           Vsu●ers
           of
           your
           names
           waste
           their
           substance
           as
           the
           p
           west
           -
           Indians
           do
           their
           money
           in
           their
           quaffing
           cups
           and
           then
           like
           true
           vnthrifts
           such
           as
           was
           Meligallus
           a
           Knight
           of
           Rhodes
           endeuour
           treacherously
           
             post
             Patrimonium
             patriam
             subuertere
          
           after
           the
           ouerthrow
           
           of
           their
           owne
           estates
           to
           betray
           their
           countrey
           ;
           though
           the
           weakenesse
           of
           some
           men
           be
           such
           that
           they
           first
           and
           surest
           learne
           the
           infirmities
           of
           the
           Countreies
           where
           they
           liue
           ,
           as
           some
           auntient
           Trauellers
           were
           wont
           to
           do
           lying
           of
           the
           Cret●ans
           ,
           perfidiousnesse
           of
           the
           Carthaginians
           ,
           or
           effeminatnes
           of
           the
           people
           of
           Asia
           ,
           as
           some
           moderne
           doo
           affected
           grauity
           of
           the
           Spaniard
           .
           Reueng
           and
           ielous●y
           of
           the
           Italian
           ,
           and
           waste
           and
           lauish
           of
           the
           French
           ,
           as
           some
           of
           our
           Souldiers
           haue
           done
           freebooting
           mutining
           and
           the
           like
           disorders
           in
           the
           Ciuill
           warres
           of
           the
           French
           Leaguers
           ,
           as
           some
           haue
           and
           do
           this
           carousing
           qualitie
           by
           seruing
           among
           the
           Dutch.
           Yet
           let
           your
           setled
           iudgments
           discerne
           a
           difference
           twixt
           vertue
           and
           those
           mentioned
           vices
           ,
           let
           your
           wisedome
           direct
           you
           to
           contemne
           their
           folly
           that
           betray
           their
           owne
           by
           drinking
           to
           anothers
           health
           ,
           let
           it
           assure
           you
           though
           somefooles
           like
           the
           r
           
             Indian
             Chirihichenses
          
           thinke
           him
           most
           valiant
           that
           drinks
           most
           ,
           it
           can
           be
           little
           praise
           to
           you
           to
           make
           your
           bellies
           hogs-heads
           ,
           or
           your
           braines
           spunges
           ,
           you
           may
           and
           ought
           to
           shew
           far
           truer
           and
           farre
           greater
           fortitude
           by
           liuing
           vertuous
           Cōquerers
           of
           such
           vicious
           affections
           that
           so
           you
           may
           dye
           without
           feare
           of
           death
           your
           countries
           faithfull
           Champions
           ,
           &
           go
           as
           Plutarch
           tels
           of
           s
           Romulus
           armed
           to
           heauen
           ,
           and
           〈◊〉
           be
           as
           t
           Solon
           thought
           of
           Tellus
           more
           happy
           than
           the
           richest
           King.
           For
           this
           forescore
           yeeres-olde
           u
           Hippodamus
           aduised
           by
           his
           king
           to
           leaue
           the
           warres
           ,
           and
           turne
           into
           his
           countrey
           ,
           replied
           he
           knewe
           not
           where
           to
           dye
           more
           happilie
           than
           in
           the
           wars
           defending
           of
           his
           country
           :
           For
           this
           the
           yong
           vnmaried
           x
           Graecians
           part
           of
           Leonidas
           his
           gallant
           followers
           refused
           to
           shun
           a
           certaine
           danger
           &
           returne
           vnto
           their
           friends
           in
           safety
           ,
           saying
           they
           came
           to
           fight
           and
           not
           to
           carry
           newes
           ,
           For
           this
           I
           cannot
           chuse
           but
           attribute
           great
           honour
           to
           the
           warre
           ,
           that
           is
           of
           power
           to
           make
           both
           old
           and
           young
           so
           honorable
           .
        
         
           
             y
             Par
             ill●
             Regi
             ,
             par
             superis
             erit
          
           
           
             Qui
             stiga
             tristem
             non
             tristis
             vidit
             .
          
           
             He
             is
             a
             King
             or
             more
             than
             mortall
             man
          
           
             That
             vnappalde
             ,
             pale
             death
             incounter
             can
             .
          
        
         
           And
           they
           shall
           be
           most
           happy
           
             
               x
               Quos
               ille
               Timorum
            
             
               Maximus
               haud
               vrget
               lethi
               metus
               .
            
             
               To
               whom
               of
               all
               feares
               chiefe
            
             
               The
               feare
               of
               death
               doth
               work
               no
               griefe
               .
            
          
        
         
           This
           is
           the
           perfect
           point
           of
           fortitude
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           hardest
           point
           in
           all
           Philosophy
           ,
           yet
           surest
           learnd
           by
           practise
           and
           oftnest
           put
           in
           practise
           in
           the
           wars
           ,
           where
           priuate
           Souldiers
           like
           that
           z
           German
           in
           Osorius
           wil
           be
           sore
           wounded
           yet
           not
           retire
           til
           they
           dye
           or
           conquere
           where
           Captaines
           bury
           themselues
           in
           their
           own
           colours
           or
           like
           a
           Bayard
           fight
           till
           death
           seaze
           on
           them
           ,
           yet
           desire
           to
           dye
           with
           their
           faces
           against
           their
           enemies
           ;
           where
           sometimes
           both
           Captaine
           and
           Souldiers
           like
           b
           Leonidas
           and
           his
           companions
           dine
           with
           a
           resolution
           vndismaide
           ,
           to
           sup
           in
           Heauen
           ,
           &
           die
           all
           of
           them
           so
           happy
           ,
           that
           none
           remaines
           to
           carry
           the
           vnhappie
           newes
           .
           These
           then
           and
           such
           as
           these
           are
           Souldiers
           ,
           for
           these
           are
           Chronicles
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           these
           are
           (
           by
           c
           Licurgus
           lawes
           )
           esteemed
           only
           worthie
           to
           haue
           Epitaphes
           ;
           so
           now
           I
           see
           why
           d
           Pyrrhus
           trained
           vp
           his
           three
           Sonnes
           to
           be
           Souldiers
           ;
           while
           he
           himselfe
           did
           liue
           and
           dye
           a
           Souldier
           ;
           and
           why
           within
           e
           Rome
           no
           man
           might
           be
           buried
           that
           had
           not
           bene
           a
           Souldier
           :
           so
           now
           I
           thinke
           when
           Alexander
           dying
           left
           his
           crowne
           f
           dignissimo
           ,
           vnto
           the
           worthiest
           ,
           he
           did
           intend
           a
           Souldier
           ,
           when
           the
           most
           Indians
           of
           Hispaniola
           bequeath
           theirs
           g
           fortissimo
           vnto
           the
           valiantest
           ,
           they
           can
           intend
           none
           but
           a
           Souldier
           :
           and
           h
           Pyrrhus
           when
           he
           tolde
           his
           Sonnes
           he
           should
           succeede
           that
           had
           the
           sharpest
           sworde
           ,
           did
           onely
           meane
           that
           Sonne
           that
           prooued
           a
           Souldier
           :
           for
           why
           ?
           should
           Pyrrhus
           haue
           resigned
           his
           Scepter
           to
           a
           Sonne
           as
           Iohn
           of
           Armenia
           did
           to
           a
           brother
           
             belli
             ignaro
             viro
          
           ,
           
           a
           man
           vnexperienced
           in
           militarie
           affaires
           ,
           there
           might
           haue
           
           well
           be
           feared
           a
           desolate
           subuersion
           of
           his
           state
           like
           that
           ,
           that
           thereon
           followed
           ,
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Armenia
           .
           But
           he
           that
           saw
           the
           Romans
           growe
           from
           small
           beginnings
           to
           a
           mightie
           nation
           by
           continuall
           warre
           ,
           and
           found
           that
           for
           increasing
           of
           their
           fame
           ,
           riches
           and
           power
           ,
           their
           loue
           was
           setled
           on
           the
           warre
           ;
           had
           reason
           to
           traine
           vp
           and
           seeke
           to
           leaue
           an
           heire
           that
           might
           maintaine
           his
           quarell
           and
           resist
           the
           Romans
           force
           with
           force
           ,
           their
           warre
           with
           warre
           :
           and
           hauing
           so
           established
           his
           Throne
           ,
           plentie
           of
           sutors
           would
           haue
           come
           from
           neighbouring
           Princes
           if
           not
           for
           loue
           ,
           for
           feare
           ,
           if
           not
           for
           feare
           ,
           for
           profits
           sake
           ,
           to
           winne
           such
           a
           succeeders
           Amity
           .
           For
           as
           it
           is
           reported
           of
           k
           Tubanama
           an
           Indian
           King
           ,
           that
           he
           protested
           solemnly
           ,
           he
           euer
           loued
           the
           Spaniards
           ,
           because
           he
           hearde
           their
           swords
           were
           sharper
           farre
           than
           his
           :
           so
           I
           remember
           when
           at
           the
           selfesame
           time
           ,
           the
           seuerall
           prouinces
           of
           l
           Graecia
           ,
           sent
           seuerall
           Embassadors
           to
           the
           Persian
           Artaxerxes
           ,
           whose
           frendshippe
           all
           affecting
           ,
           all
           indeuored
           by
           all
           the
           meanes
           they
           could
           to
           gaine
           :
           the
           King
           did
           voluntarily
           preferre
           the
           Thebā
           cause
           and
           Pelopid●s
           sute
           before
           the
           rest
           ,
           because
           the
           fame
           went
           they
           were
           the
           best
           practised
           of
           &
           most
           skilfull
           souldiers
           of
           all
           the
           rest
           ,
           litle
           respecting
           the
           power
           of
           the
           Athenians
           ,
           or
           the
           wealth
           or
           number
           of
           other
           of
           the
           Citties
           ,
           who
           for
           want
           of
           militarie
           practise
           ,
           neither
           knew
           how
           to
           vse
           their
           nūber
           ,
           nor
           their
           powerful
           weath
           :
           so
           then
           for
           power
           in
           the
           warre
           it
           is
           ,
           one
           Kingdome
           is
           preferred
           before
           an
           other
           ,
           and
           strangers
           euermore
           do
           most
           respect
           those
           strangers
           that
           are
           warryers
           .
        
         
           The
           poore
           Artificers
           ,
           the
           Mechanicke
           Switzers
           were
           not
           long
           since
           of
           most
           meane
           estimation
           till
           that
           prouoked
           by
           an
           iniury
           of
           m
           Charles
           the
           last
           Duke
           of
           the
           house
           of
           Burgundy
           like
           horses
           ignorant
           of
           their
           owne
           strenght
           they
           entered
           the
           feilde
           and
           got
           a
           victorie
           whose
           sweetnesse
           so
           inticed
           them
           on
           to
           continue
           in
           that
           course
           to
           such
           there
           aduantage
           ,
           that
           since
           that
           time
           some
           of
           the
           
           greatest
           n
           Princes
           of
           Christendome
           haue
           vied
           thousandes
           of
           Crownes
           to
           gaine
           their
           freindeshippe
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           warres
           of
           o
           Italie
           the
           victorie
           did
           ofttimes
           follow
           their
           inclination
           ,
           that
           last
           of
           all
           ,
           all
           Europe
           at
           this
           day
           respects
           them
           well
           ,
           and
           him
           the
           better
           whose
           freinds
           they
           professe
           themselues
           .
        
         
           Thus
           the
           lowcountrimen
           (
           a
           name
           not
           many
           yeeres
           agone
           vnknowne
           )
           were
           once
           p
           reputed
           a
           dull
           lazie
           yea
           a
           base
           Nation
           of
           poore
           handicrafts
           men
           ,
           contemned
           of
           their
           neighbouring
           enemies
           &
           respected
           of
           their
           friendes
           no
           further
           than
           necessitie
           inforced
           ,
           yet
           after
           that
           as
           they
           professe
           their
           Lords
           seueritie
           had
           forced
           them
           against
           their
           willes
           to
           take
           vp
           weopons
           for
           their
           owne
           defence
           ,
           they
           in
           shorte
           time
           redeemed
           so
           their
           reputation
           that
           their
           most
           powerfull
           neighbours
           were
           content
           to
           vndergoe
           inuirious
           imputations
           for
           protecting
           thē
           ,
           whom
           men
           that
           lookt
           a
           squinte
           vpon
           the
           cause
           esteemed
           too
           much
           disobedient
           ,
           
           &
           since
           that
           time
           the
           warre
           that
           gaue
           life
           to
           their
           force
           hath
           so
           encreased
           their
           might
           ,
           that
           for
           this
           but
           on
           part
           of
           their
           power
           their
           strenght
           at
           sea
           ,
           t
           is
           thought
           they
           cannot
           want
           good
           freinds
           to
           backe
           them
           .
        
         
           Since
           then
           the
           benefit
           of
           power
           skill
           and
           practise
           in
           the
           warre
           is
           such
           that
           by
           it
           the
           poore
           haue
           growne
           rich
           ,
           the
           weake
           strong
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           were
           reputed
           vile
           haue
           got
           an
           honorable
           reputation
           ,
           since
           all
           sorts
           of
           men
           are
           either
           through
           feare
           earnest
           or
           through
           loue
           willing
           to
           entertaine
           frendly
           amitie
           with
           those
           especially
           that
           are
           renowned
           for
           it
           ,
           since
           last
           a
           Commonwealth
           through
           it
           may
           growe
           frō
           small
           beginnings
           to
           vnlookt
           for
           height
           as
           that
           of
           q
           
             Rome
             ,
             audendo
             et
             agendo
          
           ,
           by
           daring
           and
           doeing
           rose
           from
           nothing
           to
           be
           Maisters
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           who
           is
           he
           that
           remembers
           how
           r
           Romulus
           euen
           in
           Romes
           infancie
           ,
           did
           lay
           foundations
           of
           Romes
           greatnesse
           ,
           by
           choosing
           out
           of
           his
           followers
           ,
           those
           that
           were
           able
           to
           beare
           armes
           to
           be
           enroled
           into
           legions
           ,
           that
           will
           not
           wish
           if
           he
           wish
           well
           to
           his
           Country
           ,
           that
           his
           countries
           gouernors
           
           would
           prouide
           so
           ,
           for
           their
           Citties
           that
           they
           may
           neuer
           want
           souldiers
           to
           fight
           for
           them
           so
           long
           as
           they
           haue
           Citizens
           to
           dwell
           within
           them
           .
           For
           my
           part
           when
           I
           remember
           how
           the
           s
           Roman
           state
           ,
           as
           it
           encreased
           in
           power
           did
           euermore
           encrease
           the
           well
           deserued
           respect
           it
           bare
           to
           souldiers
           ,
           so
           that
           though
           while
           the
           weakenesse
           of
           their
           poore
           beginning
           lasted
           they
           only
           gaue
           them
           titulary
           rewards
           triumphs
           to
           Generalles
           ,
           and
           to
           each
           priuate
           souldier
           that
           deserued
           it
           a
           seuerall
           Garland
           ,
           yet
           in
           the
           yeere
           of
           their
           Citties
           age
           347
           ,
           at
           the
           taking
           of
           Anxur
           the
           Wolsces
           Towne
           ,
           they
           ordained
           for
           them
           a
           certaine
           paye
           
             e
             publico
          
           which
           was
           augmented
           aftetwardes
           by
           
             Caius
             Gracchus
          
           and
           doubted
           after
           him
           by
           
             Iulius
             Caesar
          
           ,
           so
           that
           in
           processe
           of
           time
           besides
           the
           gift
           of
           the
           gouernement
           of
           infinite
           Townes
           Prouinces
           and
           Kingdomes
           ,
           besides
           the
           sending
           forth
           of
           t
           Colonies
           one
           cheife
           vse
           whereof
           was
           
             Vt
             praemijs
             milites
             veterani
             afficerentur
          
           :
           that
           olde
           souldiers
           might
           be
           rewarded
           ,
           and
           besides
           the
           ordinarie
           allowance
           for
           those
           legions
           that
           liued
           in
           Rome
           ,
           the
           Emperour
           u
           Augustus
           allotted
           out
           certaine
           portions
           of
           lande
           for
           those
           that
           had
           beene
           souldiers
           to
           maintaine
           them
           in
           a
           continuall
           readinesse
           to
           doe
           him
           and
           their
           Countrie
           service
           .
        
         
           When
           I
           remember
           how
           in
           Imitation
           of
           those
           Romans
           the
           auncient
           Kings
           of
           the
           *
           Gaules
           gaue
           to
           their
           souldiers
           Mannors
           in
           the
           Countrie
           where
           they
           liued
           as
           Lords
           ouer
           the
           peasants
           their
           Tennants
           ,
           and
           were
           tyed
           to
           come
           with
           a
           certaine
           nomber
           of
           followers
           according
           to
           the
           quality
           of
           their
           land
           to
           serue
           as
           voluntaries
           at
           their
           owne
           charge
           so
           long
           as
           the
           warre
           lasted
           ,
           a
           custome
           yet
           obserued
           by
           their
           ofspring
           the
           Gentrie
           of
           France
           :
           when
           I
           remember
           how
           perhappes
           in
           imitation
           of
           those
           
             Gaules
             ,
             William
          
           the
           Conqueror
           gaue
           to
           his
           followers
           our
           Gentries
           Auncestors
           distincte
           circuites
           in
           sondrie
           places
           of
           seuerall
           Landes
           of
           inheritance
           ▪
           
           one
           of
           the
           heires
           of
           which
           distribution
           is
           reported
           since
           that
           time
           to
           haue
           produced
           a
           rusty
           sword
           as
           the
           euidence
           by
           which
           he
           held
           his
           liuing
           :
           when
           I
           remember
           how
           the
           Kings
           of
           France
           vsed
           Knighting
           and
           when
           that
           was
           corrupted
           in
           the
           Ciuill
           warres
           of
           the
           houses
           of
           x
           Burgundie
           and
           Orleans
           inuented
           new
           orders
           of
           Knighthood
           ,
           as
           new
           honors
           to
           rewarde
           souldiers
           :
           When
           last
           I
           call
           to
           minde
           how
           gentlemen
           and
           their
           Coats
           of
           Armes
           tooke
           their
           originall
           from
           the
           warres
           as
           may
           appeare
           by
           z
           Agrippaes
           obseruation
           that
           in
           Heraldry
           the
           best
           coates
           cōsist
           of
           sauage
           beasts
           to
           testifie
           the
           bearers
           nobility
           gotten
           by
           his
           courage
           :
           as
           saith
           he
           ,
           the
           Gothes
           caried
           a
           Beare
           ,
           the
           Saxons
           a
           Horse
           ,
           the
           Romans
           an
           Eagle
           ,
           the
           Cimbri
           a
           Bull
           ,
           and
           each
           particular
           Gentleman
           thinkes
           it
           nothing
           honorable
           to
           carry
           a
           Sheepe
           ,
           a
           Lambe
           ,
           a
           Clafe
           ,
           or
           such
           like
           peaceable
           creature
           that
           is
           not
           
             Militiae
             signum
          
           ,
           a
           token
           of
           warfare
           ;
           Then
           my
           zeale
           to
           the
           warres
           and
           my
           loue
           to
           souldiers
           is
           so
           reuiued
           that
           I
           can
           scarse
           forbeare
           wishing
           ,
           that
           in
           Engiand
           as
           in
           Scythia
           none
           might
           drinke
           of
           the
           feasting
           cuppe
           ,
           or
           as
           in
           Carmania
           none
           might
           marry
           that
           had
           not
           slaine
           an
           enemy
           to
           his
           country
           :
           or
           as
           amonge
           the
           Turkes
           that
           none
           might
           be
           esteemed
           noble
           for
           Antiquity
           ,
           but
           for
           their
           proper
           vertue
           :
           or
           as
           olde
           decrepite
           men
           were
           vsed
           among
           the
           a
           Trogloditae
           mētioned
           in
           
             Diodorus
             Siculus
          
           ,
           that
           each
           yong
           scapethrift
           that
           is
           
             Telluris
             inutile
             pondus
          
           ,
           a
           burden
           to
           the
           earth
           that
           can
           doe
           nothing
           wel
           ,
           saue
           that
           that
           is
           passing
           ill
           might
           be
           tyed
           by
           the
           necke
           to
           an
           Oxes
           taile
           and
           so
           strangled
           as
           well
           worthy
           so
           shamefull
           a
           death
           for
           doing
           nothing
           worthy
           of
           life
           .
           But
           on
           later
           and
           wiser
           consideration
           I
           finde
           it
           nothing
           comely
           that
           a
           Ciuill
           Country
           should
           breake
           her
           owne
           customes
           to
           imitate
           a
           barbarous
           people
           ,
           yet
           euen
           these
           examples
           with
           those
           before
           mentioned
           may
           liuely
           testifie
           how
           necessary
           al
           antiquitie
           esteemed
           
             Pramiaet
             honores
          
           rewards
           and
           honors
           ,
           to
           nourish
           and
           hold
           vp
           the
           Arte
           of
           warre
           ,
           one
           of
           the
           cheifest
           pillars
           of
           a
           Common-wealth
           
           I
           cannot
           therefore
           but
           most
           seriously
           wishe
           that
           our
           King
           a
           worthy
           in
           the
           worthiest
           kinde
           of
           Learning
           as
           he
           is
           the
           flower
           of
           two
           Stemmes
           of
           most
           renowned
           warlicke
           auncesters
           ,
           whom
           God
           hath
           giuen
           vs
           ,
           b
           
             To
             goe
             out
             before
             vs
             and
             fight
             our
             battelles
             ,
          
           to
           whom
           the
           King
           of
           Kings
           
             
               c
               Et
               mulcere
               dedit
               fluctus
               et
               tollere
               ventos
               .
            
             
               Giues
               power
               as
               well
               as
               to
               appease
            
             
               with
               calmes
               ,
               with
               stormes
               to
               stirre
               the
               seas
               .
            
          
        
         
           Would
           when
           it
           shall
           please
           his
           wisedome
           adde
           life
           ,
           I
           meane
           practise
           to
           our
           Militia
           that
           oft
           dyes
           at
           least
           decaies
           much
           through
           secure
           idlenesse
           ,
           and
           that
           then
           the
           paie
           of
           England
           that
           is
           as
           honorable
           as
           any
           Nations
           may
           not
           be
           detained
           from
           or
           gelded
           before
           it
           come
           to
           the
           hands
           of
           poore
           souldiers
           by
           base
           vnworthy
           Captaines
           ,
           nor
           the
           due
           of
           honest
           Captaines
           be
           with
           helde
           or
           lesned
           through
           the
           fraudulēt
           corruptiō
           of
           Decitefull
           officers
           ;
           but
           that
           seuerity
           of
           military
           discipline
           may
           be
           reuiued
           to
           cut
           of
           those
           rotten
           members
           ,
           those
           adulterate
           counterfeites
           whose
           basens
           hath
           made
           true
           souldiers
           contēptible
           ,
           and
           that
           true
           souldiers
           euen
           in
           times
           of
           peace
           may
           bee
           as
           much
           respected
           as
           their
           vertuous
           worth
           deserues
           .
        
         
           For
           then
           as
           by
           d
           Licurgus
           institution
           it
           was
           in
           Sparta
           our
           free
           noble
           spirits
           will
           betake
           them
           to
           the
           sworde
           &
           launce
           ,
           &
           leaue
           al
           other
           occupatiōs
           vnto
           white
           liuerd
           men
           :
           thē
           our
           yong
           mē
           will
           exercise
           thēselues
           as
           e
           Coriolanus
           did
           ,
           in
           running
           ,
           wrastling
           ,
           riding
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           warlike
           sports
           :
           and
           our
           olde
           men
           shall
           be
           fathers
           of
           great
           experience
           :
           so
           that
           with
           vs
           as
           with
           the
           f
           Brasilienses
           the
           yong
           men
           shall
           execute
           valiantly
           ,
           the
           wise
           Counsaile
           of
           the
           olde
           men
           :
           then
           our
           gentlemen
           remembring
           in
           what
           foughten
           field
           ,
           or
           for
           what
           speciall
           seruice
           their
           Auncestors
           receiued
           their
           badges
           of
           honor
           ,
           will
           fall
           to
           imitate
           those
           honorable
           Auncestors
           and
           knowing
           how
           poore
           a
           credite
           t
           is
           g
           
             Aliorum
             incumbere
             
             famae
          
           ,
           for
           to
           relie
           on
           other
           mens
           desert
           will
           striue
           rather
           to
           haue
           
             Effigies
             tot
             bellatorum
          
           ,
           the
           images
           of
           their
           warlike
           auncestors
           ,
           liuing
           in
           their
           hearts
           than
           dead
           and
           smoake
           dried
           in
           their
           houses
           :
           h
           Then
           our
           countrimen
           like
           Marcellus
           in
           Rome
           or
           the
           i
           Mamertines
           in
           Sicilie
           ,
           may
           perhaps
           haue
           honorable
           name
           deriued
           from
           Mars
           :
           Then
           it
           may
           be
           as
           many
           of
           one
           name
           as
           were
           of
           k
           Williams
           at
           our
           King
           Henrie
           the
           second
           his
           Sonnes
           feast
           in
           Normandie
           ,
           or
           as
           many
           of
           one
           family
           as
           were
           of
           the
           l
           Medcalfes
           at
           on
           assize
           in
           Richmondshire
           will
           vowe
           themselues
           like
           the
           300.
           
           Fabij
           in
           Rome
           to
           fight
           for
           their
           Countrie
           :
           m
           at
           least
           we
           shall
           haue
           many
           breathren
           ,
           (
           noble
           slippes
           of
           some
           noble
           stocke
           )
           that
           like
           the
           Norrisses
           of
           honorable
           memorie
           ,
           will
           striue
           to
           be
           famous
           for
           dying
           valiant
           souldiers
           in
           the
           bed
           of
           honor
           ,
           rather
           than
           infamous
           like
           some
           beasts
           vnworthy
           to
           be
           named
           in
           the
           same
           discourse
           
             For
             their
             noted
             idle
             ,
             if
             not
             worse
             life
             .
          
           Then
           we
           shall
           haue
           many
           Captaines
           ,
           such
           as
           were
           the
           Greekes
           and
           Romans
           ,
           and
           our
           souldiers
           shall
           be
           as
           much
           renowned
           for
           valour
           ,
           honesty
           and
           mutuall
           loue
           as
           was
           the
           holy
           bande
           at
           n
           Thebes
           :
           And
           then
           nowe
           conquests
           shall
           make
           forreinors
           ashamed
           to
           laugh
           at
           vs
           when
           we
           tell
           of
           our
           forefathers
           victories
           in
           France
           ,
           and
           our
           displayed
           ensignes
           shall
           keepe
           vs
           from
           blushing
           at
           our
           slothfull
           life
           :
           For
           then
           those
           true
           souldiers
           that
           whiles
           the
           warres
           serue
           but
           as
           sinckes
           to
           ridde
           away
           
             Purgamenta
             vrbium
          
           ,
           lye
           hid
           like
           Diamonds
           heapt-vp
           in
           dunghills
           couered
           with
           weedes
           ,
           shall
           be
           as
           rich
           Gemmes
           set
           in
           gold
           and
           worne
           and
           beautified
           by
           the
           comfortable
           reflex●ion
           of
           the
           rising
           Sunnes
           smilinge
           beames
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           meane
           time
           this
           may
           their
           comfort
           though
           like
           old
           English
           words
           they
           be
           now
           out
           of
           vse
           ,
           yet
           
             
               o
               Multa
               renascentur
               quae
               nunc
               c●cidere
               cadentque
               
            
             
               Quae
               nunc
               sunt
               in
               honore
               .
            
          
        
         
           They
           will
           be
           in
           request
           that
           are
           neglected
           ,
           and
           they
           
           contemned
           that
           are
           nowe
           respected
           .
        
         
           The
           time
           will
           come
           their
           countrie
           will
           leaue
           fawningly
           to
           offer
           vp
           hir
           wealth
           to
           those
           her
           vnworthy
           children
           that
           liue
           by
           sucking
           drie
           their
           Parents
           bloud
           ,
           and
           rather
           motherlike
           respect
           those
           sonnes
           that
           are
           hir
           Champions
           ,
           and
           seeke
           to
           perchase
           her
           ease
           with
           painefull
           industrie
           ,
           her
           honor
           with
           effusion
           of
           their
           bloude
           ,
           her
           safety
           with
           losse
           of
           life
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           The
           fourth
           Paradox
           .
        
         
           
             
             Et
             multis
             vtile
             bellum
             .
          
           
             That
             warre
             sometimes
             lesse
             hurtfull
             ,
             and
             more
             to
             be
             wisht
             in
             a
             well
             gouernd
             State
             than
             peace
             .
          
        
         
           Sweete
           I
           knowe
           is
           the
           name
           of
           peace
           ,
           more
           sweete
           the
           fruition
           ,
           to
           those
           ease-affecting
           men
           that
           foolishly
           imagine
           it
           the
           greatest
           point
           of
           wisdome
           to
           enioy
           the
           benefit
           of
           present
           time
           ,
           though
           one
           of
           better
           iudgmet
           tell
           them
           :
           a
           
             Isthuc
             est
             sapere
             ,
             non
             quod
             ante
             pedes
             modo
             est
             videre
             ,
             sedetiam
             illa
             quae
             futura
             sunt
             prospicere
             .
          
        
         
           
             T
             is
             wisdome
             not
             to
             cast
             our
             eyes
          
           
             On
             that
             ,
             that
             iust
             before
             vs
             lies
             ,
          
           
             But
             to
             foresee
             and
             to
             prouide
          
           
             For
             harmes
             that
             one
             day
             may
             betyde
             .
          
        
         
           Some
           others
           without
           repect
           of
           publike
           benefite
           ,
           measuring
           the
           happinesse
           of
           the
           state
           wherein
           they
           liue
           by
           their
           owne
           particular
           contentment
           do
           most
           eagerly
           make
           warre
           against
           warre
           ,
           the
           apparant
           enemy
           to
           Persiā
           
           luxurie
           ,
           whose
           sworne
           slaues
           they
           liue
           .
           And
           besides
           these
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           men
           ,
           blinded
           like
           these
           ,
           doo
           tremble
           at
           the
           name
           of
           warre
           ,
           for
           feare
           of
           his
           companion
           charge
           :
           not
           vnlike
           some
           wretched
           pennie-fathers
           ,
           that
           in
           time
           of
           this
           our
           contagion
           ,
           by
           resisting
           contributions
           fitting
           for
           the
           ordering
           of
           infected
           persons
           ,
           are
           oft
           occasion
           of
           impouerishing
           themselues
           and
           their
           whole
           towne
           ,
           of
           endaungering
           their
           owne
           and
           many
           hundred
           honester
           mens
           liues
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           it
           may
           appeare
           on
           better
           deliberation
           ,
           that
           the
           warre
           ,
           b
           
             Est
             de
             longe
             temps
             &
             continue
             encor
             ,
             &
             durera
             en
             sa
             force
             iusqu
             a
             la
             fin
             du
             monde
          
           Is
           of
           great
           antiquitie
           ,
           continues
           yet
           ,
           and
           will
           remaine
           in
           full
           force
           to
           the
           ending
           of
           the
           world
           ,
           so
           that
           wee
           may
           well
           put
           it
           of
           ,
           but
           cannot
           put
           it
           away
           ,
           since
           like
           a
           torrent
           of
           waters
           it
           rises
           as
           occasion
           forceth
           here
           &
           there
           ,
           and
           may
           a
           while
           be
           stayed
           ,
           but
           encreasing
           so
           ,
           breakes
           out
           in
           the
           end
           more
           violently
           ,
           and
           as
           Virgil
           saith
           ,
           
             
               c
               Sternit
               agros
               ,
               sternit
               sata
               laeta
               boumque
               labores
            
             
               Praeeipitesque
               trahit
               siluas
               &c.
            
             
               The
               fields
               it
               ouerflowes
               ,
               the
               corne
               is
               dround
               .
            
             
               Plowmen
               their
               labour
               loose
               ,
               trees
               fall
               on
               ground
               &c.
               
            
          
        
         
           Then
           it
           brings
           with
           it
           a
           confused
           desolation
           ,
           whereas
           without
           daunger
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           it
           might
           haue
           passed
           on
           by
           little
           and
           little
           in
           a
           continuate
           quiet
           course
           .
           If
           it
           may
           appeare
           ,
           that
           luxurious
           idlenesse
           is
           much
           more
           to
           be
           feared
           than
           those
           monstrous
           bugbearers
           words
           I
           sometimes
           heare
           alleaged
           to
           disswade
           men
           from
           the
           warres
           ,
           the
           meere
           inuentions
           of
           fainthearted
           and
           effeminate
           men
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           haue
           some
           colour
           for
           their
           dishonorable
           sloth
           .
           If
           last
           of
           all
           it
           may
           appeare
           ,
           that
           in
           a
           iust
           and
           good
           quarrell
           ,
           which
           cannot
           likely
           want
           a
           warre
           wisely
           managed
           ,
           cannot
           but
           bee
           infinitely
           profitable
           :
           I
           thinke
           there
           is
           none
           that
           honours
           his
           King
           ,
           wishes
           well
           to
           his
           countrey
           ,
           or
           desires
           fame
           ;
           but
           will
           farre
           preferre
           the
           shedding
           of
           his
           bloud
           ,
           to
           procure
           his
           Kings
           honour
           ,
           his
           
           countries
           safetie
           ,
           or
           his
           owne
           reputation
           ,
           before
           the
           sorded
           sparing
           ,
           lazie
           liuing
           ,
           or
           foolish
           delaying
           of
           those
           blinded
           men
           I
           mentioned
           .
        
         
           For
           my
           owne
           part
           ,
           I
           euer
           disliked
           those
           patient
           pleasing
           Chirurgions
           that
           with
           fond
           mildenesse
           suffer
           small
           hurts
           to
           fester
           ,
           &
           grow
           dangerous
           :
           I
           euer
           feared
           lest
           temporizing
           (
           like
           looking
           on
           our
           neighbors
           burning
           house
           )
           would
           suffer
           the
           fire
           to
           come
           home
           to
           our
           owne
           doores
           ,
           and
           then
           I
           feare
           our
           poore
           louing
           sheep
           wil
           too
           late
           see
           ,
           they
           onely
           fed
           themselues
           fatt
           for
           the
           slaughter
           ,
           when
           men
           most
           resolute
           ,
           shall
           rather
           bee
           ,
           determinate
           to
           doo
           ,
           than
           skilfull
           how
           to
           .
           Then
           I
           feare
           our
           conquestes
           past
           will
           little
           profit
           vs
           ,
           when
           ease
           like
           rust
           in
           our
           Armour
           shal
           haue
           eaten
           into
           and
           corrupted
           our
           valor
           when
           by
           discontinuance
           of
           practise
           ,
           wee
           shall
           bee
           vnapt
           for
           seruice
           ,
           yea
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           often
           change
           of
           the
           course
           of
           our
           warres
           directly
           ignorant
           ,
           and
           that
           ignorant
           vnaptnesse
           will
           dismay
           the
           most
           confident
           :
           Then
           it
           may
           bee
           feared
           wee
           may
           too
           late
           repent
           our
           former
           negligence
           ,
           our
           secure
           idlenesse
           ,
           our
           sparing
           of
           a
           little
           to
           the
           endangering
           of
           all
           ,
           when
           wee
           see
           our selues
           at
           length
           enforced
           to
           vndergo
           the
           danger
           with
           disaduantage
           which
           in
           time
           with
           ods
           ,
           our
           side
           we
           might
           easily
           haue
           repelled
           :
           then
           we
           may
           wish
           we
           had
           imitated
           the
           Romanes
           wisedome
           ,
           that
           foresaw
           inconueniences
           a
           farre
           of
           ,
           and
           would
           not
           to
           auoid
           present
           warres
           ,
           suffer
           mischiefes
           to
           grow-on
           ,
           d
           they
           inuaded
           Philip
           and
           Antiochus
           in
           Graecia
           lest
           othewise
           they
           might
           haue
           been
           enforced
           to
           deale
           with
           them
           in
           Italy
           .
           But
           my
           words
           perhaps
           are
           to
           these
           peace-louers
           as
           winde
           that
           shakes
           no
           corne
           ,
           assuredly
           I
           know
           it
           hard
           to
           disswade
           bewitched
           men
           from
           ease
           and
           pleasure
           ,
           two
           seducing
           Syrens
           in
           whose
           beastly
           seruitude
           too
           too
           many
           are
           inthralled
           past
           recouerie
           :
           yet
           those
           worthy
           spirits
           in
           whose
           breasts
           the
           sparkes
           of
           our
           forefathers
           courage
           are
           not
           yet
           extinguished
           whose
           swelling
           hearts
           are
           ready
           to
           protest
           their
           English
           vertue
           hates
           effeminate
           ,
           
           longs
           to
           shew
           it selfe
           in
           some
           laborious
           course
           of
           valiant
           industrie
           :
           They
           I
           doubt
           not
           will
           soone
           call
           to
           minde
           how
           dishonourable
           it
           was
           to
           the
           e
           Aegyptians
           vnder
           
             Ptolomie
             :
             Depositis
             militiae
             studijs
             ,
             otio
             &
             desidia
             marcescere
             .
          
           To
           pine
           away
           in
           sloth
           and
           idlenesse
           ,
           neglecting
           militarie
           profession
           ,
           or
           how
           vnprofitable
           it
           was
           to
           the
           f
           Lydians
           to
           liue
           in
           peace
           .
           
             Quae
             gens
             industria
             quondam
             potens
             ,
             &
             manustrenua
             ,
             effaeminata
             mollitie
             ,
             luxuriaque
             virtutem
             pristinam
             perdidit
          
           :
           which
           nation
           was
           once
           famous
           for
           valor
           and
           industrie
           ,
           but
           they
           drownde
           the
           reputation
           of
           their
           auncient
           vertue
           in
           effeminate
           and
           luxurious
           delicacie
           .
           And
           with
           a
           feeling
           remembrance
           of
           those
           or
           the
           like
           examples
           ,
           pray
           with
           mee
           that
           those
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           inconueniences
           fall
           not
           on
           vs
           :
           that
           wee
           may
           not
           suffer
           our
           enemies
           or
           neighbours
           to
           grow
           too
           mightie
           ,
           whilest
           carelesly
           wee
           our selues
           waxe
           weake
           and
           degenerate
           through
           sloth
           and
           case
           ,
           vnder
           the
           colour
           of
           a
           quiet
           life
           :
           I
           doubt
           not
           but
           their
           hopes
           are
           like
           to
           mine
           .
           For
           as
           that
           great
           Captaine
           g
           Pyrrhus
           did
           in
           some
           particulars
           well
           correct
           the
           vaine
           v●ine
           voluptuous
           life
           of
           the
           Tarentines
           ,
           so
           since
           God
           hath
           giuen
           vs
           a
           Gouernour
           as
           valiant
           as
           ,
           but
           much
           more
           wise
           than
           Pyrrhus
           :
           I
           hope
           ,
           and
           my
           hope
           is
           strengthned
           with
           confidence
           ,
           that
           that
           valor
           will
           incite
           ,
           that
           that
           wisedome
           will
           direct
           our
           King
           ,
           to
           take
           in
           hand
           the
           reformation
           of
           our
           idle
           life
           ,
           more
           daungerous
           than
           that
           of
           the
           Tarentines
           :
           In
           better
           manner
           and
           to
           better
           purpose
           ,
           then
           did
           that
           Pyrrhus
           .
           A
           worke
           worthie
           a
           King
           ,
           that
           can
           bee
           worthily
           effected
           by
           none
           ,
           but
           such
           a
           King
           ,
           in
           whom
           there
           is
           all
           worthinesse
           .
           But
           heere
           mee
           thinkes
           I
           heare
           some
           obiect
           to
           mee
           the
           succesfull
           felicitye
           of
           the
           peaceable
           Reigne
           of
           our
           late
           Queene
           ,
           whose
           happie
           memorie
           ,
           and
           euer
           to
           be
           admired
           gouernment
           ,
           farre
           bee
           it
           from
           my
           thankfull
           thoughts
           to
           touch
           with
           the
           lest
           tittle
           of
           disgrace
           ,
           whose
           wisedome
           such
           obiectors
           too
           too
           saucely
           diminish
           producing
           
           her
           as
           an
           enemie
           to
           Militarie
           profession
           :
           her
           sex
           indeed
           ,
           and
           in
           her
           later
           time
           fulnesse
           of
           daies
           might
           well
           excuse
           farre
           greater
           ease
           ;
           yet
           see
           (
           that
           which
           these
           blinde
           men
           stumble
           ouer
           )
           from
           the
           first
           to
           the
           last
           in
           seuerall
           parts
           of
           Christendome
           ,
           she
           euer
           found
           meanes
           to
           traine
           vp
           her
           better
           and
           more
           forward
           subiects
           in
           varietie
           of
           seruice
           ;
           that
           so
           they
           might
           prooue
           good
           members
           of
           her
           Estate
           ,
           and
           profitable
           seruants
           for
           her
           potent
           Successor
           :
           So
           wise
           men
           know
           ,
           besides
           that
           many
           daungers
           were
           kept
           farre
           of
           ,
           this
           Realme
           was
           still
           tollerably
           furnished
           with
           skilfull
           souldiers
           ,
           and
           prudently
           rid
           of
           many
           inconueniences
           :
           yet
           I
           must
           confesse
           the
           open
           shew
           of
           peace
           bred
           diuers
           corruptions
           ,
           yet
           such
           as
           all
           States
           how
           euer
           wisely
           gouerned
           where
           peace
           is
           are
           of
           necessitie
           subiect
           to
           .
        
         
           Who
           seeth
           not
           to
           what
           riot
           in
           apparrell
           ,
           to
           what
           excesse
           in
           banqueting
           ,
           to
           what
           height
           in
           all
           kinde
           of
           luxurie
           ,
           our
           countrey
           was
           growne
           ,
           when
           the
           flower
           of
           England
           ,
           the
           gentrie
           and
           better
           sort
           ,
           whom
           the
           meaner
           stroue
           to
           imitate
           ,
           for
           the
           most
           part
           idlely
           ,
           if
           not
           lewdly
           brought
           vp
           ,
           confirmed
           in
           their
           dissolute
           life
           ,
           by
           superfluitie
           of
           ill
           example
           ,
           became
           so
           exceeding
           foolish
           ,
           that
           hee
           which
           eate
           good
           meat
           ,
           and
           ware
           good
           clothes
           ,
           and
           did
           some
           one
           thing
           worse
           ,
           was
           ordinarily
           amonst
           them
           accounted
           most
           happie
           :
           How
           many
           of
           our
           elder
           brothers
           consumed
           whole
           and
           goodly
           patrimonies
           at
           dice
           and
           cards
           ,
           hauing
           no
           other
           meanes
           to
           passe
           their
           time
           ,
           as
           I
           haue
           oft
           times
           heard
           diuers
           of
           them
           penitently
           (
           but
           too
           late
           )
           complaine
           :
           how
           many
           of
           our
           younger
           brothers
           in
           all
           sorts
           of
           riotous
           expences
           ,
           did
           in
           small
           time
           consume
           their
           portions
           ,
           which
           otherwise
           imployed
           in
           vertuous
           courses
           might
           soone
           haue
           equalled
           their
           elder
           brothers
           sonnes
           ,
           and
           then
           exclayming
           against
           their
           parents
           ,
           that
           dealt
           indeed
           too
           well
           with
           such
           vngracious
           children
           ,
           fell
           to
           lewde
           courses
           ,
           and
           oft
           times
           came
           to
           such
           vntimely
           ends
           as
           I
           shame
           to
           tell
           :
           and
           of
           both
           these
           ,
           
           the
           likeliest
           plants
           to
           prooue
           were
           most
           of
           all
           peruerted
           ,
           the
           spirits
           of
           best
           hope
           ,
           did
           soonest
           step
           awry
           .
        
         
           So
           h
           Caesar
           in
           his
           yonger
           daies
           ,
           was
           most
           prodigall
           ,
           he
           grew
           indebted
           700.
           thousand
           crownes
           .
           So
           i
           Cimon
           in
           his
           former
           time
           was
           most
           riotous
           ,
           and
           for
           it
           defamed
           thorow
           the
           whole
           Citie
           of
           Athens
           :
           yet
           see
           ,
           the
           warres
           redeemed
           the
           one
           &
           he
           became
           a
           most
           renowned
           General
           :
           the
           warrs
           reclaymed
           ,
           the
           other
           &
           he
           proued
           as
           valiant
           as
           Themistocles
           ,
           as
           wise
           as
           was
           Milciades
           .
           Thus
           we
           may
           read
           that
           
             Silla
             ,
             Alcibiades
          
           ,
           and
           diuers
           other
           carried
           themselues
           most
           lasciuiously
           ,
           most
           wantonly
           in
           peace
           ,
           till
           the
           warres
           taught
           them
           to
           liue
           like
           souldiers
           :
           And
           like
           these
           (
           I
           thinke
           )
           some
           of
           our
           countreymen
           ,
           for
           spirit
           no
           whit
           inferiour
           to
           Caesar
           ,
           nor
           towardnes
           to
           Alcibiades
           ,
           might
           in
           time
           haue
           proued
           renowned
           souldiers
           and
           extraordinarie
           instruments
           of
           their
           countries
           honour
           ,
           had
           they
           not
           for
           want
           of
           imployment
           ,
           to
           our
           publike
           losse
           ,
           and
           their
           priuate
           ouerthrow
           ,
           spent
           their
           yonger
           yeares
           like
           Cimon
           in
           riotous
           behauiour
           ,
           and
           their
           age
           like
           Lucullus
           in
           luxurious
           idlenesse
           :
           so
           that
           Iuuenal
           had
           hee
           liued
           in
           their
           time
           might
           haue
           truly
           said
           .
        
         
           
             k
             Nunc
             patimur
             longae
             pacis
             mala
             ,
             saeuior
             armis
          
           
             Luxuria
             incubuit
             .
             &c.
          
           
             Now
             wee
             indure
             the
             discommoditie
          
           
             Of
             our
             long
             peace
             opprest
             by
             luxurie
             .
          
           
             worse
             farre
          
           
             than
             warre
             .
          
        
         
           But
           these
           were
           such
           whose
           finer
           mould
           was
           vncapable
           of
           drudging
           courses
           ,
           who
           perhaps
           as
           l
           
             Peter
             Martyr
          
           obserues
           of
           the
           Spaniards
           ,
           thought
           it
           
             Specialem
             nobiliū
             praero
             gatiuam
             vt
             otiosi
             ,
             ac
             sine
             vlla
             exercitatione
             praeterquā
             bellicavitam
             degerent
             .
          
           The
           speciall
           priuiledge
           of
           a
           gentleman
           to
           liue
           solitarily
           ,
           free
           from
           al
           professions
           ,
           saue
           that
           of
           armes
           .
           This
           was
           indeed
           an
           auncient
           custome
           of
           our
           Gentry
           ,
           till
           peace
           made
           some
           ,
           of
           Gentlemen
           become
           Boores
           ,
           who
           forgetting
           that
           their
           truest
           honour
           came
           by
           armes
           ,
           liued
           
           as
           they
           said
           to
           themselues
           ,
           some
           grasiers
           ,
           some
           ploughmen
           ,
           all
           basely
           sweating
           in
           the
           pursuit
           of
           drosse
           ,
           hating
           the
           name
           of
           honour
           because
           it
           asked
           cost
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           these
           robbing
           poore
           farmors
           of
           their
           practise
           ,
           like
           weeds
           in
           vntild
           land
           ,
           haue
           and
           still
           doe
           spinge
           vp
           in
           peace
           the
           patron
           of
           their
           basenesse
           ,
           yet
           such
           as
           these
           might
           call
           to
           minde
           what
           Ciuill
           contention
           ,
           rest
           and
           want
           of
           forraine
           warres
           occasions
           ,
           they
           might
           remember
           bow
           many
           haue
           beene
           vtterly
           vndone
           by
           vnnecessary
           law
           brables
           ,
           weighing
           well
           the
           nomber
           of
           those
           that
           haue
           shot-vp
           deciding
           such
           controuersies
           ,
           men
           I
           know
           whose
           laborious
           study
           deserues
           much
           commendation
           ,
           but
           whē
           I
           thinke
           how
           m
           Plutarch
           praises
           the
           Cornithians
           whose
           temples
           were
           adorned
           not
           with
           the
           spoiles
           of
           the
           Graecians
           ,
           their
           freinds
           ,
           their
           neighbours
           ,
           vnhappie
           memories
           ,
           but
           dekt
           with
           trophies
           of
           their
           victories
           against
           the
           barborous
           people
           their
           aduersaries
           ;
           then
           I
           wish
           those
           necessary
           members
           of
           peace
           ,
           whose
           good
           parts
           I
           reuerence
           ,
           had
           rather
           gotten
           their
           wealth
           by
           the
           sworde
           from
           forraine
           enemies
           ,
           like
           our
           worthy
           Auncestors
           ,
           then
           so
           to
           haue
           growen
           great
           ,
           through
           their
           Countrimens
           contentions
           .
        
         
           Now
           besids
           this
           priuate
           contention
           whose
           nurce
           is
           peace
           ,
           euen
           that
           peace
           is
           oftimes
           mother
           of
           more
           perilous
           dissention
           ,
           when
           idlenesse
           ministers
           each
           actiue
           humour
           fit
           occasion
           of
           working
           ,
           to
           the
           indangering
           of
           diseased
           ,
           to
           the
           distempering
           of
           most
           healthfull
           bodies
           ,
           when
           quite
           security
           giues
           busie
           heads
           leasure
           to
           deuide
           the
           common-wealth
           into
           contentious
           factions
           ;
           so
           that
           as
           in
           n
           Solons
           time
           at
           Athens
           ,
           the
           people
           of
           the
           mountaines
           desiring
           this
           forme
           of
           gouernement
           ,
           the
           men
           of
           the
           vallies
           that
           ;
           to
           both
           which
           the
           inhabitants
           of
           the
           sea-coast
           maintaine
           a
           cōtrary
           :
           all
           catch
           hold
           of
           the
           opportunity
           peace
           offers
           to
           plot
           ,
           and
           put
           in
           practise
           their
           seuerall
           proiects
           for
           the
           aduancement
           of
           their
           perticular
           ,
           though
           with
           the
           weakning
           of
           the
           publike
           state
           ,
           and
           in
           
           the
           end
           like
           o
           Pyrrhus
           disordered
           elephants
           ,
           some
           rūning
           backeward
           ,
           some
           forward
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           standing
           still
           ,
           the
           confusion
           of
           their
           actions
           me
           thinkes
           resembles
           well
           the
           Indian
           dannce
           described
           by
           p
           Benzo
           where
           
             diuerso
             modo
             singuli
             vestiuntur
             et
             alij
             hoc
             ,
             alij
             illo
             modo
             corpus
             circumagunt
             ,
             nonnulli
             crura
             at
             tollunt
             ,
             aliqui
             brachia
             ,
             alius
             caecum
             ,
             alius
             surdum
             effingit
             ,
             rident
             alij
             ,
             alij
             plangunt
             &c.
             
          
           Where
           all
           are
           clothed
           after
           sondrie
           fashions
           ,
           one
           turning
           his
           body
           this
           way
           ,
           another
           that
           way
           ,
           some
           lifting
           vp
           their
           legs
           ,
           some
           their
           armes
           ,
           one
           playing
           the
           blind
           man
           ,
           another
           the
           deafe
           ,
           some
           laughing
           ,
           some
           weeping
           &c.
           
           But
           the
           danger
           of
           these
           differences
           is
           the
           greater
           because
           not
           sensible
           ,
           till
           strangers
           that
           growe
           through
           them
           couragious
           ,
           take
           the
           aduantage
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           then
           too
           late
           we
           may
           remember
           Liuies
           warning
           by
           the
           example
           of
           q
           Ardea
           that
           such
           dissention
           hath
           beene
           more
           hurtfull
           to
           sundry
           Citties
           ,
           than
           fire
           ,
           famine
           sicknes
           or
           the
           sworde
           ,
           or
           what
           other
           calamitie
           cā
           be
           imagined
           while
           we
           too
           soone
           forget
           the
           last
           aduertisement
           dying
           r
           Scanderbeg
           gaue
           his
           sonne
           ,
           in
           these
           words
           worthy
           to
           liue
           euer
           .
           
             Nullum
             tampotens
             validumque
             imperium
             quod
             non
             corruat
             quandoque
             vbi
             mutuis
             odijs
             praebetur
             locus
             .
          
           There
           is
           no
           gouernment
           so
           well
           established
           ,
           that
           will
           not
           suite
           it selfe
           ,
           if
           once
           it
           harbor
           partiall
           emmieties
           .
        
         
           These
           enmities
           haue
           beene
           instruments
           in
           most
           Countries
           ouerthrowes
           ,
           they
           ouertake
           vs
           in
           our
           securitie
           like
           secret
           fiers
           in
           the
           night
           ,
           and
           are
           therefore
           more
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           they
           steale
           on
           vs
           by
           degrees
           hidden
           in
           the
           deepnesse
           of
           our
           rest
           ,
           like
           the
           consumption
           in
           a
           body
           vnpurged
           ,
           vnexercised
           ,
           that
           is
           indeede
           lesse
           painefull
           yet
           proues
           more
           mortall
           than
           most
           diseases
           ;
           they
           are
           as
           plentifully
           bred
           in
           peace
           s
           as
           Crocodiles
           in
           Aegypt
           ,
           and
           would
           in
           time
           proue
           as
           pr●uitious
           ,
           but
           God
           that
           for
           mans
           good
           prouides
           the
           Ichneumon
           to
           destroy
           the
           egges
           
           of
           the
           one
           before
           they
           bee
           hatched
           ,
           hath
           left
           vs
           a
           perfect
           remedie
           to
           dissipate
           the
           other
           ,
           if
           wee
           bee
           not
           to
           our selues
           defectiue
           ;
           to
           wit
           ,
           forreine
           warre
           ,
           a
           souereigne
           medicine
           for
           domesticall
           inconueniences
           ,
           wherby
           those
           stirring
           heads
           that
           like
           the
           t
           Spaniards
           
             Bellum
             quam
             otium
             malunt
             ,
             ideoque
             si
             desit
             extraneus
             domi
             hostem
             quaerunt
             .
          
           Desire
           warre
           rather
           than
           quietnesse
           ,
           and
           therefore
           fall
           out
           at
           home
           if
           forreine
           foes
           bee
           wanting
           :
           shall
           haue
           more
           honest
           and
           more
           acceptable
           meanes
           to
           busie
           themselues
           ,
           when
           as
           u
           Osorius
           saith
           :
           
             Commune
             periculum
             facile
             omnium
             animos
             ab
             intestinis
             seditionibus
             auocabit
             ,
             ad
             commune
             malum
             propulsandum
          
           :
           The
           generall
           daunger
           will
           soone
           withdraw
           mens
           mindes
           from
           intestine
           garboiles
           to
           resist
           the
           generall
           mischief
           ,
           both
           which
           appeared
           in
           that
           wise
           proceeding
           of
           the
           w
           Senate
           of
           Rome
           in
           Coriolanus
           time
           that
           by
           this
           means
           appeased
           all
           diuisions
           ,
           euen
           then
           when
           as
           y
           Liuie
           obserues
           heat
           of
           contention
           betwixt
           the
           people
           and
           nobilitie
           had
           made
           ,
           
             Ex
             vna
             ciuitate
             duas
          
           :
           Of
           one
           o●e
           two
           Cities
           .
           For
           the
           populousnesse
           of
           that
           Citie
           ,
           by
           reason
           of
           their
           peace
           occasioning
           a
           dearth
           and
           famine
           ,
           and
           their
           idlenesse
           stirring
           vp
           lewd
           felowes
           to
           exasperate
           the
           desperate
           need
           and
           enuious
           malice
           of
           the
           meaner
           sort
           ,
           against
           the
           nobility
           ,
           whose
           pride
           &
           luxurie
           grown
           through
           sloth
           intolerable
           ,
           caused
           them
           to
           contemne
           and
           iniurie
           the
           poorer
           people
           ,
           in
           the
           end
           the
           fire
           brake
           forth
           hard
           to
           be
           quenched
           ,
           and
           then
           the
           Senate
           hauing
           as
           I
           may
           say
           bought
           wit
           by
           this
           deare
           experience
           ,
           were
           at
           length
           enforced
           to
           flie
           to
           this
           medicine
           ,
           which
           wisely
           applied
           before
           ,
           had
           well
           preuented
           all
           those
           causes
           ,
           and
           their
           vnhappie
           effectes
           .
           Then
           they
           resolued
           on
           a
           warre
           with
           the
           Volsces
           to
           ease
           their
           City
           of
           that
           dearth
           ,
           by
           diminishing
           their
           number
           ,
           and
           appease
           those
           tumultuous
           broyles
           ,
           by
           drawing
           poore
           with
           rich
           ,
           and
           the
           meane
           sort
           with
           the
           Nobilitie
           ,
           into
           one
           campe
           ,
           one
           seruice
           ,
           and
           one
           selfesame
           daunger
           :
           sure
           meanes
           to
           procure
           sure
           loue
           and
           quietnesse
           in
           a
           contentious
           Commonwealth
           ,
           
           as
           that
           of
           Rome
           was
           at
           that
           time
           .
        
         
           Yet
           euen
           then
           there
           wanted
           not
           home
           tarrying
           housdoues
           ,
           two
           peacebred
           tribanes
           Sicimus
           and
           Brutus
           ,
           hindred
           that
           resolution
           calling
           it
           crueltie
           ,
           and
           it
           may
           be
           some
           now
           will
           condemne
           this
           course
           ,
           as
           changing
           for
           the
           worse
           :
           some
           that
           wil
           much
           mislike
           a
           body
           breaking-out
           should
           take
           receipts
           of
           quick-siluer
           or
           mercurie
           ,
           that
           may
           endanger
           life
           :
           yet
           they
           cannot
           but
           knowe
           euen
           those
           poysons
           outwardly
           applied
           are
           souereigne
           medicines
           to
           purge
           and
           clense
           ,
           and
           therefore
           hauing
           a
           good
           Physition
           ,
           I
           must
           professe
           ,
           I
           thinke
           it
           much
           better
           to
           take
           yeerely
           Physicke
           ,
           when
           the
           signe
           is
           good
           and
           circumstāces
           are
           correspondēt
           ,
           that
           may
           worke
           with
           some
           litle
           trouble
           ,
           our
           health
           and
           safetie
           ,
           than
           through
           sordide
           sparing
           ,
           or
           cowardly
           feare
           of
           paine
           ,
           to
           omitte
           happy
           opportunities
           of
           remedy
           ,
           &
           so
           suffer
           our
           bodies
           perhaps
           crasie
           alreadie
           ,
           so
           to
           sincke
           that
           death
           followes
           or
           at
           least
           some
           grieuious
           sickenesse
           ,
           asking
           farre
           deeper
           charge
           ,
           bringing
           farre
           greater
           torment
           ,
           especially
           since
           the
           sickenesse
           of
           a
           state
           ,
           were
           it
           as
           great
           as
           a
           palsie
           may
           by
           a
           skilfull
           Physition
           be
           purged
           and
           euacuated
           at
           an
           issue
           in
           some
           remote
           part
           .
        
         
           I
           cannot
           but
           therefore
           commend
           x
           Camillus
           wisedome
           for
           beseeging
           the
           Cittie
           of
           the
           Faleriens
           ,
           though
           it
           were
           so
           strongly
           scituated
           ,
           so
           well
           stored
           with
           victual
           ,
           and
           so
           fortified
           with
           all
           manner
           of
           munition
           ,
           that
           the
           secure
           Citizens
           walkt
           vp
           and
           downe
           the
           Cittie
           in
           their
           gownes
           ,
           since
           not
           regarding
           the
           winning
           of
           the
           Towne
           as
           appeared
           ,
           by
           his
           ouerslipping
           weightie
           aduantages
           his
           intente
           ,
           only
           was
           to
           keepe
           his
           Countrimē
           busied
           about
           some
           thing
           ,
           lest
           otherwise
           repairing
           to
           Rome
           they
           might
           growe
           through
           peace
           and
           idlenes
           seditious
           ,
           &
           so
           raise
           some
           ciuil
           tumult
           :
           This
           was
           as
           Plutarch
           wel
           obserues
           a
           wise
           remedy
           ,
           the
           Romās
           euer
           vsed
           to
           disperse
           abroad
           like
           good
           Physitions
           the
           ill
           humours
           that
           troubled
           the
           quiet
           state
           of
           their
           Commonwealth
           :
           
             Ce
             qui
             s'
             est
             antrefecis
             
             pratique
             '
             apres
             les
             gueres
             ciuiles
             des
             Anglois
             ,
          
           which
           hath
           beene
           sometimes
           put
           in
           practise
           after
           the
           ciuill
           warres
           of
           England
           ,
           as
           z
           Master
           
             La
             Noüe
          
           deliuers
           .
        
         
           If
           then
           those
           men
           that
           maruaile
           how
           Philip
           the
           second
           that
           wanted
           not
           his
           ouersight
           was
           euer
           able
           to
           possesse
           Spaine
           in
           tollerable
           quietnesse
           ,
           his
           people
           hauing
           beene
           of
           olde
           time
           as
           their
           dealing
           with
           the
           Romans
           shewes
           of
           a
           rebellious
           disposition
           ,
           the
           continuance
           whereof
           made
           a
           Ferdinand
           of
           Portugal
           refuse
           to
           be
           their
           King
           ,
           and
           b
           Iohn
           the
           second
           wish
           a
           wall
           as
           high
           as
           heauen
           betwixt
           his
           people
           and
           them
           ,
           which
           turbulencie
           continues
           yet
           ,
           euen
           in
           the
           better
           of
           them
           ,
           how
           euer
           some
           maintaine
           the
           contrarie
           ,
           as
           some
           yeares
           past
           was
           manifest
           ,
           by
           the
           ambitious
           and
           seditious
           pride
           of
           
             Alanso
             Iulian
             Romero
          
           and
           some
           other
           Spanish
           Captaines
           ,
           when
           
             Don
             Iohn
          
           of
           Austria
           consulted
           for
           passing
           his
           army
           out
           of
           the
           Low-countries
           into
           Italy
           ,
           as
           hath
           not
           long
           since
           sundry
           times
           appeared
           by
           the
           mutenous
           reuolts
           of
           his
           c
           oldest
           souldiers
           for
           want
           of
           pay
           :
           If
           yet
           I
           say
           those
           men
           that
           maruaile
           so
           ,
           would
           by
           that
           rule
           of
           the
           Romans
           examine
           that
           Phillips
           proceedings
           in
           imitation
           of
           his
           father
           Charles
           the
           fi●●t
           ,
           It
           wil
           euidētly
           appeare
           that
           he
           procured
           the
           place
           of
           Spayn
           and
           his
           own
           safety
           by
           keeping
           his
           actiue
           subiects
           in
           continual
           employment
           ,
           farre
           from
           home
           ,
           where
           their
           Eagle-like
           piercing
           eyes
           might
           not
           come
           to
           prie
           into
           his
           Actions
           ,
           nor
           malitiously
           obserue
           the
           distates
           his
           gouernment
           occasioned
           .
        
         
           Hee
           did
           not
           forget
           that
           the
           Satute
           of
           d
           Pericles
           was
           grauen
           with
           a
           helmet
           on
           to
           hide
           the
           deformitie
           of
           his
           onion-like
           head
           ,
           nor
           that
           that
           e
           Pericles
           sent
           60.
           
           Gallies
           euery
           yeare
           to
           sea
           ,
           and
           many
           hundreds
           of
           men
           away
           by
           land
           ,
           to
           rid
           his
           Citie
           of
           idle
           persons
           :
           but
           making
           vse
           of
           both
           ,
           receiued
           the
           fruit
           of
           both
           ,
           besides
           this
           further
           benefit
           ,
           that
           as
           weeds
           in
           England
           proue
           oft
           good
           sallets
           in
           France
           ,
           those
           his
           male
           contented
           and
           suspected
           subiects
           ,
           while
           they
           were
           at
           home
           ,
           by
           their
           industrious
           life
           
           vnder
           seuerity
           of
           Military
           Discipline
           became
           of
           good
           members
           ,
           and
           were
           for
           their
           experience
           not
           vnworthily
           accounted
           as
           readie
           souldiers
           as
           most
           in
           Christendome
           ,
           which
           opiniō
           was
           vndoubtedly
           a
           great
           strength
           to
           king
           Phillips
           enterprises
           ,
           making
           the
           temporizing
           Venetians
           and
           other
           States
           of
           I●a●●●ore
           ●ore
           affraid
           than
           needed
           .
        
         
           Then
           howsoeuer
           some
           may
           bee
           disswaded
           by
           f
           Catoes
           liuely
           demonstration
           of
           Carthage
           too
           neere
           neighbourhood
           ,
           from
           drawing
           on
           vs
           such
           an
           enemie
           as
           may
           in
           lesse
           than
           three
           daies
           sailing
           knocke
           at
           the
           gates
           of
           our
           great
           Citie
           :
           and
           others
           in
           remembrance
           of
           some
           actions
           past
           ,
           may
           seem
           to
           dislike
           sending
           our
           forces
           so
           farr
           from
           home
           that
           for
           want
           of
           fresh
           supply
           of
           men
           or
           other
           necessaries
           ,
           the
           voyage
           how
           auspitious
           soeuer
           the
           beginning
           bee
           ,
           wanting
           sure
           footing
           ,
           must
           of
           necessity
           proue
           as
           a
           fading
           bubble
           :
           I
           for
           my
           part
           leauing
           the
           election
           of
           our
           warres
           as
           a
           matter
           scarce
           fit
           to
           be
           thought
           on
           by
           so
           yong
           a
           head
           as
           mine
           ,
           to
           the
           mature
           consultation
           of
           our
           Senate
           ,
           and
           iuditious
           resolution
           of
           our
           Souereigne
           ,
           with
           more
           loyall
           zeale
           to
           my
           King
           and
           Countrey
           ,
           than
           loue
           (
           which
           I
           confesse
           is
           great
           )
           to
           the
           warres
           ,
           wish
           ,
           and
           with
           faith
           wish
           ,
           that
           our
           setled
           state
           may
           reape
           infinite
           commoditie
           by
           that
           g
           politique
           rule
           ,
           grounded
           on
           
             Ccipio
             Nasicaes
          
           desire
           to
           haue
           Carthage
           stand
           ,
           that
           for
           the
           reasons
           Scipio
           then
           alleaged
           ,
           wils
           euery
           Kingdome
           to
           prouide
           it selfe
           an
           enemy
           as
           the
           h
           Romans
           had
           many
           whose
           fall
           was
           their
           aduancement
           ,
           as
           the
           i
           Athenians
           had
           them
           of
           Samos
           whose
           inuasion
           appeased
           their
           domesticall
           tumults
           ,
           as
           last
           of
           all
           the
           k
           Macedonians
           had
           the
           Thracians
           and
           
             Illirians
             :
             Quorum
             armis
             ,
             veluti
             quotidiana
             exercitatione
             indurati
             gloria
             bellicae
             laudis
             finitimos
             terrebant
          
           :
           With
           whose
           hostility
           as
           with
           a
           daily
           exercise
           they
           were
           so
           hardned
           that
           their
           neighbors
           liued
           in
           awe
           of
           their
           renowned
           valor
           :
           that
           so
           feare
           of
           the
           enemie
           may
           keep
           our
           people
           from
           ease
           and
           luxurie
           ,
           the
           fatall
           ruine
           of
           States
           and
           Countries
           ,
           yea
           sometimes
           l
           conquering
           Armies
           
           that
           dealing
           with
           that
           enemie
           in
           imitation
           of
           l
           Alexander
           after
           Darius
           ouerthrow
           ,
           our
           men
           of
           warre
           may
           be
           so
           trayned
           and
           kept
           in
           vre
           that
           for
           want
           of
           practise
           the
           life
           of
           all
           Arts
           ,
           but
           most
           necessary
           ,
           in
           the
           most
           necessarie
           Arte
           of
           warre
           ,
           our
           warlike
           discipline
           decay
           not
           ,
           and
           so
           sincke
           ,
           if
           not
           the
           estate
           ,
           yet
           the
           honor
           of
           our
           state
           and
           Countrey
           .
        
         
           But
           heere
           whether
           to
           haue
           one
           and
           the
           same
           still
           or
           rather
           variety
           of
           enemies
           be
           more
           requisite
           would
           aske
           a
           more
           particular
           discourse
           to
           decide
           ,
           o
           than
           this
           generall
           Paradox
           may
           admitte
           :
           Licurgus
           knowing
           the
           inestimable
           benefite
           of
           military
           practise
           ,
           was
           desirous
           his
           people
           should
           haue
           warre
           but
           not
           with
           one
           and
           the
           same
           Nation
           lest
           they
           might
           be
           blamed
           as
           p
           Ag●silaus
           was
           by
           Antalcidas
           ,
           for
           making
           the
           Thebans
           against
           their
           willes
           by
           continuall
           inuading
           them
           to
           his
           owne
           hurt
           ,
           skilfull
           souldiers
           ;
           yet
           some
           may
           thinke
           it
           best
           grapling
           with
           one
           whose
           strength
           we
           know
           ,
           whom
           by
           conquering
           we
           know
           how
           to
           ouercome
           ,
           whose
           fashions
           our
           souldiers
           are
           vsed
           to
           ,
           but
           I
           dare
           not
           speake
           all
           I
           could
           ,
           lest
           my
           meaning
           be
           applyed
           as
           I
           would
           not
           ,
           this
           I
           say
           ,
           since
           it
           was
           truely
           said
           of
           the
           Romans
           ,
           q
           
             Magis
             bellantes
             quam
             pacati
             habuerunt
             deos
             propitios
          
           :
           That
           they
           were
           more
           fortunate
           in
           warre
           than
           peace
           :
           It
           was
           wisely
           (
           I
           thinke
           )
           fained
           of
           r
           Romulus
           that
           the
           Gods
           told
           him
           his
           Citty
           should
           proue
           the
           mightiest
           in
           the
           world
           ,
           so
           it
           were
           raised
           by
           warres
           ,
           and
           increased
           by
           armes
           ,
           and
           well
           confirmed
           afterwards
           by
           s
           Proclus
           ,
           deliuering
           the
           same
           to
           the
           people
           as
           a
           message
           from
           Romulus
           after
           his
           Deifiyng
           to
           perswade
           them
           indeede
           to
           warre
           ,
           which
           this
           politicke
           Roman
           and
           that
           worthy
           king
           foresawe
           was
           like
           to
           be
           most
           beneficiall
           for
           them
           :
           this
           I
           say
           ,
           since
           t
           Plutarch
           rightly
           saies
           that
           Citties
           by
           warring
           with
           their
           neighbours
           ,
           become
           wise
           in
           their
           carriage
           and
           learne
           to
           affect
           good
           gouernment
           :
           it
           was
           not
           vnwisely
           doone
           of
           Robert
           the
           second
           of
           Scotland
           to
           will
           his
           Peeres
           and
           
           subiects
           in
           his
           last
           will
           and
           Testament
           ,
           to
           haue
           peace
           neuer
           aboue
           4
           yeeres
           together
           in
           respect
           of
           the
           benefit
           he
           had
           found
           and
           should
           receiue
           by
           continuall
           excercise
           in
           military
           matters
           .
        
         
           That
           then
           I
           may
           shut
           vp
           this
           short
           and
           slight
           discourse
           seeing
           that
           to
           speake
           of
           peace
           perpetuall
           in
           this
           world
           of
           contention
           ,
           is
           but
           as
           
             Aristotles
             foelix
             ,
             Xenophons
             Cyrus
             ,
             Quintilians
             Orator
             ,
          
           or
           Sir
           
             Thomas
             Moores
             Vtopia
          
           ,
           a
           matter
           of
           mere
           contemplation
           ,
           the
           warre
           being
           in
           this
           iron
           age
           u
           
             si
             bienenracinèe
             qui
             '
             il
             est
             impossible
             del
             l'
             en
             oster
             ,
             Si
             non
             auec
             la
             rume
             de
             l'
             vniuerse
             .
          
           So
           well
           ingrafted
           that
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           take
           it
           away
           without
           a
           vniuersall
           destruction
           :
           seeing
           that
           the
           quarrelles
           of
           this
           world
           are
           either
           of
           Christians
           against
           Turkes
           ,
           and
           infidelles
           ,
           in
           defence
           of
           Christ
           Crucified
           ,
           which
           ought
           neuer
           ,
           and
           I
           assure
           my selfe
           shall
           neuer
           be
           extinguished
           till
           the
           names
           of
           those
           dogges
           be
           cleane
           extirpated
           :
           or
           between
           Chrians
           ,
           with
           such
           inueterate
           malice
           and
           irreconcileable
           wrongs
           for
           titles
           so
           intricate
           ,
           as
           in
           mans
           witte
           is
           to
           be
           feared
           will
           neuer
           be
           appeased
           ,
           satisfied
           ,
           decided
           ,
           seeing
           that
           many
           of
           the
           Princes
           of
           this
           world
           ,
           though
           they
           talk
           of
           peace
           and
           amitie
           to
           winne
           time
           ,
           til
           their
           proiectes
           come
           to
           full
           ripenesse
           ,
           seruing
           their
           turnes
           with
           that
           sweete
           name
           which
           they
           know
           is
           likely
           to
           blindfolde
           ease-affecting
           people
           ,
           yet
           in
           their
           hearts
           desire
           nothing
           lesse
           :
           when
           as
           some
           of
           them
           weakened
           with
           the
           violent
           courses
           of
           their
           hereditary
           ambition
           ,
           that
           can
           neuer
           be
           tamed
           ,
           seeke
           peace
           as
           a
           breathing
           only
           to
           recouer
           strength
           :
           others
           warely
           repecting
           our
           encreased
           greatnesse
           ,
           and
           their
           owne
           vnsetled
           state
           make
           faire
           shewes
           now
           ,
           but
           are
           like
           enough
           here
           after
           vpon
           aduantage
           to
           proue
           false
           hearted
           :
           others
           hauing
           gotten
           much
           wealth
           ,
           gayned
           much
           reputation
           ,
           encreased
           their
           power
           ,
           and
           maintayned
           their
           libertie
           by
           the
           sworde
           ,
           will
           neuer
           endure
           the
           losse
           of
           these
           by
           hearkning
           to
           peace
           ,
           since
           last
           there
           neuer
           wanted
           coulorable
           pretences
           to
           breake
           
           those
           truces
           ,
           that
           like
           the
           *
           Parthians
           promises
           are
           only
           obserued
           ,
           
             quatenus
             expedit
          
           ,
           as
           farre
           as
           is
           expedient
           ,
           and
           made
           like
           that
           of
           the
           y
           Samnites
           who
           entertained
           peace
           with
           the
           
             Romans
             ,
             non
             quod
             pacem
             volebant
             ,
             sed
             quia
             non
             erant
             parati
             ad
             bellum
          
           :
           not
           that
           they
           desired
           peace
           ,
           but
           because
           they
           were
           vnprepared
           for
           warre
           .
        
         
           Let
           me
           not
           be
           blamed
           if
           I
           speake
           what
           I
           thinke
           ,
           and
           as
           the
           scope
           of
           this
           discourse
           directs
           ,
           deliuer
           ,
           that
           is
           more
           safe
           and
           honorable
           (
           making
           a
           league
           with
           some
           of
           them
           ,
           so
           that
           necessitie
           of
           state
           may
           force
           them
           to
           be
           faithfull
           )
           to
           keepe
           some
           other
           of
           them
           at
           the
           swords
           point
           ,
           while
           fearing
           our
           strength
           ,
           or
           their
           owne
           feeblenes
           ,
           
             cauponantur
             pacem
          
           ,
           they
           but
           chaffer
           for
           peace
           ,
           rather
           than
           by
           tēporizing
           giue
           them
           time
           to
           turne
           tables
           ,
           and
           fall
           on
           vs
           ,
           when
           our
           leaders
           shall
           be
           waxed
           old
           ,
           and
           the
           nomber
           of
           them
           much
           diminished
           ,
           when
           our
           best
           souldiers
           shall
           be
           raw
           Besognios
           brought
           to
           some
           execution
           of
           importance
           ,
           before
           they
           were
           fitte
           to
           learne
           what
           was
           fitting
           for
           thē
           to
           doe
           ,
           when
           our
           discipline
           corrupt
           before
           shal
           be
           cleane
           rotten
           and
           as
           little
           worth
           as
           our
           cancred
           rusty
           weapons
           at
           a
           day
           of
           seruice
           ,
           whē
           our
           ships
           of
           warre
           one
           of
           the
           greatest
           strengths
           &
           honours
           of
           our
           kingdome
           ,
           shal
           for
           couetous
           desire
           of
           gaine
           ,
           be
           easlyer
           in
           one
           yeere
           turnd
           to
           hois
           of
           Burdē
           ,
           thā
           cā
           be
           reduced
           back
           againe
           ,
           to
           doe
           our
           Countrie
           seruice
           in
           an
           other
           5
           and
           40.
           whē
           our
           sea-men
           shal
           be
           few
           ,
           and
           skilfull
           only
           in
           their
           owne
           ordinarie
           course
           ,
           passing
           directly
           as
           they
           are
           bound
           at
           best
           seasons
           :
           where
           as
           long
           voiges
           ,
           liuing
           at
           sea
           ,
           varietie
           of
           weathers
           ,
           change
           of
           Climates
           ,
           searching
           and
           sounding
           all
           harbors
           ,
           bayes
           ,
           creekes
           ,
           and
           corners
           ,
           with
           ships
           well
           stored
           with
           men
           ,
           is
           it
           that
           brings
           forth
           store
           of
           skilfull
           Maisters
           ,
           skilfull
           pilots
           ,
           skilfull
           Marriners
           ,
           when
           last
           of
           all
           our
           people
           shal
           be
           more
           luxurious
           through
           such
           dangerous
           securitie
           ,
           more
           contentious
           among
           themselues
           ,
           more
           carelesse
           of
           the
           honour
           of
           the
           State
           ,
           and
           in
           conclusion
           more
           ready
           to
           receiue
           some
           fatall
           ouerthrowe
           
           than
           euer
           heeretofore
           .
        
         
           These
           therefore
           and
           infinite
           other
           weighty
           considerations
           spinging
           freshly
           out
           of
           my
           zealefull
           regarde
           of
           my
           countries
           welfare
           ,
           and
           the
           desire
           I
           haue
           to
           aduenture
           the
           shedding
           of
           my
           bloud
           might
           I
           be
           once
           so
           happy
           in
           my
           Kings
           seruice
           ,
           makes
           me
           with
           feruēcie
           of
           spirit
           wish
           his
           maiestie
           may
           euer
           haue
           as
           x
           Charles
           the
           8
           of
           Fraunce
           had
           once
           ,
           
             Infinite
             multitudes
             of
             men
             ,
             resolute
             of
             mindes
             ,
             for
             seruice
             apte
             ,
             of
             faith
             assured
             ,
             of
             willes
             tractable
             ,
             for
             commaundment
             obedient
             ,
             and
             lastly
             bearing
             all
             one
             common
             desire
             ,
             to
             com●
             their
             liues
             to
             any
             danger
             for
             the
             glory
             and
             greatnes
             of
             God
             &
             their
             King.
          
           And
           that
           our
           cōmon-wealth
           may
           neuer
           want
           many
           such
           worthy
           Patriots
           as
           will
           valiantly
           when
           time
           serues
           ,
           hazard
           themselues
           ,
           their
           freinds
           ,
           and
           their
           best
           fortunes
           ,
           in
           paineful
           industrie
           to
           procure
           their
           countries
           assured
           safetie
           ,
           that
           their
           example
           may
           make
           our
           Gentry
           ashamed
           of
           their
           much
           dissolute
           ,
           degenerate
           dishonorable
           courses
           ,
           the
           scoffing
           stocke
           of
           proude
           cōtemning
           forreine
           Nations
           ,
           that
           so
           desiring
           earnestly
           to
           shewe
           the
           world
           their
           swords
           can
           cut
           as
           keene
           as
           their
           forefathers
           ,
           by
           this
           first
           steppe
           to
           such
           desire
           ,
           they
           may
           professe
           with
           me
           and
           that
           with
           constancie
           ,
           
             
               z
               Militia
               est
               potior
               :
            
             
               the
               warre
            
             
               is
               better
               farre
               :
            
             
               Pulchrumque
               mori
               succurrat
               in
               armis
               .
               
            
             
               And
               thinke
               how
               worthelie
            
             
               they
               die
               that
               armed
               die
               .
            
          
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A20463-e7510
           
             a
             Pallingen
             
               in
               Ariete
            
             .
          
           
             b
             Montag
             .
             lib.
             1
             Essay
             .
             25.
             
          
           
             c
             Idē
             Essay
             .
             42.
             
          
           
             d
             Guichard
             .
             1.
             lib.
             
          
           
             e
             
               Hora
               :
               de
               arte
               Poetica
            
             .
          
           
             f
             Ibidem
             et
             Iusti●
             Histo.
             
          
           
             g
             
               Pet.
               Marti
               :
               Dec
            
             :
             3.
             
             Cap.
             7.
             
          
           
             h
             Hora.
             Od.
             8
             lib.
             4.
             
          
           
             i
             Idem
             .
          
           
             k
             Luna
             :
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             l
             Perseus
             .
          
           
             m
             
               Sir
               Phillip
               Sidney
            
             .
          
           
             n
             Hora
             :
             Od
             :
             6.
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             o
             Idem
             lib
             :
             1.
             
             Episto
             .
          
           
             p
             Iuuena
             .
             Sat.
             1.
             
          
           
             q
             
               Diodor.
               Sicu
               .
               lib.
            
             10.
             
             Cap.
             3.
             
          
           
             
               Vn
               Gentle
               home
               de
               ville
            
             .
          
           
             
               Plutar
               in
               vita
               Dari
            
             :
          
           
             s
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             t
             
               Idē
               in
               Alexan.
            
             
          
           
             u
             
               Idem
               in
               Scipiet
               Leo
               Impera
               cap.
            
             28.78
             .
          
           
             
               I.
               E.
               Cincinatus
            
             alluding
             to
             Caesars
             speech
             to
             the
             strangers
             
               Plutar.
               in
               vita
               Peric
            
             .
          
           
             *
             Plutar.
             
          
           
             x
             
               Herodat
               .
               in
               Terpsicore
            
             .
          
           
             z
             
               Plutar.
               in
               Pyrrho
            
             .
          
           
             a
             Estate
             of
             English
             Fugitiues
             .
          
           
             b
             Arist.
             lib.
             2.
             
               de
               A●nimi
            
             .
             Cap.
             2.
             
          
           
             c
             Lucan
             :
             lib.
             3.
             
          
           
             d
             
               Plutar
               :
               libel
               .
               contra
               .
               Epicu
               .
            
          
           
             e
             
               Tit.
               Liui.
               De.
            
             1
             lib.
             2.
             
          
           
             f
             
               Osor.
               de
               reb
               .
               gestis
               .
               Emanus
               :
               Histo
               :
               lib
               :
            
             10
             :
          
           
             g
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               .
               libell
               .
               declaratione
               lib
               :
            
          
           
             h
             
               Idem
               in
               lib
               :
               de
               dictis
               et
               factis
               Lacaedemo
               :
            
          
           
             i
             
               Quin●
               :
               Curt
               :
               lib.
            
             2
             
          
           
             k
             
               Virgil.
               lib.
            
             1
             
          
           
             l
             
          
           
             m
             
               Tit
               :
               Liui
               :
               lib.
            
             5
             Deca
             :
             1
             :
          
           
             n
             
               Pluta
               :
               in
               lib.
               de
               Fortuna
               Roman
               :
            
          
           
             
               ●eo
               Imper.
               Cap
            
             :
             20
             :
             47
             :
             &
             .
             75
             :
             
               &
               Cap
            
             :
             18
             :
             18
             :
          
           
             o
             
               Iosc
               :
               de
               bel
               :
               Iud.
               lib
               :
            
             6
             :
             Cap
             :
             24
             :
             et
             :
             16
             :
          
           
             p
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               vitae
               Lycur
               :
               :
            
          
           
             q
             Acts
             of
             the
             Apostles
             .
             Cap.
             10.
             
          
           
             r
             Iosua
             .
             Cap.
             7.
             
          
           
             s
             Exod.
             Cap.
             17.
             verse
             11.
             
          
           
             t
             Sam.
             2.
             
             Cap.
             22
             
          
           
             v
             Psalm
             .
             144
             ver
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             w
             Issai
             .
             Cap.
             1
             Ierem.
             Cap.
             11.
             
          
           
             y
             
               Platar
               :
               in
               vita
               Antoni
            
             .
          
           
             x
             Guichard
             :
             lib.
             3.
             
          
           
             z
             
               Plutar.
               in
               vita
               Scipi
            
             .
          
           
             a
             
               Mar.
               Barles
               .
               lib.
            
             6.
             
          
           
             b
             
               Plutar.
               in
               Peric
            
             .
          
           
             c
             
               Osor.
               de
               rebus
               gestis
               Emanu
               .
               lib.
            
             2.
             
          
           
             d
             
               Plutar.
               in
               Alexan.
            
             
          
           
             e
             
               Quint.
               Curt.
               lib
            
             5.
             
          
           
             f
             Lib.
             2.
             
               de
               benefic
               .
               Cap.
            
             13.
             
          
           
             g
             
               Luca.
               de
               bel
               .
               ciuili
               .
               lib.
            
             6.
             
          
           
             h
             
               Quint.
               Curt.
               lib.
            
             5.
             
          
           
             i
             
               Heliod
               .
               Histo.
               Aethio
               :
               lib.
            
             3.
             
          
           
             k
             
               Iusti.
               Histo.
               lib.
            
             1.
             
          
           
             l
             Lib.
             2.
             
               de
               reb
               .
               gestis
               Ioannit
            
             .
          
           
             m
             
               Virgil.
               lib.
            
             2.
             
             Aenea
             .
          
           
             n
             
               Osor.
               lib.
            
             2.
             
               de
               reb
               :
               gest
               :
               Emanuel
               .
            
          
           
             o
             Lib.
             4
             ▪
             
          
           
             *
             The
             victorie
             lost
             at
             Perousa
             .
             
               Guichar
               .
               lib.
            
             3.
             
          
           
             p
             
               Their
               Amigdala
               are
               their
               mony
               .
            
             
               
                 Pet.
                 Martir
                 .
                 De●
              
               5.
               
               Cap.
               4.
               
            
          
           
             r
             
               Pet.
               Marty
               .
               Dec.
            
             8.
             cap.
             8.
             
          
           
             s
             
               Plutar.
               in
               Romul
            
             .
          
           
             t
             
               Plut.
               in
               vita
               Solon
            
             .
          
           
             u
             
               Idem
               in
               lib.
               de
               dict
               :
               &
               fact
               .
               Laca●emon
               .
            
          
           
             x
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             y
             Sene
             :
             in
             t●●g
             .
             Agamem
             .
          
           
             z
             Lib
             22
             
               dereb
               .
               gest
               .
               Emanuel
            
             .
          
           
             a
             
               Montag
               .
               lib.
            
             1.
             
             Essay
             .
             3.
             
          
           
             b
             
               Apud
               Thermopilas
               .
               Diod.
               Sicu
               .
               lib.
            
             21.
             
          
           
             c
             
               Plut.
               in
               Licur
            
             .
          
           
             d
             
               Idem
               in
               Pyr.
            
             
          
           
             e
             Lin.
             2.
             
             
               Des
               recrech
               dela
               Franc.
            
             
          
           
             f
             
               Q.
               Curt.
               &
               Plut.
               in
               Alexan.
               
            
          
           
             g
             
               Pet.
               Marty
               .
               De
            
             3.
             cap.
             9.
             
          
           
             h
             
               Plutar.
               in
               Pyr.
            
             
          
           
             
               Pantal
               de
               reb
               .
               gest
               .
               Ioannit
               .
               lib.
            
             4.
             
          
           
             k
             
               Pet.
               Martyr
               .
               Dec.
            
             3.
             
             Cap.
             3.
             
          
           
             l
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               Pelopid
            
             .
          
           
             m
             
               Histor.
               de
               Co●mes
               .
               Liure
            
             .
             5.
             
             Chap.
             2
             
          
           
             n
             
               Histoire
               des
               Dernies
               .
               troubl
               :
               liur
               .
            
             2
             
          
           
             o
             
               Guiehard
               :
               Histo.
            
             
          
           
             p
             
               Baptist
               :
               Lenchi
               :
               in
               politicis
               obseruat
               .
            
          
           
             The
             King
             of
             France
             and
             Queene
             of
             England
             .
          
           
             q
             
               Tit
               :
               Liui
               :
               De
            
             :
             3.
             ilib
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             r
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               Romul
               :
               vita
               .
            
          
           
             s
             
               Rosin
               :
               Romani
               Antiquitat
               :
               lib.
            
             10.
             
             Cap
             :
             11.
             
          
           
             t
             
               Idem
               lib
            
             :
             2●
             .
             Cap.
             23.
             
          
           
             u
             
               Sueto
               :
               in
               Aug
               :
               vita
               :
            
          
           
             *
             Lui
             :
             2
             :
             
               de●
               Recerch
               :
               de
               la
               Fran
               :
            
          
           
             x
             
               Lecerch
               .
               de
               la
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             z
             
               Lib.
               de
               .
               vanit
               :
               scienti
               .
            
          
           
             a
             Lib.
             2.
             
             Cap.
             3.
             
          
           
             b
             Sam.
             1.
             cap.
             8.
             ver
             .
             20.
             
          
           
             c
             Virg
             :
             Aeneid
             :
             lib.
             1.
             
          
           
             d
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               Lycur
            
             .
          
           
             e
             
               Idem
               in
               Corio
               .
               lan
            
             .
          
           
             f
             
               Osor
               :
               lib.
            
             5.
             
               de
               reb
               .
               gest
               :
               Emanuel
               .
            
          
           
             h
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               Marcell
            
             :
          
           
             i
             
               Idem
               in
               Pyrrh
            
             :
          
           
             k
             
               Montag
               :
               Liure
            
             2.
             
             Essay
             .
             42.
             
          
           
             l
             
               Camde
               :
               Br●ita
            
             :
             in
             Richmond
             .
          
           
             m
             
               Tit.
               Liui
               :
               De
            
             :
             1.
             lib
             :
             2.
             
          
           
             n
             
               Plutar.
               in
               Pelopid
            
             .
          
           
             o
             Hora
             de
             arte
             poetica
             .
          
        
         
           Notes for div A20463-e13400
           
             Lucan
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             a
             
               Ter
               :
               in
               Adelph
               :
               Act
               :
            
             3
             :
             sce.
             3.
             
          
           
             b
             
               La
               Roque
               .
               li.
            
             1.
             
             
               Du
               māniement
               :
               de
               l'
               art
               militaire
               .
            
          
           
             c
             Virgil
             :
             lib.
             2.
             
             Aeneid
             .
          
           
             d
             
               Machiauel
               :
               Princ
               :
               cap.
            
             2.
             
          
           
             e
             
               Iustin.
               Histor
               :
               lib.
            
             6.
             
          
           
             f
             
               Idem
               lib.
            
             3.
             
          
           
             g
             
               Plutarch
               :
               in
               vita
               Pyrrh
            
             .
          
           
             h
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               Caesa
               :
               vita
               .
            
          
           
             i
             
               Idem
               .
               in
               Cym●
               :
               vita
               .
            
          
           
             k
             
               Iuuenal
               :
               lib
            
             :
             2.
             sat
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             l
             Cap.
             1.
             
             Deca
             .
             6.
             
          
           
             m
             
               In
               Timoleō
               :
               vita
            
             .
          
           
             n
             
               Iin
               Solon
               :
               vita
            
             .
          
           
             o
             
               Idē
               in
               Pyrrho
            
             .
          
           
             p
             
               Noua
               noui
               orbis
               historia
               .
               lib
               :
            
             2.
             
             Cap
             :
             16.
             
          
           
             q
             
               Ti
               :
               Liu
               :
               lib
            
             :
             4
             :
             Deca
             :
             1.
             
          
           
             r
             
               Mar
               :
               Barles
               :
               in
               vita
               Scanderb
               :
            
          
           
             s
             
               Diod
               :
               Sicu
               :
               lib.
            
             2
             Cap.
             ●
             .
          
           
             t
             
               Iustin
               :
               Histor.
               lib.
            
             44.
             
          
           
             u
             Lib.
             9.
             
               de
               reb
               :
               gest
               .
               Emanuelis
               .
            
          
           
             w
             
               Plutarch
               :
               in
               Coriola
               :
               vita
               .
            
          
           
             y
             Lib.
             2.
             
             Deca
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             x
             
               Plutarch
               :
               in
               Camill
               :
               vita
               .
            
          
           
             z
             
               Discours
               :
               politi
            
             :
             9.
             
          
           
             a
             The
             Paraenetical
             discourse
             .
          
           
             b
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             c
             In
             the
             Low-countries
             2000
             at
             one
             time
             .
             Estates
             of
             English
             Fugitiues
             .
          
           
             d
             
               Plutarch
               :
               in
               Peric
            
             .
          
           
             e
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             f
             Appian
             .
          
           
             g
             
               La
               Noue
               Discour
               .
               polit
               :
               &
               militar
               .
            
             9.
             
          
           
             h
             
               Machiauel
               :
               Prin
               :
               cap.
            
             29.
             
          
           
             i
             
               Plutarch
               .
               in
               vita
               Alcibiad
            
             .
          
           
             k
             
               Iustin
               :
               Histor.
               lib.
            
             7.
             
          
           
             l
             As
             Annibals
             at
             Capua
             .
          
           
             l
             
               Quint
               :
               Curt.
               lib.
            
             6.
             
          
           
             o
             
               Plutarch
               :
               in
               vita
               Lycur
            
             .
          
           
             p
             
               Ibidem
               &
               in
               lib
               :
               de
               dict
               :
               et
               fact
               :
               Lacad
               .
            
          
           
             q
             
               Ti
               :
               Liui
               :
               lib.
            
             3.
             
             Dec.
             1.
             
          
           
             r
             
               Plutar
               :
               in
               Romul
            
             .
          
           
             s
             Ibidem
             .
          
           
             t
             
               Lib
               :
               de
               vtilit
               :
               capiend
               :
               ex
               hostibus
               .
            
          
           
             u
             
               La
               Rocque
               liui
            
             .
             1
             :
             
               du
               maniement
               de
               l'
               Art
               militaryre
               .
            
          
           
             *
             
               Iust
               :
               Histo
               :
               lib.
            
             42.
             
          
           
             y
             
               Ti.
               Liui
               :
               lib
            
             :
             8.
             
             Deca
             .
             1.
             
          
           
             x
             
               Guichard
               :
               Histo
               :
               lib.
            
             ●
             .
          
           
             z
             Hor
             :
             sat
             .
             1.
          
           
             Virgil
             :
             Aeneid
             :
             X.