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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19256	The prospectiue glasse of vvarre Shevving you a glimpse of vvarres mystery, in her admirable stratagems, policies, wayes; in victualling of an armie, prouiding money to pay souldiers, finding out the enemies purposes, traps, and stratagems: ordering of marches, framing of battails, sundry fights, retreats, and the like, to auoide battell or fight. Furnished with argument to encourage and skill to instruct. By C.E. Warre is a schoole of necesary knowledge.	Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.	1628 (1628)	STC 5669; ESTC S120766	26,668	55

THE Prospectiue Glasse of VVARRE Shevving you a glimps of VVarres Mystery in her admirable Stratagems Policies Wayes in Victualling of an ARMIE prouiding Money to pay Souldiers finding out the Enemies Purposes Traps and Stratagems Ordering of Marches Framing of Battails sundry Fights Retreats and the like to auoide Battell or Fight Furnished with Argument to encourage and Skill to Instruct By C. E. Warre is a Schoole of necessary Knowledge LONDON Printed for Michael Sparke dwelling at the signe of the blue Bible in Greone-Arbor 1628. TO THE HONORABLE Sir IOHN COOKE Knight Principall Secretarie of State to his Maiestie SIR AS shape beautifies an Image so good actions commend a man That which did commend Lucullus most was this Hee would rather deliuer a Roman Citizen from the hands of his enemy then win all that his enemies had in their power Lucullus in this did conquer himselfe as Alexander did in containing from Darius his most faire wife and daughters and Caesar in sparing to punish his greatest enemies To whom Cicero said that in other Victories Fortune Policy Souldiers might claime a part but in this he alone should haue all the glorie Glorie Thirst of prey and loue of Country were the three things that set all the Romans vpon admirable action The first is counted but a Vice the second no better then Theft the third is the Vertue Heroicall In this Vertue Cicero excelled the other three and therefore was honoured with this Epitaph Pater Patriae He was called Father of his Country because he kept it from decay All those that in their Consultations doe seeke the benefit of their Country doe deserue the like like reward and praise You then Sir are to be praised and honoured of all men whose Consultations tend to the benefit of the whole Kingdome hauing obtained a Conquest of your selfe being a Christian far aboue that of Lucullus and Caesars Therfore you shall attaine a most sure triumph the guide of whose Chariot shall be Grace giuen from aboue and Glory that shall neuer faile you It is reported of Roscius the Tragedian that men durst not aduenture to Act in a Tragedie in his sight because of his excellencie in that facultie And shall I dare to discourse of Warre or any other subiect before so great a Statesman so learned exquesite a Mathematician as your selfe Behold I were blanckt and should stand as Queene Hester did dead in all mens opinion did not your Septer of benignitie giue me life and tell me that you are a Fauoror of Arts and Armes Therefore I take courage and prostrate this my poore labor to Kisse your Honorable hands not as any addition to your vncontroleable and approued knowledge but as a weake Fabrick which onely wanteth the support of your much admired goodnesse Pleaseth it you therefore to accept my Booke to peruse and allow of the same that it may the more safely come abroad and thereby deserue the better fauour and acceptance of all the Readers thereof as allowed of him whose Noble acts as well within the Realme as without haue alwayes from time to time so well appeared So I shall be the more boldned and encouraged to take the like paines hereafter if good and meet occasion may serue there vnto Euer vowed to you Honourable Sir in all dutifull seruice Edward Cooke The Preface to the Reader Iudicious Reader IT is not the least but the greatest kinde of folly when a man hauing but a little science presumeth to teach not onely those which haue onely science but such as haue most certaine experience For mine owne part among many I am most free from this guilt though for the good of many I haue published this Treatise which will make me thereby seeme guiltie Yet I confesse the Booke or Treatise is a collection of such notes as haue bin by me selected out of the best Tacticke writers both Ancient and Moderne All which I haue illustrated with examples and precepts the better to instruct all yong Commanders who by reading them may get much knowledge But it may be these braue spirits are minded to get knowledge by experience and not to ioyne experience vnto knowledge therefore they affect the bloody fields of Africke better then the beautifull Schooles in Greece Well let them doe so but in my opinion it seemes a farre better and shorter way for them to attaine to the name of worthy perfect Captaines to ioyne experience vnto knowledge then to get knowledge by Experience For Mans life is short and subiect to many casualties oftentimes it is cut off before it can come to any such perfection as is required in an excellent man of War whereas small experience with diligent reading and perfect learning of feats of Warre may frame and make many politicke Captaines in a small time I doe not meane that knowledge without experience can doe any great thing at all but being ioyned both together doubtlesse they may be as able to bring to passe as great and as merueilous things in valiant men in these our dayes as they haue done to others before our time To which not only experience alone brought them but diligent learning and study of the Art of Warre written and set forth by Historicall Writers and Poets Innumerable are the Bookes which this age doth afford of the like subiect for their direction the number of which I haue augmented by two namely The Character of Warre and The Prospectiue Glasse of Warre The Character of Warre doth instruct them in the vse of the Postures in the vse of Facing Wheeling Countermarching Doubling Distances and the like And how to Command a Company The prospectiue Glasse of Warre doth instruct them how to Victuall an Army how to prouide money to pay Souldiers how to finde out the enemies purposes Traps and Stratagems how to direct an Army to march either by day or by night how to Embattell how to behaue themselues in battell when to fight when to auoide fight with many other excellent things worthy of their knowledge Then let them read and reading they will learne to iudge aright of the Author who puts a difference betweene the state of Philosophers and the state of Captaines betweene the skill to read in Schooles and the knowledge to rule an Army between the science that wise men haue in Books and the experience that others haue in war betweene the skill to write with the pen and others to write with the sword betweene one that for his pastime is set round with deskes of Bookes and another in perill of life encompassed with troopes of enemies Therefore presumes not to teach any such graue experienced Souldiers onely records what they haue done or can doe which he recounts to others to imitate who it may be haue neither seene nor read them Spare not then to iudge and censure him who will euer remaine thine C. E. Hiss Hiss A Battell both with Seconds and Ayds for all attempts containing 12000. Foote and 4000.