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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89899	Mutiny maintained: or, Sedition made good from its [brace] unity, knowledge, wit, government. Being a discourse, directed to the Armies information.	N. N.	1660 (1660)	Wing N46; Thomason E774_5; ESTC R207290	12,536	16

MUTINY MAINTAINED OR SEDITION Made good from Its Unity Knowledge Wit Government BEING A DISCOURSE directed to the ARMIES INFORMATION To the Ingenuous Souldiery Masters YOU are now in your Winter Quarters I have therefore sent you this Pamphlet to warm you Not that I intend to play at Blow-coals with you you know that sport too well Only finding your Genius given to new Doctrines many of you being Seekers I thought a Paradox might not not be unwelcome one allowes killing another lying such Treatises every foot come to your hands sure then you will accept of this Piece that smells much of your Match and Gunpowder and concerns more your Strength and your Trade I have no Stratagem to take you but reason and if you examine the Discourse to the pith not superficially I doubt not but you will submit to him that wishes you as he doth himself N. N. THey that have seen the Dancing Horse how exactly he knows his Figures and keeps Time to the Musick as if a French Dancing Master had taught him How he counts money as if he had been a Cash keeper How he scrapes and makes legs and kneels for the King as if he begd his enjoyment but for the State presently lyes down and groans they all admire and cry This Horse shews tricks that youl 'd believe the Beast were Rational which means no mor then this That he truly hath not Reason but resembles only him that hath So Tacitus writes of the Legions in Germany mutining That they would now be all on fire and anon be all as quiet with so great equality and constancy that youl 'd believe they were well Govern'd which is as much to say That they seem'd govern'd but in truth were not Now I will endeavour to make it clear against the Historian That Sedition or let it be the Seditious multitude is govern'd perfectly by its own Nature much more then any obedient Army can be Which I thus argue Vnity Since Bodies compounded of distinct Members and Parts such as are Cities Armies or Clocks hence come to boast of their Unity How much more shall these accost and approach to true and proper Unity that are made up of like Parts and maintained in their Order from a like Principle Now if you will examine the occasions and Unities of Seditions surely it will appear and you must confess That a Seditious body is better governed then another made up of divers parts But because no less to the Civil then to the Military the name of Sedition is given not to go from my Text whereof Tacitus speaks I will confine my self only to the Military This then as much as the name teaches is nothing else then a Separation of one part of the Army from the rest of the Body on purpose to obtain by force something from the the Commander Now if 't is said of an obedient Army and t is well said That it is Governed when upon the Word given being put in order it presently joyns Battel with the Enemy Much more ought we to say it if we compare one with the other of the Seditious Let 's come to the proof upon trace of some Maxims The efficient cause of an Army may be entituled the General for as Order is the soul or form of that Army such Order comes produced from no other then the General who like an Idaea contains it A Seditious Body too hath a Commander that will excellently govern it because it will yield most easily to be governed being all of one mind like him they have chosen and much more because their own good is the very same with the good of the Commander A thing not ordinary betwixt the Army and the General See Alexander conducting his Macedons through unknown untamed and unpenetrable Countries think you an equal profit accru'd to his Phalanges or Squadrons as did to him Surely no He counted all their sufferings Little because by them he became Great his small Body valued it not so he might obtain the great World For all their hungers and thirsts the unhospitable Rocks found his Tent furnisht with exquisite Meats and generous Wine to crown his goblets whose bottoms being carved with the like Effigies of those conquered Kings he took in his Victories he delighted still to drink them empty more to tickle his Ambition then to quench his Thirst No t was not so with his Souldiers they Dyed to Immortalize him and sowed the Plains with their own Limbs that he might reap the Palms thence budding One only was in Purple for which a thousand wounded one only Triumphing for which a Thousand Conquering To Win only for him they Lost not only their own but themselves Hence from not being the same the good of the Commander and the Souldiers it arises That though the final cause of him and them Unitely taken may be called the very same that is the Victory yet for all that both the one and the others taken by themselves are drawn by ends too much differing one from another whence after is derived that discordance of Causes which is contrary as I said before to the regulating of a thing which ought to be governed I should lose the day in wearying the Army if I would go to shew by examples how differing the motives of Souldiers are in fighting not with the Commander only but compar'd even amongst themselves Some brandish the Sword not to win glory but to gain gold Others with an immoderate force weakens all the interprize and to make himself the only one among them comes to divide them Others only make stand and face the enemy because he is too strong behind their back or because they cannor flie try to put him to slight This man seeks not renown with his sword upon the Foe but his revenge upon a particular Enemy Some destine their lust to anothers wife and for the plunder of a tender maid value not the loss of the whole Baggage Avarize Zeal Disdain Fear Ambition Lust Rage and Rashness make a hundred factions of one Army Else why do we read of Pompey for to animate his men to run up and down now comforting these with promises then pricking them with reproof now stirring up their hopes then provoking their vigilance with the danger sometimes enflaming their covetousness with shewing the great booty in the adverss Camp then awaking their compassion by telling of the misery of their Country Sure all this because he knew there must needs be diverse arguments to perswade the same action to many that have divers ends in the working it Now in a Mutiny the parts are all alike as in a train of gunpowder if in a moment but one spark fall upon one corn it sets fire on all and runs to the very end for no other cause but that they are all alike So the first will that flashes or gives fire in a Sedition becomes at once the will to a thousand brests Such is the consanguinity and kindred

of Minds And certainly it must be so upon good reason since the fear of the same Punishment and the hopes of the same reward binds them in an undissolvable Tie They will the same thing because there lives but one heart in many breasts Knwoledg But unity alone is not our argument there are a number of other reasons speaking for us as thus Who sights will he not govern himself the better against the eneny the more that he hath a perfect Knowledg of that Enemy Surely yes Now by whom is he best known by an Army in the day of Battel or by this Seditious body in the Quarrel The Army oft fights against people of contrary Climates and Customs and knows not whether their Flights be for Feare or for Stratagem whether their Charges be out of Election or Necessity or their preparations be in reality or appearance Again though the conditions and natures of the Souldier were cleerly known yet on the other side how oft doth the way and nature of the Commander happen to be obscure who if he deserves that name ought to order it so that to his own shirt even his own thoughts must be concealed It will happen then almost impossible for that Army to be well governed when neither it nor he that governs it hath any knowledg of the enemies or of their Captain On the other side the enemy of a mutinuous body is as it were alwayes the very same which before the sedition was its Commander that is to say t is that of whom by often and oft repeated proofs they know where are the strengths where the defects on what side they are most expos'd or most impenetrable upon assaults of others whether there be matter of surprize or of force So for the Commander they mutiny against they know his courage by many tryals in charges his suffering in sieges his fortune in fights and his discipline in his rigidness Certainly these that were well governed by him are best of all taught to govern themselves against him Especially since mutinies happen for the most on that part of the Army which the Commander knows best of all the rest that is to say that part which is compounded of old Souldiers because they among all the rest are highly strong and ingenious and well knowing to themselves of their abilities to pretend to great things and to complain with much justice not obtaining conditions which is no less necessary in moving seditions then useful to be known in afterwards governing them as t is fit Wit But to pass by the knowledg and courage of the Old Souldier who hath defied well nigh a thousand deaths to make his Commander glorious by his scars give me leave for a witness of the third condition which is Wit to bring into the Field one Pretty proof hinted me by Tacitus who tells that Germanicus whilst he made the Pile and Conquest of France hearing of the seditious rising in his Armies in Germany swiftly in all hast marches th●ther to quiet them At this suddain flash of his imperial look which serenely lightning made them to love him whilst he terrify'd them the seditious troops with humbled and relenting browes gave great signals of their repentance nevertheless so soon as he was enterd the Tents they set up a cry and snatching by force his right hand under a shew of kissing it those decrepit Souldiers wrought so that he must feel their empty and dissurnisht jawes with his own fingers Cicero here with all his flame colours to figure out the motion of the affections so stir'd up cannot speak so much nor so lively as was said by these pale and trembling lips in this their silence who not being able to bite the hands they embowelled themselves into the marrow and midst of their Generals heart And thus was heard the dumb to speak When never shall it be granted O good Germanicus to repose till our sepulcral ages obtain us our repose Our jaws make witness what advances we are like to draw from so many Wars and shall it not be permitted us after we have lost our bones to lay up in safety the miserable relicks of our body What necessity so hard forces wretched mortals to live amongst deaths even until death See now our stooping shoulders can bear no longer our weighty armes See our dry hands that infect our pikes with their palsie can do no more then joyn themselves in putting up supplicant desires to thy mercy and compassion Thus to be obstinate to command heavy shadowes rather living bodies under thy banners is nothing else but an ingenious ambition not to make bloody fights no though we miserably should be cut all in pieces Ah grant us the dominion of our life at least in a season when we are to lose it secure that to us when it can no longer secure thee Is there no other death but the Sword possibly under the Romans Thy Army will not be enervated though it be not accompanyed with our falling age which tires it self in following it The body will be the stronger if the wither'd Members be cut off for unprofitable This our desire is the effect of a most happy Fortune thy Partisan She will not be expos'd to the long carreer of thy noble toils and enterprizes which she foresees unless first in the place of thy worn Souldiers you sublitute and enroll fresh young and lusty Now le ts believe if Wit knows to arm so strongly the disarmed mouths of the seditious with a silent eloquence for to gain the good will of their Captain it will also know how to govern the right hand when there shall be an occasion to arm it for to arise fear in the Captain To these mild and aged Mutineers their General was their Glory and their delight But had he been one hated by the seditious or did they begin to loath and grow weary of the State that imploye them a State suppose declining too which snatches and catches at all things as dying men do or as those do that are about such or be ●t a State in swadling cloathes whose tender roots facilitates its removall how fierce and bold would these have then been You would quickly have seen their daring forehead backt with a well-hung tongue and their audacities seconded by this language not making their Addresses to the Commander but encouraging one another Thus We whose victorious Swords us'd oft to give life to others lets now give breath to our selves Once such was our love to the Cause and liking to the Commander that 't was our weariness to be at rest and yet we repos'd in wearying our selves 't was our love to be upon duty and we were in pain and labour if that we labour'd not we have been hitherto amorously seditious to have ●ad every one the first place in dangers and the last in repose thus quarreling to shew that love hath its civil Wars no less then hatred But now the case is altered and what thanks