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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11788	A true souldiers councel; Experimentall discoverie of Spanish practises.	Hexham, Henry, 1585?-1650?, attributed name.; Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626, attributed name.	1624 (1624)	STC 22078; ESTC S114763	30,552	55

succour of England that which hath still supplyed fewell to the flames and fire of the rebellion For if England would but fail them it is cleer they could not stand out no more then a living body can be preserved without nourishment and it is more securely extinguisht by taking away the maintenance and nourishment thereof then by striving to quench it by his contrary For having no nourishment at all the violent heat is used against it selfe and so by it selfe consumed but we determining to overcome it by the contrary it may fall out that instead of extinguishing it the force of it may be much increased if the contrary be subdued by the same And therfore the Florentines then and not before quenched the fire of the Pison rebellion when they took away the fewell and nourishment from it which came from strangers by cutting off Princes their Collegates and the gaining their Citie in one action which otherwise all their own force and their Confederates would not haue been sufficient to obtain The other is for if England with her succours which shee sendeth not onely maintaineth the Netherlands secure with the bare hope of her shadow for they count themselues in banishment as it were while they see before their eyes the Spanish forces and so would still doe if they did not know the English will alwaies be ready to buckle with any one that with a mighty Fleet should passe by these parts In this respect the Athenians thought themselues sure from Phillips force while the Town of Ohinton stood out and so on the contrary when the Olintons were overcome then saw they no impediments that could keep the enemy from them Even so if England should fall into the hands of your Majestie the whole foundation of the Rebells obstinacy were shaken the fortresse and back being removed by favour of which they haue daily nourished the spirits of pride and insolencie so as the soule and spirit yeeldeth England being taken away we may perceiu that the conquest of the Netherlands is easily brought forth by the victorie as her lawfull daughter and that the end followeth not as the daughter or as the other being her mother but even as inseparably as the shadow the body or nourishment the life As also this reason which I will now recite is infallibly grounded upon the direct rule of Art Millitarie which is that you ought never to imploy your selfe in the assault of any place if there remain still at your back a a mighty meanes of some disturbance Wherfore it is no sound deliberation to fasten first on the enterprise of the Netherlands when you leaue one ill-affected on your back which peradventure may suddenly assail and break through in the midst of the Catholike Army in the heart of the warres with the Netherlands Charles the 5 his attempt in Province had unhappy successe for no other cause but that he contemned the advise of the Marquis Masto which was that first before any thing he should expugne the fortresse But that resolution being not taken by Charles was no lesse pernitious to the Imperialists then to the Author of that Councell Antonio de Leva Another reason is attempting the warre upon the Netherlands you come to buckle with braue experienced Souldiers and men brought up in warre as on the contrary the English want Art and Discipline Millitarie I may giue the same comparison that may be made between Idleness and Experience armed and unarmed and how advantagious it is to fight with unskilfull Souldiers Amongst many other the example of Meltiades in the field of Manathon sheweth evidently who with lesse then ten thousand braue Souldiers put to flight the force of unhappy Xerxes who had more then six hundred thousand with him An other is that the Netherlands must be conquered by handfulls and haue full or whole Armies imployed in beleagering this or that Fort otherwise per-adventure of no great importance but as it may be a stop to his course of victory that goeth about to seiz upon the Country Wheras contrarily England hath no strong Towres or Fortresses as well within as without there is no doubt of that enterprise and is as much more easie then this as it is a lesse matter to overcome them that doe not resist then those that doe fight upon warlike advantages There is no better example to bee produced to your Highnesse then of the selfe same Countrie of the Netherlands in which notwithstanding that your Majestie hath placed such strong Garrisons yet at every step such prevailent accidents doe occurre that oftentimes the Assaylants are overcome by the often oppositions that these Fortresses use towards them Even as on the contrary the Kingdom of Portugal there being no convenient Fortresses to giue impediment to the forces of the Souldiers were suffered to enter into the very heart of the land they being not able to make any manner of defences to defend the same Another reason is for that the Fortresses are as prejudiciall to the Assaylants after they haue obtained them as they were before by reason the Conquerour is forced to distribute his Army into many members by which they are greatly weakned So that by this that hath been spoken it may appear that it is much more convenient nay as it seemeth much more easie for your Highnes to push at England then the Netherlands and therfore I will discourse of that Enterprise not in comparison of the other as heertofore I haue done but in respect of it self manifesting certain principles which doe better declare and make manifest the opportunity facility therof In my opinion therfore it is a thing not to be doubted if medicine is then truely to called wholesom when it hath reference not onely to the offended part or member but further to cut off the root of the evill And therfore if your Majesty shall enter into the conquest of the Netherlands you but peradventure cure the wounds of that rebellion but you shal not evacuate the causes of the beginnings of these ill humors which haue daily sent nourishment to the disease considering England is the place which hath given sustenance to the rebellious States And though these Provinces were yours of this present disposition yet what can that be in a body subject to continuall suggestion of matter which in it own nature presenteth in the stomack some portion of offensiue humour Your Majestie must therfore necessarily assault England to the end you may afterwards either securely digest or evacuate these concourses But to discourse more at large of the facility of the enterprise I deny not truely but that England is a very mighty Kingdom and the greatest Iland that ever wee finde any mention made of by the Ancients seeing it containeth Scotland within the same running 2000 miles in a circuit although our modern Writers make a computation of 200 lesse By Nature it hath been favoured with a security of a wall or with a rampart but yet notwithstanding it