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A10698	Vox militis foreshewing what perils are procured where the people of this, or any other kingdome liue without regard of marshall discipline, especially when they stand and behold their friends in apparent danger, and almost subuerted by there enemies vniust persecution, and yet with hold their helping hand and assistance. Diuided into two parts, the first manifesting for what causes princes may enter into warre, and how necessary and vsuall it is, drawne from the actions of the Prince of Orange. The second discourseth of warre, souldiers, and the time when it is conuenient: collected out of the heroicall examples of Count Mansfield. ... Dedicated to Count Mansfield, and the honourable Councell of Warre.	Marcelline, George.; Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617. Allarme to England.	1625 (1625)	STC 20980; ESTC S115890	45,092	69

destruction then in the time of the warres which the Romanes had with her for whilest they had enemies in Affticke they knew not what vices meant at Rome Yet is it not my drift to preferre Warres before Peace but to intimate that as Peace is the great blessing of God so Warres vndertaken vpon due consideration doe nothing offend him and although in the time of peace there is plentie of vice yet notwithstanding it is not absolutely to be condemned so though in the Warres there be many outrages committed yet it is not wholly therefore to be neglected the Sunne shining vpon some pleasant Garden makes the flowres haue a more fragrant and delightfull smell but displaying his most radiant beames vpon a dunghill maketh the stinke greater and the sent more noy some The sicke mans stomacke turneth all his meate into bad humors Peace may be prosperous and Warre lawfull yet both of them may be abused Moreouer if I should speake of the particular commodities that seuerall countries haue reaped by warres I could be infinite and to the intent I may not range farre abrode for example let thy consideration make but a step into our neighbouring nations and let vs looke into the Low Countries these you shall see the Prince of Orange that treasury of all vertue and goodnesse though with meane forces withstanding a mighty nation that his libertie might not be infringed of his country iniured neither hath he maintained his owne case only valiantly but hath afforded his neighbouring friends aide and assistance Let Spaine speake how often she hath receiued a repulse and a non visitauit from him how often in vaine shee hath attempted his ouerthrow but be like a well built fort hath valiantly withstood all their assaults and though he hath happily beene moued yet could not be remoued by their attempts whereby as all men sufficiently vnderstand hee is now growne potent and powerfull rich and renowned whereas on the contrary if Asse-like he would haue borne the king of Spaines heauy burthen submitted to the yoke of his obedience he had lost his libertie nouer attained the honor with which his name is now crowned for he remaineth as a mirrour and terrour to all nations for as his Excellency did iustly and with due consideration vndertake so hee hath nobly and with true valour maintained his quarrell against the King of Spaine Surely an act well beseeming so worthy and noble a Prince who as hee should not be like a raw wound ouer-apprehensiue of iniuries so he should be vnlike dead flesh not too senslesse of wrongs done vnto the one shewes folly the other fea●e Neither would it ill befeeme any Potentate to treade in the steps of so excellent a Prince and not so much to respect peace as to neglect a iust occasion of warre for doth it stand with reason or religion that a Prince hauing sufficient power to make resistance to an open enemy should expose his open brest to his threatning sword nay when he sees he hath already cut off some of his lims to trust him with his whole body Hath he any great good meaning to the tree that hackes and hewes downe the branches doth he beare any good affection to the father that striueth to iniure the child or doth not he that oppresseth the child expresse his hatred to the father can one which loathes the effect loue the cause will not hee which cannot tollerate the heate labour to quench the fire yes surely and it was formerly lawfull for Kings to seeke to depose a Tyrant though he had no interest in those which were iniured Then how much more forcible a motiue hath hee if his posteritie bee abused and he be wounded in his owne bowels Surely his sword ought not to rest in his sheath when he hath such iust cause to draw it but his angry canons to thunder in the eares of his enemies and tell them they haue iniured him And is not this the cause of our Soueraigne if euer Prince had iust cause of warre it is he for they haue exiled out of his inheritance the Palsgraue a Prince so hopefull they haue layd wast his countrey which was the Paradise of the world a land so fruitfull they doe vniustly vsurpe his Diadem they haue falsely promised the restoring of it when as the pulses of their promises did not beat according to the motion of their hearts Certes it did not beseeme Princely pietie in them to offer neither doth it consent with kingly courage in him to suffer that me thinkes this voyce of the Souldier is but as an echo to the voyce of heauen which sayes the cause is iust and counselleth all Christan Protestant Princes ioyntly to assume armes to driue this Boare out of the Vineyard and to re-seate this royall Prince in his Throne and dignitie Heare oh you braue English Spirits which once were admired I had almost sayd adored for your valour when you had imployment how can you any longer desist from the pursuit of honour in so iust a cause doe you not long to fight for the safetie of a limme nay the halfe part of your Soueraigne But why should I vse these needlesse perswasions or spurre a free horse I dare say you are easily intreated nay hardly perswaded from it and you are as restlesse being staued from the combat as the Stone violently detained from the Center Neuer was Beare robbed of her whelpes more angrie of reuenge then you of this enterprise it may be indeed there bee some Spanish English as they terme them who are neither true to God their King or countrey which haue not the least drop of loyall blood lodged in their hearts that would be somewhat vnwilling to act a part in this matter perhaps likewise there be others who be guilty of so little valour that they had rather liue like drones in this hiue of our commonwealth and be loitring lubbers at home then any waies to offer there seruice for their Soueraignes welfare or spend a dram nay a drop of blood in the defence of the truth who are very well content to enioy the warmth they haue vnder the wings of their Soueraigne but will not do any seruice in the requital of this benefit being not much vnlike to vngratefull curs which will fawne vpon their master so long as he feeds them but when hee hath any futther imployments for them they bid him adue and hasten to their kennels So these men or rather beasts indeeed that are borne bred fostered sed in their countrey and yet can suffer an indignitie done to their Prince and when their countrey standeth in need of their aid or assistance to slip their coller come to combat in the defence of it as willingly as Bears to the stake that argueth an vngratefull mind free from all vertue as well as vallour and indeed are no more worthy to enioy the commodities and benefits of their countrey then a Swine deserues a pearle But as Plutarque

magnanimitie they were of all men feared Neither was this magnificence vpholden by doing wrong and iniury for they neuer attempted warres but for things in claime or in defence of league friends Tull. officiis lib. 1. Then as Cicero sayth The Senate might rather haue bene termed the protection hauen and refuge of kings people and nations more truely then the Empire of the world Neither were they found rash to enter into warres headily although they had occasion as did appeare at the citie of Sagunto where the people of Carthage brake the league and defied peace yet the Senate sent thither Ambassadour Fabius Maximus with two tables the one contalning peace the other warres putting the election to their owne choice as it is liked themselues to choose although the Romanes themselues could best defend their cause But did the Romanes game this glory by enuring themselues to liue in delicate idlenesse in dicing in carding in dancing in whoring in banquetting in reuelling and in roysting no but ordained most sharpand bitter punishments to expell them and with disgrace to dant those that were the practisers and followers of them Where contrarily to prouoke and pricke forward Martiall mindes and manly wights to the studie of chiualry and Martiall affaires they ordained glorious triumphs liberal rewards and honourable titles which was the very cause that the citie grew to be so great and large in Empire for where valiance and prowesse was so honourably rewarded not onely Noble men but also inferiour persons were so inflamed with desire of renowne that no danger was left vndealt withall nor no perill left vnproued where there was glory to be gained or the saftie of their countrie might be preserued The two Decit by race and birth were no gentlemen borne yet by their valiance and fortitude they aspired to the highest type of dignitie in their commonwealth and in their countries defence consecrated themselues as valiant and vowed vessells to glory and immortalitie Neither was Lucius Martius borne but of a meane parentage yet for his puissance shewed in S●aine he receiued of his countrie great honour and principalitie By these meanes the libertie of their countries were most strongly defended and the indifferencie of their lawes were chiefly maintained where well doing is so liberally rewarded For what greater dishonor may there be in a commonwealth then where worthy acts high attempts receiue but cold reward Or what reward may that country thinke to much to bestow on him that hath not spared his own life to fight in the defence There be sundry examples in the holy Scripture tending to the same effect for when the children of Israel were pursued by Pharoh and th●● they began to stagger in the promises of God the tribe of Inda did manifestly shew forth farre greater courage and valiance then the rest who lingred not nor drew backe but with a maruellous constancie by the example of Moses aduentured first the sea by whose stout stomaches the rest were incouraged to follow For which fact the people of Juda were euer afterwards more honoured then the rest and such had the principalitie amongst the twelue tribes as were descended of the tribe of Iuda In like manner Solomon made the Hethites the Amorites the Pheresites the Heuites and the Iebusites to become tributaries and to labour in the building but of the children of Israel he made men of warre captaines great Lords and rulers And Socrates in a certaine fable vseth these words All you that liue in one cittie are brethren being streightly linked and vnited together but when God created you he gaue not euery one a like propertie for they that were most meete to rule he tempered with gold and those that in defence of their countrie would valiantly assist Kings and Princes he mingled them with siluer and to such as should apply themselues to tillage and other meane occupations he bestowed brasse and iron now it falleth out generally that they ingender children like to themselues but sometimes it happeneth a golden father to haue a siluer sonne He willeth therefore that they should take in no one thing more speciall regard then diligently to search with what mettall their childrens mindes bee tempered with so that if there bee found any brasse or iron in their childrens senses they should assigne them such a trade conuenient and agreeing with their grosse and rude nature but if they finde in them any gold or siluer they should bestow on them honourable roomes and that they should be trained vp in the knowledge of Martiall affaires The Romanes ordained for that purpose a long spacious sield which they called Campus Martius wherein the youth of the citie was exercised in Martiall feates and to enure their bodies both for their owne health and also that they might be made the more profitable members for their common wealth in the time of warres The Lacedemonians vsed their children to goe barefooted exercising them in running in leaping and in casting the dart in which exercises they were continually practised from whence Diogenes on a time returning and going to Athens was asked from whence he came and whither he would I come said he from amongst men and am going among women I wonder if Diogenes were now liuing and going into England whither he would say he were going if he were demanded where we be wholly nusled in wantonnesse and onely nourished in daintinesse both in minde manners and diet where we be altogether made strangers to Martiall actions and vtterly alienated from Lawes and deedes of Armes where no consideration is had of Martiall mindes where prouision for defence is neuer called in question Here peraduenture some will say vnto me Good sir if you would but put on your spectacles and looke into the Tower of London you might see that neither Ordnance shot powder pike caliuer armour nor any other furnitures conuenient for the Warres were any whit lacking from thence if it pleased you but to sayle downe in Grauesend Barge you haue but fiue miles to Rochester where you might likewise take the view of so worthy a Fleete of royall ships as no Prince in Europe may make comparison with the like Call you not these prouisions of defence where no munitions fit for the warres are any whit wanting Very true indeede which doth argue the speciall care his Maiesty hath euer had not onely in making of such prouision but also at sundry times he hath likewise instituted diuers good ordinances for the training of men the which hath beene still discontinued by his subiects such as will pine at the spending of one pound of powder towards the practising of those that should fight for their safety Wherefore I neede vse no other answere then King Philip vsed to that noble Captaine Antipater which was this What searest thou man any Captaine of Athens Their Gallies and their Peeres are but trifles and toyes vnto me For what account is to be made of those fellowes that giue themselues

some clemency And therefore he cannot be called victorious in whom resteth intent of rigour and cruelty For Alexander Iulius Augustus Titus and Traianus won more renowne by the clemency they vsed to their enemies then by all the victories they obtained in strange regions To obtaine a victory is a thing naturall and humane but to giue pardon and life is the gift and blessing of God By which it comes to passe that men feare not so much the greatnesse of the immortall God for the punishments he doth as for the mercy he vseth Notwithstanding as I cannot denie but that great is the value and estimation which we Romane Princes make of a victory won by battell so also J assure thee we hold it more honourable to pardon such as doe offend vs then to chastice those that doe resist our power Therefore if thou flie from my presence as fearing the iustice which I haue executed vpon the Romanes thou oughtest to take security and courage euen in that which makes thee iealous and doubtfull for so much greater ought to be clemency by how much the offender is in fault And therefore as there is no offence which cannot be either forgiuen or fauoured so right worthily may that pardon be called honourable and famous which is giuen to an iniury malicious and manifest since all other common and light wrongs with greater reason we may say we dissemble them then that wee pardon them The thing that most drawes me to enter friendship with thee is for that in our first capitulations and truce thou performedst all things that were concluded for the peace and yet in the battell thou didst expresse the parts of a valiant Captaine the same giuing me cause to beleeue that as in warre I found thee a iust enemy so in the time of peace thou wouldest proue an assured friend Alexander neuer repented the pardon he gaue to Diomedes the tyrant nor Marcus Antonius the fauour he shewed to the great Orator Cicero Neither shall I haue cause I hope to forethinke the respite I giue to thy liife For the noble minde albeit he may haue occasion to be sorry for the vnthankefulnesse of his friend yet hath hee no licence to repent him of his good turnes done for him and therefore in the case of liberality or clemency by how much the person is vnworthy that receiueth the benefit by so much more hee is to be commended that bestoweth it for that onely may be said is giuen when he that giueth giueth without respect So that hee that giueth in hope of recompence deserueth not to be called liberall but to pretend vsurie Thou knowest well that in the time of the battell and when the incounter was most hot J offered thee nothing worthy of reproach euen so thou hast now to iudge that if in the fury of the warre thou foundest me faithfull and mercifull I haue now no reason to exercise rigour holding thee within the precinct of my house so that if thou saw mercy in me at that instant when thy hands were busie to spill my bloud thinke not that my clemency shall faile calling thee to the fellowship of my Table The prisoners of thy Camp can assure thee of my dealing amongst whom the hurt are cured at my charges and the dead are buried according to the place of souldiers wherein if I extend this care vpon such as sought to spoile me thinke there is farre greater plenty of grace to thee that commest to serue me And so leauing thee in the hands of thine owne counsell I wish thee those felicities which thy houourable heart desireth Lochere a mirrour meete to be perused by Kings and Princes wherein they may learne with what consideration they should first enter into Warres with what valiance and courage they should prosecute them and with what iustice temperance and mercie they should vse their enemies Captaines may likewise learne how to vse fortune either when she fauours either when she frownes But leauing a great number of necessary lessons worthy to be noted how is it possible in so few lines more amply to describe the glory of the Romones neither are their vertues here so liuely painted foorth in words as they themselues did nobly shew it in their deedes But all other examples of humanity amongst a great number vsed to their enemies this in my opinion deserueth not the least commendation that hauing taken Siphax King of Numantia who being kept prisoner in the house of Tiberius dyed of sicknesse before he was ransomed notwithstanding now when there was no manner of hope of requitall his funeralles were yet performed with such solemnity such pompe and such honour such large giftes were giuen and such liberality vsed being but a Romane prisoner as might haue wanted at Numantia where he was Lord and King ouer all I haue thus farre briefly and in this short maner shewed some part of the magnificence of the Romanes in their Martiall actions whereby may be perceiued how farre we be digressed and how cleane we be degenerate at this present from their honorable institutions For if we consider in these dayes the impiety that is found amongst Princes which for the most part are so led by the furie of ambition where they thinke they may oppresse that without any other respect of cause they are ready to accompanie themselues with a sorr of bloody captaines that should haue the leading of a company of as lewd vngratious souldiers and euen according to their quarrels and to the quality of their owne dispositions they prosecute their warres and performe all their enterprises the which for the most part are executed with such treason and trecherie as no Prince almost may be so surely garded but his life shal be finished with some deadly blow with a weapon with some sodaine shot of a pistoll or at the least practised with some secret poison nether is there any town that may be so surely walled so strōgly rāpered or so throughly fortified which shall not be betraied For in our warres we be now come to this passe that fraud and deceit is reputed for policy and treason and trechery are called grauity and wisedome and he is holden the noblest champion that by any of these meanes can best deceiue where in the opinion of all men which exactly do honor iustice it hath euer beene condemned and accompted most horrible And no doubt it can not be acceptable in the sight and iudgement of God who in the Scripture is called the God of trueth and verity but rather proceedeth from the deuill who is indeede the father of fraude and the forger of all deceite And these enormities haue euer beene especially practised amongst those that haue arreared warres rather to oppresse and rauish the goods of others then amongst such as haue but defended their owne right or entred into warres onely vpon causes of iustice and equity for that it hath bene euer holden a matter most inconuenient rather by subtilty