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A15036	The honorable reputation of a souldier with a morall report, of the vertues, offices, and (by abuse) the disgrace of his profession. Drawen out of the liues, documents, and disciplines, of the most renowned Romaine, Grecian, and other famous martialistes. By George Whetstone, Gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1585 (1585)	STC 25339; ESTC S111682	22,474	44

be in all places reproued if he euery way approue not the same And albeit Sir the matter be in some sort perticuler yet as I haue sayde it showeth what hatred the insolencie of the Spaniard eng●ndreth where he ruleth which can establish no gouernment Besides by his lauish words it may be seene what hauock he would make if hee could execute his prowde desires But if the Englishman farre frō succour feareth him not in his owne dores I hope I truely prophesie his discomfiture vppon an euen hande I leaue the rest to the vewe of your best leasure and if according to the greatnes of your honorable desire you may haue libertie to aduenture your person in this honorable seruice I beseech God to blesse all your attempts ioyn●tly with all those that shall vndertake the same Your Worships by bounden dutie George Whetstone TO THE RIGHT Valiant Gentlemen Souldiers that are or shalbe Armed vnder the Ensigne of Sainct GEORGE In recompence of their worthie aduentures Heauen and euerlasting honor GOD with S. George Allon braue Gentlemen Set Speares in rest renew your auncient fame Rush on the Pikes the Cannon do not shen Your Ancestors with passage through the same This Prouerbe raisde among the French their Foes Vous es fi fier que vn Anglois The● art as fierce as is an Englishman The French still say and proofe the same did teach Turne you the french into Castillian it hath a grace in such a loftie speach Your cause is good and Englishmen you are Your foes be men euen as the french men weare The force of death that raiseth many feares In crauin harts which courage doe dispise Long liues the man that dyes in lusty yeares In actions where honour may arise And wherein may you honour more expect Then wronged men to succour and protect The Lyon prayes vpon the stoutest beast yet lickes the sheep the which the wolfe hath woūd So worthy mindes proude lookes that feareth least doth helpe to raise the wounded from the ground Like Lyons then the Armes of England shield Pray on your foes and pittie those that yeld I say no more but God be your good speede And send you hap which I did neuer taste And if this Booke you do witsafe to reade You cannot thinke your labour spent in waste VVhich doth containe the Morall rules of those That followed Mars in thickest preace of foes George Whetstone Of the honorable Reputation of a Souldier with a Morall Report of the Vertues Offices and by abuse the disgrace of his profession AT what time Ambition the Impe of miscreate Enuy vpon desire of Soueraigntie begat Warre Necessitie Inuentresse of all Pollicies Artes and Mecanicall Craftes deuised many Engines for Warre the vse whereof gaue first reputation vnto the Souldier who euer since hath beene honorably esteemed And although for difference of Aucthorities and Offices requi●it in Martiall gouernment There is Generall Lieutenant Coronell Captaine Ensigne Corporall c. Yet the hyest to the lowest only glorieth in the name of a Souldier Alexander Caesar and the greatest Monarques vsually cal'de the meanest Souldiers Companions Fellowes alwayes greeted them by such like familiar salutations Caesar would thus vsually incouradge his Souldiers Companions Frēds saue that by your Election I commaund there is no difference betwene you and me and therefore the meanest that best deserueth may one day steppe into my place A highe incouragement to bee valiant when valour by gouernment is able to raise a man from the Carte to be a Soueraigne Captaine And certainly Millitarie Iustice in Martiall Gouernment is more indifferent then Ciuill Iustice For the one taketh knowledge of euery man that is valiaunt and the other will scarre looke on a number that are vertuous And by this Iustice Millitarie Viriat the renowned Portugall that in many victories sheathed his sword in the Romains Entrailes was in his youth a sheepharde the sonne of a sheepharde Arsases king of the Parthians was a common beggers sonne yet in remembrāce of his great vallour and worthinesse after his decease they called the kings his successors Arsasides Agatocles the mangnanimous king of Cicile was the sonne of a Potter and in remembraunce thereof among other vessels of golde hee was alwayes serued with some of earth Prolomie king of Aegipt of whome the succeeding Kings were called Ptolomie was of base parentage The Athenian Isicrates the most illustrous in the Art Millitarie whome Artaxerses king of Persia oftentimes made Lieutenant of his Army against the AEgiptians was a Coblers sonne Eumenes one of the most valiant of Alexanders Captaines was a poore Carters sonne And albeit among humaine kingdomes none might be compared to the Empire of Rome yet by Martiall Iustice men of most meane rep●●ation became Emperours Elius Pertinax Emperour of Rome was an Artificers sonne The Emperour Dioclesian that illustred Rome with so many triumphant victories was a Scriueners sonne Valentian was a Shoomakers sonne The Emperour Probus was a Gardeners sonne The renowned Emperour Aurelius was of an vnknowne parentage Marcus Iulius Licinius and Bonosus which occupied both the Empire the one came from the Carte and the other from keeping of a schoole Many other were Emperous of Rome whose Auncestors were of no account which for breuitie I omit so that descending to kinges and meaner Princes whome this Iustice aduaunced Tarquinius Priscus king of Rome was a Merchants sonne of CORINTHE and banished his Countrey Servius Tullius the most renowned king of the Romaines who for his worthy victories triumphed thre times was the sonne of a poore seruaunt and therefore was alwayes call'd Servius Lamutius king of the Lombards was the sonne of a meane Harlot The mightie King Tamberlaine was in the beginning a poore sheephard The right noble Romaine Caius Marius who for his invincible courage and vertues was seuen tymes Consull of Roome came of a base parentage The most vertuous and valiant Captaine the father of Frauncis Sforce whose children and issue were of long tyme Dukes of Millan was a poore labourers sonne Many other by Martiall profession in which tyme Iustice was truly administred were in this manner from the lowest degree aduaunced to the hyest honour And that the basenes of parentage might be no blemish to those that deserued wel nor noble blood a preuiledge for those that did amisse the Gretians by a lawe sorbadde him the Tombe of his Ancestors that added not some glory to their Monuments Alexander the Great lying vpon his death-bed being demaunded who should bee his heire magnanimously answered the worthiest so great was the Iustice of his minde as hee preuiledged not his sonne Hercules his brother Arideus nor the Infant in his wife Roxanaes wombe before a straunger of better desart This regard and reward of good deseruinges were the causes of so many Illustruous Captaines in the auncient common

Wealthes The prudent Romaines founde out the bene●ite that proceeded of the rewarding of Souldiers and therfore they deuised many honours and rewards to recompence their good seruices When any Captaine had any notable victorie hee after thankes giuen to the Gods presently mounted vppon a Theatre and generally praised the whole Army thē calling the Bandes and Squadrons that fought most valiantly he praysed euery Souldier by his proper name calling him Companion and friende of his Countrey and withall gaue to euery one as he deserued as to some Crownes to others gauntlets and to many Harnesse with such deuises as no mā might weare but such as had deserued the like The Consull Papirius with such like ornaments proper to euery mans desarte for one victorie rewarded fourteene Centurions one whole Squadron of Souldiers Scipio did the like in Spaine wherein euery mās merite was written There were many Crownes or Garlandes proper for speciall seruices as whosoeuer deliuered the Cittie of Rome or Campe of the Romanies from any sharpe or dangerous siege he was recōpenced with the Crowne Obsidionale and he and his companie that did this seruice were honored as men that had deliuered the Cittie or Army from death Quintus Fabius for deliuering Roome from the dangerous assault of Haniball had this Crowne AEmilius Scipio was in this manner Crowned in Affrica And for the like seruice Calfurnius the valiant Lutius Cincinius were crowned Then whosoeuer deliuered any Citizen of Rome and slu● one enimie without shrinking from the place of this seruice he was rewarded with the crown Civique This was a recompence of great honour for the meanest Souldier that obtained this Crowne in the open feasts and Theaters was placed next to the Senators who vpon his entraunce rose frō their places to do him honor Many Romaines obtained this Crowne especially the most valiant Cineinius before named wonne it fourteene times These Crownes were of flowers or such like but yet of more reputatiō then the other of gold The Crown Murale was of gold and was giuen vnto him that first scaled the wall Manlius Capitolin Quintus Trebelius and diuers others gained this Crowne The Crownes Castreuse and Nauale were likewise of Golde the one was due vnto him that in fight first entred the barriers of his enimies the other at Sea that first entred the enimies ship And of this Crowne Marcus Varro Marcus Agrippus and many other noble Romaines thought no scorne There were other Crownes and speciall honnours giuen vnto the Romaines which for breuitie sake I omit which is worthie of regarde In distrubutiō of these honnours the noble and the innoble Souldier by birth was regarded alike Besides the Romaines Captaines in honour of their victories had their surnames after the Countries which they conquered the one Metellus for the subduing of Iugurthe of Numidie was called Numidique the other Metellus for subduing y e king of Macedone was surnamed Macedonique Lucius Mummius was named Aca●que for the ●ubduing of Acaye and Corinthe Brutus for y e subiecting of Gaule was named Galloys The two noble Scipioes the one was call'd Afriq●● 〈◊〉 Carthagique for his victories in Affrica at Carthage The other was surnamed Asiatique for the cōquering of Antioche and for being the first that displaied the Romaine Ensignes in Asia many othe● Romaines had such like honorable surnames in triumphe of their victories but these may suffice to showe the honorable reputatiō of a souldier how he was in the auncient florishing commō weales reuerenced of the graue Senators and generally honored of the publique weale where the gouernmēt Is Monarchie the soueraigne sole Commander is girded with a sword and glorieth in the name of a Souldier where it is Oligarchie where a fewe of the best gouerne the chiefest person hath a charge of the Martiall affaires The Romaines whē they changed their gouernment by banishing of their tyrannous kings imployed their chiefe Cōmander the Consul abroad in the warres In the like reputation were the Captains in the famous common weales of Athens Lacidemonia Whē Cyrus deliuered the lewes out of the great captiuitie of Babilon hee sent them home vnder the cōduct of their Captaine Zorobabel and their chiefe sacrificator Iosue by which estates they were gouerned vntill Aristobulus vsurped both the title of king and chiefe sacrificator The base segniorie of y e Mecanicall people called Democratia wherin the baser sort as handy craftsmen gouerne in time of warre are gladly ruled by the worthy Captaine The most magnificent Triumphes first deuised by Dionisius or Dennis surnamed the free Father and imitated by the Carthagenians by the testimonie of Iustin onely were dedicared to the honour of the victorious Captaine But as the Romaines exceeded all nations of the worlde in power so in this glorious pompe they tooke awaye all possibilitie for men to bee more honored the circumstances howe euerie estate of the Common wealth did seruice and reuerence vnto the victorious Captaine howe crowned kings were lead vppe and downe as his Captiues howe that no magnificence that arte or mans wit could deuise was wanting the hundred part of the glorye whereof sufficed to glut the beholder All which particularly to reporte would co●●aine a greater volume then is appointed for my 〈◊〉 purpose In reformed gouermēts where excesse of Apparel was defended as in that of King Ferdinādoes who erected the Knights of the band and in the straight Commandement of King Phillip le Bel and with your fauour in the straight lawes and Proclamations of England Gold siluer and al maner of brauery is dispensed within Martial showes by reason of which apparāce of honor and reputation due and giuen vnto the Souldier a number of yongelings aduance their thoughtes and thirst after the like glory Of which alluremēt grewe the old saying Dulce bellum in expertis But if all his daungers distresses woundes and many times prodigall losse of life bee ballanced with his glory the grauer sorte will iudge his honorable reputatiō to be deserued or at y e least dearily bought how that he is bound to march in the depth of winter and the heate of Sommer to lye vpon the bare ground and which is worst to fetch his meate out of the Canons mouth or to sterue in the besieged towne with many deadly dangers which the toūg of him that hath felt them can deliuer better then my pen that haue but heard them The consideration of all these peri●s iustly moued the graue Senators with these magnificent Triumphes and honorable rewardes to arme their Souldiers with an invincible courage and yet w●th your patiēce they durst not put their honour simply vppon their Souldiers valiācy how resolute soeuer they were in execution the wise Senatours were fearefull to direct And certainly the religious Ceremonies that the Romanes vsed before they attempted any war reproueth the incōsiderate warres of many Christian