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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

timber for ships which is all made hauocke on onely about those yron mils In the end comes M. Merchant who cares not for his owne priuate gaine what mischiefe he worketh to his Countrey or sometimes some olde bruised souldier that hath serued the Queene in her warres about London Lambeth Marshes or the out sles of Islington all the dayes of his life and in respect of his good seruice must get a cōmission to sell two or three hundred pieces of this yron Ordnance out of the Realme that between M. Merchant and him I dare vndertake there is thrice as much Ordinance sold out of the Realme as is within the Realme and that some of our Merchants haue felt For John the Frenchman hath been at Host with some of their ships and Dauy Drunkard of Flushing and his fellowes haue not been behind and these with other mo were not able to goe so strongly to the Sea were it not that they were furnished with our English Ordnance The Spaniards and Portugals haue some pretty store of it In France there is Rochel Rosco S. Mallous and Deepe their ships be generally as well surnished with our Ordnance as any Merchants ships in the Thames The mighty Hound of D●nkerke and the rest of the Beagles that were of her consorts God knowes had beene able to haue made but a slender cry when they had come to chase had it not beene for our English barkers The other parts of Flanders Zeland and Holland both vpon the walles of their Townes and also in their shipping are furnisht with the like I haue seene euery streete in Flushing lye as full of English Ordnance as if it had beene the Tower Wharfe of London To be short there are diuers Townes in East Freesland with Emden Hambrough Denmarke Danske Lubecke Rye Reuell Swethen with diuers other Cities and Townes of those East parts that she is but a very meane Hulke appertaining to any of these places which hath lesse then a dozen or sixteene peeces of our English Ordnance in her Such hath beene the carelesnesse of this our peaceable time that it hath not onely made vs weake by our owne neglecting the feates of armes but also with our owne artillerie and our warrelike munitions we haue made such strong as be our enemies as I feare we shall finde if they were at quietnes amongst themselues And thus once againe I can wish that such consideration might be had of the time that is present as in the time that is to come we should not haue cause to rue it And here although I know my skill will not serue me nor my occasion at this time may well permit me to speake of Martall discipline how farre it is decayed from the first ordidinance and institution yet gentle Reader not doubting but thou wilt beare with me as well for the want of the one as for the necessitie of the other I will aduenture to speake some thing thereo We doe find in holy Scriptures and that in seuerall places both in the bookes of Moses in the booke of Josua and others where they haue vsed no litle regard as well in chusing of their captaines leaders and conductors as also in their prescribing lawes and disciplines of warre which were many times appointed by the almightie God himselfe But let vs peruse the examples of the Romans which of all other people did most exceed as well for the greatnes of their glory as in all their other martial actions and we shall find that they had not only consideration to the equitie of their cause for the which they would enter into wars as by these words of Tully in his 1. book of Offices may better appeare And the iustice of warre is most sincerely described in the Phesiall Law of the people of Rome whereby for things in claime is moued or else proclaimea before and bidden by desiance c. But also they had as great regard to maintaine their quarrels with like equitie and iustice not suffering their captaines to enter into actions of treason or trecherie where their wars were al together arreared vpon causes of honestie as by examples they did plainly shew When king Pyrrhus vnprouoked had moued wars against the Romans and Timochares whose sonne was yeoman for the mouth to the king promised to Fabrieius then being Consull to slay king Pyrrhus which thing being reported to the Senat they presently warned king Pyrrhus to beware of such treasons saying The Romans maintained their warres with armes and not by treason or trechery Likewise when Lucius Pius in a banquet that he made had filled the people of Samaria full of wine and made them so drunke that yeelded themselues subiect to Rome for which exploit Lucius Pius at his returne required triumph But the Senators vnderstanding the manner of his fact caused him openly to be beheaded and a slanderous Epitaph set vpon his graue Neither would they suffer that souldier which amongst other being taken by Hannibal and licenced vpon his oath to deprrt conditionally that he should either make returne or else send his ransome the souldier with others of his companions being departed the campe of Hannibal and licenced vpon his oath to depart conditionally that he should either make returne or else send his ransome the souldier with others of his companions being departed the campe of Hannibal feigned an arrand back againe for something that he had forgotten and thus comming to Rome did thinke himselfe discharged of his oath but the Senate allowing of no such d●ceit to ●evsed made a decree that the same Souidier should be carried pinioned to Hannibal And ten other that in like manner were dismissed by Hannibal vpon their oth were sessed at a yeerely fine as long as any of them did liue for being forsworne So nobly were the Romans disposed and so honourably minded that no act was allowed of amongst them seemed it neuer so profitable wherin was found either fraude or deceit And this magnificence gate them condigne commendations of their very enemies and betweene whom there had beene mortall hostilitie and many times was of greater effect to subdue them then huge or mighty armies And as they did excell in the excellency of these vertues iustice and equity to such as were able to stand in armes against them so likewyse they did surmount in humanity and curtesie and in ministring of comfort to such as they had already vanquished and subdued as by no example may be better expressed then by a letter written by Marcus Aurelius Emperour of Rome to Popilio captaine of the Parthies a notable discourse for captaines to peruse and foloweth in this manner I cannot denie the glory I haue gained by this battell neither may J hide the perplexitie I feele for thy present misfortune for noble mindes are bound to shew no lesse compassion to such as are subdued then to expresse toy and gladnesse with those that are victors Thou being the chiefe of the Parthies didest shew great courage

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

maketh mention of an Iland in Greece called Cobde in which there was a linage descended from that noble valiant captaiue called Agis the good amongst which Agitas this law especially was most strictly obserued that none durst presume to stile himselfe naturally borne in the I le vnlesse he had performed some memorable valiant act or at the least shewed himselfe forward and willing in the defence of his King and Countrie and I dare truely say though he dare style himselfe one of the Countrie naturally borne yet he is not so for a true English man hath a heart more full of Celestiall fire and a bosome better furnisht with noble thoughts then to be a Porter of iniuries done to his Soueraigne or any of those which belong vnto him And I do speake ex animo there neuer went a hungry man with a greater or better appetyte to a feast then they would to this fray They know the Prince so worchy the cause so iust the successe so certaine I doubt not but it hath bin so sufficiently proued that warres are lawfull that a blind man may apparantly see it but still there are some who though they can not disallow of the action yet they seeme to dislike of the Agents and perhaps they will say a Soldiour can not be an honest man because in warres they be ministers of so much mischiefe this is their reason But in this place I will but reason of souldiours as I haue already done or warres that is but to shew what maner of people souldiours haue beene As for such as doe but vsurpe the name of souldiours I leaue them tyll another occasion We finde in the 14 Chapter of the booke of Genesis Genesis 14. that Abraham was a captaine and leader of men vnto whom Melchizedech the King of Salem brought foorth bread and wyne albeit he wore a Priest of the most high God And S. Paule in his Epistle to the Hebrues the 6. Chapter speaking of our Sauiour Christ saith That he was made a high Friest for euer after the order of Melch zedech and all the Diuine ancient Doctors by generall consent do agree that the first true figure of Christ was here offered to souldiers that were returned from the flaughter and spoyle of their enemies A speciall cause wherein souldiers may worthily triumph a choake peare sufficient to stop their mouthes that would so absolutely condemne them Moses Exod. 18.21 Deut. 1.13.15 though he were otherwise a Prophet yet he was likewife a captaine to whom Jethro his father in law by the motion of Gods spirit gaue counsell to prouide such to be iudges ouer the rest which should be found to bee men of courage to feare God to be louers of trueth and hating couetousnesse c. and that of them he should make some Mil●enaries to rule ouer thousands and that he should cre●te others C●nteniers to rule ouer hundreds other Conquest ●…iers to beare authority ouer fifties and Disniers to commaund our tennes Iosua at whose commandement the sonne was obedient Iudges 7. was a souldier and a leader of an armie When the whole host of the children of Israel was vtterly dismaide for the multitude of their enemies whose number was like the sandes of the sea the Lord commanded Gedeon to make his choyse of such to serue for souldiers to encounter them as were most faythfull that doubted not of his promises made vnto them which were in number but 300. and were chosen by lapping of water Who euer stood more in the good grace and fauour of God then that noble King and captaine Dauid whom the Lord termed to be a man after his owne hart●s d●sire What should I here speake of J●ph●heth of Jehu of Judas Macchabaeus and of many other which were notable souldiers shall they be condemned to be wicked and euill because they were warriours or shall we thinke of them that in that vocation they offended God When the s●uldiers demaunded of John Baptist Luke 3. what they ought to doe he willed them to hurt no man wrongfully but to liue by their wages he sayd not vnto them Forsake your vyle profession you can not be the children of God to follow any such manner of e●…cys● the which questionlesse he would haue done if he had so thought And when the Captaine who had sent vnto lesus for the healing of his seruant that lay sick as Iesus was going towards his house Luke 7. Nay Lord quoth the Captaine I am not worthy that thou shouldest enter into my roose doe but speake the word onely and my seruant shall be safe for I also am a man set vnder power and haue vnder me souldiers and I say vnto one go● and he goeth and to another come and he commeth and to myseruant doe this and he doth it Iesus maruelling at his words turning him about to those that followed sayd I haue not found so great faith no not in Jsrael And what godlyer commendation may be giuen to any man then we finde in the 10. Chapter of the Actes of the Apostles Actes 10. where it is written as followeth There was a certaine man in Caesarea whose name was Cornelius a captaine of the souldiers of Italy a deuout man and one that feared God with all his houshold c. To this Cornelius the Angell of the Lord appeared and willed him to send into Joppa and to inquire for one Simon Peter who should instruct him and baptise him in the name of Iesus and when the Angell was departed thus sayth the text He called to him two of his houshold seruants and a deuout souldier that wayted on him told them all the matter and sent them to Ioppa c. This may seeme sufficient to proue that not onely Captaynes but also priuate souldiers haue beene found to be both zealous and feruent in the loue and feare of God and that he hath likewyse accepted them into his speciall grace and fauour But what should I stand here to manifest the vertues wherewith a number of noble captaines haue beene most plenteously indued as the bountie and liberality of Alexander the continencie of Scipio the iustice and equity of Iultus Caesar the patience and humility of Agathocles the mercy and pitie of Agesilaus the faith and fidelity of Regulus to his very enemies Here might I say euen of this onely matter a huge volume be written onely of the vertuous dispositions of noble souldiers in so much that this oath By the faith of a Souldier hath beene so inuiolably kept that a souldier hath beene better to haue beene credited by that oath then some merchants now by their obligations But here if any will coniecture that in tyme past souldiers haue so exceeded in vertues that at the time present they haue none at all lest for them to boast on although in England our multitude be not many yet amongst those few there bee both honourable and worshipfull whose magnanimity in the tyme of

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

to resist and in me the leader of the Romanes was found no want of force to fight notwithstanding though thou lost the battell and J remaine possessed of the victory yet as I know that thou wilt not acknowledge this chance to happen for any want of stomach in thee so it belongs to my grauity not to attribute it altogether to the greatnesse of my vertue sithens God doth alwaies minister victories not to such as doe their duties best but to those that he louest most for the effect of all things de pending vpon God man can haue no power to command the destiny of a battell seeing he is not able to stay the course of the least planet in Heauen Darius against Alexander Pompeius Caesar Hanniball against Scipio had aboue all equality farre greater Armies then their enemies by which thou hast reason to conclude with me that against the anger of the soueraigne God cannot preuaile most huge and mighty Hosts J maruell Popilio that being great in birth valiant of stomach welthy in goods and mighty in estate and dignity why thou bearest with such sorrow the losse of this battell seeing that in no worldly things Fortune is more vncertaine and variable then in the action of Warre It is tolde me thou drawest to solitary corners and seekest out shaded places thou eschewest the conuersation of men and complainest of the gods which extreame perplexities since thou wert not wont to suffer in others much lesse oughtest thou to giue place in thy selfe For that the valiant man loseth no reputation for that Fortune faileth him but is the lesse esteemed of if he want discretion to beare her mutability To assemble great Armies is the office of Princes to leauy huge treasures belongs to soueraigne Magistrates to strike the enemy is the part of a couragious Captaine but to suffer infirmities and to dissemble mishaps is a property duely annexed to noble and resolute mindes so that one of the greatest vertues that worldly men can expresse in the common behauiour of this life is neither to rise proud by prosperity nor to fall into despaire by aduersity For Fortune hauing a free will to come and goe when shee list the wise man ought not to be sorry to lose her nor reioyce to hold her Such as in their misery shew heauy countenance doe well proue that they made accompt to be alwayes in prosperity which is a great folly to thinke and no lesse simplicity to hope for Seeing the gists and graces of Fortune haue no better thing more certaine in them then to be for the most part in all things most vncertaine according to the successe of the day wherein thou gauest me battell for there thou orderedst thy Campe according to a wise Captaine madest choyce of the place in great policie tookest aduantage of the Sunne as a leader of long experience in consideration of which things thou hast cause to complaine against thy Fortune which fauoured not thy vertue and not blame thy discretion wherein could be found no errour Consider that in wise and graue men it is an Office that if they cannot doe what they will at the least they yeeld to time and are content with what they may And as the vertuous and valiant minde ought not to grieue for not obtaining that which hee would but because he desired that which he ought not so Popilio I wish thee take heede that the honour which so many times thou hast won with the hazard of thy valiant person in enterprises of warre be not lost at this present for want of bearing well thy Fortune assuring thee that he beares his misery best that hides it most And as of all valuble things there is nothing more light then renowne so in cases of warre and hazard it is not enough for the valiant man to doe what he may but also hee is bound to attempt nothing but what he ought For as well the consideration as the execution of a fact belongs duely to a discreet minde I heare thou wanderest here and there in great vncertainty of minde fearing that if thou be taken of my Souldiers thou shalt be euill intreated of me which if no man haue told thee it is against reason thou beleeue it of thy selfe because to vs Princes of Rome it is familiar to shew our liberality to such as yeeld to vs and with others that are our prisoners to communicate in great clemency We raise armies against Campes proudly furnished and Cities strongly walled but to captiues in thy condition wee hold it more honourable to minister comfort then to adde increase of affliction For as it sufficeth the valiant Captaine to fight against the enemy that resisteth him and dissemble with him that flieth so the wise man ought to require no more of his enemy then that he acknowledge that he stands in feare of him because to a daunted and timorous heart is sildome left courage to renue a enterprise And therefore a man takes greater reuenge when he putteth his enemy to flight then if he take his life from him For the sword dispatcheth a man in a day but feare and remorse torments the minde continually And better it were to suffer without feare that which we expect in griefe and sorrow then by feare to be alwayes in martyrdome It is right terrible to flesh and bloud to die of a sword but to be in perpetuall sorrow and disquiet of minde is the very furie and torment of Hell If thou eschewest my presence in feare that I will not vse pitty to thee thou art abused in the opinion of my disposition and dost wrong to the reputation and experience of my actions past For J neuer refused to shew merey to him that asked it and much lesse deceiuéd him that put his trust in me The doubt and feare that thus doe trauell thy minde ought not to be so much of my person as of the custome of Fortune who vseth not to vnlose her sharpe Arrowes with better will against any then such as thinke they bee in best securitie of her her nature being such as not to meddle with those that shee finds prepared the better to assure them but followeth the fearefull and negligent to the end to deceiue them yea shee preuailes turn ouer the counsels and actions of men and being exempt to make reckoning to any her prerogatiue is to require account of all men I assure thee Popilio that more doe I feare the reuolution of fortune at this houre then I doubted her before the battell For shee delights not so much to keepe vnder the vanquished as to bridle and checke the victors And worse doth shee meane when shoe smiles the fairest then when shee frownes most But to speake on thy behalfe J tell thee that without danger thou maist resort to my presence since in thy state is no cause of suspition and in my heart no malice to thy person for indeede that cannot be called true victory which bringeth not with it