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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

THE HONORABLE REPVTATION 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. Malgre de Fortune Imprinted at London by Richard Iones dwelling neere vnto Holburne Bridge 1585. To the most worthy Gent. Sir William Russell Knight accomplishment of his honorable desire SIR hauing I may truly saye with much labour compiled a booke Intituled The English Mirour the first part setting ●orth The Conquests of Enuy cōtaining ruine and subuertion of the auncient M●narchies and common weales c. The second part shewing Enuy to be conquered by Vertue publishing the peaceable victories of her Maiestie to Gods ●ye glorie and vniuersall wonder The third part intituled A Fortresse against Enuy wherin euery good cōmon wealths-man may see the true offices vertues and by abuse the disgrace of his profession But because the booke is of some volume I cannot haue it speedily printed and for that occasiō now at this present maketh passadge for this Subiet being a member or si●all parcell of the fore-recited booke Therefore as a testimonie of the zeale which I beare to your worship and euery worthy person whose profession is Martiall I reuerently submit my trauell to be censur'd by your able iudgement which medleth no whit with Millitarie execution but altogether with Morall goue●nmēt necessarie for a perfect Souldier For if I my selfe which haue béene brought vp among the Muses in our English onely peaceable and happy gouernmēt should take vppon mee to set forth the order of battailes th'aduantages of places the benifits of stratagems with many other Millitary regards both offenciue and defenciue I might for my hyre iustly receaue the scoffe that Hamball gaue vnto the Philosopher Phormio who vpon such an indiscrete discriptiō ●ould him that The Art millitarie was sooner learned of Souldiers in the brode fields thē of Philosophers in close scoles And certainly Haniball aunswered more like Philosopher then Phormio reasoned like a Souldier for Experiēce is y e true Teacher of all Artes and therefore that honorable part of a Souldier which containeth Martiall execution I leaue to the report of the well experiēced Captaine and no doubt among the worthie English Capt●●nes there are some that can vse both Caesars pen and sword My trauell which worketh betweene fire and frost as I haue saide onely containeth The Moral vertues honorable Reputatiō of a Souldier And certainly two of the greatest partes therof Caesar setteth forth i● that which bee calleth his chiefest glorie which was Mamillus vpō occasiō asked Caesar what thing hee had done wherein hee held him selfe most honored I sweare vnto thee MAMILLVS by the immortall Gods sayd CESAR that I haue done nothing whereof I hould my selfe so much honored and happy as for that I haue liberally rewarded those which haue serued mee and mercifully haue forgiuen such as haue offended me Words and vertues beseeming Caesar and without which Caesar could neuer haue beene Monarcke of the whole worlde for the Captaine that lib●rally rewardeth his Souldiers shall haue his souldiers resolute in execution and who showeth mercy to his Enimie shal conquer millions with loue The Spainiard is so insolent and outragious where he ouercommeth as hee is hated to death of those which ●baye him for f●are I haue séene ample experience therof both in the Duchy of Millaine and kingdome of Naples And your god fauour and patience desired I shall show no impertinent example In the yeare 1580. in which year the Pope and his confederates hoped to haue had a great day in Englande whose expectation God alwayes frustrate my selfe with one other English Gentleman who in this commendation will haue his name concealed were at Thurin intertained into the companie of a worthy Gentleman of Picardie named Monseur Dobart who was then ready to trauell into Italy and being all lodged one night in a Garrison town in the Duchy of Millain neare vnto the Riuer of Poo at the middest of supper a haughtie proude Spaniard came and sat him downe by vs. Monseur Dobart bearing an affectionate zeale vnto her Maiestie the state of England as well for that he was an earnest protestant as for that his sister and other frends were honorably vsed in the Court of England in the former troubles of Fraunce demaunded of the Spaniard what might bee the cause that the King of Spaine had that yeare raised so great an Army The Spaniard forthwith made this proude insolent aunswere Ah Sir the time nowe draweth neare that we shall haue the spoile of rich England that we shall embrace their faire wiues and make hauocke of their lōg gathered riches And disco●ering that there was an Englishman in companie that tolierated these hie wordes hee beganne spitefully to bra●e him But on ●he soden the spaniard sound the temper of the English-mans fingers so that shame to repaire his disgrace compelled the Spaniard to offer combat Monseur Dobart very honorably vndertooke that the English-Gentleman should the next morning by six of the clocke be ready to crosse the Riuer of Poo with the spaniard to commit eithers cause to God and their swords This was mutually agréed vpon but by breake of the daye the spaniards brags vanished like bubbles be himselfe slipt away without giuing any bon-giorno so that the English Gentleman could haue no further reuenge sauing that in the place of this controuersie finding this Italian sentēce to be writtē Le parole son femine i fatti son maschi 〈◊〉 in dispight wrote vnderneath Donques gli spanioli son femine et gli Inglese son maschi and truly the h●aste of the house with many dispightful words of the spaniards proude naughty behauiour to his perpetual blame hath faithfully promised that the subscription should not be rased out without being secretly new written againe But the spaniard had reuēge inough by the Gentlemans owne contrymen for Monseur Dobart as hee thought to honour him imparted this accident to certaine Englishmen at Bologna among whome there were that so posted the matter to Rome as when the poore Gent. arri●es there hee was stayed at the gate nowe called Porto del populi and there was kept eight daies hauing no other bed but the bare ground and well neare starued for want of foode In fine all his other Bollitines and Warrants to trauell being taken away On the s●daine the Stappado was hanged forth and the Gentleman vpō paine thereof commanded presently to depart to whome was deliuered a Vollitine for Naples What violence hee further sustained his humour will not agree to open it for I am sure he hath bene seldome hard to pursue any mās disgrace and neuer knowne publikely to bem●ne his owne hard fortunes which haue beene many and violent And albeit his name be here concealed yet if any exceptiō be taken against this report let me

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