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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

of our modernt Souldiers which haue y e courage but not the gouernment of the auncient greatly slaundreth their profession and displeaseth God When God deliuereth any Cittie or towne into their hands they especially the Spaniard and the Italian take small compassion of the Inhabitantes afflictions but to iniurie them in the hyest extreamitie as the sweetest part of their spoile they most impiously and barbarously abuse honest matrones deflower their daughters Which vnpardonable and vnsufferable offences the vengeance of God still followeth and therfore this Turkish wickednes that stinketh before god mā is to be banished or rather to be punished in euery Christian Army The Continencie of Alexander Scipio and many other most illustrious Captains at worthy presidents to brydle the intemperate affections of the multitude of Souldiers Alexander vsed the wife daughters and mother of the mightie Darius and other most beautiful Ladies of Persia with so honorable chaste a regarde as he tooke awaye all suspition that should make them feare to be dishonored or deflowred He would oftētimes say that the Ladies of Persia made mēs eyes sore to beholde them but notwithstanding preferring the beautie of his continēcie before their sweet faces he did neuer suffer himself to be alured yea he so much hated vnchaste affectiōns as hearing that Damon Timotheus vnder Parmenioes charge had forced two of their fellowe Souldiers wiues He wrote vnto Parmenio if they were found giltie to put them to death as brute beastes destroyers of mankind yea so vnspotted was Alexanders fame in this vertue that Darius his enemie prayed to the gods that if the time were come that the kingdome of Persia must needs haue an ende either by deuine reuenge or by naturall change of earthly thinges Then graunt good Gods quoth hee that none but Alexander may sit in Cyrus Throane to recompence the great honour that in my misery hee shewed to those I loued best in the world Aulus Gellius equalleth the continencie of the most noble Romane Captaine Scipio with the chastitie of ALEXANDER Scipio entring by force of Armes into the new Cittie of Carthage among other captiues hee was presented with a most faire Damosell young and of a most excellent proportion who notwithstanding hee was in the flower of his youth so vanquished his affections as he did no dishonest act with the mayde And afterwards vnderstanding that shee was of a noble house and betroathed to a great Lord of Spaine hee sent to seeke him forth and deliuered the Damosell vnto him in no point dishonored and withall augmented her dower with the monie that was payd for her fathers raunsome An acte of great continencie and honour in a victorious Captaine towarde his captiue This Scippio was the most illustrious captaine that euer Roome fostered Hee for his glorius victories was surnamed African and Carthage hee was called Prince of the Senate which dignitie was giuen vnto none but such as had obtained the Type of all honour he vsed such discipline in his Army as his meanest Souldiers seemed to bee graue Senators and as Plutarke sayth among all his other charges he specially commanded that the wemen which were taken in the warres should bee kept from being defiled Worthy exāples for Generals and other Officers of charge in Martiall gouernment to imitate that their wisedomes and examples may bridle the inordinate affections of inferiour Souldiers And as companiōs with this beastly sinne the well gouerned Souldier is forbidden Gluttonnie and drunkenesse as two mortal enimies of his profession For the Souldier must many tymes indure hunger thirste cold trauell and other sharpe miseries which pampered and delicate bodies cannot indure Besides when the body is stuffed with delicates the minde is dull desirous of ease which is the vndoer of a Souldier who ought to haue his handes or his minde alwayes occupyed The one wounding his enimie in the field the other working out pollicies to intrappe him as hee lyeth in campe Alexander the great to keepe his men in breath when there was intermission from warre accustomed himselfe and his people to take great paines in hunting of wilde beasts especially those that were of most fearce natures euery man to show his agillitie strength was inioyned to vāquish or to bee vanquished by the beast which hee vndertooke In so much as Alexander himself fighting one day very dangerously hand to hand with a Lyon after the victorie hardly obtained an Ambassador of La●idemon tould him that it seemed by the egernesse of their fight that his grace and the Lyon striued which of both them should bee king Yea quoth Alexander and he that wilbe the king of kings must alwayes be thus occupied He was so temperate of his dyet as when the Princes Ada of meere goodwill sent him many dilicate dishes of meate He sent her word he knewe not what to do with them For his gouernor Lyonides appointed him for his dinner to rise before day and to march in the night and for his supper to eat but a little at dinner A spare dyet for a Prince yet necessary for him that wrought for the whole world to haue his bodie hardened and prepared for all dangers Haniball Iugurthe could neuer haue punished the Romanes so oft if that with wonderfull paines they had not placed their aduauntages neither could they haue taken halfe the paines if their bodies had not beene prepared with a temperate and thinne diet The temperaunce of Iulius Caesar in eating and drinking is vpon many occasions commended and it well appeared by the ablenes and exercise of his body hee vndertooke great matter and therfore it behoued him to bestur himselfe And sure dilligence which ouercommeth the mightiest thinges dwelled in hym when his Souldiours were at rest hee deuised his worthiest Stratagemes and yet he so tyred them with such dayly trauels that they cryed out To what ende doth this man hale vs after him vp and downe the world Should not Caesar think when hee seeth our blood and woundes that we are mortall men and feele the mise●ie paine that other men do But neuerthelesse Caesar marched and they for shame could not tarry behinde The Souldiers that carrieth subduing minds by regard of these worthy exāples will no doubt dyet their bodies for to indure paine as faulkeners do their flying Hawkes and he that wayeth what dangers dishonors ouerthrowes haue followed feastings drunkennesse and Idle dalliaunce will if he regard his honour be more affrayd of a wāton banquet then a bloody battaile Wine and delicate cheere were the baytes that Cyrus layde to kill Queene Tomyris sonne and a great part of her Army That daye that Alexander first delighted in the drunkennesse and effeminate delicasie of the Parsians he ouerthrew his owne life and glory For in his drunkennesse hee put his best Captaines to death and in reuēge was poysoned himselfe The Romaines so hated this

drunken and voluptuous exercise as whē Lucius Pius had brought the Sarmates vnto a voluntary obedience by his often banquetting and making of them good cheere and at his retourne to Rome demāded to triumphe The Senate not only denyed him this honour but in disdaine of his drunken victorie they put him openly to death and for his further reproche they wrote this Epitaphe vpon his Tombe Heere Lucius Pius Consull lyes Who not with Armes in Fielde But with Wine mirth and Table-cheare Did make the Sarmates yeelde THe Senate not yet content adnulled all that Lucius had done and by their letters remitted the Sarmates into their auncient libertie And certainly this worthie vertue shined in the Romanes they refused to make a benefite of any thing that was dishonorable and for that the president is necessarie for all Souldiers to follow this one other shorte example shall not bee impertinent to the purpose Fabritius being encamped before the Citie of Fidena a Schoolemaister of the Towne in hope of some great preferment stole foorth and presented Fabritius with the children of the most worthy Citizens The Cōsull saw that this was a good meane to become Lord of the Cittie Neuertheles he refused th' aduantage for his hyre he boūd the Scoolemaister and caused the boies with rods to whippe him into the towne to recompence which honorable fauour the Cittizens willingly payed tribute vnto the Romanes What would y ● heathē Romanes who were thus precise in matters of honor iudge of many christiās who seldome refuse offred aduaūtages against the enimies yea which is dānable very oftētimes hire Athiests and such earthly Furies to poison murder and betraye annointed Princes and their soueraignes Their Censure coulde be no other but that they them selues feared God and that such Christians and their instruments followed the Deuill But to continue further with Millitarie documents it is not inough that the Souldier be valiāt in execution mercifull after victorie chaste of body temperate in eating and drinking and a hater of Plenes But obedience is also specially required of a well gouerned Souldier A mutinous and disobedient person is in a campe like a scabbed and rotten sheepe in a fould an instrument of his owne and a number of his fellowes destructions The Romanes had a speciall regard in the chastising and purging of this faulte as worse then a plague in an Army they without respect of persōs punished disobedience as appeereth by the seuere lentence that the Consull Titus Manlius gaue vpon his owne only sonne whose disobedience was both honorable and bene●itiall to the Romanes but they esteemed not of that benefite which nourrished a mischiefe The Consull commaunded that no man should fight without his direction Genutins Metius one of the enimies pricked forth challenged Manlius sonne Yong Manlius thought it a foule shame and dishonour to refuse Genutius and therefore couragiously set vpō the challenger ouercame and slewe him and was of all his fathers Souldiers highly commended But the Consull vnderstanding of this matter called for his Sonne and tould him that he commaunded that no man should fight without his derection and for as much as he had broke the order which is to be kept in war by which thitherto Rome had beene aduanced to great honour and therefore sonne quoth he since the choyse is so hard that I must either forget the common weale or else depriue my selfe of thee in whome I tooke priuatly most delight in I will that the common weale take no hurt and therevpō he willed the hangman to take his sonne to execute on him the punishmēts due vnto those that by euill example hurt the discipline obediēce of souldiers which was to binde him to a stake to whipe him and afterwards to behead him The like sentence Brutus gaue of his Sonnes for that contrary to a generall Commaundement shey wrote but letters to call Tarquinius in againe If there worthie Captaines ●or light Trespasses thus sharply punished their Sonnes what hope of fauour may the priuate Souldier expect that rashly disobediently breaketh the orders of the Leaders euen the fauour that a Rebell deserueth in a peaceable gouernement For as bould and carelesse running vpon death is honorable and meritorious when in Martiall iudgement such resolutenesse in a fewe may be the safetie of a number according to the Italian saying Beato colui chi puo far beato altrui Happy is he that can make another man happy Euen so needelesse and vnprolitable rashnes by wilfull falling vpon the enimies Sword is reducul●us daungerous very dishonorable for as there is a saying in Martiall pollicy Hee that flyeth the field may retourne againe and annoy his Aduersarie when he that is vnprofitably and rashly slaine possesseth his enimie with the glory of his death without feare of reuenge As did the vntemperate Capadocians who enuying the victorie of Perdicas inclosed them selues within their Citie with fire consumed the same ioyntly with them selues wi●es children goods And by this vnnaturall hardinesse made Perdicas spoyle in trueth to bee small and their owne after fortune to be nothing But in the reprehension of rashnes and disobedience in a Souldier there is no intent any way to fauour cowardlines but rather to reproue the same as a fault as dangerous as indis●rete bouldnesse For the Coward doth not only hurt with his own ●eare but by his running awaye a number are discomforted and follow for companie many times to the perill of the whole Army And therefore Astiadges to make his Cowardes hardy thrust them in the face of the enimie and placed approoued Souldiers at their barks with charge to kill them if they turned their heades Titus Liuius Iulius Frontinus writeth that Appius Claudius and Marcus Anthonius punished the Cowardly Romanes which were very few in this manner The squadrons and bandes by whome the enimie had passadge drewe cuts and of whome soeuer the lot fell he presently was put to death Damatria a woman of Lacedemon hearing that her sonne had not fought as became a Lacedemonian presently at his retourne shee slewe him with her owne hāds as one that was sory she had borne so cowardly a sonne And surely hee that commeth into the fielde and is a●earde to fight must the rest of his life looke to liue like an Owle but small circumstances suffice in this point For Englishmen to whom I direct this Treatise as the learned Sir Thomas Smith writeth are a people naturally that feareth not death by cōsequence carelesse of their enimie But on the contrarie part Englishmen are men of much desart and therefore Enuie and Emulation raigneth mightely among them For Enuy alwaies assaileth worthy men and these foule passions haue beene the scourges or more properly the ouerthrowes of the most worthy men and Gouernments The Athenians had no other remedie against this poison b●● to deuise a law called Ostraci●me