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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15503	The commendation of cockes, and cock-fighting VVherein is shewed, that cocke-fighting was before the comming of Christ.	Wilson, George, fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 25768; ESTC S111808	15,587	32

thē died which bloody battell was no sooner ended but Themistocles commanding silence began this Oration RIght worthy Gentlemen couragious Companions and my most valiant and louing Souldiers it is oftentimes seene that he which is least able to beare shall haue the greatest burthen layd vpon his backe as appeareth most apparantly by me at this instant who being ordained appointed to be your Gouernor and the chiefe Generall of the field whereas many of you are more worthie and better able to haue supplyed my place and discharged my office than my selfe am But since it is my Princes pleasure to preferre me to this high preheminence and great dignity although I cannot performe all that is requisite to be done by a man of so great a commaund in such absolute manner as I gladly would yet will I not faile to shew my vttermost endeauor to accomplish and atchieue whatsoeuer I can Now the occasion of this our present warlike preparation is not vnknowne to you all but the means how we shal bring to passe our intended purposes is vnknowne to any and remayneth doubtfull both to you and to me and therefore the better to effect what we doe intend I thought it not amisse but rather most necessarie to present vnto your publicke view the fierce fight and cruell combate of these two late vndaunted but now dead Cockes that the sight of the courage which they shewed in this quarrell might pierce into your hearts and make a déepe impression in your discréet considerations that thereby you might be the more enboldened and encouraged than you could haue béene by all the words of comfort that I can relate or by all the examples of former accidents that may be repeated I might here take occasion to vnfold and shew vnto you the sundrie shifts and subtill euasions which they vsed in their fight for the eschewing of each dangerous blowe interchangeably passing betwixt them but for your selues could not but perceiue it I will let passe as a thing not materiall to be any more recyted And now only as your Director I aduise you as your Captaine I councell you and as your friend fellow souldier I instantly exhort you to call to mind the inuincible courage of these vnreasonable creatures what cruelty they indured in this conflict how many bléeding woundes they susteined neuer shewing so much as any signe of yéelding no not at the very last gaspe of their liues when being not able to strike stand or sée each other yet euen then they manifested their incredible valour vntill the one was left dead with the blowes of his aduersary the other not able to liue hauing obtained so doubtfull a victorie and all this doubtles for no other cause so farre as I can coniecture then for the loue of their Hens Now therfore most heroicall minded Gen-men and couragious Souldiers if these creatures wanting the vse of reason who are only guided by nature haue shewed such stout vndaunted and admirable courage for the loue of their phéeres let not vs which are men indued with wisedome and vnderstanding and with farre greater prerogatiues of nature then any other inferiour creatures they being subiect vnto vs and made for our vse but we hauing our natures much indéered and bettered by art Let not vs I say shew more cowardize and faint hearted timorousnesse then these silly fowles of the aire haue done I read of many men in former times which to disport their Princes haue entred into doubtful fraies and most daungerous combats insomuch that some of them in those actions haue ended their liues by the dint of their déerest companions swordes Some haue consumed their dayes in trauell and vndergone death in most tyrannicall maner with great miserie and much extremitie for the good of their countrey sacking nothing but fame for themselues yet desirous to procure profit to their natiue soiles Other some haue suffered death for the intire affection which they did beare vnto their friends diuers haue plunged themselues into manifest and mighty perils for the defence of their wiues and children and very many haue béene more willing to loose their liues then to loose their lands and temporall liuings but neuer any I thinke hath béene so much subiect to cowardize that they would not fight to saueguard their owne liues Yet this is our cause now nay our cause is more then so to animate vs vnto this conflict for we are commanded by our Prince whom of necessitie wee must obey and challenged by our mortall enemies who séeke the death of our Prince the speedy subuersion and vtter ouerthrow of our natiue Countrey the ransacking of our substance the violating of our virgins the rauishing of our wiues and lastly the most bloody Massacre of all our children and friends reseruing our selues to indure some extreame and intollerable tortures Therefore I beséech you arme your selues with courage correspondent for such a conflict and let vs choose and resolue rather to die valiantly with honour then to yéeld our selues cowardly to the mercie of our mercilesse enemies who haue made preparation for our generall destruction These words Themistocles vttered with such vehemencie of spirit and with such a shew of vndoubted valour that al the whole army which before was somewhat daunted and discouraged with the force and multitude of their enemies had now by this instigation so farre abandoned and chased away all former feare that nothing could discourage them for now they séemed to disdaine and contemne all occasions which might in any sort dismay them euery one thinking so well and conceiuing such a good opinion of their Generall that they thought thēselues happie to be vnder his gouernment and déemed euery houre to be a day long vntill they might buckle with their boasting aduersaries Whereupon they hauing made fit preparation for all their warlike prouision they strooke vp an Alarme sounded their trumpets cornets clarions phifes and other musicall instruments vsed in warres with such a triumphant noyse as was able to haue animated an effeminate minded Souldier And in this manner they marched couragiously towards their enemies whom they assailed so fiercely with such vnspeakeable valour that the bloody Massacre which they made amongst them whom they slaughtered in great aboundance was a sufficient witnesse to warrant their couragious resolutions they charging them on euery side so valiantly that the fame of that famous and heroicall acte of Chiualrie and Princely prowesse performed in that péece of seruice will neuer bee buried in obliuion so long as the Annalls of the Grecians remaine or a Gréeke is liuing to record the same Chapter II. LYcurgus the law giuer of Lacedemonia counselled the Lacedemonians to bee both as constant as couragious as a Cocke is for this is certaine that he is so constant to his Hennes that he will rather die then depart from them and so couragious that he will neuer yeeld vnto his aduersarie vntill death inforce him And Plinie that famous writer