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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

Princes that neyther aske aduise of God nor seeke satisfaction with quietnesse If any man brought the Romaines tydinges of some Prouince reuolted or of any other iust cause of warre the Senate first sent to the Offenders frendly requiring them to returne to their obediēce if they continued their contempt they thē created their Captaines for this expedition But before any prosecution they caused their Sacrificators to make praiers vnto the gods after this the Senate assembled themselues and went vnto the Temple of Iupiter and there solemply swore that so oftē as the enemy against whom they moued war would seeke new conditions or craue pardō for their offences committed that their clemēcy should at no time be denyed This done the Consull elect for the enterprise went vnto the Capitoll and there made a solempne vowe that if he retourned with victorie he would offer vnto the Gods some special pretious thing After this the Banner of the Eagle which was the auncient Ensigne of Rome was displayed in the field called Mars by which the people were warned that during the tyme that the Citizens their parents were in the warres that they should neyther celebrate feasts or publicke spectacles finally a Preest mounted vpō the gate called Salarie caused a Trumpet to be soūded to sommon the men of warre and there euery particuler Captaine receiued his ensigne by this it was publikly known that they set not forward their Armies before they had appeased and honored their Gods The Athenians neuer moued warre before the Philosophers and the graue Common-wealthes-men had aduisedly considered whether the same were righteous or no. The Israelites prosecuted the warre by derectiō of the Prophets as appeareth by m●nyexāples of the olde Testament when the Captaines and Souldiers were thus sacisfied by the Prophetes graue common wealthes-men that they should in the extreamest degree but sacrifice their bloods in the seruice of God the safetie of their Countrey and their owne immortall honnour Small is the wounder if they lightly regarded of life and proudely encountred death Sole desire of fame zeale to do their Contrey seruice moued many that had no thought of the immortalitie of the soule to bee wilfull executioners of their owne liues Plutarke writeth that in Phrigia there was a great gaping of y e earth out of which swelled great waters that ouerthrewe many houses Ancurus king Midas sonne hearing that Gods Ire would not be appeased vntil some one mā leaped into the Gulfe Desire of fame which those heathen men reputed an immortall life hastened Ancurus to leape into that Gulfe as hee thought with the losse of his life to rid his country from this outragious water Curtius the noble Romane did the like vpon the like occasion The two worthy Lacedimonians Spartius Bulides voluntarily bowed their neckes to the gallowes to make satisfactiō for the offence of the Lacedemoniās who contrary to the law of all nations which protecteth euery Ambassadour both in time of peace warre slew king Xerxes Ambassadour Themistocles Mutius Scevola and many others might bee ioyned with these examples but especially the acte of Codrus the last king of Athens is worthy remēbraūce it was foretould by the Oracle at Delphos that if the Athenians would bee victors their kinge must needs be slaine When Codrus vnderstoode that the libertie of his countrie stood vpon the losse of his life hee pre●ētly in the habit of a slaue entred the campe of the Pelloponians and Dorians his enimies and quarelled vntill he was slaine Beholde the noble resolution of the auncient Captaines a nūber feared not death almost euery one hated a dishonorable life The Souldiers of Caesar many tymes died desperatly rather then they would bee the seruile prisoners of their enimies Among many y e most hardy attemps that the Iewes made vpon Vespasian his sonne Titus to bee delinered of the Romane seruitude this one example of their proude disdaine of life shewed their litle feare of death When God to chasten the greeuous sinnes of the Iewes suffred them notwithstanding their invincible courage to be slaine by the Romanes of a number that were slaine there being but fortie one left aliue which few rather thē the Romanes should haue any glory of their captiuitie by the drawing of lottes they appoincted one to be the executioner of an other The Earle of Shreusbury who in Henry the sixte his time was so feared in Fraunce as the frenchmē to scarre their Children as we doe by Robyn good fellow haue to this day a by-word Garde le taulbot being by the enuious contentions in Englande left almost succourlesse in Fraunce In fine was beset with a great power of french men beyonde all possibilitie for his strength to ouercome and albeit hee had good meane to escape by flight yet hee courageously abode their incounter and vpon this resolution he thus sayd vnto his sonne Sonne quoth he thou art yong and mayst with thy honour flye But I am old and haue had my life honored with many victories all which I should loose if I should deferre my death which by course of nature cannot bee farre of by a tymerous flight Therefore I am bound to staye What should his sonne doe but euen which he did followe the fortune of his father and so like as they liued they dyed valiant men This presice preseruation of honor neither the deuines nor many polliticke Martialistes do allowe the one absolutely reprouing desperate ende the other forbidding a mā wilfully to dye when by his death hee neither benefiteth his frend nor hurteth his enimie And yet the greatnes of these mens courages are to be honored although not necessary to be followed But necessitie many tymes approueth resolute bouldnesse to be honorable profitable and necessarie As at the Moūtaine Antilliban in Arabia Alexander being a foote farre off his Army through care that he had of his Tutor Lysimacus who in a maner was tyred with trauell and being bee-nighted and out of his waye hee perceaued that his barborous enimies had made diuers fires in the Mountaine by whome he must passe and therefore as his best remedy in that extremitie he sodenly set vppon one of the cōpanies slue two of the saluadges and like a Fury with a firebrand in his hand he made a passage vntill hee came vnto his Campe And by this hazard hee both preserued him selfe and those that were with him But his hardiest aduenture was among the Malians the stoutest people of y e Indians who hauing scaled the walles of their Cittie his scaling ladder broke and seeing that his Enimies assaulted him sharply with thieir Darts he sodenly leaped among the thickest of them who with the noyse and shining of his Armour so feared his enemies supposing that a light or sprite went before him they fled on euery side and when in the end they assailed him hee set his backe to the wall and fought

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