their Places upon the Flanks till the Exercise be done and the Officers shall have taken their former Post upon the Front at the forementioned Advertisement by tuck of Drum at which time the said Sergeants shall also return to the Rear as before II. The Drummers shall stay upon the Wings of the Battalion during the Exercise excepting those that are in the Center before the Pikes who in the time that the Officers march through to the Rear shall range themselves behind the Major to be always ready either for giving Advertisements or in case the Battalion might be exercised by tuck of Drum. III. No man shall offer to stir or make the least motion till the Word of Command be fully pronounced and then to perform what shall be commanded with a graceful readiness and quick motion all at the same time IV. The Souldier having his Musket shoulder'd must stand straight up on his Limbs hold up his Head and look always to the commanding Officer making no Motion but such as shall be ordered which must be observed as a general Rule in all Commands V. The Souldiers must keep their Feet a small pace distant from each other their Heels straight in a line and their Toes turned outwardly holding their Muskets with their left hand upon their left Shoulder the Thumb in the hollow above the Butt holding the Iron which covers the Drawer close to the Shoulder that the Muzzel of the Musket behind may stand somewhat high turning the Lock a little outward so that the Butt may come to the Buttons or middle of the Breast and the Muskets over all be the more equally carried VI. The Match must be holden in the left hand one end betwixt the first and second finger and the other betwixt the two last both the ends a fingers length without the back of the hand so that the rest thereof may hang betwixt the hand and the Butt of the Musket and because in exercising the Match is to be laid down no more it must never be kindled without express Order VII With a shoulder'd Musket the left Elbow ought to be turned a little outwards from the Body but without constraint of the Arm and the right Arm hanging loose downwards along the Body with the Palm of the hand turned to the Thigh The Manual of the Muskets 1. JOyn your right hand to your Muskets 2. Poise your Muskets 3. Joyn your left hand to your Muskets 4. Take your Matches 5. Blow your Matches 6. Cock your Matches 7. Try your Matches 8. Guard your Pans 9. Blow your Matches 10. Open your Pans in presenting 11. Give Fire 12. Recover your Arms. 13. Return your Matches 14. Blow your Pans 15. Handle your Primers 16. Prime 17. Shut your Pans 18 Blow off your loose Corns 19. Cast about to charge 20. Handle your Chargers 21. Open them with your Teeth 22. Charge with Powder 23. Charge with Bullet 24. Wadd from your Hats 25. Draw forth your Scowrers 26. Hold them up 27. Shorten them to your Breasts 28. Put them in the Barrels 29. Ram down your Shot 30 Withdraw your Scowrers 31. Hold them up 32. Shorten them to your Breasts 33. Put them up in their places 34. Joyn your right hand to your Muskets 35. Poise your Muskets 36. Shoulder your Muskets 37. Rest your Muskets 38. Order your Muskets 39. Lay down your Muskets 40. Take up your Muskets 41. Rest your Muskets 42. Club your Muskets 43. Rest your Muskets 44. Shoulder your Muskets Take heed to make ready by three Words of Command 1. Make ready 2. Present 3. Give Fire Here follows the Manual of a Grenadier beginning from a shoulder'd Fire-lock 1. JOyn your right hand to your Fire-locks 2. Poise your Fire-locks 3. Joyn your left hand to your Fire-locks 4. Bend your Fire-locks 5. Present 6. Give Fire 7. Recover your Arms. 8. Handle your Slings 9. Sling your Fire-locks upon your Shoulders 10. Take your Matches 11. Take your Grenades 12. Open the Grenade Fuse 13. Guard the Grenade Fuse with your Thumbs 14. Blow your Matches 15. Fire and deliver your Grenades 16. Return your Matches 17. Handle your Slings 18. Poyse your Fire-locks 19. Cast about your Fire-locks to left side 20. Draw your Daggers 21. Screw your Daggers in the Muzzle of your Fire-locks 22. Rest your Daggers 23. Charge your Daggers the butt to the right knee 24. Stand up again and rest your Daggers 25. Cast about your Daggers to the left side 26. Withdraw your Daggers 27. Put up your Daggers 28. Half-bend your Fire-locks 29. Blow your Pans 30. Handle your Primers 31. Prime 32. Shut your Pans 33. Cast about to charge 34. Handle your Cartridges 35. Open your Cartridges 36. Charge your Cartridges 37. Draw forth your Scowrers 38. Hold them up 39. Shorten them to your Breasts 40. Put them in the Barrels 41. Ram down your Shot 42. Withdraw your Scowrers 43. Hold them up 44. Shorten them to your Breasts 45. Put them up in their places 46. Joyn your right hand to your Fire-locks 47. Poise your Fire-locks 48. Shoulder your Fire-locks 49. Rest your Fire locks 50. Order your Fire-locks 51. Lay down your Fire-locks 52. Take up your Fire-locks 53. Rest your Fire-locks 54. Club your Fire-locks 55. Rest your Fire-locks 56. Shoulder your Fire-locks Take heed you be ready to give fire by three Words of Command 57 1. Make ready 2. Present 3. Give Fire Take heed ye be ready to fire your Grenades by three Words of Command 58 1. Make ready 2. Blow your Match 3. Fire and deliver your Grenades Take heed ye be ready to use your Daggers by three Words of Command 59 1. Make ready 2. Charge your Daggers the Butt against the right Knee 3. Rest your Daggers Take heed to make your Fire-locks ready again 60 Make ready your Fire-locks Here follows the Manual of the Pike beginning from the Advance THE Posture of a Pike-man with his Pike advanced must be the same as the Musketiers with a shoulder'd Musket viz. that he stand straight upon his Limbs holding up his Head looking briskly wirh his Eye always turned towards the Commanding Officer and making no other motions than the Commands do bear that he keep his Feet a small pace distant from each other his Heels in a straight Line his Toes turn'd outwardly and holding the Butt end of the Pike in his right hand stretched downwards along his Body to the full length so that the back of his hand be turn'd so much outwardly as his Arm in such posture can suffer without constraint and the Pike be kept close as well to his shoulder as the outside of his Thigh that it may stand straight upwards without inclining to either hand which Posture must be always observed with an advanced Pike 1. Charge to the Front. 2. As you were 3. Charge to the right 4. To the left as you were 5. Charge to the left 6. To the right as you were 7. To the right about charge 8. To the
and can by poor weak means cast down And break in pieces men of high Renown Yet a wise Conduct is more likely to Gain ground than fools that know not what to do For good Commanders hinder not the day But non-experience often hath and may As I could instance make of many places Where such contracted taunts and great disgraces Yet who are so self-confident as they So ready to traduce what others say So apt to find a fault where there is none And all that Jack in Office might be known But as the shadow on the substance waits And Turtle Doves are follow'd by their Mates So Fame and Honour justly waits upon This valiant worthy tho' much envy'd man. And on all other Worthies like himself But not on any starched upstart elf Nor him whose heart and soul is in his pelf For vertue will shine forth even in the dark Whilest envy to no end does at it bark Honour gain'd honestly and gallantly Can never fade nor vanish totally As will the Glow-worm flushes of some sort That never can deserve a good report And others that creep sneakingly into Favour for which they any thing will do Nay some that have but sometimes turn'd a Spit And here receiv'd a knock and there a bit But complaisential in their words also On every base and pimping Errand go Hoping in time 't would something introduce And so it hath indeed for my Lord Louse And Madam Sly have found him a long time Too faithful unto what they count no crime And therefore study how to gratifie him For nothing now they can nor dare deny him At last they find the favour him to grace With a Lieutenant or a Captains place Whereof the Coxcomb is become so proud That he will jostle ' mongst the noble crowd And Elbow at the Table in such state And saucily to all his betters prate Nay and perhaps at last be made a Knight And then Sir Assinego 's at the height But whosoever shall this fellow mind In few years shall not know where him to find For all is gone and spent and he forgot Whose memory and name shall die and rot And the like fate on others doth attend Who think their day will never have an end Or that their Sun will never set But their Vain hopes shall be rewarded with despair Yea and like the snuff of a Candle go out As if they were but of the Rabble Rout. But vertuous souls have a more noble breath And greatly are bemoaned at their death For such as Honour win by noble deeds Shall bury thousands of those stinking weeds Whose Progeny shall still uphold their name And be recorded in the Book of Fame What can the vertues of their Ancestry Avail such as from vertue seek to fly And every way from them degenerate As many now but they are out of date As worth and merit just rewards do crave So great Ancestors should good Issues have The thing possest is not the thing it seems Tho' otherwise each Ignoramus deems For tho' men by their Ancestors be great Yet if they from their vertues quite retreat What are they good for being the disgrace Of their name family and all the race What tho' from Ancestors we have our names Yet from our vertues do arise our Fames Birth without worth is but a Painted Post Wealth without vertue can of nothing boast The base Brats of ignoble Ancestry To save themselves will quit all honesty As the more men moil in the dirt the more They are defil'd So the more some men pore Into and seek to understand their base Ancestors the more shame flies in their face The longer any men delay the show Of vertue then you may both judge and know They are of base beginnings for you 'll find Such covertly to bear a sordid mind The leaven of their lin'age doth remain Amongst them many Ages to their stain Which is perceived by the wiser sort And others that thereof do make report Like Root like Tree like Tree-Branches too And so like fruit viz. a proud and dirty Crew For can a Swine bring forth a gen'rous Lion Or the base bramble Polyanthemion Or Cannibals beget true Sons of Sion Or can a Crab-Tree bear a noble Pippin Or the Princely Eagle hatch a Dunghill Chichen No no for where there 's noble Ancestry There mostly will be a like Progeny And of this sort our Hero is no doubt Or he could not for Vertue be so stout The end of all whose Actions Honour are Though Honour to assume is not his care As many others do most sneakingly I mean he seeks not Honour but only Seeks to deserve though envy can't abide To hear of it but labours all to hide Titles he knows which many gain by art Are but the Seals and Badges of desert And the rewards of Vertue in this World Which oft upon unworthy Men are hurl'd Experience hath taught me to affirm Which many knowing Persons will confirm That Honour upon base Mechanicks cast Hath ruin'd those entrusted them at last Be'ng nat'rally propense to innovation Division dissention alteration Wilful deceitful proud in Word and Mind Unstable and unconstant as the Wind Here could I gall them with a yerking Rhime But I forbear them till another time Mendico asperius nihil est cum surgit ad altum I say to make Men of a sordid race Commanders or them with high Titles grace Is one way to turn all things upside down And with dire discord fill each Shire and Town Sith then it 's so that Men of base degree Or Rascal breed plac'd in Authority Have upon States and Kingdoms mischief brought And nothing but their advancement sought Therefore were I to raise a Regiment Though to that height my thoughts were never bent I would as near as possible I could Commission none but Gentlemen of old Or ancient Stocks to choose ' cause not so proud Nor insolent as are the latter brood Who ' cause they 've jumped into great Estates They think none good enough to be their Mates Yet of that sort I mean not every spark That gives a Livery Nor such as shark About the Court or Inns of Court nor they That are made poor through base debauchery Nor any scandalous Sir or witty flash That in his word and actions is too rash Nor he that hath the name of a Deceiver Sir Gregory Nonsense or Sir Good-be-never Sir Topsey Turvey that never kept his Word Nor Mr. Maggot-brain that draws his Sword At every petty affront nor such as they As wrong and cheat poor Souldiers of their pay Nor any supercilian in fine Clothes Nor such as rend the Heavens with Hellish Oathes Or any of that humour old or new For few are good of that debauched Crew No no for they may prove as bad as t'other Viz. For you to day to morrow for another But him I call a perfect Gentleman Whose Vertues grace his good Extraction Or in a word 't is Birth and
them as 't were a Spiritual Pest and Pox And all the evils of Pandora's Box. Then who would not help Brandenbourg come come And drive these Monsters out of Christendom Indeed true Jesuits are Christians but Rome's Jesuits seek Christians Throats to cut Because themselves are none for if they were â—…gs would not of them stand so much in fear Nor London felt so sad a conflagration Nor Wars so feared in each Christian Nation The censures of the Sorbonne faculty Of their damn'd errors and impiety Shew what they are O WILLIAM give the word And let those Gockatrices feel thy Sword Do thou appear to many a defence For of thy Name that is the very sence And with the bloody Frenchmen make such work As glorious Scanderberg did with the Turk Or as renowned Zisca who did rout Great Sigismundus that before did flout And jear at him Here why should I omit Thy Ancestors who with their Swords did slit The Nose of that great Whore of Babylon By whom and others she was half undone For ever since her Pristine Glory Could not assume O that brave Soul by thee She might be quite undone conjoin'd with those That dare her host'ring Nimrods now oppose While mercy is in Heaven and a good cause On Earth who think Rome and her bloody Laws Cannot be crush'd ne'er rightly did believe In God but pin their Faith on anothers sleeve But this our Hero better things doth know As his brave Letter manfully doth show Which ought to be reserv'd in golden Pages To be transmitted unto after Ages That they may read the Magnanimity Of that brave Prince and keep in memory How early and how zealously he did Appear even in the Front and bravely bid Defiance to the Foes of Jesus Christ Viz. The plotting Jesuits and their High-Priest Whilst others seem'd to play at least in sight Curse ye such Merez as shall fear to fight When Sisera is ready to invade Judea which he threatens shall be made The scorn the laughing-stock of all the World And Sion be into confusion hurl'd Come Valiant Brandenbourg thou and thy Son Must help to crush the Brats of Babylon And other Worthies of this Nation too Are born I 'm confident great things to do Ten thousand with Gods help have wonders done Five have I known make Thirty thousand run And kill Four thousand of them on the place And take Ten thousand more upon the chase After both sides appealed solemnly To God And that he would grant victory To them that had the justest cause and so It did fall out accordingly although The routed still were obstinate But God Would not be mock'd for they have felt his Rod Since that and more are like to feel Pray then Despair not for the Papists are but Men Not Gods nor Angels Saints nor Christians good Because they thirst to shed true Christian blood Killing is Murther and no Murther but I 'm sure 't is Murder good Mens Throats to cut Papists by their Religion are bound All Protestants to torture kill and wound Surely their Principles were hatcht in Hell Sith all their Combinations of it smell Doth not this gallant Prince of whom I write To noble Resolutions us excite In which I hope we of the British Nation Will think him worthy of our imitation I say should we not follow his example Rather than Papists should upon us trample And murder us our Wives and Children too Which I am sure they would not spare to do If they had power A brave resolution Will much contribute towards their confusion Better die manfully with sword in hand And fight as long as ever we can stand Than be hang'd up like dogs Our Wives and Daughters First ravished then kill'd With horrid slaughters Of Protestants in Fields Streets Lanes and Houses These things if well considered soon would rouze us But be sure let the Papists first begin For us to do so were no venial sin The very sight of a great Army will Some terrifie yea them with horrour fill Yet many a multitude have very few Good Soldiers in it either old or new It is such not an huge throng that win the field But God alone the victory doth yield Who with the best though fewest taketh part Unless their sin make him a while depart They that fear numbers Leaders specially Much more wil fear to fight them no they 'l fly Which will daunt and discourage all the rest 'T were better be without such I protest A few good Soldiers well conducted will Do more than thrice as many without skill Hot-spurs against a wary enemy Will do no good but hasten misery When he that keeps the mean will safely ride If he can't stemm yet he will cross the tide Brave Brandenbourg to none is second in The feats of War and Warlike Discipline Else he had not been pitcht upon to lead Th' Imperial Army as you plainly read In his stout Letter where he tells you that His own destruction was levell'd at By Jesuited Cabals and how they had Infatuated divers to which add Their bribing Princes Councils friend and foe The whole Protestant cause to overthrow Which mischief as the worst of miseries He will prevent as much as in him lies Hold on Brave Prince in what thou hast begun And Heaven protect thee 'till thy race is run I know not how some will these lines resent 'Bove all such as to Rome now stand half bent Nay others of a better frame are prone To blame all writings which are not their own For self-opinion hath made them wise So that the finest wits they will despise But I am none of them therefore I need Not fear such as on envy love to feed Who like the Ass in Trappings terrifie Such Mules as can but dare not versifie Fearing the strokes of their deep drolleries Or to be known for the Popes enemies If this be all my Muse shall still endite Nor shall my Pen for this fear truth to write No I am born for nobler ends than to Comply and equivocate as many do Transcendant Brandenbourg I come again To blaze thy worth which envy cannot stain Rome thou hast startled much already by Thy Letter full of Magnanimity O the Vindictive rage and malice that Now lies in wait you know what she 'd be at Viz. Destruction Devastation quenchless flames Blood rapin ruin are her end and aims Malice in her hath found its proper nest Envy 's enthroned in her bloody breast Would ever any generous spirit be A Papist if he knew what others see Great Soul thou understandest from thy youth What are their Tenents and how far from truth Stand to thy Letter and God will stand by thee 'T is he alone that gives the victory Why frowns not Mars and Minos upon those That would have Earth and Hell at their dispose But the tremenduos Tetragrammaton Will not not always be a looker on The mighty He in power does surmount Yea they shall know He is Lord