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A19255	The character of vvarre, or The image of martiall discipline contayning many vsefull directions for musters & armes, and the very first principles in discipline, the ground postures, all the military motions now vsed ... By Edvvard Cooke.	Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.	1626 (1626)	STC 5668; ESTC S108654	60,094	84

Captaynes Lieuetenants Antients and Sergeants so that all the trayned bands in London Midlesex are furnished with able sufficient Officers out of both these Schooles to your honours that were the Founders I the last in degree of inferior officers had my first egresse from the Artillery Garden In that Schoole I spent Foure yeares compleat to gayne the little knowledge which I haue neuer presuming to shew my skill much lesse to contend with others in it vntill the Scollers of another Schoole Low-Country-like banded together for tryall of skill vrged me thereunto Then for the honour of my Schoole put on by my owne Schoole fellowes I entred the List to play my Schollers Prize And I haue now done it but whether I haue performed it ill or well resteth not in me the Scholler to iudge but in you the Maisters of Science most skilfull in the Art Military Iudge then and Censure Your Friend Edward Cooke To the worthy Company and whole body of Noble Souldiers seruing in the Fift Cautionarie or Trayned Band of Midlesex otherwise called Captayne Perts Company WHere a generall voyce warrants an approbation worthie Gentlemen and Souldiers there euery seruice is a Duty The truth of it concernes inuites mee to write a peculiar Epistle vnto you and therein to extoll your worth And none will discommend me for it that either imitates your vertues or would be praysed as you for worth Your worth Implyes your rare parts your rare part● though many may bee Epitomized in Foure 1. Your pronesse of mind to beare Armes 2. Your actiuenesse in all Millitary motions 3. Your Subiugated wills to obey your Officers 4. Your Damon and Pythian like affection one to another The three first are rare but the fourth and last is the most rare and excellent For as a Diamond fairely set in Gold it giues luster to all the rest and makes me stile you Philonida or Philonis a bande of friends or true friendship or indeed the Holy band Plutarch telleth of an holy band errected by one Gorgidas Plutarch in the life of Pelopidas which did consist of three Hundred chosen men entertayned by the state kept within the Castle of Cadmea called the Townes band as you the Kinges band This band was neuer broken nor ouerthrowne before the battaile of Chaeronea where they were all slaine found lincked together with cordes of silke arme in arme Pikes sticking in their brests Philip King of Macedon Father to Alexander the great King Philip their enemie shedding teares for them and causing them to bee buried together who in death would not be parted Thus the louing Holy Band Fell by the Macedonians hand Each one dying for his Frend Keeping Friendship to the end From whose ashes doth arise You that them doth Sympathize Neuer to dissolue together Nor like God to liue for euer For one by one be sure to die Time takes away time will supply And as he brought you to the Wombe So backe hee leads you to your Tombe Yours in life and death Edward Cooke To his Brother in Law Thomas Chamberlaine a louer of Armes and an expert Souldier WHen I first made entrance into this worke you know worthy Brother that there was no speech made in the Citty or Subburbes of Plague or Pestilenc But when I had almost finished it the Plague began amongest vs. Then was both speech complaint too in an vncessant manner So I least of In●ited by you in the heate thereof to finish it least dying and leauing it an abhortiue it should vtterly fayle and come to ruine But what auailed it mee to write of warlike ●tratagemes and Policies to oppose opugne repell an humaine Enemie in the field when tht Lord God of Hosts great in pow●r whom none could resist was entred the field destroying Thousands on his right hand Ten Thousand on his left hand and all the Kingdome in generall had not his mercy exceeded his Ivstice Then it was for mee not to write but to pray not to forcast where to flie from the sword of the Lord but how to submit my selfe to the sword of the Lord which when the Lord saw he manifested his power to me preseruing me that I might hereafter trust in him and declare his goodnesse to the Sonnes of men Thus the Presse of the Lord went forth it tooke away whole families it contynued many Moneths together in the Subburb in be Citty The Citty was almost desolate yet not desolate because she had a gracious God with a fla●ming sword purging not consuming her A blessed Sauiour interceding for mercy not Iustice A King on earth as Hezekiah weeping and praying in secret for her calling vpon his Lord●●pirituall and Temporall on all the Moyseses and Arons in the Kingd●me to ioyne with him in Prayer as they had in fasting to crye mightily vnto the Lord to spare this Citty the holy Citty the Citty where his name was called vpon Nay shee had a carefull Magistrate in her whom diuine prouidence did preordayne to that place to do h●r good S●r John Gore was then Lord Mayor of London And Alderman Heylyne and Alderman Parkebust were Shriefes who went in person to visite her releining her relinquished members readie to starue for want of foode Sending his two worshipfull Brothers the Shrieues to doe it for him if his Lordship was otherwaies imployed These two good Samaritans came into the Suburbes among the poore Trinobantes of Saint Sepulchers inquiring their number their estate their wants their greiuances finding them great past their expectation they returned with melting hearts condoling their miserie and informing the Lord Mayor of it who by them through their meanes sent instantly a supply of Fourteene Poundes for their reliefe commanding information weekely to be giuen of their wants they should be relieued Which was done by me and performed by them euen till the sicknesse was mightily decreased our Gentlemen returned home so they left off being seconded by M. George Allington Esquier and one of the Maisters of the Pipe office who sent them Fortie shillinges as formerly he had done at other times weekely This money was truly distributed though it came not to my hands The money that came to my handes from the Lord Mayor Sheriffes and Churchwardens was Twenty Fiue Poundes Ten shillinges So when all this was discharged and the plague quite ceased and thankes rendered to Almighty God for our deliuerance I betooke my selfe to Penn and Paper againe to fininsh what before I vndertooke which by Gods helpe I haue effected and would not haue published it to the world had not some Low Country-like forced You brotherlike perswaded Now if any good come thereby let such as reape it thanke you who would not let me rest till I had finished then printed it If none at all then let them blame me not you if not excuse me thus he had a good intention but hee failed of the execution in this I rest and resting rest

he had taken and so faint with the great wounds he had vpon him But Martius answered them that it was not for Conquerors to yeeld nor to bee faint-hearted and thereupon began afresh to chase them that fled vntill such time as the Army of the Enemies was vtterly ouerthrowne and numbers of them slaine and taken prisoners The next morning betimes Martius went to the Consul Cominius who highly commended him for his Valour and proffered him many gi●ts but M●rtius refused all Therefore the Consul did order and decree that he should henceforth be called Coriolanus in lieu of the noble seruice he had done for his Lion-like courage T●u● much of Valour The next Vertue required in a Souldier is Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty is a transcendent Vertue and passeth my power to expresse It consisteth in the faithfulnes of Subiects to their Prince of Souldiers to their General of one friend to another For without faith no friendship Faith is the band of all humane society the foundatiō of all Iustice aboue all things ought to be religiously obserued The Romanes were wont to exact it from their Souldiers by an oath the fo●me whereof in Vegetius time did run thus Vegeti●●●●b 2. cap. 5. We sweare by God the Father by Christ his Sonne and by the Holy Ghost to do all thing valiantly which the Emperour or Prince doth command vs we will neuer forsake the warre neither refuse death for the Romane Common-wealth This shewes what manner of man a Souldier should be loyall and faithfull such a one by nature not by Arte or obligation therefore let all Souldiers striue to attaine this excellent vertue of Loyalty which will so arme them against all the temptations of the Enemy as he shall neuer be able to make them Traitors ☜ What Souldier would become a Traitor to betray his Generall or Captaine into the hands of his Enemy if he did consider the penalty of the same it may bee from him that sets him on worke I will instance it in the Argyraspides They loue the Treason but they hate the Traitor Plutarch in the life of Eumenes Plutarch in the life of Pausanias The Argyraspides were old Souldiers of Macedon who did deliuer their good Captaine Eumones aliue into the hands of Antigonus his deadly enemy But Antigonus who set them a worke commanded euery mothers sonne of them to be slaine in recompence of their Treason saith Plutarch in the life of Eumenes Treason is a horrid fact and the iustice of God will not let it passe vnpunished be the committer neuer so great I will instance it in Pausanias This Pausanias was Generall of the Lacedemonians when the Persians ouer-ran Greece and wasted all the Country before them he receiued of Xerxes King of Persia fiue hundred Talents of gold promising him to betray Sparta but his Treason being discouered Agesilaus his father pursued him into the Temple of Minerua called Chalciaecos where he fled for Sanctuary where he caused the doores of the Temple to be mured vp with bricke and famished him to death his mother tooke his corps and cast it forth to the dogs not suffering it to bee buried saith Plutarch in the life of Pausanias These examples being set before their eyes will not only make them to detest Treason but to become more faithfull vnto their Commanders Of all Souldiers none euer were more faithfull to their Commanders than the Romans ye shall not read in any History of any faithfuller Souldiers than they haue beene When their Consull Crassus was endangered by the Parthian Arrowes which flew thicke about his eares they did compasse him about and brought him into the middest of them then covering him round with their Targets they told him That neuer Arrow of the Parthians should touch his body before they were all slaine one after another fighting it out to the last man in his defence Plutarch in the life of Otho the Emperour Plutarch reports a more admirable act of theirs than this The Emperour Otho saith he was forsaken of all his Captaines who had yeelded themselues to Vitellus the new Emperour his Souldiers notwithstanding forsooke him nor neither went they to submit themselues to their enemies the Conquerours neither tooke they any regard of themselues to see their Emperor in that despaire but all ioyntly together went vnto his lodging and called for their Emperour when hee came out they fell downe at his feet prostrated thus on the ground they did kisse his hands with the teares running downe their cheekes and besought him not to forsake and leaue them to their enemies but to command their persons whilest they had one drop of blood left in their bodies to doe him seruice ☞ Then one of the poore Souldiers drawing out his sword said vnto him Know O Caesar that all my Companions are determined to dye in this sort for thee and so slew himselfe These were faithfull and loyall Souldiers worthy to bee remembred to all posterities They were constant to their friends faithfull to one another not refusing death for the Romane Common-wealth Let all Souldiers imitate them in faithfulnesse Faithfull Souldiers are a Captaines bulwarke Caesar was safer in the Campe then in the Senate Thus much of loyalty The next quality required from a Souldier is freedome from bribes It is a dishonourable thing for a Souldier to receiue a Bribe and it is the more dishonourable because the law of Armes doth forbid it wherefore doth the law of Armes strictly forbid it with a penalty to the same but because those men whose nature is most prone to take bribes are the most fittest to be made Traytors On them the enemy will lay golden bookes to draw them to his purpose vpon any occasion Thus Xerxes dealt with Arthmius Plutarch in the life of Themisticles borne at Zelb●a who by gold was to corrupt the Graecians to make him way into Greece But Arthmius was thereupon noted of infamy not alone but his children with their posterity after Thus he dealt with Pausanius Generall of the Lacedemonians Xerxes corrupted Pausanius with 500 talents of gold to betray Sparta Plutarch in his Morals and in the life of Pausanius to whom he gaue fiue hundred Talents of gold to betray Sparta into his hands but Pausanius being too much gorged with gold was mured vp in a Temple and famished to death as I haue already declared Good reason therefore it is that the law of Armes should so strictly forbid the taking of b●ibes seeing the whole Army may be endangered thereby And the law of Armes doth likewise include all acceptance of gifts as vnlawfull for any to receiue of a professed enemy that is or hath beene or may be guessed at to bee hereafter whether they be giuen him in lieu of his desert or to recompence him for his Ambassage he must not I say accept them of him forfeare of bringing himselfe into danger Haue not many bin brought into suspition by it