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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01555	The defence of militarie profession Wherein is eloquently shewed the due commendation of martiall prowesse, and plainly prooued how necessary the exercise of armes is for this our age.	Gates, Geffrey.	1579 (1579)	STC 11683; ESTC S102948	39,169	64

Othniel Gedeon Samson Iephthe Samuel Deborah the woman Thē Dauid the most acceptable worthy captain prophet gods special chosen king ouer his people Israel by whose mightie value martial prowesse the Lord stretched forth the kingdom of Iacob to the promised bounds being a terror to the enemies of Israel abrode a chastiser of the rebels hypocrites at home he stablished peace Justice in Israel and applied his wisdom zeale trauaile and treasure to aduaunce the honour trueth and true worshipping of God his couenant in all the common wealth of Israel which he pursued with such indeuor integrity of hart that all things so prospered in his hand to the glorie of the Lorde and to the health and wealth of Israel that in that respect the Lorde saide that He had found Dauid his seruant a man after his owne heart Such also were Zedekiah Iosaphat and Iosias renowmed in the Scriptures of God. With these are to bee numbred though not in that preeminencie many Princes of the Christians greatly endued with wisdome ciuill vertues and prowesse which euer goe together woorking the effecte of peace and prosperitie in all places where they dwell in vse and power Amongst such are chiefly to be named Constantine the great Charles the great and manye more Emperours of the olde time and nowe lately Charles the fifth neyther is the last Ferdinando cast out of the Catalogue of good Princes for he was very learned desirous of peace méeke and modest and liberall to honest desertes Of the French kings manye were of high prowesse vertues and value great nourishers of iberall Sciences As were Charles martel Lewes the pitious Philip Augustus the holy Lewes Philippe the fayre Philippe de Valois Iohn Charles the fift Charles the sixt a very sufficient Prince till he became Lunatike Charles the seuenth Lewes the eleuenth Charles the eyghth Lewes the twelfth and Frances renowmed for his prowesse modestie prudence and for his affection and aduancement of lerning commonly called The Father of Sciences Then succeeded his Sonne King Henrie a prince of high value in Cheualrie gratious to his people and bountifull to his friendes and very readie to gratifie the deserts of men and to aduance men of worthinesse and in Armes most valiant And considering what rebellious and furious people the French are it is to be wondered that the prudence and industrie of their kinges was continually able to represse to refourm and to reconcile so mutinous and rageous a natiō as they haue alwais shewed themselues to be molesting vexing and spoyling the King the gonernement and common welth by peopetuall vprores continuing in Armes Pillage murthers horrible massachres and disloyaltie in some ages three score yeres together As in the dayes of King Iohn Charles the fifth Charles the sixth Charles the seuenth which approueth great fidelitie prowesse and prudence in the gentlemen nobilitie and bandes of warre by whose value so implacable and mad rebelles could be repressed and the state reformed Of the Kings of England bene also many renowmed amongst the good Princes And hee of them that exceeded in military feates and prowesse the same verely as I haue often saide excelled also in wisedome iustice and ciuill vertues As did Arthur amongst the Brutes Edmonde Edgar Athelston Edwarde and Edwarde amongste the Saxons And since the conquest William the conqueror himselfe Henry the second Richard the first Edward the first Edwarde the thyrde Henry the fifte and Henry the seuenth and Henry the eighte Of Spayne King Pellaro and some others but lastely and cheefly Fernando the fifth the first entire Monarch of Spayne that by his noble wisedome and passinge value in Armes recouered the kingdome of Granado from the Mores tooke the kingdome of Naples helde Sicilia in peace and possessed the Indias The Charles that aduanced the honor and state of Spayne to the full summe by vertue of military industrie and martial prudence became renowmed amonge the most warrelike Princes of the worlde Now omittinge the famous Kinges and Princes of other countries and nations for that I haue inferred authorities sufficient in force and number to approoue and to magnifie the prayse of Armes and to auoide more tediousnesse then here needeth I will summe vp the Catalogue of renowmed Princes with the sacred memory of them that are most worthie to be praised among the Christians of these dayes for the incomparable value of their prowesse and warres as due vnto the speciall martialists of the Lord God of hostes by whose Armes he did put in foot to fight with Sathan in plain battell for the recouerie of his holy Sanctuary that lay many a tedious yeere trodden vnder the féete of Antichrist and earst durst not be attempted till the Lorde had prouided his Army and appointed his Cheefteynes of courage fayth and Militarie prudence fitte for the wars of Iacob As were Fredericke Iohn and Maurice the renowmed Princes in honour chiualrie and vertues Dukes of Saxoni Philippe Lantgraue of Hesse Albert Marques of Brandenbourgh Christopher Duke of Wyrtembergh the warlike and faythfull states of Germany and Zurik The Nobility of France and aboue them al William Earle of Nassau the vertuous good and happie Prince of Orange By vertue of the fayth industry and prowesse of these sacred martialists is the gospell and kingdome of Christ Jesus brought againe to their passage fréely preached to the world an inspeakable comfort riches to al mankinde and that specially to the elect children of God to whom be prayse Amen These Militarie men being the most renowmed the most sacred beneficiall and profitable personages of the world to the worlde and to all that dwell and haue dwelled vpon earth and that by warlike industrie It must be granted that al their assistants and adherents by whose labours perils blood and valiancie the great effects of Armes haue bene wrought must bee comprehended in the fame and honour of their Princes as a matter iustly to be imparted to euery one according to the value of his worthines wherein the Romanes vsed orderly distributions of aduancemēt graces to ech on as the prowesse noblenesse of the Souldiers deserued The nature and due honour of Militarie profession being such what meaneth the vulgare multitude of the English Nation so maliciously to contemne soldiership and so brauely to despise the profession of Armes as a vile and damnable occupation Surely bicause they are of seruile and vnnoble heartes foolish in discretion idle bellies carelesse of the common welth of their countrie litle friendly to mankinde in generall and lesse zealous toward the glory and preseruation of their Soueraigne Prince and gouernement Nowe be it they may seeme to voide this rebuke with a sleight in denying to contemne Militarie profession for they honor the profession and doe accordingly esteeme of all them that worthily pursued the same But to despise the common sort of our Countrie men that go to warre of

stande renoumed in hystories and for euery one left to memory by name a thousand of great worthines are past ouer without mentione But this is generally to be noted in the warlike Princes and Nobilitie that as they exceede in militarie prowesse and worthines so doe they excell in wisedome and all noblenesse of hart and hee that will worthely bee called a militarie man must cast off all vilanies and basenes of minde and full charge his thoughtes and doinges with honeste inclinationes and like effectes Neither are the commendable vertues of the minde so necessarye for any occupatione as they are for them that professe and exercise armes And the martialist that wanteth them shall not prosper in warre but sinke in obloquie and dishonor neither is there anye state or vocation of man that can worse susteyne the infection and vse of vices then can an army gouerned in warlike maner Foolishe therefore and beastely is the common speach vsed of the base and humble mynded sort of our natione that doe not onely saye but also affirme in their doinges that the worst sort of men and such as for the vilenes of their conditiones the earth is not able to susteyne are fit for the warres and accordingly doe call out the refuse of the people to be soldiers for the seruice of their Prince and countreie where in deede the worthiest people ought to be chosen and preferred as to a state most honorable and of most credite and importance But if Englande stood in the continent of the world enuironed with mightie nationes that in the dayes of frendeship would moue discretion to feare their malice in the time of controuersy then should it know the value of a soldier lick the dust off the feete of her men of prowesse then would the lawer the marcheant humble themselues to the warriers be glad to geue honour salary to the martialist and shew frendly grace to his page and fauor to his lackye And al be it our state is better at ease and that we by the benefite of the seate of our lande doe stande in more securitie then the nations of the firme land yet is not our assurance such as may so deliuer vs vp in the time of peace to the carelesse spitefull contempt of armes as though the common welth and state publique stood in such prosperitie and saftie by the wisedome of the lawier and by the riches of the marchant as that they should neuer stande in neede of militarie forces nor to nourrishe men of warre but to consume them with penurye and with the galowes Let al the miserable drudges of this present worlde whose God is their belly and whose idoll is their riches that so beastly and opprobriously disdaine the warlik people looke into the recordes not onely of the former times of olde but also of these present dayes and see in what hazarde not onely the Throne of their souereigne Prince but also the whole state of the common welth and consequently the chest the chamber the bedde and cradle the wife and daughter of the lawier and marchant the Pulpyt and Preacher the Judge and the Judgement seat haue bene to suffer generall and particuler shippwracke by the conspiracies mutinies and tumultes of traitors and of the rebellions multitudes of the vulgare people cruel and implacable And confesse by whose diligence wisedome perill iudustrie and bloud all these thinges haue bene defended and saued out of the power of the furious spoylers restoringe iustice to her seate the plowe to the feelde the cowe to the payle the shephearde to his flocke the merchant to his trade and the learned to his quiet study and exercise Yea and let them be ashamed of their ignobilitie of harts consent with other nationes to geue vnto the people of prowesse and milytarie profession the honor that is due vnto them For it is a rare age of the worlde wherein the sureste Kingdome and the safeste state and nation vpon earth flieth not at one time or other to the couert and succor of Armes to saue it selfe either from intestine violence or from forren depopulation or else from both Whoesoeuer therefore will see the value of martial prowesse in preseruing a kingdome in vpholdinge the souereigne maiestie of theire Prince in redeming their countrie from the power of forren ennemyes mightie and warlike in pacifyinge ciuil vprores and in extinguishinge the most ragiouse furies of any rebelles in the worlde and in reducinge the gouernement to obedience iustice housbandry traffique literal exercise and all ciuill policies and ordinances to their places againe Looke throughe the state of France from the beginning euen to this day But specially in the dayes of Kinge Iohn of his sonne also Kinge Charles the fift and eke of Charles the sixte aud aboue all in the dayes of Charles the seuenth who being so molested and ruinated not onely by the victorious warres of the Englishmen and Bourgonyons but also by intestin diuisiones ciuill vprores that hee helde not the fifte parte of his kingdome in obedience insomuch that he was driuen to holde himselfe in a smale corner of his lande and was contempteously called King of Bourges For his ennemies possessed ranged al the parts else of his Realme at their pleasures But that famous King aided with the prowesse fidelity of his approued martialistes neuer gaue ouer the fielde til hee recouered his kingdome and restored the common welth which had bene so spoiled wasted and depopulat that the fieldes and vineiards were growen to a wildernesse their cities become heapes and their habitationes desolate When the Lord meaneth to plague a wicked natione for sinne and to translate them to the power and scepter of another nation then he filleth them with the fatnesse of the earth and geeueth them peace that they may wax rotten in idlenesse and become of dulle wittes slowe of courage weake handed and feeble kneede that when the spoiler commeth they may in al pointes be vnfurnished of warlike prowesse and not able to resiste but so made a praye to their ennemies As the Persians were to Alexander the Greekes and Hungarians with many other natones to the Turkes and the olde Brutes to the Saxons And likewise when the Lord meaneth to aduance a nation and to make any people famous and honorable vpon earth he stirreth them vp to high courage and maketh their mindes and bodyes apt to the warre and in all points sufficient for the pursuite and accomplishment of Militarie trauaile As he did the Israelites for the recouery of their promised inheritance by subduing and destroying the mightye Canaanites Cyrus the Persians for the subuerting of the empire of Syria Alexander the Grecians for the conquering of the Persians for translating of the Monarchie from Asia to Europa The Romanes eke being a poore smale people and of an opprobrious foundation were made fit in pollicy and