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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14700	The office and duety in fightyng for our countrey Set forth with dyuerse stronge argumentes gathered out of the holy scripture prouynge that the affection to the natiue countrey shulde moche more rule in vs christians then in the Turkes and infidels, who were therein so feruent, as by the hystoriis doth appere.	Walshe, Edward.	1545 (1545)	STC 25000; ESTC S105083	10,917	42

The office and duety in fightyng for our countrey Set forth with dyuerse stronge argumentes gathered out of the holy scripture prouynge that the affection to the natiue countrey shulde moche more rule in vs christians then in the Turkes and infidels who were therein so feruent as by the hystoriis doth appere 1545. ¶ To the ryght honorable and my syngular good ldrde and mayster syr Anthony Sentleger knyght of the moost honourable order of the garter one of the gentlemen of the kynges hyghnes moost honourable priuie chamber and lorde deputie of Irelande BEYNGE so many wayes bounde vnto your lordeshyp for the most gracious bountie and munifycence which in the tyme of my greuous calamitie you haue vnto me extēded I thought it shulde be noted in me a poynt of muche ingratitude to be so longe absent from my countrey without hauynge to you therfore due officious thākes wherfore I haue deuised to presēt your honour with this my poore lucubraciō That y e same maye be an exāple of my assiduous study and desyre to accomplysh the duetye wherewith your lordeshyppe haue me so often boūde The mat ter may be aswell conferred to the feruent affection whiche alwayes I haue borne to my countrey and to the grefe of my propre exyle as also wholy attribued to the moste godly purpose of our moost drad soueraygne lorde the kynges maiestie in settynge forth his loyall subiectes ▪ against our enemies In the one respecte I take it to be a gyfte nedefull for me to gyue And in the other for this present tyme somewhat apt for your wise dome to receyue That the same beinge perused corrected and set forth by your honour maye haue creadite with al men the more vertuouslye to do their most bounden deutie euen in fyghtynge for their contrey as the sapient Cato doth counsell In my most humble maner besechynge your honourable lordeshyppe to note therein not my temerious audacite and rudenes but my wyllynge harte to do my duetie for my parte to swade other in y t I may to do the lyke I haue constrayned this litle worke to more brefnes then I ought leuyng out the examples and historyes wherof your lordeshyppe is so well fulcome that I feared the readinge of them shulde be to you somewhat tedyous notwithstandynge I knowe ryght well the rehearsall of them shulde adde to my worke no lyttle coulloure of perswasyon whych thyng I eftesones beseche youre wysedome to accepte accordynglye besechynge almyghty god to sende you most hartely well to fare Your moost humble obedient seruaunt Edwarde walshe ¶ This oracion was pronounced by Edwarde walshe at seuerall tymes vnto his felowes militynge at the seige of Boloingn̄ OFTEN tymes consideryng with my selfe most hartely beloued frendes the high and most vertuous re specte which the famous romayn Cato hadde to the common wele when he so earnestlye amonge other his moral preceptes did teach that we shulde fyght for oure coūtrye I thought it myght be neyther inconuenient nor yet incomly but very commendable and necessarye for vs that I shuld bestowe this small layser in declaryng vn to you some argumentes and perswasions tochinge our most boun den duetie to oure natiue and naturall countreye That ones hearynge the same as we that haue redde and perused thystoryes of the noble feates of them that attayned immortall glorye in that behalfe as therby encoraged you also with semblable alacritie and towardnes may vertuouslye aduaunce youre selues to follow the wholsome doctrine of y e Sapient Cato And notwithstandynge that after I reuolued this attemp tate in my mynde and w t inwarde contemplacion behelde euery way howe I myght best begynne and begon procede and so condinglye perfourme it accordinge the due expectacion that you myght haue of me interprysynge the same I foūd it to be a burden heuier then I myght wel sustayne seing right wel y t yf I shuld take thoccasions to write that the mater frely offereth to my hand no volume could comprehend the same and scantly the hole entreual of my lyfe shuld therevnto suffise yet as the maner is of other recent writers takynge this sodayne occasion as well of my propre exile as of the most god lye quarels of our moost drad soueraigne lorde kynge Henrye the eyght who most tenderly desyreth the welth of hys loyall subiectes and paynefully stodyeth for the same the trompe whereof soundeth throughe oute al the regions of the earth and shalbe doubtles foreuer a miroure to all suche as shall hereafter desyre to gouerne in a common wele I can no lesse doo then expresse vnto you such symple reasons as haue at this presente concurred in my memorye touchynge oure sayde mooste bounden deutye and office to oure natiue countreye whiche I haue gathered together partelye of the sayenges of famous auctours and partely of the experience that I daylye se in men of noble Ingene and vertuous educacyon Trustynge that thereby the zele that nature hathe in me kendled towarde my countreye may apere in me not onelye inextynguyble but also alwayes vygylante and cyrcumspecte for the good and commodytye of the same For yf anye of vs hauynge receyued offycyous pleasure at our frendes handes wyll not onelye remember the same with rendrynge due thankes but also euen shewe aparant tokens of oure good wylles to regratifye it with lyke offyce why then consideringe that by the exemple of our fathers we ought to be alwayes thankefull for oure nutricion Shuld we not accumulate and heape our thankes and officious dueties to oure natyue contrey by whose ayde moost prin cipally we were not onely produced and nouryshed but also preser ued when we coulde neither speke nor go nor yet of our selues euite y e peryll of fyre water yron or such lyke daungerous thinge whereby we myght peryshe in our infancy By her benefite we fyrste learned to go on the grunnde and in amia ble maner to frame oure babyshe tongues to speake oure mother tounge or contrye language By her benefite the stronge the weke the poore the ryche the noble and thinferiour persons lyue together are serued together in their vocacion with y ● necessaryes of theyr bodye In our countrey we fyrste dyd beholde the most beautyfull bryghtnes of the sonne which the euerlastyng god hath so disposed to the vse of man that beynge cōmon to al y t nacions of the earth it extendeth beames and lyght as though the same were propre to eche countreye wherein the worke manshyp of god appereth to be equall vnto vs his sapience exceadinge the iudgement of man Out of her wombe dyd ebullulate and sprynge the water wherewith the most heauenly ceremonie through which we are called christiās was in vs perfourmed By her benefit the rude feldis of oure vnderstan dyng readie to growe w t all kynd of vnclene thinges were sowed with y e diuine precepts of y ● gospel without the instructions whereof