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A11619	A table-booke for princes Containing short remembrances for the gouernment of themselues and their empire. Wherein also respectiuely the seuerall members of state, and all sorts of subiects, may finde matter worthy their obseruation. By Patricke Scot, Esquire.	Scot, Patrick.	1621 (1621)	STC 21860; ESTC S116871	57,840	236

affayres that the euent which falleth this day to the victor may fall the next to the vanquished Fortuna vitrea est cum splendet frangitur When Dauid did heare of the death of Saul Plut. Quin. Cur● Salust Iulius Caesar see the head of Pompey Great Alexander Darius dead in his presence Marcus Marcellu Siracuse burned Scipio Numance destroyed and Hannibal behold the prostrate Embassadours sorrowfull widdowes and fatherlesse childrē at Cannas These great Princes did testifie by their cōmiserate plaints and bitter teares the sorrow they did conceiue at the fall of their most obstinate enemies for pittifull respect of the miserable is the sister of mercy compassionate sorrowes are able to extract teares from stone-hearted cruelty Much more from such good Princes as are secondary patternes of clemency and mercy Epimanundas cum alias hilari vultu solitus est in publicum prodire Basil in Epist Ambr. ad Vercel Ep. postridie eius diei quo feliciter pugnatum est in leuctris processit squalidus submissus amicis causam sciscitantibus nihil inquit sed heri Hier. in Glos sup Math. 5. sensi me plus aequo mihi placuisse eius gaudij intemperantiam hodie castigo Secondly if the victory encline to the enemy wise and couragious Princes are neither to contemne matter of such importance Eurip. in Phaenis Demost ex arg lib. Plato apud Stob. neither to bee cowardlike deiected effractis rebus violentior vltima virtus they are to recollect themselues with the remembrance that vnconstant warre sometimes exalts the conquered and subdues the Conquerors Grauissimae sunt morsus irritatae necessitatis therefore they are to vse the best meanes in their iust causes to recouer their losses or prepare the way to an honourable peace or with their reunited forces try the more fauourable aspect of death-thundring Mars Demost in or ●uneb Cic. ad seru Time admits not many words where danger knockes at the doore Omnia experire more anguium qui capite obtrito cauda minantur The third and last consideratiō is in binding vp of peace wherein Princes are to shew themselues confident in arms Sub Clipeo melius succedit pacis negotium They are so to negotiate that their laying downe of armes Plato de Rep. Cic. 2. Phil. 2. Veget. lib. 2. Liu. lib. dec 10. may bee vpon sure and honourable conditions Vt vere pax easit non pactio seruirtutis But when Princes know their own weaknesse and the powerfulnesse of their enemies wisedome aduiseth them to yeeld to such conditions as by the dextrous managing of matters of such importance they can procure Sit pax aliquando ●emachus apud Plut. in apo quauis tuta conditione nam gubernator vbi naufragium timet licet iactura quicquid sanari potest redimit necessitati parendum quam ne dij quidem superant SECTIO XXII Of Souldiers and Militarie discipline THe name Miles or warriour after the building of Rome was by Romulus giuen to a thousand select men and called Milites quasi vnusex mille Polib lib. 7. aut vnus mille valens one out of a thousand or one worth a thousand The name of a souldier is a name of honour and labour saith Polibius In making choyce of souldiers the ancient Romans did chiefly obserue two things First they were carefull Non minus in milite modestiā continētiam quam virtutem animi magnitudinem desidero Caes de bel Gal. lib. 7. that they were young generously and vertuously enclyned Iuuentus dat vires virtus idoneum militem facit verecundia dum prohibet fugere sepe facit esse victoerm the one giues strength the other addes courage the champion of victory Veget. lib. q. cap. Secondly such as were elected had their oath by Lucius Flauius and Caius Varro Consuls these words iurabant se fugae aut formidinis causa non abituros neque ex ordine recessuros nisi teli petendi aut hostis feriendi causa aut ciuis seruandi that they should not goe away or leaue their stations except to take vp a dart hurt an enemy or saue a friend This oath was thoght so necessary that sine electione nemo conscribebatur sic sine sacramento nemo nomen militis aut officium sorti us est as without election none were enrolled so without the oath none did enioy the name or place of a souldier Marcus Cato sending his sonne to the warres vnder the command of Pompilio did by his letters sollicite that hee should not bee admitted vnto the army till hee had taken his oath and his reason was Militem non credebat nisi eum qui sacramento in militiam consecratur vt Deo primum fides debita deinde Principi reipublicae seruetur in columis Because he did not beleeue any worthy the name of a souldier but such who by their oath had consecrated themselues to warre-farre that their faith to God and loyalty to their Princes might be safely preserued In this election the making choyce of forraine auxiliary souldiers hath beene by many debated and by some iniustly altogether disabled frō whom I do the rather dissent because I do finde both in ancient and moderne warres that forraine helpes haue with the like if not with greater valour and faith mantained their reputation then the natiues yea I may safely affirme that forraine courage strength hath repaired the losses of such Princes and states who now alloweth their merite no other Chronicles then their owne wounds howsoeuer Nichol. Match in Princip that Matchiuell-like inference of Nicholas Matchiuell doth not hold good wherein to disproue the helpe of alients hee presents Dauid vpon the stage refusing Saules armes to fight with Goliah but certainly Dauid was encouraged by an higher power then all the subtillty of Matchiuels wit could reach and if he had not vpholden by that same power beene more confident in his owne armes hee would not haue refused Saules offer But because I doe make haste to speake somewhat of military discipline I will onely recommend these cautions to Princes in the admission of auxiliary strangers First that they admit no moe then they stand in neede of may command and are able without mutinity to keepe in pay Next that they choose thē of such neighbouring Countreys as stands well affected to their state Ioseph lib. 1. Auli Pius 2. apud Plat. lib. 2. These two obseruations beeing kept Princes may safely if their owne forces bee not sufficient make election of forraine supplyes Next vnto the election of such whose bodyes Veget. lib. 9 Val. lib. 1 mindes and fayth are answerable to their charge the second care is that by discipline they may be made skilfull conformable to good lawes and obedient to the commaund of their Princes This military discipline doth cōsist chiefly Aug. apud Diog. lib. 5. in exercitatione in abdicatione voluptatum in cohibitione commessationum rapinarum otij