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nation_n	good_a	hear_v	please_v	1,675	5	9.1053	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16206	The castle, or picture of pollicy shewing forth most liuely, the face, body and partes of a commonwealth, the duety quality, profession of a perfect and absolute souldiar, the martiall feates encounters and skirmishes lately done by our English nation, vnder the conduct of the most noble and famous Gentleman M. Iohn Noris Generall of the Army of the states in Friseland. The names of many worthy and famous gentlemen which liue and haue this present yeare. 1580. ended theyr liues in that land most honorably. Handled in manner of a dialogue betwixt Gefferay Gate, and William Blandy, souldiars. Anno 1581.	Blandie, William.; Gates, Geffrey.	1581 (1581)	STC 3128; ESTC S104609	42,363	70

¶ The Castle or picture of pollicy shewing forth most liuely the face body and partes of a commonwealth the duety quality profession of a perfect and absolute Souldiar the martiall feates encounters and skirmishes lately done by our English nation vnder the conduct of the most noble and famous Gentleman M. Iohn Noris Generall of the Army of the states in Friseland The names of many worthy and famous Gentlemen which liue and haue this present yeare 1580. ended theyr liues in that Land most honorably Handled in manner of a Dialogue betwixt Gefferay Gate and William Blandy Souldiars Faber est quisque fortunae suae ¶ Anno 1581. ¶ AT LONDON Printed by Iohn Daye dwelling ouer Aldersgate TO THE NOBLE AND vertuous Gentleman M. Philipp SIDNEY WILLIAM BLANDY Wisheth to his happy increase of knowledge the hoped and looked for fulnesse of wisedome RIght Noble Sir for what letteth me to yelde you that title sith your owne actions that I touch not herein your blood and Parentage whereof you are descended may challenge as your especiall and proper right the same in my wandringes I found in an olde monument this written I geue that I haue not Which Paradox or Riddle caused me to muse with an earnest bent of my Imagination and iudgement to the search and resolution of so intricate and difficult a positiō Laboring a long time as in a labarinth in the diuersity of sentences lōg sithens taught deliuered and receiued I called at length to minde the verse of Horrace Ego sum instar Cotis acutum Quae reddat ferrum tamen expers ipsa secandi And so perswading my selfe that it was ment of a whetstone I took shortly in hand to play the whetstone my selfe whetting and setting on edge by this my slender and simple deuise the blunt mindes of my countrymen who are made able if they vsed wisely and a right the benefite of Nature to cut most deeply into those causes which concerne the honor of our Prince security and safegarde of this commonwealth most humbly praying you who in my opinion is able sufficient to be both the whetstone and the sword I meane both to doe your selfe and to moue and perswade other to all worthy laudable actions to take the tuition of these my well meant labours and study The curteous fauourable acceptatiō wherof shall binde me euermore to be at your becke happely stirr vp other of more knowledge and deeper iudgement to the attempt of some greater good Desirous if it be in him any way to do you seruice WILLIAM BLANDY ¶ The copie of a letter sent by William Blandy before the imprinting of his booke to his assured and worshipfull good friend EDWARD MORRIS Captayne HANIBALL exiled Carthage sought the supportance of Antiochus king of Ephesus Antiochus embracing Chiualrye would Haniball to be honored of all his people as one whose worthye actes and noble enterprises filled at that tyme the world with fame and glorye This king whether he did therein respect his owne profite and wonted exercise or pleasure and recreation of this valiant and famous warriour brought him to heare Phormio reade appoynted at that tyme to discourse of some high poynt and difficult question of Philosophie Antiochus and Haniball accompaned with many nobles and braue courtiers of his nation entred the place of audience Phormio laboring then no lesse in the waightynes of his Argument then a tall shipp richly and heauely laden tossed in the middest of the Ocean Whether the Maiestye of his king the coūtenaunce of so great honorable a person as Haniball was rushing in of so glittering and glorious a troupe or a vaine conceite of poore prayse should moue in a deepe and approued Philosopher such chaungeablenes or no Phormio suddaynely declined from his intent and purpose conuerting himselfe to the speach of warres After whose oration made and finished Antiochus demaunded of Haniball what he thought of Phormio I haue heard sayd Haniball many a Doter speake but a more dreamer then Phormio is shall I neuer heare agayne Which history my good Captayne is a president to me sith I write of the Martial affaires of our Country-men to stand in doubt how this attempt of mine may be taken for that there are emong our nation many Haniballs but few of Phormios minde I least able of all other to sustayne on my part the waight of this cōparison My drift and desier therefore is it would please you to peruse these papers and especially viewe that part wherein is disclosed the propertye nature and qualitye of a good and perfect Souldiar Your will or nill shall cause me to follow or forsake my purpose intended My busines and being here in this land as you know right well is such that I haue no long tarying Wherefore returne I most hartely pray you as speedely as you may an Aunswere Fare you well Most ready and willing to pleasure you William Blandy ¶ Edward Morris to his louing friend William Blandy IPHICRATES THE ATHENIAN Captayne leading forth his Armye agaynst the Persians caused them to stay to behold the fighting of two Cockes Which when they had fought a long tyme deliuered to his Captaynes and Souldiars this manner of speach Behold sayd Iphicrates the fight of two seely foules contending neither for wife nor children Countrye libertye glorye house goode● Church goodes nor holy thinges but for onely victory Much more ought wee therefore who are indued with a more excellent nature and haue by the instinct thereof no lesse care of wife and children libertye fame and victory then of piety and Religion of the Goddes fight and puissantly stand agaynst the force and furye of the Enemy If the example of Cock fighting yelded to this noble Athenian Captaine an argument and reason to prouoke and enkendle the mindes of his souldiars to prowes and valiantnes who can iustly controlle your attempt in this discourse of warres albeit I graunt you are in respect of an old trayned Souldiar but a very Cockerell What I haue perused my notes and penne detecteth Your endeuors cannot be but commendable desart greater if you were well employed My good Blandy in conclusion so farr is it that I may call your studies into reprehension that I could wishe other your Elders in Militarie discipline disposed as you are and furnished with your skill and facultye Your assured and good friend Edward Morris Lodowick Flood MIght man ascend to see the sunne to vewe the starres in skye No doubt vnsweete the sight would be might he not that discrye Thinges long desierd are sweete thinges farre vnknowen are sought Thinges secret seekes themselues to shewe as nature them hath taught Where learning vttereth witt at will and will to councell yeldes There councell chargeth strength to stand with sword with speare and shield Of no lesse prayse the penne in towne then is the sword in field For to the penne as to the sword ech Commonwealth must yeld A Castle calde of Pollicye a glasse