time fit them to go into A marching Army some exploit to do By which they would almost immortal seem And time from base debauchery redeem As did the Youth of Rome in ancient days Which Crown'd their Temples with Triumphal Bays For by their skill and courage they acquir'd Renown and were by all the world admir'd Some spare hours in the School of Mars they spent Each week and muster'd in Bellona's Tent So that their manner seem'd a war indeed In which they weekly did their servants breed And all young Gentlemen by which you know They did great States and Kingdoms overthrow But Mars in London's cast behind the door Not Mars but Venus now young men adore O thou bewitching and debauching Devil Thou introducer of all sorts of evil Thou soul-destroying all-devouring vice That to the Devil so many doth entice That dost effeminate and pockifie Those Creatures called men both low and high Whose health and wealth and all dost overthrow Yea and at last into a lasting woe Had I but power to my will I would Torment thee till thy whorish heart grew cold Yea throw thee to the Devil from whence thou came And out of Britain blot thy cursed name And all thy Favourites in England tame And put them all by Law to open shame And in thy stead Mars and Minerva place And ransom vertue from a sordid race But wishing can do none of these old whore Therefore at present I shall say no more Ye Sons of Mars now I return again To you whom none I hope can justly stain Sith I have eas'd my mind in chiding those That to all Martial men are mortal foes And * Martialites not their foes among which your selves I must include In spite of the malicious multitude To you I say directly now I write And make you smile by what I shall endite Which shall be inoffensive every way Therefore be pleas'd to read me out I pray 'T is intermixt with mirth and seriousness And both as harmless as I could express I know ye can't be taught to exercise Sith divers things some of you can devise However after a new fashion I Will exercise you if ye please to try Through the five Vowels I shall briefly run In such a way as never yet was done Silence attention and obedience too But for this once I do request of you 1. A. DISTANCES 1. YOur closest order if you thought it fit Inch-order might be call'd but I submit 2 Close order in your Pockets keep be sure For 't will them of a deep Consumption cure 3. Close order in your Speech cannot be blam'd For opening too wide hath many sham'd 4. Order your self affairs and family By reason and you 'll stand when others fly 5 Orders may not be orderly but sure Orderly Orders will disorders cure 6. Order your wits draw them in rank and file When you see crafty Knaves upon you smile 7. An open order needful is sometime But a foul mouth to open is a crime 8. An open order in House-keeping hath Broke many while good order kept the path 9. A double distance ever let there be Between your souls and every ill you see 10. At double distance Sirs stand from a Knave And from a fawning hollow hearted Slave 11. At double double distance always keep From Culleys or they towards you will creep 12. At the same distance keep if you be wise From those to Honesty are enemies 2. E. FACINGS 1 FAce to the Right and keep the right way still Face still about from any thing that 's ill 2 Face inward and examine well your hearts Try if like Christians ye have play'd your parts 3 Face where you will 't is two to one but ye A Knave before an honest Man may see 4 Face an opposition but to whom To France to Papists and the Man of Rome 5 Face not a shrew when she begins to scold For if you do her Tongue will never hold 6 Face to the Right and Left the Front and Rear When of disguised Knaves ye stand in fear 7 Face in good earnest them ye cannot shun For a good Face hath oft made braggers run 8 Face not thy Captain with a brazen face When he doth justly give thy Coat a Lace 9 Face from such Liquors as inflame the blood Yet Eleemosinary Wine is good 10 Face not a Brothel-House but turn your back Least Soul and Purse and Body go to wrack 11 Face from your Wives when they give urging Speeches Laugh at their folly but hold fast the Breeches 12 Face and outface the Devil and all his crew In any thing that 's honest just and true 3. I. DOVBLINGS 1 DOuble your diligence and watch for fear The World the Flesh and Devil should you ensnare 2 Double your Guards and Centinels sometimes Or you 'll be guilty thought of other crimes 3 Double Argentum in your Pockets take Though to your Father you a journey make 4 Double-tongu'd Hypocrites are double dealers And near a kin to Cheats and private Stealers 5 Double your confidence when money fails For to look sneakingly nothing avails 6 Double your courage when you see your Foes Begin upon all hands you to enclose 7 Double your patience in adversity And 't will at last crown you with Victory 8 Double your resolutions against Vice And stop your ears when any you entice 9 Double the number of your friends but yet Look to your self but do not them forget 10 Double your Prayers in a time of trouble For fear your trouble should be more than double 11 Double the fore-front of your Soul when you Are tempted any evil thing to do 12 Double your hopes when nothing else is left For hope hath Rocks of desperation cleft 4. O. Counter-Marchings Id est Contrary-Marchings 1 TO Countermarch before an enemy Is one way to the loss of Victory 2 To Countermarch your thoughts puts them into Confusion by which something you may do 3 As Countermarch gaining ground is the best So gaining ground of Vice brings Souls to rest 4 Counterfeit Counter-marches against Vice Makes vertue fade and zeal as cold as Ice 5 Counter-march from the Counter if in debt Lest Catchpols you into their clutches get 6 Counter-march evil actions what you can Let Reason and Religion lead the van 7 Countermarch well your Consciences and try What Counter-scuffles there do latent ly 8 Encounter Counter-marchers and they 'll soon Run Counter-Cross into confusion 9 Ran-counter to the counter-part and you Perchance some un-expected thing may do 10 To countermine a Knave that means to cheat Is honestly his projects to defeat 11 March Counter to the Counter if you be Plagu'd with that Devil whose name begins with D. 12 March Counter to the counter-mand of those Would hinder you from chasing of your Foes Or you in just and lawful things oppose 5. U. WHEELINGS 1 WHeel off from evil Company also From feigned friends as from a deadly foe 2 Wheel all your sinful
thoughts into a Ring And let them know you 'll over them be King. 3 Wheel Front and Flank and Reer and what you will Yet what 's all this if you be down the Hill 4 Wheel off in earnest from thy sneaking tricks O Jack and from thy costly Meretrix 5 Wheel from the Center to circumference Yet what 's that where 's a seared conscience 6 Wheel round your self take an impartial view And you may find what yet you never knew 7 Wheel off no no till you have paid your shot Lest you be paid off with the Pewter-Pot 8 Wheel off from Setting-Dogs or they 'll beset And by degrees draw you into their Net. 9 Wheel off from jealousy stop ears and eyes Put up the Horn in peace if thou be wise 10 Wheel from the Tavern when you have enough Lest you should meet Pemelians counter-buff 11 Wheel and Re-wheel but wheel not over fast For Wheelers Wheel did wheel him off at last 12 Wheel round the Wheel of Fortune and you 'll find All Men and things unconstant as the Wind. He 's only happy that makes God his friend And neither needs to borrow nor to lend This Gentlemen is all I have to say Of exercising in this silent way The Military mode I leave to you For I 've forgot what sometimes I could do Not having for these Five and Twenty years Exercis'd either Pikes nor Musqueteers For time hath indisposed me thereunto Yet a well-wisher to all such as do What I have writ I hope will not offend Your minds which thing my thoughts did ne'er intend So wishing you all Health and Happiness And that God would you and your City bless Paulo Majora Canamus GReat Armies wanting Order as you know Will dissipate themselves without a foe A scattering March when the Enemy is nigh Hath such mad Marches brought to misery As in the Wars I 've seen four several times Therefore such Marchings are no Venial crimes Of marching Armies in the Senior days The several Nations had their several ways Israel from Egypt marched five a breast Turks Persians and the people of the East Marched and fought by heaps and crowds in which Confusion they always suffer'd much The Macedons still march'd in great Phalanges And kept that order several Parasanges Before they would break either Rank or File Yet at their manner Caesar us'd to smile 'T would be too ted'ous to write any more Of Marches which I supercede therefore The modern mode of marching certainly Is far more easier for the Souldiery And also more delightful to the eye In which who can out-vye the martial Tribe Of London or their skill in arms describe The Kingdom is beholden to their care For every Week they teach therefore they are The School of Mars where all the rudiments Of War is taught by old Proficients For which this too too scant Elogium I Compos'd to praise them to posterity Because the present Age too little prize them Though none but envious Ideots despise them If something were not learnt of War in Peace Conduct and fame would soon amongst us cease Yea and be over-run of foreign Nations At least in danger daily of Invasions How often Peace hath been obtain'd by wars How often Wars have ended tedious Jars How many depredations have been seen Where Martial Discipline hath wanting been Danes Saxons Normans England oft invaded Whereby the Land was very much degraded But had they been well exercis'd in Arms They had not felt such nor so many harms But since this famous Company reviv'd They have most of that honour well retriv'd Which had been lost in former time by those That were out-matcht by exercised foes But now let French invade us if they dare So we but true amongst our selves are For England never better was provided Of Martialists tho' envy seeks to hide it Than now it is and hath for many years As by their brave admired skill appears Is it not from our Military brood That England so renowned is abroad How many brave Commanders known have I Which have been Members of this Company That served both the King and Parliament In the late Wars how many of them went Beyond Sea where much honour they acquir'd Being for their skill and courage much admir'd Which high renown they never could have gain'd Had they not in this Company been train'd Whose enemies have wisht them wholly crusht And all their fame in dark oblivion husht Because so prais'd in Paris Venice Rome c. And the remoter parts of Christendom But they as soon may lift Olympus up And drink Apollo's Pitcher at a sup As to exterminate or nullifie This most admired Martial Company Whose fame the Muses sounded have by droves Among the Martialists and Lawrel groves Have they not been extolled by our Kings For the variety of noble things By them ostended Foreign Princes too Have much admir'd at what they saw them do Our Duke in them such Bravery did see That he desir'd their General to be And whom he treated as the best of men Yea with them din'd in person now and then Altho' they were no friends to his Religion As he knew well but far from his opinion The Prince of Denmark too could not refrain From Blazoning this Military Train When with the Duke he led them to their Ground And still their Commendation forth doth sound Shall Kings and Princes and prime Optimates Gentlemen Travellers Scholars and Magnates Praise and admire this Martial Company And shall a Rascal sort of people cry And baul against them for they know not what Which of the Furies makes them so to chat Surely 't is Monsieur Envy and no other Which to the Devil is both a friend and Brother First may the Tropicks meet together and The curled Main be turned into Land First may the Welkin from Diana fly And bright Aurora's blushes quit the sky Also grim Mavors still run retrograde And Jupiter be turn'd into a shade Before a noble generous spirit can Creep to a slave that is both Devil and man Whose sole delight is daily to bespatter Brave souls yet to their faces fawn and flatter For as one wave another doth impell Unto the shore and o'er the bank to swell Impuls'd by Cynthia who rules with ease The flux and reflux of the rowling Seas Which doth not only rage and overflow But bears down all before it even so Those thick-skin'd-fellows and those brawny hinds Whose grosser Bodies carry grosser minds Are always barking like a Testy Cur At little faults nay they will make a stir For nothing and so confident and bold That Bess of Billingsgate they can out-scold Pray slight them sith to Envy they were born Pass by them with an honourable scorn Contra verbosos noli contendere verbis Sermo datur cunctis animi sapientia paucis Strive not in words against a prating Crew Tho' all have words yet wisdom have but few Some have more words than wisdom more 's the pity For
left as you were 9. To the left about charge 10. To the right as you were 11. Shoulder your Pikes 12. Charge to the Front. 13. Shoulder as you were 14. Charge to the right 15. To the left as you were 16. Charge to the left 17. To the right as you were 18. To the right about charge 19. To the left as you were 20. To the left about charge 21. To the right as you were 22. Port your Pikes 23. Charge to the Front. 24. Trail your Pikes the Spear behind 25. Charge as you were 26. Push your Pikes 27. Trail your Pikes the Spear before 28. Present your Spears 29. Charge to the Front. 30. Advance your Pikes 31. Order your Pikes 32. Lay down your Pikes 33. Take up your Pikes 34. Plant your Pikes 35. Order your Pikes 36. Advance your Pikes Here follow the Evolutions General Words of Command 1. Take heed AT the pronouncing of this Word there must be great Silence observed throughout the whole Battalion the Souldiers doing no motions neither with their Heads Bodies Hands or Feet but such as shall be ordered and looking stedfastly to the commanding Officer as hath been said above concerning the Manual 2. Carry well your Arms. 3. Dress your Ranks and your Files Evolutions with Muskets and Pikes together 1. Present your Arms. 2. 1. To the right 2. To the right 3. To the right 4. To the right 3. To the right about 4. To the left as you were 5. 1. To the left 2. To the left 3. To the left 4. To the left 6. To the left about 7. To the right as you were 8. Poyse your Muskets and advance your Pikes 9. Shoulder your Muskets Take heed to double your Ranks to the Front. 10. To the right double our Ranks to the Front. 11. March. HEre it must be observed as also by all other Marches that all the Souldiers of the same Rank make the first step with the left foot lifting all at the same time to the end that marching softly looking continually to the sides more especially to the right they may keep the Rank straight and come upon their places all together stepping so that with four paces they may enter the Rank that is before them having special care to carry their Arms well hold up their Head keep their Bodies in a straight and unconstrained posture and look briskly 12. To the lest as you were 13. March. 14. Halt 15. To the left double your Ranks to the Front. 16. March. 17. To the right as you were 18. March. 19. Halt Take heed to double your Ranks to the Rear 20. To the right about double your Ranks to the Rear 21. March. 22. Halt 23. As you were 24. March. 25. To the left about double your Ranks to the Rear 26. March. 27. Halt 28. As you were 29. March. Take heed by half Files to double your Ranks to the Front. 30. To the right by half Files double your Ranks to the Front. 31. March. 32. To the left as you were 33. March. 34. Halt 35. To the left by half Files double your Ranks to the Front. 36. March. 37. To the right as you were 38. March. 39. Halt Take heed by half Files to double your Ranks to the Rear 40. To the right about by half Files double your Ranks to the Rear 41. March. 42. Halt 43. As you were 44. March. 45. To the left about by half Files double your Ranks to the Rear 46. March. 47. Halt 48. As you were 49. Halt Take heed to double your Files 50. To the right double your Files 51. March. 52. Halt 53. To the left as you were 54. March. 55. To the left double your Files 56. March. 57. Halt 58. To the right as you were 59. March. Take heed to double your Files by half Ranks 60. By half Ranks to the right double your Files 61. March. 62. Halt 63. To the left as you were 64. March. 65. Halt 66. By half Ranks to the left double your Files 67. March. 68. Halt 69. To the right as you were 70. March. 71. Halt Every Division must double its Files in it self and the odd File must stand on its ground Take heed to contre-march by Files 72. By Files to the right about contre-march 73. March. 74. By Files to the left about contre-march 75. March. Take heed to contre-march by Ranks 76. By Ranks to the right contre-march 77. March. 78. Halt 79. By Ranks to the left contre-march 80. March. 81. Halt Take heed to close your Files 82. From the right and left close your Files to the Center 83. March. 84. Halt Take heed to close your Ranks 85. Close your Ranks to the Front. 86. March. Take heed to wheel 87. Wheel to the right 88. March. 89. Halt 90. Wheel to the right 91. March. 92. Halt 93. To the right about wheel 94. March. 95. Halt 96. Wheel to the left 97. March. 98. Halt 99. Wheel to the left 100. March. 101. Halt 102. To the left about wheel 103. March. 104. Halt Take heed to put your Ranks and Files at their former distance 105. Files to the right and left take your former distances 106. March. 107. Halt Take heed to put your Ranks at the former distance 108. Ranks as you were 109. March. 110. Halt Take heed to lay down your Arms. 111. Rest your Muskets 112. Order your Arms. 113. Lay down your Arms. Take heed to quit your Arms. 114. For Straw 115. March. 116. To your Arms. 117. Put up your Swords 118. Take up your Arms. 119. Rest your Muskets 120. Poyse your Muskets and advance your Pikes 121. Shoulder your Muskets FINIS