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A07711	The common-vvealth of Vtopia containing a learned and pleasant discourse of the best state of a publike weale, as it is found in the government of the new ile called Vtopia. Written by the right Honourable, Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellour of England.; Utopia. English	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; Robinson, Ralph, b. 1521.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 18098; ESTC S112890	95,095	304

last of all they joyne to their owne Citizens Among whom they give to one of tried vertue and powers the rule governance and conduction of the whole Army Vnder him they appoint two other which whiles he is safe be both private and out of office But if he be taken or slaine the one of the other succedeth him as it were by inheritance And if the second miscarry then the third taketh his roome least that as the chance of Battaile is uncertaine and doubtfull the jeopardy of death of the Captaine should bring the whole army in hazard They choose souldiours out of every City those which put forth themselves willingly For they thrust no man forth into warre against his will because they beleeve if any man be fearefull and faint-hearted of nature he will not onely doe no manfull and hardy act himselfe but also be occasion of cowardnesse to his fellowes But if any Battaile be made against their owne Country then they put these cowards so that they be strong bodied in Ships among other bold harted men Or else they dispose them vpon the w●ls frō whence they may n●● flie Thus what for shame that their enemies be at hand and what for because they be without hope of running away they forget all feare And many times extreame necessity turneth cowardnesse into prowesse and manlinesse But as none o● them is thrust forth of his Country into warre against his will so women that be willing to accompany their husbands in time of warre be not prohibited o● letted Yea they provoke and exhort them to it with praises And in set field the wives doe stand every one by their owne husbands side Also every man is compassed next about with his owne children kinsfolkes and alliance That they whom nature chiefly mooveth to mutuall succour thus standeth together may helpe one another It is a great reproach and dishonesty for the husband ●●●ome home without his wife or the wife without her husband or the sonne without his father And therefore if the other part sticke so hard by it that the battaile come to their hands it is fought with great slaughter and blood-shed even to the utter destruction of both parties For as they make all the meanes and shifts that may be to keepe themselves from the necessity of fighting or that they may dispatch the battaile by their hired souldiors so when there is no remedy but that they must needs fight themselves then they doe as couragiously fall to it as before whiles they might they did wisely avoid and refuse it Nor they be not most fierce at the first brunt But in continuance by little and little their fierce courage encreaseth with so stubborne and obstinate minds that they will rather die then give backe an ●nch For that surety of living which every man hath at home being joyned with no carefull anxiety or remembrance how their posterity shall live after them for this pensivenesse oftentimes breaketh and abateth couragious stomackes making them stout and hardy and disdainfull to be conquered Moreover their knowledge in chiualry and feates of armes putteth them in a good hope Finally the wholesome and vertuous opinions wherein they were brought vp even from their childhood partly through learning and partly through the good ordinance and lawes of their Weale publique augment and encrease their manfull courage By reason whereof they neither set so little store by their lives that they will rashly and vnadvisedly cast them away nor they be not so farre in lewd and fond love therewith that they will shamefully covet to keepe them when honesty biddeth leave them When the battaile is hottest and in all places most fierce and fervent a band of chosen and picked yong men which be sworne to liue and dye together take vpon them to destroy their adversaries captaine Whom they invade now with privy wiles now by open strength At him they strike both neare and farre off He is assailed with a long and a continuall assault fresh men still comming in the wearied mens places And seldome it chanceth vnlesse he saue himselfe by fiying that he is not either slain or else taken prisoner and yeelded to his enemies aliue If they win the field they persecute not their enemies with the violent rage of slaughter For they had rather take them aliue then kill them Neither doe they follow the chase and pursuit of their enemies but they leaue behinde them one part of their hoast in battaile aray vnder their standards Insomuch that if all their whole army be discomfited and over-come saving the reward and that they therewith atchieue the victory then they had rather let all their enemies scape then to follow them out of array For they remember it hath chanced vnto themselves more then once the whole power and strength of their hoast being vanquished and put to flight whiles their enemies rejoycing in the victory haue persecuted them flying some one away and some another a small company of their men lying in ambush there ready at all occasions haue suddainely risen vpon them thus dispersed and scattered out of array and through presumption of safety vnadvisedly pursuing the chase and haue incontinent changed the fortune of the whole battaile and spite of their teethes wresting out of their hands the sure and vndoubted victory being a little before conquered have for their part conquered the conquerers It is hard to say whether they be craftier in laying an ambush or wittier in avoiding the same You would thinke they ●●tend to file when they meane nothing lesse And contrariwise when they goe about that purpose you would beleeve it were the least part of their thought For if they perceive themselves overmatched in number or closed in too narrow a place then they remove their campe either in the night season with silence or by some policy they deceive their enemies or in the day time they retire backe so softly that it is no lesse jeopardy to meddle with them when they give backe then when they presse on They fence and fortifie their campe surely with a deepe and a broad trench The earth thereof is cast inward Nor they doe not set drudges and slaves a worke about it It is done by the hands of the souldiours themselves All the whole Army worketh upon it except them that keepe watch and ward in armor before the trench for suddaine adventures Therefore by the labour of so many a large trench closing in a great compasse of ground is made in lesse time then any man would beleeve Their Armour or hardnesse which they weare is sure and strong to receive stroakes and handsome for all moovings and gestures of the body insomuch that it is not unweldy to swimme in For in the discipline of their war-fare among other feats they learne to swimme in harnesse Their weapons be arrowes aloofe which they shoot both strongly and surely not only footmen but also horsemen At hand stroakes they vsed not

it scarcely euer chanceth that the most vertuous among vertuous which in respect only of his vertue is advanced to so high a dignity can fall to vice wickednesse And if it should chance indeed as mans nature is mutable and fraile yet by reason they be so few and promoted to no might nor power but onely to honour it were not to be feared that any great dammage by them should happen ensue to the common-wealth They haue so rare and few Priests least if the honour were communicated to many the dignity of the order which among them now is so highly estetmed should run in contempt Specially because they thinke it hard to find many so good as to be meete for that dignity to the execution and discharge wherof it is not sufficient to be indued with meane vertues Furthermore these Priests be not more esteemed of their owne Countrey men then they be of forreigne and strange Countries Which thing may hereby plainly appeare And I thinke also that this is the cause of it For whiles the armies be fighting together in open field they a little beside not farre off kneele vpon their knees in their hallowed vestments holding vp their hands to heaven praying first of all for peace next for victory of their owne part but to neither part a bloudy victory If their Host get the vpper hand they runne into the maine Battaile and restraine their owne men from slaying and cruelly pursuing their vanquished enemies Which enemies if they doe but see them and speake to them it is enough for the safeguard of their lives And the touching of their cloathes defendeth and saveth all their goods from ravine and spoile This thing hath advanced them to so great worship and true Majesty among all Nations that many times they have as well preserved their owne Citizens from the cruell force of their enemies as they have their enemies from the furious rage of their owne men For it is well knowne that when their owne Army hath recoiled and in despaire turned backe and runne away their enemies fiercely pursuing with slaughter and spoile then the Priests comming betweene have stayed the murder and parted both the hoasts So that peace hath beene made and concluded betweene both parts vpon equall and indifferent conditions For there was never any Nation so fierce so cruell and rude but they had them in such reverence that they counted their bodies hallowed and sanctified and therefore not to be violently and unreverently touched They keepe holy the first and last day of every Moneth and yeare dividing the yeare into Moneths which they measure by the course of the Moone as they doe the yeare by the course of the Sunne The first dayes they call in their language Cinimernes and the last Tapermernes the which words may be interpreted Primifest and Finifest or else in our speech first feast and last feast Their Churches be very gorgious not onely of fine and curious workmanship but also which in the fewnesse of them was necessary very wide and large and able to receiue a great company of people But they be all somewhat darke Howbeit that was not done through ignorance in building but as they say by the counsell of the Priests Because they thought that overmuch light doth disperse mens cogitations whereas in dimme and doubtfull light they be gathered together and more earnestly fixed vpon religion and devotion which because it is not there of one sort among all men and yet all the kinds and fashions of it though they be sundry and manifold agree together in the honor of divine nature as going divers wayes to one end therefore nothing is seene or heard in the Churches but that seemeth to agree indifferently with them all If there be a distinct kind of Sacrifice peculiar to any severall sect that they execute at home in their owne houses The common sacrifices be so ordered that they be no derogation nor prejudice to any of the private sacrifices and religions Therefore no Image of any GOD is seene in the Church to the intent it may be free for every man to conceiue GOD by their religion after what likenesse and similitude they will They call vpon no peculiar name of GOD but onely Mythra In the which word they all agree together in one nature of the divine Majesty whatsoever it be No prayers be vsed such as every man may boldly pronounce without the offending of any Sect. They come therefore to the Church the last day of every Moneth and yeare in the evening yet fasting there to give thankes to GOD for that they have prosperously passed over the yeare or Moneth whereof that holiday is the last day The next day they come to the Church earely in the morning to pray to God that they may have good fortune and successe all the New yeare or Moneth which they doe vse to begin of that same holy day But in the holy dayes that be the last dayes of the Moneths and yeares before they come to the Church the wives fall downe prostrate before their husbands feet at home and the children before the feet of their parents confessing and acknowledging themselves offenders either by some actuall deed or by omission of their duty and desire pardon for their offence Thus if any cloud of priuy displeasure was risen at home by this satisfaction it is over-blowne that they may be present at the Sacrifices with pure and charitable minds For they be afraid to come there with troubled consciences Therefore if they know themselves to beare any hatred or grudge towards any man they presume not to come to the sacrifices before they have reconciled themselves and purged their consciences for feare of great vengeance and punishment for their offence When they be come thither the men goe into the right side of the Church and the women into the left side There they place themselves in such order that all they which be of the male-kind in every houshold sit before the good man of the house and they of the female kind before the good wife Thus it is fore-seene that all their gestures and behaviours be marked and observed abroad of them by whose authority and discipline they be governed at home This also they diligently see unto that the younger evermore be coupled with his elder least children being joyned together they should passe over the time in childish wantonnesse wherein they ought principally ●o conceive a religious devout feare towards GOD which is the chiefe and almost the only incitation to vertue They kill no living beast in sacrifice nor they thinke not that the mercifull clemencie of GOD doth dwell in bloud and slaughter which hath given life to beasts to the intent they should live They burne frankensence and other sweet savors and light also a great number of waxe candles and tapers not supposing this geere to be any thing availeable to the divine nature as neither the prayers