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A19255	The character of vvarre, or The image of martiall discipline contayning many vsefull directions for musters & armes, and the very first principles in discipline, the ground postures, all the military motions now vsed ... By Edvvard Cooke.	Cooke, Edward, fl. 1626-1631.	1626 (1626)	STC 5668; ESTC S108654	60,094	84

he had taken and so faint with the great wounds he had vpon him But Martius answered them that it was not for Conquerors to yeeld nor to bee faint-hearted and thereupon began afresh to chase them that fled vntill such time as the Army of the Enemies was vtterly ouerthrowne and numbers of them slaine and taken prisoners The next morning betimes Martius went to the Consul Cominius who highly commended him for his Valour and proffered him many gi●ts but M●rtius refused all Therefore the Consul did order and decree that he should henceforth be called Coriolanus in lieu of the noble seruice he had done for his Lion-like courage T●u● much of Valour The next Vertue required in a Souldier is Loyalty Loyalty Loyalty is a transcendent Vertue and passeth my power to expresse It consisteth in the faithfulnes of Subiects to their Prince of Souldiers to their General of one friend to another For without faith no friendship Faith is the band of all humane society the foundatiō of all Iustice aboue all things ought to be religiously obserued The Romanes were wont to exact it from their Souldiers by an oath the fo●me whereof in Vegetius time did run thus Vegeti●●●●b 2. cap. 5. We sweare by God the Father by Christ his Sonne and by the Holy Ghost to do all thing valiantly which the Emperour or Prince doth command vs we will neuer forsake the warre neither refuse death for the Romane Common-wealth This shewes what manner of man a Souldier should be loyall and faithfull such a one by nature not by Arte or obligation therefore let all Souldiers striue to attaine this excellent vertue of Loyalty which will so arme them against all the temptations of the Enemy as he shall neuer be able to make them Traitors ☜ What Souldier would become a Traitor to betray his Generall or Captaine into the hands of his Enemy if he did consider the penalty of the same it may bee from him that sets him on worke I will instance it in the Argyraspides They loue the Treason but they hate the Traitor Plutarch in the life of Eumenes Plutarch in the life of Pausanias The Argyraspides were old Souldiers of Macedon who did deliuer their good Captaine Eumones aliue into the hands of Antigonus his deadly enemy But Antigonus who set them a worke commanded euery mothers sonne of them to be slaine in recompence of their Treason saith Plutarch in the life of Eumenes Treason is a horrid fact and the iustice of God will not let it passe vnpunished be the committer neuer so great I will instance it in Pausanias This Pausanias was Generall of the Lacedemonians when the Persians ouer-ran Greece and wasted all the Country before them he receiued of Xerxes King of Persia fiue hundred Talents of gold promising him to betray Sparta but his Treason being discouered Agesilaus his father pursued him into the Temple of Minerua called Chalciaecos where he fled for Sanctuary where he caused the doores of the Temple to be mured vp with bricke and famished him to death his mother tooke his corps and cast it forth to the dogs not suffering it to bee buried saith Plutarch in the life of Pausanias These examples being set before their eyes will not only make them to detest Treason but to become more faithfull vnto their Commanders Of all Souldiers none euer were more faithfull to their Commanders than the Romans ye shall not read in any History of any faithfuller Souldiers than they haue beene When their Consull Crassus was endangered by the Parthian Arrowes which flew thicke about his eares they did compasse him about and brought him into the middest of them then covering him round with their Targets they told him That neuer Arrow of the Parthians should touch his body before they were all slaine one after another fighting it out to the last man in his defence Plutarch in the life of Otho the Emperour Plutarch reports a more admirable act of theirs than this The Emperour Otho saith he was forsaken of all his Captaines who had yeelded themselues to Vitellus the new Emperour his Souldiers notwithstanding forsooke him nor neither went they to submit themselues to their enemies the Conquerours neither tooke they any regard of themselues to see their Emperor in that despaire but all ioyntly together went vnto his lodging and called for their Emperour when hee came out they fell downe at his feet prostrated thus on the ground they did kisse his hands with the teares running downe their cheekes and besought him not to forsake and leaue them to their enemies but to command their persons whilest they had one drop of blood left in their bodies to doe him seruice ☞ Then one of the poore Souldiers drawing out his sword said vnto him Know O Caesar that all my Companions are determined to dye in this sort for thee and so slew himselfe These were faithfull and loyall Souldiers worthy to bee remembred to all posterities They were constant to their friends faithfull to one another not refusing death for the Romane Common-wealth Let all Souldiers imitate them in faithfulnesse Faithfull Souldiers are a Captaines bulwarke Caesar was safer in the Campe then in the Senate Thus much of loyalty The next quality required from a Souldier is freedome from bribes It is a dishonourable thing for a Souldier to receiue a Bribe and it is the more dishonourable because the law of Armes doth forbid it wherefore doth the law of Armes strictly forbid it with a penalty to the same but because those men whose nature is most prone to take bribes are the most fittest to be made Traytors On them the enemy will lay golden bookes to draw them to his purpose vpon any occasion Thus Xerxes dealt with Arthmius Plutarch in the life of Themisticles borne at Zelb●a who by gold was to corrupt the Graecians to make him way into Greece But Arthmius was thereupon noted of infamy not alone but his children with their posterity after Thus he dealt with Pausanius Generall of the Lacedemonians Xerxes corrupted Pausanius with 500 talents of gold to betray Sparta Plutarch in his Morals and in the life of Pausanius to whom he gaue fiue hundred Talents of gold to betray Sparta into his hands but Pausanius being too much gorged with gold was mured vp in a Temple and famished to death as I haue already declared Good reason therefore it is that the law of Armes should so strictly forbid the taking of b●ibes seeing the whole Army may be endangered thereby And the law of Armes doth likewise include all acceptance of gifts as vnlawfull for any to receiue of a professed enemy that is or hath beene or may be guessed at to bee hereafter whether they be giuen him in lieu of his desert or to recompence him for his Ambassage he must not I say accept them of him forfeare of bringing himselfe into danger Haue not many bin brought into suspition by it