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Show Thefourth Bookéof thefirftpart Cuarass ofdietjand.want,eating fometimes too little, and fometimes too, much, fometimes reofing themfelues.in beds, and more. oftneron,the-cold) ground. Thefe and the. like Prune alterations bring many difeafes vponall Nations out of their.owne Qountrlesi Therefore ifiDarins had kept the Macedoniaps.,but awhile. from, meat and fleepe, and refuling to giue,or take battaile, had wearied: them with his light horfe, asthe. Per- thians afcerward did.the, Remans; he might; perchance hauefaued:his ownelife, and his eftate: Forit was one ofthe greateft incquragementsgiven by -dlex4nder, tothe. dace. deviansinthevhirdandJaft fatall battaile,that they were to fight withall the ftrength of Perfiaat once : ‘ SUG Tt LPROD to Xerxesswhen he inuaded Greece and fought abroad,in being beaten, loft onelyhis men, butDarsas beinginuaded bythe Greekes,and fighting at-home, by being beaten, loft his kingdome,Peri¢les though the Lacedemonians burntallin.dtticato the Gates..ofAthens, yet could not be-drawne.to. hazzardja battaile: for the inuaded. ought-euermore to fight. vpon the. aduantage;oftime, and. place.Becaufe we reade' Hiftoriesto informe ourynderftanding: by the-examples, therein.found,. wee will.giue fomeinftances of thofe thatshane perifhed by. aduenturing in their own countries, to, charge am) inuading Aimies;The Romans, byfighting with Hannibal, vvere brought to the brinke of Cuaria§.4.oftheHiftorie ofthe World. wvould hauebeene conurighed into ftrong Townes«)So fhould his!Armics\afit- were driuen fromthe place of adnantage,haue found good entertainment within walled ‘Ci- ties; and himfelfe withihis horfe-men haue had theleffe worke indeftroyingthatlittle whichayas left abroad-Handling the matter'as he didjhégaue the-Gilvcians caufe towith for Alexander's: comming,arid asigreat cafe to'the/Keepers of theipaffage notto" hindér it, Fot cowardsare wife in apprehending all formes ofdanger. Thefe Guardians of the Streights, clearing that: Arfenes, madeall haftetoioyne himfelfe with Darint, burning downeallasih¢ went,likeonedefpaiting ofthe defence,beganto prow circum{pedjand to thinke that furely their Generall,who gaue asiloft tlie ‘Countrie behind their backes, hadexpofed themfelueswato certaine death;as metthat were good for nothing elfe 10 but to dullithe Atacedonian words.WhereforenoraffeGing to di¢ for their Prince ‘ané Countrie(which honour they fawthatArfénes himfelfe could well forbeare)they {pcedily followed the foot-fteps of their General] gleaning after his Hatueft. Thus Alexander without labourgot boththe entrance ofCilicia, abandonedby the cowardife of his Enemies,and the whole Prouince that had beene alienated fromthe Perfien fide by theit indifcretion. their deftruétion. | Pompey was welladuifed fora while, when he: gate, Ce/ar ground.) but whenby the dmportynity, of his Gaptaines he aduenturedto fight at Phar/alia, he loft the batraileloft the freedome of Rome,and his ownelife. Ferdinand.inthe Conquett ofNaples, would needsfight a bartaile withthe Freach to §. 1111 Ofthevnwarlike Avmie lenied by Darius againf? Alexander. The unadiifidcourfes which Datius tookin thes Expedion. He ts danguifbed at I(fiu;where his Mother,wiferand Childrete 20 are madeprifaners. Offome thingsfollowing the battaile of I[Jus. his confafion;though iswastold him by,aman of found iudgement,thatthofe Counlels [ee meane feafon Darixs approched;who(as Cartiws reports)had compounded an The Conftable ofFrance madefruftratethe. mighty preparation of charlesthe Fift, tions; Ia/ine mufters themat three hundred thoufand Foot,and a hundred thoufand which promife furetic:inallrhings,are honourable enough. whenhe.inuaded: Proueace,by vvafting the|Countrie,and forbearingtofight; fe did the Duke of Alya wearicthe French in Naples, anddiffolue the boifterous Armic of the Prince ofOrengein the low-Countries, ‘The Leigers, contiatic tothe aduice oftheir Generall, would needs fighta battaile with the 2orgonians,inuading their Country,and.could not be perfwaded to linger the 3 time,and flay their aduantage;butthey loft eight andicw enty thoufand vpon the place. Philip ofValois fer yponking Edward at Che/sie; and King Lebx (when the Englib were well-neeretired out,and wouldin fhort time by an order!y purfuit haue beene walted tonothing)conftrained the blacke Prince with great furie, neere Poitiers, to 1oyne bat taile with bim :But allmen' know what, lamentable fucceffe thefe two Freaeh Kings found, |Gharles the fift of Francemade anotherkind of Fabian-Warfare;and thoughthe Englifo burnt. and wafted. many. places, yet this King held his refolutionto forbeart blowes, and followed,his aduice,whichtold him, That the Exg/ifb could neuer get his inheritance by fmoake 3-and itis reported by Bekoyand Herras/t,that King Edward was a wvontto fay of thischar/es,that he wan fromhimthe Dutchie of Guiem without euer pur* tingon his Armour. But where God hath a purpofeto deftroy,wife men growfhort-liued, and the charge of things is committed ynto fuchas either cannot fee whatis for their good, or know « Nothowto put in execution any found aduice. The courfe which Ademmen had pi poundedmuftinall appearance of reafon haue broughtthe Asacedonianto a great pes: plexity,and made him ftand till a while ar the Streights of Cilicia, doubting whetherst Were more fhamefull to returne,or dangerous to proceede. For had Cappadact & Papiiee Soniebin watted whilelt alexander was farre offjand the Streights of Cilicia been deter: ded by Arfenes,Gouernorofthat Prouince, with thebeft af his forces : hunget WO"¢o not haue {uffered the enemy,to ftay the triall ofall meanes that might be thought Vp offorcing thar paflage;or if the place could not haue bin maintained, yet might ps at better Jcifure haue bin fo throughly foiled, that the heart of his Armie fhould haus beene broken,by feeking out miferies bypainfull trauaile. ee But Arfeves leauinga Rall numberto defendtheStreights, tooke the bett ofhis Pte mic with him, to wafte and{poilethe Countrie;orrather,as may feeme,to find ae fomeworke, by pretence ofwhich he might honeftly run further away from Aiex#*"» He fhould rather haue aduentured his perfonin cuftody of the Streights, where mightperhaps hauc faucd the Pronince;and inthe meanetime,all that wasnt : Armie ofmore than two hundred and ninetie thoufand Souldiers,out ofdiuers Na- Horle; P/starch at fixe hundred thoufand. Thetannerof his comming on,as Curtins defcribes it, was rather likea masker than aman of Warre,and like one that tooke more care fo fet out his.glorie and riches, than toprouide forhis ownfafety,perf{wading himfelfe,as it feemed,to beat Alexander with pompe and fumptuous Pageants. Forsbefore the Armie there was carried the holy fire, jo Which the Perfians worthipped,attended by their Pri¢/s,and after themthree hundred and threefcore and flue young-men, an{wering the numberof thedaies ofthe yeare,couered with Scarlet ; then, the Chariot of Jupster drawnewith white Horfes,with their Riders cloathed inthe fame colour,with rods ofgoldin their hands; And afterit, the Horfe ofthe Susne: Nextafterthefefollow ten {uumptuous Chariots, in-laied and garnifht with filuer and gold;and then the Vanrguardoftheir horfe,compounded oftwelue feuerall Nations,which the better to auoid confufion,didhardly voderftand eachothers language,and thefe marfhalled in the head of the reft, being beaten, might ferue very fitl¥ to diforderall that followed them;in thetaile of thefe Horfesthe Regiment of foot Matched,with the Perfiams called immortal, becaufe if any died, the number was _preps fently lupplied ; & thefe were armed with chaines ofgold,& their coates with thefame mettall imbrodered, whereofthe fleeues were garnifhed with pearle; baites; either to catch the hungrie A¢acedonians withall, or to perfwade them that it were great ing iuilitie fo cutand to deface fuch glorious garments. But it was well faid: Sumptuose inducius milesfe virtute[uperiorems aljs non exiftimet, cumin pralys operteat fortitudine animi, MO Veitimentis muniri, quoniam hoftes vefibus non debeantur, Let no man thinke that hee éxttedeth theft in valour,whom he exceedeth ingay garments , for it by men armed with fortitude ofminde,and not by the apparrell they pus on, that enemies are. beaten, And it was Petchance from the Roman Papyrins that this aduice was borrowed, who when he fought *Bainlt the Sammites in that fatall battaile, whereinthey all {ware cytherto preuaileor ysthirty thouland ofthem hauing apparrelled themfelues in white garments,with high crefts and grear plumesoffeathers,badethe Reman Souldicrs tolayafideall feare: Wom smicriftas uulnera facere, Cr per picla atgque aurata [outa tranfire Romanum pilum, For thefe blamed crefts would wound nobody, and the Romanepile would bare holes jn painted and gildedbields. Se : fo fecond this Court-like company,fifteene thoufand were appointed morerich and ttering than the former, but apparrelled like Women (belike ro breed the more tere Mur ®thefe were honoured withtheTitle of the Kings Kinfmen. Then SAE vee himfelfe, |