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Show Thefourth Bookeofthefrp}paves Cuari2§. himfelfeghe Gentle-zrieh of his Guard-robe,xiding before his Chariot; which wasifiy. ported with the gods efhis Natidn,caft and tunin pure goldthefethe atecedorie nsdid notiferue,but they feruedtheir turhes of thefesby changing their maffie-bo ditbinta thin portableand curranpcoyne,. Fheshicad of.thiss; Chariot waé ferwith preciousft With twolittle golden Idols,couered-with an open-wingéd+Eagle ofthe fame ones, The.hinderpart being raifed high wheronDarsus fate,hada coucring ofineftimamettall' bleyalue. This Ghariot ofthe king was followed with ten thonfand. Horfemen; their Lances plated with {filuer,and theirheads guilt; which-they meant not to: imbue it:the Me sedemonian blouds for feare of marting their beantie. He liadfort he proper Guard of his own perfon; two-hundredof the bloud Royall; :bloud:too Royall and precious to 10 be {piltby any valorous adventure, (am ofopinion that two: hundred fturdy: fel. lowes, like the Switzers, wouldihane idone.him: niore {eruice yoand thefe were backt with thirtie thoufand-foot-men;, after whom againe were led foure hundred fpare hor fes forthe king, which ifhe liad meant to haue vfed, he would hane marthalled fomewhat neater hims Nowfollowed the Reareward, the fame being led bySifjgambi the kings Mother, and by his Wife,drawnin glorious Chariots, followed bya great traine of Ladiestheir attendants onhorfe-backe, with fifteene Wagonsof the Kings children, andthe wiues ofthe Nobility, waited.on by two hundredand fiftie Concubines, anda world. ofNur fes and Euzuchs, moft fumptuoufly apparrelled.. By. which itthould feeme that Datins 5 thought that the Atacedonians had bin Comedians orTiamblers..forthis troope was far fitter to behold thofe {ports thanto be prefentat battailes. Betweenethefe andacom- panyof flight-atmedflaues, witha world ofVallets, was the kingstreafiure, charged on fixe hundred Milles.and three hundted Camels, brought, asit proued, to pay the a- cedonians In this fort caméethe May-game- King intothe field,in cumbred with amott va- neceflary traine ofStrum pets,attended with troupes afdiuers Nations, {peaking divers languagesand fortheir numbers impoffibleto be marfhalled'; and for themolt patt fo effeminiate,and fo tichin gold andin gatments.as the fame conld notbut haue encouregedthenakedft Nation ofthe vvorldagainftthem. "We finde itin daily experience, that alPdifconife ofmagnanimitie, ofNational! Vertue,of Religion, of Libertic, and 30 wharfoeuerelfe hath bin vvont to moueand incourage vertuous men, all with the common-Souldier;in comparifon offpoyleandriches. hath no force at Therich thips sr boorded yponall difaduantages; therich Townesare furioufly affaulted, & the plenttfull Countries willingly inuaded.Our Exnglifb nation haueattempted manyplace sin the Tedses,and run vpon théSpaniards head-long, in hope oftheir Royals ofplate, andPiftolets ; vwhich, had theybin put toit vponthe like difaduant in Ire/and,or in any poore Country,they would haue turned their Peeces and Pikesages againft their Commanders,contefting that they had bin brought without reafonto the and flaughter, Itis true that the warre is made vvillingly.and for the moft partButchery with goodfuccen, that is ordained againft the richeft Nations;toras the needie are alwaies aduentu plentic 1s wont tofhunne perill, and men that hate well to live, do ratherftudic how' liue we I, Imeane wealthily, than careto die(as they callitJho nourably. Car oa# my 4 rien a eaicner que des coups, volontiers if ayvapas, Noman makes hafle tothe marketwhet theres nothing tobe bought but blowes. * 3 ; Now ifalexander had beheld this preparationbeforehis confultation with his Soot faiers, he vould ‘have farisfied himfelfe by the out-fides of the Perfans, looked thtothe inttailes ofBeafts foi faccefle. For leaning the defcripti and neuct on of battell; which is indeed no-where wel defcribed neither for the confufion & ning away of thé Afians couldit be ) we haue enough by the flanghter that them.& bythe fewthat fell ofthe Macedonians, to informe ys what mannetof f was made, Forif it be true that threefcore thoufand Perfian footmen were fl battaile,witheen thoufand oftheir horfemen': Or/as Curtius {aith)an hund footmitn, with the fanie number of horfemen; and befides aines-taking in killing their enemies, than by any ftrokes receiued from doydaiidurreniaitineofthe-aneisevalour ofthe? fore- fathersthey would tieuerhatic foldifo good 'cheape,? and ‘atfo vile 2price; ‘the Mother, the Wife;the Daughtets; aad otherthe kings clikitet; ‘had theiowne honout Beene valued by them atnothing; aud thekings faferie'and tisenare'ae Yeffer ‘Darias' by. this time foutidit true, that Charide- musa danilhed Gretta of AthenHad told him whea hemmtades viewofhioArmy about Zabplomcowit, That che multitude which he had aifembled of divers Nations jichly aétitedsbutpoorely arated, would-be found more terrible'tothe Tshabitants sf the courtry, bwhomit pafieg by they: would! deaonrelthan co thie! Macedonians, vwhonr théy meant to affailes who being alloldatid obedieneSouldiers jimibatrailed in grofle fqua19 drons,which theyeall their Phalanx,yvell coueredwith Armour fordefetce,and fuirnithed with weapons for offetice ofgtéat aduantape;vvould makefo'litcle accompt ofhis delicarePerfans, louifig' their café and their palat,being withallilfarmed and vyorfedif. ciplined,asexceprit-would pleaft hinyto entertain¢hauing foprdat aboundance oftiex{ure todd it withall) afufiicient: namberof thefame Gracias, and foto endounter the Matedosians with men-ofequall courageshe wouldrepenchitt dnerlate,as taught bythe miletablefircceffe liketo follows 7 Butthis difcourfewas fovnpleafing to Darius' Cwho'had binaecuhtémed to nothing fo muchas:to his owne praifes andro nothing follittleas to heave truths as he commniaite ded that this poore Grecian fhould be prefently flaitte': vwho while hevwvas afundring ia the Torientors hand,vied this fpeech tothe king, That dlexander, againtt'whom' he a0 had giuen this good counfell, thould-affuredlyreuengehis death; «and laydeferued) pu nifhtiengvpon Darius for defpitinghis adbice. aCe Itvvasthe faying ofa Wife man» De/perarweins Principis falasefh,scuins aates-ita'fore mitefameyoralpera que vtilia, mec ynioyuam wifiliacundars accipiat That Princesfafetie is imaadperatecefe, whofe eaves inilze allahat tsprofitable tobe rea(barpe, awd willemtertaine pathing that ixenpleafant. o Shope Forliberticincounfellisthe life and effence of caumpel LibePexs confilg 6p ciws witas ae efentia,quacrestetonfilinm euanefrit, Deriasdid tikewifevatue av nothing the Aduice giver him bythe Gr2e/aa Gouldiets thatferued him, vvhovintreatéd ‘him not'to fight it the Streights'"Buthad they-beetié 30 Counfellers and directorsin than Warresas they were vnderlin 3s and. commanded ‘by others,they had vvith the helpe ofa good troupe Of horfé-men bin ableto hae oppo fed the forie of Alexanders without any-affittance ofitheerfae foot-men. For when DaMEWS Ouerthrownewith allhis cowardly and confufed rabble, thofe Oreblans, Vo der their Captaine Amynras held firme,aud marched awayin ordét, in defpight of the vanquithers.O1d'Souldiers are itor eafily difmayedvvereadein ‘Hiftories ancient and moderne,what braueretraits haue-bin made ‘by:theni, though whereft ofthe ‘Army in Which they hauc ferued;hath bin' broken. , Atthe battaile of Rawennay vvherethe Imperiallsyveré beatenby the Freweh, ‘a' fqriae dron of Spaniards old Souldiers,came offvabrokenand vndilin ayed i vvhom whet Cie 4° #0nde Foix Duke of Nemures, and Nephewto Lewis the twelfthcharged) as holding the viorie notentire by their efcape,he was ouer-turned arid flainein the''place. For It Strucly Gaid of thofe men,who,by being acquainted with dangers, fe: ‘thermnot, hat) Neglelepericuloiniminentis mali opus ipfum quantumnis difficile we predianter 3 They bee i Pout the bufixese itSelfebow hardfoeugr it be, notlanding to confider of the danger, whic, Foe mifehiefe hanging oucr their beads.mnay bring :andas trucly ‘ot thofe that kaow the Warres but by heare-fay.9udd valentesfant Cr pramalentes ante peritula, in ipfis tamen pe"Mulls difeddunt . They hawe abilitie endiah,andtofpare, till dangers appeare ; but whenperill Mdeced comes they oct them gone. ThefeGracians alfo that made the retra &aduifed tine of Me/ / Darias to retire ; his; Armyinto the e fields via, to the end that -dlexander being entred into thofe lonians_on all fides-with his his huge Armie into parts,not this flaughter, for taken prifoners,whilé Of Alexanders Armiethe te mifcarried but twoh {core ofall forts, of which numbers Arianus and otherHiftorians cutoff alr halfe: 1 do verily beledue,that this fmall numberratherdied with the ou of theHiftory of the World, shexcby he might baue fought many rs at once than might haue beene' well mar el contraty tothe cowardly affeétions of the ed. "But this counfel v . petites aan the Grecians which gauethe aduice, toinuiro om ‘ sthey fperfwaded Darius al and i 7 " Sutthemin . pieces as Traitors. J of God " < Theinfinite wifedome alwaies dorhnot one ftroke of ht no greater n . urcly if the Perfien Nation (atthis time degenerate & the bafeft ofthe Wor! workalw , by |