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Show - ·. 6Jf the JidRAn-ceineni.rfLearnin$, 1h~1n to· doe it;. Ado!efcens ,.tlttritts·eft mih:, hoc dtcr?re, quAm·fttrere. A lpeech comp,ou?ded of the greatefi terreur,and gF~atefi clemeqc1e~ that could pro .. c eeae out of clie mouth of man. · t . • Bnt to ret.nr11e and corudude with hitn, it is eui .. , · dent Hitnfelfe knewc well his owne perfet1ion in. learning, and.tooke it vpou hitn; as appeare~~vv hen . . vpon occafion,that [orne fpakei what a ~ra~ge· refo lution it was in LtecitU Sylla., to refigne hts l)tttature; }le fcoff.1ng at him,to his owne aduantage,anfyveredi 'I; hat Syl/a could not skill of ~e.sters ,~ and t..her~fore kne~ not hoJV to Dic1Ate.. , And here.it were fit toleaue this point)tou~hin g·. tl1e concurrence. of milirarie .v.eru1e and .learning ;. (for what example fhould. come WJth any grace,af~ ter tho(e two~ of\_Ale:;c.ander and c,ef{tr) WQre it not. . in regatd: of t.he· ra~·.eneffe of circnmfiance, that 1 · finde in one other particular; as that which did fo, . fodenly paffe, frotn extreame fcorne, to extreame· 'wo.nder: andJt is of X en:~··:~1on the P hi!o~opher _, w hol .\vent from SocrateJ Schoole into :v/ (ta,~iFl the expe· dition bf cyrttJ ihe·yot1nger, againfi King LA rtax-erxes': ifhisXcnop.l~o~ at that time, wa~ v.erie yang,, . and.: neuer had· {eene· the· Warres before : neither had·ariy commauna in ~he · Ar-mie,bttt ~nely folloW· · ed theWarre; as a·volu~ta~ie,f<?f~Heloueand con· tterfation·of ProxenttJ his friend. nee ·was prefent· when Falin1!4. came in· Me[age fforit the great-King, to the Grecians ; after that Cjrw) was Haine in the·. fi~d1 and ~hey a·h ahdfuli of men left to thetnfelu'es.. · · · · in~ <Thefirfl 'Boo~~ 41 in the middefl of the K.ings Ter~ritotie.s,cut off from . their Cou~try by many nauigable ~iuer.sjand many· hundred miles : :J"he, Mellage im,ported, that they lhould deliuer vp their Armes, .and fi1bmit· thetnfelues to the. Kings mercy~ To which Me!fage bef0re anfWere,yvas made,diuers oft he Army c6ferredfami1iarly with Ft~linus; and amongft the refiX enophon happe~ed .to fay: tllhy ttlintu, wehauenowhut thefe two thtnges left; our Armes, and our Vertue :. and if we yeeldvp our Arryes, how {hall we make vfe of /JUT J? ertue? - Whereto Falintu (millng ·on him, fa yd.; Jf·J ht not deceitted, yo ttf!g Gcntleman,yott arc an t.Athenian; and l . beleeue,;'ou .ftu.die Philufophie., 11nd it is pretty thatyot~ foy; ·but yort are met'ch ahu fld, if y tJt~ rl~.tnke JDllr 1Je. tue can withftand the Kingspr1wer: Here was ihe fcor.ne; the -wonder f~ll?wed; which ·was, that .. this young Scholler, or Phil~fophe.r, after all .the <2aptaines were murthered 111 par.I ye by treafon, :con dueled 'thofe~e~ Th?ufandfoote, thro:1gh the heart o£all the Ktnges htgh Countreys'frotn B~/Jilun to·Grecia in f~fe~_ie, in defpight ~fall t:he Kingsforca=s,to theaftontfument~ of t.h.e ~orld, and the enconragemenc ofthe.Gr.eclan~ln nn~es· fucceeding) t0 make inua. Lion vpon the Kmgs ?f P.erfia; as was afier Pt~rpofid byit~:fon the :Fhe~ah ·attempted by A£tfi au; the ~artan~ and atchteneCl by Alexander the lvJacedoDtan ; all> ~pon tbe·ground of the· Att ·~f th~t young &holler.. · .. r;. ·~ : Tq proceede now from imperiall and miJitarie srertue) .tom~ralland·prinar·e ver.t ue· firft itli an af. . ) . ) ·L 2. lured |
