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Show of War 41lr/ Peace ken, but cannot be performed. For, nen):ler would that divine man have given fuch a charge .. , nor wife law-givers · have requir'd it, if it had been in theu conceit impoffible. Befides, we mufl: ne· cdfaril y grant it may be done, which we '1-. Sic ~ tS~ic- fee has been done t . Therefore have we ceard. iliffmt, brouoht examples: whereunto this emi-l1b. I 6. . nem1 :>o ne 1• s wort hy to be ad d ed , w h't enL ,. Lib: 4. c. T. Frontinu.r * mentions out of .Scaurus: See .sp~rtun That a Fruit-bearina Tree, enclofed of ~hger s fe- . . h b d f l:>h C h ·verity for a w1thm t e oun s u t c amp, t enexr ftoln Cock. day after the Armies removal was found . unzather'd. Livr, when he had related the ill deportment of the Roman Soul~ iiers fn the Camp at Sucron, and that fome of them went abroad by night pii· Jaging the quiet people cf the Coumrey, addeth, All this was done by the lutl and licence of the Souldier, nothi~g by Mi- 1Je l'rttl. Prb.litary Dilcipline. In one of Cicero's Ora· . tions againfl Verre.r: Thy care hath 6ecn to pillflge and vex the Torr~.•1S of our peaceable funds. I cannot here omit the opinion of Divines, which I think molt true:. ~6itl. 7f.egists That a King, who pays not his Souldicrs ·~ aa. f11pcnz. duely, is not onely bound to the Soul· difp.Jl. dub.7. dicrs for the loffes followino thence, buc · n. 'f. alfo to his Subjc'Cl:s and r>Neighbours, whom the needy Souldiers have plun· dered and abufed. On the other fide,· ic is the ·.duty of. thofe that abfhin from VVar, to do nothina for the fhengthen• ina of him who mai~tains a bad Caufe, /:) or, or, whereby the motions of him, that wageth a jutt VVar , may be retarded. And in a doubtfull cafe , they ought to . iliew themfelves equal* to both, in per-* Eztmplfnn mitting paffage , iu · affording provillon nobile vide If-' for the Legions , in not relieving the be- P.ud Parutttm , ficgc:d. The Corcyreans in Thucydides hbLi~: 1 • Jay, It is the duty of the .Athenians , if they would not fide with any party ~ ei-thc: r to prohibit{{ the Corinthians from railing Souldie1·s out of .Attica , o,.permit them to do the fame. Ic was Qbjected by the Romam againfi Philip King of the M~tcedonians, that the league was vio-lated by him two waies, both b~caufe he did jn juries to the fellows of the Roman people, and becaufe he allifi:ed the Ene-my with aids and ~noney. The fame •· , thmgs are urged by Titus Q.rtintiu.r in his Conference with Na6is: Ytt, thou fayjf, I kave not properly violated you, ' and your ~ , friemljhip an~faciety. Hall' often jhall I yrovohe contrary? In jhort, FVh~rcin i.r frievd[htp Vto/ated? By thefe two things eltcially: If thou haft my friends fw-enemje.r: #[ thou art a fi'tcnd to my tMmie.r. In AgathitU we read, He is an Lib. 3· mcmy, who doth what plcafeth an ene-iny. And in Procopiu.r, H<;. is reckoned Gou~ •. 1. in the Enemies Army, who fupplyeth tbem with ,~hat is properly 1,1fefull for the VVar * • 'L. u£-miliu.r Pr.itQr * ac- * Demo!l:l•e· aet: ~itafocit & maehinatJtr, quibus ego tapi. pof!im, etiamjinec friii,JIIcjaculwnemitt~, hDftismihieft. * Liv. ~zb. 31· cliied |