་་ dant and fearleffe courage, which being temper'd with feasonable lectures and precepts to them of true fortitude, and patience, will turn into a native and heroic valour, and make them hate the cowardife of doing wrong. They must be also practiz'd in all the locks and gripes of wraftling, wherein Englishmen were wont to excell, as need may often be in fight to tugge, to grapple, and to clofe. And this perhaps will be anough, wherein to prove and heat their fingle Atrength. The interim of unfweating themselves regularly, and convenient reft before meat may both with profit and delight be taken up in recreating and compofing their travail'd fpirits with folemn and divine harmonies of mufick heard, heard, or learnt; either while the skilful Organist plies his grave and fancied def-. cant in lofty fugues, or the whole symphony with artfull and unimaginable touches adorn and grace the well-ftudied cords of fome choife compofer; fome times the Lute, or foft organ stop waiting on elegant voices either to religious, martiall, or civill ditties; which if wife men & prophets be not extremely out, have a great power over difpofitions and manners, to fmooth and make them. gentle from ruftick harfhneffe and diftemper'd paffions. The like alfo would not be unexpedient after meat to affift and cherish nature in her firft concoction, and fend their mindes backe to study in good tune and fatisfaction. Where hav ing follow'd it clofe under vigilant eyes till about two hours before fupper, they are by a fudden alarum or watch word, to be call'd out to their military motions, under fkie or covert, according to the feafon, as was the Romane wont; first on foot, then as their age permits, on horse back, to all the art of cavalry; That having in fport, but with much exactneffe, and dayly mufter, ferv'd out the rudiments of their Souldiership in all the skill of embattailing, marching, encamping, fortifying, befeiging and battering, with all the helps of ancient and modern ftratagems, Tactiks and warlike maxims, they may as it were out of a long warre come forth renowned and perfect Commanders in the fervice of their country. They would not then, if they were trufted with fair and hopefull armies, fuffer them for want of just and wife difcipline to fhed away from about them like fick feathers, though they be never so oft fuppli'd; they would not fuffer their empty and unrecrutible Colonells of twenty men in a company, to quaffe out, or convay into fecret hoards, the wages of a délufive lift, and a miferable remnant: yet in the mean while to be overmafter'd with a fcore or two of drunkards, the only fouldiery left about them, or elfe to comply with all rapines and violences. No certainly, if they knew ought of that knowledge that belongs to good men or good governours, they would not fuffer these things. But But to return to our own inftitute, be fides thefe conftant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining, experience to be won from pleasure itselfeabroad; In those vernal seasons of the yeer, when the air is calm and pleasant,. it were an injury and fullenneffe against nature not to go out, and fee her riches, and partake in her rejoycing with heavenand earth. I fhould not therefore be a perfwader to them of studying much. then, after two or three yeer that they have well laid their grounds, but to ride out in companies with prudent and staid. guides, to all the quarters of the land; learning and obferving all places of ftrength, all commodities of building. and of foil, for towns and tillage, har-bours O 3 |