254

He stopp'd the fliers;

And, by his rare example, made the coward
Turn terror into sport; as waves before

A vessel under sail, so men obey'd,

And fell below his stem.

255

I had rather have my wounds to heal again,

Than hear say how I got them.

28-ii. 2.

28-ii. 2.

256

Thou art a soldier, therefore seldom rich.

27-i. 2.

257

His death (whose spirit lent a fire Even to the dullest peasant in his camp) Being bruited once, took fire and heat away From the best temper'd courage in his troops.

258

19-i. 1.

He has been bred i' the wars

Since he could draw a sword, and is ill-school'd
In bolted language; meal and bran together
He throws without distinction.

259

O, wither'd is the garland of the war,

The soldier's pole is fallen.

260

28-iii. 1.

30-iv. 13.

The present wars devour him: he is grown

Too proud to be so valiant.....

Such a nature,

Tickled with good success, disdains the shadow

Which he treads on at noon.

261

Who lined himself with hope,

Eating the air on promise of supply,

Flattering himself with project of a power

28-i. 1.

Much smaller than the smallest of his thoughts;

And so, with great imagination,

Proper to madmen, led his powers to death,
And, winking, leap'd into destruction.

262

Whilst lions war, and battle for their dens,
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity.

19-i. 3.

23-ii. 5.

263

Our countrymen

Are men more order'd, than when Julius Cæsar

Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage Worthy his frowning at: Their discipline

(Now mingled with their courages) will make known To their approvers, they are people, such

That mend upon the world.

264

A fellow

That never set a squadron in the field,

Nor the division of a battle knows

31-ii. 4.

More than a spinster: unless the bookish theoric,
Wherein the toged consuls can propose
As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practice,

Is all his soldiership.

265

37-i. 1.

The gallant militarist, that had the whole theoric* of war in the knot of his scarf, and the practice in the chapet of his dagger. 11-iv. 3.

266

Captain! thou abominable cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called-captain? If captains were of my mind, they would truncheon you out, for taking their names upon you before you have earned them. You a captain, you slave! for what? 19-ii. 4.

267

That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
Who wears no honesty!

268

A soldier-not fierce and terrible Only in strokes; but with thy grim looks, and The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds,

Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the world

Were feverous, and did tremble.

28-i. 4.

269

A thousand flatterers sit within thy crown,
Whose compass is no bigger than thy head;
And yet, incaged in so small a verge.

270

My crown is in my heart, not on my head;
Not deck'd with diamonds and Indian stones,
Nor to be seen; my crown is call'd, content;
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.

271

Sundry blessings hang about his throne,
That speak him full of grace.

272

When that the general is not like the hive,

To whom the foragers shall all repair,

17-ii. 1.

23-iii. 1.

15-iv. 3.

What honey is expected ?* Degree being vizarded,†
The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask.

The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre,
Observe degree, priority, and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office, and custom, in all line of order:
And therefore is the glorious planet, Sol,
In noble eminence enthroned and sphered
Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye
Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil,

And posts, like the commandment of a king,
Sans check, to good and bad: But, when the planets,
In evil mixture, to disorder wander,

What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny?
What raging of the sea? shaking of earth?
Commotion in the winds? frights, changes, horrors,
Divert and crack, rend and deracinatef

:

The unity and married calm of states
Quite from their fixture? O, when degree is shaked,
Which is the ladder of all high designs,
The enterprise is sick! How could communities,
Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores,
The primogenitive and due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels,
But by degree, stand in authentic place?
Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! each thing meets
In mere|| oppugnancy: The bounded waters
Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores,
And make a sop of all this solid globe:
Strength should be lord of imbecility,
And the rude son should strike his father dead:
Force should be right: or, rather, right and wrong
(Between whose endless jar justice resides)
Should lose their names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And, last, eat up himself.--
This chaos, when degree is suffocate,
Follows the choking.

And this neglection of degree it is,
That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose
It hath to climb. The general 's disdain'd
By him one step below; he, by the next;
That next, by him beneath; so every step,
Exampled by the first pace, that is sick

4

Of his superior, grows to an envious fever
Of pale and bloodless emulation.

273

While that the armed hand doth fight abroad,

The advised head defends itself at home:

26-i. 3.

For government, though high, and low, and lower,
Put into parts, doth keep in one concent;

Congruing in a full and natural close,
Like music.

..

Therefore doth Heaven divide

The state of man into divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience: for so work the honey bees;
Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king, and officers of sorts:
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad :
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent-royal of their emperor:
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons, building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executor's pale,
The lazy yawning drone. I this infer,-
That many things, having full reference
To one concent, may work contrariously:
As many arrows, loosed several ways,
Fly to one mark ;

As many several ways meet in one town;
As many fresh streams run in one self sea;
As many lines close in the dial's centre;
So may a thousand actions, once afoot,
End in one purpose, and be all well borne
Without defeat.