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CAptaines that goe to the warres should not be cowards, for there is no like danger to the common wealth, nor no greater slander to the prince, than to commit charge to such in the field which will be first to command & last to fight.
As captains should shew them∣selues in the beginning cruel, so af∣ter
victory had of their enimies, they should shew them∣selues pitiful and meeke.
That captaine is more to be praised which winneth the harts of his enimies in his tents by good example, than he which getteth the victory in the field with shed∣ding of blood.
The stout and noble hart for little fauor shewed vnto him,* 1.1 bindeth himself to accomplish great things.
He ought to be called valiant that with his life hath won honor,* 1.2 and by the sword hath gotten riches.
What greater vanitie can there be than that captains for troubling quiet men,* 1.3 destroying cities, beating down castels, robbing the poore, enriching tyrants, carying a∣way treasures, shedding of blood, making of widowes, taking of noble mens liues, should in reward & recom∣pence be receiued with triumph?
Fauor enco∣rageth for∣ward.
Valiant.
For euil acts they are glo∣riously recei∣ued.