¶Of the fortifyinge of Campes. Chap. xxi.
THe souldiours also ought to learne to fortifye their Campes, for there is not a more safe, nor a more ne∣cessarye thing in all warre. For whye, if the army be well planted, the souldiours so safe enbulwarked, voyde of all care passe ouer dayes and nights, yea euen thoughe their ennemyes besiege them, they are as safe as though they had a walled Cittye on their backes. But the knowledge here∣of, is vtterlye come to nothinge: it is longe agoe, since that when any would pitch theyr Campes, they vsed to entrench them, and sette stakes before them: so that we haue knowen, when the forrayne horsemen as wel by daye as nighte, haue come of a sodayne manye armyes, manye times haue beene maruelously annoyed. But not onlye the foole hardy with∣out ye Campe suffer these thinges: but whē as by any chaunce in the forebattell they beginne to retyre, they haue not a de∣fence of the Campe, where to saue themselues, & so are kil∣led vp like dogges: and so longe do they dye, as theyr en∣nemyes please to pursue and chase them.