18. Therefore if you be vnwilling to fight, and your Enemies must needes fight with you, by your industry make a ditch three foot deepe, and fiue or sixe foot broad, and cast the earth towards you; which ditch, if you thinke good, let it be especially in the Front, also in the sides, and on your backes also, as Prosper Colonno would often dot.19. Which Ditch, if it haue sundry places open and free for your Enemies to enter, of no great space, it shall encourage them there to enter; where if you prouide some stratagem against them, you doe well. The fittest stratagem for this occasion, is to place certaine Compa∣nies before the gaps, and certaine Ordnance behinde them to be discharged when they open in the midst.20. Whereupon, if your Enemies desist, vrge them hardly, onely make a faire shew, but proceede no fur∣ther. For you are not to put your confidence in such weake fortification: nor in the arrogancy of your men to fight; by arrogancy many Armies are ouerthrowne, where by wisedome many are saued. I present you the Figure of such an Intrenched Battell to peruse; (in the next page following) but you may doe as you please.21. If your Company be small, and your Enemy haue great store of Horsemen against you, so that you be likely to loose the Battell, if your Enemies againe set vpon you; if any great Wood be neere, seeke to saue your Army by the thicknesse of the same Wood, and suffer your Enemies to gaine your Ordnance, and Bag∣gage, and Victuals, that they spoyling the same, you may the better escape.22. Likewise when you haue a Battell more then the Enemies, diuide it into two parts; and where you see any danger among your Enemies, send first one0