OBSERVATION.
AS these provisoes were all requisite; so one ••hing was omitted,* 1.1 which might have furthered their good fortune more then any thing thought of: which was, to have concealed by all meanes the time of their departure. For all the beasts of the wood must needs stand at gaze, when such Lions rouzed themselves out of their dens; and be then very watchfull of their safety, when they knew the instant of time, when some of their spoiles must needs be offered to appease their fury. Or at the least it behooved them so to have dealt by hostages and treaty, that such as were likeliest and best able to crosse their designments might have been no hinderance of their proceedings: considering there were but two wayes out of their Countrey by which they might go; the one nar∣row and difficult, between the hill Jura and the river Rhone, by the Countrey of the Sequani; the other through Provence, far easier and short∣er, but not to be taken but by the permission of the Romans. But howsoever, their errour was, that after two yeares provision to go, and having made an exterminating decree which injoyned them to go, when they came to the point, they knew not what way to go.