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THE wise Captain who has to do with a new Enemy, whose reputation is great, should make a previous tryal of his Souldiers, by small engagements with the Enemy, before he comes to the hazard of a pitch'd Battel, to the end that by such prelusory skirmishes there may be an abatement made of that ter∣rour, which the noise and reputati∣on of such an Enemy might have rais'd in them.