The works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.

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Title: The works of the famous Nicholas Machiavel, citizen and secretary of Florence written originally in Italian, and from thence newly and faithfully translated into English.
Author: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
Publication: London :: Printed for John Starkey, Charles Harper, and John Amery ...,; 1680.
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Subject terms: Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.; Political science -- Early works to 1800.; Political ethics -- Early works to 1800.; War.; Florence (Italy) -- History.
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CHAP. IV.

To observe who goes and comes to the Camp.

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HE who would be secure in his Camp, is to require notice with great exactness of all strangers that lodge in his Camp, and to have a strict account of all goers and comers; and this no hard matter to do, if the Tents be but viewed all along as they stand in their orders; because every lodgment had its precise and definitive number, and when you find them more or less than their proportion, let them be examined and punished. He who observes this course exactly, shall keep the Enemy from practising your Officers (at least without great difficulty) or from having knowledge of your affairs. Had not the Romans been very exact observers of this course, Claudius Nero (when Hani∣bal lay so near him) could never have stole so privately from his Camp in Lucania, and have marched into la Marca, and back again, before Hanibal had missed him.