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Title:  Instructions for the warres. Amply, learnedly, and politiquely, discoursing the method of militarie discipline. Originally written in French by that rare and worthy generall, Monsieur William de Bellay, Lord of Langey, Knight of the order of Fraunce, and the Kings lieutenant in Thurin. Translated by Paule Iue, Gent.
Author: Fourquevaux, Raimond de Beccarie de Pavie, baron de, 1509-1574.
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through deserts and solitarie places, without lacke of victualls, for that they liued of victuall that might easely follow a Camp.The Turke his Souldiers neede no wine, because that their lawe doth forbid them to drinke it, and also they go long with∣out eating bread, if so be that they may haue water and rice, and seldome it is that they do suffer want: for they carrie ordinarilie sackes full of poudered flesh minsed so fine, that it seemeth to be a pouder, and to eate this poudered flesh, they take but a little at a meale, and temper it in warme water, and afterward sup it vp, and so doe the sayd Turkes liue. Moreouer, if they haue great want of victuall, the said flesh being spent, they do let their horses bloud: for they are almost all horsemen, and do liue cer∣taine daies with this bloud. And if so be that the famine doe too much oppresse them, they do kill their horses, and eate them be∣fore they do forsake to do their Prince loyall seruice, and the vt∣termost of their power; which our delicate Souldiers will not do: for they will very hardly serue one day without they bee in wine vp to the eares, or full crammed readie to burst: but when I say our Souldiers, I meane those that are at this instant, but not those that might bee leuied in Fraunce: for that they might easely be made temperate enough, so that ye Chiefes themselues would giue them example, and that they were not so much gi∣uen vnto disordinate eating and drinking as they are. The Scotchmen (as sayth Froisard) haue a very good manner to liue in time of warre: for first of all they do carrie no prouision of bread and wine with them. Moreouer, they content themselus long time, so that they may haue flesh but halfe sodden, which they do eate very well without bread, and drinke water. And moreouer, they are not troubled with the carrying of kettles or pannes, because that they do see the their flesh in the skinnes of beastes when they haue flayed them: nor haue no care to carrie prouision with them, because they are sure to finde in the coun∣trie where they do pretend to make warre. One thing they haue care of, that is, to carrie a plate of yron, and a bagge of meale, to the intent that when they feele their stomackes weake and féeble with the eating of too much rawe flesh, they might comfort them with cakes, which they do make after this manner. They tem∣per 0