tooke him at vnawres, and ouerthre we him, and all his compa∣nie. La Loüe and his companie lying secure, and carelesse with∣out trench, or barriquade, had their throates cut by the garrison of Montpellier in the night being asleepe in their lodging, Anno one thousand fiue hundred sixtie and nine. Neither did the compa∣nie that vnder Napoleon VrsiniGuicciard. came to the succor of Florence be∣sieged by the Prince of Orenge in the daies of Charles the fift escape better cheape; to teach others percase to make better barriquades, and trenches, and to keepe better watch. If the Protestantes durst haue charged Charles the fift before his campe was fortified at Englestat, they hadNatal. com. l. 1. no doubt foyled him. Neither is it suffici∣ent to trench the wayes, if wee lie open on the sides. Euerie waie must haue some defence. StrossiHist. de troubl. de Er. li. 7.stiffely defending a certaine val∣ley by Rocheabeille Anno one thousand fiue hundred sixtie and nine, fensed onely in front with a weake palissade was inuested on the sides, and forced by the Protestantes. In which disastre himselfe was taken, and most of his troupes distrouped, and slaine. If his defence had beene strong in all places, hee had saued himselfe, and foyled his enemy.Q. CiceroCaes. bel. gal. 5.one of Caesars lieutenants, by the fortifications of his campe, abode diuers assaults of the whole power of France, and held out vntill such time as Caesar succoured him. And well befell it Prospero Colonna that his lodging was strong at the Bicocke. For otherwise he and his companie had beene drawen out thence not by the eares, but by the legges. There is none so small a fortification, but it may doe vs fauour in such a case. The Spa∣niardes making a trench betweene themselues and the French atGuicciard. li. 5.Cirignola, and bordering the same with their shot, made them to this day remember what daunger it is to passe a trench resolutely defended.In these late braules of France captaine GranryHist. de troubl. de Fr. li. 6.lodging in Esse a village vpon the riuer of Vienne, gaue the enemy a rude wel∣come comming to see him in his lodging in the night. His safe∣tie was in a double barrier, and trench made by him at the endes of the streetes. Yet let euery man take heede howe hee presume vp∣on euery small defence, and rather let him cause his men to take more paines.It is no base labour that is vndertaken for the defence of our 0