Regales aphorismi: or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty.

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Regales aphorismi: or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty.
Author
James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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London :: Printed by B.A. and are to be sold at his house near the upper pump in Grub-street,
1650.
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James -- King of England, -- 1566-1625
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"Regales aphorismi: or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87471.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.

Pages

257 (Book 257)

Necessity of fighting doubles

Page 130

courage in the souldier, and an impossibility of escape adds spirit to the coward: it is great wisedome in a Com∣mander, always to leave a Port open, to encourage his enemy to flight: it is better to build him a silver bridge to invite him to go, then bul-warks of earth to necessitate him to stay.

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