MEDITATIONS
UPON
A
SEIGE
.
By
H.
P.
Printed
1646.
TO
The
King's
most
Excellent
MAjESTIE
.
SYR
,
THE
remembrance
of
my
service
directed
me
in
my
Dedication
:
I
thought
it
reason
to
give
you
the
first
Fruits
of
my
labours
in
this
kind
,
to
whom
I
owe
all
.
I
cannot
think
them
worth
your
eye
,
yet
I
cannot
but
with
thankfulnesse
acknowledge
,
that
I
have
had
your
eare
:
and
it
is
a
small
thing
for
you
to
lend
me
that
sense
once
,
that
have
lent
me
the
other
so
many
times
.
Once
I
am
sure
,
the
reverence
of
your
sacred
name
will
get
this
booke
that
esteeme
,
which
in
justice
it
should
have
lost
for
being
mine
.
Yet
if
it
may
be
judg'd
by
the
intention
of
the
Author
,
either
to
God
,
or
to
the
Church
,
or
to
your selfe
,
I
dare
avouch
it
a
good
peice
.
Such
as
it
is
,
I
humbly
crave
leave
to
lay
it
at
your
feet
,
and
with
it
my selfe
,
who
am
Your
Majesties
most
Humble
and
Faithfull
Servant
and
Chaplaine
,
HUMFREY
PEAKE
.
A
Table
of
the
Chapters
.
-
1.
OF
a
Seige
in
Generall
.
-
2.
Of
streightning
and
starving
the
Beseiged
.
-
3.
Of
the
want
of
Rest
.
-
4.
Of
the
want
of
Liberty
.
-
5.
Of
the
want
of
opportunitie
of
hearing
and
sending
unto
Freinds
.
-
6.
Of
Alarms
true
,
and
false
.
-
7.
Of
Ordnance
.
-
8.
Of
Granadoes
.
-
9.
Of
fire-balls
.
-
10.
Of
shooting-stones
.
-
11.
Of
poysoned
bullets
.
-
12.
Of
Petarrs
.
-
13.
Of
Intelligence
.
-
14.
Of
battering
and
blowing
up
of
Magazines
.
-
15.
Of
destroying
provisions
.
-
16.
Of
cutting
off
,
or
draying
waters
from
a
Garrison
.
-
17.
Of
undermining
.
-
18.
Of
entring
a
breach
.
-
19.
Of
scaling
ladders
:
-
20.
Of
trenches
,
and
battries
.
-
21.
Of
hills
,
and
rocks
.
-
22.
Of
motes
.
-
23.
Of
fortifying
.
-
24.
Of
Pallisadoes
.
-
25.
Of
Centries
.
-
26.
Of
Guards
.
-
27.
Of
sallies
.
-
28.
Of
muskets
,
pikes
,
halberts
,
pistolls
,
hand-granadoes
,
and
such
kind
of
weapons
used
in
a
storme
by
the
defendants
.
-
29.
Of
stones
,
melted
pitch
,
and
lead
,
scalding
oyle
&c
used
on
the
same
occasion
.
-
30.
Of
Case-shott
.
-
31.
Of
cutting
downe
trees
,
and
hedges
,
and
laying
of
places
open
.
-
32.
Of
fireing
townes
.
-
33.
Of
pulling
downe
Churches
,
or
chappells
.
-
34.
Of
hutts
under
the
works
granado-proofe
,
and
Cells
under-ground
.
-
35.
Of
Surrender
.
-
36.
Of
conditions
honorable
,
and
dishonorable
.
-
37.
Of
surprisall
by
storming
.
-
38.
Of
robbing
,
and
spoyling
.
-
39.
Of
torturing
for
the
discoverie
of
hidden
treasure
.
-
40.
Of
stripping
.
-
41.
Of
disaccommodation
in
dyet
,
and
lodging
.
-
42.
Of
strict
imprisonment
.
-
43.
Of
mayming
.
-
44.
Of
death
.
MEDITATION
1.
Upon
a
Seige
in
Generall
.
A
Seige
,
is
when
an
Enemy
sits
down
before
a
Town
,
or
Garrison
,
the
Assaylants
resolved
to
carry
it
,
and
the
Defendants
to
keepe
to
the
utmost
of
their
power
.
Amongst
the
many
waies
of
enmity
,
whereby
in
a
declared
Warre
men
use
to
expresse
their
endeavours
to
ruine
one
another
;
This
of
a
Seige
is
the
sharpest
and
the
saddest
,
if
we
consider
the
difficulty
both
of
assayling
and
defending
.
The
difficulty
of
assayling
a
well
fortified
Garrison
is
such
,
that
in
reason
a
man
may
well
wonder
at
every
passage
in
it
:
that
the
Commander
should
value
his
men
so
cheape
as
to
put
them
on
upon
so
desperate
an
attempt
;
that
he
should
force
them
forward
when
they
are
averse
,
and
drive
them
into
the
mouth
of
danger
,
wherein
he
doth
foresee
that
they
must
perish
,
and
knowes
that
though
he
have
their
hands
he
hath
not
their
hearts
in
that
enterprise
;
that
the
Souldier
can
be
either
perswaded
or
constrained
to
enter
the
jawes
of
Death
,
and
undertake
the
work
,
wherein
he
knowes
there
is
scarce
one
of
a
hundred
that
doth
not
miscarry
:
that
so
poore
a
hope
as
of
the
pillage
should
be
a
motive
sufficient
to
draw
him
on
:
that
the
carrying
of
it
at
the
last
,
should
be
a
sufficient
compensation
for
so
many
lives
as
are
usually
last
in
the
attempt
.
The
difficulty
of
defending
is
full
of
wonder
too
,
wherein
to
try
the
courage
and
patience
of
the
Defendants
are
presented
to
their
view
,
the
power
of
a
whole
Army
,
furnished
with
the
instruments
of
Death
,
and
all
kind
of
Weapons
and
Engines
to
offend
or
fright
them
,
set
down
before
the
Garrison
,
confident
of
their
own
strength
to
take
it
,
and
commonly
well
informed
of
the
Defendants
strength
to
hold
it
,
and
upon
those
grounds
resolved
to
goe
through
with
it
.
Nor
can
they
possibly
be
ignorant
with
how
much
shame
&
dishonour
the
Enemy
shall
recede
if
he
miscarry
?
with
how
much
obstinacy
he
will
contend
to
perfect
it
?
with
how
much
rage
and
fury
he
will
conclude
if
he
prevaile
in
it
?
After
these
,
there
offer
themselves
likewise
unto
his
thoughts
the
vast
labour
he
must
undergoe
to
keep
it
:
the
danger
more
then
the
toyle
:
the
want
of
sleep
and
rest
,
the
scarcity
of
all
things
necessary
to
support
nature
,
and
to
maintaine
life
:
Against
all
which
he
hath
nothing
to
put
into
the
ballance
,
but
his
Conscience
to
God
,
his
Loyalty
to
his
Prince
and
Country
,
and
his
Honor
in
the
Enemies
repulse
.
And
truely
he
that
hath
these
hath
enough
.
What
good
man
,
for
his
Conscience
,
would
not
sacrifice
his
life
,
much
more
endanger
it
?
What
Subject
,
to
save
his
Loyalty
,
would
not
venture
all
that
worldlings
count
deare
or
pretious
?
especially
,
where
the
goodnesse
of
his
Soveraigne
makes
his
duty
double
,
and
strengthens
the
obligation
?
What
Gentleman
or
Souldier
cannot
despise
his
safety
,
whilest
he
regards
his
honour
?
They
owe
their
byrth
and
breeding
to
the
Pesantrie
,
that
have
no
sense
of
it
:
He
that
hath
the
bloud
of
a
true
Gentleman
flowing
in
his
veines
,
cannot
devest
it
though
he
would
;
and
though
some
private
discontent
may
lay
it
a
while
asleep
,
yet
in
the
pinch
of
tryall
it
will
rouse
him
up
,
to
doe
things
brave
and
noble
,
and
worthy
of
himselfe
,
in
spight
of
any
contrary
intention
or
resolution
.
If
this
faile
in
any
few
particulars
,
they
are
Mushromes
of
a
late
&
sodaine
growth
,
that
beside
the
Title
and
Habit
,
weare
nothing
of
a
Gentleman
,
or
of
a
Souldier
:
And
surely
according
to
the
old
Maxime
,
That
the
passive
part
of
Fortitude
is
the
noblest
;
he
that
rides
out
a
Seige
,
and
gives
his
Enemy
the
check
,
beares
away
the
greatest
honour
:
though
,
if
the
active
part
of
Fortitude
in
services
were
to
be
disputed
,
he
hath
a
faire
Title
too
.
Such
honour
they
shall
never
want
,
that
with
the
integrity
of
an
unchangeable
resolution
,
have
devoted
themselves
to
serve
their
God
,
their
King
,
their
Country
and
their
Fame
.
MEDITATION
2.
Of
streightning
and
sterving
the
Besieged
.
AFter
a
generall
view
,
particulars
claime
their
turnes
;
amongst
which
Hunger
deserves
to
lead
in
Front
,
as
being
the
cruellest
engine
whereby
to
subdue
the
strongest
resolutions
.
In
this
particular
the
disadvantage
of
the
Beseiger
,
and
the
advantage
of
the
Beseiged
,
is
the
intervening
of
time
:
Which
,
where
the
dangers
threaten
death
,
is
to
be
reckoned
no
small
benefit
,
for
thereby
wisdome
hath
oportunity
to
mature
her
designes
,
and
to
lay
all
things
handsomly
for
the
perfecting
her
worke
:
thereby
patience
growes
better
arm'd
to
beare
the
event
,
because
she
hath
the
lesse
reason
to
complaine
that
expectation
was
deceived
.
The
greatest
spirits
and
resolutions
are
subject
to
be
surprised
,
nor
is
every
man
so
much
master
of
himselfe
as
to
call
all
his
strengths
about
him
on
a
sodain
:
but
when
we
have
seene
the
clouds
a
long
time
in
gathering
,
and
the
storme
grow
upon
us
by
sensible
and
slow
degrees
,
he
that
doth
not
fit
and
prepare
for
the
worst
,
hath
more
of
heart
then
of
braine
,
and
of
courage
then
discretion
.
It
is
therfore
God's
great
mercy
to
us
,
that
in
so
sharp
a
tryall
as
this
of
famin
,
men
should
have
the
full
advantage
of
preparation
,
that
so
they
may
resolve
what
best
becomes
a
Christian
and
a
loyal
Subject
.
But
this
storme
which
comes
on
so
slowly
,
falls
heavily
at
last
;
a
speedy
death
by
the
Sword
,
or
by
a
bullet
,
being
but
a
trifle
in
comparison
of
those
insufferable
torments
which
they
endure
that
are
pinch't
with
famine
.
Examples
are
plenteous
of
those
that
have
eaten
their
own
children
,
nay
their
own
flesh
from
their
armes
;
and
those
that
had
food
in
private
,
have
not
found
oportunity
to
eate
in
safety
,
but
have
had
it
snatch't
out
of
their
hands
,
nay
even
out
of
their
mouthes
by
those
that
have
broke
in
upon
them
,
and
they
have
paid
their
lives
into
the
bargaine
,
the
price
of
the
concealement
.
This
misery
of
a
Seige
,
pinches
none
more
bitterly
,
then
great
and
populous
Cities
.
whose
numerous
inhabitants
make
all
provisions
quickly
scarce
,
so
soone
as
they
are
cut
off
from
supplies
.
And
God
in
justice
many
times
suffers
this
calamity
to
fall
upon
them
,
that
their
punishment
may
be
the
better
suited
to
their
sinnes
:
The
noted
sinne
of
such
Cities
as
boast
themselves
the
Queens
and
Ladies
of
their
Provinces
,
is
Luxurie
and
excesse
of
meates
and
drinkes
,
which
they
lavish
out
even
with
pride
and
vanitie
,
glorying
in
the
cost
and
change
of
studied
delicacies
,
rak't
from
all
quarters
,
as
much
for
ostentation
as
for
use
;
with
these
,
the
pamper'd
body
swels
and
growes
fat
,
and
is
stall-fed
for
wantonnesse
and
lust
;
that
being
(
too
too
often
)
the
prime
intention
of
such
excesse
to
spur
dull
nature
up
,
and
by
prepared
incentives
to
kindle
that
hellish
fire
,
which
Religion
teaches
us
rather
to
quench
by
studied
temperance
and
acts
of
mortification
.
Now
then
thou
wretched
Epicure
,
whose
belly
hath
been
thy
god
,
and
luxury
thy
happinesse
,
in
which
thou
hast
weltred
with
securitie
,
and
with
contempt
of
all
pious
admonitions
so
many
yeares
;
when
God
hath
brought
thee
to
these
streights
,
think
how
much
bitterer
thy
cup
will
be
then
other
mens
,
whose
hearts
shall
not
check
them
with
the
remembrance
of
thy
madd
excesse
,
or
thy
unsatiated
lust
.
It
is
gall
and
wormwood
,
in
the
want
of
foode
,
to
remember
how
much
we
have
vainly
lavish't
both
with
sinne
and
shame
.
It
is
as
daggers
stab'd
into
the
heart
,
when
the
enfeebled
body
faints
and
pines
,
and
consumes
and
languishes
without
hope
of
reliefe
,
to
thinke
how
high
't
was
kept
before
,
chiefly
for
this
cause
;
that
it
might
not
faile
to
serve
us
in
our
lewd
delights
.
Then
you
despised
the
poore
,
and
would
not
relieve
them
though
you
might
:
now
they
'l
despise
you
,
and
force
reliefe
from
you
whether
you
will
or
not
;
nay
even
that
little
which
is
all
that
you
have
left
for
to
relieve
your selves
.
Then
varietie
of
dainties
found
no
relish
with
you
:
now
you
would
think
your selves
feasted
with
the
driest
crust
.
Then
perhaps
drunkennesse
was
your
habituall
sinne
,
now
you
would
give
all
you
have
but
for
any
thing
that
were
wholsome
to
quench
your
thirst
.
O!
how
heavy
is
the
scourge
,
when
God
thus
findes
us
out
in
our
beloved
sinnes
.
To
sinne
by
intemperance
is
bad
at
all
times
;
but
in
the
times
of
warre
,
when
this
danger
overtakes
many
,
and
threatens
all
,
if
we
think
our selves
obliged
to
no
moderation
,
to
no
abatement
of
our
former
height
,
vengeance
will
reach
us
at
the
last
,
and
we
shall
fall
a
spectacle
to
others
,
of
those
whom
God
doth
punish
in
the
same
kind
they
sinne
.
MEDITATION
3.
Of
the
want
of
Rest
.
REST
is
the
great
refreshment
of
decayed
nature
,
whereby
she
recovers
new
strength
and
vigour
,
after
she
hath
been
spent
and
exhausted
by
tough
labour
of
the
body
,
by
long
continued
and
multiplied
dangers
,
by
sharp
and
incessant
cares
,
by
alternate
feares
and
hopes
,
by
the
vicissitudes
and
revolutions
of
comforts
and
discontents
,
which
being
violent
and
high
in
proportion
to
their
causes
and
occasions
,
doe
afflict
the
mind
,
and
tyre
and
decay
the
spirits
,
as
toyle
and
labour
doth
the
bodie
.
All
which
passions
and
perturbations
,
in
a
Seige
,
have
commonly
their
turnes
;
and
those
,
in
such
an
intensive
height
,
in
such
an
eminent
degree
,
as
must
force
us
to
confesse
the
causes
and
occasions
to
be
exceeding
sharp
from
which
they
flow
.
By
these
accidents
nature
is
defrauded
of
her
due
,
and
though
she
beg
rest
earnestly
(
as
deeply
sensible
of
the
concernment
)
yet
she
cannot
obtain
it
.
For
want
of
it
,
she
is
the
lesse
able
to
undergoe
those
cares
of
the
mind
,
and
those
labors
of
the
body
,
which
in
these
streights
abide
her
.
And
not
only
so
,
but
besides
,
she
finds
her selfe
threatned
with
feavers
,
&
distempers
,
and
inflammations
,
through
the
want
of
rest
,
which
should
concoct
those
crudities
whence
they
arise
;
And
though
she
feele
the
symptomes
grow
upon
her
,
and
know
whereto
they
tend
▪
yet
she
can
have
no
truce
from
these
incumbrances
to
compose
her selfe
(
for
any
fixt
or
certain
time
)
to
sweet
and
quiet
slumbers
.
All
she
can
get
is
forc't
,
catch't
now
and
then
by
snatches
,
a
man's
judgement
even
then
directing
him
to
wish
,
that
he
could
wake
longer
,
when
short
slumbers
overtake
him
whether
he
will
or
not
.
And
lest
those
slumbers
should
not
be
short
enough
,
from
which
men
haste
to
rise
full
of
thought
,
and
fore-seen
businesse
,
new
occasions
intervene
and
break
in
upon
him
while
he
sleeps
,
that
at
his
first
awaking
he
knowes
not
whether
it
be
sleep
or
death
that
hovers
over
him
,
he
findes
them
both
so
like
,
and
both
so
neare
together
.
If
his
own
cares
and
dangers
give
him
truce
,
and
a
sound
judgement
tells
him
that
he
may
rest
secure
,
yet
others
panick
terrors
shall
disturbe
him
,
whose
shreiks
,
and
cries
,
and
noise
,
and
tumult
,
and
unseasonable
,
and
disordered
,
and
indiscreet
recourse
to
those
,
on
whom
they
think
their
safetie
doth
depend
,
creates
him
new
unrest
,
so
much
more
incomportable
,
as
it
is
causlesse
:
A
guise
in
them
far
different
from
their
old
wont
,
that
used
to
sleepe
till
noon
,
and
pleas'd
themselves
to
languish
out
much
more
time
,
then
was
fitting
in
the
sloathfull
bed
;
that
turned
,
like
a
doore
upon
the
hinge
,
and
folded
the
armes
to
sleep
,
composing
the
body
and
the
mind
to
further
rest
,
even
then
when
nature
cry'd
,
it
is
enough
:
That
call'd
in
Physick
to
their
help
,
and
bought
artificiall
slumbers
at
costly
rates
,
as
if
to
surcharge
Nature
were
desireable
,
or
stupefaction
were
a
blessing
:
That
taught
all
the
familie
(
kept
in
aservile
awe
)
to
move
neither
hand
,
nor
foot
,
not
tongue
,
untill
high
noone
were
come
,
and
the
effeminate
Lord
or
wanton
Lady
did
give
the
word
,
That
now
they
were
pleased
to
wake
.
Those
pleasing
slumbers
chang'd
to
this
sad
unrest
,
will
teach
them
what
they
are
,
which
before
they
were
in
mighty
danger
to
forget
.
And
it
may
teach
us
all
to
set
our
hearts
and
minds
upon
that
place
,
where
true
and
uninterrupted
rest
is
to
be
found
.
There
we
shall
cease
from
labour
,
and
no
wearinesse
shall
afflict
the
body
:
There
we
shall
cease
from
perturbations
,
and
no
feares
nor
sorrowes
shall
afflict
the
mind
.
Receive
me
,
ô
my
God
,
in
thy
due
time
unto
thy self
,
that
with
thee
I
may
rest
for
ever
,
and
then
what
ever
my
toyle
or
labour
in
this
life
shall
be
;
what
ever
my
feares
,
and
sorrowes
,
and
perturbations
,
or
what
ever
the
effects
of
them
;
I
shall
with
an
upright
heart
,
and
with
the
best
of
my
endeavours
fit
my
neck
to
the
yoake
,
and
my
shoulder
to
the
burden
which
thou
hast
apointed
for
me
.
MEDITATION
4.
Of
the
want
of
Liberty
.
THE
desire
of
Liberty
is
naturall
to
every
living
creature
,
and
by
Man
,
above
the
rest
,
may
be
the
more
desired
,
by
how
much
more
then
they
,
he
understands
the
benefit
and
use
of
it
.
Restraint
simple
in
it selfe
,
is
justly
reckoned
an
affliction
,
and
receives
more
or
lesse
,
measur'd
by
the
degree
.
But
when
it
hath
concomitant
the
accesse
of
feares
,
and
dangers
,
of
a
higher
nature
,
which
every
minute
may
be
added
unto
that
affliction
,
such
ungratefull
circumstances
make
the
restraint
more
greivous
,
and
wind
vp
the
affliction
of
it
to
the
highest
pitch
.
I
touch
not
uppon
paradoxes
;
How
much
liberty
a
resolved
minde
may
enjoy
in
the
severest
restraint
;
or
how
much
slavery
a
base
mind
endures
with
the
greatest
liberty
:
they
are
speculations
beside
our
purpose
,
though
I
would
not
haue
it
forgotten
,
how
much
a
wise
man
may
ease
his
burthen
by
Philosophicall
,
or
Theologicall
helps
,
which
no
man
can
with
discretion
cast
off
,
nor
without
impiety
neglect
.
yet
a
just
latitude
must
be
left
,
for
the
full
resentment
of
the
crosse
,
lest
we
should
either
seeme
stupid
under
God's
visitation
,
when
we
are
the
sufferers
;
or
not
to
value
other
mens
courage
and
patience
to
the
full
worth
,
when
we
are
spectators
.
They
are
observations
obvious
to
ordinary
capacities
,
that
men
are
hereby
deprived
of
their
lawfull
,
and
usuall
contentments
and
delights
,
that
health
is
thereby
endangered
whilst
many
are
pestered
together
in
a
little
room
,
and
the
very
ayre
they
breathe
thereby
made
more
offensive
;
that
the
supply
of
things
necessary
is
debarred
.
&
the
besieg'd
enforc't
to
content
themselves
with
what
they
have
,
though
never
so
farre
short
of
what
were
fitting
;
that
all
kinde
of
devotion
is
disordered
and
put
out
of
course
,
and
the
tranquillitie
of
minde
(
from
which
devotion
takes
her
surest
pitch
)
almost
quite
lost
in
such
varietie
of
successive
troubles
.
yet
in
the
recovery
of
this
last
,
we
should
above
all
approve
our selves
stout
assertors
of
our
owne
liberty
,
&
vindicate
our selves
from
that
wretched
captivity
,
wherby
Sathan
would
by
sorrow
enthrall
us
unto
sinne
;
If
my
body
be
confin'd
,
if
my
feete
be
fetter'd
,
if
my
hands
be
manacled
;
yet
if
my
mind
and
soule
be
free
,
I
have
enough
:
Free
from
the
base
vassalage
to
those
sinnes
which
make
me
Sathan's
slave
in
a
dissolute
life
,
and
vitious
conversation
;
free
from
presumptuous
prophanation
,
and
dareing
to
doe
any
act
whereby
my
God
,
and
my
religion
are
dishonour'd
;
and
the
professed
enemyes
of
them
both
take
an
occasion
to
blaspheme
;
free
from
disloyalty
and
treachery
unto
my
King
and
soveraign
,
to
whom
I
have
sworn
my
alleigeance
,
so
many
times
!
free
from
the
surprisall
of
violent
passions
,
which
may
blinde
my
judgment
for
the
time
!
and
leade
me
into
such
actions
on
a
suddaine
,
for
which
I
shall
afterwards
condemn
my selfe
,
when
I
am
my selfe
;
free
from
that
unhappy
flexiblenesse
,
and
softnesse
of
disposition
!
which
may
make
me
yeild
to
other
mens
importunities
,
and
comply
with
them
in
those
wayes
which
my
owne
heart
condemnes
:
This
freedome
if
I
can
keepe
I
need
wish
no
more
:
and
this
freedome
I
am
oblig'd
to
strive
for
;
and
to
goe
no
lesse
;
I
am
not
sure
to
reach
it
though
I
endeavor
it
:
yet
I
will
wish
it
,
yet
I
will
pray
for
it
,
yet
I
will
greive
if
I
come
short
of
it
:
and
if
I
can
attaine
it
,
I
will
triumph
and
glorie
in
the
midst
of
my
bodily
restraint
,
as
being
much
more
truely
free
;
then
those
that
have
coopt
me
up
.
MEDITATION
5.
Of
the
want
of
oportunity
of
hearing
and
sending
unto
friends
.
MAn's
power
being
finite
,
his
abilities
weake
,
and
his
time
short
to
provide
for
himselfe
so
many
things
as
he
stands
in
need
of
in
this
life
,
God
hath
been
therefore
gratiously
pleased
to
lay
the
common
tye
of
charity
upon
us
all
,
whereby
to
make
us
ready
(
as
we
are
able
)
upon
all
occasions
,
to
assist
one
another
.
Besides
this
generall
tye
,
there
is
a
particular
bond
of
duty
betwixt
those
,
whom
either
nature
or
divine
institution
have
joyn'd
in
extraordinary
neerenesse
:
and
it
is
generally
presum'd
of
them
,
that
they
will
willingly
assist
those
to
whom
they
are
so
related
in
their
distresses
,
so
far
as
possibly
they
may
.
This
hope
boyes
many
a
man
up
,
when
he
is
ready
to
sinke
under
the
burden
of
his
afflictions
.
Now
therfore
,
in
the
extremity
of
affliction
,
to
be
deprived
of
the
oportunitie
to
know
whether
our
freinds
,
whom
we
most
esteem
,
or
on
whom
we
most
depend
,
be
alive
or
dead
;
of
oportunitie
to
enform
them
of
our
distresse
,
and
let
them
know
our
condition
;
of
oportunitie
to
receive
releife
,
or
so
much
as
comfort
from
them
;
of
oportunity
to
let
them
know
our
resolutions
,
and
our
immutabilitie
to
God
and
goodnesse
;
must
needs
be
a
great
greife
.
And
it
cuts
like
a
two-edged
sword
,
both
wayes
:
it
greives
us
that
we
cannot
heare
from
them
,
and
it
greives
us
that
they
cannot
heare
from
us
,
whereby
they
may
know
the
truth
,
and
apprehend
things
neither
better
,
nor
worse
,
but
just
as
indeed
they
are
:
and
both
those
greifes
touch
them
reciprocally
;
again
.
For
the
mind
of
man
suspended
in
uncertainties
enclines
to
beleive
the
worst
,
and
oftentimes
afflicts
it selfe
with
feares
beyond
the
truth
;
which
(
though
a
vanitie
)
is
not
easily
shaken
off
,
nor
quicklie
mastered
,
no
not
in
the
stronger
sex
:
the
more
equall
should
our
censure
be
upon
the
female
,
whose
passions
(
usually
more
violent
)
make
their
feares
greater
to
their
own
tormenting
.
Absence
,
and
separation
from
freinds
is
heavy
enough
,
but
when
all
intercourse
of
Messages
or
Letters
is
cut
off
;
when
their
condition
is
seal'd
up
in
silence
,
and
the
darke
night
of
utter
ignorance
clowds
every
beam
of
light
,
that
not
the
least
spark
of
knowledg
can
break
through
those
impediments
that
are
interposed
,
it
leaves
them
for
the
present
as
mutualy
dead
to
one
another
.
Let
the
faithfull
husband
of
a
good
and
loving
wife
,
or
the
tender
father
of
sweet
and
duteous
children
judge
of
this
bitternesse
.
In
some
sense
death
it self
were
lesse
then
this
:
for
there
the
surviving
part
only
should
be
sensible
of
the
sorrow
:
but
here
both
are
alike
.
All
the
comfort
in
this
case
is
(
and
that
God
knowes
is
very
little
too
)
that
from
the
separation
and
silence
by
death
there
can
be
no
erturn
here
in
this
world
:
but
from
this
by
a
seige
,
there
may
and
oft-times
is
:
Which
to
attayne
,
the
surest
way
is
,
with
meeknesse
and
patience
to
submit
unto
the
will
of
God
in
this
,
and
in
all
other
tryalls
that
he
shall
lay
upon
us
.
MEDITATION
6.
Of
Alarms
,
True
and
False
.
IN
a
Seige
,
the
Assailant
hath
the
command
of
time
,
to
come
on
when
he
please
,
or
to
make
a
shew
of
comming
on
,
when
he
doth
not
intend
it
:
The
defendant
must
be
still
in
readinesse
,
lest
he
be
surprized
.
How
brittle
is
the
condition
of
humane
securitie
,
when
one
minutes
negligence
ruines
that
,
which
many
moneths
vigilance
&
care
was
scarce
enough
to
preserve
!
Neither
day
nor
night
can
secure
us
from
dangers
,
or
from
feares
:
they
threaten
us
both
when
we
see
them
,
and
when
we
see
them
not
.
The
Enemie
wakes
one
night
,
or
perhaps
one
houre
of
the
night
to
give
us
an
Alarm
,
and
we
must
wake
every
night
,
and
every
houre
of
the
night
,
because
we
doe
not
know
what
night
,
or
with
houre
of
the
night
he
will
attempt
us
.
yet
a
few
by
turnes
supply
that
office
,
and
by
dividing
their
watches
make
the
burthen
easie
:
but
when
the
Alarm
comes
,
and
the
warning
is
given
,
the
whole
Garrison
hastens
to
armes
,
and
with
all
speed
and
diligence
prepares
for
a
serious
defence
,
when
perhaps
the
enemy
intended
but
to
fright
them
&
having
attained
his
end
,
goes
off
,
laughing
to
thinke
that
he
hath
created
so
much
trouble
unto
them
,
whom
at
that
time
he
intended
not
to
hurt
;
yet
he
resolves
,
that
the
beseiged
shall
heare
of
him
often
in
the
same
kind
:
twice
or
thrice
in
a
weeke
,
perhaps
twice
or
thrice
in
a
night
:
for
thus
he
drives
on
to
his
main
end
,
which
is
to
breake
the
defendant
with
continued
toyle
and
watching
,
untill
he
grow
so
tame
,
that
he
may
admit
conditions
of
surrender
.
During
the
progresse
of
these
attempts
,
if
at
any
time
the
assaylant
find
the
beseiged
remisse
,
he
then
changes
his
purpose
,
and
makes
his
assault
in
truth
,
which
he
intended
but
for
tryall
;
and
therein
perhaps
proves
succesfull
beyond
his
expectation
.
How
much
need
have
we
then
both
in
the
temporall
,
and
in
the
spirituall
warfare
to
keepe
a
strict
guard
upon
our selves
,
that
the
enemie
may
find
no
advantage
through
our
neglect
?
If
I
be
overpowred
it
is
no
shame
unto
me
;
if
I
be
over-reacht
,
it
is
my
negligence
I
can
never
answer
,
my
misfortune
I
may
:
let
me
do
my
part
unto
the
full
,
and
then
,
though
the
successe
suit
not
with
my
desires
,
it
shall
not
trouble
me
.
Care
,
and
heede
,
and
vigilance
,
and
attention
,
are
of
the
essence
of
warre
,
and
it
is
an
indiscreet
levitie
,
and
of
a
desperate
consequence
,
to
connive
at
any
oversight
in
this
nature
.
Military
discipline
,
that
should
be
rigid
in
all
things
,
should
be
most
severe
in
this
,
as
drawing
with
it
such
an
error
as
can
never
be
repaired
.
Give
the
enemie
by
negligence
an
advantage
but
once
,
and
he
will
not
aske
a
second
:
or
if
he
doe
,
he
may
shake
hands
in
folly
with
him
that
gave
it
.
Let
it
be
the
beseigers
glory
to
give
frequent
alarms
,
let
it
be
the
beseiged's
to
be
provided
for
them
:
let
it
be
the
assailants
province
to
watch
his
oportunity
of
advantage
,
the
defendants
not
to
give
it
.
I
am
sure
the
enemie
will
Alarm
me
:
I
am
not
sure
whether
in
earnest
,
or
in
jest
:
let
me
expect
the
worst
,
and
provide
for
it
,
and
beleive
firmly
there
is
no
other
way
to
be
secure
.
Thus
resolved
,
and
thus
provided
I
shall
not
much
need
to
feare
neither
when
a
visible
enemie
doth
beseige
my
body
,
nor
when
an
invisible
my
soule
;
their
alarms
are
expected
to
me
,
their
designes
not
unknown
,
their
spight
not
hidden
:
my
centries
are
set
,
my
guards
doubled
,
my
strengths
in
readinesse
,
my
powers
at
command
:
if
the
enemie
come
on
for
tryall
,
he
shall
find
small
encouragement
;
if
in
truth
,
he
shall
find
strong
resistance
:
the
rest
I
leave
to
God
,
who
will
either
so
prosper
my
endeavors
,
that
I
shall
not
miscarrie
;
or
else
dispose
of
that
disaster
(
which
overtakes
me
without
my
fault
)
some
other
way
,
so
as
,
may
be
both
for
his
glory
,
and
for
my
good
.
MEDITATION
7.
Of
Ordnance
.
THE
severall
Armes
,
and
Engines
,
and
Instruments
both
of
offence
and
defence
used
in
a
Seige
,
are
likewise
worthy
of
a
distinct
and
a
particular
view
.
The
use
of
of
Ordnance
with
the
beseigers
is
to
make
their
battery
:
for
which
purpose
they
commonly
rayse
workes
in
the
night
time
where
to
plant
their
Canon
,
that
so
the
enemy
may
not
see
,
nor
hinder
them
▪
untill
their
workes
be
finished
.
If
they
doe
,
they
are
sure
to
be
impeach't
from
the
Garrison
in
the
attempt
,
and
to
be
visited
with
their
Canon
,
and
to
be
gall'd
with
their
small
shot
,
if
they
be
within
musket
reach
,
and
to
be
attempted
by
sallies
,
if
the
Garrison
be
strong
enough
;
Both
parts
having
maintain'd
the
contest
,
the
one
to
raise
their
works
,
the
other
to
hinder
them
,
till
they
be
done
;
at
last
,
in
spight
of
opposition
(
which
though
it
may
retard
them
for
a
while
,
is
not
enough
to
hinder
them
for
altogether
)
the
enemy
then
plants
his
Canon
usually
on
severall
sides
of
the
garrison
,
and
plyes
them
to
make
his
breach
:
the
defendant
having
little
all
that
while
to
doe
,
because
the
enemy
is
almost
out
of
reach
of
danger
,
the
musket
shot
of
the
garrison
being
uselesse
in
regard
of
distance
,
and
the
Canon
unlike
to
doe
any
hurt
,
the
Enemies
batteries
where
he
plants
his
Canon
commonly
being
little
,
and
blinded
besides
with
trees
,
of
purpose
,
to
make
his
ayme
that
shootes
at
them
more
uncertaine
.
So
the
Beseiged
languishes
in
this
condition
;
he
sees
the
buildings
of
the
garrison
beaten
about
his
eares
,
his
walls
broken
,
his
works
chefly
aym'd
at
,
and
continually
plaid
upon
to
make
a
breach
,
and
all
this
while
little
or
nothing
he
can
doe
either
to
hinder
the
enemy
,
or
to
annoy
him
.
If
the
Enemy
either
by
view
of
the
place
,
or
by
information
can
discover
what
part
of
the
garrison
is
weakest
,
there
he
plies
it
hottest
;
yet
in
judgeing
the
weaknesse
of
a
place
,
it
is
the
advantage
of
the
beseiged
,
that
the
enemy
may
be
deceived
in
it
,
he
cannot
.
His
charge
is
therfore
during
the
battery
,
to
consider
all
parts
of
the
garrison
well
,
to
fortifie
those
that
are
weake
,
to
observe
where
the
Canon
doth
most
mischiefe
,
or
is
likeliest
to
make
a
breach
,
and
there
to
make
new
works
,
or
place
his
choycest
engines
of
offence
for
slaughter
and
execution
,
and
to
that
place
to
assigne
his
ablest
and
his
stoutest
men
,
that
when
the
enemie
shall
attempt
to
enter
,
he
may
finde
such
a
welcome
,
as
shall
give
lirle
encouragement
to
presse
forwards
.
It
cannot
but
touch
a
generous
spirit
with
a
high
indignation
,
to
see
himselfe
brought
to
such
a
condition
that
he
must
suffer
all
,
and
can
doe
nothing
to
annoy
the
Enemie
:
Yet
this
is
the
condition
of
our
spirituall
war-fare
;
Sathan
doth
us
all
the
mischeife
that
he
can
,
we
doe
him
none
at
all
:
and
surely
in
the
temporall
warfare
,
although
in
all
the
harme
we
doe
,
or
would
doe
our
enemy
,
one
of
our
ends
be
to
rid
our selves
of
the
danger
and
vexation
,
yet
another
(
in
most
men
)
is
revenge
:
for
which
God
having
left
us
no
place
in
our
contest
with
Satan
(
his
miserable
condition
being
uncapable
of
any
accesse
from
us
)
God
hath
thereby
instructed
us
to
apply
our
minds
wholly
to
our
owne
defence
,
that
so
in
the
conclusion
we
may
come
off
without
considerable
losse
.
In
this
case
it
is
our
dutie
to
consider
advisedly
where
our
chiefe
weakenesse
lies
,
and
to
expect
the
enemie
should
there
assaile
us
,
if
we
doe
not
in
due
time
fortifie
against
him
:
to
observe
heedfullie
what
hurt
the
enemie
doth
us
,
where
,
and
how
we
decay
,
what
new
dangers
grow
upon
us
by
the
contest
,
and
where
we
find
him
likeliest
to
make
his
entrance
,
there
to
plant
our
cheife
strengths
to
beate
him
off
againe
.
Be
it
the
temporall
,
or
the
spirituall
warfare
,
woe
be
unto
me
if
I
know
and
see
where
my
fort
is
weakest
,
and
regard
it
not
;
or
if
I
doe
not
know
it
because
I
care
not
to
looke
after
it
;
or
if
mine
enemie
know
it
better
then
my selfe
;
if
I
see
and
discerne
my
daily
decaies
,
and
am
not
moved
at
them
;
or
if
I
discern
them
not
because
I
am
wilfullie
blinde
and
will
not
see
them
.
If
these
accusations
lye
just
against
me
,
what
can
save
me
from
extreame
calamitie
,
which
my
owne
guilty
soule
,
and
all
the
world
besides
shall
say
falls
justly
on
me
,
because
my
negligence
hath
been
supine
,
and
my
obstinate
persisting
therein
extream
notorious
.
MEDITATION
8.
Of
Granadoes
.
A
Granadoe
is
an
extraordinarie
great
Bullet
of
drossie
iron
made
hollow
,
with
a
fuzie
or
neck
coming
out
of
one
side
;
which
fuzie
or
neck
,
is
filled
with
severall
mixtures
,
and
all
the
hollow
part
of
the
bullet
with
powder
and
other
thinges
combustible
and
violent
:
it
is
shot
out
of
a
mortarpeice
set
in
the
ground
with
the
mouth
upwards
,
and
level'd
to
mount
up
into
the
ayre
untill
it
come
just
over
the
place
at
which
it
was
aym'd
:
upon
the
dischargeing
of
it
,
the
mixtures
in
the
fusie
or
the
neck
of
the
Granadoe
is
kindled
,
which
burning
slowely
while
it
mounteth
in
the
ayre
,
first
the
very
weight
of
it
(
falling
from
such
a
height
)
breakes
through
the
roofe
it
falls
upon
,
and
the
next
floore
,
and
makes
way
before
it
till
it
come
unto
the
ground
:
then
the
powder
enclosed
in
the
hollow
part
of
the
bullet
,
and
the
other
combustible
things
taking
fire
from
the
fuzie
or
neck
of
the
Granadoe
,
breake
the
bullet
all
in
peeces
,
and
those
peeces
,
flying
every
way
,
endanger
all
that
are
neare
them
;
they
breake
every
thing
about
them
;
teare
up
the
earth
beneath
them
,
and
if
they
chance
to
light
upon
any
thing
easilie
susceptible
of
fireing
,
they
sometimes
kindle
it
,
and
that
way
endanger
the
place
wherein
they
fall
.
They
are
intended
both
for
terror
and
for
destruction
:
destruction
both
of
the
places
and
of
the
persons
whereat
they
are
aymed
.
And
it
is
of
all
hands
acknowledged
,
that
no
engine
or
instrument
of
warre
dothmore
mischief
,
nor
imprints
a
greater
,
or
a
juster
terror
.
How
unhappily
witty
men
are
to
invent
daily
new
instruments
of
mischief
to
one
another
!
Me
thinks
it
should
be
but
a
melancholie
speculation
in
a
man's
serious
retirement
to
think
,
that
he
could
never
devise
any
thing
to
save
the
life
of
one
,
and
yet
he
hath
devised
that
which
hath
taken
away
the
lives
of
thousands
:
that
he
hath
been
the
author
of
much
mischiefe
to
them
,
to
whom
he
never
was
the
authour
of
any
good
:
that
many
places
curse
his
fatall
wit
,
that
never
had
the
hap
to
see
his
face
.
And
however
the
expediencie
of
such
engines
and
instruments
for
militarie
service
may
be
defended
from
necessitie
,
yet
no
man
will
deny
but
the
necessitie
is
hard
which
forces
men
to
use
helps
so
destructive
to
mankinde
.
Miserable
man
!
whose
life
spunne
out
unto
the
longest
is
but
short
,
and
is
yet
encompas't
with
so
many
kinde
of
dangers
,
mustered
together
in
such
hideous
shapes
,
threatning
to
cut
it
off
.
Yet
I
confesse
there
is
more
in
the
opinion
,
then
in
the
truth
of
these
things
to
disquiet
us
.
If
I
die
by
a
Canon
shot
,
or
a
Granadoe
,
I
die
sodainly
,
and
my
paine
is
quickly
at
an
end
;
and
yet
I
count
it
not
a
sodaine
death
in
regard
of
my
Soule
,
because
I
saw
the
occasion
of
my
triall
coming
,
and
had
time
enough
to
prepare
my selfe
before
it
came
,
by
making
my
peace
with
God
,
and
with
the
world
:
That
granted
,
how
much
more
wretchedly
might
I
have
died
in
my
bed
,
perhaps
languishing
of
a
tedious
sicknesse
,
till
I
grew
a
burthen
both
to
my selfe
,
and
all
my
friends
;
perhaps
rackt
and
tormented
with
cruell
fits
of
the
stone
,
or
of
the
cholick
,
or
of
some
ulcer
in
the
tender
parts
,
before
which
I
would
preferre
death
a
thousand
times
,
and
yet
should
often
wish
it
when
I
could
not
have
it
;
perhaps
rotting
and
decaying
part
by
part
,
with
an
intolerable
stench
,
which
neither
I
my selfe
,
nor
any
of
my
freinds
,
nor
those
whom
hire
makes
stoope
to
any
offices
,
are
able
to
endure
;
perhaps
smitten
by
the
hand
of
heaven
with
a
contagious
infection
,
which
leaves
me
desolate
in
death
,
with
none
about
me
,
but
those
whose
sordid
avarice
strikeing
at
petty
gaine
,
shall
make
them
more
readie
to
set
me
packing
for
their
owne
advantage
,
then
to
attend
me
with
care
and
faithfullnesse
in
that
distresse
.
Besides
,
he
that
dies
in
his
bed
acquires
no
honour
:
he
that
dies
in
service
doth
;
if
Conscience
and
Loyaltie
engag'd
him
to
it
.
Lord
,
grant
me
but
thy
grace
to
live
,
whilst
I
live
,
so
as
I
should
;
and
I
will
not
wish
to
know
when
or
how
I
shall
die
;
but
shall
resolve
to
think
that
best
which
thou
shalt
send
,
and
to
welcome
it
with
that
contentednesse
and
resolution
which
doth
become
a
man
,
and
much
more
a
Christian
.
MEDITATION
9.
Of
Fire-Balls
.
FIRE-Balls
made
of
powder
and
pitch
and
turpentine
,
and
such
other
stuffe
,
are
shot
at
a
house
,
and
where
they
light
they
stick
and
burne
for
a
quarter
of
an
houre
together
,
sometimes
longer
,
and
are
not
to
be
quench't
with
water
,
or
any
other
liquor
cast
upon
them
:
the
usuall
remedie
is
to
cast
wet
skinnes
upon
them
,
which
(
if
done
in
time
)
doth
stifle
the
fire
,
and
so
put
it
out
.
Where
those
helps
are
not
in
readinesse
,
they
many
times
doe
much
mischiefe
in
a
little
time
.
For
nothing
is
more
violent
then
fire
,
when
it
hath
got
the
masterie
,
both
destroying
all
before
it
,
and
endangering
them
likewise
very
much
that
come
to
quench
it
.
How
many
endeavouring
to
save
that
out
of
the
ravenous
flames
which
was
deare
unto
them
,
have
lost
themselves
?
How
many
have
so
escaped
,
that
it
had
been
little
worse
,
nay
perhaps
better
for
them
to
have
perished
?
Where
the
effects
of
it
are
most
milde
,
they
are
sad
enough
,
and
extreme
full
of
terror
,
both
to
the
sufferers
,
and
to
the
spectators
too
.
Nothing
is
more
in
a
wise
man's
care
then
to
prevent
this
danger
,
or
to
suppresse
it
,
if
it
be
possible
,
ere
it
break
out
too
farre
.
The
ordinarie
casualties
of
peace
instruct
us
enough
how
horrid
the
effects
are
which
follow
such
disasters
:
But
warre
adds
so
much
to
the
horror
of
them
,
that
here
the
enemie
endeavours
to
fire
severall
places
at
once
,
to
the
end
that
men
distracted
in
their
cares
and
feares
,
may
not
know
which
way
to
turne
:
And
here
the
usuall
helps
are
more
to
seeke
,
whether
of
men
,
or
meanes
to
put
it
out
;
the
one
having
work
enough
in
tending
their
defence
,
the
other
being
either
not
provided
,
or
rather
not
to
be
got
in
every
place
.
Hence
it
comes
many
times
to
passe
,
that
all
is
left
a
Sacrifice
to
the
mercilesse
flames
,
and
they
rage
without
restraint
,
till
they
have
turned
all
into
ashes
and
desolation
.
A
ruefull
spectacle
for
a
long
time
after
,
to
every
eye
that
sees
it
,
and
on
which
a
man
cannot
fixe
his
thoughts
,
but
his
heart
shall
earne
,
to
think
how
much
they
suffer'd
that
were
concern'd
.
From
thence
how
easilie
may
we
transferre
our
thoughts
to
that
sad
day
,
when
the
whole
world
shall
burne
in
flames
,
and
the
elements
shall
melt
with
fervent
heate
,
and
therein
not
only
we
,
and
all
that
we
can
call
ours
shall
be
lost
together
,
but
besides
,
those
flames
shall
be
the
forerunners
of
our
greatest
tryall
,
wherein
we
must
give
our
accompt
to
an
impartiall
judge
of
all
our
enmities
and
contestations
,
of
the
justnesse
of
the
warres
that
we
have
undertaken
,
of
the
advised
and
deliberate
injuries
and
mischiefes
that
we
have
done
,
dureing
our
enmitie
to
one
another
;
wherein
if
the
Conscience
doe
not
acquit
us
,
remaines
nothing
for
us
but
to
be
cast
into
the
fire
of
hell
,
the
fire
that
shall
torment
us
for
ever
,
and
yet
not
consume
us
;
the
fire
from
which
we
must
hope
neither
release
,
nor
mitigation
;
the
fire
which
,
though
it
shall
have
intensive
heate
,
yet
it
shall
have
no
light
,
and
so
the
darknesse
shall
double
both
the
torment
,
and
the
terror
on
us
.
Who
can
dwell
with
this
everlasting
fire
?
Or
who
can
abide
these
continuall
burnings
?
And
yet
abide
we
must
,
for
escape
we
cannot
,
unlesse
the
Conscience
of
a
well-led
life
stand
up
in
judgement
to
pleade
for
us
.
Wherein
the
integritie
of
an
honest
heart
and
the
sinceritie
of
a
true
endeavour
to
form
our
actions
according
to
Gods
will
revealed
in
his
word
,
will
be
our
best
assurance
.
That
(
we
shall
not
neede
to
doubt
)
but
for
Christ
his
sake
it
will
be
accepted
;
his
merits
and
satisfaction
abundantly
supplying
what
we
want
.
This
will
create
in
us
a
confidence
towards
God
,
which
being
once
well
setled
,
neither
the
eternall
fire
of
hell
prepared
for
the
devill
and
his
angells
,
nor
the
universall
fire
which
shall
consume
the
World
and
all
things
in
it
,
at
the
last
day
,
nor
any
accident
of
fire
which
may
annoy
or
ruine
either
our
persons
,
or
our
estates
,
or
both
,
here
in
this
world
,
shall
be
able
to
affright
us
:
For
even
in
all
these
we
shall
be
more
then
Conquerours
through
him
that
loved
us
.
MEDITATION
10.
Of
Shooting
Stones
.
AMongst
other
things
;
the
Beseigers
sometimes
shoote
great
stones
,
either
in
one
peice
made
into
the
forme
of
a
Bullet
,
or
in
great
ragged
peices
,
to
scatter
as
they
fall
.
Their
use
is
,
either
to
advance
the
battery
,
or
to
cut
off
,
as
it
may
happen
,
some
of
the
souldiers
in
the
Garrison
.
For
those
purposes
their
Canon
shot
,
and
their
Granadoes
are
more
advantageous
,
but
more
chargeable
:
and
these
added
to
other
helpe
to
amuse
the
beseiged
,
and
to
distract
them
by
their
varied
,
and
multiplyed
dangers
.
What
should
we
say
but
that
we
live
in
an
age
fertile
in
teeming
mischeife
,
and
luxuriant
in
inventing
varied
wayes
of
destruction
?
It
were
not
hyperbolicall
to
averre
that
their
hearts
are
as
hard
,
as
are
the
stones
they
shoote
,
and
as
uncapeable
of
melting
or
of
inteneration
.
For
though
the
law
of
armes
make
it
faire
to
doe
any
thing
in
the
way
of
open
force
that
may
annoy
the
enemie
,
yet
no
law
ever
did
allow
men
to
engage
themselves
in
a
desperate
contest
,
and
in
declar'd
hostilitie
,
without
first
weighing
unpartially
the
justinesse
of
the
cause
,
and
the
faire
grounds
they
goe
upon
to
be
engaged
.
The
neglect
of
that
makes
it
a
murder
to
him
that
kills
his
foe
,
which
he
can
never
answer
either
to
God
or
man
.
And
in
this
case
,
the
more
active
a
man
is
the
worse
,
and
the
more
eager
the
more
wretched
,
for
so
his
guilt
swells
higher
,
and
he
hath
the
more
to
answere
for
what
he
doth
.
Varied
inventions
to
annoy
the
foe
,
are
but
varied
sinnes
;
and
he
never
hurts
his
enemie
,
but
he
more
hurts
himselfe
.
't
is
but
a
deare
purchase
,
if
I
procure
other
mens
sorrowes
,
by
mine
own
sinnes
,
and
to
damnifye
them
in
their
estates
,
or
in
their
persons
,
damn
my
own
soule
.
But
that
assurance
,
and
peace
of
conscience
which
the
one
party
wants
,
the
other
lightly
hath
;
and
if
the
beseiger
erre
in
assayling
;
the
beseiged
erres
not
in
defending
.
Hence
they
come
forth
many
times
the
prodigies
of
patience
,
and
of
courage
,
doing
,
and
suffering
things
beyond
beleife
;
and
in
the
varietie
,
and
change
of
dangers
that
beset
them
remaine
themselves
unchang'd
in
spirit
,
and
resolution
.
Multiplyed
engines
,
and
instruments
to
assaile
them
are
but
so
many
spurres
to
whet
their
diligence
,
to
rowse
up
their
attention
,
to
quicken
their
care
,
to
perfect
their
circumspection
,
that
nothing
on
their
parts
may
be
wanting
to
their
defence
,
whom
(
they
are
throughly
perswaded
)
God
hath
also
taken
into
his
protection
.
MEDITATION
11.
Of
Poysoned
Bullets
.
THose
that
are
called
poysoned
bullets
,
are
either
chawed
with
mens
teeth
,
or
beaten
with
the
sharp
end
of
a
hammer
to
make
them
ragged
;
which
where
they
enter
,
if
they
lye
any
time
in
the
flesh
,
presently
rancle
,
and
gangrene
,
to
the
endangering
of
the
limbe
,
and
many
times
of
the
life
.
Such
accidents
in
the
cure
enforce
alwayes
large
and
dangerous
incisions
,
and
sometimes
abtruncations
,
to
the
great
hazard
of
the
patient
.
We
cannot
accompt
such
inventions
lesse
then
deeply
malitious
,
and
finde
them
most
frequent
amongst
the
baser
sort
of
people
,
in
whose
bosome
candor
and
ingenuitie
could
never
finde
a
harbor
.
A
generous
minde
when
it
is
forc'd
unto
it
,
useth
to
exercise
a
faire
and
noble
enmitie
,
scorning
to
make
advantage
of
those
assistances
which
it
cannot
owne
with
honor
.
But
a
base
minde
climbes
to
her
end
by
any
means
,
and
deemes
nothing
unworthy
that
is
prosperous
.
Any
villany
is
amiable
in
her
eyes
,
that
is
successefull
,
and
she
thinkes
not
how
,
but
what
she
may
attayne
.
We
may
with
envie
,
in
this
point
reflect
upon
the
honor
of
the
aintient
Romans
,
whose
carriage
in
all
hostilitie
was
so
faire
,
and
open
,
that
we
may
blush
to
thinke
(
being
convicted
of
so
sowle
a
difference
)
it
should
be
said
that
they
were
heathens
,
and
we
are
Christians
.
They
shall
one
day
rise
up
against
us
,
and
condemne
us
for
it
,
when
confusion
shall
fill
our
faces
,
and
stop
our
mouthes
,
leaveing
us
nothing
to
plead
in
excuse
of
such
sowle
play
.
I
cannot
hope
to
winne
them
from
such
courses
,
that
are
wedded
to
them
;
for
course
dispositions
are
scarce
capeable
of
culture
;
nor
the
base
vulgar
to
be
wonne
to
any
thing
that
is
generous
.
Leaving
them
therefore
on
the
Lees
of
that
bad
liquor
wherewith
their
earthen
vessels
were
so
season'd
at
the
first
that
the
taste
will
never
out
,
I
shall
endeavor
to
confirm
them
in
the
waies
of
honor
,
whose
birth
and
breeding
hath
made
them
capeable
of
such
counsells
,
and
their
whole
carriage
and
deportment
is
of
the
same
peece
.
Though
I
scarce
thinke
they
need
it
,
yet
I
am
confident
I
cannot
offend
them
by
it
;
and
I
am
sensible
withall
,
that
my
taske
is
the
easier
,
and
I
need
say
the
lesse
.
Goe
on
,
brave
martiall
spirits
,
in
the
pursuite
of
virtue
,
and
of
same
,
which
you
only
know
how
to
court
and
how
to
winne
.
The
lawrell
wreath
is
your
due
,
and
will
become
you
richly
,
when
victorie
shall
finde
her selfe
dishonor'd
to
have
lent
any
countenance
to
your
pesantlye
opposers
.
They
may
perhaps
commit
a
rape
upon
her
,
and
force
her
for
a
while
,
but
the
just
clay
me
and
title
unto
her
is
yours
,
and
she
is
but
dishonested
by
such
corrivalls
.
Doubt
not
but
though
she
absent
her selfe
a
while
,
she
will
returne
,
and
loathing
their
sordid
courtship
which
got
her
but
by
chance
and
know
not
how
to
keepe
her
,
she
will
cast
them
off
againe
,
and
divest
them
of
that
wrongfull
possession
which
they
had
usurped
.
For
you
she
hath
treasur'd
up
her
choycest
glories
,
and
will
not
prove
coy
when
you
wooe
her
back
,
but
will
come
,
being
sought
to
,
in
such
noble
wayes
;
and
being
come
,
will
not
depart
for
ever
.
MEDITATION
12.
Of
Petarrs
.
A
Petarre
is
an
Engine
fastned
to
a
Gate
,
to
blow
it
open
,
which
when
it
is
fired
,
shivers
the
Gate
to
peeces
,
and
laies
the
entrance
open
to
the
assaylant
.
The
danger
on
their
part
,
is
the
coming
neare
to
fasten
it
,
which
the
beseiged
endeavor
by
all
possible
meanes
to
hinder
.
But
be
the
danger
never
so
great
,
there
want
not
them
which
will
venture
,
and
come
on
to
fasten
it
,
though
they
be
never
so
likely
to
perish
in
the
attempt
.
In
the
condition
of
martiall
service
it
is
alwayes
so
,
that
all
important
actions
are
full
of
danger
.
The
way
to
victorie
is
stor'd
with
precipices
,
and
death
in
severall
kindes
lurking
in
every
corner
,
nay
sometimes
with
open
face
presented
in
the
most
hideous
formes
,
stands
awayting
them
that
venture
.
Honor
is
seldome
bought
at
a
cheape
price
:
yet
it
is
not
accompted
deare
where
a
man
doth
not
part
with
his
conscience
to
purchase
it
.
He
that
will
list
himselfe
for
the
feild
,
must
expect
the
hazard
,
and
resolve
to
runne
it
:
for
being
once
enroll'd
he
can
neither
goe
on
with
safety
,
nor
goe
back
with
honor
.
And
sure
he
that
cannot
despise
danger
,
was
never
layd
out
for
a
souldier
.
Be
the
danger
what
it
will
,
the
commands
of
a
Generall
are
to
be
executed
not
disputed
,
and
a
chearfull
and
exact
obedience
best
becomes
a
martiall
spirit
.
They
should
not
know
feare
that
wage
warre
:
at
least
they
should
be
able
to
cast
it
out
,
where
judgement
tells
them
that
it
misbecomes
them
,
and
is
a
hindrance
to
the
perfecting
of
that
worke
wherein
they
are
engaged
.
One
timorous
man
,
nay
one
timorous
carriage
of
one
man
in
an
army
,
many
times
overthroweth
the
whole
enterprise
,
and
drawes
many
thousands
with
him
into
one
common
ruine
.
Sure
he
that
well
considers
it
,
hath
not
much
to
feare
,
where
he
is
sure
either
to
dye
a
Martyr
,
or
come
off
a
conquerour
;
where
he
shall
not
want
honor
whilst
he
lives
,
nor
peace
of
conscience
when
he
dies
.
Many
a
man
lives
too
long
,
that
lives
with
shame
:
but
no
man
dies
too
soone
,
that
dies
with
honor
.
What
is
it
that
I
was
borne
into
the
world
,
and
that
I
live
for
,
but
to
serve
my
God
,
my
King
,
and
Country
with
my
life
,
and
with
my
fortunes
?
And
this
if
I
have
done
,
although
I
die
at
twenty
,
I
have
lived
more
then
he
that
hath
spunne
out
a
hundred
uselesse
yeares
.
They
are
not
properly
said
to
live
,
that
live
but
to
themselves
,
haveing
atcheiv'd
nothing
of
goodnesse
,
or
of
glory
beyond
other
men
To
have
fill'd
up
the
muster
,
or
made
one
in
the
number
of
an
armie
for
many
yeares
together
,
and
in
all
that
time
to
have
no
name
,
or
note
,
is
worse
then
to
have
been
a
droane
amongst
the
Bees
;
because
sense
only
is
their
guide
,
but
reason
should
be
ours
.
The
weaknesse
of
one
timorous
man
doth
much
mischiefe
,
but
his
example
doth
a
great
deale
more
.
And
there
is
nothing
wherein
it
concerns
a
Generall
to
be
more
vigilant
,
then
to
find
such
cowards
out
,
and
to
casheire
them
.
A
few
resolved
men
,
whom
danger
cannot
daunt
,
shall
doe
wonders
;
and
a
man
shall
scarce
attempt
any
thing
,
which
he
shall
not
find
feisible
with
such
assistance
.
Bequeath
feares
to
women
,
old
men
,
and
children
,
in
whom
they
are
pardonable
:
in
a
man
they
are
not
:
and
in
a
souldier
least
.
Yet
I
would
not
have
rashnesse
mistaken
in
stead
of
valour
,
nor
foole-hardinesse
in
stead
of
courage
.
Fortitude
is
not
blinde
,
nor
a
just
resolution
void
of
judgement
.
What
he
attempts
,
and
why
,
how
he
may
likeliest
carry
it
,
and
when
the
nick
of
time
is
to
put
on
,
he
hath
it
all
premeditated
that
is
truly
valiant
.
The
danger
of
the
enterprise
comes
in
but
upon
the
by
,
and
troubles
not
his
thoughts
,
he
reckons
it
a
thing
of
course
,
which
if
it
should
stop
his
speed
he
would
reckon
that
he
did
stumble
at
a
straw
.
If
any
such
poore
thought
steale
in
upon
him
at
unawares
,
it
is
but
an
inmate
,
that
unregarded
may
sojourn
for
a
while
,
but
must
not
dwell
nor
tarry
in
a
noble
bosome
.
For
if
he
once
take
notice
of
it
,
it
must
flie
.
A
well
resolved
man
should
know
no
other
feare
but
the
feare
of
God
:
and
if
that
leade
him
into
the
quarrell
,
no
other
feare
can
beate
him
off
againe
;
but
he
goes
on
till
he
arrive
(
as
at
his
port
and
haven
)
either
at
an
honourable
death
,
or
a
victorious
triumph
.
MEDITATION
13.
Of
Intelligence
.
ONE
of
the
essentiall
things
in
the
discipline
of
warre
,
is
to
have
good
intelligence
from
the
enemies
quarters
,
what
his
strengths
are
,
what
his
weakenesses
,
what
his
store
and
provisions
,
what
his
numbers
,
what
his
designes
,
what
his
hopes
or
feares
,
what
his
encombrances
:
A
thing
not
easilie
to
be
learn'd
,
nor
without
great
expence
;
besides
that
,
the
parties
to
be
therein
imployed
must
be
of
tried
fidelity
,
of
undaunted
resolutions
,
and
of
no
meane
parts
.
A
sleight
recompence
will
not
countervaile
such
an
undertaking
:
Nor
is
it
a
businesse
for
one
man
alone
to
goe
through
with
,
but
he
is
usually
forced
to
take
in
many
to
his
assistance
,
and
it
is
but
reason
they
should
share
in
the
reward
,
that
share
in
the
worke
:
Amongst
whom
if
any
one
prove
false
,
they
all
miscarrie
,
and
the
action
too
.
They
must
be
therefore
singled
out
with
choice
;
and
a
man
must
be
very
warie
whom
he
boords
in
such
a
businesse
;
For
,
it
is
a
high
point
of
credulitie
to
beleeve
he
will
be
true
to
me
,
whom
I
endeavor
to
make
false
where
he
owes
his
Faith
.
Nor
are
men
of
ordinarie
parts
fit
to
be
embarqu'd
as
the
cheife
agents
in
such
an
affaire
.
The
art
of
carrying
two
faces
under
one
hood
,
and
conversing
as
a
friend
with
them
,
whom
as
an
enemie
he
studies
to
ruine
;
of
corrupting
others
to
betray
their
trust
,
and
to
tread
with
him
the
same
pathes
of
danger
for
advantage
(
when
discoverie
brings
certaine
death
,
and
no
lesse
certain
shame
)
askes
a
practic'd
Machivilian
,
verst
in
all
kinde
of
subtleties
and
guiles
,
and
perfect
in
disguising
his
intents
.
That
these
Arts
are
honest
,
is
more
then
I
dare
affirme
:
yet
that
they
are
necessarie
,
in
time
of
warre
,
is
that
which
most
men
averre
.
But
God
helpe
us
,
if
that
were
necessarie
which
were
not
honest
.
So
much
I
shall
venture
to
determine
;
That
he
which
gaines
his
Soveraigne
intelligence
of
any
thing
that
may
conduce
unto
his
safetie
,
doth
but
what
is
honest
,
and
that
to
which
he
is
tyed
by
the
oath
of
alleigeance
:
But
he
that
discovers
his
Soveraignes
designes
unto
his
enemie
,
or
corrupts
his
Subjects
in
their
Loyaltie
,
making
them
,
for
private
gaine
,
the
instruments
of
a
publique
ruine
,
is
a
traytor
in
the
highest
kinde
,
and
ayming
at
wicked
ends
,
endeavors
to
compasse
them
by
as
unlawfull
meanes
.
Let
such
men
be
assured
,
that
both
a
certaine
,
and
a
great
damnation
doth
attend
them
;
from
which
they
have
lesse
hope
than
other
men
to
escape
by
repentance
,
because
we
doe
not
find
,
that
God
ever
gave
it
unto
such
a
traytor
.
How
miserable
in
the
meane
time
is
their
condition
,
that
bargain
their
own
certain
damnation
on
such
tearmes
?
the
danger
great
,
the
reward
little
,
the
performance
doubtfull
,
the
infamy
certaine
,
even
with
those
whom
they
have
so
basely
serv'd
,
but
much
more
with
the
other
party
;
for
even
those
that
most
court
their
assistance
,
doe
hate
their
persons
,
and
when
their
use
is
at
an
end
,
cast
off
the
property
with
which
they
acted
.
If
fordid
avarice
did
not
blinde
them
,
they
must
needs
see
,
that
those
which
have
once
falsified
their
saith
,
must
ne're
be
trusted
more
;
and
they
that
would
be
once
corrupted
,
must
ne're
be
used
againe
.
If
they
faile
of
their
promised
rewards
,
with
what
face
can
they
complaine
of
others
falshood
,
that
are
conscious
of
their
own
?
or
murmure
because
their
fellowes
have
deceived
them
,
when
they
have
deceived
their
Master
?
Poore
,
and
wretched
,
and
discontented
may
they
perish
,
begging
their
bread
in
desolate
places
,
where
they
shall
finde
no
hand
to
relieve
them
,
nor
no
eye
to
pitie
them
,
whose
Faith
gold
can
corrupt
,
and
make
them
disloyall
to
their
King
and
Country
.
Leaving
them
to
him
that
will
finde
them
out
in
their
falshood
,
we
may
without
offence
bewaile
our
own
condition
,
whose
greatest
danger
is
from
one
another
,
and
that
so
close
and
secret
,
that
it
is
not
easily
avoided
.
Suspition
and
circumspection
are
our
only
helps
,
which
though
they
be
both
equally
necessarie
,
yet
suspition
is
lyable
to
construction
,
and
scarce
thought
consistent
with
the
candor
of
an
ingenuous
natur
.
For
it
is
usually
said
;
Good
men
doe
not
misdoubt
that
in
others
,
which
they
would
not
doe
themselves
;
and
therefore
are
as
tender
to
wrong
other
men
by
suspition
,
as
they
would
be
sensible
to
be
so
wronged
themselves
.
Truely
I
should
wish
that
suspitions
might
not
be
discovered
till
presumptions
growe
strong
,
and
begin
to
neighbour
upon
proofe
;
yet
in
publique
concernments
I
would
have
them
alwaies
wakeing
,
and
even
then
most
busie
when
they
are
least
detected
;
for
suspition
quickens
observation
,
and
observation
drawes
probabilities
,
and
probabilities
make
conjectures
,
which
by
the
weight
of
circumstances
laid
together
,
at
length
amount
to
proofes
,
whereby
when
we
have
discovered
what
we
sought
,
we
need
not
blush
that
they
tooke
their
rise
from
such
beginings
.
It
is
the
best
advantage
in
this
case
to
be
quick-sighted
,
and
quick-sented
,
that
we
may
prevent
these
treacheries
,
which
being
once
enacted
,
can
ne're
be
cur'd
.
MEDITATION
14.
Of
Battering
,
or
Blowing-up
of
Magazines
.
THE
chiefe
strength
of
a
Garrison
is
their
store
of
powder
,
and
shot
,
and
match
;
if
these
once
faile
,
the
Garrison
(
though
never
so
strong
by
situation
,
or
by
art
)
is
no
longer
tenible
.
The
powder
amongst
the
rest
,
is
subject
to
most
casualties
,
and
the
mischeife
that
followes
by
any
mischance
coming
to
it
,
both
most
fearefull
in
the
effects
,
and
most
irrecoverable
in
the
losse
:
for
all
flyes
up
in
an
instant
,
and
all
remedies
come
too
late
to
prevent
that
desolation
which
such
an
accident
doth
leave
behind
it
.
Therefore
it
is
safest
lodged
under
ground
,
in
some
battery
made
every
way
both
on
the
top
,
and
on
the
sides
,
Canon
and
Granadoe
proofe
.
Yet
the
enemy
,
not
ignorant
of
the
advantage
to
reach
that
store
,
learning
first
where
it
lyes
,
(
which
every
workeman
that
hath
been
imployed
in
the
garrison
cannot
but
know
)
takes
all
his
aime
that
way
,
and
directs
all
his
shot
both
with
his
Canon
,
and
with
his
mortar-peeces
to
the
magazine
,
as
to
the
center
of
his
hopes
.
In
a
word
,
to
destroy
that
is
the
assaylant's
cheifest
care
,
and
to
preserve
it
,
the
defendants
.
And
surely
it
must
not
be
accompted
a
small
matter
upon
which
all
depends
:
nor
is
it
sufficiently
attended
by
an
ordinary
care
,
which
hath
an
extraordinary
concernment
▪
who
would
not
lift
hard
at
that
part
,
which
must
needs
quickly
set
a
period
to
the
whole
?
The
things
that
are
most
necessary
,
and
most
usefull
are
most
in
danger
:
the
rest
we
can
permit
unto
an
enemie
,
and
not
grutch
him
the
fruition
;
because
the
cheife
being
mastered
the
rest
will
follow
upon
course
.
In
the
preservation
of
these
how
many
times
is
providence
deceiv'd
?
how
many
tymes
is
all
the
care
,
and
paines
and
cost
bestow'd
to
save
,
and
to
secure
them
utterly
cast
away
?
and
in
the
twincling
of
an
eye
those
stores
blowne
up
,
which
were
a
long
time
in
providing
,
and
we
reckoned
that
a
long
time
they
should
have
lasted
.
Such
is
the
flitting
vanitie
of
all
humane
hopes
,
a
long
time
in
hatching
,
and
in
cherishing
,
but
blasted
in
an
instant
:
much
care
,
and
cost
,
and
toyle
to
gather
that
together
,
which
by
some
undreamt
of
accident
vanishes
of
a
suddaine
.
No
follie
therefore
so
great
,
as
to
count
their
fruition
certain
;
or
to
reckon
that
our
own
,
which
every
minute
may
be
taken
from
us
.
A
wise
man
enjoyes
them
so
that
he
beares
alwayes
a
minde
prepar'd
to
loose
them
;
and
though
he
have
resolv'd
to
slacken
nothing
of
that
fit
care
which
may
secure
them
,
yet
he
forgets
not
that
chance
over
masters
providence
,
and
unexpected
accidents
in
spight
of
all
our
care
will
intervene
,
to
disturbe
our
affayres
,
and
elude
our
expectation
.
Yet
in
these
accidents
he
reades
a
higher
providence
then
his
own
,
to
which
all
those
things
are
certaine
which
are
contingent
unto
us
.
That
providence
can
never
be
deceiv'd
,
ours
may
,
and
is
.
And
if
we
have
but
patience
to
waite
the
event
,
we
shall
easily
discerne
how
it
formes
all
things
for
the
best
,
even
those
which
seem'd
most
casuall
in
their
nature
,
and
most
bitter
for
the
present
.
It
is
true
,
that
commonly
our
affection
to
these
things
is
more
,
or
lesse
,
as
was
the
time
,
and
care
,
and
cost
,
and
paines
which
were
imploy'd
about
them
:
for
those
things
we
love
better
,
and
part
with
more
unwillingly
,
which
are
set
off
to
our
acceptation
by
such
indeerements
.
Yet
when
we
are
conscious
to
our selves
of
no
neglect
in
that
fitting
,
though
not
anxious
care
,
which
we
did
use
to
keepe
them
,
if
an
unexpected
accident
,
which
we
could
neither
probably
have
foreseene
,
nor
easily
have
prevented
force
them
out
of
our
hands
,
we
are
to
reckon
that
God
requires
them
backe
againe
,
against
whose
pleasure
to
repine
cannot
become
our
duty
.
Thou
ô
God
that
hast
given
all
,
take
what
thou
wilt
,
take
it
how
,
and
when
thou
pleasest
,
take
it
in
an
instant
,
take
it
when
I
least
suspect
it
,
onely
take
not
my
patience
from
me
,
nor
my
obedient
submission
unto
thy
blessed
will
,
take
not
my
faith
from
me
,
whereby
I
am
throughly
perswaded
that
all
my
sufferings
shall
turne
to
my
advantage
,
nor
take
not
thy
love
and
mercy
from
me
,
which
may
preserve
my
soule
,
however
my
body
or
my
estate
miscarry
.
MEDITATION
15.
Of
destroying
Provisions
.
OF
how
much
importance
to
the
lives
of
the
Besieged
their
provisions
of
foode
are
,
stored
up
for
many
daies
,
no
man
but
understands
.
The
destroying
of
those
provisions
when
they
are
laid
in
,
is
likewise
a
maine
endeavour
of
the
adversarie
,
which
,
when
he
doth
or
can
learne
where
they
are
stor'd
,
he
failes
not
to
attempt
.
For
if
those
faile
,
he
knowes
they
cannot
hold
out
:
His
designe
therefore
is
eyther
to
let
in
water
upon
them
,
if
they
lie
lowe
,
or
to
fire
or
blowe
them
up
,
if
they
lie
high
,
or
by
any
meanes
to
destroy
that
of
a
suddaine
,
which
should
have
maintained
the
Garrison
for
many
moneths
.
The
Governour's
care
must
be
to
secure
it
where
it
lies
,
and
to
husband
it
with
thrift
,
that
neglect
may
not
lavish
that
in
a
few
,
which
discretion
might
have
drawn
out
for
many
monthes
.
If
in
these
things
he
leave
the
Souldier
to
himselfe
,
he
shall
finde
them
,
in
the
generall
,
addicted
to
enjoy
the
present
,
improvident
of
the
future
;
indulgent
to
themselves
,
studious
of
ease
and
plenty
,
averse
to
labour
,
impatient
to
be
stinted
,
and
never
sitting
down
by
such
conditions
,
but
when
they
are
over-rul'd
;
What
therefore
he
doth
not
encline
to
of
himselfe
,
he
must
be
made
by
discipline
;
let
him
feed
to
day
as
he
may
feed
to
morrow
:
let
him
work
to
day
,
as
he
may
feed
to
morrowe
:
spare
not
his
paines
where
it
may
save
his
life
:
bring
him
to
his
allowance
before
it
be
too
late
:
if
his
store
be
not
safe
,
let
him
make
it
:
if
by
any
endeavour
of
the
assaylant
it
be
endangered
,
let
him
remove
it
:
if
it
be
like
to
faile
by
the
continuance
of
the
Seige
,
let
him
spare
it
:
what
providence
hath
laid
in
,
let
discretion
dispense
:
what
wisedome
hath
laid
up
,
let
diligence
preserve
.
Let
not
the
enemy
without
destroy
,
nor
the
garrison
within
consume
what
may
well
be
saved
.
Want
of
foode
allwaies
pinches
,
but
never
so
sharply
,
as
when
our
own
hearts
tell
us
,
that
if
we
had
beene
so
carefull
as
we
should
,
we
had
not
wanted
it
.
Lord
,
let
me
not
want
discretion
to
moderate
my selfe
at
all
times
,
that
I
may
never
offend
thee
by
excesse
!
Let
me
not
want
judgement
to
discerne
the
difference
of
times
,
to
temper
my selfe
more
strictly
when
there
is
more
neede
!
if
I
want
these
my selfe
,
let
me
not
want
governours
and
tutors
,
or
overseers
,
by
whose
timely
providence
I
may
be
more
safe
then
I
had
been
by
my
owne
!
nor
let
them
want
sharpnesse
to
discerne
,
nor
courage
to
execute
what
should
be
done
in
such
exigencies
;
nor
I
,
will
for
to
obey
them
!
and
then
I
doubt
not
,
but
that
in
the
greatest
straights
I
shall
never
want
bread
,
or
at
least
never
want
thy
support
,
who
hast
taught
me
,
that
man
lives
not
by
bread
only
,
but
by
every
word
that
proceedeth
out
of
the
mouth
of
God
.
MEDITATION
16.
Of
Cutting
,
or
Drayning
Waters
from
a
Garrison
.
HUNGER
and
THIRST
are
coupled
commonly
as
fellowes
,
both
sorely
annoying
the
health
,
and
equallie
endangering
the
life
of
man
.
Yet
of
the
two
,
(
both
naturalists
,
and
experience
it selfe
attesting
the
same
)
it
is
confest
,
that
thirst
is
the
sharper
,
and
the
more
incomportable
.
Besides
that
the
annoyance
of
unholsome
beveridg
is
more
destructive
,
then
of
unwholsome
foode
,
and
the
sad
effects
of
it
more
suddaine
,
and
more
pernicious
.
For
many
things
may
be
found
for
food
,
when
customary
provisions
faile
,
wch
though
they
be
not
so
agreeable
with
our
constitution
,
yet
they
are
not
contrary
in
an
extream
degree
,
but
so
as
even
unto
them
the
stomack
may
enure
it selfe
by
degrees
,
and
be
able
in
some
measure
to
beare
the
change
:
but
if
it
come
once
to
that
passe
that
water
cannot
be
had
,
all
other
liquors
(
of
which
such
a
proportion
may
be
hoped
,
as
to
sustaine
life
)
must
needs
be
such
,
as
a
small
tryall
shall
evince
to
be
destructive
unto
nature
.
Not
to
speake
of
the
want
of
it
to
dresse
any
kinde
of
foode
,
nor
of
the
noysome
stench
,
and
inevitable
nastinesse
which
follows
upon
the
want
of
it
for
other
uses
.
If
therefore
the
spring
or
rivers
that
water
a
garrison
can
be
dreyned
,
or
cut
off
,
there
will
need
no
other
sword
to
cut
the
gordian
knot
of
that
contest
.
Surely
it
is
not
easie
to
conceive
but
by
tryall
(
which
God
graunt
we
never
may
)
how
intolerable
the
torments
are
which
they
endure
,
whose
bowels
are
shrunke
with
thirst
,
their
flesh
dried
up
,
and
withered
,
their
inwards
flameing
with
intensive
heate
,
their
hearts
,
and
spirits
fainting
,
their
tongues
cleaving
to
their
drie
pallats
,
the
light
of
their
eyes
dimm'd
,
and
the
whole
man
flavescent
and
decay'd
,
and
wearied
with
the
drought
which
he
can
beare
no
longer
.
Civility
scarce
beares
the
mention
of
those
things
,
which
in
such
extreames
are
eagerly
hunted
after
,
and
greedily
drunke
off
to
quench
thirst
.
Nor
is
it
onely
in
a
siege
that
men
are
so
opprest
,
in
hot
services
,
and
cruell
battailes
,
disputed
long
and
eagerly
on
both
sides
;
in
long
and
speedy
marches
;
in
necessitated
journeyes
by
secret
,
and
untroden
pathes
for
feare
of
enemies
men
meet
the
same
affliction
.
And
when
I
remember
how
frequent
all
these
are
amongst
us
in
these
times
,
and
how
many
men
have
been
brought
,
by
these
severall
meanes
,
to
the
very
gates
of
death
,
if
not
utterly
destroyed
by
extreame
thirst
,
it
makes
me
apt
to
thinke
that
God
intends
to
upbraide
us
with
that
infamous
,
and
sinfull
height
of
drinkeing
which
hath
been
so
universally
receiv'd
,
and
practised
among
all
sorts
of
people
.
It
is
but
just
that
they
should
want
water
,
that
would
endure
no
stint
in
wine
;
that
they
that
wanton'd
in
varietie
of
liquors
should
want
any
that
is
wholsome
:
that
they
which
drunke
continually
when
they
had
no
thirst
,
should
thirst
when
they
have
no
drinke
:
that
they
which
inflam'd
themselves
willingly
by
excesse
,
should
be
enflam'd
by
drought
against
their
wills
,
for
want
of
a
cup
of
cold
water
to
refresh
their
entrailes
.
Those
that
are
now
most
deafe
to
these
instructions
,
will
resent
them
most
deeply
then
;
and
their
own
guilt
awakened
by
their
affliction
will
double
their
sorrowes
on
them
,
and
make
that
crosse
more
heavie
unto
them
then
others
.
Besides
that
the
habit
of
drinking
makes
an
unnaturall
thirst
,
and
calls
more
eagerly
for
those
supplies
,
which
being
not
to
be
had
,
make
the
want
more
afflictive
.
A
temperate
man
beares
thirst
a
great
deale
better
;
and
is
also
free
from
those
secret
stings
of
guilt
,
and
bath
a
stronger
hope
,
and
better
grounded
,
that
God
will
one
way
,
or
other
send
him
release
.
If
it
come
not
,
yet
his
accompt
is
cast
,
and
he
submits
unto
the
will
of
God
:
by
whose
speciall
favor
(
no
man
ever
did
deny
it
)
in
one
and
the
same
condition
of
want
either
of
meats
,
or
drinkes
,
all
men
doe
not
feele
the
same
degree
of
torment
,
nor
have
not
the
same
sharpnesse
of
hunger
,
or
of
thirst
upon
them
.
God
makes
the
difference
where
he
pleases
:
never
without
just
cause
,
alwayes
well
known
to
him
,
though
sometimes
unknown
to
us
.
MEDITATION
17.
Of
Under-mineing
.
WHERE
the
Trenches
without
the
workes
are
drie
,
and
the
ground
not
rock
,
or
stonie
,
on
which
the
Garrison
stands
,
it
is
an
usuall
practice
to
under-mine
,
and
when
they
have
brought
the
Mine
unto
the
Works
,
to
blow
it
up
with
powder
.
The
endeavour
of
the
beseiged
is
to
find
out
the
practice
(
for
which
they
have
certaine
proofes
)
to
marke
which
way
they
worke
,
and
counter-mine
them
.
What
in
open
view
cannot
be
attempted
,
seems
to
be
undertaken
with
more
safety
under
ground
.
Yet
no
sooner
is
a
new
way
found
out
to
annoy
,
then
new
waies
are
found
out
on
the
other
side
to
prevent
that
annoyance
:
God
having
made
man
as
ingenious
to
invent
things
for
his
owne
defence
,
as
to
doe
mischiefe
.
And
it
is
well
provided
for
humane
safetie
,
that
where
malice
hath
a
sword
,
innocence
should
have
a
buckler
;
and
where
the
assaylant
may
infest
,
the
defendant
may
not
want
a
cure
.
Wherein
it
is
just
with
God
that
the
mischeife
of
the
first
mover
should
fall
sometimes
upon
his
own
head
,
and
he
be
caught
in
his
own
craft
,
and
taken
in
his
own
snare
;
that
a
Myne
should
by
a
counter-Myne
be
brought
to
nothing
,
and
not
only
their
labour
lost
that
wrought
in
it
,
but
many
times
their
persons
too
.
Such
are
the
hazards
of
these
attempts
,
which
yet
cannot
deterre
the
undertakers
from
adventuring
.
But
it
is
no
news
to
see
desperate
gamesters
wage
great
stakes
,
and
ventrous
Merchants
engage
themselves
farre
,
when
they
are
come
to
such
a
state
that
a
small
adventure
cannot
keepe
them
up
.
It
is
the
highest
part
of
wisedome
to
weigh
things
well
at
first
,
whilest
yet
a
man
is
free
,
and
hath
as
full
power
of
himselfe
,
as
he
can
wish
;
many
a
man
hath
wisht
that
he
could
have
gone
back
,
when
it
hath
been
too
late
;
and
hath
repented
in
vaine
his
rash
engageing
of
himselfe
to
those
dangers
,
which
perhaps
he
had
never
known
if
he
had
not
tried
.
In
the
bowels
of
the
earth
he
that
digges
out
new
waies
,
and
through
that
covert
darknesse
makes
his
passage
,
must
not
wonder
to
meete
with
accidents
to
which
he
is
a
stranger
,
and
those
such
as
doe
bring
dangers
with
them
,
for
which
he
could
provide
no
remedie
,
because
he
did
not
expect
them
.
In
those
cavernes
,
what
more
usuall
then
suddain
eruptions
of
waters
,
somtimes
in
great
aboundance
;
then
strange
and
malignant
sulphureous
vapors
,
which
suffocate
the
spirits
,
and
prove
suddainlie
mortall
to
those
that
meete
them
in
so
pent
a
passage
?
Many
have
gone
into
those
Mines
as
to
their
graves
,
and
have
come
out
no
more
;
the
very
place
it selfe
,
without
any
person
to
annoy
them
,
proving
their
Sepulchre
.
Yet
few
can
be
perswaded
that
they
dig
their
owne
graves
,
but
(
carried
on
with
rage
and
with
desire
)
promise
themselves
a
safe
returne
from
thence
,
where
death
in
more
then
one
shape
doth
attend
them
.
He
needes
no
goade
or
spurre
that
is
pricktt
on
by
avarice
,
by
envie
,
or
ambition
,
by
spleene
or
malice
,
or
any
of
those
vices
which
in
the
weakest
mindes
take
greatest
hold
,
and
blind
the
judgement
so
,
that
it
cannot
iustly
weigh
what
it
doth
undertake
.
Hence
it
is
that
they
presse
on
to
danger
after
danger
,
and
cannot
rest
or
stop
,
till
they
have
tried
all
the
waies
either
above
ground
or
under
,
which
may
leade
unto
their
ends
.
Nor
doe
they
at
all
consider
how
full
they
are
of
hazard
,
or
how
sinfull
,
but
how
necessarie
for
their
designes
,
which
they
resolve
to
carrie
(
if
it
be
possible
)
although
both
soule
and
body
perish
in
the
attempt
.
Lord
,
keepe
us
from
the
masterie
of
these
vices
,
which
drive
men
over
all
precipices
into
destruction
!
and
let
us
so
conscientiously
weigh
that
which
we
undertake
,
that
whether
we
live
,
or
die
in
the
attempt
,
we
may
be
thine
,
and
no
danger
,
no
not
all
the
dangers
of
this
life
be
able
to
separate
our
soules
from
thee
!
MEDITATION
18.
Of
entering
a
Breach
.
THE
entering
of
a
breach
,
is
of
all
the
services
in
warre
the
most
desperate
:
for
it
is
the
entering
upon
the
mouth
of
the
Canon
,
upon
the
muzle
of
the
musket
,
upon
the
point
of
the
pike
,
besides
traynes
of
powder
to
be
expected
from
beneath
,
and
showres
of
stones
,
and
bullets
from
above
,
with
the
mortall
stroake
of
the
bill
or
halbert
when
they
come
within
the
reach
,
and
the
carbyne
and
pistol
,
and
pole-axe
standing
at
the
receipt
,
if
they
breake
through
the
rest
:
insomuch
that
it
seemes
almost
a
miracle
any
man
should
escape
that
comes
on
with
the
first
,
till
multitude
(
oppressing
,
and
tireing
the
defendants
)
have
made
the
passage
both
more
safe
and
easie
.
Yet
after
all
this
losse
many
times
the
attempt
miscarries
,
when
the
defendant
perceiving
where
the
breach
was
likely
to
be
made
,
hath
raised
new
works
within
,
and
so
beates
the
assaylant
off
with
no
small
detriment
.
How
hard
and
desperate
are
the
services
which
avarice
,
and
ambition
,
and
stomack
,
we
may
say
(
but
too
often
)
which
the
world
and
the
devill
puts
us
on
upon
!
and
yet
how
chearefully
,
how
resolvedly
doe
we
undergoe
them
!
How
faire
,
and
easie
,
how
safe
and
secure
those
that
God
puts
us
on
upon
,
and
yet
how
hardly
are
we
drawen
on
,
and
how
soone
doe
we
recoyle
!
How
few
are
they
that
venture
their
estates
,
their
lives
,
or
limbes
to
save
their
Consciences
?
or
that
are
willing
to
endanger
themselves
to
serve
their
God
?
A
better
Master
I
am
sure
we
cannot
serve
;
whose
commands
are
more
just
,
whose
ends
are
more
noble
,
whose
rewards
are
more
certaine
,
whose
acceptation
of
our
endeavours
is
more
gratious
,
whose
love
to
us
is
more
unchangeable
,
whose
care
of
us
is
greater
,
whose
protection
is
more
safe
,
or
whose
service
is
more
honourable
.
Yet
not
only
danger
,
but
the
very
shadow
of
danger
staggers
us
in
our
obedience
towards
him
.
Full
we
are
of
delaies
and
of
excuses
;
cold
and
timorous
and
doubtfull
,
and
full
of
scruples
:
One
while
a
beame
,
another
while
a
mote
is
in
our
eyes
,
and
they
cannot
be
cast
out
:
one
while
we
stumble
at
a
block
,
another
while
at
a
straw
,
and
cannot
be
got
forwards
:
after
much
spurring
on
,
if
we
begin
,
we
straight
grow
faint
and
wearie
:
every
discouragement
puts
us
off
againe
,
and
makes
us
looke
back
after
we
have
put
our
hands
unto
the
Plough
,
It
is
easie
to
inferre
that
our
affection
unto
God
and
goodnesse
,
is
lesse
then
to
these
worldly
things
,
when
we
may
have
them
,
and
yet
will
not
buy
them
at
a
farre
easier
rate
.
If
my
tie
to
God
were
not
greater
,
my
sinne
were
lesse
;
now
my
fault
is
double
,
that
where
I
owe
more
,
I
pay
lesse
;
and
where
I
owe
lesse
,
I
pay
more
.
Yet
I
would
not
be
understood
,
as
if
I
went
about
to
discourage
a
Souldier
in
his
obedience
to
his
commander
set
over
him
by
his
Prince
,
so
long
as
he
continues
loyall
to
him
that
placed
him
;
the
Souldiers
obedience
(
be
the
danger
what
it
will
)
cannot
be
too
chearefull
,
too
punctuall
,
or
too
resolved
.
Yet
God
must
not
be
forgotten
to
whom
our
obedience
is
due
in
the
first
place
.
I
am
sure
he
cannot
erre
in
his
commands
,
but
all
men
may
:
What
he
requires
is
ever
just
and
lawfull
;
they
may
(
and
doe
require
somtimes
)
that
which
is
otherwise
.
Shall
every
man
be
judge
then
of
his
Superiors
commands
,
and
take
upon
him
to
dispute
them
,
or
suspend
his
obedience
till
he
be
satisfied
?
farre
be
that
from
my
thoughts
;
neither
the
rules
of
policie
,
nor
of
divinitie
allow
it
.
In
things
not
simply
,
indisputably
,
and
manifestly
evill
,
they
must
be
obeyed
,
and
that
without
disputing
:
wherein
if
they
should
erre
that
doe
obey
,
being
put
on
that
which
were
not
lawfull
,
God
would
require
it
at
their
Superiours
hands
,
which
did
not
weigh
with
judgement
what
they
did
command
;
but
not
at
theirs
,
whose
dutie
was
obedience
.
Our
obedience
to
God
can
admit
no
exception
,
and
yet
we
halt
in
that
a
great
deale
more
:
But
a
weake
eye
may
discern
the
fountaine
of
this
difference
.
A
corporall
,
a
visible
,
a
sensible
,
a
present
punishment
which
may
be
inflicted
doth
over-awe
us
,
when
we
neglect
the
execution
of
their
commands
whom
a
Prince
hath
set
over
us
:
And
the
discipline
of
warre
requires
that
it
be
rigorously
inflicted
,
lest
that
disobedience
be
drawne
into
example
;
but
the
punishment
of
our
disobedience
to
God
being
invisible
,
and
the
time
uncertaine
when
it
shall
be
inflicted
,
encourages
fond
men
to
be
over-indulgent
to
themselves
,
when
they
see
they
cannot
serve
God
but
with
losse
and
danger
.
Such
are
we
all
,
if
God
leave
us
to
our selves
,
cold
for
the
most
part
in
his
cause
,
though
forwards
,
and
stowte
enough
in
other
things
.
MEDITATION
19.
Of
scaling-Ladders
.
TO
mount
up
the
Works
,
whether
they
storme
with
,
or
without
a
breach
,
is
on
the
assaylants
part
,
an
atchievement
for
men
of
no
mean
resolutions
:
For
when
it
comes
to
that
pinch
the
annoyances
of
great
and
small
shot
grow
hot
and
thick
,
the
pike
,
and
the
bill
,
and
the
sword
are
not
idle
,
every
stone
is
mov'd
by
the
defendants
that
may
retard
the
worke
,
or
put
it
back
.
The
ladder
hath
not
more
rounds
,
then
the
whole
worke
hath
steppes
of
danger
from
the
first
unto
the
last
.
Yet
this
slow
matureing
of
their
hopes
,
bought
at
such
a
vast
expense
of
blood
,
and
cost
,
men
are
content
with
patience
to
expect
.
Lord
,
what
a
ticeing
bayt
is
golden
hope
!
how
unwillingly
are
men
brought
to
lay
it
downe
?
how
small
a
glimpse
of
it
gives
them
full
high
content
?
how
easily
they
beleive
,
that
all
things
tend
that
way
which
they
would
have
them
?
how
apt
are
they
to
boast
the
little
they
have
done
,
whilst
they
utterly
forget
the
much
that
is
behinde
?
No
wings
are
swifter
then
the
wings
of
hope
,
which
measure
the
greatest
distances
,
and
overcome
the
sorest
heights
,
and
seize
the
richest
preyes
even
in
an
instant
.
Difficultie
is
a
trifle
,
&
danger
is
a
toy
before
her
:
she
knowes
no
limits
,
but
desire
;
&
whatever
that
fancies
,
or
fastens
on
,
she
reckons
it
her
own
.
But
such
hastie
teemers
many
times
bring
forth
blind
whelpes
.
Golden
dreaimes
doe
not
fill
wakeing
purses
.
The
anchor
of
hope
doth
not
alwaies
find
firme
ground
to
fasten
on
;
nor
doth
it
alwaies
take
,
though
the
ground
serve
.
Both
pietie
,
and
prudence
must
attend
it
if
hope
make
us
not
ashamed
:
for
successe
it selfe
cannot
take
off
the
disparagement
of
that
designe
,
which
was
ill
layd
.
Not
what
may
come
to
passe
,
but
in
probability
what
will
,
is
the
wise
mans
rule
:
and
then
he
reckons
too
,
that
the
gaine
must
countervaile
the
hazard
,
and
that
he
will
not
pay
more
for
the
purchase
then
it
is
worth
:
above
all
,
that
he
will
not
cast
his
soule
into
the
scale
,
nor
his
conscience
into
the
bargaine
,
nor
venture
himselfe
,
nor
his
men
into
those
dangers
,
wherein
they
cannot
hope
for
God's
assistance
.
These
things
first
weigh'd
,
though
he
give
his
hope
the
wing
,
yet
he
lets
her
flie
but
at
command
.
This
makes
him
speed
so
well
,
whilst
other
wanton
gamsters
,
after
their
large
promises
unto
themselves
,
and
their
vaine
braggs
to
others
,
carry
nothing
home
with
them
out
of
the
feild
,
but
shame
,
and
discontent
.
MEDITATION
20.
Of
Trenches
and
Batteries
.
IF
the
Assaylant
intend
not
a
suddaine
storme
,
then
he
casts
up
Trenches
to
secure
his
men
,
and
raises
batteries
to
plant
his
ordnance
,
from
whence
they
may
play
upon
the
garrison
with
more
advantage
.
In
the
trenches
the
beseiged
can
annoy
him
lesse
:
from
the
batteries
he
can
annoy
them
more
:
and
both
parts
are
equally
in
his
thoughts
,
as
well
to
preserve
his
owne
men
,
as
to
destroy
the
enemy
.
Indeed
the
great
masters
of
warre
have
determined
that
it
more
concernes
a
Generall
to
save
one
of
his
owne
men
,
then
to
destroy
ten
of
the
enemies
:
And
if
they
be
veterane
bands
,
and
tried
souldiers
,
the
reasons
are
apparent
:
their
approv'd
fidelitie
,
and
affection
to
their
leader
,
their
courage
and
valour
discover'd
by
many
trialls
,
their
judgment
to
know
in
service
what
should
be
done
,
and
their
readinesse
to
doe
,
springing
from
use
and
exercise
,
sets
the
price
upon
them
.
If
they
perish
and
miscarrie
,
though
those
that
shall
be
listed
in
their
roomes
may
have
as
much
spirit
and
courage
,
as
much
faith
and
honestie
,
yet
their
Leader
cannot
have
so
much
confidence
of
them
till
he
have
tried
them
:
besides
that
their
knowledg
,
and
activitie
for
service
must
be
a
worke
of
time
.
Adde
to
these
that
nothing
can
be
more
pernicious
to
a
Commander
,
then
to
have
it
reported
,
and
beleived
of
him
that
he
values
his
Souldiers
cheape
,
and
cares
not
how
many
of
them
he
casts
rashly
away
in
any
desperate
imployment
.
It
is
but
just
that
he
should
want
souldiers
when
he
needs
them
,
that
will
not
cherish
and
spare
them
when
he
hath
them
:
make
but
their
hearts
your
owne
,
and
you
shall
not
need
to
feare
that
you
shall
want
their
hands
.
Just
as
they
thinke
they
are
esteemed
they
make
their
returne
,
and
he
must
never
hope
to
have
their
service
,
that
doth
not
seeme
carefull
both
of
their
safety
,
and
their
accommodation
.
To
provide
well
for
the
destruction
of
the
enemy
,
and
to
order
and
contrive
all
things
for
the
best
advantage
for
the
perfecting
of
that
worke
,
is
a
noble
care
,
and
well
becoming
a
Commander
:
but
they
seeme
things
inconsistent
,
to
be
carefull
to
destroy
the
enemie
,
and
to
be
carelesse
to
preserve
his
own
,
without
which
the
enemie
can
never
be
destroy'd
.
And
in
the
long
processe
of
a
warre
,
he
that
in
every
new
action
or
expedition
is
put
to
use
new
men
,
because
his
old
are
lost
,
in
probabilitie
,
if
he
succeed
in
one
action
shall
miscarie
in
many
;
and
if
he
perfect
his
worke
at
last
to
his
desire
,
he
shall
owe
it
more
to
fortune
,
then
to
prudence
,
as
having
gone
against
the
Principles
of
warre
,
and
reason
.
Nor
must
he
ever
hope
to
be
listed
amongst
great
names
in
aftertimes
which
carries
a
businesse
with
so
great
a
losse
,
that
he
hath
scarce
any
of
his
soudiers
left
,
to
share
with
him
in
the
successe
;
that
shar'd
in
the
first
undertakeing
.
Protection
,
is
the
first
,
and
greatest
thing
expected
from
a
leader
,
and
he
wrongs
both
himselfe
,
and
all
his
undertakeings
,
which
doeth
not
studie
to
make
that
vertue
so
conspicuous
,
that
thereby
he
may
both
endeare
his
own
,
and
allure
other
men
unto
his
service
.
It
is
a
noble
and
a
brave
approach
to
the
divine
nature
,
and
makes
men
like
to
God
,
whose
glory
it
is
to
keepe
them
safe
that
have
given
up
their
names
to
him
,
and
to
provide
so
that
none
of
them
may
perish
,
nor
any
man
be
able
to
take
them
out
of
his
hands
.
MEDITATIONS
21.
Of
Hills
and
Rocks
.
SUCH
places
as
are
naturally
either
stonie
or
mountainous
,
are
easiliest
made
tenible
,
and
fittest
to
plant
a
Garrison
:
for
in
such
places
the
accesse
is
difficult
,
the
ascent
disadvantageous
,
the
undermining
some
times
impossible
,
and
in
all
these
respects
,
the
defence
both
more
easie
,
and
more
certaine
.
And
trulie
it
is
no
wonder
to
finde
,
that
nature
should
out-doe
art
,
and
such
a
pettie
circumstance
as
the
situation
of
a
place
advantage
a
businesse
more
,
then
humane
industrie
.
Indeed
Art
perfects
nature
,
and
some
small
addition
it
may
make
,
where
she
finds
the
most
materiall
parts
of
the
worke
readie
done
to
her
hand
:
but
if
God
,
and
nature
(
subordinate
to
him
,
working
all
things
acording
to
the
good
pleasure
of
his
will
)
did
not
in
most
things
provide
better
for
us
,
then
we
can
for
our selves
,
we
should
soone
perceive
that
Art
were
beggerly
,
and
humane
industrie
a
toy
,
for
the
effecting
of
such
mightie
workes
as
we
confidently
propound
unto
our selves
,
and
hope
to
carrie
.
How
often
we
have
found
our selves
in
these
things
deceiv'd
,
how
often
we
have
come
off
with
shame
,
and
losse
,
and
miscarried
in
our
undertakeings
,
none
of
us
but
remember
.
The
vanitie
of
dareing
much
many
are
guilty
of
,
and
it
hath
been
their
punishment
to
find
by
tryall
that
they
attempted
things
beyond
their
strength
.
To
follow
nature
as
a
guide
,
and
tread
heedfully
in
those
steppes
wherein
she
goes
before
us
,
and
hath
prepar'd
the
way
for
our
atcheivements
,
not
arrogateing
,
or
ascribeing
too
much
to
our
owne
art
,
and
industrie
▪
nor
swelling
our
hopes
too
high
when
their
foundation
is
but
sandie
,
is
a
safe
rule
,
which
they
that
heedfully
observe
,
seldome
miscarrie
.
It
is
a
great
ingratitude
,
not
to
acknowledge
the
helps
and
advantages
of
businesse
that
Nature
lends
us
;
and
not
to
use
them
is
not
to
acknowledge
them
.
But
necessitie
(
a
good
schoolemistresse
,
though
a
sharpe
one
)
enforces
us
to
use
them
;
and
when
we
have
us'd
them
,
the
world
sees
how
much
we
owe
for
them
,
though
we
would
dissemble
it
.
It
is
Gods
wisdome
so
to
provide
,
that
in
great
undertakings
,
and
in
sore
distresses
,
the
least
part
of
mans
safetie
should
come
from
himselfe
,
who
being
the
searcher
of
the
heart
knowes
full
well
,
how
apt
we
are
to
arrogate
too
much
unto
our selves
,
and
how
loath
to
impart
the
glory
of
an
action
to
any
second
causes
.
Nothing
more
necessary
then
to
beate
downe
that
pride
:
and
that
is
done
no
way
better
then
when
it
is
made
visible
to
sense
,
so
that
he
that
runnes
may
reade
it
,
how
much
Nature
(
God's
great
vicegerent
)
hath
contributed
to
those
works
,
whereof
vaine
man
assumes
the
glory
to
himselfe
.
Lord
,
so
direct
me
in
all
worldly
things
(
those
especially
that
concerne
my
owne
safetie
,
and
defense
,
with
other
mens
)
that
I
may
never
neglect
any
thing
which
art
or
industry
may
adde
to
perfect
nature
:
yet
withall
that
I
may
in
all
humilitie
acknowledg
what
helpes
thou
the
God
of
nature
doest
afford
me
,
that
I
may
thereby
make
thy
glory
the
more
,
though
mine
owne
be
the
lesse
.
MEDITATION
22.
Of
Motes
.
A
Mote
large
and
deepe
,
fed
with
naturall
springs
,
is
one
of
the
best
defences
to
a
Garrison
:
for
many
things
concurre
to
make
it
difficult
to
be
passed
over
:
the
uncertaintie
of
the
depth
in
severall
places
,
the
slipperinesse
of
the
footing
,
the
mud
in
the
bottom
,
the
precipicies
of
the
banks
,
besides
the
strengths
planted
on
the
other
side
,
to
impeach
both
the
entering
and
the
landing
.
If
boates
,
or
bridges
be
put
over
,
they
are
easilie
broke
or
sunke
.
Horses
are
as
easilie
disordered
,
and
not
easilie
managed
,
or
commanded
in
such
an
onset
:
and
the
wading
of
foote
,
above
the
rest
most
hopelesse
,
and
most
desperate
.
Every
slip
brings
almost
certain
death
,
and
there
is
almost
as
much
danger
from
the
water
beneath
,
as
from
the
enemie
above
.
Water
is
the
emblem
of
trouble
,
and
in
such
attempts
men
have
both
the
shadow
and
the
substance
before
their
eyes
,
both
the
type
,
and
the
affliction
typified
at
once
before
them
.
But
what
is
it
which
industrie
and
courage
doth
not
perswade
it selfe
that
it
may
overcome
?
Sure
it
hath
overcome
so
many
difficulties
,
and
effected
things
so
strange
,
and
so
unlikelie
,
as
have
scarce
found
beleife
,
when
they
have
been
acted
.
If
the
cause
be
good
,
and
the
attempt
just
,
wherein
men
may
hope
God's
assistance
shall
not
be
wanting
to
them
,
it
is
their
glory
not
to
deale
with
a
slack
hand
;
but
both
in
assaulting
and
defending
to
acquit
themselves
like
men
,
remembring
their
dutie
and
their
obligations
.
't
is
a
sad
spectacle
in
such
an
onset
,
to
see
how
many
men
miscarrie
on
both
sides
,
and
in
how
many
sorts
:
but
tender
pitie
can
have
no
place
in
such
extremities
.
After
the
service
done
,
it
may
perhaps
not
misbecome
a
Souldier
to
shed
a
teare
over
a
noble
enemie
,
whose
gallan●…
carriage
in
the
action
forced
a
kind
of
envie
and
esteeme
even
from
the
very
foe
(
for
it
is
the
power
of
vertue
,
even
there
to
winne
applause
,
where
it
doth
most
mischeif
,
and
to
gain
their
approbation
,
who
are
most
damnified
by
it
)
.
yet
dureing
the
time
of
action
,
pitie
must
have
no
place
in
a
martiall
breast
;
nor
can
it
become
a
souldier
to
thinke
what
he
hath
done
,
how
sadde
,
how
cruell
,
how
hideous
,
how
universall
a
destruction
he
hath
made
,
how
many
,
or
how
gallant
men
he
hath
cut
off
,
till
danger
give
him
breath
,
and
action
allow
him
truce
from
execution
,
and
securitie
afford
him
leasure
to
entertain
those
speculations
.
Then
let
him
put
on
pitie
,
and
it
shall
not
misbecome
him
;
let
him
sheath
his
sword
,
and
sound
his
retreat
,
and
set
a
period
to
his
rage
and
spare
those
in
cold
bloud
whom
he
is
not
enforc'd
to
kill
.
If
he
have
provided
both
for
his
present
,
and
his
future
safetie
,
we
can
expect
no
more
,
and
pity
takes
place
in
him
too
soone
,
if
he
provide
for
lesse
.
He
shall
never
acquit
himselfe
in
point
of
discretion
,
which
hath
spar'd
them
that
afterwards
may
ruine
him
;
nor
he
in
point
of
honour
,
who
hath
cruelly
butcher'd
them
,
that
could
not
hurt
him
.
The
eye
must
not
see
their
wounds
,
nor
the
eare
heare
their
groanes
,
nor
the
heart
pitie
their
distresses
,
which
fall
in
the
heate
of
contestation
,
whilst
yet
the
fortune
of
the
enterprise
hangs
in
suspense
,
and
the
controversie
is
undecided
.
All
that
while
valour
stirres
up
valor
,
and
courage
provokes
courage
,
and
the
eagernesse
of
opposing
whets
the
eagernesse
of
defending
,
and
those
that
decline
no
danger
,
nor
spare
no
labour
whilst
they
strive
to
winne
,
teach
the
enemie
to
spare
no
labour
,
nor
decline
no
danger
for
to
keep
his
fort
.
To
drown
them
,
to
shoote
them
,
to
blow
them
up
,
to
knock
them
down
,
mangle
,
and
dismember
them
,
any
way
to
force
them
back
,
or
disable
them
from
coming
on
,
is
all
his
care
;
and
he
cares
not
which
way
he
doth
it
,
so
he
can
doe
it
at
all
.
When
all
is
done
,
he
will
not
envie
him
(
that
did
deserve
it
)
the
acknowledgment
of
a
brave
assault
,
of
a
gallant
onset
;
nor
the
enemie
him
,
of
a
stout
repulse
,
and
a
resolv'd
defence
.
For
those
that
miscarried
,
then
comes
in
pitty
too
,
although
too
late
;
too
late
I
meane
for
the
partie
pittied
to
receive
any
benefit
,
more
then
a
sprinkling
of
honour
upon
his
ashes
,
and
the
crowning
his
memory
with
a
faire
report
.
Such
are
the
sadde
enforcements
of
bloudie
warre
,
unfit
to
be
committed
to
their
managing
in
whose
tender
bosomes
compassion
is
known
to
dwell
,
or
pittie
to
make
an
easie
entrance
.
MEDITATION
23.
Of
Fortifying
.
WHERE
Nature
hath
done
little
,
Art
and
Industrie
must
doe
the
more
to
make
a
place
strong
.
Waters
must
be
drawn
(
if
it
be
possible
)
about
the
works
,
where
they
were
not
before
.
The
works
must
be
rays'd
high
,
and
made
thick
and
deepe
.
The
batteries
must
be
made
at
a
convenient
distance
,
that
they
may
scowre
the
trenches
.
An
equall
Care
must
be
had
in
all
,
that
the
souldiers
in
the
garrison
,
may
both
with
ease
annoy
the
enemie
without
,
and
himselfe
be
safe
within
from
their
annoyance
.
The
thought
of
cost
or
trouble
are
in
this
case
to
be
lay'd
aside
,
for
these
things
are
not
to
be
done
as
they
should
,
without
a
vast
charge
.
They
may
be
justly
reckoned
amongst
workes
of
magnifience
,
wherein
men
are
to
be
guided
by
their
honour
,
not
their
expence
,
and
to
consider
how
the
work
may
be
done
most
exactly
,
not
most
cheape
.
Sordid
avarice
,
of
all
men
,
doth
least
become
a
souldier
,
and
he
to
whom
his
honor
is
not
dearer
then
his
advantage
,
was
in
an
unluckie
minute
trusted
with
these
imployments
.
They
are
not
without
much
caution
to
be
entertain'd
that
make
the
warre
a
trade
,
and
have
an
eye
upon
the
raysing
of
a
fortune
by
their
undertakings
.
Pettye
sparings
many
times
bring
great
mischiefs
,
and
a
litle
sav'd
proves
a
great
deale
lost
.
They
have
commonly
but
narrow
minds
,
that
desire
to
have
large
purses
:
for
how
should
they
venture
much
,
that
are
willing
to
spend
nothing
?
I
confesse
I
have
not
often
known
a
truely
valiant
spirit
hidebound
,
or
covetous
:
they
rather
encline
unto
the
other
extreame
,
and
lavish
madly
,
what
they
get
easily
.
But
for
their
own
particular
let
it
be
as
it
may
,
questionlesse
for
the
publique
good
it
were
better
,
that
a
souldier
should
be
prodigall
,
then
covetous
:
though
he
beares
away
the
palme
,
that
knowes
both
where
to
spend
,
and
how
to
spare
.
And
let
him
spare
,
in
these
occasions
,
no
more
his
souldiers
paines
,
then
his
own
purse
.
When
the
fortification
is
finished
they
may
be
allow'd
their
ease
;
but
till
then
,
they
must
be
encouraged
that
are
willing
,
and
forced
that
are
unwilling
to
undergoe
their
taske
.
Yet
I
remember
it
was
a
maine
part
of
the
Roman
discipline
(
who
did
wonders
in
warre
above
all
other
people
)
never
to
let
the
common
souldier
rust
in
sloth
,
and
idlenesse
.
If
the
warre
found
them
no
imployment
,
they
kept
them
exercis'd
in
making
cawsewayes
,
and
bridges
,
and
aqueducts
,
and
raysing
towers
,
and
bulwarks
,
in
forraging
the
countryes
,
and
bringing
in
provisions
for
store
before
they
needed
them
:
whereby
they
did
not
only
much
advance
their
maine
designes
,
and
prevent
many
mutinies
(
which
floth
and
idlenesse
use
to
breed
(
but
besides
(
which
was
their
cheifest
aime
)
they
hardned
the
souldier
to
endure
,
and
made
him
patient
of
labour
,
that
when
an
extrordinary
occasion
of
tryall
came
,
he
could
goe
through
with
that
,
under
which
other
men
did
usually
faint
,
and
sinke
.
It
is
an
error
in
discipline
,
by
all
meanes
to
be
rooted
out
of
the
souldiers
minde
,
that
his
worke
is
but
to
fight
;
and
that
he
must
be
maintayn'd
many
monthes
uselesse
and
idle
,
for
one
dayes
service
;
and
for
that
daies
service
too
,
he
is
become
more
unfiting
by
his
sloath
and
idlenesse
.
If
this
could
be
cur'd
.
I
should
make
little
doubt
,
but
that
they
which
doe
nothing
now
might
doe
much
,
and
they
which
doe
little
,
might
doe
more
.
Yet
when
they
doe
what
they
can
,
assistance
must
be
taken
in
upon
the
Commanders
charge
,
that
under
many
hands
the
worke
may
goe
on
apace
:
for
in
fortifying
speed
is
of
great
concernment
,
it
being
the
height
of
honor
to
have
such
a
work
fiinish't
,
before
the
enemie
know
that
it
was
undertaken
.
If
he
have
inkling
of
it
,
it
is
to
be
expected
that
he
will
doe
all
he
can
to
hinder
it
:
and
all
the
Governours
cost
,
and
souldiers
paines
is
vtterly
cast
away
,
if
that
be
not
prevented
.
Here
therefore
he
must
clap
on
both
wings
and
spurres
,
and
spread
all
his
sailes
to
catch
a
faire
gale
,
whilst
occasion
lasts
,
that
within
his
works
finish't
unto
his
mind
,
he
and
his
may
ride
as
in
a
harbour
secure
and
quiet
.
MEDITATION
24.
Of
Pallisadoes
.
PALLISADOES
are
flat
stakes
driven
three
or
foure
foote
deepe
into
the
earth
,
and
made
sharp
at
the
top
;
and
they
have
somtimes
spikes
of
iron
driven
through
neere
the
toppe
,
or
turned
back
againe
like
hookes
to
catch
off
their
apparell
that
would
climbe
over
them
:
they
are
driven
in
some
of
them
into
the
earth
on
the
outside
of
a
mote
,
where
they
stand
upright
like
a
pale
round
about
the
mote
,
some
of
them
into
the
sides
of
the
workes
and
batteries
in
a
continued
rowe
with
the
points
outwards
;
and
where
the
workes
are
high
,
there
is
a
double
rowe
of
them
,
to
hinder
the
enemie
from
clymbing
up
when
he
comes
to
storme
,
and
to
beare
off
the
scaleing
ladders
from
the
workes
.
For
these
,
as
for
other
occasions
,
it
is
easilie
discern'd
.
that
of
all
other
trades
Carpenters
,
and
smithes
are
essentiall
to
a
garrison
,
it
cannot
subsist
without
them
.
Which
they
know
so
well
,
that
they
value
their
labours
accordingly
,
and
see
most
excessive
rates
upon
those
that
are
most
necessitated
for
to
use
them
.
A
base
,
and
wicked
practice
,
though
very
common
,
and
which
savours
little
of
a
man
,
lesse
of
a
christian
.
Humanitie
teaches
men
to
shew
a
chearefullnesse
to
help
in
the
time
of
need
:
and
charitie
,
to
afford
that
helpe
at
easier
rates
then
at
other
times
,
and
to
consider
,
not
so
much
the
neede
men
have
of
our
assistance
,
as
the
ill
condition
they
are
in
to
buy
it
at
too
high
a
price
.
But
we
sing
these
lessons
unto
them
,
whose
eares
are
deafe
to
counsaile
,
their
breasts
meere
strangers
to
compassion
,
and
their
rude
mindes
uncapeable
of
civill
,
or
of
sacred
culture
▪
Artisans
,
and
mechanicks
have
commonly
a
genius
by
themselves
quite
of
another
ayre
from
other
men
,
and
you
shall
not
find
amongst
them
one
of
a
thousand
,
varying
in
disposition
from
his
fellow
,
or
made
(
in
the
least
degree
that
can
be
imagin'd
)
of
a
better
mould
.
Their
eyes
are
all
fixt
upon
their
profit
,
and
you
shall
not
drive
them
from
their
hold
,
or
make
them
turne
one
haires
breadth
from
their
bias
,
to
doe
any
thing
out
of
pittie
,
or
out
of
conscience
.
A
true
souldier
cannot
converse
with
them
without
indignation
:
for
then
him
,
nothing
is
more
generous
,
then
them
,
nothing
more
base
.
And
that
may
well
be
reckoned
one
of
the
miseries
of
warre
,
that
necessitie
should
enforce
a
noble
spirit
to
take
their
assistance
,
which
he
can
neither
want
with
safetie
,
nor
have
for
reason
.
And
,
which
must
needs
trouble
him
more
,
he
hath
not
that
refuge
left
,
to
cudgell
them
into
manners
,
or
beate
sense
into
them
:
for
if
he
once
doe
so
,
the
first
opportunitie
they
have
to
depart
,
he
heares
of
them
no
more
,
but
hath
his
businesse
left
in
the
suddes
,
when
it
concernes
him
most
to
have
it
finished
.
But
it
is
the
wisdom
of
a
Commander
not
to
see
what
he
cannot
helpe
,
and
not
to
check
at
those
distastes
,
which
after
a
contest
he
shall
be
forced
to
swallow
upon
worse
conditions
.
Scorne
,
and
neglect
are
the
best
fense
against
these
annoyances
,
and
a
resolution
not
to
let
his
undertakings
stand
,
how
ever
unreasonable
,
or
unconscionable
they
be
,
in
demanding
excessive
rates
,
or
in
their
sloathfull
doing
of
the
worke
whom
he
is
constrayn'd
to
use
.
Their
sinne
be
to
themselves
,
his
patience
is
his
honor
,
which
triumphs
over
their
unworthinesse
,
and
will
carrie
him
without
perturbation
to
his
noble
ends
,
in
spight
of
all
discouragements
from
them
,
which
can
never
doe
him
wrong
,
because
they
never
come
unexpected
.
MEDITATION
25.
Of
Centries
.
THE
Centries
office
is
to
looke
to
every
part
of
the
coast
,
and
give
notice
if
the
enemie
approach
,
or
any
stranger
or
suspected
person
:
and
when
he
comes
neere
to
question
him
,
and
to
stay
him
,
or
to
shoote
at
him
,
and
give
warning
to
the
garrison
.
To
this
purpose
he
is
set
on
a
tower
,
or
a
batterie
,
the
places
most
advantageous
from
whence
he
may
discover
any
thing
:
Other
Centries
placed
at
the
doores
or
entrances
into
a
Governours
,
or
a
Commanders
lodging
,
are
rather
growen
matter
of
state
,
and
forme
,
then
of
concernment
.
It
is
an
office
of
much
consequence
,
and
a
high
degree
of
trust
,
and
such
a
one
as
upon
which
depends
the
whole
good
of
the
garrison
;
wherein
a
litle
negligence
may
doe
much
mischeife
.
He
supplies
the
place
of
the
eye
in
the
naturall
bodie
,
which
if
it
be
asleepe
when
it
should
wake
,
the
neglect
may
prove
pernicious
,
and
irrecoverable
.
It
is
therfore
well
provided
in
the
way
of
discipline
,
that
the
punishment
of
such
offenders
should
be
severe
,
sometimes
no
lesse
than
death
;
because
the
lives
of
so
many
doe
depend
upon
it
.
And
truly
a
discreet
man
may
think
himselfe
rather
honoured
then
burthened
in
this
office
,
and
should
need
no
spurre
to
quicken
him
to
the
discharge
of
it
.
Nature
it selfe
instructs
everie
man
so
farre
in
the
concernments
of
it
,
that
he
undergoes
it
for
the
most
part
,
with
much
cheerfullnesse
,
and
much
fidelitie
:
for
he
knowes
,
that
if
he
doe
not
take
his
turne
to
wake
whilst
others
sleepe
,
he
must
not
sleepe
whilst
others
wake
;
if
he
be
not
willing
to
looke
out
for
other
mens
safetie
,
why
should
other
men
looke
out
for
his
?
God
hath
in
wisedom
provided
,
that
all
men
should
need
these
offices
,
to
make
them
the
more
willing
to
undergoe
them
.
When
,
or
from
whence
,
or
by
what
meanes
the
enemie
will
attempt
us
,
we
cannot
tell
:
perhaps
by
day
,
perhaps
by
night
,
perhaps
from
such
a
quarter
where
we
do
least
suspect
him
;
perhaps
in
troops
,
or
with
united
strengths
,
perhaps
alone
upon
particular
designe
:
a
carefull
watch
to
discover
all
,
makes
men
to
feare
nothing
.
The
danger
is
to
be
surpriz'd
,
to
be
found
unprovided
,
and
taken
in
disorder
,
and
unreadinesse
;
thereupon
followes
confusion
,
and
where
that
leades
,
destruction
for
the
most
part
followes
after
.
To
be
forewarn'd
of
approaching
dangers
is
the
life
of
safetie
:
if
I
miscarrie
because
the
watchman
warns
me
not
,
the
sin
is
his
;
if
after
he
hath
warn'd
me
,
the
sinne
is
mine
:
in
this
case
my
blood
falls
upon
mine
own
head
,
in
that
on
his
.
Which
since
it
holds
for
an
undoubted
truth
,
as
well
in
spirituall
,
as
in
temporall
dangers
,
in
how
sad
a
condition
must
the
most
of
us
needs
thinke
our selves
to
be
,
who
have
so
often
turn'd
a
deafe
eare
unto
the
spirituall
charmer
,
and
being
warn'd
of
those
dangerous
enemies
that
lie
in
wayte
for
our
soules
,
and
of
their
frequent
attempts
to
doe
us
mischeife
,
yet
sleepe
in
securitie
,
and
will
not
be
drawen
off
from
our
sensuall
,
and
worldly
pleasures
,
and
delights
to
save
our
poore
soules
from
utter
perishing
?
But
what
shall
we
say
?
the
glory
of
the
whole
worke
must
be
almightie
God's
:
he
must
give
the
Seer
,
the
spirituall
watchman
grace
for
to
discharge
his
dutie
,
and
give
us
warning
:
and
he
must
give
us
grace
to
take
that
warning
,
when
it
is
given
us
.
Let
us
therefore
make
it
our
daily
request
to
God
,
that
they
may
never
be
wanting
unto
us
,
nor
we
wanting
to
our selves
,
they
that
are
entrusted
with
that
office
in
discovering
,
nor
we
in
avoyding
those
dangers
,
which
may
bring
certaine
ruine
and
destruction
,
either
to
soule
,
or
body
.
MEDITATION
26.
Of
Guards
.
THE
Guards
are
to
second
the
Centries
upon
all
occasions
,
either
by
their
united
strength
,
if
there
be
occasion
for
them
to
interpose
,
or
by
a
more
strict
examination
of
any
person
,
that
is
transmitted
to
them
as
suspected
.
They
are
kept
night
,
and
day
,
and
releived
,
as
the
Centries
,
by
turnes
;
He
that
hath
the
charge
of
the
Guard
in
the
night
time
,
is
to
walke
the
round
at
times
:
and
to
see
that
the
Guard
tend
in
their
places
with
their
armes
in
readinesse
,
and
the
Centrie
be
not
out
of
his
station
,
nor
found
sleeping
.
How
brittle
a
point
is
man's
safetie
?
and
upon
how
many
tickle
points
it
hangs
?
One
neglect
is
enough
to
ruine
us
,
many
cares
scarce
enough
to
save
us
:
in
a
minute
comes
a
mischeife
without
cure
,
and
robbes
us
of
the
fruit
of
that
vigilance
,
and
circumspection
,
that
had
been
kept
erect
for
many
monthes
together
.
The
life
of
man
were
hardly
worth
the
anxieties
,
and
cares
that
goe
to
the
keeping
of
it
:
and
many
men
would
give
the
world
cause
to
beleive
they
thinke
so
,
but
that
their
honor
lies
at
stake
with
it
,
and
with
that
their
conscience
,
more
pretious
to
them
by
much
oddes
then
life
can
be
.
To
be
conscious
of
the
least
degree
of
neglect
,
whereby
all
these
may
be
shipwrackt
together
must
needs
trouble
a
good
man
,
and
you
shall
not
find
him
liable
to
that
accusation
.
When
his
own
safety
,
and
other
mens
,
his
reputation
,
and
loyaltie
,
and
Religion
are
all
bound
in
one
bundle
,
and
all
lie
at
one
stake
,
he
will
not
loose
that
game
by
oversight
,
but
play
it
with
all
the
heede
,
and
skill
he
hath
.
An
errour
in
the
first
concoction
(
say
the
Naturalists
)
is
not
easilie
corrected
afterwards
:
and
any
error
that
is
not
afterwards
corrected
,
had
neede
to
be
avoided
with
all
the
care
,
and
circumspection
that
is
possible
:
and
such
are
the
errors
of
warre
more
often
then
of
any
other
businesse
:
seldome
that
a
man
hath
oportunity
to
commit
a
second
oversight
,
because
he
finds
the
first
pernicious
:
and
upon
all
services
of
warre
so
much
depends
,
that
a
man
can
hardly
account
any
of
them
sleight
or
triviall
.
This
we
now
treate
of
,
hath
beene
alwaies
reckoned
amongst
the
weightiest
,
and
doth
exact
that
a
diligence
and
care
be
used
in
it
suiteable
to
the
concernment
.
In
such
cares
,
and
watches
we
spinne
out
our
short
lives
,
and
can
scarce
promise
our selves
any
certaintie
of
recompence
,
hardly
so
much
as
of
acceptation
,
more
then
the
conscience
of
the
dutie
done
.
That
motive
,
if
we
propound
it
to
our selves
,
will
never
faile
us
,
others
may
.
Resolve
therefore
upon
that
,
and
thou
shalt
need
no
other
spurre
to
goodnesse
.
MEDITATION
27.
Of
Sallies
.
DUring
a
Seige
,
to
Sallie
out
sometimes
,
either
to
annoy
the
enemie
,
upon
an
advantage
espied
of
their
securitie
and
remissenesse
:
or
to
bring
in
provisions
to
releive
the
Garrison
,
is
a
service
,
as
of
much
courage
,
and
danger
,
so
of
much
benefit
too
;
for
if
those
Sallies
prosper
,
the
enemie
is
both
weakned
by
the
losse
,
and
as
much
in
his
hopes
by
finding
the
Garrison
able
to
hold
up
the
contest
,
and
to
spinne
out
the
time
by
the
advantage
of
his
new
supplies
.
If
there
be
nothing
else
,
even
time
it selfe
will
weary
out
the
assaylant
,
whose
designe
when
it
goes
not
forwards
,
goes
backwards
,
and
comes
to
nothing
,
if
he
can
doe
nothing
.
The
defendants
taske
is
but
to
keepe
his
owne
;
the
assaylant
loses
if
he
doe
not
gaine
;
he
loses
time
,
and
cost
,
and
labour
,
and
reputation
,
and
remaines
branded
for
that
undertaking
,
wherein
he
did
not
rightly
measure
his
owne
strength
.
Every
losse
that
he
receives
,
though
it
be
never
so
little
,
and
every
supply
that
the
beseiged
gets
,
though
it
be
never
so
small
,
is
a
steppe
backwards
in
his
journey
.
In
the
meane
time
,
the
heart
,
and
courage
that
his
partie
looses
,
the
other
partie
gaines
,
and
are
emboldned
to
stand
out
,
and
to
endure
by
the
successe
.
Every
attempt
that
they
succeed
in
,
they
take
both
for
an
omen
,
and
a
pledge
to
them
of
a
good
conclusion
,
and
(
according
to
the
common
fashion
of
the
world
)
from
a
litle
promise
themselves
much
.
The
two
sides
being
like
two
buckets
in
a
well
;
for
just
as
the
one
sinkes
the
other
rises
;
or
the
two
scales
in
a
ballance
,
of
which
one
is
proportionably
the
heavier
,
by
how
much
the
other
is
the
lighter
.
In
such
attempts
,
it
most
concernes
them
that
will
sally
forth
,
to
be
suddaine
,
and
resolv'd
;
and
if
they
find
they
cannot
carry
the
designe
,
then
to
retreat
in
time
,
and
in
good
order
:
for
he
that
comes
off
without
losse
,
hath
gain'd
enough
for
once
,
but
to
let
the
enemie
see
he
feares
not
to
assayle
him
.
The
second
adventure
may
be
more
prosperous
,
and
the
frequencie
of
attempting
,
begets
a
confidence
in
the
souldier
almost
habituall
,
and
at
length
brings
successe
beyond
expectation
.
Yet
no
action
,
wherein
prudence
had
more
need
to
be
call'd
to
counsaile
,
and
deepe
circumspection
us'd
to
make
good
the
retreat
at
least
:
which
shall
hardly
be
effected
.
if
they
engage
either
too
soone
,
or
too
farre
;
too
soone
,
without
advantage
,
and
too
farre
,
without
moderation
.
They
are
two
maine
points
of
wisdome
to
know
both
the
just
nick
of
time
when
to
goe
on
,
and
likewise
when
he
hath
gone
farre
enough
▪
Many
a
man
hath
marr'd
all
by
not
knowing
when
all
was
well
.
and
by
overdoeing
,
hath
undone
himselfe
.
What
could
not
be
done
at
the
first
sallie
,
may
be
done
at
a
second
,
or
at
a
third
;
nor
should
he
that
leads
the
partie
consider
how
much
he
doth
at
once
,
but
how
well
.
He
shall
breake
the
enemie
at
times
,
as
surely
,
and
more
safely
;
and
it
is
folly
to
catch
at
that
harvest
,
which
he
may
reape
by
leisure
.
Patiently
to
a
waite
the
ripening
of
our
hopes
,
is
the
great
rule
of
humane
undertakings
:
and
he
that
so
conquers
the
enemie
hath
a
double
honor
of
it
.
because
he
hath
first
conquer'd
himselfe
,
and
made
his
desires
stoope
unto
his
reason
,
and
his
affections
to
his
judgment
.
Better
to
goe
out
,
and
doe
nothing
of
consequence
ten
times
,
then
to
miscarrie
once
.
Yet
if
discretion
steere
the
course
,
and
the
cause
be
just
,
God
usually
gives
the
blessing
,
and
a
man
may
with
reason
hope
both
to
doe
good
service
in
a
sallie
,
and
to
come
off
unhurt
.
MEDITATION
28.
Of
Muskets
,
Pikes
,
Halberts
,
Pistols
,
Hand-granadoes
,
and
such
kinde
of
weapons
used
in
a
Storme
by
the
Defendants
.
WHAT
Weapons
soever
may
be
of
use
to
keep
off
the
assaylant
,
either
at
distance
,
or
in
his
nearer
approaches
,
are
carefully
provided
,
layd
all
in
readinesse
,
and
with
all
diligence
used
upon
occasion
.
For
all
actions
,
all
instruments
are
not
fit
;
to
know
their
severall
uses
,
and
to
be
expert
,
and
readie
in
them
is
a
souldiers
office
.
Judgement
advantageth
in
this
kind
,
as
much
as
strength
,
or
valour
,
and
he
is
but
ill
provided
that
fights
without
it
.
But
judgment
is
not
perfected
in
these
things
without
experience
.
The
face
of
things
in
action
alters
on
a
suddaine
,
and
requires
suddain
changes
both
of
mens
purposes
,
and
of
their
endeavours
.
A
mariner
must
know
how
to
shift
his
sailes
with
the
winde
,
and
a
souldier
his
armes
with
the
occasion
.
It
is
impossible
that
any
man
should
foresee
the
various
accidents
of
service
,
or
give
such
perfect
rules
as
shall
not
neede
to
be
alter'd
.
Much
must
of
necessitie
be
permitted
to
the
discretion
of
them
that
are
engaged
,
of
which
they
cannot
make
a
judgment
,
but
by
time
,
and
place
,
and
the
full
view
of
circumstances
as
they
rise
.
Yet
the
maine
part
of
action
must
be
reserved
to
the
Commander
in
cheife
as
his
prerogative
,
upon
which
the
common
souldier
must
looke
as
upon
a
thing
sacred
,
and
divine
,
not
to
be
prophan'd
by
his
rash
attempt
,
or
indiscreet
intrusion
.
If
that
gappe
should
be
open'd
the
whole
discipline
of
warre
were
lost
;
and
obedience
would
be
thrust
out
by
presumption
,
with
the
indeleble
shame
,
and
losse
,
both
of
him
that
so
weakly
would
let
goe
his
hold
,
and
of
them
that
did
usurpe
it
.
It
is
but
in
pietie
,
and
inferiour
things
,
that
common
men
are
left
to
their
own
choice
and
guidance
;
great
ones
they
are
not
made
to
manage
.
Yea
even
in
these
lesser
things
it
is
best
when
they
act
by
command
,
and
have
time
to
expect
the
word
that
should
be
their
direction
.
But
necessitie
doth
not
alwayes
allow
it
,
and
the
heat
of
action
hath
so
much
of
tumult
and
disorder
in
it
(
simply
inevitable
)
that
the
souldier
is
not
oblig'd
to
awaite
particular
instructions
in
every
point
,
but
left
to
make
the
best
of
the
present
service
,
as
discretion
shall
direct
him
.
How
busie
is
this
game
of
warre
,
and
how
full
of
hazard
!
The
hand
never
empty
,
nor
idle
,
out
imploying
sometimes
one
kinde
of
weapon
,
sometimes
another
;
nor
the
head
vacant
neither
,
but
busie
to
consider
,
and
to
determine
what
the
hand
should
doe
;
the
minde
in
the
meane
time
perplexed
with
the
ingratefull
vicissitudes
of
cares
,
and
hopes
,
and
feares
,
and
joyes
,
and
sorrowes
;
and
the
whole
body
exposed
to
so
many
dangers
,
as
were
enough
to
appale
a
man
if
he
had
leisure
to
consider
them
.
All
these
things
well
weigh'd
,
who
can
blame
him
that
doth
wish
his
warfare
were
accomplished
,
and
that
he
might
put
off
this
earthly
tabernacle
,
and
change
for
that
condition
,
in
which
the
bodie
shall
sleepe
unmolested
in
the
dust
,
and
the
soule
dwell
in
everlasting
rest
?
That
we
may
safely
wish
,
though
we
must
waite
with
patience
untill
the
appointed
time
of
our
change
come
▪
which
by
what
meanes
soever
God
shall
please
to
bring
upon
us
,
we
are
great
strangers
to
the
miseries
of
humane
life
,
if
we
be
not
contented
,
nay
willing
to
embrace
it
.
MEDITATION
29.
Of
Stones
,
melted-Pitch
and
Leade
,
unslakt-Lime
,
scalding-Oyle
,
&c.
used
in
the
same
occasion
.
IT
is
to
be
presum'd
that
in
such
exigencies
men
will
make
use
not
only
of
such
instruments
as
art
hath
invented
and
made
proper
for
the
time
,
but
of
what
ever
else
reason
may
probably
induce
them
to
beleive
,
that
it
may
advantage
them
,
though
but
snatch't
up
of
a
suddaine
,
and
not
thought
of
,
till
by
accident
the
eye
meeting
with
it
,
upon
the
first
sight
,
reason
suggests
the
fitnesse
of
it
for
their
purpose
.
And
in
these
cases
they
likewise
take
in
such
helpes
,
and
admit
such
assistance
,
as
could
not
be
usefull
to
them
in
bearing
armes
:
for
to
cast
stones
,
or
powre
downe
from
a
higher
place
upon
them
that
are
beneath
melted
pitch
,
and
lead
,
and
scalding
oyle
,
or
the
like
,
for
such
purposes
I
say
women
,
and
boyes
are
as
fit
as
men
,
and
should
not
be
spar'd
at
such
a
time
from
any
labour
to
which
their
strength
can
reach
.
For
though
it
be
a
rule
very
necessarie
by
the
Governor
of
a
garrison
to
be
observ'd
,
to
keepe
himselfe
free
from
incombrances
,
and
not
clogge
,
or
pester
his
garrison
with
women
,
and
children
,
who
in
such
a
place
doe
(
for
the
most
part
)
but
help
to
destroy
provisions
,
and
to
spend
the
store
,
and
to
dishearten
and
discourage
the
souldier
in
the
time
of
danger
by
their
feares
,
and
passions
,
which
they
are
not
able
to
master
,
or
overcome
;
yet
it
cannot
be
avoyded
but
they
must
be
allowed
for
necessarie
uses
,
for
suttlers
,
for
laundresses
,
to
tend
the
sick
,
and
the
like
.
These
also
in
the
pinch
of
service
should
be
forced
to
put
to
their
helping
hands
,
and
undergoe
any
imployment
to
which
their
strength
and
capacitie
can
reach
.
No
helpe
that
may
be
usefull
,
can
be
unacceptable
to
a
discreete
man
,
nor
is
it
disparagement
to
take
in
such
coadjutours
.
Perhaps
that
sex
would
assist
,
if
they
could
,
in
greater
services
,
let
them
not
be
rejected
in
what
they
can
.
It
is
a
good
correcttive
to
mans
pride
(
into
which
he
falls
too
often
,
and
too
easilie
)
that
he
is
many
times
necessitated
to
admit
such
helps
,
as
of
women
,
and
children
,
which
otherwise
perhaps
he
would
despise
.
But
God
would
have
us
taught
by
severall
waies
;
how
litle
we
can
doe
of
our selves
though
we
boast
much
,
and
how
often
we
are
brought
into
those
streights
,
that
we
are
constrain'd
to
aske
their
assistance
whom
we
are
most
apt
to
scorne
,
and
owe
a
great
part
of
our
safetie
and
deliverance
to
those
meanes
,
which
we
would
least
have
chosen
.
But
a
pious
,
and
a
prudent
man
laies
it
down
for
his
rule
,
let
safety
be
the
end
,
and
let
what
will
be
the
meanes
:
let
successe
crowne
the
action
,
and
he
will
never
blush
to
be
interrogated
who
were
the
instruments
.
It
is
God's
mercy
to
me
that
he
sends
me
any
help
in
my
distresse
:
it
becomes
me
not
to
dispute
it
with
him
,
why
it
was
no
better
.
It
were
a
strange
kind
of
petulancie
in
a
patient
dangerously
sick
,
if
he
would
take
no
physick
▪
or
admit
no
cure
but
what
himselfe
might
choose
;
and
would
rather
cast
away
his
owne
life
,
then
not
please
his
fancie
.
By
weake
and
contemptible
meanes
very
great
things
have
many
times
been
brought
to
passe
,
and
it
is
a
high
point
of
wisdome
to
neglect
,
or
to
despise
nothing
,
especially
where
reason
tells
us
it
may
be
of
importance
to
help
out
at
a
dead
lift
.
Lord
we
acknowledge
with
thankfull
,
and
with
humble
hearts
,
that
all
help
is
from
thee
:
Let
us
not
want
it
when
we
are
distressed
,
nor
want
judgement
to
discerne
which
way
it
may
be
most
usefull
,
and
then
whether
it
come
by
one
hand
,
or
by
many
,
by
weake
hands
or
by
strong
ones
,
we
shall
equally
be
contented
,
and
ascribe
thee
the
glory
of
our
deliverance
.
MEDITATION
30.
Of
Case-shot
.
CASE-SHOT
is
the
proportion
of
a
dozen
or
twentie
musket
bullets
(
more
or
lesse
)
put
into
a
tinne
case
covered
at
the
top
with
a
woodden
stopple
,
and
fastned
with
a
slight
wire
unto
the
case
,
which
being
discharged
out
of
a
Canon
disperses
and
scatrers
so
,
that
it
Commonly
kills
many
at
once
,
and
endangers
many
more
.
It
is
therefore
usually
aim'd
either
at
a
body
of
the
enemie
coming
on
,
so
soone
as
they
are
within
reach
,
or
in
a
storme
at
those
that
climbe
up
the
workes
,
to
take
many
of
them
off
together
.
Against
this
kind
of
shot
that
scatters
so
,
there
is
the
least
defence
,
all
parts
of
the
bodie
from
head
to
foot
being
equally
exposed
to
it
:
and
if
the
markes-man
be
master
of
his
art
,
he
seldome
failes
to
doe
much
mischeife
:
so
much
as
makes
it
a
sad
spectacle
to
see
,
but
much
sadder
to
be
endur'd
.
It
is
a
prodigie
to
think
how
little
they
regard
it
,
or
how
vnpre
pared
they
are
commonly
for
death
,
which
know
it
doth
awaite
them
in
so
many
kinds
.
If
a
man
consider
advisedly
the
customary
manner
of
a
souldiers
life
,
how
boldly
he
lets
loose
the
raines
to
all
licenciousnesse
,
how
prophanely
he
spends
his
time
,
how
his
common
talke
is
full
of
fearefull
oathes
,
and
imprecations
,
how
his
thoughts
are
wholly
taken
up
either
with
vanitie
,
or
sinne
,
and
rarelie
any
thing
of
God
,
or
goodnesse
in
them
,
how
habituall
drunkennesse
is
with
him
,
and
how
often
he
is
surpris'd
by
death
even
in
his
brutish
excesse
,
what
outrages
he
commits
,
and
what
crueltie
he
exercises
for
a
small
advantage
,
how
utter
a
stranger
he
is
to
repentance
,
and
how
litle
mindfull
of
the
great
accompt
that
he
must
make
to
God
he
cannot
tell
how
soone
,
he
would
thinke
such
men
had
made
a
covenant
with
death
and
hell
,
that
they
dare
doe
such
things
.
If
a
man
died
like
a
beast
,
and
were
sure
that
all
his
miserie
should
determine
in
the
grave
,
yet
one
would
thinke
mortalitie
it selfe
were
curb
enough
to
restraine
him
from
such
madnesie
.
But
having
been
instructed
as
a
Christian
how
much
more
miserie
attends
them
in
another
life
whose
actions
are
so
disorder'd
,
it
is
almost
past
beleife
,
that
men
should
be
so
stupid
in
the
midst
of
danger
,
and
so
regardlesse
of
their
change
.
Virtues
are
all
of
kinne
,
and
neerly
related
to
one
another
.
True
fortitude
is
not
divided
from
temperance
,
nor
temperance
from
prudence
,
nor
prudence
from
justice
;
and
he
hath
none
of
them
in
perfection
,
that
hath
not
all
of
them
in
some
reasonable
measure
.
A
man
may
see
them
all
sometimes
(
though
but
rarelie
)
in
a
souldier
in
such
an
eniment
degree
,
that
they
make
him
accomplisht
in
all
points
,
and
shine
with
such
a
lustre
,
that
they
bewitch
men
with
the
love
of
him
in
whom
they
are
,
and
force
a
veneration
.
And
that
veneration
is
paid
universally
,
not
only
to
their
persons
whilst
they
live
,
but
to
their
memorie
likewise
when
they
are
dead
:
whereas
the
other
(
names
of
no
price
)
live
without
love
,
and
die
without
being
desired
;
they
are
counted
brutish
both
in
life
,
and
death
,
and
fall
,
as
they
stood
,
without
regard
.
When
they
have
paid
their
due
to
nature
,
a
ditch
,
or
a
pit
,
or
the
open
feild
in
which
they
are
left
neglected
,
and
forgetfullnesse
with
the
living
,
are
their
hire
;
unlesse
infamy
revive
their
faults
,
not
permitting
them
to
sleep
quiet
in
the
dust
.
It
is
but
an
error
to
imagine
,
that
he
must
needes
feare
death
that
thinks
of
it
often
,
or
that
the
meditation
of
mortalitie
(
so
often
presented
to
the
eye
in
time
of
warre
)
should
blunt
the
edge
of
Valour
.
His
discourse
of
reason
is
weake
,
and
his
spirit
weaker
,
that
cannot
fortifie
himselfe
against
it
,
especially
,
if
he
have
the
great
help
of
a
well
led
life
to
build
upon
,
and
the
conscience
of
his
pious
care
to
decline
those
vices
,
which
make
death
terrible
to
a
wicked
man
.
He
is
most
truly
valiant
,
that
best
knowes
why
;
and
he
most
able
to
despise
death
,
that
hath
given
the
strongest
proofes
he
best
knew
how
to
live
.
Neither
the
thought
of
death
before
,
nor
the
sense
of
death
when
it
comes
is
able
to
daunt
him
,
though
the
shape
of
it
be
never
so
hideous
,
nor
the
time
never
so
suddaine
.
Lord
give
us
thy
grace
so
to
live
;
and
then
come
death
when
,
or
how
it
will
,
it
can
not
be
unwelcome
.
MEDITATION
31.
Of
cutting
downe
Trees
and
hedges
,
and
laying
of
places
open
.
IT
is
a
great
advantage
for
an
enemy
that
comes
to
sit
down
before
a
Garrison
,
to
finde
the
ground
neare
about
it
well
woodded
:
for
therby
he
may
with
more
safetie
view
the
place
,
entrench
his
men
,
raise
his
works
,
and
play
upon
the
besieged
as
under
coverture
,
where
the
woods
are
his
defence
.
It
is
therfore
one
of
the
first
things
that
they
doe
,
where
they
intend
to
make
a
Garrison
,
to
cut
downe
all
trees
,
and
hedges
,
and
lay
all
open
and
levell
,
that
an
enemie
may
not
move
any
way
undescryed
,
or
attempt
any
thing
undiscovered
.
From
a
Garrison
the
fairer
the
prospect
is
,
the
better
,
not
more
for
delight
,
then
for
use
,
nor
for
pleasure
,
then
for
conveniencie
.
If
the
enemie
can
act
behinde
a
traverse
,
and
keepe
the
beseiged
ignorant
where
he
is
,
or
what
he
doth
,
he
needs
wish
no
more
:
for
that
will
quickly
sort
unto
his
great
advantage
.
Trees
therefore
planted
neare
the
place
,
whether
to
defend
it
from
the
annoyance
of
sharpe
,
and
peirceing
windes
,
or
to
releive
it
by
the
coole
shade
,
when
the
dog-starre
beats
upon
it
with
excessive
heate
,
or
to
have
timber
in
a
convenient
neerenesse
upon
all
occasions
of
repaire
,
must
downe
to
the
ground
,
and
the
thought
of
all
lesser
accommodations
must
be
speedily
,
and
resolutely
cast
off
,
when
they
come
to
stand
in
competition
with
our
safetie
.
They
are
thoughts
becoming
women
and
not
men
,
or
effeminate
gallants
,
not
souldiers
,
how
things
may
be
husbanded
to
best
advantage
,
without
wasting
,
or
defaceing
of
a
seat
,
which
not
without
much
time
,
and
paines
,
and
cost
was
brought
to
that
perfection
,
by
the
continued
care
of
the
familie
in
many
generations
.
Such
speculations
suite
well
with
times
of
peace
,
but
not
of
warre
;
and
are
commendable
in
him
that
hath
the
managing
of
a
private
fortune
,
not
in
him
that
hath
the
managing
of
publique
trust
,
with
which
that
private
thrift
is
inconsistent
,
It
is
one
thing
to
defend
it
for
his
Prince
,
another
to
preserve
it
for
the
owner
;
one
thing
when
the
proofe
of
his
love
,
another
,
when
of
his
loyaltie
is
concerned
in
it
.
I
would
willinglie
destroy
nothing
that
might
be
saved
,
especially
which
a
commendable
industrie
,
and
discreet
providence
hath
stor'd
up
for
succession
,
and
intended
for
a
benefit
to
posteritie
:
but
when
they
ly
as
rubbes
in
the
way
to
concernments
of
a
higher
nature
,
I
must
cast
them
off
without
regard
,
whether
they
be
my
owne
or
other
mens
:
nor
may
I
in
reason
expect
,
that
other
men
should
be
in
this
case
any
more
tender
of
mine
,
then
I
am
of
theirs
,
To
wish
it
,
were
an
error
,
either
in
me
,
or
them
,
and
to
yeild
it
,
were
a
greater
.
And
I
goe
in
the
meane
time
upon
a
safe
principle
,
whilst
I
do
nothing
unto
them
,
which
I
would
not
be
content
should
be
done
to
me
likewise
in
the
same
case
.
MEDITATION
32.
Of
fireing
of
Townes
.
WHEN
A
towne
lies
neere
a
Garrison
,
the
houses
thinne
,
and
scattered
,
so
that
they
cannot
conveniently
be
enclosed
within
the
works
,
or
are
not
worth
enclosing
,
and
their
neighbour
hood
may
make
them
advantageous
to
the
enemie
for
annoying
the
garrison
,
it
is
usuall
either
to
pull
them
down
to
the
ground
,
or
(
if
the
enemies
suddaine
approach
allow
not
time
for
it
then
)
to
fire
them
suddainly
,
and
burne
them
down
.
In
which
case
besides
the
detriment
of
the
inhabitants
who
are
suddainly
turn'd
out
of
house
,
and
home
,
and
forced
with
their
whole
families
to
seeke
new
habitations
where
they
can
get
them
,
and
by
their
hastie
remove
must
needs
suffer
much
losse
in
the
things
they
have
about
them
,
besides
the
interest
which
perhaps
they
had
in
those
tenements
either
by
lease
,
or
of
inheritance
;
there
is
also
a
publique
calamitie
which
doth
attend
it
,
and
that
is
depopulation
:
a
mischiefe
of
so
much
consequence
in
a
Kingdome
,
that
the
wisdome
of
state
hath
enacted
many
lawes
to
prevent
it
,
as
that
which
if
not
well
look
't
to
,
in
time
must
needes
bring
desolation
with
it
.
All
that
can
be
said
for
it
in
this
case
is
,
that
it
is
a
lesser
evill
,
that
some
few
towns
in
this
way
should
perish
,
then
that
the
enemy
should
be
suffered
to
overcome
all
,
&
bring
an
universall
calamity
upon
the
kingdom
.
When
these
sad
effects
of
warre
are
inevitable
,
how
much
have
they
to
answere
before
God
,
that
have
been
the
wicked
authors
,
and
beginners
of
such
disasters
?
The
guilt
of
all
lies
upon
their
accompts
,
when
all
the
other
partie
doth
in
their
owne
just
defense
is
enforced
,
and
it
lies
not
in
their
power
to
avoid
it
.
The
hurt
they
doe
to
the
very
enemy
they
doe
unwillingly
,
and
would
not
doe
it
,
if
they
could
excuse
it
:
but
with
a
farre
greater
reluctation
in
themselves
they
doe
these
kinde
of
hurts
to
all
sorts
of
People
,
whom
fortune
hath
rather
cast
into
their
way
by
mischance
,
then
any
personall
action
or
desert
,
for
which
they
should
be
afflicted
.
A
generous
minde
in
such
exigences
even
then
smarts
when
it
hurts
,
and
suffers
with
them
,
that
suffer
under
him
.
Their
losse
is
not
without
his
greife
,
nor
their
affliction
without
his
compassion
.
If
he
can
finde
a
way
to
ease
their
burthen
,
he
doth
it
chearefully
;
or
if
they
can
finde
it
for
themselves
,
he
easily
assents
unto
it
.
Spare
them
he
cannot
though
he
would
;
outrage
and
oppresse
them
cruelly
he
will
not
,
though
he
can
.
All
they
suffer
he
thinkes
too
much
though
it
be
ne're
so
litle
:
and
so
he
carries
himselfe
in
it
,
that
he
leaves
them
fully
satisfied
,
how
litle
he
would
have
wisht
it
,
and
that
nothing
but
necessitie
could
have
enforced
him
to
make
it
so
much
.
In
other
things
they
find
him
a
firme
freind
,
and
from
thence
beleive
,
that
in
this
he
was
but
an
unwilling
enemie
.
Such
should
be
the
carriage
and
temper
of
men
whom
the
necessitie
of
their
service
puts
upon
these
extremities
,
which
(
though
justifiable
in
themselves
)
yet
leave
a
bitter
relish
in
them
that
feele
the
smart
,
and
an
odious
remembrance
with
them
that
have
undergone
the
losse
(
which
perhaps
they
lodge
,
and
watch
their
time
to
repay
)
if
they
be
not
sweetned
a
litle
for
the
patient
,
by
the
discreet
managing
of
the
Commander
.
MEDITATION
.
33.
Of
pulling
downe
Churches
or
Chappels
.
SOMETIMES
it
falls
out
so
unluckily
in
a
seige
,
that
a
Church
,
or
chappell
,
neere
neighbouring
to
the
Garrison
,
can
neither
be
taken
in
within
the
works
,
nor
left
standing
with
any
safetie
,
because
it
will
command
the
Garrison
by
advantage
of
the
situation
,
and
is
of
it selfe
(
from
the
very
nature
of
the
fabricke
)
both
a
great
defence
to
them
that
enter
it
,
and
easily
made
defensible
,
by
them
that
will
make
no
scruple
to
prophane
it
to
such
uses
.
In
this
case
they
hold
it
necessary
to
pull
it
downe
to
the
ground
:
but
whether
it
be
lawfull
or
no
,
may
be
disputed
:
and
I
should
readily
determine
the
negative
if
the
sparing
of
it
by
the
one
side
,
could
save
and
secure
it
from
being
prophaned
on
the
other
.
Of
the
two
,
better
the
religious
use
of
it
should
cease
,
then
it
should
be
made
an
instrument
of
villanie
,
and
left
for
their
advantage
,
whose
impious
vndertakings
in
the
fowlenesse
of
their
cause
,
proclaimes
them
to
all
the
world
to
be
men
that
make
no
conscience
.
or
scruple
of
any
thing
that
may
advance
their
ends
.
I
cannot
without
horror
name
the
offices
to
which
such
places
haue
oft
times
been
imployed
when
they
have
come
into
their
hands
,
nor
in
what
case
they
have
left
them
,
when
their
turnes
have
been
served
.
Not
to
speake
of
their
impudence
in
that
height
of
villanie
,
who
glorie
in
defacing
of
those
sacred
places
,
and
raceing
the
monuments
of
piety
and
devotion
which
our
fore
fathers
left
as
proofes
of
their
zeale
,
and
arguments
of
their
desire
to
dignifie
God's
outward
worship
.
They
that
are
not
ashamed
to
have
it
known
they
doe
this
every
where
,
where
they
come
,
it
is
not
hard
to
guesse
,
how
much
further
they
can
easily
perswade
themselves
to
goe
,
till
they
come
to
the
most
damnable
height
of
prophanation
that
can
be
imagined
.
I
should
wish
their
villanie
alwayes
prevented
,
by
some
other
way
then
pulling
downe
Churches
,
if
it
were
possible
,
yet
by
that
way
too
,
rather
then
not
at
all
.
To
make
the
house
of
Prayer
a
denne
of
theeves
,
was
very
high
:
but
to
make
it
a
denne
of
murtherers
,
a
cage
of
uncleane
birds
,
a
stye
of
swine
,
a
customarie
draught-house
,
and
at
last
a
slaughter-house
,
where
they
will
make
no
scruple
(
having
attain'd
their
ends
)
to
sacrifice
innocent
blood
upon
that
Altar
,
on
which
the
blood
of
Christ
hath
been
presented
in
the
Sacrament
,
and
strewe
that
pavement
with
slaughter'd
carkases
and
mangled
limbes
,
which
their
feete
should
not
touch
without
heed
,
nor
their
knees
without
feare
and
reverence
,
is
that
which
all
men
are
obliged
to
their
power
to
forbid
,
and
hinder
,
and
in
this
case
of
further
danger
too
,
even
by
demolishing
the
place
,
if
there
be
no
other
helpe
.
But
to
doe
this
hastily
,
and
rashlie
,
with
no
other
motive
then
of
providing
for
their
owne
safetie
,
which
perhaps
might
have
been
done
as
well
another
way
,
if
mature
advice
had
been
taken
in
it
,
is
an
act
so
impious
,
as
I
hope
every
generous
mind
would
tremble
to
be
guiltie
of
.
When
it
is
concluded
with
advisement
that
it
cannot
be
helped
,
it
should
not
then
be
done
without
feare
and
trembling
,
without
a
particular
addresse
to
God
,
not
to
impute
to
them
the
strict
necessitie
that
doth
enforce
it
,
nor
without
a
tacit
vow
,
or
promise
plighted
unto
him
,
(
if
ever
he
make
them
able
)
either
in
the
same
place
againe
,
or
elsewhere
at
least
to
doe
some
magnificent
worke
of
pietie
,
which
may
adde
as
much
to
the
visible
dignitie
,
and
honor
of
his
service
,
as
this
tooke
away
:
And
in
the
meane
time
to
provide
strictlie
,
that
though
the
place
dedicated
to
so
religious
a
use
be
lost
,
yet
that
the
religious
duties
of
the
place
be
not
slackned
,
but
kept
up
at
the
full
height
in
some
other
place
of
the
Garrison
which
may
be
most
convenient
,
lest
they
seeme
to
have
sought
an
occasion
to
cast
God
off
.
With
these
limitations
a
man
may
have
peace
within
himselfe
,
which
perhaps
he
shall
want
,
if
he
build
his
action
only
upon
consideration
of
his
own
safetie
,
and
theirs
that
are
about
him
;
wherein
selfelove
makes
men
apt
to
be
both
partiall
,
and
precipitate
.
To
conclude
,
better
one
Church
pull'd
downe
,
then
they
suffer'd
to
carrie
all
before
them
without
stop
,
whose
impietie
we
doe
not
know
whether
it
will
not
come
unto
that
height
,
to
pull
all
Churches
downe
;
and
we
see
they
promise
faire
for
it
already
.
MEDITATION
34.
Of
Hutts
under
the
Works
Granado-proofe
,
and
Cells
under
▪
ground
.
WHEN
musket
,
and
cannon
shot
,
granadoes
,
and
fire-balls
,
and
stones
are
plyed
thick
,
so
that
common
places
of
shelter
are
debarr'd
,
there
must
be
a
provision
for
those
that
arr
sick
,
or
wounded
,
for
those
that
after
long
,
and
tough
labour
must
take
their
turne
for
rest
,
till
they
bee
sufficiently
refresht
,
and
fitted
for
further
service
:
and
for
such
uses
Cells
,
and
Hutts
under
the
workes
are
fittest
,
because
safest
.
Without
these
provisions
to
releive
them
,
men
would
be
discouraged
,
and
would
not
venture
themselves
into
that
danger
which
the
service
doth
require
.
And
truly
that
Commander
but
ill
deserves
a
mans
service
when
he
is
well
,
that
takes
no
thought
what
shall
become
of
him
when
he
is
sick
,
or
hurt
.
But
to
doe
them
right
,
no
Garrison
is
without
conveniencie
both
of
places
,
and
persons
for
such
occasions
:
they
have
their
physitians
,
and
chirurgions
at
hand
,
and
such
drugs
and
medicines
in
readinesse
as
they
could
finde
opportunitie
to
provide
:
their
fee
they
have
from
the
Garrison
,
not
from
the
Common
souldier
,
whose
cure
it
is
but
reason
,
that
it
should
come
as
freely
,
as
did
his
hurt
,
since
his
pay
,
or
stipend
(
although
he
receive
it
punctuallie
,
which
all
doe
not
)
will
scarce
finde
him
food
,
and
rayment
.
A
man
is
not
to
be
cast
off
like
a
beast
so
soone
as
he
is
thought
uselesse
:
nay
a
good
man
will
scarce
cast
off
a
beast
of
that
fashion
,
that
hath
done
him
good
service
:
I
would
some
did
not
value
their
beasts
above
a
man
:
but
their
disposition
when
it
is
known
(
as
long
it
cannot
be
unknown
)
proves
litle
to
their
advantage
.
A
wise
man
will
be
studious
of
their
love
,
without
whose
assistance
he
can
doe
nothing
,
and
will
slip
no
opportunitie
to
give
them
assurance
how
much
they
are
in
his
care
.
Upon
tryall
of
it
,
those
that
have
been
brought
downe
even
unto
the
jawes
of
death
,
after
recoverie
,
are
as
willing
to
venture
their
lives
for
him
the
second
time
,
as
they
were
the
first
;
and
by
their
example
others
are
also
whetted
on
,
to
dare
things
beyond
beleife
.
He
never
wants
mens
hands
,
that
hath
their
hearts
;
and
he
shall
never
want
their
hearts
,
that
declares
himselfe
tenderly
affectionate
to
them
,
and
carefull
to
provide
for
their
securitie
both
in
sicknesse
and
in
health
,
both
in
action
and
after
it
.
And
truly
the
obligation
is
strong
,
then
to
take
care
for
them
most
,
when
they
have
most
neede
,
and
are
so
farre
spent
either
by
intensive
labour
,
or
by
their
hurts
,
that
they
are
not
in
case
to
take
care
for
themselves
.
such
offices
have
an
ample
reward
,
both
from
God
himselfe
,
the
great
rewarder
of
all
good
actions
,
and
from
the
conscience
of
the
fact
,
and
from
the
honor
and
esteeme
of
it
with
all
good
men
,
and
from
the
acceptation
of
those
that
are
concerned
in
it
,
and
from
their
thankfull
acknowledgment
,
and
returne
in
afterservices
.
MEDITATION
.
35.
Of
Surrender
.
WHEN
a
Garrison
is
surrendered
up
unto
the
enemie
,
it
alwayes
understands
it selfe
of
course
,
that
the
Garrison
it selfe
be
left
entire
to
all
intents
,
and
purposes
,
with
all
the
armes
,
and
ammunition
,
all
the
provisions
and
store
:
and
this
is
the
least
.
Surely
to
relinquish
so
much
unto
an
enemie
cannot
but
trouble
him
that
hath
any
thing
of
a
souldier
in
him
and
the
motives
had
need
be
strong
,
and
good
,
and
the
necessitie
sharpe
and
picant
that
enforce
him
to
it
.
If
his
provisions
be
quite
wasted
,
and
consumed
,
and
his
men
readie
to
faint
,
and
dye
after
long
hardnesse
,
and
much
enduring
for
want
of
foode
;
if
his
store
of
powder
and
shot
be
spent
,
and
he
have
no
meanes
left
him
any
longer
to
annoy
the
enemie
,
or
keepe
him
off
;
if
by
search
he
discover
any
part
of
the
Garrison
to
be
indefensible
,
whether
by
neglect
of
strengthening
it
from
the
begining
,
or
by
some
action
of
the
enemy
during
the
siege
,
by
which
he
findes
the
Garrison
is
not
tenable
,
and
is
able
to
give
satisfaction
therein
,
if
he
be
call'd
to
an
accompt
,
in
these
cases
the
surrender
is
not
to
be
accompted
voluntarie
,
but
enforced
;
and
such
a
one
as
hath
more
of
infelicity
in
it
,
then
of
fault
,
and
of
misfortune
,
then
of
shame
.
Yet
the
considerations
of
the
event
make
it
a
sad
disaster
:
they
are
not
many
that
shall
come
to
know
the
truth
of
their
condition
,
and
with
them
that
know
it
not
,
they
shall
suffer
in
point
of
reputation
for
the
surrender
:
they
are
not
allwayes
sure
to
finde
equall
hearing
,
or
to
be
beleiv'd
when
they
report
the
truth
,
neither
from
them
that
must
be
their
Judges
,
nor
from
others
that
will
be
their
censurers
,
who
sometimes
out
of
hatred
,
sometimes
out
of
envie
report
things
worse
then
they
are
.
Surely
the
hazard
of
misconstruction
in
these
things
is
unavoydible
,
and
he
shall
very
hardly
save
his
fame
in
these
things
,
that
saves
his
conscience
.
Yet
Garrisons
have
been
held
with
spirit
and
resolution
so
long
,
till
all
the
world
hath
been
amply
satisfied
of
the
surrender
,
and
willingly
acknowledge
as
much
done
,
and
suffer'd
for
the
holding
of
it
,
as
humane
possibilitie
could
reach
.
Others
againe
have
surrender'd
in
such
haste
,
that
they
can
never
wipe
out
of
mens
mindes
the
suspicion
that
is
universally
upon
them
,
that
feare
,
not
neede
made
them
give
up
so
quicklie
,
and
that
they
wanted
rather
courage
,
then
meanes
,
to
have
held
out
longer
before
they
yeilded
.
The
truth
is
a
surrender
is
a
nice
point
,
and
the
greatnesse
of
the
losse
filling
mens
mindes
with
indignation
,
makes
it
more
lyable
to
suspicion
,
and
however
men
may
flatter
themselves
,
they
will
finde
it
no
easie
matter
to
give
satisfaction
in
it
.
Men
are
not
apt
to
favour
one
another
in
their
censures
,
especially
where
they
can
finde
any
colour
to
traduce
,
and
that
they
never
faile
of
in
this
case
.
He
knowes
very
litle
of
the
world
that
is
not
warn'd
,
not
to
venture
his
honor
upon
so
nice
a
point
,
if
there
be
any
possibilitie
to
avoide
it
.
There
is
litle
difference
to
the
world
betwixt
having
deserv'd
to
be
ill
spoken
of
,
and
being
thought
to
have
so
:
for
though
his
heart
tell
him
he
is
blamelesse
,
yet
he
fares
as
if
he
were
not
.
It
is
I
confesse
a
most
uncharitable
fault
,
to
be
overforward
in
suspicion
,
or
rash
in
censure
,
or
prejudicate
in
a
cause
,
or
hard
to
admit
purgations
,
or
willing
to
foment
jealousies
,
or
to
depresse
any
mans
fame
out
of
an
envie
towards
him
:
but
it
is
an
Epidemicall
disease
,
and
such
a
one
as
will
never
be
cured
.
It
is
wisdome
therefore
for
a
man
not
to
cast
himselfe
upon
these
hazards
,
wherin
to
miscarrie
is
very
common
,
to
escape
very
rare
:
and
he
must
accompt
it
the
last
,
and
worst
of
refuges
,
to
redeeme
his
danger
,
by
the
surrender
of
the
place
.
MEDITATION
36.
Of
conditions
Honorable
and
dishonorable
.
THE
Nice
point
of
honour
is
not
thought
of
by
many
,
is
understood
by
few
,
and
those
that
understand
it
rightly
,
are
yet
so
prepedited
,
and
blinded
by
passion
and
selfe
interest
,
that
they
seldome
determine
of
it
according
to
the
dictates
of
reason
,
or
the
rules
of
a
sound
&
cleare
judgement
.
This
one
rule
is
generally
held
and
observ'd
by
all
men
in
case
of
a
surrender
,
to
make
the
conditions
for
themselves
as
favourable
,
and
advantageous
as
they
may
:
yet
many
times
it
falls
out
that
when
they
have
provided
very
well
for
their
safetie
,
they
have
provided
but
meanely
for
their
fame
;
and
when
they
are
free
from
their
enemies
,
they
fall
into
the
ill
opinion
of
their
freinds
,
who
judge
impartially
of
the
carriage
of
the
businesse
,
and
give
a
sentence
of
it
(
upon
the
full
view
of
circumstances
)
farre
different
from
theirs
,
that
were
concerned
in
it
.
It
is
not
the
departing
with
colours
flying
,
or
with
part
of
their
armes
,
with
their
numbers
full
,
or
any
of
those
visible
ensignes
of
bravery
that
catch
the
sence
,
and
winne
their
applause
that
looke
no
further
then
to
the
superficies
of
things
,
that
can
acquit
men
in
this
case
.
He
that
goes
much
lesse
,
oft
times
carries
away
more
honour
,
which
is
rooted
in
the
bravery
of
the
mindes
,
and
the
materiall
parts
of
action
,
wherein
whosoever
hath
been
defective
,
must
never
hope
to
cure
his
blasted
fame
by
these
sleight
fomentations
.
To
doe
much
and
to
suffer
much
,
much
more
then
most
would
,
much
more
then
in
reason
could
have
been
expected
,
much
more
then
envie
can
blast
,
or
malice
ecclipse
,
or
time
obliterate
,
this
is
the
ayme
and
resolution
of
an
heroick
minde
,
which
is
inseparably
attended
by
never
dying
honour
.
The
other
things
before
named
helpe
but
to
make
up
the
pompe
and
ceremonie
of
it
,
th●se
have
the
substance
:
and
without
these
,
the
other
are
but
painted
gewgawes
,
to
catch
Fooles
and
children
with
.
Upon
the
point
,
honour
is
eyther
sped
or
lost
before
it
comes
to
the
making
of
conditions
,
though
even
in
that
too
,
a
noble
mind
can
never
stoope
to
basenesse
,
or
admit
any
termes
unworthie
,
nor
can
the
judgment
be
befooled
;
for
to
the
very
last
all
things
are
so
carried
,
that
every
eye
may
discerne
,
they
come
off
with
bravery
,
and
with
discretion
too
.
The
esteeme
men
winne
in
these
things
is
so
much
,
that
they
are
gainers
in
their
greatest
losses
,
and
whilst
they
loose
one
hould
,
they
winne
many
hearts
:
whereas
on
the
contrarie
,
they
that
have
done
litle
,
and
suffer'd
lesse
,
can
never
make
such
a
capitulation
,
as
shall
not
redound
to
their
eternall
shame
.
Conscience
is
therefore
the
best
conservation
of
honor
,
and
every
man
the
most
competent
judge
of
his
own
carriage
:
if
his
owne
heart
testifie
unto
him
,
that
he
hath
faithfully
done
all
things
that
could
be
expected
at
his
hands
in
discharge
of
the
trust
to
him
conmitted
,
his
honor
is
unblemished
:
if
he
have
halted
,
or
faultered
in
the
least
degree
for
any
sinister
respect
,
he
must
first
condemn
himselfe
,
and
then
he
cannot
wonder
(
notwithstanding
all
his
diligence
to
skinne
it
over
)
though
other
men
condemne
him
too
.
Only
it
may
,
I
thinke
,
be
taken
for
granted
,
that
he
which
presently
yeilds
up
a
Garrison
upon
summons
,
without
striking
a
stroke
,
or
making
any
resistance
,
can
make
no
conditions
that
shall
be
honorable
for
him
.
MEDITATION
37.
Of
surprizall
by
storming
.
WHEN
A
fort
or
Garrison
cannot
be
gotten
neither
by
treatie
,
nor
by
streightning
,
the
last
attempt
is
commonly
by
storming
.
And
trulie
reason
saies
,
that
it
should
be
the
last
,
both
in
respect
of
the
assaylant
,
and
of
the
defendant
:
if
the
assaylant
can
carrie
it
any
other
way
he
hath
it
cheaper
:
if
the
defendant
be
resolved
to
make
opposition
to
the
last
,
he
sells
it
dearer
.
The
dearer
it
costs
the
assaylant
,
the
more
he
is
enraged
;
and
the
more
he
is
enraged
,
the
more
mischeife
he
doth
after
he
enters
;
and
it
is
more
pardonable
the
mischeife
that
he
doth
in
the
height
of
rage
,
and
in
the
heate
of
blood
,
to
which
he
should
not
be
drawne
if
it
may
be
avoided
:
and
whether
it
may
be
avoided
or
not
he
cannot
tell
,
untill
he
have
first
tried
all
other
meanes
,
when
he
hath
tried
them
,
and
found
them
unsuccessefull
,
't
is
a
faire
way
of
open
hostilitie
to
goe
on
to
storming
,
though
he
foresee
clearely
that
many
brave
men
must
fall
in
it
on
either
side
.
Great
and
good
things
are
purchased
many
times
at
so
deare
a
rate
that
they
undoe
the
buyer
;
yet
when
they
be
in
the
way
to
greater
,
and
that
these
without
them
cannot
be
obtained
,
a
man
must
be
content
to
buy
them
as
they
may
be
had
.
Yet
these
kinde
of
purchases
are
commonly
the
unluckiest
,
where
both
the
buyer
and
the
seller
repent
the
bargaine
,
and
both
go
off
loosers
at
the
parting
.
It
may
well
be
call'd
a
storme
wherein
so
many
men
are
so
wretchedly
cast
away
,
and
(
like
earthen
vessells
dasht
against
one
another
)
are
broken
all
to
peeces
.
This
is
the
bloudie
scene
in
which
horror
rides
in
triumph
,
and
crueltie
is
made
drunke
with
blood
,
and
slaughter
glutted
with
excesse
.
To
depaint
such
actions
(
if
a
man
could
,
unto
the
life
,
were
to
afflict
the
reader
.
When
quarter
is
not
expected
,
or
will
not
be
given
,
what
remaines
but
for
one
part
to
be
even
quite
extinguished
?
Here
men
take
their
turnes
in
miserie
:
in
the
assault
he
that
comes
on
hath
the
worst
,
&
loses
extreamly
much
by
disadvantage
:
but
when
the
place
is
enter'd
,
the
scale
turnes
totherway
,
and
the
beseiged
are
then
so
overmaster'd
by
fresh
and
continued
assaylants
that
breake
in
upon
them
on
every
side
,
like
an
overflowing
streame
,
that
they
fall
like
sheepe
unto
the
slaughter
,
and
pay
the
heavie
price
of
all
the
dammage
that
they
did
before
.
This
is
the
sadde
minute
in
which
execution
plies
her
taske
,
and
death
hastens
to
dispatch
away
all
that
she
meetes
,
so
that
often
times
a
few
minutes
sees
a
whole
Garrison
alive
,
and
dead
.
It
is
a
Commanders
part
to
tempet
,
and
mitigate
that
rage
in
the
common
souldier
,
and
when
he
findes
that
he
hath
fully
master'd
the
place
,
to
spare
as
many
lives
,
as
the
consideration
of
his
owne
safetie
will
give
him
leave
.
And
however
it
may
goe
in
a
small
,
yet
in
a
great
Garrison
,
if
this
should
not
be
done
,
whole
townes
,
and
cities
should
be
turned
into
feilds
of
blood
,
and
the
infamie
of
it
be
a
perpetuall
brand
,
both
to
the
actors
themselves
,
and
to
them
that
suffered
it
as
carelesse
spectatours
when
they
might
have
forbidden
it
.
And
it
is
not
a
simple
guilt
in
them
of
not
hindering
evill
,
but
a
guilt
that
receives
aggravation
,
from
the
tye
of
dutie
which
lyes
upon
them
,
to
moderate
the
outrage
of
the
souldier
in
such
occasions
.
And
it
is
a
dutie
which
a
man
may
have
both
comfort
and
honor
too
in
the
discharge
of
it
:
it
being
the
noblest
part
of
enmitie
to
spare
the
vanquished
;
and
to
give
life
(
if
it
may
be
without
danger
)
where
it
was
neither
deserved
,
nor
expected
.
This
mercy
they
that
will
not
shew
,
let
them
never
looke
to
finde
mercy
in
the
time
of
need
,
either
at
the
hands
of
men
,
or
of
their
maker
.
MEDITATION
38.
Of
robbing
,
and
spoyling
.
THE
Garrison
once
mastered
,
the
first
thing
the
souldiers
set
themselves
to
,
is
to
robbe
and
spoyle
those
that
were
in
it
,
of
all
they
had
worth
the
taking
.
What
they
had
beene
a
long
time
in
gathering
,
with
much
paines
,
and
perhaps
no
little
danger
,
they
see
taken
away
from
them
,
and
can
make
no
resistance
,
nay
they
durst
make
none
if
they
could
,
nay
they
dare
not
so
much
as
murmure
,
or
repine
,
scarce
so
much
as
bemoane
themselves
,
or
their
hard
fortune
,
nor
give
by
their
lookes
or
behaviour
any
occasion
of
distast
to
the
insulting
foe
.
Thus
a
man
that
hath
been
a
long
time
a
weaving
himselfe
a
fortune
,
is
cast
back
againe
in
an
instant
to
his
first
povertie
,
and
utterly
ruined
in
his
estate
without
remedie
,
and
without
redresse
.
A
sufficient
warning
to
us
,
not
to
set
our
hearts
,
and
our
affections
upon
the
things
of
this
world
,
whose
purchase
is
so
troublesome
,
and
so
dangerous
,
and
whose
tenure
so
uncertaine
.
Shall
I
venture
my
soule
to
get
that
by
unlawfull
meanes
,
or
venture
my
life
to
get
that
by
infinite
hazards
,
which
I
cannot
keepe
when
I
have
it
?
shall
I
fixe
my
joy
and
contentment
upon
a
transitorie
toy
,
which
every
minute
may
be
taken
from
me
?
shall
I
court
that
with
a
fond
affection
,
which
both
with
levitie
,
and
scorn
takes
winges
and
flies
away
?
If
use
did
not
give
wealth
an
esteeme
,
what
a
trifle
were
it
?
or
who
would
regard
it
?
yet
they
that
love
it
most
,
use
it
least
,
and
instead
of
serving
themselves
with
it
,
become
servants
nay
slaves
unto
it
.
The
best
servant
in
the
world
,
were
so
much
lesse
to
be
esteemed
,
if
he
had
a
light
and
fickle
humor
to
change
his
masters
▪
and
wealth
doth
so
,
nor
is
there
any
way
to
helpe
it
;
either
it
serves
us
upon
that
condition
,
or
not
at
all
;
many
masters
it
hath
had
,
and
many
more
it
will
;
and
though
it
abide
with
some
men
longer
then
with
others
,
yet
no
man
ever
did
,
nor
no
man
ever
shall
,
or
can
know
,
how
long
it
will
tarrie
with
him
:
we
are
all
apt
to
beleive
,
till
death
,
nay
even
after
death
,
with
our
posterity
;
but
most
men
find
themselves
deceived
in
that
reckoning
,
and
too
late
learne
to
repent
the
vaine
trust
which
they
reposed
in
that
wealth
,
which
is
not
permanent
.
Lord
enable
me
there
to
settle
my
he
art
and
my
affections
where
true
riches
are
,
even
with
thee
in
heaven
!
and
for
these
transitory
things
below
(
which
are
mine
to
day
,
and
to
morrow
another
mans
)
let
me
never
straine
my
conscience
to
get
them
,
let
me
not
doate
on
them
while
I
have
them
,
let
me
not
be
much
dejected
for
them
if
I
loose
them
!
but
let
me
comfort
my selfe
in
this
,
that
the
way
to
heaven
is
as
sure
by
povertie
,
as
by
prosperitie
,
and
that
thou
my
God
doest
not
regard
what
I
have
,
but
what
I
am
:
if
rich
in
grace
,
and
goodnesse
it
is
enough
;
for
that
will
leade
me
to
another
kinde
of
riches
,
the
riches
of
thy
glory
,
and
the
riches
of
thy
mercie
,
which
shall
never
fade
away
,
but
be
powred
out
upon
us
for
ever
in
thy
heaven
lie
Kingdome
.
MEDITATION
39.
Of
tortureing
,
for
the
discoverie
of
hidden
treasure
.
SOMETIMES
the
covetousnesse
,
&
crueltie
of
the
enemie
is
such
,
that
where
he
suspects
treasure
is
hidden
,
he
will
torture
,
and
torment
any
bodie
that
he
thinkes
can
discover
it
,
untill
he
finde
it
.
Which
mercilesse
resolution
when
he
hath
once
put
on
,
the
reverence
of
old
age
doth
not
stoppe
him
,
the
esteeme
of
the
weaker
sexe
doth
not
move
him
,
the
tendernesse
of
sweet
children
doth
not
affect
him
:
nay
he
studies
to
make
affliction
heavier
by
circumstance
,
tormenting
the
husband
in
the
presence
of
the
wife
,
and
the
children
in
the
sight
of
the
parents
,
conceiving
that
there
can
be
no
treasure
so
deare
unto
them
,
which
they
would
not
part
with
,
to
redeeme
them
from
torment
,
whom
they
so
tenderly
affect
.
The
height
of
this
miserie
is
,
that
it
is
all
one
to
the
enemie
,
whether
a
a
man
have
hidden
treasure
,
or
whether
he
doe
but
suspect
him
to
have
it
;
whether
he
discover
all
,
or
whether
he
doe
but
discover
part
.
For
if
he
thinke
a
man
hath
treasure
hidden
(
though
he
have
none
)
he
shall
be
tormented
as
much
,
nay
perhaps
more
then
if
he
had
,
and
all
his
oaths
and
protestations
to
cleare
himselfe
,
shall
not
satisfie
.
If
he
discover
all
,
yet
he
shall
be
suspected
to
keepe
back
part
,
and
to
make
him
discover
more
,
he
shall
be
as
much
tormented
,
as
if
he
had
discovered
nothing
.
Miserable
condition
,
that
when
a
man
really
hath
nothing
,
or
when
he
hath
discovered
all
he
hath
without
dissimulation
,
that
this
should
not
save
him
;
when
there
is
no
man
in
the
world
so
devilishlie
cruell
,
that
would
not
spare
a
man
if
he
did
beleive
,
either
that
he
had
nothing
,
or
that
he
had
discovered
all
(
for
to
think
that
any
man
doth
delight
in
unprofitable
and
fruitlesse
crueltie
,
is
an
extreame
uncharitable
opinion
,
and
without
any
ground
.
)
The
infelicitie
is
in
this
,
that
we
cannot
credit
one
another
.
Men
are
so
apt
to
ly
,
and
to
forsweare
themselves
where
it
makes
for
their
profit
,
nay
some
are
so
besotted
with
the
love
of
their
wealth
that
they
will
rather
endure
any
torment
then
part
with
it
,
or
discover
it
(
I
name
that
latter
as
the
greater
tryall
,
though
that
former
be
the
greater
sinne
,
for
men
are
generally
more
indulgent
to
the
sense
then
carefull
of
the
soule
,
and
will
rather
forsweare
themselves
often
,
then
be
tormented
once
▪
)
so
that
it
is
no
wonder
if
they
finde
no
faith
:
besides
that
,
the
greedinesse
of
mans
covetous
nature
make
him
hard
to
receive
satisfaction
,
or
to
beleive
,
that
he
is
dealt
clearly
with
,
where
it
is
his
advantage
,
that
is
questioned
,
to
dissemble
.
How
many
cases
happen
in
the
course
of
a
mans
life
which
make
him
think
it
a
happinesse
to
be
reputed
poore
,
or
knowne
to
have
nothing
!
He
that
is
lam'd
and
crippled
by
being
thus
tormented
,
how
much
more
wretched
is
he
,
then
he
that
had
nothing
?
for
he
hath
the
use
of
his
limbes
to
releive
his
povertie
;
the
other
hath
lost
all
he
had
,
and
perhaps
the
totall
use
of
his
limbes
too
wherewith
he
should
get
more
.
We
leave
him
to
those
spirituall
comforts
that
he
must
hope
for
from
above
in
such
extremities
,
and
turne
our
discourse
a
little
to
the
tormentor
;
whom
we
must
admonish
(
whether
he
will
heede
it
,
or
not
)
that
the
very
act
of
taking
what
he
findes
ready
,
though
from
an
enemie
,
will
hardly
be
proved
lawfull
(
unlesse
you
take
the
lawes
of
warre
and
armes
to
helpe
it
out
)
save
where
the
just
part
of
the
quarrell
makes
it
so
to
one
partie
;
we
must
instruct
him
further
,
that
extreamities
in
such
cases
are
not
to
be
used
,
nor
all
lawfull
for
a
man
,
that
is
within
his
power
;
where
thou
thinkest
thou
mayest
take
,
do
it
with
pitty
,
and
compassion
,
and
leave
him
whom
thou
doest
pillage
somewhat
,
that
he
may
blesse
thee
when
thou
art
gone
,
and
say
,
sure
it
was
God
sent
thee
to
him
,
and
he
had
not
found
so
much
mercie
with
another
man
:
we
must
also
tell
him
clearly
,
that
to
torment
men
,
and
force
them
by
extremitie
of
paine
to
confesse
what
they
have
hidde
,
is
utterly
unlawfull
;
alas
they
have
gone
too
farre
alreadie
,
that
have
lyed
,
or
forsworne
themselves
to
conceale
that
litle
which
is
left
;
wilt
thou
may
me
their
bodyes
that
have
maym'd
their
soules
?
it
is
just
with
God
,
that
they
should
suffer
this
,
but
not
just
with
thee
to
doe
it
:
lastly
we
must
let
him
know
,
that
to
torment
men
for
more
,
when
they
have
confest
all
alreadie
,
to
torment
them
long
who
give
all
the
sacred
pledges
of
Christianitie
that
they
have
nothing
to
discover
,
is
a
crueltie
so
horrid
as
hath
no
president
in
hell
,
because
under
it
men
suffer
meerly
innocent
,
and
are
press't
by
torment
unto
that
,
which
to
them
is
simply
impossible
:
cursed
be
their
avarice
,
for
it
is
fierce
,
and
their
action
for
it
is
cruell
!
and
let
every
noble
minde
say
with
Jacob
,
Into
their
secrets
let
not
my
soule
come
,
nor
unto
their
assemblies
let
not
mine
honour
be
united
.
MEDITATION
40.
Of
stripping
.
AMONGST
other
harsh
usages
of
the
souldier
after
the
taking
of
a
garrison
,
that
commonly
is
one
,
to
take
away
from
the
vanquished
the
very
apparell
from
their
backs
,
and
sometimes
so
farre
to
proceed
therein
as
to
stripp
them
starke
naked
,
and
scarce
give
them
their
owne
lowsie
,
and
ragged
apparell
in
exchange
,
to
hide
their
nakednesse
.
To
those
that
have
been
well-bred
,
and
are
utterly
unacquainted
before
with
such
usage
,
it
must
needs
come
very
unwelcome
.
Yet
in
this
,
more
then
in
any
other
part
of
his
harshnesse
;
the
common
souldier
is
to
be
excused
,
whose
wants
doe
generally
enforce
it
.
For
the
cloathing
of
the
souldier
though
it
be
of
much
and
deepe
concernment
to
keepe
him
in
health
,
and
heart
,
yet
is
not
for
the
most
part
so
much
regarded
by
the
Generall
,
as
it
should
:
and
the
souldier
seldome
takes
any
care
to
cloath
himselfe
;
nor
indeed
can
he
well
,
out
of
his
pay
if
he
did
punctually
receive
it
(
but
that
is
likewise
many
times
in
long
arreares
:
)
the
wonder
therefore
is
the
lesse
,
and
the
pardon
should
be
the
easier
,
if
he
forget
civilitie
,
where
he
findes
an
opportunity
to
supply
his
wants
.
Who
would
not
rather
that
another
man
should
want
clothes
,
then
himselfe
?
or
can
frame
his
minde
to
let
his
enemie
enjoy
what
himselfe
hath
not
,
nor
cannot
well
be
without
?
Besides
that
if
one
souldier
out
of
civilitie
,
or
respect
would
spare
that
which
were
necessarie
,
another
would
take
that
which
were
superfluous
,
and
his
pittie
would
turne
nothing
to
the
advantage
of
the
vanquished
.
Yet
all
this
,
though
it
be
reason
,
makes
not
the
affliction
ever
a
whit
the
easier
to
him
that
suffers
it
.
To
goe
bare-foot
,
and
litle
lesse
then
naked
,
is
a
hard
lesson
to
them
that
never
practised
it
.
When
such
a
crosse
doth
happen
,
it
should
reduce
to
our
remembrance
our
former
vanities
,
the
follies
of
our
youths
,
and
the
ill-fruits
of
peace
,
and
long
prosperity
,
when
forgeting
in
apparell
the
safe
rules
,
of
what
was
necessary
,
or
what
was
convenient
in
the
ranke
wherein
God
had
placed
us
,
we
made
our
habits
the
ensignes
of
our
pride
,
and
gloried
to
out-vie
others
(
though
never
so
expensive
)
in
costly
braverie
;
when
invention
was
almost
at
a
stand
,
and
that
which
was
rich
and
costly
did
not
please
,
unlesse
it
were
new
too
,
and
unusuall
;
when
our
attire
was
a
great
part
of
our
studie
,
and
to
come
forth
bright
,
and
glorious
as
the
sunne
,
our
cheifest
ayme
.
If
such
follies
should
not
have
a
check
,
and
such
pride
should
not
meete
a
fall
,
many
a
one
would
perish
,
whom
affliction
now
brings
home
unto
repentance
.
Lord
,
thou
knowest
that
we
have
all
enough
to
answere
(
even
those
that
have
least
)
for
the
errors
of
our
youth
,
sinnes
that
plentie
and
aboundance
did
occasion
in
us
,
bring
us
home
,
we
beseech
thee
,
to
repentance
,
whether
with
,
or
against
our
wills
,
and
then
by
whatsoever
meanes
it
is
,
and
how
harsh
soever
or
unpleasant
to
the
sense
,
it
is
no
matter
:
it
is
an
easie
purchase
,
by
a
litle
corporall
affliction
,
to
againe
our
peace
with
thee
.
MEDITATION
.
42.
Of
disacommodation
in
Diet
and
Lodging
.
IN
the
time
of
warre
,
one
kinde
of
crosse
or
affliction
seldome
goes
alone
,
nay
sometimes
many
come
hudling
together
,
one
in
the
neck
of
another
,
like
the
waves
of
the
sea
driven
by
a
mightie
winde
.
It
is
some
advantage
toward
the
bearing
of
them
,
that
some
of
them
are
to
be
expected
from
the
enemie
of
course
,
and
though
they
come
unwelcome
,
they
come
not
unlookt
for
.
Such
a
one
is
this
that
we
are
now
to
speake
of
,
of
the
disaccommodation
in
diet
,
and
lodging
.
Where
there
are
many
to
be
provided
for
,
it
cannot
easily
be
avoided
,
although
the
conqueror
were
willing
to
doe
reason
;
it
sitts
most
heavie
,
where
it
may
be
helpt
,
and
is
not
,
either
through
the
neglect
,
and
barbarous
incivilitie
of
those
to
whom
the
care
of
it
belongs
;
or
(
which
is
worse
)
out
of
spight
,
and
malice
,
and
an
ignoble
,
and
base
delight
to
triumph
over
men
,
and
insult
upon
them
in
their
affliction
.
A
wicked
and
hellish
disposition
,
and
becoming
neither
Christians
,
nor
men
.
It
were
lesse
crueltie
to
put
the
vanquished
to
the
sword
,
and
so
put
a
period
both
to
their
sufferings
and
their
lives
at
once
,
then
to
wire
▪
draw
their
torments
,
and
spinne
out
their
miserie
by
long
continuance
,
when
perhaps
their
death
by
those
meanes
is
both
desired
,
and
intended
.
It
goes
high
when
a
man
shall
scarce
find
those
conveniences
amongst
them
,
that
they
would
afford
a
dogge
;
and
his
dyet
and
lodging
are
purposely
so
order'd
,
as
not
only
shall
not
stand
with
conveniencie
,
but
not
with
health
neither
,
no
nor
so
much
as
with
life
,
if
they
hold
on
the
resolution
any
time
to
use
them
so
despightfullie
.
It
is
a
mightie
degree
of
patience
,
wch
must
enable
a
man
to
beare
such
a
crosse
,
and
to
which
questionlesse
humane
frayletie
cannot
reach
without
divine
support
.
To
God
only
in
such
extremities
men
must
have
recourse
,
who
can
either
mollifie
the
cruell
,
and
hard
hearts
of
those
that
so
oppresse
them
;
or
stir
up
others
to
give
them
secret
rereleife
&
ease
under-hand
without
their
privitie
,
or
send
deliverance
(
if
he
please
)
by
some
such
way
,
as
they
could
not
have
hoped
for
:
if
none
of
these
,
then
he
can
enable
them
to
beare
,
beyond
any
thing
that
they
could
have
beleived
of
their
owne
strenght
;
and
will
at
last
recompence
their
sorrowes
,
and
afflictions
(
which
they
undergoe
in
a
good
cause
,
and
with
a
good
conscience
)
with
such
a
weight
of
glory
,
to
which
they
could
not
thinke
their
tryalls
worthy
to
be
compared
.
MEDITATION
43.
Of
strict
imprisonment
.
IMPRISONMENT
though
a
common
consequent
of
being
overcome
,
admits
a
great
deale
of
difference
,
and
is
sometimes
more
easie
,
sometimes
more
rigid
,
and
severe
.
Then
it
is
deem'd
most
harsh
,
when
the
prisoner
is
loaden
with
irons
,
or
kept
close
,
like
some
notorious
malefactor
;
or
when
his
exchange
is
either
utterly
denyed
him
,
or
set
at
such
rates
,
as
seeme
to
necessitate
a
perpetuity
of
his
endurance
.
These
things
(
I
confesse
)
do
seldom
happen
to
any
man
,
that
hath
not
given
high
occasion
of
offence
by
revolt
,
or
treachery
where
he
had
been
entrusted
,
unlesse
there
happen
to
be
somewhat
of
a
private
spleene
,
or
a
particular
grudge
.
If
a
man
have
justly
drawne
such
harshnesse
upon
himselfe
,
he
must
not
wonder
to
finde
from
an
enemie
such
usage
as
he
hath
deserved
,
when
a
freind
would
hardly
put
it
up
,
to
finde
himselfe
so
abused
:
And
it
is
not
easie
to
finde
what
to
plead
for
him
that
hath
deceiv'd
a
trust
,
and
been
false
to
them
from
whom
he
hath
receiv'd
pay
.
If
he
will
say
their
cause
was
naught
,
he
should
have
lookt
to
that
before
he
was
engaged
:
for
though
he
did
well
in
quitting
that
side
,
where
he
thought
he
could
not
serve
with
a
safe
conscience
(
if
that
were
really
his
motive
)
yet
he
suffers
justly
now
for
the
assistanee
that
he
gave
them
then
,
and
it
is
just
with
God
,
to
let
him
fall
into
this
affliction
,
that
was
once
perhaps
the
author
of
as
much
affliction
unto
them
,
with
whom
afterwards
(
upon
a
rectified
judgment
)
he
thought
fit
to
joyne
:
besides
that
he
deserves
to
smart
that
would
engage
himselfe
in
a
quarrell
without
mature
deliberation
,
and
not
satisfie
his
conscience
,
before
he
drew
his
sword
;
and
he
must
not
be
his
owne
chooser
when
,
or
how
he
shall
pay
for
such
an
oversight
.
If
the
cause
were
good
,
and
he
was
false
in
it
,
he
is
clearly
inexcusable
,
and
can
have
little
comfort
in
his
sufferings
,
though
they
be
never
so
heavie
,
or
long
continued
.
But
if
all
this
befall
him
,
by
reason
of
some
old
grutch
,
or
some
new-taken
displeasure
,
&
spight
or
malice
lay
it
on
so
heavie
,
whilst
he
is
conscious
to
himselfe
of
nothing
,
why
his
case
should
be
disstinguished
from
other
mens
,
he
may
beare
up
the
better
,
as
being
secure
that
such
usage
in
the
end
shall
bring
both
glorie
,
and
renown
to
him
,
and
shame
,
and
infamie
to
those
,
whose
unworthynesse
did
prompt
them
to
such
hatefull
crueltie
.
And
truly
to
ride
out
such
a
storme
,
I
should
thinke
it
no
very
hard
matter
to
a
man
of
spirit
,
and
resolution
.
Irons
and
close
imprisonment
,
and
to
want
the
hope
of
an
exchange
,
are
a
great
affliction
,
yet
such
a
one
as
is
comportable
.
Many
have
endured
them
for
many
yeares
together
,
and
have
found
wayes
to
spend
that
time
with
comfort
,
and
by
little
,
and
little
,
at
last
with
some
kind
of
contentment
.
And
it
is
a
great
point
of
wisdome
to
fit
the
shoulder
to
the
burden
,
and
the
neck
.
unto
the
yoake
that
we
must
neede
beare
.
He
is
an
ill
proficient
in
the
schoole
of
affliction
,
to
whom
it
doth
not
grow
familiar
by
tract
of
time
,
and
whom
dire
necessitie
doth
not
worke
to
some
masterie
of
his
fortune
,
and
enable
by
degrees
to
triumph
in
his
patience
,
to
triumph
over
the
spight
and
malice
of
all
his
enemies
.
If
I
should
bate
Christianitie
,
and
yet
exact
this
too
,
I
should
not
be
accompted
a
rigid
Stoick
in
it
.
Moralitie
could
goe
thus
farre
;
let
us
blush
if
we
be
Christians
,
and
come
short
of
it
.
Resolve
therefore
to
endure
without
shrinking
,
as
long
as
thy
trouble
shall
endure
;
and
the
hope
of
end
,
and
of
release
take
in
,
but
as
helps
upon
the
by
.
MEDITATION
.
43.
Of
mayming
.
THE
mutilation
and
mayming
of
the
body
,
and
the
deforming
of
it
by
multiplied
scarres
,
is
reckoned
one
of
the
worst
kinde
of
accidents
in
warre
:
and
truly
if
it
extend
to
the
losse
of
those
limbes
,
which
in
all
humane
and
naturall
actions
are
most
necessarie
,
and
by
the
losse
wherof
a
man
is
disabled
to
the
greatest
,
and
most
important
offices
of
humane
life
(
such
as
are
the
leggs
,
and
armes
,
and
eyes
,
and
the
like
)
the
losse
is
unvaluable
.
Lesser
hurts
,
which
leave
but
scarrces
behind
them
,
and
can
be
raised
no
higher
then
to
be
cal'd
a
blemish
whether
in
the
face
it selfe
,
or
in
an
other
part
,
received
in
a
good
cause
,
they
are
to
be
accompted
badges
of
honor
,
and
memorialls
of
that
danger
which
men
did
cheerfully
undergoe
,
in
discharge
of
their
duty
to
their
God
,
and
to
their
Prince
.
And
however
fancie
may
oversway
their
opinions
that
want
a
solid
judgment
,
yet
reason
tells
us
,
that
the
most
exact
,
and
harmonious
symetrie
of
an
effeminate
face
,
is
not
halfe
so
lovelie
,
as
one
markt
with
such
scarres
.
For
that
fading
beautie
,
which
in
the
flower
of
youth
is
in
the
prime
,
and
in
a
little
time
alters
,
and
withers
of
it selfe
,
and
by
a
fit
of
sicknesse
,
or
a
disease
is
so
lost
,
that
it
never
returnes
againe
,
and
which
in
men
it
is
a
vanitie
at
least
,
if
not
a
sinne
to
be
sollicitous
,
or
studious
to
conserve
,
is
here
nobly
exchanged
,
and
devested
with
more
honor
then
it
could
have
been
kept
.
He
that
perhaps
before
had
more
of
the
we
aker
,
shall
now
have
more
of
the
wiser
sex
to
be
enamour'd
of
his
mind
,
then
they
were
with
the
lineaments
of
the
body
:
and
there
is
lesse
danger
to
have
ten
such
lovers
,
then
one
of
tother
.
But
when
a
man
happens
to
be
so
disabled
▪
that
he
hath
no
hands
to
work
,
nor
feete
to
walke
,
nor
an
eye
to
see
,
wherby
he
becomes
in
a
high
degree
uselesse
both
to
himselfe
,
and
to
his
freinds
,
and
runnes
the
hazard
of
wanting
necessaries
before
he
dies
,
because
he
cannot
provide
them
for
himselfe
,
such
losses
wound
deepe
:
besides
that
the
securing
of
life
,
and
present
cute
of
the
part
so
affected
,
causes
extreame
torment
,
and
askes
much
patience
to
be
indured
.
To
which
it
is
a
new
accesse
,
and
a
great
increase
of
miserie
,
when
a
man
falls
into
the
hands
of
a
Chirurgion
,
that
either
wants
skill
to
manage
the
cure
,
or
honestie
to
dispatch
it
,
by
which
meanes
the
patient
languishes
in
torment
a
great
deale
longer
then
he
need
,
and
perhaps
is
brought
to
a
necessitie
at
last
of
haveing
that
limbe
cut
off
,
that
might
have
been
saved
.
How
high
doth
man
value
life
,
when
he
buyes
it
on
such
hard
conditions
!
and
yet
he
may
not
part
with
it
any
cheaper
although
he
would
,
but
is
obliged
in
point
of
conscience
to
suffer
all
this
,
and
more
,
to
save
life
,
if
it
may
possibly
be
preserved
.
Let
it
teach
me
how
much
higher
I
should
value
my
soule
,
and
how
much
more
I
should
be
contented
patiently
to
endure
(
if
God
call
me
to
the
tryall
)
rather
then
make
shipwracke
of
a
good
conscience
,
or
doe
such
things
as
I
know
must
needes
be
extreamely
offensive
unto
him
.
MEDITATION
44.
Of
Death
.
DEATH
we
consider
here
under
a
double
notion
:
as
it
referres
to
them
that
suffer
it
,
and
as
it
referres
to
them
that
inflict
it
.
As
it
referres
to
them
that
inflict
it
,
we
may
impute
it
unto
severall
causes
.
Sometimes
hot
blood
occasions
it
,
and
long
and
violent
resistance
drawes
it
upon
them
that
suffer
it
,
sometimes
it
proceeds
from
malice
,
and
is
inflicted
in
the
way
of
revenge
,
either
upon
some
old
grudge
,
or
some
new
provocation
,
sometimes
there
is
a
petulsnt
wantonnesse
in
execution
,
and
the
conqueror
doth
heedlessely
destroy
,
where
he
might
safely
spare
.
Sometimes
there
is
an
inhumane
delight
in
cruelty
,
and
a
barbarous
thirst
of
blood
,
even
more
then
brutish
.
Sometimes
necessitie
enforces
that
more
be
don
in
that
kinde
,
then
the
conquerour
would
either
desire
,
or
permit
,
if
he
could
master
the
place
,
and
persons
without
that
rigour
.
This
last
case
onely
is
excusable
,
the
rest
are
not
:
and
here
likewise
the
pretence
is
easily
made
when
other
and
worse
motives
put
men
on
to
doe
it
:
besides
that
even
in
this
case
too
,
all
lies
in
the
conquerors
bosom
,
and
he
hath
a
huge
latitude
wherein
to
act
,
and
may
either
take
up
sooner
,
or
lash
out
farther
,
and
yet
keepe
under
covert
of
this
excuse
.
If
this
were
a
deliberate
act
,
as
it
is
alwayes
a
suddaine
,
it
would
aske
a
severe
scrutinie
,
and
the
conscience
could
not
easily
be
satisfied
in
this
case
,
what
bounds
to
set
,
or
where
to
stoppe
.
As
things
are
,
I
am
confident
,
that
in
this
case
all
men
have
need
,
and
I
should
advise
that
all
men
would
begge
of
God
,
to
overrule
them
by
his
providence
in
the
time
of
action
;
that
they
may
not
be
more
cruell
then
the
necessitie
of
their
owne
safetie
doth
enforce
;
and
that
he
would
not
lay
that
blood
unto
their
charge
which
in
such
occasions
they
have
shed
,
when
they
might
have
spar'd
it
.
As
death
in
this
case
referres
to
them
that
suffer
it
,
we
consider
it
as
the
thing
that
of
all
others
▪
they
have
most
fear'd
,
and
shunn'd
;
fear'd
not
simplie
as
it
is
death
,
nor
as
it
is
a
violent
death
,
nor
as
it
is
a
suddain
death
,
for
against
all
these
we
presume
them
fortified
that
enter
a
warre
,
or
list
themselves
for
souldiers
:
but
as
it
is
a
weakning
of
the
cause
,
as
it
is
a
discouragement
of
the
partie
,
as
it
is
an
occasion
for
the
enemies
of
God
to
blaspheme
.
And
out
of
all
these
respects
to
feare
it
,
doth
neither
misbecome
a
good
man
,
nor
a
souldier
.
Besides
that
the
justnesse
of
that
feare
makes
it
discretion
in
him
,
by
all
possible
meanes
to
shunne
,
and
to
avoide
it
.
Yet
notwithstanding
all
the
care
to
avoide
it
,
God
pleases
to
let
that
fall
upon
them
,
which
they
so
much
,
and
so
justlie
feared
.
How
unsearchable
are
his
judgments
,
and
his
pathes
past
finding
out
!
My
undestanding
may
be
gravel'd
in
these
accidents
,
his
justice
cannot
be
tainted
:
I
may
be
to
seeke
in
the
cause
why
he
suffers
these
thinges
to
come
to
passe
,
but
I
am
sure
his
wisdome
and
his
goodnesse
orders
,
and
disposes
all
things
for
the
best
.
Whether
by
life
or
by
death
,
if
I
may
glorifie
him
I
am
happy
:
and
the
riches
of
his
mercy
is
doubled
on
me
,
if
when
I
have
glorified
him
by
my
life
,
he
please
to
have
me
glorifie
him
likewise
by
my
death
;
if
when
my
actions
have
been
to
his
honor
,
my
sufferings
be
so
too
;
if
when
I
have
lived
a
Christian
,
I
must
afterwards
dy
a
Martyr
.
I
am
sure
that
to
such
a
life
,
&
such
a
death
there
is
a
crowne
reserved
,
which
;
if
I
have
but
patience
and
constancie
to
hold
out
unto
the
end
,
I
shall
not
misse
of
.
FINIS
.