S TRATIOTICOS.

The third Bool.

CH AP. I.

The conditions and qualities that oughtto be in a priuate Souldier.

. Mꝛalmuch as the pꝛokellion of àSouldier is ok all other the motpainefull, it is requiſite that he beJof aſtrong compoſition ot bodie toabide both heate and cold, bungerSand thirſk, trauell and watching,*) and that when he enter into this3 S courſe ok life, he put on a Keſolu-on to abide all kind ot hardneſſe.Item, that they be choſen generallx krom 19 peares olage till 45. fAlſo that he be kitted with weapon accozding ta hisſtrength. Ik he be a tall ſtrong man, then is he ſit(if he bein courage anſwerable) to vſe a Pike: Ik little and nim-ble, let him pꝛactiſe to be a god Shot: The meane map viethe Haſbard and blacke Bill. 1Oꝛ rather in choile ol armed Pikemen which is inderdthe koꝛte ok the Kield, and the moſt honozable kind of wea-pon) J like the Spaniſh dilcipline, which haue that wea-pon in ſo great reputation, às thev ſeldome commit thembut to Gentlemen, vea to the moſt noble. Foz a Princesſonne at his firſt entrance into Armes; thinkes it honoꝛa-ble koꝛ him to traile a Pike. And indtede the courage andreputation ot the porlon(reſoluing to abide when it com-meth to the execution) is moꝛe to be regarded then thegreatnes ot his limbes:albeit, where Courage und Stature

d retontopned, it is the better.