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348 SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES.
almost they are nothing in respect of this; who
amongst others his great gifts, must know severely
to command, and softly to bear with others. As
also, he must learn patiently to give place to others’
contumacy, and he must not only be powerful to
strengthen his own affairs, but also he must weaken
his enemies. And cliiefly, he must make war by
policy, without giving battle or travel (as this wise
general did deal twice with old Tilly); who was
forced, after a long march, having but visited him
and seen liis orders, to retire again with the loss
of many men, without any detriment or hurt at all
to his majesty’s own little army, which he kept
ever to the last, by pi’eserving them from their
enemies, and by supplying of them, as they be-
came weak, so that their weakness could never be
truly discerned. Who would not then admire the
wisdom and foresight of this general, in preserving
this little armj’, at this time, for a second fitter
occasion ? Who ever then was so worthy of the
honourable title of a general as he ? For though
he liad been no king, he was a brave warrior, and
which is more, a good man ; magnificent, wise,
just, meek, endued with learning and the gift of
tongues ;
and as he had strength of body and a
manlike stature, he had also the ornaments of the
mind, fitting a brave commander. He knew how
to dally and weary an army led by such an old
general as Tilly was. For though he (Tilly) did
vaunt he had beaten two kings before in an open
field, the third king made him, for all his ex-
perience, to be thought but a child again," &c, Tr.
END OF \0L. I.
Gilbert & Rivington, Printers, St. John’s Square, London.
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