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Farewell, honest Tom a Lincolne, farewell: comend me to the traind band. Tho. Enter Mr. Courtwell. Cap. My expectation of the Lawz well mett! Cou. I am glad to see you, Captaine. Cap. Is thy sight perfect? Thy poring upon statutes and booke cases Makes me suspecte. But dost thou thinke to bee A Dominus factotum on the Bench, And be a Civill Lawyer? Cou. You are merry. Cap.
No, tis only I am made. Tho. What, and please your worship? Un. I am made a Captaine of the traind band, Thomas, and this is my Commission, this very paper hath made me a Captaine. Tho. Are you a paper Captaine, Sir? I thought more had gone to the makeing up of a Captaine. Un. They are fooles that thinke so, provided he have the favour of the Livetenant of the County. Tho.
Ile walke no further; if you have a secret To impart, you need not feare this place; the trees And hedges will not listen. What's the business? I hope your phlegmatick stock of verse is spent. Cou. Why then in prose, the worst that I can speake in, I doe not love you, Lady. Sis. How? you ha not Traind me thus farr to tell me that? Cou.
Now I must trust thy secresie. Do. You shall not doubt me, Madam, and t'assure you My faith, I have a suit to your Ladiship Whose grant, were there no other bonds upon me, Would tye me everlastinglie to silence. La. What ist? but name, and I shall soone confirme thee. Do. Our Captaine o'th traind band has been offring To chaffer Maidenheads with me.
And touching the practick part, he ought besides the keeping of his own subjects well traind up in the discipline and exercise of armes, give himselfe much to the chase, whereby to accustome his body to paines, and partly to understand the manner of situations, and to know how the mountaines arise, which way the vallyes open themselves, and how the plaines are distended flat abroad, and to conceive well the nature of the rivers, and marrish ground, and herein to bestow very much care, which knowledge is profitable in two kinds: first he learnes thereby to know his own countrey, and is the better enabled to understand the defence thereof, and afterwards by meanes of this knowledge and experience in these situations, easily comprehends any other situation, which a new he hath need to view, for the little hillocks, vallies, plaines, rivers, and marrish places.
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