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In this thing consisteth all the industrie of the warre on the lande, whiche is the most necessarie, and the most honorablest, for he that can wel order a fielde against the enemie, the other faultes that he should make in the affaires of warre, wilbe borne with: but he that lacketh this knowledge, although that in other particulars he be verie good, he shal never bring a warre to honor: for as muche as a fielde that thou winnest, lesing? img 94 doeth cancell all other thy evill actes: so like wise lesing it, all thinges well done of thee before, remaine vaine.
The manner how to pitche a fielde to faighte a battaile, 106 Of what number of faighting men an armie oughte to be, 110 The description of a battaile that is a faighting, 111 An exsample of Ventidio faighting against the Parthians, 114 An example of Epaminondas, 115 How the Artillerie is unprofitable, 116 How that a maine battaile of Suissers cannot ocupie more then fower pikes, 120
"A gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine, Ycladd in mightie armes and silver shielde, Wherein old dints of deepe woundes did remaine, The cruell markes of many' a bloody fielde; Yet armes till that time did he never wield. * "And on his brest a bloodie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore. * "Upon a great adventure he was bond.
What a Capitaine ought to doo, that is the conqueror, or that is conquered, 140 A Capitaine ought not to faighte the battaile, but with advauntage, excepte he be constrained, 142 How to avoide the faightinge of the fielde, 144 Advertismentes that the Capitaine ought to have, 146 Speakyng to souldiers helpeth muche to make them to be curagious and bolde, 146
The present Drury Lane Theatre dates from 1812. My godfather F. Lamb's godfather was Francis Fielde. The British Directory for 1793 gives him as Francis Field, oilman, 62 High Holborn. Richard Brinsley Sheridan carried Miss Linley, the oratorio singer, from Bath and the persecutions of Major Mathews, in March, 1772, and placed her in France.
The Georgianes when thei ware sette, ordered, and raunged in the fielde, and ware at poinct to ioyne the batteill: vsed to drincke of a gourdfull of strong wine, aboute the bigguenes of a mannes fiste. And to sette vpon their ennemies: muche amended in courage. Their Clercques, whiche we calle the Spiritualtie, mighte vse bothe Simonie and vsurie at their wille.
Reading also between the lines of the essay, it is interesting to notice that Francis Fielde, the Holborn oilman of 1779, in 1809 has become Francis Fielde, Esq., of New Cavendish Street. In the letter quoted above Lamb speaks of his purchaser as "Mr.
Better it is in pitchyng the fielde, to reserve behynde the first front aide inoughe, then to make the fronte bigger to disperse the souldiours. He is difficultely overcome, whiche can know his owne power and the same of the enemie. The valiantenesse of the souldiours availeth more then the multitude. Some times the situacion helpeth more then the valiantenesse.
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