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all the captains were murdered in parley by treason, con- 
ducted those ten thousand foot, through the heart of all 
the king’s high countries, from Babylon to Grecia in 
safety, in despite of all the king’s forces, to the astonish- 
ment of the world, and the encouragement of the Grecians. 
in times succeeding to make invasion upon the kings of 
Persia; as was after purposed by Jason the Thessialian, 
attempted by Agesilaus the Spartan, and achieved by 
Alexander the Macedonian, all upon the ground of the 
act of that young scholar. 
VIII. 1. To proceed now from impettal and military 
Vda to moral and _ private virtne,..fixst, it is an assured 
truth, which is ; contained in the verses, 
Scilicet ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes 
Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros, 
Pi taketh away the wildness and barbarism and fierceness 
of men’s minds; but indeed the accent had need be upon 
fideliter : for a little superficial learning doth rather work 
a contrary effect. It taketh away all levity, temerity, and _~ 
insolency, by copious suggestion of all doubts and ‘diffi- 
culties, and acquainting the mind to balance reasons on 
both sides, and to turn back the first offers and conceits 
of the mind, and to accept of nothing but examined and 
tried. It taketh away vain admiration of anything, which 6 
is the root of all weakness. For all things are admired’ 
either because they are new, or because they are great. 
For novelty, no man that wadeth in learning or con- 
templation throughly, but will find that printed in his 
heart, Vil novi super terram. Neither can any man2¢ 
marvel at the play of puppets, that goeth behind the 
curtain, and adviseth well of the motion, And for mag- 
nitude, as Alexander the Great, after that he was used to 
great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious 
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