118 THE SOLDIER S SPEECH. 



them with their fairest eyes, which will be daunted with the 

 fierce encounter of an enemy. And they will quickly dis 

 cern a champion fit to wear their glove from a page not 

 worthy to carry their pantofle. Therefore, I say again, let 

 him seek his fortune in the field, where he may either lose 

 his love, or find new argument to advance it. 



THE STATESMAN S SPEECH. 



SQUIRE, my advice to thy master shall be as a token 

 wrapped up in words ; but then will it show itself fair, when 

 it is unfolded in his actions. To wish him to change from 

 one humour to another, were but as if, for the cure of a man 

 in pain, one should advise him to lie upon the other side, but 

 not enable him to stand on his feet. If from a sanguine 

 delightful humour of love, he turn to a melancholy retired 

 humour of contemplation, or a turbulent boiling humour of 

 the wars ; what doth he but change tyrants ? Contempla 

 tion is a dream ; love a trance ; and the humour of war is 

 raving. These be shifts of humour, but no reclaiming to 

 reason. I debar him not studies nor books, to give him 

 stay and variety of conceit, to refresh his mind, to cover sloth 

 and indisposition, and to draw to him from those that are 

 studious, respect and commendation. But let him beware, 

 lest they possess not too much of his time ; that they ab 

 stract not his judgment from present experience, nor make 

 him presume upon knowing much, to apply the less. For 

 the wars, I deny him no enterprise, that shall be worthy in 

 greatness, likely in success, or necessary in duty ; not mixed 

 with any circumstance of jealousy, but duly laid upon him. 

 But I would not have him take the alarm from his own 

 humour, but from the occasion; and I would again he 

 should know an employment from a discourting. And for 

 his love, let it not disarm his heart within, as it make him 

 too credulous to favours, nor too tender to unkindnesses, 

 nor too apt to depend upon the heart he knows not. Nay, 

 in his demonstration of love, let him not go too far ; for 

 these seely lovers, when they profess such infinite affection 

 and obligation, they tax themselves at so high a rate, that 

 they are ever under arrest. It makes their service seem 

 nothing, and every cavil or imputation very great. But 

 what, Squire, is thy master s end ? If to make the prince 

 happy he serves, let the instructions to employ men, the re 

 lations of ambassadors, the treaties between princes, and 

 actions of the present time, be the books he reads ; let the 

 orations of wise princes, or experimented counsellors in 

 council or parliament, and the final sentences of grave and 



