ON AN HOLY WAR. 



the reckonings of that business are not yet cleared 

 with Spain ; for that numbers of those supposed 

 Moors, being tried now by their exile, continue con 

 stant in the faith, and true Christians in all points, 

 save in the thirst of revenge. ZEBED^US. Make not 

 hasty judgment, Gamaliel, of that great action,which 

 was as Christ s fan in those countries, except you 

 could shew some such covenant from the crown of 

 Spain, as Joshua made with the Gibeonites ; that 

 that cursed seed should continue in the land. And 

 you see it was done by edict, not tumultuously ; 

 the sword was not put into the people s hand. 

 EUPOLIS. I think Martius did omit it, not as making 

 any judgment of it either way, but because it sorted 

 not aptly with action of war, being upon subjects, 

 and without resistance. But let us, if you think 

 good, give Martius leave to proceed in his discourse ; 

 for methought he spake like a divine in armour. 

 MAKTIUS. It is true, Eupolis, that the principal ob 

 ject which I have before mine eyes, in that whereof 

 I speak, is piety and religion. But, nevertheless, if 

 I should speak only as a natural man, I should per 

 suade the same thing. For there is no such enter 

 prise, at this day, for secular greatness, and ter 

 rene honour, as a war upon infidels. Neither 

 do I in this propound a novelty, or imagination, 

 but that which is proved by late examples of the 

 same kind, though perhaps of less difficulty. The 

 Castilians, the age before that wherein we live, 

 opened the new world ; and subdued and planted 

 Mexico, Peru, Chili, and other parts of the West 



