. ( X7 ) 
fir/l fcfcacd, Snd the Invincible Fr'mce Maurice of by abun- 
dance of Vidories, and Sieges, compleated the Peace o( Seven of thofe 
Provinces, and eftabliflied them in a Free Republick, on the 9 th of 
i6op, AgzinTachta, Ub.^. fays, Si^'tcquid roborls apud Galhs /it, Bel- 
gaseffez That the chiefell ftrength of all France was in thefe People. By 
which it appears, that the Dominion of France was then greater than it is 
now, and yet Europe was not over-run with it. That trovidcnce^ which 
certainly conduits and over-rules the Affairs of the World, fets bounds to 
Empires, zs stills to the Sea» But to proceed, We have had, in the 
late War, fufficient experience of the Fortitude and Valour of the Provinces 
now mentioned. For what Horfe have done their Duty, or fought better 
upon occafion than thc'bOaUoons, fo miferable to look upon, ufually called 
the Spanijh Horfe, though Natives of Flanders, and Brabant ? Or what 
Feqt have done better fervice in the late War than the Dutch, either in 
Sieges, or in Battels ? 
For if I were to fpeak of the EngUJh Soldiery, or were askt which were 
the hejl Soldiers, the French OT the Belga, I ftiould anfwer, the Engiifhl 
As Sir Walter ^a'wkigh did, when putting the quefUon, in his Book of the 
World, which were the braveft Soldiers, the Roman, or the Grecian, 
made anfwer, the EngUJh ; who, if they were in his time of fuch account 
andefteem, when only a giueen, though (he indeed a moft Excellent one, 
•fate on the Throne, and left her Armies to the Condudk of her Generals: 
What admiration ought now to be had of the EngUJh, when they have 
our Prefent Sing at the Head of them I For we mu(f not forget, tanti ejfe 
Exercitum, quants Imperaterem. That the Strength of an t^rmy is to be 
truly meafured by the Valour and Condud of the General, 
And we may have fome reafon to doubt, whether t^lexander the Grcj# 
had a better Army, or better Soldiers, even of his Grecians, with which 
it was his good Fortune to the'bOorld before him, and the which 
he led fo boldly and bravely againft a great concourfe of Perfians, who 
were a weak and effeminate People, than our Edvs. the TUrd, ox BcH,tV.e 
Fifth, conducted againft France it felf, that was always effeemed a Warlike 
People, and was long ago adjudg’d fuch by himfelf, by his own Expe- 
rience, after he had Conquered them, andthe reft of Europe. Thofe two 
famous EngUJh Sings,\ fay,did fufliciently manifeft the Superiority of EngUJh 
Armies to zW others, upon better trials than with when they had 
Kings at their Head, like to themfelves, and 'usorthy to conduB them. 
The knowledge of this Truth, made the hte Renowned and Excellent 
General Turenne, fo much to cowet Enrli/h Soldiers before all others, and 
even before his own Countrymen, in the he Commanded, And 
this made him fo defirous of the Honour, to be called Father of the EngUJh 
when he was their Friend and Proteffor. 
The laft Demonffration wc have had of the F.ngUjh undaunted Courage, 
was lately before Namur, where in the fir.l Attack that was made, the 
E kffgljh 
