base and
effeminate
people,
are
failing.
For Solon
said well
to Cr?sus
(when in
ostentation
he shewed
him his
gold),
Sir, if
any other
come that
hath
better
iron than
you, he
will be
master of
all this
gold.
Therefore
let any
prince or
state
think
solely of
his
forces,
except his
militia of
natives be
of good
and
valiant
soldiers.
And let
princes,
on the
other
side, that
have
subjects
of martial
disposition,
know their
own
