make the facion of the armie unperfecte:  and it is not true that you saie, that the enemie, the more that he entereth into the maine battaile, so moche the weaker he findeth it:  for that the enemie, can never faight with the seconde order, except the first be joined with thesame:  so that he cometh to finde the middest of the maine battaile more stronger, and not more weaker, havyng to faight with the first, and with the seconde order altogether:  the verie same happeneth, when the enemie should come to the thirde companie:  for that there, not with twoo battailes, whiche is founde freshe, but with all the maine battaile he must faight:  and for that this last part hath to receive moste men, the spaces therof is requisite to be greatest, and that whiche receiveth them, to be the leste nomber.

[Sidenote:  The orderyng of the hinder part of tharmy.]

LUIGI.  It pleaseth me thesame that you have told:  but answere me also this:  if the five first battailes doe retire betwene the three seconde battailes, and after the eight betwene the twoo thirde, it semeth not possible, that the eight beyng brought together, and then the tenne together, maie bee received when thei bee eight, or when thei be tenne in the verie same space, whiche received the five.

[Sidenote:  The retire of the Pikes, to place the Targaet men.]

FABRICIO.  The first thyng that I aunswere is, that it is not the verie same space:  For that the five have fower spaces in the middeste, whiche retiryng betwene the thre, or betwene the twoo, thei occupie:  then there remaineth thesame space, that is betwene the one maine battaile and other and thesame that is, betwene the battailes, and the extraordinarie Pikes, al the whiche spaces makes largenesse:  besides this, it is to bee considered, that the battailes kepe other maner of spaces, when thei bee in the orders without beyng altered, then when thei be altered:  for that in the alteracion:  either thei throng together, or thei inlarge the orders:  thei inlarge theim, when thei feare so moche, that thei fall to fliyng, thei thrust them together, when thei feare in soche wise, that thei seke to save them selves, not with runnyng a waie, but with defence:  So that in this case, thei should come to be destingueshed, and not to be inlarged.  Moreover, the five rankes of the Pikes, that are before, so sone as thei have begun the faighte, thei ought betwene their battailes to retire, into the taile of the armie, for to give place to the Targaet men, that thei maie faighte:  and thei goyng into the taile of the armie, maie dooe soche service as the capitain should judge, were good to occupie theim aboute, where in the forward, the faight beyng mingled, thei should otherwise bee altogether unprofitable.  And for this the spaces ordained, come to bee for the remnaunte of the menne, wide inough to receive them:  yet when these spaces should not suffice, the flankes on the sides be men, and not walles, whom givyng place, and inlargyng them selves, maie make the space to containe so moche, that it maie bee sufficient to receive theim.