other: and for that the main battailes are called
by the nomber, and every of theim hath (as you knowe)
tenne battailes, and a generall hed, I would cause
that the first main battaile, should set the first
v. battailes therof in the front, the other five,
in the left flanck, and the capitain of the same should
stande in the left corner of the front. The seconde
maine battaile, should then put the firste five battailes
therof, in the right flanck, and the other five in
the taile, and the hedde capitain of thesame, should
stande in the right corner, whom should come to dooe
the office of the Tergiductor. The armie ordained
in this maner, ought to be made to move, and in the
marchyng, to observe all this order, and without doubte,
it is sure from all the tumultes of the countrie men.
Nor the capitain ought not to make other provision,
to the tumultuarie assaultes, then to give sometyme
Commission to some horse, or Ansigne of Veliti, that
thei set themselves in order: nor it shall never
happen that these tumultuous people, will come to
finde thee at the drawyng of the swerd, or pikes poincte:
for that men out of order, have feare of those that
be in araie: and alwaies it shall bee seen, that
with cries and rumours, thei will make a greate assaulte,
without otherwise commyng nere unto thee, like unto
barking curres aboute a Mastie. Aniball when
he came to the hurte of the Romaines into Italie, he
passed through all Fraunce, and alwaies of the Frenche
tumultes, he took small regarde. Mindyng to marche,
it is conveniente to have plainers and labourers afore,
whom maie make thee the waie plaine, whiche shall bee
garded of those horsemen, that are sent afore to viewe
the countrie: an armie in this order maie marche
tenne mile the daie, and shall have tyme inough to
incampe, and suppe before Sunne goyng doune, for that
ordinarely, an armie maie marche twentie mile:
if it happen that thou be assaulted, of an armie set
in order, this assaulte cannot growe sodainly:
for that an armie in order, commeth with his pace,
so that thou maiest have tyme inough, to set thy self
in order to faight the field, and reduce thy menne
quickly into thesame facion, or like to thesame facion
of an armie, which afore is shewed thee. For
that if thou be assaulted, on the parte afore, thou
needeste not but to cause, that the artillerie that
be on the flanckes, and the horse that be behinde,
to come before, and place theimselves in those places,
and with those distaunces, as afore is declared.
The thousande Veliti that bee before, must go out of
their place, and be devided into CCCCC. for a parte,
and go into their place, betwene the horse and the
hornes of tharmy: then in the voide place that
thei shal leave, the twoo Ansignes of the extraordinarie
Pikes muste entre, whiche I did set in the middest
of the quadrante of the armie. The thousande
Veliti, whiche I placed behinde, must departe from
thesame place, and devide them selves in the flanckes
of the battailes, to the fortificacion of those: