standerde, twoo hundred menne at least, chosen to
be on foote the moste parte, emongest whiche there
should be tenne or more, mete to execute all commaundementes,
and should bee in soche wise a horsebacke, and armed,
that thei mighte bee on horsebacke, and on foote, accordyng
as neede should require. The artillerie of the
armie, suffiseth ten Cannons, for the winning of Townes,
whose shotte shoulde not passe fiftie pounde:
the whiche in the fielde should serve mee more for
defence of the campe, then for to fight the battaile:
The other artillerie, should bee rather of ten, then
of fifteene pounde the shotte: this I would place
afore on the front of all the armie, if sometime the
countrie should not stande in such wise, that I mighte
place it by the flancke in a sure place, where it
mighte not of the enemie be in daunger: this fashion
of an armie thus ordered, may in fighting, use the
order of the Falangi, and the order of the Romane
Legions: for that in the fronte, bee Pikes, all
the men bee set in the rankes, after such sorte, that
incountering with the enemie, and withstanding him,
maye after the use of the Falangi, restore the firste
ranckes, with those behinde: on the other parte,
if they be charged so sore, that they be constrayned
to breake the orders, and to retire themselves, they
maye enter into the voide places of the seconde battailes,
which they have behinde them, and unite their selves
with them, and making a new force, withstande the enemie,
and overcome him: and when this sufficeth not,
they may in the verie same maner, retire them selves
the seconde time, and the third fight: so that
in this order, concerning to fight, there is to renue
them selves, both according to the Greeke maner, and
according to the Romane: concerning the strength
of the armie, there cannot be ordayned a more stronger:
for as much, as the one and the other borne therof,
is exceedingly well replenished, both with heades,
and weapons, nor there remayneth weake, other then
the part behinde of the unarmed, and the same also,
hath the flanckes impaled with the extraordinarie
Pikes: nor the enemie can not of anye parte assaulte
it, where he shall not finde it well appointed, and
the hinder parte can not be assaulted: Because
there can not bee an enemie, that hath so much puissaunce,
whome equallye maye assault thee on everye side:
for that hee having so great a power, thou oughtest
not then to matche thy selfe in the fielde with him:
but when he were three times more then thou, and as
well appointed as thou, hee doth weaken him selfe
in assaulting thee in divers places, one part that
thou breakest, will cause all the reste go to naughte:
concerning horses, although he chaunce to have more
then thine, thou needest not feare: for that the
orders of the Pikes, which impale thee, defende thee
from all violence of them, although thy horses were
repulced. The heades besides this, be disposed
in such place, that they may easyly commaunde, and
obeye: the spaces that bee between the one battaile,