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riofè per medios abitura tanquam infolcfcercnt. Verus ibi Chrifti Miles& alter vere Machabœus nufquam hæfitans apud Deum nihil interefïè,paucis nè an multis res acia fuerit, nodem, quæ futurum conflictump - 55 - præceflit, precibus ac confezioni cum fuis invigilat, & bene pænitentesab Epifcopis ac Sacerdotibus aliis abfolvendos curat. Mox dum con-gruum mane tempus appetit, invocato Chriiti nomine, & tutelaris filiGeorgii fubfidio, bene conftitutos hortatur, ut venturos fortiter expedient.Rurliim invocatione tum præmiffa venientes, vel incurrentes potius, fi-dibus ingeniofiflime quidem oppofitis, & velut pluvia quadam Sagitta-rum accipiunt : ubi corruentes ex improvifo fupergrcfli viriliter alios, in-ceflunt, flernunt, trucidant, arte, viribus, ac pietate, quæ fimul nihilnon fuperant : victoria prius incredibili plane potiuntur, & gloriofosante milites fecum captivos abducunt. Quæ res poll in AngUam , quantlignificata fuit, laus Deo canitur, Supplicationes aguntur, & plebs ubiq;piâ lætitiâ perfunditur : Denique Regni fu i anno quinto cum exerciturediens in Galliam , urbes alias (ut res ferebat) circumfeflas obtinet, necunus ipfe, fed fili Duces alias alii regiæ ditioni fubigunt, prefertim Cla-renti# Dux, & Comes Warwici, quibus Rex exercitum tripertitus, duasex æquo commiferat, nec imprudenter, ut qui tam ftrenue fe geflèrant.Tum adeo multis pallini urbibus fubadis, Rex ad obfidionem Rothomagife convertit, quam ubi poflederat, poft Joannem Patrem fiium coramDelphino crudeliter interfectum, Philippus Burgundi æ Dux ad Hernicum

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ly 7000 only , infultìngly vaunted that they would march through the midß of them.There the true Soldier of Chrifi, and indeed another Macchabæus, no way doubt-ing but that it was the fame Thing with God', whether the A fair was ailed by fewor many y he watches the Night preceeding the Battle, with his Men who gavethemfelves up to Prayers and Confeßon , and takes care that the duly Penitent, fcouldbe abfolved by the Biß ops and other Prießs. Then when the proper Time of theMorning came on, invoking the Name of God and the Protection of his TutelarGeorge, he exhorts his well drawn up Soldiers That they would with Courage waitthe Aßailant s 5 then after another Invocation they receive thofe, who marched toattack, or rather ran in upon them, with Stakes artfully fixed for a Pence againßthem, and with a Shower, as it were of Arrows. When on a fudden paßng over andfalling in upon them, they manfully attack the others, overthrow and kill them ; byArt, Force and Piety (which being united, nothing can fiand before them) they ma -nifeflly obtain a Viîlory, which was at firfi incredible, and carry thofe Soldiers,that a While before infuhed them, away with them as Prifoners. Which Ailion whenit came to be known in England, Te Deum was fung, Prayers were offered up, andthe People every where overflowed with a pious Joy. Laßly, in the fifth Tear of hisReign, retumingwith an Army into France, hebefiegeà (as the Thing offered) otherTowns and took them -, and not only his (ingle felf, but his Generals al fo reducedTowns,fome one,andfome another, to the Kings Obedience, efpecially the Duke of Cla-rence,and Earl of Warwick : To whom the King,having divided his Army into threeParts, committed two of them of equal Force, not imprudently, bee auf e they had be-haved themfelves fo gallantly. Then after fo many Towns every where reduced, theKing turned himfeIf to the Siege of Rouen ; which when he had taken, Philip Duke