ABSTRACT
BESIDES, if ever it comes to the point that besieged and besiegers are about to fight hand to hand, before swords are drawn men should, if their battle-rage allows it, try to find out what enemy soldier con fronts1 them, in case he is perhaps so noble, great, wealthy, distinguished, eminent, and honourable a personage that, bound by the time and place, by his device and name, and by military honour and law, he could, with a payment very easily spared, either make good all the expenses of the wars, or break off and bring to an end the hostilities on the best possible terms.
