From these well-order’d _Arrowes_, and the _Snake_, This usefull Observation you may make; That, where an able _Prudence_, doth combine _Vnited-forces_, by good _Discipline_, It maketh up a pow’r, exempted from The feare, or perill, to be _overcome_: And, if you covet _safetie_, you will seeke To know this _Ward_, and to acquire the like. For, doubtlesse, neither is it in the force, Of iron _Charets_, or of armed _Horse_, In which, the _King_, securitie may finde, Unlesse the Riders bee well _Disciplinde_. Nor, lyes it in the Souldiers common _Skill_ In warlike _Postures_; nor in theirs, who drill The _Rankes_ and _Fyles_, to order them aright, According as _Occasion_ makes the _Fight_. But, men must use a further _Prudence_ too, Or else, those _vulgar-Arts_ will all undoe. For, these, are onely _Sciences_ injoynd, To order well the _Body_, not the _Mind_: And, men best train’d in these (oft times) we see, The _Hare-brain’dst-fooles_, in all our _Armies_ bee. To _strength_, and _skill_, unite we must, therefore, A manly _Prudence_, comprehending more, Than all these _Powr’s_: ev’n such, as when shee please, To all her ends, can use and mannage these; And, shew us how to cure, or to prevent All _HaZards_; or, withall to bee content. Hee that’s thus arm’d, and trusts in _God_ alone, May bee _oppos’d_, but, _conquered_ of none. _When thou art shipwrackt in Estate, Submit with patience, unto =Fate=._ [Illustration: QUO FATA TRAHUNT. ILLVSTR. XIII. _Book. 4_]