It prospers ever best, in all Estates, When _Mars_ and _Pallas_ are continuall Mates. And, those affaires but seldome luckie be, In which, these needfull _Powers_, doe not agree. That _Common-wealth_, in which, good _Arts_ are found Without a _Guard_, will soone receive a wound: And, _Souldiers_, where _good-order_ beares no sway, Will, very quickly, rout themselves away. Moreover, in our private Actions too, There must bee both a _Knowledge_, how to doe The _worke_ propos’d; and _strength_ to finish it; Or, wee shall profit little by our _Wit_. _Discretion_ takes effect, where _Vigour_ failes; Where _Cunning_ speeds not, _outward-force_ prevailes; And, otherwhile, the prize pertaines to neither, Till they have joyn’d their _Vertues_ both together. Consider this; and, as occasions are, To both of these your due respects declare. Delight not so in _Arts_, to purchase harmes By Negligence, or Ignorance of _Armes_: If _Martiall-Discipline_ thou shalt affect; Yet, doe not _honest-Policie_, neglect. Improve thy _Minde_, as much as e’re thou may; But foole thou not thy _Bodies_ gifts away. The _Vertues_ both of _Body_, and of _Mind_, Are, still, to be regarded in their kind. And, wee should neither of the two disgrace; Nor, either of them, raise above his place: For, when these two wee value as wee ought, Great works, by their _joynt-power_, to passe are brought. _They, after =suffring=, shall be =crown’d=, In whom, a =Constant-faith=, is found._ [Illustration: CONSTANTE FIDVCIA ILLVSTR. XIX. _Book. 2_]