underſtand not by valour one that never fights but when he is back’d by drink or anger, or hiſſ’d on with beholders, nor one that is deſperate, nor one that takes away a Servingmans weapons when perchance it coſt him his quarters wages, nor yet one that wears a Privy coat of defence and therein is confident, for then ſuch as made Bucklers, would be accounted the _Catalines_ of this Commonwealth—I intend one of an even Reſolution grounded upon reaſon, which is always even, having his power reſtrained by the Law of not doing wrong. But now I remember I am for Valour and therefore I muſt be a man of few words. Transcriber’s Note Inconsistent period spelling retained as printed. The original printing used _ß_ occasionally, but inconsistently, in place of _ſſ_: this usage has not been retained. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Paradoxes and Problemes, by John Donne