command them to stay and keep within the Camp. These were they (_says_ Plinie) that gave the Signal, and foretold the issue of all those Famous Foughten Fields, whereby we have Atchieved all our Victories throughout the whole World: In one Word, these Birds command those Great Commanders of all Nations upon the Earth. Their Crowing out of Order too soon before their Hour, or too late, portendeth also, and presageth something remarkable, for well known it is, that by their Crowing at one time all Night long, they foresignified to the _Bœotians_, that noble Victory of theirs atchieved over the _Lacedemonians_. For this Interpretation, and Conjecture was given thereupon of a Fortunate Day (_says_ Plinie) because that Bird never Croweth if he be Beaten or Overcome. And at _Pergamus_ every Year there is a solemn shew, exhibited openly to the People, of Cock-Fighting, as if Sword-Fencers were brought within the Lists to Fight at Outterance. [Sidenote: Vid. Pur. Pil. cap. 16. pag. 329.] _And_ Strabo, _in_ Purchases _Pilgrimage, extolling the Great and Royal exercise of Cocking, whence so many Benefits accrue to Mankind, if well observed, says also, that at_ Pergamus _there was yearly Spectacles of Cock-Fighting offered where the Princes, Nobles and Gentlemen both old and young were sure to be, for as much as from hence they gathered not only and barely Courage and Audacity: But also did see the great necessity of a firm unshaken Resolution, with Perseverance and Stability of mind, even to the last Minute: So that by the Example of these unparallel’d Birds, the People in those Days were extimulated and spurred on to Great and Generous Enterprizes._ [Sidenote: Vid. Melon. lib. 2. cap. 9.] _Nor did the_ Roman Empire _shrink so long as Cocking was esteem’d in_ Rome. _And ’tis reported of that Subtle, and most Victorious Emperor_ Severus, _that when he was determin’d to Conquer_ (_if possible_) Great Britain, _that to draw off his two Sons_ Antonine _and_ Geta, _from the Bewitching Vanities of the Theatre, and to prepare them in Mind the better to bear the many difficulties and hardships, that they must of Necessity undergo in the Prosecution of so great and bloody an Enterprize, as the subduing even_ Thule _itself, which was then deemed the utmost Region of the_ North; _he commands the Sport of Cock-Fighting, to be exhibited Dayly before his Sons, and the principal Officers of his Army, and that not only to make them emulous of Glory through the Performance of great Atchievements, but also to be firm and unshaken in the midst of Dangers, nay in Death itself._