_And lastly, he applies it so Pertinently to all that are present, in Terms so fit and suitable, that it conduces greatly to their Edification, grounding in them a firm and stable temper of Mind, with an unshaken Valour, whereby they are now truly said to be a People Invincible; And verily I am of Opinion, that from hence at first came that Saying so common amongst us still_, viz. He is gone to Church to see a Cock-Fight: _And at this Day there are divers Places up in the_ East _where Cocking is accounted a thing Sacred, and in great Use amongst them, as_ Magellan _assures us._ [Sidenote: Isac. Pontac. _see_.] _For, says he, both in_ Borneo, Calegan, _and_ Pulaoan, _Cocks for the Game are kept, and are of Sacred use amongst them, but eat not of their Flesh, that being forbidden by the_ Bramens, _or Priests._ * * * * * [Sidenote: Vid. Sele. _in_ Golch.] _That great Man, the highly Celebrated_ Selden _observes Cocking to be a thing of great Use, and much admir’d by rising Marshal Men, who with keen Swords cut out good Fortune to themselves, from the doubtful Loyns of Fate. And there is not a surer sign of a Nations or Peoples degenerating into effeminacy, and so consequently falling into Poverty and utter Ruin, than when they totally change the Warlike Exercise of Cocking for mimical Plays, silly Dancing, and such like Fopperies._ Rome _itself was a sad Instance of the Truth of this, when the proud_ Eagle _stripd off all her Gaudy Plumes, lay naked and expos’d to the Rage, and Fury of the depopulating_ Goths _and_ Vandals. Gustavus Adolphus, _when he came to rescue the then King of_ Denmark, _out of the_ Tallons _of_ German _Power, told the distressed Prince, that he had now nothing to fear, since he was well assured that the Imperialists had given up the Gantlet, and had nothing left but a fringed Glove for their Guard, for instead of Cock-Fighting (says he) and Martial Exercise, they seem wholly to be devoted, and given up to Effeminate Dancing, and inervating Drunkenness, two Infallible Signs of a sinking People, as that Warlike King full well observed and after with his Sword made good what he then said, which wrought so upon the distressed_ Danes _at that time, that they have been Noted ever since to be very great Cockers._ _And Sir_ William Corly, _who for some Years together was Resident in the Danish Court, assures his Country-men that a right bred English Cock, was at that Day accounted a Bird of Impreciable value in the Court of_ Denmark, _and that not only the young Princes, but the then present King_ Christian _himself was a great Admirer of the royal Sport of Cocking, insomuch that they not only appoint set times (says he) but do also hang out costly Ensigns, and Rich Flags, whereon is portrayed both the place, and also the very Gesture of the Cocks, as they at_ Rome, _to which we find_ Horace _alludeth;_