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of the lawe cyvile, ffor that suchelawes are common to every
nacion, And this to be true, by thaucthoritie of auntient
writers, I will make proof hereafter

Howe th Challenger ought wth
Iustice & for defence of honnor
onlye, to enterprise th Combatt

Ca. 8.

After challendge made, and the token of
defiannce geven, yt shalbe requisite to declare
in what sorte, the fighters ought to come
to combatt. I saye therfore that who so for
offence ascribed vnto him by an other man, taketh this enter:
prise in hande, ought not vppon light seruise come to de:
fiannce: But wth sober consideracion naturallye to pro:
ceede therin, and aboue all things to founde his quarrell vpon
iustice, not trustinge so muche to the greatnes of his owne
minde, as the good consideracion of reason. ffor Solomon
saithe, that armed are not wthout reason to be exercysed.
And the lawe affirmeth that fortitude wthout iustice is
not to be commended, and that in all battells Religion is
to be reguarded, for yt as erst we saide, the discipline of
warre was wth great Religion ordeyned. Also Alexan:
der in his booke of a good Emperor, writeth that God
is favourable to those yt for iustice cause doe come to fight
& doe firmlie beleue yt he wilbe their helper, Svrely such