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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 the Challenger ought wth Iustice & for defence of honnor onlye, to enterprise the 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 enterprise in hande, ought not vppon light seruise come to defiannce: But wth sober consideracion naturallye to proceede 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 Alexander 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