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Bulwarkes (mindyng that they passe not their ordinarie measure, for that then they shoulde be townes and Castels) be not made, in suche wise that men maie have space within them to retire, thei are loste straight waie.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

Therefore I saie, that mindyng to imitate the Romaines, and the Grekes, the number of L.M. souldiers ought not to bee passed, but rather to take lesse: because manie make confucion, nor suffer not the discipline to be observed, and the orders learned, and Pirrus used to saie, that with xv. thousande men he woulde assaile the worlde: but let us pas to an other parte.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

Those that have been besieged, have used divers meanes, to sende advise to their frendes: and mindyng not to send their message by mouth, thei have written letters in Cifers, and hidden them in sundrie wise: the Cifers be according, as pleaseth him that ordaineth them, the maner of hidyng them is divers.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

It should be without doubt, but mindyng to make one diche onely, myne opinion is, that it standeth better within then without.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

Philip of Macedonia understanding how his men feared the Scithian Souldiours, placed behinde his armie, certaine of his moste trustie horsemen, and gave commission to theim, that thei should kill whom so ever fledde: wherfore, his men mindyng rather to die faightyng, then fliyng, overcame.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

I beleeve that it is not possible, that to an armie that marcheth from place to place, there fal not perrilous accidentes, where the industerie of the capitaine is needefull, and the worthinesse of the souldiours, mindyng to avoyde them.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

I will passe over many particulars: and I will onely bryng in those thynges, whiche I thinke necessarie to imitate, mindyng at this tyme, to give to our exercise of warre, some parte of perfection: The whiche shall make, that in one instant, I shall shewe you, how an armie is prepared to the field, and how it doeth incounter in the verie faight, and how it maie be exercised in the fained.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

Alexander Magnus mindyng to winne Leucadia overcame all the Castels aboute it, and by that means drivyng into the same citie a great multitude of their owne countrie men, famished them.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

Consider that those of Carminvola, were men of armes, whom although thei wer on foote, thei were covered all with stele, and therefore thei wer able to make the profe thei did: so that me thinkes, that a power ought to be armed as thei, mindyng to make the verie same profe.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

Therefore mindyng, not to have one favored in his faulte of the people, a greate remedie it is, to make that the people, maie have hym to judge.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498