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Be you but ready for war, and I durst warrant your peace. Whilst you are dissolute, they grow resolute. Ludovicus Vives reports, that the young nobles and gallants in a city of Spain were fallen to such levity of carriage; that in stead of marching to the sound of a Drum, they were dancing levolto's to the Lute in a Ladies chamber: their Beavers were turned to Beaver hats. Every one had his mistress, and spent his time in courting Venus; but Mars was shut out at the back gate. The ancient Magistrates observing this, consulted what should become of that country, which these men must govern after they were dead. Hereupon they conferred with the women, their daughters, the Ladies: whom they instructed to forbear their wonted favours, to despise the fantastical amorists, and to afford no grace to them that had no grace in themselves. This they obeyed diligently, and wrought so effectually, that the Gentlemen soon began to spy some difference betwixt Effeminateness and Nobleness. And at last in honourable and serviceable designs excelled all their Ancestors. If we had in England such Ladies, (though I do not wish them from Spain) we should have such Lords. Honour should go by the Banner, not by the Barue: and Reputation be valued by valour, not