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[English Translation] songs, either in praise of God, of the Prince, or of the heroic deeds of the great personages who have lived in the past, one, or two singing, and all the others responding: For with fury, one must have joy & of harmony in all military actions. Which has been very well recognized by those who have polished the best and most flourishing Republics, for fury alone has the beast, but mixed with reason, joy and temperance, it is excellent, belonging only to man. The last chamades made, each one goes out in place with weapons in hand, the Captains placing them in rank, sometimes two by two, three by three, four by four, five by five or ten by ten, changing all this order while marching when it pleases them, without any confusion occurring. This done, he goes out ten Centurions with their Millenier in head, in front of whom march twenty of his soldiers, and also three young men serving as his pages, one of whom carries his pike, another his shield, and the third his golden morion covered with beautiful feathers. After them come a thousand young men of the first age, then follows another Millenary |
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