Have tjranta ever Ailed to find many meo
vowed to thcii devotion ? ■. Where some for aA
over-plus, at lapererogotibn have added thli
fiscesdty, that tbcy mnit necessarily accompany '
them, at well in deathj as in life. Wholb hostet
of men have thug tyed themaelves unto dicir
Captaines. The tenor of the oath ministred unto.
the scboUert, that entered aod 'wer^ acfoutied
the rode schoola of Roman Gladiators, emplied
these promises ; which was'this.! We .vow aiiA
•weue, to Eufitr our selves, to be eoohaisedt
beaten, bnrned and killed with the «word, and
endure whatsoever any lawiull fenser ought do
endure for Ins master : most rdigiously engaging
both our bodie and soule to the use of lus service t

Wre mn/m ji vujlafima rapvlf et pfte/eir*
Ctrim. tt irttwio virtav ferga teea,

■ — Tnm. I. itii. II ■'

Burnt tyrant (if thou wilt) my head with fite, with



fiS MONTAIGNE'S ESSATBS

Wean Wo* not thi* a very nrict corenuti Yet
Ike Mr- were there MJine yrarea t« thonsaad fottad, that
^"^ entered and lost thenuelTn in thoae icfaoolet.
^^^ When the Scithiani bnried their King, they
MntDgled over his dead body first, the chiefett
and beat beloTcd of his Concutnoe*, then fail
Cup-bearer, the Master of hia horse, hta Cham-
berlaiiK, the Usher of hii Chambrr, and fail
matter Cooke. And in his annivenary kiUed
fiftie horse, mounted widi fifty Pa^s, whom
befme, (hey had . akioe with thnudog sharpe
•take* into their fiindament, which gmog np,
along their dnne-boiM, came oat at their throat.
