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OF IRELAND. 201 horse, boyes, and harlots, the Legerdemaine of Cap- taines, chequerelles, the purloyning of Cessors & Con- stables, the number of freedomes holding onely by concordatum, the annoyance and hurt which the poore farmer endureth, as I know them to be intolerable, so I know them to be redressed with the first detection, whose complaint hath not been heard ? whose enormity winked at ? what can you aske more ? would you have souldiours nothing insolent, nothing sensuall, nothing greedy, no quarrellers ? so wish I, but scarce hope for it, would you hazard a misery certaine, extreame, and incurable, to avoyde a trouble casuall, transitory, and remedilesse ? so would not I, if you can prove a gar- rison needlesse, I undertake to ease you thereof, If you neede it, they must bee fedde, finde another way then this, to provide for them victuall, that carryeth asmuch readinesse to service, and more contentation to your selves, and I assure you mine assistance to set it for- ward. But the Brokers of this libell are wont to reason, Why should not wee live without an Army as well as in England ? Why cannot our Noble-men of might in every border, our tenants and servaunts with- stand the Irish next them, as well as the Northerne Lordes and Inhabitants of Riddesdale and Tiddesdale, and those about the Scottish banke resist the Scotts, facing and pilfering as fast as our enemyes. Very good, what saye they then to Fraunce, which is no worser governed then England, and hath an Armye. Italy notwithstanding as well ordered as Fraunce without an Army ? Spaine aswell as either of them 2 J>