{"id":2001,"date":"2019-05-01T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T01:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2019-05-02T04:09:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T04:09:09","slug":"to-all-valiant-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001","title":{"rendered":"To All Valiant Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<span id='easy-footnote-1-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-1-2001' title='To All Valiant Soldiers] An Epistle to Souldiers 1653 '><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>\n<p>Great Heroes!<span id='easy-footnote-2-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-2-2001' title='Heroes! ] Heroicks, 1653; Heroes, 1664 '><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> You may justly laugh at me if I went about to censure, instruct, or advise in the valiant art and discipline of war. But I do but only take the name, having no knowledge in the art, nor practise in the use, for I never saw an army together, nor any encounters in my life, but only by chance a troop or regiment march on the highway.<span id='easy-footnote-3-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-3-2001' title='but only by chance a troop or regiment march on the highway.] &lt;em&gt;I have seen a &lt;\/em&gt;Troop, &lt;em&gt;or a &lt;\/em&gt;Regiment&lt;em&gt; march on the Highway by chance, or so&lt;\/em&gt;; 1653 '><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Neither have I the courage to look on the cruel assaults that mankind<span id='easy-footnote-4-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-4-2001' title='mankind] &lt;em&gt;Men&lt;\/em&gt; 1668 '><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> (as I have heard) will make at each other, but according to the constitution of my sex, I am as fearful as a hare: for I shall start at the noise of a potgun, and shut my eyes at the sight of a bloody sword, and run away at the least<span id='easy-footnote-5-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-5-2001' title='the least] &lt;em&gt;least at&lt;\/em&gt; 1664 '><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> alarm. Only my courage is, I can hear a sad relation, though<span id='easy-footnote-6-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-6-2001' title='though] &lt;em&gt;but &lt;\/em&gt;1653 '><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> not without grief and chillness of spirits. But these armies I mention in this part<span id='easy-footnote-7-2001' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001#easy-footnote-bottom-7-2001' title='mention in this part] &lt;em&gt;mention, &lt;\/em&gt;1653 '><sup>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> were raised in my brain, fought in my fancy, and registered in my closet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Heroes! You may justly laugh at me if I went about to censure, instruct, or advise in the valiant art and discipline of war. But I do but only take the name, having no knowledge in the art, nor practise in the use, for I never saw an army together, nor any encounters in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=2001\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To All Valiant Soldiers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[218,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-part5","category-prefatory-material"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2002,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}