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 376 THE H1STORV- Book L the whole army re-echoed with the ftoried deeds of their fa- thers and with the predi&ions of ruin on their enemies 2I. And the bards conftantly attended upon the general in the hour of battle. As his aids in the field, they were ready to carry occa- fionally his orders to the chiefs a As the poets of the ftate, they were ufeful to invigorate occafionally the fainting courage of the men with fongs 2 And, as they fung the fong of peace, the battle ceafed along the field 2 Though the Romans modelled the Britiih troops into cohorts, they left them, as they left all their auxiliaries, to follow their own difcipline in war * But from the conftant intermixture o( the Britiih and the Roman forces the officers of the former ne- ceflarily learnt, and fometimes occafionally introduced into their armies afterwards, the Roman difpofition in battle * Thus muft all the Britons have been fucceflively called out into fervice. Thus muft a military fkill have been continually cultivated among the Britifli gentlemen. And thus muft a mi- litary fpirit have been continually kept alive among the Britifli villains. 1 Dio p. 959. — * Tacitus Ann. lib. xii. c. 30. — J Oflian vol. L p. 130. — 4 Camden p. 137. — ' Borlafe p. 283, — 6 Vit. Agrk. c. 13. and Gruter.— 7 Agric. V. c. 29. and 32, and Horfeley N° 20 Scotland and 76 Northumberland. — s Oflian vol. I. p. 57. — 9 Ve~ getius lib* ii. c. 2. — 10 Oflian vol. II. p. 39. — " Vol. I. p. 235.— %% Vol. I. p. 18.— 13 Vol. II. p. 39. — ** Vol. II. p. 128.— 15 Vol.1, p. 66, 77, &c— ,6 Vol. II. p. 85, 87, 129, and 130. — Vol. I. p. 19.— I8 Vol. II. p. 130.—" Vol. II. p. 85 and 87.— Vol. II. p. $6 and 106. — " VoL IL p. 50, and Dio p. 1010.— " Vol. I. p. 54. — * 3 Vol. I. p. §6. — * 4 Vol. I. p. 1 18 and 140, and Diodorus p. 354, for Bards. See alfo Caefar p. 90 for Addrefs in war. — a$ Vegetius lib. ii. c. 2. — * 6 Huntingdon f. 180 and 181. at the battles of Beranbury and Wodnefbury. »7 to CHAP.