Note 372 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.

: And what can we complain of the weakness of our strength or the pressure of diseases, when we see a poor soldier stand in a breach, almost starved with cold and hunger, and his cold apt to be relieved only by the heats of anger, a fever, or a fired musket, and his hunger slacked by a greater pain and a huge fear? This man shall stand in his arms and wounds, patiens luminis atque solis, pale and faint, weary and watchfull; and at night shall have a bullet pulled out of his flesh, and shivers from his bones, and endure his mouth to be sewed up from a violent rent to its own dimensions; and all this for a man whom he never saw, or, if he did, was not noted by him, but one that shall condemn him to the gallows, if he runs from all this misery. (Holy dying, sect. IV, chap. 3.)