The War Is Open to All

"These lawless soldiers were the disgrace of our camp. They did so rant and roar if all went well," he writes. "And when the battle was fairly won, whereto they had not entered, they were so coward and cruel among the prisoners or helpless that we would gladly have been rid of them if we could." 'Had i lived more than a thousand years in a soldier saddle to be cowarded by such a hoary whelp of butchery, such a damnable old taint on the honourable trade of arms,' says Sir Robert Cecil.