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.
