armories,
goodly
races of
horse,
chariots
of war,
elephants,
ordnance,
artillery,
and the
like: all
this is
but a
sheep in a
lion’s
skin,
except the
breed and
disposition
of the
people be
stout and
warlike.
Nay,
number
(itself)
in armies
importeth
not much,
where the
people is
of weak
courage;
for (as
Virgil
saith) It
never
troubles a
wolf how
many the
sheep be.
The army
of the
Persians
in the
plains of
Arbela was
such a
vast sea
of people,
