III., 1, 38. Cf. also Frank Wellborn's petition, V., 1, ad finem. Compare the part played in Sir John Barnavelt by the English mercenaries in Holland; and especially IV., 2.
Orange. I have sent patents out for the choicest companies
Hither to be remov'd, first Colonel Vere's
From Dort, next Sir Charles Morgan's, a stout Company.
IV., 3. Barnavelt (to his daughter):
What! wouldst thou have a husband?
Go marry an English Captain, and he'll teach thee
How to defy thy father and his fortune.
II., 1. Barnavelt:
But have you tried by any means (it skills not
How much you promise) to win th' old soldier
(The English Companies in chief I aim at)
To stand firm for us?
Guardian, II., 1, 84. Similarly in The Bashful Lover, V., 3, 110, Matilda warns Lorenzo that “Heaven's liberal hand” has designed him to fight rather against the Turk than a Christian neighbour-king. Compare The Devil's Law-case (p. 138b).
Ercole. When our bloods
Embrac'd each other, then I pitied
That so much valour should be hazarded
On the fortune of a single rapier
And not spent against the Turk.
Very Woman, III., 1, 124:
Merchant. They have a city, Sir—I have been in it.
And therefore dare affirm it—where if you saw
With what a load of vanity 'tis fraughted,
How like an everlasting morris-dance it looks,
Nothing but hobby-horse and Maid Marian,
You would start indeed.