[1] But now it was thought expedient to vse their seruice against these rebels, whose power and despe|rate boldnesse was so farre increased, that without a maine armie, guided by some generall of great ex|perience, and noble conduct, it would be hard and right dangerous to subdue them: wherein violence and force was to be vsed, sith they had shewed them|selues in an extremitie of stubbornesse, like buls that by baiting are to be tamed, or like stifnecked stalions which with bit & bridle must be managed; as one saith:

Asper equus duris contunditur ora lupatis.