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He further says "In the treaty of Bretigny, Edward III., king of England, would not, in the general peace he then made with our king, comprehend the controversy about the Duchy of Brittany, that he might have a place wherein to discharge himself of his soldiers, and that the vast number of English he had brought over to serve him in his expedition here might not return back into England. And this also was one reason why our King Philip consented to send his son John upon a foreign expedition, that he might take along with him a great number of hot young men who were then in his pay.

There—are many in our times who talk at this rate, wishing that this hot emotion that is now amongst us might discharge itself in some neighbouring war, for fear lest all the peccant humours that now reign in this politic body of ours may diffuse themselves farther, keep the fever still in the height, and at last cause our total ruin; and, in truth, a foreign is much more supportable than a civil war."

As in all things a combination of these too factors is closes to the truth, Men weight down by poverty, by unfulfilled ambitions or by delusions of grandeur and the strange madness of the Spanish knight which comes upon all readers of the ancient romances are all the more want and want war and bloodshed so that they may prove themselves, to themselves and to society and that this is exacerbated by some god given flaw in man as central to the sons of Adam and vanity is to the daughters of eve, a flaw that demands the blood of a brother and the hazarding of life, a restless heart that never beats content except in the very jaws of death and the door Hades, unless the bells of hell are resounding in its ear. its only balm is also the very fan which feeds the fire, namely fame, the need to be known and to know that others know that you are brave, that here is mad who dices with death at noon, Ladies, set aside your dress, your bras, your panties and lay bare your charms open up your pearly gates, gentlemen your drawing rooms, kings your knightly orders and children see here comes the conquering hero, the man who dances with death.


>TLDR Life sucks bro.