Therefore, if I should have to builde a Fortresse, I would make the walles strong, and the diches in the maner as we have reasoned, nor I would not make therein other, then houses to inhabite, and those I would make weake and lowe, after soche sorte that thei should not let him that should stande in the middest of the Market place, the sight of all the walle, to the intente that the Capitain might see with the IYE, where he maie succour: and that every manne should understande, that the walle and the diche beyng lost, the fortresse were lost.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
Note all hir steppys, and twynklynge of hir IYE.
"The Ship of Fools, Volume 1"
Sebastian Brandt
