First, How to resist force without striking again, or how to strike with reverence, will need some skill to make intelligible.

He that shall oppose an assault only with a shield to receive the blows, or in any more respectful posture, without a sword in his hand, to abate the confidence and force of the assailant, will quickly be at an end of his resistance, and will find such a defence serve only to draw on himself the worse usage.

This is as ridiculous a way of resisting, as juvenal thought it of fighting; ubi tu pulsas, ego vapulo tantum.

And the success of the combat will be unavoidably the same he there describes it: /*[4] -- ---Libertas pauperis haec est: Pulsatus rogat, et pugnis concisus, adorat, Ut liceat paucis cum dentibus inde reverti.
*/ This will always be the event of such an imaginary resistance, where men may not strike again.

He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike.