For those that followed the calling of arms had rough clothing and common gear and short slumbers and scanty rest.

Toil drove ease far away, and the time ran by at scanty cost.

Not as with some men now, the light of whose reason is obscured by insatiate greed with its blind maw.

Some one of these clad in a covering of curiously wrought raiment effeminately guides the fleet-footed (steed), and unknots his dishevelled locks, and lets his hair fly abroad loosely.
"He loves to plead often in the court, and to covet a base pittance, and with this pursuit he comforts his sluggish life, doing with venal tongue the business entrusted to him.
"He outrages the laws by force, he makes armed assault upon men's rights, he tramples on the innocent, he feeds on the wealth of others, he practices debauchery and gluttony, he vexes good fellowship with biting jeers, and goes after harlots as a hoe after the grass.
"The coward falls when battles are lulled in peace.

Though he who fears death lie in the heart of the valley, no mantlet shall shelter him.