You declare, too, that we fight under cover, and only for spite and pay; that honester and wiser satirists were brave, that "Their courteous soldiership, outshining ours, Mounted the engine and took aim from towers;"

And all the promptest of her spirits, linked In gallant soldiership, and posting on 265 To meet the war upon her frontier bounds.

The actual losses in Stuart's command left, however, no doubt of the obstinate soldiership of officers and men.