con familiaridad juntos, olvidando tanto sus lazos de parentesco como su antigua amistad, se matan unos a otros por ninguna otra razón que la de haber sido contratados para ello por un poco de dinero por príncipes de intereses diferentes; y tal es la consideración que tienen por el dinero que la diferencia de un solo centavo al día los persuade fácilmente de cambiar de bando. Tan por completo los domina su avaricia; y, sin embargo, este dinero, que valoran tanto, les es de poca utilidad; pues lo que compran así con su sangre lo malgastan rápidamente en el lujo, el cual entre ellos no pasa de ser de una índole pobre y miserable.
“This nation serves the Utopians against all people whatsoever, for they pay higher than any other. The Utopians hold this for a maxim, that as they seek out the best sort of men for their own use at home, so they make use of this worst sort of men for the consumption of war; and therefore they hire them with the offers of vast rewards to expose themselves to all sorts of hazards, out of which the greater part never returns to claim their promises; yet they make them good most religiously to such as escape. This animates them to adventure again, whenever there is occasion for it; for the Utopians are not at all troubled how many of these happen to be killed, and reckon it a service done to mankind if they could be a means to deliver the world from such a lewd and vicious sort of people, that seem to have run together, as to the drain of human nature. Next to these, they are served in their wars with those upon whose account they undertake them, and with the auxiliary troops of their other friends, to whom they join a few of their own people, and send some man of eminent and approved virtue to command in chief. There are two sent with him, who, during his command, are but private men, but the first is to succeed him if he should happen to be either killed or taken; and, in case of the like misfortune to him, the third comes in his place; and thus they provide against all events, that such accidents as may befall their generals may not endanger their armies. When they draw out troops of their own people, they take such out of every city as freely offer themselves, for none are forced to go against their wills, since