Battalia

[…]but we find, by a sad experience, that few questions are well stated; and when they are, they are not consented to; and when they are agreed on by both sides that they are well stated, it is nothing else but a drawing up the armies in battalia with great skill and discipline; the next thing they do is, they thrust their swords into one another's sides.

Two rival armies all the plain o'erspread, / Each in battalia rang'd, and shining arms array'd

Why, our battalia trebles that account