Neither will it be, that a people overlaid with taxes should ever become valiant and martial.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.29,'Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms'.

Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking So pleasant this side of the grave; It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

-Diaz, Porfirio
'Nothing Like Grog'. First published1803.

   Bevaliant, but nottooventurous.Letthyattirebe comely, but not costly.

-Lyly,John
  Euphues, or the Anatomy of  Wit.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes, But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land; 844 Ring in the Christ that is to be.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto106, l.17^32.

And they praised him to his face with their courtly foreign grace; But he rose upon their decks, and he cried: 'I have fought for Queen and Faith like a valiant man and true; I have only done my dutyas a man is bound to do: With a joyful spirit I Sir Richard Grenville die!' And he fell upon their decks, and he died.

-Tennyson
  'The Revenge', stanza13, l.99^104.