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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bear_v	great_a	king_n	1,542	5	3.5361	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15036	The honorable reputation of a souldier with a morall report, of the vertues, offices, and (by abuse) the disgrace of his profession. Drawen out of the liues, documents, and disciplines, of the most renowned Romaine, Grecian, and other famous martialistes. By George Whetstone, Gent.	Whetstone, George, 1544?-1587?	1585 (1585)	STC 25339; ESTC S111682	22,474	44

THE HONORABLE REPVTATION of a Souldier With a Morall Report of the Vertues Offices and by abuse the Disgrace of his profession Drawen out of the liues documents and disciplines of the most renowned Romaine Grecian and other famous Martialistes By George Whetstone Gent. Malgre de Fortune Imprinted at London by Richard Iones dwelling neere vnto Holburne Bridge 1585. To the most worthy Gent. Sir William Russell Knight accomplishment of his honorable desire SIR hauing I may truly saye with much labour compiled a booke Intituled The English Mirour the first part setting ●orth The Conquests of Enuy cōtaining ruine and subuertion of the auncient M●narchies and common weales c. The second part shewing Enuy to be conquered by Vertue publishing the peaceable victories of her Maiestie to Gods ●ye glorie and vniuersall wonder The third part intituled A Fortresse against Enuy wherin euery good cōmon wealths-man may see the true offices vertues and by abuse the disgrace of his profession But because the booke is of some volume I cannot haue it speedily printed and for that occasiō now at this present maketh passadge for this Subiet being a member or si●all parcell of the fore-recited booke Therefore as a testimonie of the zeale which I beare to your worship and euery worthy person whose profession is Martiall I reuerently submit my trauell to be censur'd by your able iudgement which medleth no whit with Millitarie execution but altogether with Morall goue●nmēt necessarie for a perfect Souldier For if I my selfe which haue béene brought vp among the Muses in our English onely peaceable and happy gouernmēt should take vppon mee to set forth the order of battailes th'aduantages of places the benifits of stratagems with many other Millitary regards both offenciue and defenciue I might for my hyre iustly receaue the scoffe that Hamball gaue vnto the Philosopher Phormio who vpon such an indiscrete discriptiō ●ould him that The Art millitarie was sooner learned of Souldiers in the brode fields thē of Philosophers in close scoles And certainly Haniball aunswered more like Philosopher then Phormio reasoned like a Souldier for Experiēce is y e true Teacher of all Artes and therefore that honorable part of a Souldier which containeth Martiall execution I leaue to the report of the well experiēced Captaine and no doubt among the worthie English Capt●●nes there are some that can vse both Caesars pen and sword My trauell which worketh betweene fire and frost as I haue saide onely containeth The Moral vertues honorable Reputatiō of a Souldier And certainly two of the greatest partes therof Caesar setteth forth i● that which bee calleth his chiefest glorie which was Mamillus vpō occasiō asked Caesar what thing hee had done wherein hee held him selfe most honored I sweare vnto thee MAMILLVS by the immortall Gods sayd CESAR that I haue done nothing whereof I hould my selfe so much honored and happy as for that I haue liberally rewarded those which haue serued mee and mercifully haue forgiuen such as haue offended me Words and vertues beseeming Caesar and without which Caesar could neuer haue beene Monarcke of the whole worlde for the Captaine that lib●rally rewardeth his Souldiers shall haue his souldiers resolute in execution and who showeth mercy to his Enimie shal conquer millions with loue The Spainiard is so insolent and outragious where he ouercommeth as hee is hated to death of those which ●baye him for f●are I haue séene ample experience therof both in the Duchy of Millaine and kingdome of Naples And your god fauour and patience desired I shall show no impertinent example In the yeare 1580. in which year the Pope and his confederates hoped to haue had a great day in Englande whose expectation God alwayes frustrate my selfe with one other English Gentleman who in this commendation will haue his name concealed were at Thurin intertained into the companie of a worthy Gentleman of Picardie named Monseur Dobart who was then ready to trauell into Italy and being all lodged one night in a Garrison town in the Duchy of Millain neare vnto the Riuer of Poo at the middest of supper a haughtie proude Spaniard came and sat him downe by vs. Monseur Dobart bearing an affectionate zeale vnto her Maiestie the state of England as well for that he was an earnest protestant as for that his sister and other frends were honorably vsed in the Court of England in the former troubles of Fraunce demaunded of the Spaniard what might bee the cause that the King of Spaine had that yeare raised so great an Army The Spaniard forthwith made this proude insolent aunswere Ah Sir the time nowe draweth neare that we shall haue the spoile of rich England that we shall embrace their faire wiues and make hauocke of their lōg gathered riches And disco●ering that there was an Englishman in companie that tolierated these hie wordes hee beganne spitefully to bra●e him But on ●he soden the spaniard sound the temper of the English-mans fingers so that shame to repaire his disgrace compelled the Spaniard to offer combat Monseur Dobart very honorably vndertooke that the English-Gentleman should the next morning by six of the clocke be ready to crosse the Riuer of Poo with the spaniard to commit eithers cause to God and their swords This was mutually agréed vpon but by breake of the daye the spaniards brags vanished like bubbles be himselfe slipt away without giuing any bon-giorno so that the English Gentleman could haue no further reuenge sauing that in the place of this controuersie finding this Italian sentēce to be writtē Le parole son femine i fatti son maschi 〈◊〉 in dispight wrote vnderneath Donques gli spanioli son femine et gli Inglese son maschi and truly the h●aste of the house with many dispightful words of the spaniards proude naughty behauiour to his perpetual blame hath faithfully promised that the subscription should not be rased out without being secretly new written againe But the spaniard had reuēge inough by the Gentlemans owne contrymen for Monseur Dobart as hee thought to honour him imparted this accident to certaine Englishmen at Bologna among whome there were that so posted the matter to Rome as when the poore Gent. arri●es there hee was stayed at the gate nowe called Porto del populi and there was kept eight daies hauing no other bed but the bare ground and well neare starued for want of foode In fine all his other Bollitines and Warrants to trauell being taken away On the s●daine the Stappado was hanged forth and the Gentleman vpō paine thereof commanded presently to depart to whome was deliuered a Vollitine for Naples What violence hee further sustained his humour will not agree to open it for I am sure he hath bene seldome hard to pursue any mās disgrace and neuer knowne publikely to bem●ne his owne hard fortunes which haue beene many and violent And albeit his name be here concealed yet if any exceptiō be taken against this report let me