Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	good_a	king_n	1,792	5	3.4864	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10148	Of the knovvledge and conducte of warres two bookes, latelye wrytten and sett foorth, profitable for suche as delight in hystoryes, or martyall affayres, and necessarye for this present tyme.	T. P.; Proctor, Thomas, poet, attributed name.	1578 (1578)	STC 20403; ESTC S119050	54,163	112

daylye skirmishes withe the contrarie parte and eftsoones preuayled thearein An other tyme a shippe of Caesars souldiours beeinge taken by a gouernour vnder Pompeye which promised vnto one of them for the good reporte whiche hee had of his manhode that he should haue pardone and be receaued to serue Pompeye he aunswered that Caesars Souldiours vsed to geue life and libertie vnto other and not to receaue the same of almes or to sell their Captayne for crauenous feare And so resisting to be apprehēded after that hee had slayne diuers of his enemyes hee leaped into a riuer and escaped by swimming The souldiours of Caesar also sustayning so constantlie the greate and continuall battailles in Fraunce and Germanye withe terrible trauayles ouer mountaynes and harde passage of ryuers and floodes in the percyng coulde and sharpe stormes of winter shewed their inuincible courage good will to follow their Captayne ¶ How to vse victorye and what clemencye is to be vsed towardes the conquered and of the hurte which commeth by securitye Cap. 7. AFter a victorye obtayned howe to pursue the same to deale with the enemye two thinges are to be considered one is the enemye being subdued and all setled and confirmed in quyet that tyrannie bee not shewed but reasonable lawes orders and conditions established vnto the con quered The other is that theare bee no slacknes or negligence vsed vntill the victorye bee perfecte and accomplyshed in euerye parte daungers fledde farre awaye the force of the Enemye broken downe and suppressed For by securitye these myschiefes haue growen that after manye battayles withe greate honour and prowesse foughten infinyte trauayles sustayned and sundrye Realmes subdued one dayes careles securitye and vndiscrete dysorder hathe subuerted all turnynge the state of Conquerours into captiuitye As the Carthaginoys hauynge slayne the two Scipioes in Spayne and wythe greate ruyne repulsed and pulled downe the Romayne power not regarding those that remayned theareof dispersed they weare by the relycques of the same armie gathered together vnder Lucius Martius ouerthrowen Brennus Belinus before mencioned beeinge enryched by the plentifull spoiles of Italie and sacke of Rome as they retourned in securitie and disorder weare on the sodaine inuaded by Camillus withe a feawe of the people before conquered and the victorie being wrested againe out of their handes they weare cleane bereft the fruites of their former conquest The redoubted Cyrus beinge the verye example of great Alexanders noble courage when he had by martiall prowesse obtayned the mightie estate of Persia and subdued diuers kingdomes afterwardes inuadinge Scythia wheare he had a great victorye against that fierce nation by this policye fayning when he was entred within the Countrey that he repented of his attempte and makinge a shewe of hastie fliynge lefte his tentes stored withe good wynes and delicate cheare which the barbarous people pursuing after so plyed and typled square that tomblinge together at night surcharged with wyne and heauie of sleape Cyrus not farre with drawen came vpon them and slewe them euerye mothers sonne After which victorie Thomyris Queene of the lande not discomforted womanlike as Cyrus thought reckoning to rashely with a shrewde hostis but purposing preparing a reuenge by like crafte to acquite him ouer reache him in his owne arte she fled farre within the coūtrey fayninge feare but meaninge mischiefe to trayne the enemie followinge in disorder roominge at random into streigtes where she had priuelye plāted ambushes on the hilles on euery side which sodainlye inuadinge Cyrus and his hoste slewe them all so that of two hundred thousande men there escaped not one to make reporte of the battaill Marcus Antonius after manie most famous victories restinge in Egipt out of tyme regarded not the daungers at Roome whiche seemed so farre of remooued from him but soone they came on him whyle he snorted in carelesse securitie to his vtter ouerthrowe He that will goe drye must carrye a cloke for feare of the cloude which sheweth from a farre I will not waste tyme to declare the further mischiefes destructyons chaunced thoroughe rashe and ouerhastie reckoninge of vnrype victorie and vnsure saufetye These maye suffyce to warne him which maye assure him selfe by good order in armes and battaill to be saufe of power inuincible that by rashnes for lacke of guyde and circumspect foresyght hee tumble not vpon the enemies swerde After one victorie had foorth with the enemie must bee orderlie pursued and not suffered by rest to renue his faintinge force but when he staggereth stryke on still till he be downe and his power fast shutt vp Then the warres beinge thoroughlie ended the captiue liuinge vnder the lawe rule of the conquerour his honour is muche encreased by shewinge of clemencie shunninge of hatefull crueltye For that humanitie requireth this christianitye cōmaundeth to doe Sum̄ haue vsed their conquestes ouer suche as haue yelded vnto their dominion that sauinge onelie the chaūge of their prince or gouernour they haue suffered no alteration of lawes libertie estate or degree The Romaines vsed to appoint deputies gouernours with competent garrisons vnto the landes conquered taxinge them with a meane tribute and takinge hostages for the same so they retourned left thē quiet The noble courtesie which great Alexander vsed towardes the captyue wyfe and daughters of Darius enlarged spred abrode his honour to the furtherāce of his conquestes following What a preparatiue was made vnto Scipio his good successe what a foūdation towardes the proceadinge of his warrelike affaires by his honourable vsinge of prince Luceius his wife lyberalitie vsed towardes Masinissaes nephewe the great and continuall seruice of those princes afterwardes in his warres as before is recyted suffy cientlie sheweth And whatsoeuer lawes fraunchyse or grauntes the generalls of armies haue establyshed made vnto the conquered the princes and estates vnder whom they were deputed ordayned haue alwaies ratified inuiolablye obserued and allowed the same compositions ¶ Of the beginninge iust cause of warres Cap. 8. FOr that the iust quarell encouragethe and commenlye bryngethe prosperous successe it is to bee consydered what maye bee a good grounde and cause to vse weapons and begynne warres by the lawe of nature Iustice and pryncipallie by the lawe of God whiche ought to bee the foundation and rule of all our doynges of whom wee ought to take all our begynninges by whom affayres prosperouslye proceade and happelye ende without whom nothinge encreasethe or groweth to anie good effecte That warres may bee iustlye made and howe diuers good menne haue attempted and vsed the same we reade in the holye booke Almightie God hath stirred vp dyuers as well Prynces as priuate menne or commen persons to take armes and vse force agaynst the wicked The children of Israell vnder Iosua by the cōmaundement leadinge of God conquered the Cananites expelled the miscreaunt and idolotrous nations and possessed their landes Saul Sampson were raysed by him to

Of iustice Cap. v. THen followeth the third vertue Iustice whych is a deuyne motion or affection of the mind to deale vprightly and to render vnto euery man that which vnto him belongeth Yt may be called a deuyne vertue for that it procedeth principally of the feare of GOD who is the head and fountaine of all Iustice by whom al power is geeuen to bee duely vsed and administred And hee is the most high and aeternall Iudge ouer all This vertue is one of the braunches of pyetie by whych good and vpright men be called godly or like vn to god The other part or braunch of pietye is to serue God religiously and duely which because it ought to bee a ground worke proper vnto euery Christian man therfore haue I not noted the same as a peculier or perticuler vertue heare But I say the more Christian the meater Captaine and the better hee serueth God the better hee shall hys Prince and Countrey In this vertue of Iustice the Captaine ought to bee very diligent and circumspect to see as well the iust rewardes of vertue as the due punishment and correction of tumultes rapyne iniuryes disorder and breach of discipline and lawes of warre wherein the quantitie and qualitie with the circumstances of time person place is to be waighed in iudgement by the paise of wysedome in the balance of endifferency hanging vpon the beame and rule of right that reformation may grow and not confusion follow there of that by example of a feaw many may be warned and yet no such remisse clemencie to be vsed that negligence of Iustice should breake all good order But if by faire meanes or perswasion the euil might be wonne or reformed it is first so to be assayed and when none other remedy then rygour roughly to be extended How be it often times the greatnes of the mischiefe requireth sodaine iustice For in warres the like time of deliberatiō staye in iudgement and execution is not giuen as in peace for the generall affaires and state of the armie maye not be stayed or neglected for priuate causes And therefore the Captaines dome order or sentence in this case of spedie Iustice standeth for law and is called martial lawe This lawe king Artaxerxes vsed towardes Artabanus whē he had slaine his father Xerxes and his brother Darius conspiring also to dispatche him and vsurpe the Empyre After that he had certaine secrete vnder standing thereof because that for the great power of him and his sonnes yt was daungerous to apprehende him he discloseth the same vnto some of his trusty friendes and calling Artabanus out of the armye fayning that he would chaunge his armour with him when he had put of the same the King remayning stil armed thrust him thorough with his swerd and so deliuered his estate from daunger King Aswerus likewise caused Aman his sonnes to be sodainly apprehēded executed because that thorough their great power the stay thereof had bene daungerous How be it this kind of Iustice is in the greatest extremitie But the martiall Law or sentence would be vsed and executed vnder this forme and order that the generall calling vnto him such of the Captaines and principall persons of the Army as he shall thinke conuenient thereunto reciting shortly the maner of the offence the mischiefe that might grow therof the odiousnes and villanye of vnnatural Treason and dissention within an armye tending to the ouerthrowen of most valiant worthy personages of most honorable attemptes and purposes the quayling of most great and high endeuours before in that seruice vsed and to the miserable spoyle of the whole army with the decay and dishonour of the countrey of whence they are and there with all the proofes being heard and openly declared to geeue iudgement according to the nature of the offence and commit ouer order for executing the same And sometime for the better satisfiyng of the army if time permit it is conuenient for the punishment of criminall causes to referre the hearinge thereof to the Captaines of euery bande and certaine of them to speake theyr mindes for the qualitie and odiousnes of the offence with some admonishment at the last to the rest of the hearers And sometime it is policie to commit the same vnto twelue or more of the meaner sort or commen souldiers as circumstances may require And if the partie accused and vnder iudgement be a straunger it is the better order of Iustice that he haue parte of his triall by some of his owne Countrey if the matter be playne that they be not to be suspected of partialitie And the whilest that other haue the handling of this matter the generall may the better attend his greater affaires For the other part of Iustice what course is best to be taken in rewarding the valure and well deseruing of those which with great endeuour labour for same to the honour and aduauncement of their Countrey Hearein the good iudgement of the Captaine is to be exercised for wel noting and right regarding the dispositions endeuours and doinges of each person For some are geeuen not to make challenge or claime of theyr owne proper deedes and vertues other will make large report and ostentation of that which they do setting the same artificially forthe to the vtter most and further sometime clothing themselues with that which they neuer sponne and thrusting into the glorie of other mens desertes And diuers there are of disposition to extenuate and seeme to make lesse the vertues of other whom they cannot matche in valure And therefore sith that honour is the right reward of vertue as the Philosophers agree that Laudata virtus crescit and Honos alit artes commended vertue encreaseth and honour is the nouryce of valure which maketh men to excell in practises the Captaine ought to be wyse to sifte perceiue such knackes cunning colours from substāce that he be a iust distributer of the due salaire and rewarde vnto the vertuous without affection or parciality that they beyng encouraged encrease not discouraged cease from well doinge Moreouer for the maner of rewardes there is cōsyderation to be had of the person thus if he be poore he may be somewhat enryched thereby if he meane to bee a continuer in the seruice of warre to geue him a more highe place greater charge in the armie to call him vnto the more wayghtye secrete affaires If he be one that needeth or seeketh not wealth let him haue credite honour aucthoritye the more vse all curtesye towardes him findinge meanes to knowe hys delighte wherewith most to gladde or gratifie him as with horse Armour some rare Iewell or other acceptable thinge to geue him where euer he goe speache of credite honorable commendation and report If he desier to become expert in the knowledge of warre by all curtesye and meanes to further hym thereunto so that as neare as maye bee euerye man