Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	john_n	robert_n	william_n	12,612	5	8.4880	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10822	VVarrefare epitomized in a century, of military observations: confirming by antient principles the moderne practise of armes. By Captaine Levves Roberts.	Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.	1640 (1640)	STC 21095; ESTC S115978	20,196	61

VVARREFARE EPITOMIZED In a Century OF MILITARY OBSERVATIONS Confirming by Antient Principles The Moderne practise of Armes By Captaine LEVVES ROBERTS LONDON Printed by RICHARD OVLTON for RALPH MABB 1640. To my worthy friends and Brethren the Captaines of the trained Bands Of the famous CITY of LONDON CAPTAINE Martin Bond George Wawker Marmaduke Royden George Langham Iohn Venn Edward Dichfield Thomas Covell Edmond Forster William Ge●re Samuall Carlton Tobias Massy Randolph Mo●wareing Henry Sanders Nicolas Beale Robert Davis Mathew Forster Iohn Bradley Rouland Wilson Iames B●nce WORTHY FRIENDS MOst Certaine it is that Warre hath bad its Originall from the very foundation of Soveraignety a●d thence was reduced to an Art confined within limited rules and principles and may in these our times be said to be either forraigne or Domestique and that either offensive or defensive preserving and upholding some Nations and Countries and destroying and ru●ning others but still the rule and true scope of a lust Warre amongst all Nations is held to be a firme Peace which as it is best obtained with the Sword in hand so is it best confirmed by a prevalent Victory to compasse which many Authors have undertaken to laie downe Rules some through Military Discipline some through Valor and Policie and most through bloodshedd yet such defects are found in many of their precepts that no positive rules can be collected thence which in all points can make good the same for it must be confessed that they who frame to themselves in their studies a modell of leadeing of an Army to be come Victorious find the same as full of Errors as of Rules when the application is made for a measure of Warre taken by booke falleth out either too long or too short when it is brought into the field to be put in practise and somtimes such unlooked for chances arest even the best and most experienced Captaines though long acquainted with the Warres that their skill is not priviledged from casualties nor their Iudgments and knowledg from Vaniety of accidents because a minute produ●eth that in the field which an Age hath not seene no n●r heard of before Notwithstanding these difficulties and uncertainties I have indeavored for my owne recreation to collect the most certaine of these rules of Warrefare being such as admit of the least contradiction and concluded the same in three Centuries which I have termed Military Observations and are the most materiall within the compase of a Soldiers Captains knowledg either before the Warre begun or in the prosecution thereof or after the Victory gained the first is confirmed by the authority and aprovement of Antient authors and serves as a ground-worke to the second confirmed by reason and experience and both of these to the third confirmed and made good by practise and the example of the greatest Captaines that have left their memories registred in the bookes of honour behind them to posterity the two latter may hereafter see the light if this former find a fav●rable construction in the World and a friendly acceptance from you to whose love in respect of our Vnited brotherly affection and friendship I have presumed to Dedicate the same that in testimony of the Obligement dew to your place from him that Intitles himselfe Your friend and Brother in Armes L. ROBERTS Captaine To the Readers GENTLEMEN MY love to Armes drew me as first to bee a practitioner thereof in the Artillery Garden of London and when occasions withheld me from the exercise it selfe my mind was b●sied in perusing of such Anchors as treated of that subject in sundry languages which as length proved to bee so many and so Various and withall so differently handling the severall parts of Warre that I found not thereby either my curiosity wholly satisfied or yet my knowledg much bettered whereupon I indevour'd to gaine som benefit by my labour somepleasure by my toil collecting into one Epitome those quotations which I had thus scatteringly met withall in my reading reducing at length the ●a●e into three centuries of Military Observations the first confirming the moderne practise of Armes by the authority of Antient Authors the second confirming the same by reason and experience and the third by the practise and example of sundry Commanders and Chieftaines the second being grounded upon the former as the ●atter is upon both In all which I cannot boast of ●nygreat paines taken because they were done for delight and to please my owne fancy nor yet appropriate therin anything worthy note to my selfe save the labour because they are for the most part collections how soever yet we see oftentimes that therei 's a labour in recreation and a toyle sometimes in pleasures and that the builder is many times found to take more care and paines to collect and gather his materialls then to erect the Structure or to beautify the whole Edifice But whatsoever my paines and industry was I take it to my selfe and whatsoever the benefit is or may be I am contented to bestow vpon my friends and amongst the rest if thou art one of them upon the incouraging me thus by afaire construction and friendly acceptance of this first to present thee with the two latter and in the interim to stile my selfe Thy indebted Friend LEWES ROBERTS Captaine MILITARY OBSERVATIONS Observation first OF MILITARY ART THe Art Military is of its selfe so Excellent that it is fit for the knowledge of all Noble Personadges and a quality most especially necessary for all Kings and Princes whether they live either in peace or war for without it their tranquillity cannot be preserved nor their warre prosecuted nor yet their own persons and subjects defended for force and strength of men though valorous sufficeth not unlesse the same be governed by Military Counsell and Martiall wisdome Duo sunt quibus Respub servatur in hostes fortitudo dom● concordia cipiatur ut nihil aliud quam pax quaesita videatur Cicero c. Let warre be so undertaken that nought else but peace may seem to be sought for thereby Observation XI Of unadvised Warre AS we have shewed unjust Warre to be unlawfull so we will shew that temerity and unadvised warre is an Enterprise most worthy of discommendation Omnes bellum sumunt facilè aegerrimè definunt net in ejusdem potestate initium finis est Sallust c. All Princes undertake a warre easily but leave it off difficultly neither is the beginning and end in the power of one and the same person Observation XII Not to Enter into warre without cause AS a wise Prince ought not to undertake any unlawfull invasion so ought he not without mature deliberation enter into any warre at all as one that is unwilling to offend others though yet of courage enough to defend himselfe and his Nec provoces bella nec timeas Plin Neither may'st thou stirre up neither stand in feare of warre Observation XIII Things required to make a VVarre TO