Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	aaron_n	army_n	fortress_n	30	3	12.4679	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56983	Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).	Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.; Warwick, Arthur, 1604?-1633. Spare minutes, or, Resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions.	1677 (1677)	Wing Q94; ESTC R6261	74,920	244

Religion is neglected and her establish't ceremonies interrupted let therefore that Prince that would be potent be pious and that he may punish loosness the better let him be religious the joy of Jerusalem depends upon the peace of Sion CHAP. LVIII LEt that Prince that desires full sovereignty temper the greatness of too potent a Nobility a great and potent Nobility quickens the people but presses their fortunes it adds Majesty to a Monarch but diminishes his power CHAP. LIX IT is dangerous for a Prince to use ambitious Natures but upon necessity either for his Warrs or to be instruments for the demolishing insolent greatness and that they may be the less dangerous let him chuse them rather out of mean births then noble and out of harsh natures rather then plausible And always be sure to ballance them with those that are as proud as they CHAP. LX. LEt Princes be very circumspect in the choyce of their Councellours chusing ueither by the greatness of the beard nor by the smoothness of the face let him be wise but not crafty active without private ends couragious without malice religious without faction secret without fraud one better read in his business than his Nature and a riddle only to be read above CHAP. LXI IN a mixt Monarchy if the Hierarchy grow too absolute is is wisdom in a Prince rather to depress it then suppress it all altertions in a fundamental Government bring apparent dangers but too sudden alteration threatens inevitable ruine when Aaron made a molten Calf Moses altered not the Government but reproved the Governour CHAP. LXII BEfore thou build a Fortress consider to what end if for resistance against the Enemy it is useless a valiant Army is a living Fortress if for suppressing the subject it is hurtfull it breeds Jealousies and Jealousies beget hatred if thou hast a strong Army to maintain it it adds nothing to thy strength if thy Army be weak it conduces much to thy danger the surest Fortress is the hands of thy Souldiers and the safest Citadel is the hearts of thy subjects CHAP. LXIII IT is a Princely Alchymie out of a necessary Warr to extract an honourable Peace and more beseeming the Majesty of a Prince to thirst after Peace than conquest blessedness is promis'd to the Peace-maker not to the conquerour it is a happy State whose Prince hath a peaceful Hand and a Martial Heart able both to use Peace and to manage Warr. CHAP. LXIV IT is a dishonourable thing for a Prince to run in debt for State-service but to pay it in the pardon of a Criminall Offence is most dangerous To cancell the faults of subjects with their deserts is not onely the symptom of a disordered Common-wealth but also of her Ruine CHAP. LXV LEt not a Commander be too forward to undertake a Warr without the person of his Prince it is a thankless employment where mischief attends upon the best success and where if a Conquerour he shall be in danger either through his onwn Ambition or his Princes suspition CHAP. LXVI IT is great oversight in a Prinnce for any respects either Actively or Passively to make a forreign Kingdom strong he that gives means to another to become powerfull weakens himself and enables him to take the advantage of his own weakness CHAP. LXVII WHen the humours of the people are stirr'd by discontents or popular grief it is wisdom in a Prince to give them moderate liberty to evaporate he that turn's the humour back too hastily makes the wound bleed inwardly and fils the body with malignity CHAP. LXVIII IF having levyed an Army thou findest thy self too weak either through the want of men or money the longer thou delay'st to fight the greater thy Inconvenience grow's if once thy Army falls asunder thou certainly loosest by thy delay where hazarding thyfortunes betimes thou hast the advantage of thy men and may'st by fortune win the day it is less dishohour to be overcome by force than by flight CHAP. LXIX IT is the part of a wise Commander in Warrs eether Offensive or Defensive towork a necessity of Fighting into the breasts of his Souldiers Necessity of action takes away the fear of the Act and makes bold Resolution the favorite of Fortune CHAP. LXX CLemency and mildness is most proper for a Principality but reservedness and severity for a Republique but moderation in both Excess in the one breads contempt in the other Hatted when to sharpen the first and when to sweeten the last let Time and Occasion direct thy judgment CHAP. LXXI IT is very requisite for a Prince that desires the continuance of Peace in time of Peace to encourage and respect his Commanders When brave Spirits find neglect to be the effect of quiet times they devise all means to remove the Cause and by suggesting inducements to new Warrs disturb and unsettle the old Peace buying private honour with publique danger CHAP. LXXII BE not covetous for priority in advising thy Prince to a doubtful Attempt which concern's his State if it prosper the Glory must be his if it fail the dishonour will be thine When the Spirit of a Prince is stopped in the discharge it will recoyl and wound the first Adviser CHAP. LXXIII IF being the Commander of an army thou espiest a gross and manifest errour in thine Enemy look wel to thy self for treachery is not farr off He whom desire of victory binds too much is apt to stumble at his own Ruin CHAP. LXXIV IT is the heigh of a provident Commander not onely to keep his own designs indiscoverable to his Enemy but likewise to be studious to discover his He that can best do the one and nearest guess at the other is the next step to a conqueror But he that fail's in both must either ascribe his Overthrow to his own Folly or his victory to the Hand of Fortune CHAP. LXXV IF thou be ambitious of Honour and yet fearfull of the Canker of Honour Envy so behave thy self that Opinion may be satisfied in this that thou seekest Merit and not Fame and that thou attributest thy Preferment rather to Providence than thy own Vertue Honour is a due debt to the deserver and who ever envyed the paymēt of a debt a just advancement is a providentiall act of Providence CHAP. LXXVI IT behoves a Prince to bee very circumspect before he make a League which being made and then broke is the forfeiture of his Honour He that obtain's a Kingdom with the rupture of his faith hath gain'd the Glory of a Conquest but lost the honour of a Conquerour CHAP. LXXVII LEt States that aim at greatness beware lest new Gentry multiply too fast or grow too glorious Where there is too great a disproportion betwixt the Gentry and the common Subject the one grow's insolent the other slavish When the body of the Gentry grow's too glorious for a Corslet there the heads of the vulgar wax too heavy for the Helmet CHAP. LXXVII UPon the beleaguering of