Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	ambassador_n	great_a	king_n	1,072	5	3.7482	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09164	The expedicion into Scotla[n]de of the most woorthely fortunate prince Edward, Duke of Soomerset, vncle vnto our most noble souereign lord ye ki[n]ges Maiestie Edvvard the. VI. goouernour of hys hyghnes persone, and protectour of hys graces realmes, dominions [and] subiectes made in the first yere of his Maiesties most prosperous reign, and set out by way of diarie, by W. Patten Londoner.	Patten, William, fl. 1548-1580.	1548 (1548)	STC 19476.5; ESTC S114184	77,214	314

By reason of which letters fyercros thear wear assembled in their camp as I haue hard sū of thē selues not of the meanest sort to confesse aboue .xxvi. M. fighting footmen beside .ii. M horsemē prickers as they cal them and hereto .iiii. thousande I rishe Archers brought by therle of Arguile all whiche sauing certaī that we had slayne the day before cam out of theyr campe to encoūter with vs. Now whear they wil haue it no felde let thē tell their cardes and coūt their wynnyng and they shall fynde it a felde howbeit by myn assent we shall not herein muche stick with thē since both without them the truthe shall haue place and also by the curtesie of gaming we ought sumwhat to suffer and let euer the losers haue their libertie of woordes But whatsoeuer it wear felde or no feld I dare be bold to sai not one of vs all is ony whit prouder of it then woold be the tooth that hathe byt the tung ootherwise then in respect that they wear our mortal enemies and woold haue doon asmuche or more to vs nor are nothing so fain to haue beaten theim as enemyes as we woold reioyce to receiue them as frendes nor are not so glad of the glorie of thys felde as we woold be ioyfull of a stedfaste atonement whearby like cuntreymen and cuntreymen like frend frend nay like broother and broother we might in one perpetual and brotherly life ioyn loue ▪ lyue together accordynge as thearunto bothe by the appointement of God at the firste and by continuaūce of nature since we seme to haue bene made and ordeyned seperate by seas from all oother nacions in customes and conditions littell differinge in shape and langage nothynge at all The whych thynges oother nacions viewing in chartes and redyng in bookes and thear with hering thys tumult thys rightyng these incursions and intestine warres betwene vs do thearat no lesse marueyl and blesse thē then they woold too here Gascoing fight with Fraūce Aragone with Spayne Flaūders with Brabāt or to speake more nere and naturally frende with frende brother with brother or rather hand with hand To the Scottes That no litle bothe woōder and wo it is to me my Cūtreemen for I can vouchsafe ye well the name to cōsider what thing might moue ye what tale might incense ye what drifte force ye what charme enchaūt ye or what furie coniure ye so fondly to flye from cōmō sense as ye shoulde haue nede to be exhorted to that for the whiche it wear your partes most chefly to sue so vntowardly to turne from humaine reason as ye wil be the hynderars of your owne weales so vntruly to swarue from the bondes bothe of promise and coouenaūt as ye wyll nedes prouoke your frendes to plaine reuēgement of opē war Your frendes in dede nay neuer wynke at the woorde that haue so long before these warres forborne oure quarels soo iust that wear so loth to begyn and since that suffred so many iniuries vnreuēged entreating your men taken not as captiues of oure mortall enemyes but as Ambassadours of oure derest frendes Oh how may it be thought to be possible that ye shoulde euer forget or els not euer remember the great munificence of our most magnificent prince our late kyng that when with most crueltie by slaughter of subiectes and burnyng of tounes At Allowentide M.d.xlii your last king Iamy with all your nobilitee had inuaded hys Realme and soone after the inuincible pollecie of my lorde Protectours grace then liyng at Anwike as lord wardeyn of our Marches by the suffraūce of Gods fauour which thākes to his Maiestie hath not yet to left vs at Solom Mosse made them captyue and thrall to our prynces oune will with whom for their dedes if hys hyghnes had delt then as they had deserued what should haue blamed hym or who coulde haue controlled since what he could doo they could not resiste and what he should do they had set hym a sample But hys Maiestie among the houge heape of oother hys pryncely vertues beyng euer of nature so enclined too clemencie as neuer of will would vse extremite euen straight forgettinge who they wear and soone forgyuynge what they hadde doon did not onely then receyue theym into hys highnes grace place euery of them with one of hys nobilitie or counsayll not in pryson lyke a captiue pardon theim their raundsommes whearwith if they be ought woorth sum Prince mighte haue thought hymn selfe ryche and hereto most frendely for the tyme they wear here entertein them but also of hys Princely liberalitee impartinge treasure at their departing to eche of them all dyd set theim francke and free at their own doores Touchinge theyr sylkes their cheynes and theyr chere besyde I mynde not here amōg matters of weight to tary on such trifles Mary thear be amoong vs that saw their habite and porte bothe at their cummynge and at their departinge Take it not that I hit you here in the teeths with oure good turnes yet knowe I no cause more then for humanitees sake why ye shoulde bee forborne but as a man may sumtyme without bost of hym selfe say symply the thing that is true of him selfe so maye the subiect without obbraid of benefites recount the bounty of hys Princes larges Although perchaūce it wear not much agaīst manerflatly to break curtesy with thē who either of rechelesnes forget their frendes benignitie or els of ingratitude will not acknowledge it To my matter now What woold Cyrus Darius or Anniball in this case haue doon noble cōquerours and no tyrauntes but why so far of what woold your owne kinge Iamy haue doon naye what kynge els woolde haue doon as our kyng dyd but sūwhat to saie more As our prince in cases of pitee was of hys own disposiciō most merciful so wanted thear not then of cōsaillours very nere about hys highnes that shewed them selues their frendes furthered hys affectes in that behalfe to the vttermost being thus perswaded that as ye of the nobilitee appered men neither rude of behauour nor base of birth soo ye woold neuer shew your selues inhumaine and ingrate towardes hym too whome ye should be so depely bounde And though since that tyme God haue wrought hys wyll vpon hys Maiestie a losse to vs sure woorthy neuer inough to haue be lamented but that hys mercie hathe agayn so bountifully recompensed vs wyth an image so nie representyng hys fathers Maiestie and vertues of so great hope and towardnes yet be thear leaft vs moste of the coūsailours we had who vpon occasion will bend bothe pour and wil to shew you further frendshippe In parte of proof thearof to speake now of later daies how many meanes and weys hath my lord Protectours grace within his tyme of gouernaūce vnder the kinges Maiestie that now is attēpted and vsed to shōne these warres and show him selfe your frēde what pollecie hathe he left vnproued what