Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	answer_v	king_n	lord_n	1,061	5	4.0171	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79881	Aurea Legenda, or Apothegms, sentences, and sayings of many wise and learned men, useful for all sorts of persons Collected out of many authors by Sa. Clark, sometimes pastor in B.F.	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1682 (1682)	Wing C4488A; ESTC R223906	51,711	152

to Honour Moderation preserves us in it Men come down by Domineering Haste undoeth that which a just delay ripeneth It was his excellent Motto Nolo Minor me timeat despiciatve Major My Inferiours shall not fear my Superiors shall not despise me Humility shuns Honour and is the way to it The purest Gold is most Ductile It 's commonly a good Blade that bends well The Reed that bends and is whole is better than the strong Oak that not bending breaks There is no such prevalent Workman as Sedulity and Diligence A man would wonder at the mighty things which have been done by degrees and gentle Augmentations Patience Diligence and Moderation are the common steps to Excellency It 's for Omnipotence to do mighty things in a Moment But by degrees to grow to greatness is the course he hath left for man We make our selves more injuries than are offered us and the apprehension of wrong doth more harm than the smartest part of the wrong it self It 's the Wise man's Glory and the States-mans Prudence to pass by offences A Fool struck Cato in the Bath and when he was sorry for it Cato had forgot it For saith Seneca Melius putavit non agnoscere quam ignoscere Light injuries are made none by not regarding which with a pursuing revenge grow both to height and burden and live to mischief us when they might die to secure us The upper Region is most composed The Wisest men rage the least knowing that Observation and Resentment do but provoke and encourage the Malice which neglect and silence deads and dissipates Discontent is the greatest Weakness of a generous Soul which is always so intent upon it's unhappiness that it forgets it's Remedies Faction can be as little spared in a Monarchy as an Eye or an Ear as through which the Prince hath a cleerer apprehension of his own and other's affairs than he can have when his Followers are all agreed But when Factions are carried too high and too Violent it 's a sign of Weakness in Princes and tends much to the Prejudice of their Authority and Business Queen Elizabeth had a happy time of it if it were but for this That her Favourers Divisions were her support For thereby she attained the knowledge of all things that happened So as no Suit or Design passed the Royal assent before she understood as much of Reason as Enemies or Friends could bring for or against it The Lord Willoughby in Queen Elizabeths days having taken a Spanish Genet designed for a Present to that King and being offered either a Thousand pound or a Hundred pound a year in exchange for it He nobly answered If it had been a Commander he would freely have released him but being only a Horse he saw no reason why he could not keep a good Horse as well as the King of Spain himself It 's a right noble Spirit not to be so stupid as not to resent nor so unworthy as to retain a sense of Injuries To have the Courage to observe an affront is to be even with an Adversary To have the Patience to forgive it is to be above him Sr. Henry Wotton as he was travelling to Rome asked his Host at Siena a Man well versed in men and Business what Rules he would give him for his Port Conduct and Carriage There is one short remembrance said he will carry you safe through the World nothing but this Keep your thoughts close and your Countenance loose Seneca said That the good things of Prosperity are to be wished and the good things of Adversity to be admired Prosperity said my Lord Bacon is the blessing of the Old Testament and Adversity of the New We are consecrated by Dangers to Services and we know not what we can do until we have seen all we can fear The common People saith one are like Rivers which seldom grow so impetuous as to transcend the bounds of Obedience but upon the Over-flowing of a general Oppression Good Husbandry may as well stand with great Honour as Breadth may may consist with Height Of Edward Earl of Darby it is recorded That when he was buried no Trades-man could demand the Payment of a Groat that he owed him Nor a Neighbour the restitution of a Penny he had wronged him Sr. William Fitz-Williams a brave Soldier used to say That he durst never adventure upon War with Men till he had made his Peace with God That a good Conscience breeds great Resolutions and the innocent Soul is impregnable Six things are recorded of him 1. That he never made the Aged the Young or the Weak the Objects of his Rage that could not be so of his Fears 2. That he never basely killed in cold Blood them that had nobly escaped his Sword in Hot. 3. That he never led the Soldiers without pay or quartered in the Country without Money 4. That tho he was second to none that acted in the War such was his Valour yet he was the first that spake for Peace such his sweet Disposition 5. That he would never suffer a Clergy-Man should be abused A Church to be violated or the Dead to be un-buried 6. That he would never force an Enemy unto necessity always saying Let us disarm them of their best Weapons Despair Not fight an Enemy before he had Skirmished him Nor undertake a Design before he Consulted his God his Council his Friends his Map and his History Sr. Walter Mildmay coming to the Court after he had founded his Colledge Emanuel in Cambridg Queen Elizabeth said to him Sr. Walter I hear that you have erected a Puritan Foundation No Madam said he far be it from me to Countenance any thing contrary to your Established Laws But I have set an Acron which when it comes to be an Oak God alone knows what will be the Fruit of it The middle Region of the Air is coolest as most distant from the direct Beams that warm the Highest and the reflexed that heat the lowest The mean man that is as much below the Favour of the Court as above the Business of the Country is the most happy and Composed man This being the utmost of a knowing Man's wish in England That he were as much out of the reach of Contempt as to be above a Constable and as much out of the Compass of trouble as to be below a Justice There is a Glory in the obscurity of worthy Men who as the Sun which they equal as well in common Influence as Lustre are most looked on when Eclipsed Cloths for necessity warm Cloths for Health cleanly for Decency lasting for Strength was the Maxim and Practice of Judg Manwood insomuch as Queen Elizabeth called him her Good-man Judg. Tullies Offices a Book which Boys read and men understand was so esteemed by the Lord Burleigh that to his dying Day he always carried it about him either in his Bosom or in his Pocket as a complete Piece that like Aristotle's Rhetorick would make both