Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	fight_n	1,135	5	8.9229	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03407	A sanctuary for honest men. Or An abstract of humane wisedome Contayning, a certaine way leading to a perfect knowledge of Man, and directing to a discreet cariage in the vvhole course of our humane condition. Collected and composed by Io: Hitchcock student in the Middle Temple.	Hitchcock, John, student in the Middle Temple.	1617 (1617)	STC 13530; ESTC S118697	37,328	202

Leagues which are either perpetuall or limited for a certaine time or for commerce and traffike only or else for amitie to be sworne friends and coadiutors one to the other and herein it is needfull for a Prince to ioyne in alliance with those that are neighbors and puissant and not to make the league perpetuall but for certaine yeares that so he may either take away or adde to the Articles or wholly forsake them or else renew the league before it be expired as need shall require THe Actiue office of a Prince concerning his gouernment of the State consisteth in the acquisition of the loue of the subiects The actiue office of a Prince and in authoritie the first is attained by gentlenesse and clemencie in commanding beneficence in prouiding plentie of come and victuall for the sustenance of the meaner people and liberalitie already handled in the virtues of a Prince which is most needfull in the entrance to a new State The second which is authoritie is attained not by a tyrannicall crueltie for the Prince to make his will a law employing all to his owne profit or pleasure not respecting the publike good for this breedeth hatred and contempt which both proceed from rigour in punishing or from auarice either in exacting too much or giuing too little but this authoritie is attained and preserued 1. by a discreet seueritie whereby a good Prince in some cases may doe that which beareth a shew of tyrannie crudelis esse medicus in laethali vulnere 2. by a couragious constancie or a staied resolution enforcing the obseruation of the ancient lawes and customes 3. by holding the sterne of the State the honour and power of commanding in his owne hand not referring all to his Councell Now this Actiue office of a Prince is either Peaceable or Militarie The peaceable office of a Prince the Peaceable by reason of the multiplicitie of affaires cannot wholly bee prescribed but it consisteth partly in auscultation to be well aduertised of all things by such as are faithfull wise and secret about him especially of his honour and duty his defects what is done in the State and among the bordering neighbours and partly in action 1. to haue a memoriall of the affaires of the State of the most worthy and best deseruing personage and of the gifts bestowed to whom wherefore and how much 2. to appoint rewards punishments the one must bee done immediately by the Prince the other subordinately by his officers The militarie action of a Prince The Militarie Action of a Prince consisteth in enterprising making and finishing warre To make an enterprize iust Rules in enterprising three things are required first that it be denounced vndertaken by the Prince Secondly that it bee for a iust cause whether defensiue for the defence of his life liberty country Allies and confederates or offensiue proceeding from some former iniury Thirdly that it be for a good end as peace and quietnesse or the like To make warre Rules in making warre three things are required Munition Men and Rules of warre The principall munitions of warre are Money Victualls Munition and Armes both defensiue and offensiue Men. The men are to assaile and defend and are eyther Souldiers or Leaders The Souldiers are diuided into footmen and horse naturall and strangers ordinary and subsidiary and these must be first chosen then disciplined In the choice of Souldiers fiue things are to be considered first that they betaken out of hard places and accustomed to all manner of labor secondly that they be young lusty thirdly of an able body and sufficient stature fourthly of a bold and resolute spirit fiftly if it may be of an honest condition In the discipline of Souldiers two ends are to be proposed Valour and Manners to make the Souldiers valiant honest to Valour 3. things are needfull First daily exercise in Armes without intermission Secondly trauell paines to learne to digge to plant a Pallaside to order a Barricado to carry heauie burthens and the like Thirdly Order 1. in the distribution of the troopes into Battalions Regiments Ensigns Camerads 2. in the situation of the Campe diuiding it proportionably into quarters hauing the places entries issues and lodgings fitted both for horsemen and foote whereby it may bee easie for euery man to find his quarter and place 3. in the March in the field against the enemy that euery one keepe his ranke and bee equally distant one from an other And this order is most needfull for securing the Armie and for the facillity of the remoues and commands of the Captaines To Manners the second part of warlike discipline three things are required 1 Continency to depresse gluttony drunkennesse whooredome and all loose sensuality in the Souldiers 2. Modesty in words to shun all ostentation and brauery of speech 3. Abstinence to keepe their hands from violence pillage and robbery This of the Souldiers The Captains are of two sorts the Generall who must be either the Prince himselfe or his deputy and the Subalterne Leaders of Companies In the Generall this is requisite 1. that hee be wise and well experienced in the Art military 2. that hee be cold and stayed free from precipitation and temerity 3. that hee bee vigilant and actiue teaching by his owne example The rules of war being the third thing required to make warre by reason of the diuers occurrences cannot be perpetuall and certaine but the generall aduisements respect eyther the whole time of warre the fight the ranged battailes or the battalles beeing ioyned Rules of warre The rules of the whole time of warre are these 1. carefully to meete the occasions and to intercept the enemy in his 2. To make profit of rumours that flye abroad but not to bee troubled with them to alter a resolution grounded vppon good reason 3. For neyther side to be too confident in his own strength nor to presume vpon the weaknesse of his enemy for this breedeth neglect and carelesnesse 4. To enquire carefully of the enemy of the nature capacity and designements of the Chieftaine of the nature manners and kinde of life of the enemies of the situation of the places and the nature of the Country Touching the fight these circumstances are to be obserued 1. The time which must be seldome and in necessity the viands or treasure failing the men beginning to distast the wars or the like 2. The place not within his owne territories vnlesse the enemy be already entered and then he must not hazard the battell till he haue an other army in supply and for the field it must bee considered whether it be fitter for himselfe or the enemy as the Champion is best for the Caualary streight and narrow places set with piles full of ditches and trees for the Infantery 3. The manner of the fight is to bee considered and heere the most aduantagious is the best whether it be by surprize subtlety

stratagems close and convert fayning to feare so to ensnare the enemy or by watching his ouersights the better to preuaile against him For Ranges of Battailes these things are required 1. A comely ordering of the men 2 A hidden supply alwaies in a readinesse to astonish the enemy vnawares 3. To be first in the field and ranged in battell aray 4. A cheerefull countenance of the Generall and the Captaines 5. An oration to encourage the souldiers laying open the honour of valour and the iustice of their cause The Battailes beeing ioyned if the Army wauer the Generall must animate them by his own example and discharge the duety of a resolute Leader and if the fielde be his hee must stay his Souldiers least in pursuit of the enemy they disband and scatter themselues and so the vanquished gather head and ouercome them If he be vanquished he must not be astonished but renew his forces make a new Leuie put good garrisons in his strongest places and hope to better his fortunes The third head of the military action of a Prince The third head of this Military action is to finish Warre by Peace which must bee concluded vpon good and honest conditions without fraud and hypocrisie otherwaies it were better to die in the bedde of honour then to serue dishonourably The rules heerein respect first the vanquished who should continue armed and make shew of security and resolution Secondly the vanquishers who ought not to be ouer-hardly perswaded to peace 1. Because an old enemy groweth cunning dangerous 2. because the continuance of warre is burthensome to the state 3. Quia tutior certa pax speratâ victoriâ Because a certaine Peace is better then a hoped for victory Prudence required in difficult affaires and ill accidēts THe second part of Prudence is Priuate which respecteth the carriage both of the Prince and of priuate men in difficult affaires and accidēts these affairs accidents are either publike or priuate whereof some are to come and threaten vs and are doubtfull and ambiguous other present and pressing vs and are difficult dangerous Ill accidēts to come In those euils that are to come and threaten vs the best way to oppose a mans self strongly against the accident so to breake the necke of it by his vigilancy before it come or else to resolue with himself patiently to beare whatsoeuer happeneth In those that are present and presse vs whether it bee some present vnlucky accident Jll accidents present or the remembrance of any that is past or some violent passion that troubleth the best way is to diuert a mans thoughts to some other obiect so hee may lessen if not extinguish his griefe In ambiguous affaire as in the choice of two things that seeme equally good or euill Ambigu●us affaires so that the inability to choose the best breedeth anxiety perplexity the safest way is to leane to that part that hath most honestie and iustice as a traueller doubting of the neerest way must take the straitest Dangerous affaires In difficult and daungerous affaires a man must be both wise to know the nature and to foresee the euent of the accident and couragious to auoide it by industrie or aide Now of those accidents that are difficult and dangerous some are secret and hidden others manifest and open those that are hidden and most dangerous are two Coni●ration Coniuration which is a conspiracie of one or many against the person of the Prince and Treason Treason which is a conspiracy or enterprize against a place or company although we commonly call them Traytors that pretend it to the crowne Now a Prince must endeuour to preuent these two daungerous accidents by these meanes 1. By Innocencie for this is the best safe-guard of a Prince 2. By a subordinate vigilancie that is by the secret enquiry of such as are discreet and faithfull about him who are his eyes and eares 3 By making no shew of distrusting their plots but attending the euent without astonishment 4. By the rigorous punishment of the cōspirators which punishments must bee sometimes sudden if the number bee small and knowne sometimes dilatory to seeke by tortures to know the confederates Popular commotions Of those dangerous accidents that are manifest and open the commotions of the People are the greatest and these are of many sorts when the insurrection is betweene themselues it is eyther a sudden tumult or a faction when it is against the Prince th● State or Magistrate it i● eyther Sedition Rebe●lion or ciuill warre Sudden Tumults are nothing but commotions of the people raised in a heate Sudden tumults and in this case the best way to asswage the people is to procure some eminent man reuerenc't for his grauity place and reputation to speake to the people first in the smooth calme of mildnesse and perswasion then if that preuaile not in the thunder of authority Faction or Confederacy is a complot or association of one against an other among the subiects Faction arising commonly from ambition or hatred and in this case if it bee betweene great houses cities or communities the Prince himselfe must endeuour to make Peace betweene them eyther by gentle entreaties or threatning or else appoint his arbitrators and if the faction be between great multitudes that wil● not bee appeased by iustice the Prince must employ his force to extinguish it Sedition Sedition is a violent commotion of a multitude against a Prince or Magistrate arising commonly from oppression 〈◊〉 feare eyther of oppression or punishment for some hainous offence sometimes from a licentious liberty sometimes from want and necessity Now the best meanes to appease this seditious rout are these first as it was aduised concerning sudden tumults to cause men of authority to shew themselues and speak vnto them who must endeuour to dissolue them by hope and feare drawing vnto them if that helpe not some few of them vnder hand by secret rewards and promises so to haue intelligence of their carriages and purposes yeelding to the rest in doubtfull termes some part of their demaund which may afterwards iustly bee reuoked Secondly to astonish them with the sight of an armed power but not to depresse them so vnlesse necessity compell Rebellion Rebellion is an insurrection of the people against the Prince because of his tyrannie eyther in his wrongfull vsurpation of the Crowne or his vniust and violent domination and gouernment against the Lawes and customes though somtimes but supposed Now if a Prince feare rebellion the best remedy is to shun the cause therefore let him bee wise as a Serpent but innocent as a Doue Ciuill war Ciuill warre is a presse or conduct of Armes by the subiects arising from one of these popular publique commotions which hath now fortified it selfe and gotten an ordinarie trayne and forme of war And it hath two causes the one secret and vnknowne the