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
A43488	Observations vpon historie by W.H., Esq.	Habington, William, 1605-1654.	1641 (1641)	Wing H166; ESTC R20802	24,559	176

preferment dispence with an oath himselfe had beene the chiefe actor to worke Vladislaus to But above all Scanderbeg that miracle of true and happie courage animated to this warre promising to bring 30000. Souldiers both for strength of body and observation of Discipline excelling the most famed of Europe This joynt power in so much security of Amurath precipitated Vladislaus into warre which he managed with as much good order and secrecie as a businesse so generall could admit For first present notice was given to the Italian fleete now in the Helespont that it should no way retire upon any rumour of peace Then was it mutually agreed that Scanderbeg should at an appointed day meete in Servia and there both Armies joyne in the common cause The season of the yeare might have deter'd any man from this attempt in the depth of winter Considering whē the King was come into Bulgaria and had numbred his men Dracula Vayvod of Valachia disswaded any farther progresse into that Country Scanderbeg not yet come with his Forces being in command of an enemie who used often to Hauke with a retinue more populous than his Armie But ambition and presumption grounded on former good successe deafen'd him to sober councell so that he went on as if heaven had beene tyed by miracle still to come downe to his succour Which obstinacie when Dracula perceiv'd he presented the King with two lustie young men to bee his guides through the Country and two swift horses to serve him for flight upon the worst of fortune desiring his Majestie since contrary to his long experience hee violently was carried into so inevitable a danger that he would accept that gift which might bee of advantage if that happen'd the very thought whereof he trembled at But withall he prayd that this present might prove to be given to vaine whereby his prayers would appeare to have taken effect But no ill aboding language abated his confidence and Religion which before deter'd now gave courage for what at first was held a resolution doubtfull to Conscience became from dispensable to be lawfull and in fine meritorious So uncertaine is the judgement of man that frequently those designes which carry the deformity of sinne at the first sight become by long acquaintance of the eye amiable and win upon us by the apparencie of vertue Mistake either deluding in the first encounter or errour betraying upon a long discourse For practise of sinne begets confidence and when punishment wants swiftnesse in the execution it loseth by little and little upon the beleefe The noyse of this Armie weaken'd Amurath out of his devout dreame and fearing his enemie might force him to that solitude hee voluntarily had undertooke againe he entred upon the government Which hee found running into disorder by the weake age of Mahomet no just title or hopefull youth creating authority to that Prince who wants vertue to make his subjects beleeve him their superiour Amurath suddenly gathered in Asia a vast power and presently marcheth to transport it into Europe Two parts of the world being brought together to decide the great quarrell betweene these two Princes But the Hellespont was stopt by the Popes and the Venetian Gallies and the distracted Turke began to feare his command was to be imprisoned in the third part of the then knowne earth To enlarge himselfe he marcht by the sea side up the Streights of Bosphorus where hee found the Marchant ships of Genoway ready to trafficke with him who transported his Armie selling Europe for a hundred thousand Duckets Though some lay this crime to the Graecians who were possest of the strong holds upon the Bosphorus and whose faith the Turks gold corrupted so farre that in the event every man became a Traytor to himselfe The Turkish Armie past the Streights the King of Hungary began to prophecie danger and intreate advice Those violent Spirits who disdain'd the enemie a farre off approaching now somewhat neere too much over-valued him Passion like some Opticke glasse that presents a man at one end a Pigmie at the other a Gyant never faithfully informing the understanding They who with most swiftnesse had ranne thus farre wanted not now the same motion to carry them backe And the King though hee never fail'd in courage was not unwilling to have provided for his safety with some hazard of his honour But the brave Huniades opposed and let him know that the number of the Turke was over-macht by the courage of the Christian and that the Almighty who disposeth victory delighted in so just a cause to appropriate the honour of the day to his owne power That the happie course of their attempts hitherto had instructed them how feeble that enemie is and how weak arm'd who brings to the battle the inward horrour of a wicked conscience That they with whom now the conflict was to bee were no other but those effoeminate slaves who had yeelded to the Hungarians still matter of triumph Vladislaus was not uneasie to be perswaded to danger and when he perceiv'd there was no retreate but must suffer the scandall of flight hee resolv'd his life to want weight if put into the scale with honour He left therefore the order of the battle to Huniades who to frustrate the advantage the Turkes had in number order'd his Army so that on side was a marsh on the other the Carriages and at the back a steepe hill Thus out of danger to be encompassed by the multitude of his enemie he entertain'd the battle and perform'd so well the part of a great Commander that the Turkes began to despaire and the Christians to presume of victory when old Amurath seeing his souldiers ready to flye and by the example of former overthrowes misdoubting the present fight pull'd out of his bosome the League of late enter'd into and solemnely sworne by Vladislaus and holding it in his hand with his eye fixt upon the Crucifixe which the voluntary Christians bore for their ensigne cryed out to Christ to revenge the perjurie of his people who vvithout just cause had violated the faith they in his name had given and to shevv himselfe a God novv his honour vvas concern'd The prosperitie that so flatter'd the Christians began through the disorder of the Clergie men and over confidence of the zealous souldier on the suddaine to change and the King engaged by too much courage among the thickest of the Ianizares vvas slaine and vvith him the glory of the day fell to the enemie For his head fixt upon a Lance being presently shevved a spectacle of terrour the Hungarians vvho should have dravvne revenge from so barbarous an object lost all courage As if Religion to God had not equally animated them with the zeale they owed the Prince But there is a strange kinde of more than humane vertue in the presence of a King who as the soule quickens the body of an Armie which if he miscarries becomes an unactive dead lumpe A King whose presence

is vitall heate to the loyall but lightning to the Rebellious Huniades by flight reserved himselfe to farther fortune but Iulian perisht there lesse wounded by the enemies cymiters than the reproaches of the Christians who obrayded him to have perswaded with breach of league to enter into this fatall war Which had it ended in victory the world would have said that Christ disdain'd to regulate successe according to the vaine invocation of Amurath and that it Religion is not so ruinous to it selfe as to command observation of faith with a faithlesse enemie whose very law enlargeth him to perjurie The losse of Constantinople of the Turke THe great City Mistis of the Easterne World which gloried in bearing the name of Constantine the Great was now after eleven hundred yeares commanded by another Constantine But age and fortune made it now the common pitty which had beene the envie of all the most Noble townes of the habitable earth For Cities like humane bodies have their diseases and death is their fate cruell to them as us The vast extent of its command was streightned to a small circuit and it appear'd onely its owne monument serving the Inhabitants for an empty boast and strangers for History It had beene often attempted by the Turkish power who disdain'd the Christians even a titular Empire having forc't away all those large Provinces that heretofore preserv'd it formidable Mahomet was now enterd upon the Turkish government and the Neighbouring Christians were comforted in the change Amurath the father having assured them by a long cruell Reigne that no Prince could succeede more dangerous Moreover this new King was by the Mother a Christian which gave them hope who were willing to entertaine any that his youth had receiv'd good impressions of Religion But he soone assured the world that his blood by the mixture was growne so impure that it rejected all thought of a Divinitie that might curbe it when invited either by lust or ambition And hee hath left it disputable to Posteritie to the tyrannie of whether passion he more slavered himselfe But the latter was of farre worse consequence which perswaded him as soone to attempt the ruine of Constantinople as he enter'd on his owne Kingdome It being a Law enacted by the unruly pride of that family not to beleeve their command glorious unlesse unjust as if Rapine and injurie were the two supports of Empire At first hee entertain'd friendship with the Christians having two regards revenge and treason The King of Caramania had provoked his rage in wanting patience to smile when he was injured whose punishment was the first resolution of his government And this dissembled friendship was the easiest way to worke the Christians to securitie which would be a charme to make them dreame of safety But they soone found themselves betray'd for Mahomet was no sooner releas'd from the designe of his revenge but presently resolv'd on his ambition Constantinople was prepared against and with the more fierce desire In regard the conquest would not only possesse him of the most Imperiall Citie of the world but raise him above the victories of his Father and Grand-father Bazazet who in vaine had attempted it In which contention Mahomet shewed that having no competitor for greatnesse among the living he was forc't to rivall with the most eminent conquerours of the dead And no family producing spirits worthy enough he was constrain'd to contest with his own by out-shining the glories of his Ancestors to make his memory the wonder of all History and the envie of posterite The Spring opening the wayes for an Armie hee gather'd three hundred thousand Souldiers the least part of which were the naturall Turkes or renegades Christians were the maine bulke of that fatall body and they onely such whom his command and tyrannie enforced to the most unjust executions but voluntaries out of Germanie Hungary and Bohemia whom hope of prey and entertainement invited to betray the honour of their Religion Men who coveted the warres to satisfie their Avarize by Rapine having no honest wayes to subsist Men who beleev'd their soules as temporary as their bodies and who mockt their Saviour by carrying his name when they fought against his cause Men whose memory is onely safe in an eternall darknesse The poore Emperour Constantine having no treasure and therefore no friends sought by his Ambassadors to the Princes of the West to move them by Religious compassion to participate his dangers But they had their quarrells at home hopes to encroach upon their Neighbours territory Jealosie of anothers growing power Subjects not perfectly regulated to obedience and other small excuses begot a ruinous neglect of the common cause With much solicitation the Pope the King of Naples and the state of Venice condiscended to furnish out thirtie Gallies in defence of that place for which what Christian should not blush not to have hazarded a life But this assistance was no more remedie than trecherous comfort of a Phisitian to a patient past all cure For it onely serv'd to please the imagination of the wretched Emperour who like a man now drowning was willing to catch at every smallest hold For this ayde which could not have beene of strength to resist such an opposition fail'd him too But what title had the Graecians to complaine the neglect of strangers who were so cruell to themselves In the publicke danger every man threw the care of his safetie on his Prince yet tax'd his want of providence grumbled against his smallest impositions and denied supply when instructed in their perills no man conceiving himselfe interessed to support the falling Empire though certaine to be over-whelm'd by it If declaration were made of Turkish Forces levied it was presently suspected a state bug-beare to surprize the people with unnecessary feares If the enemie took the field the Emperour was calumniated of underhand confederacies If upon undeniable appearence of invasion contribution for defence was required the over politickes whisper'd it nothing but a State-ambush to seize unawares without Legall Order the treasure of the Empire Thus when a Kingdomes sinnes have procured an universall desolation by the just sentence of the eternall Iudge the delinquent is blinded by his vices and becomes his owne executioner Already vvas Mahomet Master of one of ther elements the vvater paying him tribute For before he layd siege to the Citie he built such strengths upon the Streights of Bosphorus that the rich trading to Caffa and other Ports upon the Euxin sea was interdixted So that the Empire acknowledg'd a maime the Merchant disabled to furnish the Exchequer with the former customes And the insolent Turke grew wealthy by frequent surprize of such vessells which to their owne repentance and ruine continued traffique For what dangers threatned by a remorselesse enemie and a more cruell sea can deterre the covetous The enemie drawing neere the Citie the Emperour in haste made levie of what Forces hee could in so short a time and so