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enemy_n	army_n	king_n	retire_v	1,094	5	8.9663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16632	Almansor the learned and victorious king that conquered Spaine. His life and death published by Robert Ashley, out of the librarie of the Uniuersitie of Oxford.; Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo. Part 2. English. Selections	Luna, Miguel de, 16th/17th cent.; Ashley, Robert, 1565-1641.	1627 (1627)	STC 354; ESTC S100094	34,400	96

Alcaydes of his men of Warre yet when he intended to winne and conquer any kingdome or Prouince by land he delighted exceedingly to bee present in person with his Armie For hee said that the vigour of his spirit alone and the onely imagining of his Alcaydes Captaynes and Souldiers that hee was personally present and that he aduentured his life as well as they was sufficient to ouercome many Enemies and made them with redoubled courage to doe their endeauour In this manner hee wonne thirteene set Battailes in the field and tooke fiue Kings of the Gentiles without being defeated in any of them or his Armie routed and euen with a few Souldiers in regard of those that came against him he performed great Exploits The most notable was that when hee had ouercome one of the Kings of the Gentiles in the Country of Deuque called Abni Raquib and an Armie of seuentie thousand foote and foure thousand horse which King escaped by flight and met with a Sonne in Law of his named Abenyusael Salami who came to succour him whereupon receiuing new courage hee turned againe to see whether hee could recouer what hee had lost and bee reuenged of his enemy And albeit hee came against him with fresh Souldiers that were not wearied which were no fewer then forty thousand foot and two thousand horse and the Armie of the King Almansor was now wearied and enfeebled many hauing beene hurt and slaine in the former battaile and he being much perplexed yet seeing he could not now retire but with great losse and disaduantage nor without some imputation of cowardise he resolued to abide his enemies encounter anew and to re-enforce his Armie he went euery where himselfe putting them in order and encouraging of them saying alowde after this manner Good Souldiers and valiant Warriours let vs dye with Honour like Conquerors and victorious as wee are at this present and let vs not flye dishonourably for J will bee the first that shall set vpon the enemie and bee yee not afraid since Abilgualit Almansor is with you whom the Souereigne God hath neuer yet suffered to be euercome no more shall be at that time With these words hee began the Battaile without farther speech and he fought valiantly himselfe in his Royall person killed many and tooke the King Abni Raquib and his Sonne in Law dyed fighting in that Battaile brauely And when they had taken the spoyle of his Campe all his Souldiers said that the highest God had made Abilgualit victorious and that with great reason he might be called Almansor And from that day forward they named him Almansor Abenforoh whereas before he was called Abilgualit Iacob Abninacer albeit in all these Chapters which I haue written of his life I haue alwayes named him Almansor that I might not alter his name which was best knowne and he might well be so called because he was neuer ouercome in any battaile nor any of his Generals in any warres or battailes which they fought or made by his direction eyther by Sea or by Land which are all registred in the Booke which is written of his life and warres of his time and of his great Exploits and those of his Alcaydes and Gouernours of his Armies with which I intend not to cloy the Readers But will only rehearse the number of them which were seuentie and three Battailes or foughten Fields by Land and thirteene fights by Sea Touching the diuiding of the Spoyles which his Souldiers had when the Battailes were ended he commanded all to be gathered and laid together in such sort that none durst take any thing without his leaue And the distributiō of them was made according to his Statutes and Ordinances for the wars which was that euery Souldier which was slaine in the Warre should haue his part and portion as farre forth as they that were liuing and such parts and portions were accordingly deliuered to the companions and friends of the dead who vndertooke the deliuering of them to the Children Wiues and Heires of them to whom they belonged For he said it was not iust nor reasonable that hee who dyed fighting should lose his part seeing they that were his had losse enough in losing of him without losing the goods which were gotten with the price of his life When hee had made this distribution he vsed to giue audience to any that was grieued therewith giuing order briefly and summarily in what manner hee should be righted in such sort that they were all satisfied and well contented And this was the chiefe cause that when hee intended any warre he was so sought to and serued by his followers who were readie to hazard their liues for him without feare This King Iacob Alnansor as hee was very louing to the Learned and friendly to the valiant and vertuous so was hee as aduerse an enemy to Lyers Pratlers and Gamesters and abhorred and loathed the Loytering Vnthrifts and Idlers for he said that all sueh persons were vnprofitable to the Common-weales like the Droues in the Bee-hiues that are no wayes helpfull to the Bees neyther in gathering nor preseruing the Honie or the Waxe but only to fill vp the roomes in their houses and to eate and consume what they had prouided for their sustenance and these hee vsed to chasten according to their desert He would neuer be idle so much as a moment but was euer busied in good and vertuous Exercises He caused also a Law to be made that what person soeuer hee were that had no Office Trade or course of life wherein to employ his time should be held infamous and of no reputation of what estate or degree soeuer hee were which was the cause that in imitation of him all his Subiects shunned idlenesse and bestowed their time in vertuous Exercises by meanes whereof they escaped many vices and diseases and liued without want except it were here and there one as it is in all Kingdomes CHAP. X. How the resigned his Royall Scepter to his eldest Sonne and of his retirednesse which he chose and of a Letter written to his Sonne of Admonitions for his good Gouernment whereunto hee was bound THe King Abilgualit Iacob Almansor seeing him selfe waxen old and wearie of his Gouernment and considering that his Sonne Abilgualis Abninace was of sufficient age wit and abilitie to rule and gouerne resigned vnto him his Royall Scepter his Crowne and Kingdomes with the consent of his wisest Counsellours and the Alcaydes that were Gouernours retyring himselfe to a solitarie life in that Country house in the Mountaynes of Albasatim and Alhillan which hath beene before mentioned where on the top of a high Rocke neere adioyning hee had caused to be built a sumptuous Mezquita or Temple with a Colledge or Monasterie wherein might liue an Heremite or Abbot with fortie Disciples or Monkes appointing to bee chiefe Gouernour therein a man of much Learning named Mahomet el Gazeli In this man hee had such confidence that hee consulted with him concerning