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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	battle_n	great_a	slaughter_n	1,027	5	9.5987	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51327	Utopia written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England ; translated into English.; Utopia. English	More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1684 (1684)	Wing M2691; ESTC R7176	83,905	208

this means those that are named in their Schedules become not only distrustful of their Fellow-Citizens but are jealous of one another and are much distracted by Fear and Danger for it has often fallen out that many of them and even the Prince himself have been betrayed by those in whom they have trusted most for the Rewards that the Vtopians offer are so unmeasurably great that there is no sort of Crime to which Men cannot be drawn by them They consider the Risque that those run who undertake such Services and offer a Recompence proportioned to the danger not only a vast deal of Gold but great Revenues in Lands that lie among other Nations that are their Friends where they may go and enjoy them very securely and they observe the Promises they make of this kind most religiously They do very much approve of this way of corrupting their Enemies tho it appears to others to be a base and cruel thing but they look on it as a wise course to make an end of that which would be otherwise a great War without so much as hazarding one Battel to decide it They think it likewise an Act of Mercy and Love to Mankind to prevent the great slaughter of those that must otherwise be killed in the progress of the War both of their own side and of their Enemies by the death of a few that are most guilty and that in so doing they are kind even to their Enemies and pity them no less than their own People as knowing that the greater part of them do not engage in the War of their own accord but are driven into it by the Passions of their Prince If this Method does not succeed with them then they sow Seeds of Contention among their Enemies and animate the Prince's Brother or some of the Nobility to aspire to the Crown If they cannot disunite them by Domestick Broils then they engage their Neighbours against them and make them set on foot some old Pretensions which are never wanting to Princes when they have occasion for them And they supply them plentifully with Mony tho but very sparingly with any Auxiliary Troops for they are so render of their own People that they would not willingly exchange one of them even with the Prince of their Enemies Country But as they keep their Gold and Silver only for such an occasion so when that offers it self they easily part with it since it would be no inconvenience to them tho they should reserve nothing of it to themselves For besides the Wealth that they have among them at home they have a vast Treasure abroad Many Nations round about them being deep in their Debt so that they hire Souldiers from all Places for carrying on their Wars but chiefly from the Zapolets who lie five hundred miles from Vtopia eastward They are a rude wild and fierce Nation who delight in the Woods and Rocks among which they were born and bred up They are hardned both against Heat Cold and Labour and know nothing of the delicacies of Life They do not apply themselves to Agriculture nor do they care either for their Houses or their Clothes Cattel is all that they look after and for the greatest part they live either by their Hunting or upon Rapine and are made as it were only for War They watch all opportunities of engaging in it and very readily embrace such as are offered them Great numbers of them will often go out and offer themselves upon a very low Pay to serve any that will employ them they know none of the Arts of Life but those that lead to the taking it away they serve those that hire them both with much courage and great Fidelity but will not engage to serve for any determin'd time and agree upon such Terms that the next day they may go over to the Enemies of those whom they serve if they offer them a greater pay and they will perhaps return to them the day after that upon a higher advance of their Pay There are few Wars in which they make not a considerable part of the Armies of both sides so it falls often out that they that are of kin to one another and were hired in the same Country and so have lived long and familiarly together yet they forgetting both their Relation and former Friendship kill one another upon no other consideration but because they are hired to it for a little Mony by Princes of different Interests and so great regard have they to Mony that they are easily wrought on by the difference of one Penny a Day to change sides So entirely does their Avarice turn them and yet this Mony on which they are so much set is of little use to them for what they purchase thus with their Blood they quickly waste it on Luxury which among them is but of a poor and miserable form This Nation serves the Vtopians against all People whatsoever for they pay higher than any other The Vtopians hold this for a Maxim that as they seek out the best sort of Men for their own use at home so they make use of this worst sort of Men for the Consumption of War and therefore they hire them with the offers of vast Rewards to expose themselves to all sorts of hazards out of which the greater part never returns to claim their Promises Yet they make them good most religiously to such as escape And this animates them to adventure again when there is occasion for it for the Vtopians are not at all troubled how many of them soever happen to be killed and reckon it a service done to Mankind if they could be a mean to deliver the World from such a leud and vicious sort of People that seem to have run together as to the Drain of Humane Nature Next to these they are served in their Wars with those upon whose account they undertake them and with the Auxiliary Troops of their other Friends to whom they join some few of their own People and send some Man of eminent and approved Vertue to command in chief There are two sent with him who during his Command are but private Men but the first is to succeed him if he should happen to be either killed or taken and in case of the like misfortune to him the third comes in his place and thus they provide against ill Events that such Accidents as may befal their Generals may not endanger their Armies When they draw out Troops of their own People they take such out of every City as freely offer themselves for none are forced to the Laws of the Country and their Learning add more vigor to their Minds for as they do not undervalue Life to the degree of throwing it away too prodigally so they are not so indecently fond of it that when they see they must sacrifice it honourably they will preserve it by base and unbecoming Methods In the greatest heat of Action the bravest of

their Youth that have jointly devoted themselves for that piece of Service single out the General of their Enemies and set on him either openly or lay an Ambuscade for him if any of them are spent and wearied in the Attempt others come in their stead so that they never give over pursuing him either by close Weapons when they can get near him or those that wound at a distance when others get in between thus they seldom fail to kill or take him at last if he does not secure himself by flight When they gain the Day in any Battel they kill as few as possibly they can and are much more set on taking many Prisoners than on killing those that fly before them nor do they ever let their Men so loose in the pursuit of their Enemies that they do not retain an entire Body still in order so that if they have been forced to engage the last of their Battalions before they could gain the day they will rather let their Enemies all escape than pursue them when their own Army is in disorder remembring well what has often fallen out to themselves that when the main Body of their Army has been quite defeated and broken so that their Enemies reckoning the Victory was sure and in their hands have let themselves loose into an irregular pursuit a few of them that lay for a reserve waiting a fit opportunity have fallen on them while they were in this chase stragling and in disorder apprehensive of no danger but counting the Day their own and have turned the whole Action and so wresting out of their hands a Victory that seemed certain and undoubted the vanquished have of a sudden become victorious It is hard to tell whether they are more dextrous in laying or avoiding Ambushes they sometimes seem to fly when it is far from their thoughts and when they intend to give Ground they do it so that it is very hard to find out their Design If they see they are ill posted or are like to be overpowred by numbers then they their Friends to reimburse them of their expence in it but they take that from the conquered either in Mony which they keep for the next occasion or in Lands out of which a constant Revenue is to be paid them by many increases the Revenue which they draw out from several Countries on such Occasions is now risen to above 700000 Ducats a Year They send some of their own People to receive these Revenues who have orders to live magnificently and like Princes and so they consume much of it upon the place and either bring over the rest to Vtopia or lend it to that Nation in which it lies This they most commonly do unless some great occasion which falls out but very seldom should oblige them to call for it all It is out of these Lands that they assign those Rewards to such as they encourage to adventure on desperate Attempts which was mentioned formerly If any Prince that engages in War with them is making preparations for invading their Country they prevent him and make his Country the Seat of the War for they do not willingly suffer any War to break in upon their Island and if that should happen they would only defend themselves by their own People but would not at all call for Auxiliary Troops to their assistance Of the Religions of the Utopians THere are several sorts of Religions not only in different parts of the Island but even in every Town some worshipping the Sun others the Moon or one of the Planets some worship such Men as have been eminent in former times for Vertue or Glory not only as ordinary Deities but as the supream God yet the greater and wiser sort of them worship none of these but adore one Eternal Invisible Infinite and Incomprehensible Deity as a Being that is far above all our Apprehensions that is spread over the whole Universe not by its Bulk but by its Power and Vertue him they call the Father of all and acknowledg that the beginnings the encrease the progress the vicissitudes and the end of all things come only from him nor do they offer divine honouts to any but to him alone And indeed tho they differ concerning other things yet all agree in this that they think there is one supream Being that made and governs the World whom they call in the Language of their Country Mithras They differ in this that one thinks the God whom he worships is this Supream Being and another thinks that his Idol is that God but they all agree in one principle that whatever is this Supream Being is also that Great Essence to whose Glory and Majesty all honours are ascribed by the consent of all Nations By degrees they all fall off from the various Superstitions that are among them and grow up to that one Religion that is most in request and is much the best and there is no doubt to be made but that all the others had vanished long ago if it had not happned that some unlucky Accidents falling on those who were advising the change of those superstitious ways of Worship these have been ascribed not to Chance but to somewhat from Heaven and so have raised in them a fear that the God whose Worship was like to be abandoned has interposed and revenged himself on those that designed it After they had heard from us an account of the Doctrine the course of Life and the Miracles of Christ and of the wonderful constancy of so many Martyrs whose Blood that was so willingly offered up by them was the chief occasion of spreading their Religion over a vast number of Nations it is not to be imagined how inclined they were to receive it I shall not determine whether this proceeded from any secret inspiration of God or whether it was because it seemed so favorable to that community of Goods which is an opinion so particular as well as so dear to them since they perceived that Christ and his Followers lived by that Rule and that it was still kept up in some Communities among the sincerest sort of Christians from which soever of these Motives it might be true it is that many of them came over to our Religion and were initiated into it by Baptism But as two of our number were dead so none of the four that survived were in Priests Orders therefore we could do no more but baptize them so that to our great regret they could not partake of the other Sacraments that can only be administred by Priests but they are instructed concerning them and long most vehemently for them and they were disputing very much among themselves Whether one that were chosen by them to be a Preist would not be thereby qualified to do all the things that belong to that Character even tho he had no Authority derived from the Pope and they seemed to be resolved to chuse some for that Imployment but they had not done

Stones Others fell and cleave Timber and bring Wood Corn and other Necessaries on Carts into their Towns Nor do these only serve the Publick but they serve even Private Men more than the Slaves themselves do for if there is any where a rough hard and sordid piece of work to be done from which many are frightned by the labour and loathsomeness of it if not the despair of accomplishing it they do chearfully and of their own accord take that to their share and by that means as they ease others very much so they afflict themselves and spend their whole life in hard Labor and yet they do not value themselves upon that nor lessen other peoples credit that by so doing they may raise their own but by their stooping to such sevile Employments they are so far from being despised that they are so much the more esteemed by the whole Nation Of these there are two sorts Some live unmarried and chast and abstain from eating any sort of Flesh and thus weaning themselves from all the pleasures of the present Life which they account hurtful they pursue even by the hardest and painfullest methods possible that blessedness which they hope for hereafter and the nearer they approach to it they are the more chearful and earnest in their endeavours after it Another sort of them is less willing to put themselves to much toil and so they prefer a married state to a single one and as they do not deny themselves the pleasure of it so they think the begetting of Children is a debt which they owe to Humane Nature and to their Country nor do they avoid any Pleasure that does not hinder Labour and therefore they eat Flesh so much the more willingly because they find themselves so much the more able for work by it The Vtopians look upon these as the wiser Sect but they esteem the others as the holier They would indeed laugh at any Man that upon the Principles of Reason would prefer an unmarried state to a married or a Life of Labour to an easy Life but they reverence and admire such as do it upon a Motive of Religion There is nothing in which they are more cautious than in giving their Opinion positively concerning any sort of Religion The Men that lead those severe Lives are called in the Language of their Country Brutheskas which answers to those we call Religious Orders Their Priests are Men of eminent Piety and therefore they are but few for there are only thirteen in every Town one for every Temple in it but when they go to War seven of these go out with their Forces and seven others are chosen to supply their room in their absence but these enter again upon their Employment when they return and those who served in their absence attend upon the High Priest till Vacancies fall by Death for there is one that is set over all the rest They are chosen by the People as the other Magistrates are by Suffrages given in secret for preventing of Factions and when they are chosen they are consecrated by the College of Priests The care of all Sacred Things and the Worship of God and an inspection into the Manners of the People is committed to them It is a reproach to a Man to be sent for by any of them or to be even spoke to in secret by them for that always gives some suspicions all that is incumbent on them is only to exhort and admonish People for the power of correcting and punishing ill Men belongs wholly to the Prince and to the other Magistrates The severest thing that the Priest does is the excluding of Men that are desperately wicked from joining in their Worship There 's not any sort of Punishment that is more dreaded by them than this for as it loads them with Infamy so it fills them with secret Horrors such is their reverence to their Religion nor will their Bodies be long exempted from their share of trouble for if they do not very quickly satisfy the Priests of the truth of their Repentance they are seized on by the Senate and punished for their Impiety The breeding of the Youth belongs to the Priests yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in Letters as of forming their Minds and Manners aright and they use all possible Methods to infuse very early in the tender and flexible Minds of Children such Opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their Country for when deep impressions of these things are made at that Age they follow Men through the whole course of their Lives of much Blood on either side and when the Victory turns to their side they run in among their own Men to restrain their Fury and if any of their Enemies see them or call to them they are preserved by that means and such as can come so near them as to touch their Garments have not only their Lives but their Fortunes secured to them It is upon this account that all the Nations round about consider them so much and pay them so great reverence that they have been often no less able to preserve their own People from the fury of their Enemies than to save their Enemies from their rage for it has sometimes fallen out that when their Armies have been in disorder and forced to fly so that their Enemies were running upon the slaughter and spoil the Priests by interposing have stop'd the shedding of more Blood and have separated them from one another so that by their Mediation a Peace has been concluded on very reasonable Terms nor is there any Nation about them so fierce cruel or barbarous as not to look upon their Persons as Sacred and Inviolable The first and the last day of the Month and of the Year is a Festival they measure their Months by the course of the Moon and their Years by the course of the Sun The first days are called in their Language the Cynemernes and the last the Trapemernes which answers in our Language to the Festival that begins or ends the Season They have magnificent Temples that are not only nobly built but are likewise of great Reception which is necessary since they have so few of them They are a little dark within which flows not from any Error in their Architecture but is done on design for their Priests think that too much light dissipates the thoughts and that a more moderate degree of it both recollects the Mind and raises Devotion Tho there are many different Forms of Religion among them yet all these how various soever agree in the main Point which is the worshipping the Divine Essence and therefore there is nothing to be seen or heard in their Temples in which the several Perswasions among them may not agree for every Sect performs those Rites that are peculiar to it in their private Houses nor is there any thing in the Publick Worship that contradicts the particular ways