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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
A52025	A new survey of the Turkish empire, history and government compleated being an exact and absolute discovery of what is worthy of knowledge or any way satisfactory to curiosity in that mighty nation : with several brass pieces lively expressing the most eminent personages concerned in this subject.	March, Henry, fl. 1663-1664.	1664 (1664)	Wing M731; ESTC R30516	151,268	306

mind affecting liberty and therefore a great enemy to Tyrants but having to deal with potent adversaries he was forced to add policy to his strength and so piece out the Lions skin with the Foxes tail for it was almost a miracle that in little more then a month he should recover the whole Kingdom of Epirus save one City out of the hands of the Turks who had many and strong Garrisons therein He was of so even a temper that prosperity could not make him proud nor fear daunt him but alwayes kept the same cheerfulness of countenance as he used to do his courage was invicible of exceeding strength and agility of body modest and temperate in speech so politick that he was by his very enemies called The Master of Policy a great cherisher of valour in others dividing the spoyl of his enemies amongst his Souldiers reserving no part thereof to himself nay having taken Mustapha the Turkish General Prisoner and receiving five and twenty thousand Ducats for his ransom he freely divided it amongst them which made his Souldiers not only obedient to his commands but also so resolute that they feared not to set upon their enemies though with never so great disadvantage reward being the Razor that whetteth a Souldiers courage and pricketh him forward to all adventurous enterprizes His personal valour was seen in his combat with Feri-Bassa a great Commander of the Turks whom he slew hand to hand though some blame this as a fault the loss of a General being a general loss who should not expose himself to private dangers and indeed the greatest oversight that he committed in all his Wars was soon after when the Turks besieged Croya in whose Army he had so far ingaged himself that he was by them on every side enclosed and in great danger to have been slain or taken although through his valour he broke thorough and made an escape for the office of a good General consisteth not in the adventuring his person to manifest danger but in the politick Government of his charge Of his great bounty to his Souldiers we have in part spoken before we shall to that add an example of his Justice Mahomet the Great sent 14000 horse-men against him under the command of one named Debreas who promised to perform wonders against him but was by Scanderbeg overthrown and by him slain encountring hand to hand all the enemies spoyl he divided amongst his Souldiers and gave Debreas Horse and Armour unto one of his chief Commanders named Moses to another called Musachius who had behaved himself gallantly in that Battel he gave a Prisoner who by his outward part and behaviour seemed to be a man of some account This Turk agreed with Musachius upon a ransom of 200 Ducats and thereupon drew forth the money out of a little bag which he had kept secretly about him offering it to Musachius for his ransom who taking it told the Turk be must provide more money for his ransom for that was his own by Law of Arms being taken with his person On the other side the Turk alledged the agreement with the payment of the full sum agreed upon This controversie being brought before Scanderbeg he with great pleasure heard them both Musachius pleading hard for his ransom and the Turk for his liberty when they had both ended their Pleas Scanderbeg told them that they both contended for that which in right was his and neither of theirs for the Prisoner said he with the money was both mine at first taking him and although Musachius I gave you the Prisoner yet not the money which I knew not of neither said he to the Turk doth the concealing of it make it yours who by the Law of Arms had lost your self and it to me Afterwards he decided the business thus allotting Musachius the money he agreed for and to the Turk his desired Liberty Such was his heroical disposition that when the fore-named Moses had revolted from him and joyned himself to his enemy Mahomet divers of his friends according to the custom of the world aggravating his offence with many hard speeches before Scanderbeg he could not abide to hear the same but commanded them to hold their peace and to use no more such speeches only wishing that all Treason and evil fortune were together with Moses gone out of Epirus Such was also his celmency that notwithstand-the said Moses had with the power of the Turks given him a sharp and terrible battel in which he was overthrown and afterwards being in disgrace with the Sultan fled from Constantinople and prrostrated himself before Scanderbeg with his girdle about his neck in token that he had deserved death desiring mercy upon his knees he presently granted him his request restraining by Proclamation all people from speaking against him and restoring his goods and offices again which by his Treasons he had confiscated One great policy for the preservation of his Country was that upon the approach of his enemies he took order that all the provisions of the Country should be conveyed to places of refuge and nothing left abroad for the Turks to prey upon by which means provisions many times grew so short amongst them that straying abroad for forrage he with the more ease overcame them Many were the battels which he fought against the Turks in all which he remained Victor scarcely ever suffering the least check so that fortune seemed to wait upon him as his handmaid It is reported of him that having slain of the Turks in one Battel twenty four thousand and being informed the next day that the remainder of them might easily be surprized if presued he said O no let some of our enemies live to report their own slaughter and our victory He having at another time brought the Turks unto a great straight they sent unto him offering to deliver up their Horses and Arms so that they might depart with their lives to whom he returned this answer That as they came into his Country without his Command so should they not by his leave depart thence Having thus victoriously reigned the space of 24 years January 17. in the great Climactorical year of his age he deceased at Lyssa a City of the Venetians to which State he commended the tuition of his Wife Son and Kingdom till such time his Son should come of age His death was worthily lamented of all Christian Kings and Princes he being the scourge and maule of the Turks and the most careful watch-man and invincible Champion of the Christians his dead body was with the general lamentation of all men magnificently buried in the Cathedral Church of St. Nicholas at Lyssa About nine years after his decease the Turks having taken that City they with great devotion digged up his bones where happy was he that could but see or touch them and such as gained them or any part of them esteemed of them as so high and precious Relique that they caused them to be set in silver

of Thessaly famous for the battels of Pharsalia between Pompey and Caesar and Philippi between Augustus and Cassius and Brutus As for their armes which hath been touched before something more particularly is to be said of them They differ from those of the Europeans very much Their Arms. yet their Harquebuze is something like our Caliver their Scymetar a crooked flat Back-sword good at Sea upon Boarding or among Ropes but in the field fight is much inferior to the Rapier but constant use for it hath been always the eastern weapon gives them advantages more then we can ward They use likewise an Iron Mace either for stroke or hurle and in this they have a peculiar excellency being brought up in it from their youth Bows and Arrows are no less skilfully then frequently used Bows and Arrows with which they do most mischeif though the Arrows be no bigger then childrens but the strength of their bows doth the Execution Besides these they carry other almost all sorts of weapons with them as they do the like when they travail first their Girdle is charged with three or four Pistols then on either side a knife as long as a mans arm like a skean but not so broad with another for ordinary uses tuckt to his Coat a harquebuze on his shoulder on his thigh a Scymitar on the one side of the saddle pummel a petronel on the other a strange Sword the blade being hollow and foursqare by that either an Ax or an Hungarian Mace or both and at his back Bows and Arrows so that he looks live a Porcupine with weapons in every part of his body The great Ordinance each Souldier carries in his pocket in peices to the field or Leagure where it is cast As to their Quarters which are always in the fields and the open Ayr Their Quarters but what their Tents sometimes defend all these arms are fastned to their Bridles which are imbellished with brass gilt bosses and that is tied about the Tree or otherwise made sure to the ground where he rests that being cared for he spreads a blanket whereon he first eats and then sleeps in his cloaths with his Saddle for his Pillow Armour they have not had long but now they begin to use it frequently the agility and celerity of men and horses in offending equalling the defensive part To three Horsemen a Wagon is allowed to carry their other necessaries When they approach an enemies Country they march in rank and file with wonderful exact order and silence whereby commands are readily heard and obeyed there being severe punishment for them that by disorderly and licentious behaviour disturb their companies And for the better security of this discipline and to prevent straggling Their provision on their march they are always provided of Bisket dry Flesh and store of Rice with a sort of course butter so as in the greatest desolate places and Countries they have plenty of necessaries which bringes them in heart to the encounter Their Battel When they are neer an engagement the horse which is one of their chief Military politiques encompass all their Infantry except the Janizaries whose courage and bravery they confide in it the rear in form of a half Moon or Crescent which figure they esteem propitious Those Horse have order not to meddle with the enemy but onely to drive and necessitate the foot upon the enemy till they have pierced through their Battaliaes if possible and if they chance to recoyl Their manner of fighting to hold them to the slaughter till they have wearied and dulled the enemies Swords and then the Janizaries and they together fall with fresh fury and vigour upon them and this serves for all the advantages of Military Policy and quickens his multitudes through despuration to high and gallant services Their Seiges Leagures In matter of siege and Leagures they are not altogether so expedite and understanding as the Europeans and what ever they have attained to in matter of raising or ruining Fortification hath been taught them by Fugitives and Renegadoes the use of the Cannon they have learned very well but yet it is not so familiar to them for not many Matrosses are to be found in their Country the Persian their next Neighbour to this day standing six or eight yards off when he gives fire to those pieces Their number serves them for shelter and defence for as soon as they have raised a battery and made a kind of breast-work with some Mountains in it to overlook the place besieged Their bold approaches they mak their approaches in spight of the Bullet and strive to fill up the Trenches with their bodies if they cannot do it with other matter and when once a Breach is made it is either a Souldiers death there in honour or a Dogs in the Camp for an Officer to retreat or give over the assault while commanded Yet they can use Galleries as they do mines and other devices of conquest but neither with that art or success as the Christians but that is equalled with their diligence and undefatigable working and obstinate resolution of carrying the Town at last And their patient suffering of all extremities upon such a bent is almost incredible and the like they do in the defence of their own But the Turk puts not himself to much charge of Garrisons unless Frontiers and maritime Towns The Turk always Master of the field which are not yet so strictly guarged and maintained as with us for he supposeth himself Master of the field and that upon any sudden rupture he is able to march with a sufficient Army to their relief the places being provided for such a competent time besides after the conquest of a Country he divides it as was partly said before into so many Timars or Farms for which the several possessors are bound always to be in a readiness with two three or six Horses according to the value of the said Lands who do so awe the Country the Nobility and better sort being either transplanted and destroyed and some Rusticks onely left to till and manure the ground that seldom happens any revolt meerly by them the Morlacks excepted whose poverty suited not with their Lordly Greatness nor was able to maintain it among so many natural wants and indigencies Their Naval force As to their Naval force it consists of three Fleets the one like our Newcastle Traders sails the Euxine and Mediterranean Seas either toward the Moscovite Cireasse or Cossack and thence bringing slaves with honey wood and wax c. returns to Constantinople about August and thence sails to Alexandria to barter those commodities for Flax Sugar Tapestry Sherbets made of several dry preserved fruits as Apricocks Peaches Citrons c. Corn Rice and other Egyptian traffick and returns with Tribute guarded with a Fleet for fear of the Malta and Florentine Galleys which lye in weight for the straglers in January back