Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	caesar_n	great_a	pompey_n	979	5	11.1061	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41556	Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.	Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.	1700 (1700)	Wing G1284; ESTC R215162	66,798	60

without my knowledge or a much better hand hath added that Fair cypher whereupon he call'd again for pen and ink and added a new cypher which made the same 500 Crowns Now said he to the poor Widow go and receive all this money and pay your Chamber Rent in the first place and see if yow can provide some honest Match to your daughter by giving her the Residue that she may not become a whore FAB CXXXI Page 121. It may also afford this Morality That some times favor is s●…owen where no good is exspected for who would have looked for any good at the hands of a serpent thus a barbarous Prince restored King Lysimachus after he had yeelded himselfe and Kingdome for want of Water and a turkish Prince long afterwards did no less to a Greek Emperour FAB CXXXIII Page 123. Here he might have mentioned that poeticall storie of Hippomenes Atalanta for the cunning Man did out witt the swist-running Maid by throwing three golden Apples out of the way at several times which she stepping a side to take up thinking for all that to overtake him and as it were flee before him yet his policy at last obtaineth the prize For Tardus in via pr●…venit Cursoreni extra viam FAB CXXXVIII Page 126. Here it might have been told that a man gave admirable good Counsel one day in the Senat of Sparta in a very weighty mater which concerned the honour of the state but in regard he was a verie profligat person it was advi●…ed that one of the gravest of the Senatours should the next day propose the same expedient in other words that it might not reflect any dishonour o●… the state that such a vile person as the first suggester had been so much regarded FAB XLII Page 12●… Here he might have mentioned the exclamation of Lysimachus that great King of Thrace and one of the Captaines of Alexander the great O! what an excellent Kingdom have I lost for a litle fleshly pleasure this he spoke when being straitned by a barbarous Prince he was forced to yeeld himself with His whole Armie because they were like to pyne with thrist where they were couped in no doubt the intrinsick value of a Cup of water is farr below that of a Kingdome yet as Necessity hath no Law so the Belly hath no Ears FAB CLVI Page 141. The Trag●…dy of Zeno Emperour of the East may be termed a parallel to this fable but with disadvantage to the Imperiall husband whose wife caused burie him alive in on of his fitts of the Epilepsie which befel him frequently by his excessive drinking so that his Unnaturall spouse suffered him to starve to death in His sepulcher for want both of meat and drink and though he cryed most ruthfully to be releived from that dark prison when he came to a sense of himselfe yet the Inhumane Hagg would not permit it that a younger and much handsomer Man might succeed him both in his bed and Throne and that was Anastasius the principall Secretarie of State FAB CLVIII Page 142. This Fable is grounded on a Fable viz. That Swans sing especially before their Death But who soever desires to see the Nullity of this common Tradition let them consult Dr. Brown in his Vulgar Errors FAB CLXIII Page * I follow the Mistake of the Printer 137. A generous Man is so far from insulting over the miserable suppose he be a dead Enemy that He is rather prone to water the Adversaries Horse with his Tears Therefore I am apt to believe that Lucan in His Poems was both uncharitable and Injurious to the great Caesar by insinuating it was for joy he weeped over Pompey the great 's head when it was presented unto him I●… Caesar being one of the most clement Princes that ever reigned in this world givs us reason to conclude that the serious consideration of the sudden fall of Pompey from so great glorie into the power of some base slaves did draw abundance of Tears of real grief from the eyes of his Father-in-Law and I find it one of the greatest Reflections upon the honour of his grand Nephew Augustus Caesar that he should have caused cutt off the head of Brutus to be sent to Rome and laid at the feet of his uncles Statua even after Marc Antony had covered his dead Body with his own Purple Garment yet the same Augustus weept amain for the Death of Marc Antony if we believe Plutarch tho' He had been more injurious to his Family than ever Pompey had been to that of Iulius But Antigonus of Macedon the Son of K. Demetrius was much more generous than Augustus for when that restless spirit Pyrrhus the Epirot came to his 〈◊〉 and at 〈◊〉 tho' he had once dispossessed 〈◊〉 of his Kingdome and even at the time of his death was in war against him yet when the head of the famous 〈◊〉 was presented to him he was so farr from insulting over a dead enemie that he sharply rebuked some of his nearest relations for their insolencie and ordered both the h●…nd and body of his enemie to be given to his son that he might give his father honourable buriall Thus when Marcus A●…relius surnamed the Philosopher heard that his army had defeated the enemy and killed his rival and tho' he was apparently his competitor for the empire yet this meek and most clement Prince regrated unfeignedly that they had not brought him alive unto him that he might have tasted of his mercie The best parallel I find to this benign disposition was that of the royall Martyr K. Charles I. of great Britain who had the same mercifull sentiments in reference to The fate of the Hothames as we may perceive from a section of his incomparable Book so entituled But all the Roman Emperours were not so generous as this Antoni●… or Aurelius the Philosopher for long before his time Vitellins manifested a great deal of baseness in his deportment in reference to the dead souldiers of the defeated Armie of the Emperour Otho whose unburied and naked bodies he would needs fee and when it was told him that he would never be able to endure the noysome stench of them for they had been kill'd in the plains of Lombardy before Vetellius himselfe had crossed the Alpes that vile beast most ingenerously answered That there 〈◊〉 nothing so savoury to him as the smell of a dead enemy but especially of a Citizen notwithstanding his rivall Otho had cast hi●… a much fairer copy for tho' he might easily have recruited again yet he did voluntarily dispatch himselfe that he might ob●… the Effusion of any more Roman Blood suppose it were wholy of his enemy But 〈◊〉 Severus neither learned this generosity from Otho nor Marens ' Aurelius tho' they were both before him for having politicaly given the Title of 〈◊〉 to Calhinus in the North that he might not interrupt his Progress against Pescenius Niger in the East how soon he had