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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	city_n	great_a	siege_n	1,089	5	8.9397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00503	Duell-ease A worde with. valiant spiritts shewing the abuse of duells, that valour, refuseth challenges and priuate combates. sett foorth by G.F. a defendour of Christian valoure.	G. F., defendour of Christian valoure.	1635 (1635)	STC 10637; ESTC S101807	46,663	98

yard long ietting so stout as if they trailed pikes in an army that burne their lands at the pipes end excellent husbandry and not breake up but burn up house and house-keeping maintayning that the chimneyes of the forefathers ought to be turned into the noses of their children When you see all their noses there so flaming that you cannot discerne at which end the pipe burneth with the more red-hot fire if one of this sparkling company will bee furious with you because you will not drinke if hee vow you are no good fellow as though goodnesse were not got but by good ale dislike the ill speech but suffer it make it a meanes to loath the place for the language be glad you feele there thornes of such words that they may pricke you thence If one call you Coward beare and say for beere you want stomacke you have no courage to carouse he is the better man at a bottle wrangle not with him but chide your selfe Doe as the stout Xenophanes did when casually The French Academy of Pierre de Primandy being at a feast one upbrayded him and called him coward because hee would not play at dice. Xenophanes mightily troubled with the abusive taunt yet quarrelled not with the fellow rather answered to his tune I am indeed a coward fearefull to doe dishonest things he would not wrangle for any thing done there but grew doubtlesse into a great dislike with the place where such virulent discourses were usually uttered So you never marke the speaker of an affront but put a crosse upon the occasion never to come into it againe But oh say you your occasion wherein you suffer wrongs is not unworthy it hath no relation to tobacco not to Bacchus his Alliance a sparke of warre a martiall man another wise well-ordered Gentleman my equall upon a good cause on a reall ground with fury provoked me to Duell and I shall dwell in endlesse disgrace if he be not answered in the field Point 5. Antidote 5. Beare with your friends of your foes you take best revenge when you are quiet BVt stay goe not on so suddenly to overthrow him remember now perchance he hath beene unto you a strong friend and is but newly broken See first if you can recover him before you cast him and your selfe both away you would bee loth to lose a nag for once stumbling and will you leave a friend if you finde him once tripping esteeme better of old friends than so you may lose him when you please but see how you can yet save him true friends be scarce found and in this friend you have had a happy triall of true love onely this one time hee hath fayled you hee hath greatly wronged you hee hath broken with you fouly yet let his ancient merits defend this breach Base were the souldiers that upon a first breach surrendred up their citty thy friends deserts are great and worthy they shew themselves now stoutly upon the breach and day thou shalt not enter as an enemy to subvert them all I le not forget them Thus they parley it is of the first fault and of a deare friend you will say hee being your friend which abused you therefore you tooke it the worse and the rather you will fight to punish one that being your friend would wrong you were he a foe you could better suffer him It is true Cos●●us the great Duke of Florence I beleeve was of your minde when hee made that madde observation upon the Gospell you shall reade saith he that we are commanded to forgive our enemies you never reade that we are commanded to forgive our friends but let a wiser master fescue that raw scholler that wringeth blood out of the letter so quickly shall we saith Iob take good at Gods good friends Iob. ● 10. hands and refuse to take a little evill Say your friends breath is now an ill blast unto you but hee hath blest you with many good turnes if hee now frowne and looke backe at you time was he shined on you to the growing of your best fortune remember the merry houres you past in his company and now for his sake suffer a sad cloud that will passe presently Post nubila Phoebus suffer but a short eclipse Ovid. and you shall clippe and love like good friends againe after a little close weather a short storme of hayle of sputtering words the day will breake againe into a hot friendship Doth your friend thunder that one would thinke heaven and earth bee going together by the eares Videmus horribiliter vexatum Doth the sky C●r●sost hom in Mar. cast it selfe downe in tempest doth your enemy his eye threaten to fall upon you with weapons Oh stand you still supportamus saith Basill to be a friendly Atlas hold him from falling amidst Basil hom de ira all the showers in the deluge of anger be you the dove hold the branch of Olive in your mouth dry you up the Seas of wrath with your silence So you shall begin a new world of happinesse for when the passion is past cùm amaritudinem deposuerit when your friend comes againe to himselfe ubi convaluerit you shall not onely have him thenceforth your faithfull friend but for ever your humblest servant te ut Dominum venerabitur Here is a pretty plot of a victory you wound your enemy without bloud you vanquish him without speare and by conquest you make him your slave te ut Dominum venerabitur nay were there meaner Gods upon earth by his voyce you should come into election for a Godhead venerabitur If you tell me hee which offended you is not your friend and therefore you owe him no such service as to suffer him nor will you waite the leisure of his mad fits or stay for his favour untill the feaver of his furie declines Say then hee be your ancient and bitter enemy will you goe about to bee deepely revenged on him yet your next way is to be quiet to keepe your selfe still say nothing and you shall catch him lying under your feet heart-broken Doth he swell with fury looke off him doth hee runne into your face let your eare goe by him doth he roare hearken to something else doth he madly fret neglect it make all but nothing that is to breake his very heart-strings Si despexeris acrius eum vindicabis Despise him that is the cruellest kinde of wrong for it is all one as to set one a worke with his fists to beate a stone wall wherein he doth but hurt his owne fingers carry your selfe like a wall of brasse stedfast against his boysterous fury and you shall breake the storme only with your suffering sine illum frustra adlatrare in seipso disrumpi hee will swell and puffe still more finding he cannot stirre you doe you then but suffer him sine and he with his owne winde will swell so fast that it must burst him in seipso disrumpi Doe

bee quickely with him he is your owne selfe I say if you desire to take a master-peece of worke in hand master your selfe and one thing know for your comfort if you can compasse it the noyse of your worthinesse shall surpasse all the nine of the fame For who overcommeth himselfe may challenge the freedome to take the first place amongst the valiant Call you in valiant Caesar to a first chaire him so universall a conquerour that the Princes of the earth presented him with Scepters as meane tenants do their Land-lords with Chickins you think this old souldier becomes the chaire well you shall see a young Cato a conqueror of himselfe come in and bid him rise will take place of him Cato the yonger at the time the Roman glorie was The French Academy of Pierre de Primandy clouded in the sad siege of Vtica was moved by his fellow Romans lying al close blocked up to submit unto conquering Caesar else all must die Valiant Cato at the mention of death reades the inventorie of all his goods or goodnesses of all his life hee hath a long rowle of many good morall vertues under the head of his conquests he runnes over a number of great price but under the head of his selfe Conquests he findes a great store it seemes it was usuall with him to overcome himselfe Hee often had curbed his anger rising against some great men of the Citie which might have driven him into rebellion Hee had mastered his ambition which perchance would haveled him upon the same action as Caesar now is to command the gates of Rome but Cato bridled his unruly passions better Cato therefore answereth hee will not submit unto Caesar I sayth Cato have trulier conquered than Caesar therefore Caesar should rather submit unto me Caesar hee is now taken and overcome therefore none can make submission unto him as conquerour Caesar his own vitious ambition to master all hath cast him over us all His great feare having offended some of the Senate hath bound him fast to the Scepter to fence himselfe withall for could Caesar have submitted his fierce disposition to the grave Lawes of the Senators which doubtlesse would have had a worthy feeling of him their owne profit by his conquests would have sweetned their trouble in the ruggednesse of his nature for wise men know a great spirit cannot serve them but it must sometime offend them and actions from humane flesh we must bee contented to take them as fish a good one and a shrow could Caesar but have beene a little tractable to the light of higher powers his heart had never vapoured so much heavy griefe as would presume to cloud the lawes of Rome and for ever to eclipse the government of so many hundred yeares shining usurping over the Senat soveraigne power himselfe who by right of cradle deserved not to be their meanest fellow Therefore Cato stil saith he will account himselfe the invincible because in mastering of himselfe he is mightier than Caesar Cato scorned to yeeld unto the Victor of Rome breathing the glory of being Victor over himselfe We are now come to the hold and keep who must be the better man he that can quarrell or he that can suffer who mastereth many others or who subdueth himselfe Wee dare goe over shooes in bloud to angle for honour but wee know not whether to goe from home with Caesar amongst strangers or home againe with Cato unto ourselves An offence is given and you resolve therefore you must overcome your enemy why doe you not resolve you must overcome your selfe you say you must fight why say you not you must be quiet How doe you prove that it becomes a valiant man better to fight than to suffer Or how is it a lesser victorie to conquer ones selfe than another You plead you must discover valour I say so to but let us finde the best way it will ever fall out that we shal still come home againe to your selfe and within your selfe wee shall finde the best matter of victories It is a golden verse of a good Poet repeated by most Writers it seemes the witty saying doth take many Fortior est qui se quàm qui fortissima vincit Man●uanu● Moenia nec virtus altior ire potest Arduares vicisse alios victoria major Est animi motus composuisse sui O'recome your self that 's more than towres of brasse To win your vertue can no higher passe Hard thing it is strong Armies to confound But more to hold your raging passions bound Sentence is given it is more to beat ones Selfe than a many thousands therefore if you run a duelling onely out of a desire to get honour lay challenges with others aside and make it your quarrell to master your selfe chuse it as the most difficult Duell to overcome your selfe The nearer an enemie layeth siege to a Citie the more valour it is to beat him backe and what can be more neare you then what is within you Magis sunt periculosa quae domestica as Lactantius very wittily Lib. 1. inst cap. 9. observeth A civill warre is the forest blow to a kingdome because each part is sure to weaken the other and all parts growing weake that body must needs die Yet there onely one part is against the other but here all against everie part of you you rob your hands of their labours your understanding you bereave o●●●s ●●ght from your will you steale its good customes and from your internall senses their gentle inclinations to right and thus you whose greatnesse consists of many Powers doe engage your whole selfe in undoing everie severall part of your owne strength then here is a civill warre more dangerous When two Combators have lost the wales of their weapons and cannot keepe one another out any longer when fencing can maintaine no distance betweene them but they are come within one anothers armes then begins the bloudie part of the combat there is nothing but poaching at life strikes everie blow as fast as the weapon can come and goe Can any be more within you than your owne selfe none doth lay at you more fiercely Then this is the most dangerous Duell You shall not gape to eat but the enemie creepes in at your mouth and turnes your full stomack to desire what is not to torture you You shall not goe to bed but he followes you betweene sheets and sets difficult fancies on you and keepes your eyes open in spite of the rod of Mercurie if toyle cast you into a little sleepe the enemie watcheth your first waking hee falleth to the same game againe and pestereth you with most heat when you be most naked Rise and hee will make you sow teares in vaine reape words with no gaine and betweene wind and water he will hit you so sore that it is a thousand to one he will sinke you Is it not therefore good reason that the subduing of his enemie ones Selfe should be