Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

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
A31743	Numerus infaustus a short view of the unfortunate reigns of William the Second, Henry the Second, Edward the Second, Richard the Second, Charles the Second, James the Second.	Caesar, Charles, 1636-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing C203; ESTC R20386	35,156	134

now actually King disturbed by no Competitor or Pretender might with all affluence of Honour Wealth and Pleasure have enjoy'd his Kingdom in profound Peace but in despight to Fortune who hitherto had Courted him He created Troubles to himself and was the unlucky Author of his own misery For tho the Rebellious Insurrection of the Welsh in the first Year of his Reign did somewhat discompose his quiet yet the Issue of it did only tend to aggrandise his Name to make him more revered at Home and more awfully consider'd abroad But the Expedition into Scotland was the product of his own injustice Stephen his Father by Adoption had granted Cumberland and Huntington shire to Malcolm King of the Scots and Maud his Mother had given Northumberland to the same Henry disdaining to see his Kingdom Cantonised and grudging that such considerable Parts of it should be dismember'd from the Body and become the Patrimony of his Neighbour demands the Estate by a military Claim and marching thither with a powerful Army repossesseth himself of part of these alienated Lands and voluntarily relinquisheth the rest The same restless Humour prompted him to persecute his Brother Geoffrey For his Father on his Death-Bed bequeath'd the Dukedom of Anjou to him but with this limitation that so soon as He should become King of England he should deliver up Anjou to his Brother Geoffrey And for the further assurance of it he obliged his Lords to Swear not to suffer his Body to be buried till his Son Henry had taken his Oath exactly to perform it Henry solemnly binds himself by Oath to perform his Fathers Will but afterward as wickedly breaks his Vow having obtain'd a Dispensation for so great an Impiety from his Holy Father Pope Adrian and entring into Anjou with an Army took from his Brother who was in no Capacity to resist so puissant an Invader not only the Country of Anjou but some other Cities also which his Father had absolutely given him for his maintenance which unnatural Treatment had so fatal an operation on the poor Duke that within a very short time it broke his heart And now Lewis King of France began to find him a costly and hazardous diversion for having not well digested the affront put upon him by King Henry in marrying of Eleanor his divorced Queen and seeking all occasions to demonstrate his Resentments he became an open Abettor of Raymond Earl of St. Giles with whom King Henry had a Controversie about the Earldom of Tholouse Hereupon the Litigants began mutually to arm and great forces were rais'd on both sides but being just ready to joyn in a bloody Battel a Peace was concluded by the Mediation of Friends And least matters should be wanting to propagate new cares and interruption to the progress of his Felicity by an over fond and unexampled Indulgence he assumed his Son Henry then seventeen years of age into a Partnership in the Throne whose arrogant behaviour and picgant Repa●tee at the very time of his Coronation administred just cause to the King to repent his rashness For the King to do honour to his young Colleague at the Coronation feast would needs carry up the first Dish to the Table which the Archbishop who had perform'd the Ceremony observing said merrily to the new King What an honour is this to you to have such a waiter at your Table The other reply'd Why what great matter is it for him that was but the Son of a Duke to do service to me that am the Son of a King and a Queen Neither was it long before the King was sensibly convinced of his weakness For the young King having imbibed some mutinous Notions of discontent from the insinuations of the French King and being animated by his advice and assistance began openly to oppose his Father For an aggravation to the old Kings misfortunes Eleanor his Queen inraged with jealousie and not able to endure the sight of so many Concubines to which her Husband had given up himself she not only incenseth her Son Henry to proceed in his Enterprise but secretly perswadeth Richard and Geoffery two other of her Sons to joyn with him against their Father encouraging them to expect a more liberal maintenance from their Brother than their penurious Father did allow them by these Instigations they repair into Normandy and joyn themselves with their Brother who growing more insolent by their assistance return'd a haughty and imperious answer to a kind and loving message from his Father disdaining to lay down arms unless he would first lay down his authority and resign the Kingdom To shuffle matters into the greater perplexity Lewis King of France began to form a League against King Henry and having call'd together the great Lords of his Kingdom and inveigled William King of the Scots Hugh Earl of Chester Roger Moubray Hugh Bigod and other the Accomplices of his Son they all joyn'd in an Oath to aid and assist the young King with their whole power and thereupon in one day they began their Attacks the French invading Normandy Aquitain and Britain and the King of Scots Northumberland The old King in a short time disincumbred himself from these Exigencies and triumphed over all his Enemies but new troubles like Hydra's Heads sprung up every day to arrest his Tranquillity and he had no sooner made a Truce with his Son Henry but the defection of his Son Richard who had possest himself of a great part of the Province of Poictou obliged him to transport an Army thither and by the influence of it to reduce him to obedience But the splendor of his success was darkned with a sensible misfortune Henry his Darling the copartner of his Empire but the Excrescence of the Throne ended his Competition with his life to the equal content and sorrow of his Father Within a while Richard his Heir apparent revived his former discontent relapsed into the old fit of Rebellion and drew along with him his Brother John with many more of his Fathers Adherents and Followers who all joyn'd with Philip King of France the Inheritor of his Fathers Crown and his animosity against King Henry he presently form'd an Army and least natural affection should prevail above conceived Injuries with all speed and vigour laid Siege to the City of Mentz in which King Henry was then personally present who apprehending himself to be in great danger and unwilling to fall into the hands of such Enemies secretly withdrew out of the Town and escaped But the Town being taken the place of his Nativity and in which he took great delight he became almost distracted with grief and passion and in the extremity of his rage utter'd this blasphemous expression I shall never hereafter love God any more that has suffer'd a City so dear to me to be taken from me Indeed this inconsiderable loss made a mortal Impression on his spirits bereaving him of that vigor and Majestick grace which accompanied him in all