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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43142	The canting academy, or, The devils cabinet opened wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners, gilts, &c. : to which is added a compleat canting-dictionary, both of old words, and such as are now most in use : with several new catches and songs, compos'd by the choisest wits of the age ...	Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?	1673 (1673)	Wing H1243; ESTC R9723	96,642	212

niggardship and covetousness commanded in Rome to be made publike places to receive Urine not to keep the City more sweet but to the end they should give him more rent Suetouius Simonides being demanded why he hoo●ded up money towards the end of his old age Because ●quoth he I had rather leave my goods to mine enemies than to have need of the relief of my friends while I am alive Virgil in his sixth book of Aeneiads putteth those persons in Hell which have done no good to their friends kinsfolk and neighbours but have been wholly wedded to their riches without imparting them to others Virgil. Ochus King of Persia would never go into the Countrey of Perseland because that by the Law of the Realm he was bound to give to every woman that had born children one French crown and to every woman with child two Plato thought it almost impossible for a man very rich to be honest yet Solon as wise as he desired to have riches but not to get them by wrong Plut. Anacreon having received of Polycrates five talents for a gift was so much troubled for the space of two nights with care how he might keep them and how to imploy them best that he carried them back again saying That they were not worth the p●ins he had already taken for them Socrates being sent for by K. Archelaus to come and receive store of Gold sent him word that a measure was sold in Athens for a penny double and that water cost him nothing Lyc●rgus abrogated the use of Gold and Silver coyn and appointed Iron money to be currant by this means he banished from them the desire of Riches Caligula took of every Curtezan as much of her gain as she could get of any man at once Pertinax being advanced to the degree of Emperor did not forget his niggardliness but parted Lettice and Ar●ichooks in two that the one half might be for his dinner and the other for his Supper Eutropius The Parsimony of Fabritius is not to be condemned for the age wherein he lived ought to excuse him in the which all magnificence was unknown to the Romans Justinian the Emperor for himself procured Riches and for the Devil he cheapned Souls he was covetous and maintained the heresie of the Pelagians Epimenides curse of Riches was that all the Treasures hoarded up by the covetous should be wasted by the prodigal The Romans and the Carthaginians were friends a long time but after they knew there was in Spain great mines of Gold and Silver immediately arose between them Civil Wars P. Diaconus Darius being very rich and covetous sent to Alexander in scorn to know where he had treasure to maintain such an Army who answered Tell thy Master that he keepth in his Coffe●s his Treasures of Metals and I have no other Treasure than the hearts of my friends Plutarch Angelot a Cardinal was so covetous that by a false door he descended into the Stable and every night stole away the Oates which his Horse-keepers had given his Horses and continued it so long till one of the Horse-keepers hiding himself in the stable did so belabour him with a Pikefork that he had much adoe to crawl away J. Pontanus Of Sloth In this Vice Wit Vnderstanding Wisdom and all honest endeavours are buried as it were in a grave from which ariseth the loathsome stench of corrupt maners and disordered life making of men women of women beasts of beasts monsters ALexander an Emperor of the East given to to great idleness demanded if he had long to live they answered him Yea If he could take away the teeth of a brazen Boar that stood in the Market-place meaning thereby that he should shorten his days except he gave over his idleness Zonarus A Senator of Rome who was falured by an other riding in his Chariot answered I will not say God save you since in going thus at your ease you shew you have no desire to live long Epaminondas discharged all his Souldiers that grew fat saying That as a woman too fat doth not easily conceave so doth fat hinder a man from doing his charge as Arms which are too heavy Scipio being arrived at his Camp banished all Souldiers slaves and Pages and all unprofitable people and made each one to carry his own Armour The Sabies having abundance of all kind of Riches spent their times slothfully The Nabathies having nothing but what they get by their virtue and labour are good husbands and abandon all idleness Metellus when he was arrived in Africa he took away whatsoever might seem to no●ri●h slothfulness and caused Proclamation to be made that none should presume to sell either bread or any other food dressed that the Carriers of water should not follow the Camp that the Souldiers should have no Pages no Beasts of Carriage that each one should keep his rank cast his Trench and carry his Victuals together with his Furniture Salust In the Islands named Bal●ares in Spain the Children might not eat untill they with their slings they had strucken down their meat which their Parents used ●o set for them upon an high beam or pool Pliny Epaminondas killed one of his Souldiers being asleep that was set to watch saying that he left him in the same estate that he found him The Kings of Persia and Macedonia were every morning awaked to put them in mind to take care of that which God had committed to their charge Herodo● At certain Games of Olympus there came a Philosopher of Thebes which had made all the apparel he wore himself the Assembly marvelling that one could do all this he answered The sloth of man is the cause that one Art is divided into divers for ●e that knoweth all Arts together must needs know one alone He was reputed a valn glorious Phil●sopher More hurtful was the City of Carthage to Rome after her destruction than during the whole course and season of Wars which the Romans had with her for that whilest they had enemies in Africk they knew not what vices meant in Rome Guevara The great Numantia in Spain could never be won notwithstanding fourteen years siege of the Romans till Scipio purged his Camp of loyterers perfumers and Harlots Darius plunged the Babylonis in all manner of idlenes that they might not have the heart afterward to rebel The same policie used Cimon to diminish the force of his Allies by granting them whatsoever they required The carelesness and negligence of Dionysius the Younger getting the upper-hand of him carried him to women and lechery and at length did break in sunder his Adamant chains that is the greatnumber of his warlike Souldiers and his store of Gallies of whom his Father had boasted that he left his Kingdom fast chained to his Son Sardanapalus through his slothfulnes was overcome by Artabactus and lost the Monarchy of Assyria The Pheacons counted it the greatest felicity that might be to do nothing 〈◊〉 The Romans used to punish