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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
A49604	A funeral oration or sermon upon the most high, most potent Lord, Francis Henry De Montmorancy ... prounc'd at Paris, in the church of the Profess'd House of the Company of Jesus, the 21 st. of April, 1695, by Father De la Rue, of the same society ; from the french original.; Oraison funèbre de très-haut et très-puissant Seigneur François Henry de Montmorency, duc de Luxembourg et de Piney. English	La Rue, Charles de, 1643-1725.	1695 (1695)	Wing L455; ESTC R6889	22,402	33

jealous of the Freedom of her Trade That same England that doates so much upon the pretended Privileges of her Parlament That same Germany so accustom'd to share in Sovereign Supremacy That same Austria so intoxicated with her Notions of Universal Monarchy That same Spain so zealous for the Purity of her Faith Lastly That same Italy so passionately desirous of her Repose have rooted out of their Hearts all these so Ancient and Natural Sentiments that they might make it their Common Interest to advance one Prince whose Grandeur can never hurt us but by overwhelming 'em with their own Weight A Foreigner and Absent he is the Soul of their Counsels the Head that governs ' em One would think that those Sovereign Princes in yielding him the Title of King had pay'd him the Homage of their Crowns and that Lewis is only now become the Object of their Jealousie and their Hatred for no other Reason but because he has taken upon himself alone to defend against 'em all the Rights of Royal Majesty and he do's uphold 'em and Triumphs in despite of all his Enemies They are not become so potent by their Union as by being more sensible before him of their real Weakness Their Efforts have nothing diminish'd of the Grandeur of his Empire nor of that of his Soul More wise and prudent then ever if Heaven from time to time deprive him of the Ministers of his Designs it leaves him still his Prudence and his Fortune This Monarch imparts it to those whom he honours with his Choice and that which rears up great Captains among us is the exact observance of his Orders What Instrument more safe and tractable in his Hands to uphold against so many Enemies the Honour and Prosperity of his Arms then the Duke of Luxemburgh What an Ascendant had he over that famous Prince who got the start of so many others Accustom'd in the Dutch War to fly the Shadow only of the King he began to turn head in the presence of Luxemburgh He thought that the Cities of Zwoll Deventer the Groll and Coewerden which this General had taken at the head of the Troops of Munster had render'd him Illustrious enough to make him his chief Rival He would therefore measure himself with him but his Chief Master-piece was a Defeat Nor was he more happy at Bodengrave where the frozen Morasses could not protect his Army from the impetuous Ardour of the French These two unfortunate Essays from that time forward fill'd the Prince with such an Idea of his Vanquisher that he durst no more contend with him but only by calling to his Succour Treachery and Surprize This made him so bold at the Battle of St. Denis at what time the two Camps ought to have been calm and secure upon the News of the sign'd Peace However in that as well as in all other Places he found by the slaughter of his Men that Stratagem as little avail'd as Open Force against the Courage of a General always present with himself in Combat In short 't is one of the Wonders of Providence that whatever Precautions his noble Adversary made use of he never engag'd in any Battel wherein he did not find Luxemburgh an Obstacle to his compleat Victory He met with him in the Right Wing at the famous Battle of Seneff and rendring to the Prince of Conde the Fruit of his Glorious Lessons which he had receiv'd from him in his Youth He met him commanding the Right Wing at Gasal where France acknowledg'd in the Brother of her King that the Princes of the Blood had no need of any Master to teach 'em the Art of giving or winning Battels Instructed by so long and so fatal an Experience Durst that same daring Prince sustain the sight of him before Charleroy though surrounded with an Army of Fifty thousand Men Durst he attempt the so much vaunted Sieges of Maubege and Dinant in view of him for a whole Campaign together Durst he sit down before any one Fortress And shall we believe his own Testimony For we surpriz'd his Letters wherein imparting in writing the Condition of his Affairs to a famous General of the Emperor's Forces he acknowledges That the Duke who had always the good Luck to match him had worsted him again at Nerwinde But could he make a more solemn Confession to all Europe in respect of his Genius to that of Luxemburgh's then by the course which he took upon the Banks of the Mehaign The main Business was to succour Namur He found himself oblig'd thereto by the importance of the Place which the Confederates look'd upon as their common Bulwark and which he seem'd to have made choice of for the centre of his new Dominion in the Spanish Low-Countries by the addition of new Works to those that render'd it almost impregnable before and by honouring those Works with his own Name That Name which in the opinion of the Confederates was enough to have secur'd Namur from all Attempts serv'd only as a Bait for the Zeal of Lewis the Great to go and revenge the Injury done Religion by the false Politicks of the Spaniards in trusting the Walls and Citadels of their Cities to the Enemies of their Altars At the very Name of the King who was present in Person at that Siege and to whom the Difficulty of the Enterprize was a Pledge of the Success upon the Approach of Luxemburgh whom the King had order'd to advance toward the Mehaign the Prince was soon sensible of the pressing danger of the Place and of his own Reputation A Victory had sav'd the Town Nay instead of a Victory of which the past Events were but bad Prognosticks a withdrawn Battel had been sufficient to have sav'd his Honour He appear'd in Battel Array on the other side of the River he cover'd it with Bridges he thought the King would have disputed the Passage with him and that after some Efforts the Honour of which would have been divided between both Armies he should have carry'd off at least the Reputation of the Fight The King being inform'd of all these Motions by the Duke of Luxemburgh read all the Enemies Designs in the Recesses of his Soul and to ranverse 'em What Resolution think ye did he take He gave him all the Liberty to pass over and left him Ground sufficient to embattel his Army that he might reduce him by that means either to expose himself to the Hazard of a decisive Battel or renounce the Honour of the Passage which he feign'd himself so desirous to attempt Then was it the first time that Luxembourgh was seen to recoil with his Arms in his Hands before the Prince of Orange but to the Vexation of the Prince himself who seem'd to wait for that Signal only to surrender up Namur to her Destiny or rather to that of the Conqueror What will Posterity say of this magnanimous Confidence I find in sacred Antiquity an innumerable Army of Infidels defended and secur'd by a