Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	hand_n	saul_n	2,591	5	9.7819	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00734	The Spaniards monarchie, and Leaguers olygarchie. Layd open in an aduerisement [sic], written by Signor Vasco Figueiro a gentleman of Portingale to the rebellious French: wherein is discouered the tyrannie of the one ouer the kingdome of Portingale, and the treacherous rebellion of the other in the kingdome of France, with a patheticall persuasion to the French to returne to the obedience of their naturall and legitimate king. Englished by H.O.	Figueiro, Vasco, gentleman of Portingale.; H. O., fl. 1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 10865; ESTC S102056	35,479	50

detestable vices to receiue it as in truth full well hath she deserued the paines that she hath suffered yet so obstinate is she in her wickednes that she séekes no amendment The malicious League séeing France in this doubtfull anguish gathered her spirits together to forge more craftie subtelties then euer before to cause France to runne to armes after the death of the Duke of Guise and so throughlie intrudeth her into her former errours that waxen more fellonious then euer afore she reconspireth the death of her king and yet holdeth an other course then afore And therefore bethinketh to enterprise it by treason and by such a one as might do it with least suspition so that hauing throughly discoursed of her affaires she cōcludeth that Religion should serue her as a couert to commit this damnable parricide Then was found out an execrable traitor a Iacobin Frier who driuen by a diabolicall spirite enterpriseth to the hazard of his life traiterously to murther his naturall Prince O detestable crime and so horrible that there is not a name so cruell or obhominable as may sufficientlie expresse it Damnable Monkes do you read in the holie Scriptures that it is lawful for any man to murther I say not onely his king but euen the basest man on the earth the law of God expreslie forbiddeth to defile the hands in humaine bloud God commaundeth in the booke of Deuteronomie to take the homicide frō the aultar and to slay him but as for kings he hath giuen them a particular priuiledge as he saith by the mouth of the Psalmist You shall not touch mine annointed much more you shall not kill him Dauid also forbore to lay violent hands vpon king Saul his enemie albeit he had him at aduantage Did the Apostle teach you to commit this execrable fact when he said Obedite praepositis vestris etiam discolis dare you thē in this manner tread vnder féete the law of God whereof in wordes you vaunt your selues to be so zealouslie affectionate shame befall vpon you mischieuous and traiterous hipocrites who preach vnto the people the law of God yet your selues will not follow it Euen the ethnicke Pagans shall condemne you in the latter day for albeit they were ignoraunt yet they caried this respect vnto the Princes of their land as to terme them in reuerence the liuing pourtraitures of the supreme diuinitie Harken what said one of the Poets Rex est Imago animata Dei But suppose he were so wicked as you and the treacherous Leaguers would faine him to be yet ought we to obserue this good aduertisement Principes boni voto quidem expetendi qualescunque tamen tolerandi But certaine it is that he was endued with all the perfections requisite to make a Prince worthie of the greatest prayse and the onely imperfection that he had which was but to great an imperfection in a Prince was that he showed himselfe somwhat to negligent for the maintenance of his greatnes and conseruation of his estate Now then hath the French League mischieuously caused her king to be murthered who féeling the extremitie of death to approch neare vpon him declared in the presence of all his Princes and Lords of his Realme the king of Nauarre as naturall and legitimate successour to the Crowne as in truth he is and that most apparent ending with these wordes the course of his life Incontinently all the Princes all the Lordes and all the Officers of the Crowne following the declaration and last will of the deceased king acknowledged the king of Nauarre and that according to all equitie to be king of France which all the whole armie likewise acknowledged Now France being left a widow of her king consequently mistresse of her selfe according to her owne opinion will for it is a sure maxime that the king neuer dyeth in Frāce let vs accord to her vnreasonable appetite what face setteth she vpō it doth she mourne or is she sorrowfully discōforted Doth she show any signe of sorrow in her widowhead which ou●…●…o haue bin drowned in teares No but cōtrariwise she reioyceth so extremely that she setteth publickly forth a thousand and a thousand signes of ioy as among many others her bonfires being so great that euen her furthest neighbours were lightned with the flame thereof whō notwithstanding she thinketh scarcelie aduertised by this exteriour signe of her vnmeasurable ioy and therefore will certifie them by expresse letters poore vnfortunate France which makest vertue of thy vice and glorie of thy infamie poore inchanted France which reioycest when thou shouldest swimme in teares but thou wilt not care to doe otherwise while thou art bewitched by the enchanters of this diabolicall League But now let vs sée what will become of this widow let vs sée to what Prince Frāce desireth to betroathe her selfe for I thinke she will yéeld but onely to one otherwise she should doe contrary to the nature of all other common wealths who finallie haue submitted themselues vnto one onely Monarke as approuing the gouernemēt of one to be better then of many which the Satrapas of Persia also approued when as they constituted Darius for their souueraine Monarche The Romane common wealth also after it had béen a long time furrowed and tossed by the ciuill warres of particular persons Maluit parere vni quam pluribus Furthermore in priuate families one commandeth ouer the rest as the head ouer the inferiour members Yea euen in nombers The vnitie as saith Plato is most estéemed Philo Iudaeus in his booke of the creation of a Prince teacheth that the gouernement by one onely was ordained by the commandement of God Let vs hearken vnto the iudgement of Homer Non bonum est multorum principatus vnus Princeps esto It appeareth then that there is no sort of gouernment more excellent or commendable then the Monarchie which France is not ignorant of and therefore will not be subiect to many but she will chuse one to fit her own fancie as though she were ignorant that in a Monarchie an election is perillous that nothing hath made her so redoubted and puissant as an immediat succession of Princes barring the gate to electiō which all Monarchies and well ordered kingdomes haue curiously obserued But if this poore abused France remaineth still opiniated in her election yet the expresse commandement of God forbiddeth her to elect a forraine Prince as it is written in the 17. of Deuteronomie in these wordes From among thy brethren shalt thou make a king ouer thée thou shalt not set a straunger ouer thée which is not thy brother Many examples might be produced to this purpose of common wealthes and kingdomes which haue béen destroyed onely for trusting and subiecting thē selues too much to strangers For this cause Bartholomeus Coleon reprehēded the Venetians who for his merites toward their common wealth had erected his statue in gold as hauing to inconsideratly aduentured their common wealth into the hands of a stranger The