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	life_n	saul_n	1,175	5	9.4858	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10414	A mirrour of monsters wherein is plainely described the manifold vices, &c spotted enormities, that are caused by the infectious sight of playes, with the description of the subtile slights of Sathan, making them his instruments. Compiled by Wil. Rankins. Séene and allowed.	Rankins, William, fl. 1587.	1587 (1587)	STC 20699; ESTC S115638	36,729	52

restrayneth the power of Nature which is alwayes vpright and indifferent that it blindeth her with a desire to cou●t what may be hadde and a negligent regard what should be doone It hath the eyes of Argos to gase euery way for promotion but blinde to remember whence sprong preferment It hath the handes of Briarius ready to receiue commoditie which way soeuer it is offered but like senceles partes benummed when restitution is expected Ingratitude with the Cormoraunt deuoureth all but féedeth n●ne loues to be pittied yet hateth compassion béeing made happy thinkes not on others miserie Exempt from mourning sayeth none shed teares At liberty forgetteth bondage and aduaunced to authoritie disdaineth the meane condition of inferioritie Whose tyranny is such as wyll affoords death for life hate for loue and iniury for a benefite fraude for faith and treason for trust If we aske why so many Princes doo dayly exclaime vpon Trayterous and disloyal Subiects they wyll answere for ingratitude If we demaund why the kinde Parent breaketh his hart with sighes and consumeth hys dayes in sorrow hys aunswere wyl be for a gracelesse and vnthankfull Chylde If wee séeke the cause why Magistrates lament theyr labour it is for the vnthankfull mindes of lewde Cittizens Lastly we may soone imagine what mooueth Masters to repent theyr fauour showne towards vnthankfull Seruaunts But as he which forgetteth the benefite of a good turne reapeth no other fruite in his barren fielde of ingratitude but hate and reproche so contrariwyse a minde detesting to be drowned in y ● blacke poole of Obliuion receiueth the good rewardes of loue and lasting honor Cicero setting downe the ready way to happines amongst such duties as are required in a perfect Man findeth none more necessary then to be thankfull For sayth he if with Hesiodus we be commaunded to restore such thinges as wee receiued for our owne vse with greater measure and more plenty what shall w●● then doo being prouoked by vndeserued curtesie Ought we not like fruitfull groundes yéelde more a thousand folde then we receiued for if we doubt not to expresse the loue of a willing hart towardes those of whom we hope for some benefit how much more ought we to be thankfull to those which alreadye haue bountifully pleasured vs and by whom we haue béene great lie profited Two wayes are we sayd to be liberall in giuing and requi●ing that which was gyuen The one consisteth in our owne power the other no good manne may neglect Pernitious therefore is thys monstrous ingratitude whatsoeuer he be in whose hart it is firmely established and thorowly grounded he is farre inferior in glory nature or condition to a sauage and brutish Beast For as the venimous broode of the Uiper doth destroy her damne that did nourishe her or the cruel Tyger that kylleth the olde Tygresse that brought her to life so doth the vngratefull person not onely enuenome his benefactor or reléeuer wyth poysoned ingratitude but likewise séeke to kill him that saued his life destroye him that nourished him and let him perrish for reliefe that whilom saued him from daunger And as the vngratefull minde of the Snake when the Husbandman saued hys life from the Snow and cherished him by hys fire appeared by stinging hym with hys venemous féeth So whatsoeuer he be y t eyther nourisheth an vngratefull man or cherisheth him euē so far as life or death can extend he wil requite him wyth ill for hys good and wyth despight for hys former fauour And to nothing better may an vngrateful man be compared though it be somewhat familiar then to a dogge that when his master offered him meate for rewarde bitte him by the fingers Howe lothsome may thys vice appeare in the Carthagenians who most vniustly against all good descrte banished theyr noble and victorious Captaine Hanniball whose déedes had he deserued death had béene sufficient to haue pleaded for life by whose continuall toyle in bloody conflicts valiant exploytes and excelient atchieuings euen from hys youth increased theyr confines aduaunced theyr honor endoubled theyr dominions and almost quite extinguished she furious flame of theyr daring enemies the Romaines And much doo I bewayle that noble Emperour Augustus Caesar who for all his gratious benefites plentifully powred vppon the Common wealth of Rome at last was recompenced by vile ingratitude wyth the reward of foure and twenty woundes whose damned daggers wyll wytnesse against their vngratefull mindes Rosilius that vile vngratefull wretch whome Cicero by the rhetoricall force of hys eloquence hadde fréed from the hate and death pretended by the Lawes of Rome most villanously wyth hys owne hands with butcherly blade did cut hys aged throate My hart lamenteth wyth remorse to thinke howe that Tyrant Nero spared not to bathe hys handes in the luke-warme bloode first of his owne naturall mother next of hys learned Maister Seneca who was alwaies ready by arte to haue suppressed his vice being then but gréene had not nature ordeined him to so damnable a life Who was so ready to execute Cato Maior béeing by law condemned to die for the supposed death of the young Emperor Octauius as that wretched pesaunt whose throate not long before he deliuered from the strangling haltar No lesse monstrous then the rest was the vngratefull mind of Cyclops bastarde son to Ninus king of Babilon who hauing disinherited his lawfull son and heire a Prince no lesse vertuous then puissaunt onely to crowne him King and y t whilst nature yet permitted himselfe to raigne was afterwards by him most trayterously murthered in hys bedde So soone had his aspiring mind vngratefully forgot hys duetie and allegiance to so gracious a Soueraigne But leaue we prophane Histories and looke a while into the sacred Booke of God where wée may consider the harror of this vice by the manifolde examples The Isralites after our mighty God had deliuered them from the bondage of Egypt and guided them by night with a Piller of fire and in the day shadowed them wyth a Clowde deuiding the Seas for theyr safe passage raigning Manna from Heauen to féede them and sending streames of water out of the harde Rockes yet such was their ingratitude as they not onely forgetting hys gracious benefits repined at hys prouidence but with theyr grudging mindes tempted his diuine maiestie for which such was his wrathe conceiued against theyr vnthankfulnes that but for his seruaunt Moyses sake he would worthily haue banished them the Lande of promise After that Dauid that kingly Prophet and annoynted of God had diuers times so néerely approched the presence of his deadly enemie Saul as without resistaunce hee might easilie haue bereaued him of life but spared him was notwithstanding continually pursued by Saul as a witnesse of his vngrateful mind who sought the death of him that spared his life So many are y e examples written