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enemy_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	3,363	5	9.9017	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02239	A generall historie of the Netherlands VVith the genealogie and memorable acts of the Earls of Holland, Zeeland, and west-Friseland, from Thierry of Aquitaine the first Earle, successiuely vnto Philip the third King of Spaine: continued vnto this present yeare of our Lord 1608, out of the best authors that haue written of that subiect: by Ed. Grimeston.; Grande chronique. English	Le Petit, Jean François, 1546-ca. 1615.; Grimeston, Edward.; Meteren, Emmanuel van, 1535-1612. Historia Belgica nostri potissimum temporis.; Sichem, Christoffel van, ca. 1546-1624, engraver.	1608 (1608)	STC 12374; ESTC S120800	2,253,462	1,456

many yeares haue hazarded both life and goods without fee or recompence and as it were for the honor of God to maintaine their highnesses in their estates should bee in danger for want of other paiment to dye with hunger and miserie it is reasonable that the said squadron Electo and counsell should let all the world vnderstand with what vntruthes and horrible cruelties the sayd proscription is fraught to the end that the iustice of their cause being knowne by this declaration euerie one may iudge if the archdukes haue reason thus to thunder out their choller against them the which should terrifie women and babes but not men Choller makes their highnesses to say wee say choller for truth cannot iustifie it that they had assembled their armie together to succour the towne of Graue beeing then besieged by the enemie What meanes this was the towne of Graue besieged at Tillemont was it not besieged aboue a moneth after How could their highnesses succour Graue at Tillemont so long before it was besieged Hee addes with the like ground And going my selfe in person to put this designe in execution What is hee among vs or any other that did euer see him in the armie when as prince Maurice would come to visit vs and to charge vs vpon our owne dunghill beeing accompanied by them who had two yeares before so roughly entertained their highnesses neere vnto Nieuport The world knowes they sometimes busie themselues at Brussels sometimes at Gant to giue order to their affayres to the end their persons may bee no more subiect to bee exposed to such dangers Wee confesse notwithstanding that his highnesse after that the towne of Graue was lost came vnto the armie not for that they had any need of his person for hee came to whet his armes against his friends and faithfull subiects seeing that hee had found his enemies weapons so sharpe and his owne too much blunted in the countrey of Flanders to cut the knot of so strong an vnion If wee speake trueth or not they of Venloo and of Ruremonde can beare witnesse Hee sayes with the like truth That at such time as his highnesse did endeuour to succour the towne of Graue we vnder colour of a mutinie did abandon our ensignes Arithmetike or the art of numbring should not bee practised by troubled spirits Choller is also an enemie vnto the memorie but if a friend helpe to supply the defect of anothers memorie hee deserues some recompence If for such a courtesie wee deserue reward it is in your highnesse to acknowledge it And to speake the trueth which all the world may well remember as well our friends as our enemies but that some haue shadowed it with passion vntill that their troubled spirits may bee purified with the light of trueth wee say That wee did imploy our selues to serue their highnesses without any respect to the extreame necessitie and desolation whereunto wee were brought for want of money so long as the admirall of Arragon who was our leader and not his highnesse was camped neere vnto the towne of Graue neither did wee begin to seeke any meanes for our pay vntill that the armie was retired farre from the towne and that the sayd admirall of Arragon had no further meaning to make any attempt to succour it nor against prince Maurice his armie This was apparent when as the seigniour of Grobendonc gouernour of the towne of Boisleduc after that hee had laboured long in vaine propounding all the reasons hee could deuise to persuade the admirall to seize vpon the towne of Rauestein and by that meanes to cut off the victuals which came vnto prince Maurice his armie the onely meanes to hinder his designe in the end seeing hee could not preuaile hee returned with much discontentment then wee began to embrace the pursuit of our iust and reasonable cause If all those that haue taken this course are to bee held for traitors and rebels there is not any one in their highnesses seruice that can be free from this imputation for who are they that were euer payed taking any other course Their highnesses name Dyest Weert and Carpen places which can beare witnesse of our words the remembrance beeing yet fresh of that which hath lately happened It is also obiected That there is little due vnto vs or nothing at all and that our demaunds are false being men newly come out of Italy and other places and that a little before we had beene fully payed at Dyest Weert Carpen c. If that be true or not the accounts can witnesse and if the summe of three millions of gulderns bee held little by their highnesses yet is it a verie great summe vnto vs. But admit the summe bee small as their highnesses say it is so much the more easie to find it neither should they for a small matter haue suffered vs to fall into this extremitie As for treaties and intelligences which wee haue with their highnesses enemies wee find it strange that they maintaine and hold it to bee contrarie to all law and reason seeing that in their proscription they confesse that it hath beene to maintaine our selues with them for when as wee did see their highnesses armes turned against vs as intestine enemies in stead of giuing audience to our iust complaints was it not time beeing reasonable creatures to doe that which brute beasts doe teach vs which oppose themselues with all their force against those that seeke to oppresse them Our actions then are not without some ground of reason nay they are rather grounded vpon reason it selfe and vpon the common law necessitie beeing free from all law euen the law of nature which hath giuen this instinct to all creatures not to forget any thing which may tend to their preseruation It is a lamentable thing that they which for so many yeares haue hazarded their liues and powred out their blouds so willingly for their highnesses seruice should bee now forced to hold their liues as it were in fee of their enemies and their highnesses on the other side should seek al means to root them out depriuing them of their liues wiues children food and friends as doth plainely appeare by the said proscription His highnesse remembers the example of Dauid who retired himselfe to Achis king of the Philist●…ms his capitall enemie when hee was forced to flye from before the face of Saul his lord It may please his highnesse to let the most worthy Infanta vnderstand these reasons and not to thinke it strange if wee as souldiers haue sought to imitat the example of such a man of warre as Dauid was It is said That these course were neuer taken by others Whereunto wee will make no other answer but That all our companions know the contrarie How did they of Sichem carrie themselues who had their deputies continually at the Hage hauing egresse and regresse into Breda at their pleasures and remaining in Langthstrate vnder their wings which doe now