Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	foot_n	general_n	regiment_n	1,004	5	9.7483	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50450	Aretina; or, The serious romance Written originally in English. Part first.	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing M151; ESTC R217028	199,501	456

the husband allowed his wifes imbracements and that it was only the husbands dissent which made the wifes consent be reputed Adultery for said he all the precepts which concern man may be dispensed with by man for seing the great Legislator hath only made these Laws which terminate themselves in mans advantage to be bulworks to him against the malice of others it appears that where there is no wrong done to him the Law introduced in his favours ceaseth and as if there had never been fear of wrong surely the Law which punisheth that wrong had never been statuted even so in the case where the party that only can be offended remits the offence there the Law ceaseth because its occasion faileth And albeit in crimes once committed the Law-giver may pursue albeit the party offended desist yet that is where the crime was once committed and where the committer hazarded upon the fact before he had the parties offended consent and so as he contemned the Law-giver as much as he offended a private subject the Law-giver may insist albeit the subject desist And as in the case of theft the Magistrate may punish the stealer albeit none concur with him yet before the theft is committed if the person whose goods are taken consent there can be no theft even so if the husband before the Adultery allow his wifes familiarity he cannot be said to be wronged neither can ye obtrude here that the wife hath chained her self to her husband by an oath which adamantine chain the weak hands of a husbands consent can never break this I say cannot be obtruded here for seing this is an oath only and no vow the immortal gods are not parties but witnesses in it for a vow is only where the thing promised is made meerly or mostly for their honour which cannot be said here and so the person in whose favours it is made may favour the maker so far as to dispense with it Nay but replyed Megistus both the Gods and the Common-wealth are interested in what is enjoyned by that Law which seems to be one of those Laws which was made in Natures first Parliament and are as much parties as is the husband for if husbands had the keys of that Law put into their hands they would open a door by them to all wickedness and would feed the greedy appetite of that monster Lust and the souls of creatures and hearts of subjects would be so stuffed with this base passion that no room should be left either for vertue or gallantry and the gardens of mens souls should be so overgrown with this spreading hemlock of corruption that no ground should be found to sow in either the roses of piety or lillies of generosity and albeit ye combat stoutly with the weapon of the husbands consent yet ye shall never be able by it to wound one who is covered with the armour of reason for that husband who would by the hand of his own folly raze down the ramparts of his own honour and by the mire of his madness pollute the wel-spring of his private satisfaction might justly be reputed mad and demented and his consent might be accounted as ineffectual as it is unreasonable and so to operate no more here than the consent of mad-men doth in Law elsewhere They were arrived by this time at the place where the Army had encamped for that night and were welcomed by the applaudatory acclamations of the Souldiery each one esteeming them the coals by which the green wood for their unexpert courages behoved to be kindled and their enemies themselves who were rather rivals of their success than enemies to their vertues acknowledged them both the patterns and patrons of true gallantry After they had tendred their respects to the General they retired to their own Tents which their servants had already stretcht out for them and thereafter Megistus exercised a Company of foot in the face of a Regiment teaching them by what he did what they should do and disciplinating those who dreamed formerly that War was only a flash of artless courage and that all its precepts might be summed up in that one of not running away Misarites much dissatisfied that applause should have so hugd these Knights in its arms and that all should be so much beadsmen for their success sent a Gentleman to acquaint them as if in a friendly way that the Officers of the Army frowned exceedingly to see their own eggs hatcht by others Megistus could easily have unridled a greater mysterie than this and conjectured instantly that emulation was the sender of that Ambassage whereupon they retired to their Tents but so prudently as that none could perceive their design in retiring Where the Martial Knight to dissipat these clouds of passion which were already conglomerating in the firmament of Megistus face undertook this subsequent relation for their divertisment I lodged said he with a Merchant in Alexandria whose wife thought her self the widow of a living man and so setled her fancy upon a pretty youth her apprentice upon whom she conferred those respects which she denied her husband to whom albeit she could not in reason yet she did in fancy marry her self and with whom she spent those amorous hours which she could steal either from her husbands assiduous company or the youths numerous imployments but when the husband was abroad in the Country then they reaped the harvest of these pleasures which they gleaned only at other occasions and feasted upon those amorous delicacies which they could only use as desert at other times But that I may abridge my story it hapned one day that the husband was by his imployments called to the Country telling his wife that he would not return of a fortnight so that they had the reins of their pleasure laid upon their own necks and thought an occasion to sin was enough to authorize them in sin but whilst they are in bed together at twelve a clock of the night the husband wearied with his journey and disappointed of his projects returns home and knocks at the door the wife conjures her Gallant not to budge whilst she was opening the door to her husband which he condescended to rather to satisfie her than his own reason the door was opened and the kind wife caresses most affectionatly her wearied husband telling him that it was pity the husband should toil so in amassing means and money for their wives who sucked the honey albeit they brought not home the wax but said she Sweet-hart providence hath led you home this night that ye might be a target to the innocency of your importuned wife whose honour your apprentice hath oft and most passionately assaulted so that in him ye keep a fox at home to devour your own hens and this night at one a clock which is not now far off I trysted him in my chamber resolving to intrap him but seing ye can manage that imployment with better success I entreat you go to