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	hand_n	left_a	1,466	5	9.8057	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23383	A meruailous combat of contrarieties Malignantlie striuing in the me[m]bers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing common wealth: wherin dialogue-wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this present time. VVith an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1588 (1588)	STC 981; ESTC S104468	32,149	54

labouring haue felt the payne all the reward I demaunde is thy good worde which if I may haue I am satisfied and so reposing my selfe thereon I ende wyshing thee health and long life with the fruition of heauenlie ioyes Farewell ⸫ ¶ A Dialogue wherin the extreame vices of this present age are dysplayd against Traytors and Treasons The Tongue DEare Brethren and fellowe members by what authoritie or right rather with what boldnes dare our Brethren the Belly and Back oppresse vs and so Lord-like commaund vs it is a shameful thing extreame folly and a thing very vnséemly when the seruaunt ruleth and the Lorde obeyeth the slaue commaundeth and the Maister serueth truelie we are worthy of the greatest torments that lyke drudges will become a scoffe and scumme to others Like fooles we haue made the Belly and Backe our Lords with great labour we get and prouide al things may please them poore soules we haue no rest sometime the Belly commaūdeth one sometime the Backe another one saith to y ● Foote arise sluggard awake the other to the hand bestirre thée apace get me some meate prepare mee some dainties fetch me some wine lay the Table the day passeth the time goeth and I haue eaten nothing Hunger and Thirst my two enemies come threaten my death the one on the one side the other on the other and therfore except yée spéedely help me I die and these are their daielie and vsuall complaints The Hande Syster you saie trueth and amongst the rest no one hath more cause to cōplaine of them both then I for I labor sundry waies to maintaine thē In the Winter I suffer cold in the Summer I endure heat my ioynts are benummed with the one and dryed with the other I labor day night to procure for thē both what I can yet they are neuer satis-fied The Tongue I knowe it but yet your toyle is not equall with myne for I am often a common Paratour and solicitour for them both Manie times I am faine to braule for them when I haue small thanks for my labour somtimes I am a Patrone or rather a Latrone to robbe the Ministry by selling of lyuings sometimes a Iudge and eftsoones a witnes somtimes a Counseller otherwhiles a Merchant and then after a retailour of wares I counterfait Lawes I tell lyes I sewe seditions I stirre vp Traytors I slaunder Princes vnder cullour of trueth I beguile and deceiue I ●weare and forsweare I breake promise I allure to whoredome to theft to murder and to all mischiefe I make no account so I may get them ought whether per fas or nefas by right or wrong If I come among Princes I flatter if among the noble or ritch I sooth them vp with swéete wordes Si ai●rt aio si negant nego looke what they say I affirme it and all this I doe that by flatteries I may féede the Belly dai●●●lie clothe the Back brauelie The Hande And I praie you is my toyle any lesse are my deceites inferiour vnto yours am I not forced through their procurements if I may without shame open my follies to picke and steale sometimes by priuie filching to make all fish that comes to net sometimes by open robbing violently to lay hands vpon others What treasons what poysonings what murder is it or what wickednes that I doo not for their sakes accomplish whose goods haue I spared whose bloode haue I not spilled to serue the turne of these my Lordlie Maisters Haue I spared the Prince the Father the Childe the Sister the Brother the Husbande the Wife Nay what age or se●e haue I pittied to please these ouerruling commaunding Lords I want no examples to confirme my sayings yet least you should imagin me to say more then I can proue I will sette downe a fewe for the maintainaunce of my cause And first to begin with Traytors did not Curio at first Caesars enemy yet afterward to maintain the Bellie and Back sell vnto Caesar for 26000. crownes the Cittie of Rome How vnfaithfully did Polymnestor of Thrace murder Polydorus King Priamus some and all for his gold to maintaine his brauerie and to sette him one degrée higher in his Kingdome Aul. Posthumius Albinus béeing sent to ouerthrow Iugurtha was corrupted with money and in stead of warre most shamefully concluded a peace How did Standley and Yorke two English Traytors in Flaunders deale with the most vertuous and famous Quéene of England whom God preserue long to raigne ouer vs to the confusion of all forraine and domesticall Traitors When the Romaines warred against the Latines Cassius a standerdbearer f●ue Crassus Brutus his sonne because for money he would haue betrayd his Father and opened the Gates to the enemies Heraclius the Emperour slewe Phocas his Father to maintaine himselfe in the brauerie of an Empire Richard the third reaching with ambition of a crowne most vnnaturally slew his two little Nephewes his hart contriued it but I performed it Frotho the King of Denmark had thrée sonnes Haldanus Roe and Scato who when their Father was deade stroue all togeather for the Kingdome by meanes of which Haldanus the elder slew y ● two yonger that hee alone might sway the Kingdome Semiramis hauing obtained of her Husband Ninus to sit but one day in the princelie seate and for that day to sway the Kingdome imprisoned her Husband afterward slewe him that she alone might liue in all daintines and brauerie These and infinit other haue the Belly and Backe 〈◊〉 me to destroy making me as a slaue to serue their appetites The Foote Séeing each of you haue iustly made your complaints as Nature hath placed me lowest so giue me leaue at last to declare my griefe I acknowledge the Tongue is greatly enforced the Handes meruailously troubled and the other members wonderfully oppressed to serue the turne of two not Maisters by Nature but Monsters by abuse yet consider my trauaile and you shall find it nothing lesse then the rest How doo I trott vp and downe and as a Porter togeather with my fellow am forced to beare vppe the rest of the members Whatsoeuer must be had I am the Messenger to fetch it is there any dish to féede the Belly then must I runne to buy it is there any fine apparrell fashionable for the Backe be it neuer so farre I must trudge for it And albeit y ● the waight of the members which nature hath gyuen be sufficient to charge ouerburden my féeble force yet must I haue a loade deuised by arte to oppresse the weakenes of my slender ioynts so that I thinke my burden heauier then Aetna or the waight of the Heauens vpon the shoulders of Atlas with griefe héerof my boanes consume my synnowes shake my humors dry vp and my ioynts quake like as when two weake Pillars beare vppe the burden of a heauie house Besides neither can the Tongue come to vtter her spéech nor the hands to execute their purpose without

their owne wee seeke valiantly to defende our owne Thinke therefore swéete Countrimen vpon true religion your Countrie your wiues and children your landes and riches your friends and kinsfolkes and vpon your owne liues let the cowards buy it dearely and with price of theyr bloud that they get Fall downe vpon your knees before the Lord humble your hearts in his sight come vnto him with fasting and prayer in sackcloth ashes let euerie one turne from his wicked wayes Let our Priests leaue pride couetousnesse and s●●●nie let Lordes and Magistrates rule by iustice not vsurpe authoritie let stinking pride cease to bee called pretinesse and whoorish lust forsake the name of louingnesse let gréedie auarice be no more tearmed warines let the gluttonous bellie eate but that which sufficeth the dronken throte deuour no more than néedeth pluck from the backe to cloath the naked from the belly to féede the hungry weepe for your sinnes and lament for your misdéedes amend your liues and doe no more amisse flie vnto God in Christ Iesus and stedfastly comfort your selues in his mercie then rise with boldnesse méete your enemies with courage let there come thousands and ten thousands they shall fal vpon your right hand and vpon your left and neuer be able to doe you harme and that this may so come to passe let vs all begge it at the hands of God for Christs sake that hée will forgiue vs our sinnes and giue vs grace to amende our liues that he will defend his little flocke that he will fight our battayles both by sea and lande that neither the fraude nor force of our enemies hurt vs that he will aduaunce his Gospel and giue it the vpper hand that the wild Bore wast not his vineyard nor the bloudie wolfe deuour his flock but that we may stil heare the Trumpet sound in Sion and the goldē bels ring in his Sanctuarie that our gracious Quéene may long liue among vs perfectly to restaure his decayed Temple that her aged counsaylours may counsayle wisely to the glorie of God and benefite of our Countrie that the Ministers and Preachers may vtter the worde zealously and performe it in their liuing also effectually that our common people may embrace penitencie and faithfully liue to Gods glorie so that wee may praise him for euer in his congregation to the propagation of his truth and confusion of Antechrist Amen ❧ A MOST NEEDFVLL Praier for this troublesome time HOW are wee able most deare Father to render due thankes vnto thée for thy wonderfull blessings bestowed vppon our sinfull land Our tongues are not able to vtter nay our harts cannot thinke the excéeding mercies whiche thou haste from time to time poured out in full measure vpon vs who by the multitude of our transgressions haue not deserued thy fauor but iustly merited thy wrath and indignation to consume vs vtterly from the face of the earth For albeit in pride we excéede all nations in dronkennesse whooredome and couetousnesse with other vices surpasse all others in our time so that our sinnes may be matched with Sodome and our iniquities with Gomorah for who is it among vs that doth not abuse himselfe in pride abundance yet hast thou not as a rigorous iudge executed thy iustice in our condemnation but as a mercifull Father spared vs when we deserued not an easie rod gently to correct vs but a smarting whip seuerely to scourge vs nay eternal death and hell fire to torment vs with a most iust depriuation of all fatherly benefites Notwithstanding thou hast hetherto blessed vs with the fruition of thy holy word sincerely and cléerly sounded forth as from a siluer trumpet thou hast purged our stinking channels of Popery thou hast taken awaie our stinking waters of Nilus and giuen vs the christal stremes of the cleane water of life The golden bels of thy Gospell ring euerie day in our eares superstition errour are bannished our Churches so that wee may all serue thée in puritie of spirit Thou hast giuen vs a most religious vertuous and gracious Quéene who as she hath till this time bene a mother in England and like a Deborah in Israel so we beséech thée make her a Iael to foyle Sisera a Iudith to vanquish Holophernes and an happie Ester to confound proud traitorous Haman with his posteritie Thou hast bestowed on vs a godly graue wise prudent counsel whō we humbly intreate thee to make to her Maiestie as Nathan to Dauid in counsell or Ionathas in comfort and loue Thou hast endued vs with faithfull zealous Ministers that rightly diuide vnto vs the worde of truth who as they are to vs the messēgers of light so we beseech thée their light of good life may shine in such sorte vnto others that they séeing their good workes may glorifie thée our Father which art in heauen We haue had a long and prosperous peace wherein euerie man hath eaten of his owne vine drunke the water of his owne well wee haue had no warre in our gates nor danger in our houses but that we might each man sit vnder his vine and vnder his figge tree and eate the labours of his hands in peace And when thou scourgedst other nations about vs thou fatherly sparedst and mercifullie with-heldest from vs thy rod. These thy blessings deare Father we haue not regarded nor thought vpon the afflictions of our brethen and now for our vnthankfulnesse thou shakest thy rodde against vs and shewest vs the signes of thy displeasure thou hast brought against vs the Moabites Ammorites Agarims they haue consulted together and made a league against thée and vs they haue gaped on vs with theyr mouthes they haue sharpned their tongues like a serpent they haue laied a snare for vs and spread a net with cordes in our waie they haue bent their bowes whet their swords and go barking at vs like dogges they haue laide waite euen for our soules but Lord how long wilt thou be angrie O let not thy iealousie burne like fire let our sighings come before thee and according to thy mercy and mightie power preserue vs that are but children of death O giue vs helpe in these our troubles for vaine is the helpe of man remember not our sinnes and our iniquities but let thy mercie preuent vs O let not our enemies saie where is their God saue vs from the hands of bloudie Papists and from Spanish enemies that rise vp against vs for we put not our trust in the bow neither can our swordes saue vs but saue thou vs from our aduersaries and put them to confusion that hate vs suffer not the wicked to haue their desire but keepe vs from theyr snares and from the grinnes of these workers of iniquitie make them to fall into their owne nettes while wee escape their bloudie deceits so will wee praise thy name for euer and laude thy mercies in thy congregations so shall they see it and be ashamed that go about to ouerthrow thy truth so shall they confesse thy power and stand in feare to rise against vs we thy seruants will neuer forget thy mercies but sound forth dayly new songs of thanksgiuing graunt O deare Father these our petitions not for our merits but for thy mercies in Christ Iesus To whome with thee and the holie Ghost be al honor glory world without ende Amen FINIS Ezech 16 Exod 32 Gene 25 Philip. 3 Psal 7. 8 Iohn 6. 1. Cor. 10. 2 Chr. 32. 1. Sam. 17. Gen 19. Esay 3. Iere 1. Iohn 7 Apo. 21. Exod. 28. Iudg 4. Iudg. 5 Iudith 13. ●●t 7. 2 Sam 7. 1. Sam. 18. 1. Sam. 20. 2. Tim. 2 Mat. 5 Esay 36. Mich. 4. Psal 128. 2 Chr 20. Psal 83 Psal 140. Psal 59 Psal 79. Psal 108 Psal 79. Psal 44. Psal 141.