Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	horse_n	march_v	regiment_n	1,365	5	9.6092	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12676	A discourse more at large of the late ouerthrovve giuen to the King of Spaines armie at Turnehaut, in Ianuarie last, by Count Morris of Nassawe, assisted with the English forces whereunto is adioined certaine inchauntments and praiers in Latine, found about diuerse of the Spaniards, which were slaine in the same conflict: Translated out of French according to the copy printed in the Low Countries. Seene and allowed.		1597 (1597)	STC 22993; ESTC S101965	8,011	20

Varas heretofore named the Baron of Balanchon great maister of the K. of Spains ordinance brother to the marques of Waranbon insomuch that beeing at Turnhout he beheld those Iles on the right and left hand where his determination was the which hee iudged of suche importance for their affaires that in some of their townes they vsed great solemnitie in their churches and very triumphant processions to the end that it would please God speedily to send great frosts But God did dispose otherwise of the matter for the Prince Maurice ful of valour and industrie and one likewise that letteth not passe anie opportunitie when it representeth it selfe hauing intelligence of the assembly of these forces and that it was to g●ue him a checke vpon the yce resolued with himselfe to force them to defende themselues who furiouslye prepared to assaile him and to this effect he caused to come secretly with good order to a place named a rendez-vous some thousand horse and fiue thousand foot with certaine peeces of Ordinance to vse as occasion shoulde serue and as hee had foreseen and so marched towarde Turnehout in good order and resolution the 24. lodging himselfe at Rauels halfe a mile from the enimy who wer greatly astonished vnderstanding the prince to be vppon such a sodain come so neer them being thus perplexed and vncertain they resolued for the best to make their retrait towards Herentals the neerest walled town to them held by the Spaniard beginning at four of the clocke in the morning to march forward with their baggage and then with their menne of armes His ex at the very same instant marched towards Turnhout to set vpon the enemy and founde him remooued but yet not far from thence which made him to resolue to pursue the enimy to fighte with him in plaine field and for to begin the order two C. English Musquetiers did aduance themselues to the end that they holding continuall skirmish with the enimy he might not so easily proceede on his way and in the meanewhile the rest of his company had opportunity to ioine with him for cōming out of the towne the way was very bad and ful of water then he aduanced his horssemen which kept themselues stil coasting the enemye whoe not long after was discried to approch toward the end of that great plaine and ready to enter into a strait both narrow and troblesome where the horse loste their aduantage and the foot did win it then was it resolued that his Ex. should no longer delaie but to come to the matter howbeit the greatest parte of the footmen were farre behinde This thus resolued the charge was giuen in this order The earle of Hoenloo his brother in law a braue and resolute nobleman accompanied with the earle of Solms charged the enemy in the forefront wher was a regiment of Almaines of xiii companies making the vangard sir Robert Sidney gouernour of Flushing and sir Frances Vere Collonel of an english regiment a knight both valiant and wise whoe besides their intertaining of the enimy in skirmish set vpon the rereward where the Neapolitans were other troopes were commanded to charge the flank where were the regiments of the L. of Hachicourt which wer hertofore those of Mounsieur de la Motre compounded of olde souldiors and those of the Collonel a Barlotte and almost all at one instant The cauallery of the enimy issued with fiue of their best cornets to wit three of Spaniards of Don Iuan de Cordua Don Iuan de Gouzman Don alonce de Mondragon one Albanoice du S. Nicolas Baste one of the oldest and sufficientest captaines and the other of the Low countries of the L. of Grobendonc seeing our men come to charge them they beganne to flie without any other fight forsaking their companiōs on foot the which after very little resistance by the meanes of ours were broken and ouerthrowne his Ex. being accompanied with the L. Admiral of Nassau and Collonel Moray were reserued to sustain the cauallerie if need had required The true number of those that were slaine were to the number of twoe thousand two hundred with their general the arle of Varas other personages of quality There were 38. Ensignes one cornet of horse fiue hundred prisoners takē among them one of the earls of Mansfield twelue cheefe captaines and many other officers many escaped which had for their pasportes blowes on the heads with Coutelaces His Ex. according to his natural clemencie and curtesie had discharged the prisoners except some few which he would haue retained for the perfourmance of the ransomes of the rest had it not beene that some alledged that the Cardinall commanded his people to breake the quarter he retained them vntil he was resolued of his intent to the end to order things the better hereafter Among the dead they did finde certaine reliques which did warrant men from the danger of warre inchanted papers coniurations of soules and praiers which the preests doo vse to sel for money so contrary to the forme of praying to God that which he doth require of man that we may well say as did S. Barnard in his time that the ministers of Christ did seruice to Antichrist that they did ouerthrowe the foundation of the church transporting the Ecclesiastical dignities into an infamous gaine and shewing themselues to be replenished with powre but not with iustice It is here where I woulde pray my maisters the Catholikes I mean the abused not the abusers the which knowe best howe to open their eies and vnderstandings laying aside al passion to consider if there be in the holy scriptures any thing which doth approch to these praiers We do see in the Psalmes of Dauid that an infinite sort of the seruants of God went to the warres but we cannot finde any like vnto these inchantments and praiers in Latin which are translated at the ende of this discourse Behold the end of this iourney in steed of entring the Isles as they assured themselues nay soft and faire such cats are not to be caught without muffles and not so easily ouercome without danger of wel drinking as did those which heretofore attempted to enter into the countrey of Yo●e and the Spaniards which were conducted by the late erle Char. of Mansfield into Bommelweert in time likewise of frost These Rodomon souldiors thought the waters to be no more difficult then the land where fortune sometime did smile on them but the Spaniards as cats which haue once wet their feete are wiser then to vndertake such thinges themselues but send others The Iesuites may preache their bellies ful before they can perswade them So likewise the Cardinall is not like so easilie to conquer these Isles as he thought nay he is rather busied to prepare to defend himselfe this summer hauing somuch worke cut out that of long time cannot bee made vp in those places where hee thought to triumph France as it is at this day