Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	henry_n	lancaster_n	2,672	5	11.4910	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08918	An extracte of examples, apothegmes, and histories collected out of Lycosthenes, Brusonius and others ; translated into Englishe, and reduced into an alphabeticall order of common places, by A.P.	Parinchef, John.	1572 (1572)	STC 19196; ESTC S113993	85,726	246

eche of them beheld other with their eyes without speaking of any worde when they returned to their tentes their fiercenesse was turned into swéete wanton words Ex Marco Aurelio Cleopatra in the Prouince of Bithinia in the wood Sehin made a goodly bāket and solemne feast to Marcus Anthonius hir louer And though she were not very honest hir self yet had she with hir right chast women And thus the banket endured a great part of the night and the wood béeing thicke the yong damselles were not so wilie to hide them but the yong men Romanes found them so that of sixtie daughters of the Senators 55. were gotten with childe Which thing made great slaūder to the people sorow to the Senatours infamie to Cleopatra and dishonestie to Anthonius Ex eodem When Pirrhus the faythfull defendour of the Tarentines and renowmed king of Epyrotes was in Italie hée came to Naples and hadde not bene there but a day the same season there was a Lady in that same citie named Gamalice of a highe linage and greatly estéemed in beautie the very same day she was gotten with childe shamed throughout all Jtalie thrust out of the citie and slayne by hir owne brother Ex Marco Aurelio Nero Domicius was a monster of so horrible vncleannesse that he absteined not from his owne mother his naturall sister nor any degrée of kinred And that more horrible is to speake he vsed hys filthy buggerie with Porus a boy whom by magike and sorcerie he endeuoured to traduce vnto the nature of a woman Bruso li. 3. cap. 9. Letus declareth howe that Maxentius béeing at a time farre in loue with a noble and chaste gentlewoman of Rome sente vnto hir suche courtiers of his as were most fitte for that purpose whom also he had in greater estimation than any others and with suche was wonte to consulte about matters for the common wealth These first fell vpon hir husbande and murthered him in hys owne house then when they by no meanes neither with feare of the tyraunt nor threatning hir death pull hir from him at length she desired leaue of them to goe into hir chamber and after hir prayers she woulde accomplishe their request And when she was gone into hir chamber vnder this pretence she slue hir selfe But the rakehelles when they sawe the woman farrie so long béeing therewith displeased brake vp the doore and founde hir lying dead wherefore they returned and declared this heauie happe vnto their vnhappie maister Who was so farre past shame that in steade of repentaunce he was the more set on fire to attempt the like Ex domino Fox Also Tarquine the proude béeing a right goodly man in gesture right valiaunt in armes and of a noble bloud as an vnhappie Prince defiled all his vertues with vicious liuing in suche wise that he conuerted his heautie into lecherie and his power into tyrannie for dooing the lyke villanie vnto Lucrecia the chast Lady of Rome Whereby he loste not onely his realme but also caused the name of Tarquine to be banished out of Rome for euer after Liuius li. 1. 2. Of Liberalitie MYcippa in Salust said vnto Iugurtha that neither an armie of men nor yet abundance of treasure were so firme to retayne a kingdome as a sure and trustie friende whom neither golde can winne nor sworde compell to forsake his friende And suche friends saide he by beneficence liberalitie thou mayest easily finde At the siege of newe Carthage there was a proper yong woman who was the wife of one Lucius prince of the Celtibrians taken captiue and brought vnto Scipio as a bootie worthy of so valiant a captaine But he no lesse curteous liberall than he was valiaunt and martial did in most honest maner restore hir agayne Wherfore hir father hir friendes gaue him righte condigne thankes and offred him a great summe of money for hir raunsome Which summe Scipio willed them to deliuer vnto him and faking it in his hands he deliuered it vnto hir husbande and said besides the dourie which hir father had bestowed with hir he woulde giue that to hir mariage Abundantly declaring his liberal gentle disposition both in restoring the damsell and refusing the raunsome Who on another time hauing taken Hasdruball king Masinis●a his cosin captiue gently intertayned him and sente him home with other greate presentes vnto the king his cosin Shewing hereby that a valiaunt captayne oughte aswell to excell in liberalitie and other domesticall vertues as in warlyke affayres and prowesse Cymon was so gentle and liberall that whereas he had farmes orchardes and gardeynes in many places he neuer set any man to kéepe them but suffered who so woulde to enioy the fruits thereof Accustoming alwayes whersoeuer he wente to haue one followe him with a purse of money that if any one asked his almes he might straightwayes bestowe his liberalitie vppon him And if he sawe any one want clothing he would do off his own apparell and bestow it vpō him And though this kinde of liberalitie be in these our dayes very rare yet by reporte good master Foxe dothe to his power resemble this good Cymon When a certayne Macedonian was driuing a Mule laden wyth the kinges coyne it happened that wyth the weight of the money the Mule was tyred Wherefore the man tooke it on his owne shoulders and beganne with greate payne to carrye it But the weighte thereof was so heauie that the poore man was forced to fall vnder it Whiche when Alexander the kyng espied he sayde bicause thou shalte not be wearie to carrie so tedious a burthen I giue it thée take it and carrie it to thy owne house When Ptolome had subdued Demetrius he not onely spared his lyfe but also lefte his tente vntouched and gaue him 8000. of his captiue souldiers without any raunsome saying that valiant men striue not for the death of men but for honour and glory Whose regall beneficence Demetrius wondering at desired God to giue him occasion to requite him with the like And so it came to passe For Demetrius tooke Cilla a notable aptayne of Ptolomeis captiue and with lyke humanitie restored hym agayne Amongest infinite foreine examples which I might here insert I thoughte good not to forget a domesticall example of an English captayne in beneficence and liberalitie inferiour to none In the reigne of king Edwarde the thirde the yere of grace 1 3 4 5. the king of England waging warre into Fraunce sente thither Henry Earle of Lancaster as generall captayne of his armie who albeit he were a man famous and notable for his prowes in marciall affayres yet in curtesie and liberalitie he surmoūted all others and almoste passed himselfe In so muche that at the siege of Briers wheras he had graunted euery man for his bootie the house with the implemēts therein which he by victorie should obtayne amongest other his souldiers to one named Reth fell a certayne house wherein