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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	stand_v	young_a	youth_n	17	3	8.2203	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72064	The Christian knight compiled by Sir VVilliam VViseman Knight, for the pvblike weale and happinesse of England, Scotland, and Ireland.	Wiseman, William, Sir, d. 1643.	1619 (1619)	STC 10926; ESTC S122637	208,326	271

should giue me a Iuell and I go picke his locke or his pocket for it Would this bee well taken Haue I not lost a friend by it This kind of presumption is towards God as vngodly as the other to man most vnmannerly And I shall wish you to take heed and enquire of it further for it will stand yee much vpon And yet to giue you this also and to free you from an audacious presumption which I can by no meanes doe yet I may not allowe this tryall to be a tryall indifferent and reasonable but false vncertaine and deceiuable as I prooue to ye thus There is no man can make a tryall certen whose issue is chance But the issue of combate is chance therefore the tryall vnreasonable That the issue is chance it appeares by the many casualties that combate is subiect vnto if his foote slippe or sword breake the sunne wind or dust in his eies or if his breath faile him hee is gone Neither is a man alwaies in best practise for his defence King Porus looked aside a little hearing his men in tumult behinde him and Alexander tooke aduantage of it and ouerthrew him And to goe no further then my former examples Liuius ib. 7 Valerius tooke like aduantage of a Rauen that flittered in the french mans face and ouerthrewe him by it And yet these vncertaineties our Duellours make no reckoning of weighing their honour in their humour at no more in a manner then a throweat crosse and pile or a caste at mum-chance The insufficiency of this tryall is also seen by the little esteeme is made of it by the whole body of iustice King Councell Iudges Magistrates and all the graue heads that are in the world All that ye haue yee holde by their wisedomes and iudgements the cloake on your backe and your sword in your hand Yet they holde such conquests of yours as nothing They will not condemne the conquered for the worser man or commend the conquerour for the better man or that he who hath the day hath alwayes right on his side as commonly he hath in iust warres and so is noted by Pomponius Laetus In compendio lib. 28. Liuie 7. But in single fight it is often contrary As we may see in Corbis and Oswaes case two principall men of Spaine while Scipio lay there who would haue vmpered the matter betweene them for the principality of Ibes But they were both resolued no tryall but combate either take all or loose all The apparant right was in Oswa who stood vpon his spirit and flourishing youth The other was both older and stronger and stood vpon his skill Much preparation was on both sides and great concurse of people and friendes But the stronger obtained the victory and the younger paide deere for his leuity Like case wee finde in king Henry the sixts time of England how William Cartur was trayterously appeached for a traytour by his own seruant and in combate was slaine by him in Smithfielde the seruant carrying away the victory and the Master the honesty as it was deemed and pittied by all that knew him And it was not long that the seruant could escape the iudgement of God for it being hanged soone after for another fault Neither will such conquests be so much as an euidence in any court of audience As for example one cals me theefe or baseborne I challenge him the fielde and am ouercome and he goes away with my sword After this I bring my action of slaunder Hee pleades conquest by battell and shewes my sword for a testimony with other witnesse besides Yet all is nothing I shall haue dammages against him notwithstanding But I leaue these matters vnto yee to bee better considered of as also the humours of men from whence this vnciuill businesse proceedes Greene heads commonly without ripenesse courage without knowledge good mettall ill applyed good signes till impolyed and to put all in a word the greatest aduenture that is for so small a prize as appeares by the fruites of it which are two First a cruell repentance if euer wee come to repent vs but especially if death followed Wee must remember one day or at sometime or other when wee set alone and thinke of things past that hee was our brother whom we maliced or supplanted so Hee was partaker of one Christendome with vs Like flesh one countrey the same language with vs. Perhappes hee was our friend and louer in his heart howsoeuer he might be ledde by humane errour and peraduenture our kinse-man or allie for any thing we know or care for in our passion If euer we come to remēber our selues we shall rue it most pittifully and with the bowels of extreamest compassion Alasse for pitty that we cannot take warning one by another yea that euer we should weare a sword and vse it no better How many bee there that perish thus of cold iron in this iron age how wanton be they with their weapons after they get a little fence and are not at quiet till they haue sheathed it in their brothers bosome or lye breathlesse and speechlesse vnder the surgeons hands They passe a tryall indeede but whereof Truely in my opinion of the greatest misery and most comfortlesse desolation that may bee Victus perijt luget victor As the olde Oracle went neither of them honourable by it both of them miserable and who can tell which more Whether he that is by this time God knowes where or he that suruiues and though he bee in his right minde yet cannot make amends or bemoane it sufficiently The second fruite if we may call it so is an abhominable blindnesse of heart which they bee growne vnto Let vs speake but of one or two of their lawes that they liue by and dye by Our young Solons and Lycurgusses what bring they Or from whence Not from the Athenians or Egyptians not from the Romanes or Lacedemonians and much lesse from good Christians Their first law is good and is but for a shewe to colour the rest And that is this ye must doe wrong to no creature liuing But they keepe it ill For if they carry a spleene against one they will giue him a iustle or a scorne or somewhat else that the other will not take and raise a brawle presently The second is if yee happen to wrong one or that the other take it for a wrong it is base to cry him mercy for it or yee must doe it coldely or rather stand to it and iustifie it and adde wrong to wrong and word vpon word to the defiance No place left for curtesie but a curteous scoffe A third is if one throwe duste or salt in your face or disgrace you in any sort if yee be not a cowe ye are bound to challenge him A fourth is that if a man doe not answere his challenge the other may stabbe him or pistoll him for it wheresoeuer he meetes him Lesse then his life cannot satisfie the disgrace