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hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55190	The character of a good commander together with a short commendation of the famous Artillery (more properly military) Company of London : also a brief encomium on the great duke and worthy prince, Elector of Brandenbourg : lastly plain dealing with treacherous dealers : whereunto [sic] is annexed the general exercise of the Prince of Orange's army / by Captain Tho. Plunket.	Plunket, Thomas, b. 1625.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2629; ESTC R15475	60,687	84

cause earnest Fighting they abhorr Many such valiant boasters did I hear Who at a Feast would huff and domineer To brag that for the King they 'd spend their blood Yet when they should have sneak'd into a Wood Or other place in a most deadly fright And when the Trumpets sound keep out of sight Nay do but tell them of an Enemy They 'll have the shaking Ague presently And if at Midnight you but fire a Gun They 'll stare as if they had a mind to run Yea look so simply and pitifully As if condemned to the tripple Tree And peradventure A●…ize their Breeches Or creep behind some Wall thick Hedge or Ditches But when all danger 's past peep out and say Ho! ho brave boys now we have got the day I knew a Captain did so at Dunbar Whose Tongue was stouter than his hands by far And these through their Tongues volubility Shall get all the preferment still from they That bore the brunt and danger who 've been glad If they kept but those places that they had Yea Cowards have been Courted Graced Knighted And worthy Persons overlook'd and slighted ' Cause not so valiant of their words as hands So stood as Cyphers or old Cancell'd Bonds Here I will you a pretty story tell Of one of these whom I knew very well Who was a Captain and a bragger too One Night he needs would visit his per-du For in a Field of Wheat he then had three So in all haste to one of them goes he Saying in a bravado unto him With a contracted brow and aspect grim Souldier be sure what I command you do Or for a Coward I will punish you If comes upon you but one Enemy You must not flinch but fight him manfully If two assail you you must do the same If three you may retreat from whence you came The other two hearing him thus to chatter Stood up an end to see what was the matter Whereat their Captain gave a fearful start And could not choose but let a thundring F Thinking them to be many Enemies So in a pannick fear away he flies As if a thousand Foes were at his heels Throwing away his Sword in the same Fields Also his Cane Gloves Head-piece Pistol too So scap'd his Foe as he thought much ado Yea such a lerry did possess his breech That he was forc'd to ease him in a Ditch Then to his Guard he runs quite out of breath And looks so like the Effigies of Death That all his Souldiers arm'd themselves apace And so stood gazing on his rueful face Musing what Devil or Witch should so transform him At length they ask'd if any thing did harm him Harm me quoth he sure if you had been where I was 't would make your hearts to quake with fear But the next day the truth of all came out Whereat his Souldiers at him jeer and flout Yea with such scornful terms they did him brand That presently he quitted his Command And went to London where he studied The Law and so a Lawyers life he led Many for their preferment never were Beholden to their Valour I dare swear But to their flattery dissimulation Great friends or to their sly insinuation Pimps pocky Pages have been rais'd on high And Men of great experience put by But stay my Muse why spend we so much time About such slaves as don't deserve a Rhime Come to our noble Hero le ts return And trace him till we bring him to his Urn. But hold Quid Monstrum id what Elf is that Crossing the way like an unlucky Wat How jealous pale lean angry hollow-ey'd It looks yea looks a squint on every side It seems to pine away with fear and care Lest others should with it in something share How ominous and frightfully it shows What terrors hang upon its cloudy brows One may guess shrewdly at his inner part And in his speculation read his heart It looks as if some ill it did devise How ghastly doth it roul about his eyes The symptom of a troubled brain and breast Or as if with some fury 't were possest How like a Malus Genius doth it look Just such another as old R C k That lov'd no Man or Woman but himself This Spectrum sure is such another Elf. Timon Misantropos though churl enough I think was better than this Furifuff Milder than this morose sowre surly Huff It often seems to mutter or to look Nine ways at once within or without book Sphinx it resembles as the Jesuits do Being like a Dog a Fox a Dragon too That 's surly crafty cruel full of hate So that this Monster it doth personate None but the Devil or Envy can look thus Whose sight would ev'n astonish Cerberus Therefore it must be Envy certainly Sith it frets at good Mens prosperity Invidus alterius rebus macrescit opimis It grins his Teeth to see another rise Whom to his vengeance he could sacrifice He wears a Dagger always in his Heart And like a Raviliack can act his part He waiteth for their haulting secretly Whom he supposeth in his way to ly He will lay deadly snares and traps for those That are or whom he fears will be his Foes For he hath Desperado's near at hand That will for Gold obey his curs'd command Or if they fail he hath a Dose or Two That undiscerned can the business do For Envy is so witty in all evil That it can turn a Man unto a Devil For how propense are some to do such things As to themselves and friends destruction brings When Envy putteth on his Sunday's face Then then beware of him in any case For if he courts ye with a smiling grin Yet his black Heart is wounds and blood within He can set Servants to destroy their Master Or else betray them into some disaster Yea near Relations have been set on work To do what would have terrified a Turk Parents their Children dear have made away When Popish Envy did in them bear sway So envious Joab Amasa did Murther Ev'n while he cry'd Art thou in health my Brother Joseph was envied of his Brethren so Was David by King Saul his mortal foe O Sirs who who can before envy stand ' Specially where it gets the upper hand 'T is restless till some mischief it hath done And will proceed if once it hath begun A Cataline to Christian Liberty A C●ius Marius to Tranquility A Lucifer and Hildebrand to those That with devised fancies cannot close A troublesome Tertullus unto all That are o' th' same Religion with Saint Paul. A bloody Bonner to the Sons of Sion A Duke de Alva to the Belgick Lion. A sly informer to impiety Against the Props of true Divinity And like the Priests and Pharisees would fain Christ in his Members Crucify again As it hath done among us many years Which by some Thousand Sufferers appears Envy on Worth and Vertue doth attend And will its censures on the worthy spend A Wasp