Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	1,226	5	9.8585	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68283	Foure bookes of offices enabling privat persons for the speciall seruice of all good princes and policies. Made and deuised by Barnabe Barnes.	Barnes, Barnabe, 1569?-1609.	1606 (1606)	STC 1468; ESTC S106957	238,357	234

carcasse of a kingdome may not onely be grieuously wounded but irreuocably broken by that meanes or it may percase be laid open by some accident or other As it of late dayes happened when Vlissingen should haue beene taken in Sir Robert Sidney Vicount Lysle Gouernour hauing had notice of the trecherie by very strange meanes and vnexpected by which the plots may be confounded Certaine places may bee wonne by traine vnder trust as Amiens was taken by the stratagemme of carts about nine yeeres sithence To stand longer vpon such deuises being so frequent and well knowne to militarie gouernours and masters were intirely needlesse referring them to Caesar Thucydides and Liuie whose Hystories are fully furnished with mater of that nature In the assiege of any Towne or Peece whatsoeuer being strongly munited the principall course is to begin with all violence and to take away from the besieged all future meanes and hopes of lingring and protracting succours For the procrastination or protraction of one day or houre in such seruices whereby the distressed Citizens or souldiers might haue beene relieued in the delay may draw with it sufficient opposition to remoue the assiege and to deliuer the places from all danger It is also most perilous in contrary to the defence and fortification of any Towne being vehemently beleaguered by force to linger out in hope of succours vntill they come to the very centre of all extremitie for then remedies and meanes of all sortes are altogether fruitlesse and vnprofitable to people in such a lamentable case being inuironed and neere oppressed with their enemies when the poyson hath already dispersed it selfe through the heart veines In th'assiege of Zama the Romanes vnder Marius as Salust writeth vsed this kinde of fight wherein is viuely set forth the true manner of those ancient Romanes in scaling of cities or castles walles and in defence of them Pars eminus glande aut lapidibus pugnare alij succedere ac murum modò suffodere modò scalis aggredi cupere praelium manibus facere Contra oppidani in proximos saxa voluere sudes pilas praetereà picem sulphure taedam mistam ardenti mittere plero squeiaculis tormentis rebusque manu emissis vulnerabant Some of them from farre fighting did throw from their engins bullets or gun-stones others succeeded and sometimes vndermined the walles and otherwhiles attempted to scale them with ladders desiring to haue them brought to battell at hand In contrary those that were within the towne did throw stones vpon them that were neerest within their reach likewise they did cast sharpe stakes or billets and darts likewise balles of burning pitch and torches dipped in brimstone diuers persons they did wound and hurt with arrowes engynes and other things throne by strength of arme In the conquest and surprisall of Kingdomes Prouinces Cities or Castles the true touch of a noble Generall is seen in his prohibiting and cohibiting of all violence vsed against women punishing with death according to martiall lawes the rapes constuprations of matrons and virgines emblasoning in his whole apport vpon the victory with all heroycall humiliation modesty that honor which so mightily magnified Scipio Africanus vpon his surprisall of Carthage For hauing at the sacke thereof a captiue virgin of incomparable beautie presented vnto him by certaine of his captaines which had taken her he with most singular and gracious humanitie preciously valuing and prising her honour as his owne did not onely with great gifts and iewels which he bestowed vpon her but without any blemish or assiege laid vnto her maiden-head gloriously dismisse her with a conuoy Which that noble though vnfortunate Lord Robert Deuereux late Earle of Essex Anno 1596. declared at Cadiz where like a true Scipto both in valour and discipline hee left the spoyles of that towne in speciall to his souldiers reseruing for himselfe as his owne share inualuable a right renouned and infinite bruit of his victories which vpon that felicitie like a cannon shot suddenly battered and made a breach in the rebated spirits of Spaine the report of which noble peece was heard farre beyond the extremest confines of Christendome insomuch that the Mahemitane Monarch hearing of that sudden braue seconded the scoffe which his Predecessor had darted at king Philip the second An. 1588. with another harsh taunt more bitterly relished By which meanes the fame of that noble warrior grew so great that our Soueraigne which had not beene knowne to diuers Potentates of this world was by the bruit of his valour and victories made famous and immortall also I cannot sufficiently set downe what in my iudgement and by the relation of very iust and wise men of his secrets I haue considered and conceiued of that noble warrior Howbeit thus much as the least of my iust obsequies to so renoūed a Lord he neuer was heard that euer I could heare to haue gloried or boasted of his victories or fortunate seruices but in all his actions ciuile or military did referre all with ioyfull humblenesse and thanks-giuing to God and to the speciall wisedom and direction of his Prince as a seruant and minister of theirs And thus by specious declaration of his vertue in obedience and of his modestie in speech he still liued free from malice and yet as a royall Deere alwayes pasturing within the golden pale of glorie Howbeit to his owne sodaine dissolution and to the dolorous downe fall and heauinesse of his many friends which fell with him and which lamented for him long after him hee found it and left it which was by Tacitus written as a position infallible to bee pondered amongst all ambitious and aspiring subiects or other great ones which cannot set limits to their owne appeties Quam formidolosum sit priuati hominis gloriam supraprincipis attolli Which might be verified also by the example of Dauid who though protected by the great prouidence of God being but a shepheard as I touched in my second Booke to raigne in Israel yet was notwithstanding all his vertues and honour in marrying king Saul his daughter in danger to loose his life by many trecherous conspiracies and attempts of his vnthankfull father in law But that I may speake somewhat of him according to true iudgement and indifferencie because paraduenture some haue either maleuolently with exceeding bitternesse abused his honorable ashes contumeliously and others percase which haue as blindly in the contrary sanctified him as one more then a man beyonde his deserts and the measure of his nature both which are most odious to the true taste of all noble natures I say thus much which they that wisely did know him will acknowledge also His minde was incomprehensible by nature a man much addicted to pleasures but much more to glorie If he were at any time luxurious which some very impudently haue thrust vpon his dead coffin against all truth and modestie it was very little and that when hee was idle which was very sildome howbeit