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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	egypt_n	joseph_n	pharaoh_n	4,186	5	10.7503	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48803	The marrow of history, or, The pilgrimmage of kings and princes truly representing the variety of dangers inhaerent to their crowns, and the lamentable deaths which many of them, and some of the best of them, have undergone : collected, not onely out of the best modern histories, but from all those which have been most famous in the Latine, Greek, or in the Hebrew tongue : shewing, not onely the tragedies of princes at their deaths, but their exploits and sayings in their lives, and by what virtues some of them have flourished in the height of honour, and overcome by what affections, others of them have sunk into the depth of all calamities : a work most delightfull for knowledge, and as profitable for example / collected by Lodowick Lloyd ... ; and corrected and revived by R.C. ...	Lloyd, Lodowick, fl. 1573-1610.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2660; ESTC R39067	223,145	321

much was famine feared amongst the ancient Gréeks that in the time of abundance they used to scourge famine with rods out of their houses saying For as fames intra divitiae Away penury come in plenty We read in Q. Curtius that Alexander was driven by hunger to eat his Camels and Elephants and other huge beasts that carried the trains for the wars Such hunger and famine did happen among the Lacedemonians that the Citizens of Sparta were so hungry that they did eat the very serpents that had béen dead a long while which multitude of serpents did presage this great calamity to come and though they had been dead a long time yet the Spartans most hungerly did feed on them and mitigated the rage of their famine Doda King of Syria besieged a great and famous City in Iewry called Iora where the miserable mothers were by meer hunger enforced to féed on the bowels of their own children Not much unlike was that horrible and cruel famine in the countrey of Apulia where the souldiers being enforced by the French men then their enemies in War were compelled to take the skins from their Bucklers and to warm and boil the hard horns and to eat them To speak of the wonderfull calamity miseries and plagues that happened through hunger the charge thereof were too much too many authorities are manifest in this behalf Antonius whom Augustus Caesar could never vanquish by force of arms was driven to yeeld in a City called Perusia by hunger and famine Wherefore that noble Athenian Nicias always thought the easiest way of conquest was by Famine which he shewed at Melos a City of Thessaly where he made the Citizens to yeeld by hunger O raging force of famine O terrible misery of man which compelleth the parents to eat the children the children to kill their parents what beast was spared ever when this hapned The people named Hymmi through hunger were constrained to eat their own dogs as the Macedonians did sometime feed themselves with Camels Elephants Horses and such like What herb was unsought What root was not found to feed this cruel Monster Sabellicus doth witnesse of a dearth that chanced in his time that in some parts of the countrey of Flaminia and about the fields Pi●eni the common people did live by grasse and herbs and by such like that proceeded from the earth Thus was the world ever plagued with famine as with that Monster that spoileth and devoureth it self as we read of divers that did eat their own arms and flesh Again in the sacred scripture divers examples we have of the like plagues sent from GOD to plague man But even as hunger one way is most excellent if meat may be had so hunger another way is most terrible if meat doth fail Therefore Stratonicus never went to bed without a cup of drink by him not for that he thirsted when he went to bed but lest he should thirst in the bed and so be compelled to do some injury to one or other for that he wanted drink So did Alphonsus King of Arragon when he saw the poor countrey man greedily feeding on Grapes he said O would the Gods had framed me to be such a one as this is So that hunger is good to those that want food Gnefactus King of Egypt his souldiers in the deserts of Arabia wanting victuals waxed so hungry that he himself not amongst the countrey men and their homely fare was so acceptable unto him that he set up a table for a Monument of the same in the Temple of Jupiter in Thebes Of divers Famines we read in scripture as of that in the time of Abraham who fled from the land of Canaan into Egypt and Isaac was driven by famine unto Abimelech King of the Palestines and all the sons of Jacob were enforced to go to King Pharaoh where their own brother Joseph ruled as chief Officer Famine is appointed for a just scourge to sin as appeareth by David who for causing the people to be numbred had leave to chuse either Plague Famine or Warres which are the instruments to punish offenders CHAP. XXXIIII Of Warinesse WE will here leave Apollo in Delphos and Jupiter in Boetia with their wise answers and Oracles we will not speak of Socrates Solon and thousands such as were counted and known wise and discreet among the Gréeks and Gentiles We will onely entreat of those worldly and natural wise men which by their prudent policie and wary practises have greatly advanced their fame as well in vanquishing their enemies as by inventing such policies for the obtaining of the same as their wits thereby were worthily commended Hannibal perceiving the courage and strength of the Romans used this stratagem He gathered a great number of serpents and put them in huge vessels and caused them to be brought to the field amongst his souldiers commanding the Captains and chief officers to throw the same into the face of the enemies who being thereby astonished fled away as men almost in dispair of themselves thinking the souldiers of Hannibal to be Devils and not Men. Of the like wisdome was King Cyrus who ●eing in his Tents and ready to pitch the field the next day against the Messagetes he commanded his souldiers to be in a readinesse that night to flée from their tents leaving behind their victuals and substance that the enemies being busie about the spoil and given up to banquettting and carowsing of wine he with all his army might unawares return and finding the Messagetes more greedy of the spoil then ready for their enemies he did destroy and kill them So that in wars saith Salust wit doth as much good as strength policy sometimes is better accepted then power and Virgil saith so that victory be gotten men weigh not whether it be through courage or through policy For Sertorius that worthy Captain of Rome was wont by false letters by dreams and outward religion to feign and invent a thousand waies to stir his souldiers to courage The invention of wit is much and so divers that too much it were to repeat it Sicionius deceived Xerxes with all his souldiers through policy Pisistratus moved the Athenians to revenge his false wrongs upon the chief Officers of Athens Darius after Cambises death became King of Persia by means of a horse and such like But letting passe infinite numbers of such I will declare what nature wrought in silly and simple beasts in flying fowls and in the very fishes swimming in the water The Lion by nature is taught being very sick to find out an Ape which by outward sports and pastime doth heal his great grief The huge Elephant is so subtil when he is like to die that he will séek by all means the Cameleon which he so estéemeth that his sicknesse forsaketh him straight The Panther knoweth by nature his ready salve for his sore for féeling himself not well he streight séeketh the dung of man and by the scent thereof he