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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
opinion_n	year_n	young_a	youth_n	75	4	8.3116	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14722	Anima'dversions of vvarre; or, A militarie magazine of the truest rules, and ablest instructions, for the managing of warre Composed, of the most refined discipline, and choice experiments that these late Netherlandish, and Swedish warres have produced. With divers new inventions, both of fortifications and stratagems. As also sundry collections taken out of the most approved authors, ancient and moderne, either in Greeke. Latine. Italian. French. Spanish. Dutch, or English. In two bookes. By Robert Ward, Gentleman and commander.	Ward, Robert, fl. 1639.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 25025; ESTC S118037	599,688	501

likewise no torments threats or miseries are able to make Truth and Loyalty change that unchangeable colour which duty and affection hath dyed it in This makes Souldiers ever bound to obey the Commandements of Superiours and Superiours likewise are to love and imbrace such deserving Souldiers And further if Souldiers desire to be prosperous and to attaine to honours let them bee chaste and honest in their living refraining all sensuality and avoyding all occasions which might seduce them to that vice for those that give themselves that base liberty are ever infected with cowardice and are most fit to attend upon that lascivious Generall Sardanapalus whose pastime it was to exercise himselfe with Queanes in all base postures of dalliance Hanibals Army by wofull experience knew what it was to be lulled in the pleasures of women having beene Garrison'd but one Winter in that delicious Towne of Capua the edge of their valours and their steely hardinesse was softened to poore base cowardly dispositions so that Marcus Marcellus tooke his opportunity to conquer them Further Souldiers must be obedient in every respect unto those in authoritie over them although such Officers should bee infected with any notorious vice as very few but have beene blemisht in one kinde or other As Cyrus was cruell covetous and miserable yet obeyed and beloved of his Souldiers in the same kinde was Cambises and Marcus Cato also Marcus Antonius swomme in his Dalliances Gluttony and Riotousnesse yet his Souldiers would have suffered themselves to have beene crucified to have done him any gratefull service and the reason was indeed his excellent way of Iustice which he caused to bee administred duely and dayly in his Army this did worke upon his Souldiers more than his defects in vertue could infect them And indeed it is very requisite for all Commanders to beware of giving ill examples and to be charie how they doe or speake any thing that hath but the shadow of unseemelinesse For as one sayes well Multa sunt honesta factu quae sunt turpia visu There are three principall parts in the body of Man wherein are lodged the three principall powers of the Soule Concupiscence in the Liver Anger in the Heart and Reason in the Head as being the Citadell in like manner there are three severall vertues that doe command and governe them Sobriety or Temperance to over-sway Concupiscence Courage against Anger in the Heart and Wisedome in thinking and judging with reason But here I must take an occasion to speake of our Trained Souldiers which are or should be fitted for a defensive Warre they doe not consider how deeply every man is interessed in it for if they did our yeomandrie would not be so proud and base to refuse to be taught and to thinke it a shame to serve in their owne Armes and to understand the use of them were they but sensible that there is not the worth of one peny in a Kingdome well secured without the due use of Armes and that the Gospell which is the Garland of our Kingdome cannot prosper and flourish but under the shadow of a sword This should incourage all Gentlemen and Yeomen to be forward in the practice of Martiall Discipline I am certaine we can finde times large and sufficient to negotiate trifles and to hunt after our owne pleasures solacing our selves in vaine delights which produceth naught but folly and ends in griefe halfe that time and charge so ill spent would make us expert and gai●● us honour for as one truly saith that our times are consumed either Male agendo Nihil agendo vel Aliud agendo either in doing naughtinesse or nothing or impertinences and by this meanes the principall is neglected And because that people are ready to make their excuses to be spared from serving in their Armes either for their youth as being too young or for their age as being too old to decide this question we will borrow the opinion of the ancient Warriours and as Caius Gracchus one of the Consuls of Rome instituted a decree that none should be exercised in Armes under 17 yeares of age Which questionlesse is a fit time for the inition of young Souldiers having more aged to sort with them for they prove the best and ablest Souldiers that professe the use of Armes from their youth And whereas some imbellicke fellowes holds the opinion that forty yeeres is too late to receive them into the Warres they are deceived for a man is of ability to doe good service at 50. yeeres and upwards Besides their wisedome and judgements are more setled and indeed your Romans would not admit of a Commander unlesse he were forty or fiftie yeares of age But some may object that nature is decayed in this last age mens strengths are not as formerly they have beene To this I answer That the world waxeth old yet not in post-haste although Sensim sine Sensu it is soft and faire and by degrees insensible as in reading Hackwels Apologie you may finde sufficient satisfaction to confute this Objection And as Crinitus in his Seventh Booke de Honesta Disciplina reports of Terentius Varro from the authority of Discorides a great Astrologer That the Egiptians who tooke especiall care by the imbalming of dead bodies and by their witty reasonings found out how the utmost age of Man was confined taking their estimate from the weight of the heart which every yeare receives the increase of two drammes untill 50 yeares be expired after which period it decayes yeerely two drammes untill fifty more be expired So that by this it should bee fond for any man to pleade insufficiencie unlesse at the least 50 yeares were past Likewise we finde in Demosthenes that the State being in danger men of 45 yeares of Age and upwards did tugge at the Oares and certainly a man at 50 and upwards is of more sufficiencie to doe service than youth at or under 17 As in the second Punicke Warres they made choise of as Livie reports Tum decretum vt Tribuni plebis ad populum ferrent vt qui minores annis 17 Sacramento dixissent iis perinde stipendia precederunt ac si 17 annorum aut majores milites facti essent It was decreed that the Tribunes should tell the people that such as being under 17 yeares of Age and had taken their military Oath should in like sort receive their pay as if they had beene full 17 or past but the hopefull age for performance is betweene 20 and 50 yeares because strength gravitie wisedome and experience at such yeeres hath a corrivall in managing the actions of men King Edward the fourth was Conquerour in 8 or 9 severall Battels before he was 41 yeeres old Likewise Alexander the Great had in a manner conquered the known world at 33 yeeres of his Age. I confesse Nature is sooner perfect and ripe in some men than in others and likewise decayes sooner in some constitutions than in others for if Strength be not the