Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n
Text snippets containing the quad
|
ID |
Title |
Author |
Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication) |
STC |
Words |
Pages |
|
A41975
|
The royall game of chesse-play sometimes the recreation of the late king, with many of the nobility : illustrated vvith almost an hundred gambetts / being the study of Biochimo, the famous Italian.; Trattato del nobilissimo giuoco degli scacchi. English
|
Greco, Gioachino.; Beale, Francis.
|
1656
(1656)
|
Wing G1810; ESTC R23418
|
37,590
|
146
|
The high and Mighty Monarch CHARLES the grace of GOD King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland P. Stent excud THE ROYALL GAME OF CHESSE-PLAY SOMETIMES The Recreation of the late KING with many of the NOBILITY Illustrated VVith almost an hundred GAMBETTS BEING The study of BIOCHIMO the famous Italian LONDON Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his shop at the sign of the Anchor in the lower walk of the New Exchange 1656. To the Industrious Chesse player I Shall not trouble thee with the insipid relation of the profit and pleasure which may be reaped by this game of Chesse nor as little as I can with the Analogy it really hath with the drawing up and incounter of two Armies the mysteries which every man may and doe ut suo abundat sensu find out in almost every Art and Science as we see not onely in common but even in the most grave and serious Professions being innumerable my intention being to set forth the easiest and shortest way for one who is desirous to play at this game to atchieve his desires and for him who is but an easie proficient to arise almost to the highest degree of well playing which he shall attain to if he diligently peruse this Book and not onely learn but examine the reason of the following Gambetts practised by the best of our Nation wherein he may observe such deep and intricate designes with such admirable and answerable events as may instruct him to lay such like plots of his own as also to foresee and prevent the endeavours of his adversary with unexpected counterplots to the gaining of such pieces from him as will give him so much advantage that he may easily destroy all the rest and then if not before give him Check mate I forgot to tell you one thing that a Gambett signifies here a game so contrived that he which loseth shall have a palpable reason for every remove he maketh whereas the reasons of the removes of the winner are so hard to be found out that they seem rather preposterous and unfitting which sheweth the excellent contrivance and invention of the Authors of them SIr now unravell'd is the Golden Fleece Men that could onely fool at Fox and Geese Are new-made Politians by the Book And can both judge and conquer with a look The hidden fates of Princes you unfold Court Clergy Commons by your laws controll'd Strange serious wantoning All that they Bluster'd clutter'd wisely for you play On the incomparable Game of CHESSE-PLAY WE read of Greekes could ten yeares warres define And draw its whole designe in drops of wine Could shew where Rhesus where Ulysses lay Who stole the Horse ne're toucht the fatall Hay This was weak demonstration Sir but you Bring us the very Siege and Soldiers too E. Revet Upon Chesse-play To Dr. Budden TO thee Lawes Oracle who hadst the power To wage my pens imployment for an hour I send no Frogs nor Mice Pigmees nor Cranes Giants nor Gods which trouble so the braines Of feighning Poets nor my leasure sings The Counterbuffs of the foure painted Kings Those worthy Combatants have had their times And Battells sung in thousand curious rimes I sing the fierce Alarme and dâ—refull stroke Of passing timbred men all heart of Oake Men that scorne Armes defensive nor in beat Of bloudy broiles complaine of dust or sweat Men that doe thinke no victory is fit That 's not compacted by the reach of wit Men that an Ambuscado know to lay T' entrap the Foe in his retiring way Plot Stratagems and teach their braines t' indite What place is fittest to employ their might Dull down-right blowes are fit for rustick wits Within the compasse of whose scalp there sits A home-bred sense weak apprehension That strike the first they cast their eye upon Those are the chaff of Soldiers but this Corne Of choicest men at highest rate is born Here life is precious where the meanest man Is guarded by the noblest who doe scan Not what a poor man is but what may prove If bravely to the Armies head he move Such may his valour be he may of right Be an executor to Rook or Knight Whose Lands fall to the King their Master dead With which this Pawn lives to be honoured And do his Prince good service Tell me then Thou that dost distribute Justice to men Must Honours ever follow blood or should Vertue be grac'd though in the meanest Mould Tell me thou man of Peace are not these Warres Lawfull and commendable Where the scarres Are for command where either Enemy Seeks to himself a fifth great Monarchy Where neither knowes his confines but each foot Is his where he or his can take firm root Pity with me the fortunes of those Kings Whose battell such an untaught Poet sings Know that the great Alexander could not have An Homer and remember in wars brave Each deed s a Poem and he writes it best Who doth engrave it on a conquered Crest If I offend part of the blame is thine Thou gav'st the Theam I did but frame the Line Two angry Kings weary of lingring peace Challenge the field all Concord now must cease So do their stomacks with fir'd anger burn turn Nothing but wounds blood death must serve the They pitch'd their field in a fair chequer'd square Each form two Squadrons in the former are The common Soldiers Whose conrageous scope Is venturing their lives like Fortune Hope These still march on dare not break their rank But for to kill a Foe then 't is their prank To make the ground good 'gainst the enemy Till by a greater force subdu'd they dye The Kings for safety in mid-batel stand And marshall all their Nobles on each hand Next either King an Amazonian Queen Like our sixt Henry's Margaret is seen Ready to scour the field corner or square She succours where the Troops distressed are Next stand two Mytred Bishops which in war Forget their Calling ventring many a scar In Princes cause yet must no Bishop stray But leave the broad keep the narrow way Next are two vertuous Knights whose nimble feet Leap o're mens heads scorning to think it meet They should stand Centinels while the poor Pawns With danger of their lives do scour the Lawnes The Battels out spread wings two Rookes doe guard These flank the fields so well that there is barr'd All side assaults these for their valours grace The King in danger with him change their place But Majesty must keep a setled pace Rides not in post moves to the nearest place That 's to his standart If there be report Of the Kings danger all troops may resort But now they sound Alarm each heart doth swell With wrath strikes in the name of Christabell Strike strike be not agast soldiers are bound To feare no death much lesse to dread a wound Now with mercy dies the common Troop A Rook a Bishop and a Knight doth droop Yet neither boasts of