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soul_n	body_n	death_n	dissolution_n	4,857	5	11.3460	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51199	The commentaries of Messire Blaize de Montluc, mareschal of France wherein are describ'd all the combats, rencounters, skirmishes, battels, sieges, assaults, scalado's, the taking and surprizes of towns and fortresses, as also the defences of the assaulted and besieg'd : with several other signal and remarkable feats of war, wherein this great and renowned warriour was personally engag'd, in the space of fifty or threescore years that he bore arms under several kings of France : together with divers instructions, that such ought not to be ignorant of, as propose to themselves by the practice of arms to arrive at any eminent degree of honor, and prudently to carry on all the exploits of war.; Commentaires de messire Blaise de Monluc. English. 1674	Monluc, Blaise, seigneur de, 1500?-1577.; Cotton, Charles, 1630-1687.	1674 (1674)	Wing M2506; ESTC R37642	835,371	442

I have not implor'd his Divine assistance and never passed over day of my life since I arriv'd at the age of man without calling upon his Name and asking pardon for my sins And many times I can say with truth that upon sight of the Enemy I have found my self so possest with fear that I have felt my heart beat and my limbs tremble let us not make our selves braver than we are for every man upon earth apprehends death when he sees it before his eyes but so soon as I had made my prayer to God I felt my spirits and my strength return The prayer which I continually used from my fi●st entring into Arms was in these very words My God who hast created me I most humbly beseech thee to preserve my Iudgment entire that this day I may not lose it for it is thou that gavest it me and I hold it from no other but thee alone If thou hast this day appointed me to die grant that I may fall with the resolution of a man of honor which I have sought for through so many dangers I ask thee not my life for I desire nothing but what pleases thee Thy will be done I resigne all things to thy divine wisdom and bounty After which having said my little Latin prayers I declare and protest in the presence of God and men that I suddenly felt a heat creep over my heart and members so that I had no sooner made an end but that I found my self quite another man than when I began I was no more afraid and my understanding again return'd to perform its Office so that with promptitude and judgment I discern'd what I had to do without ever losing it after in any Engagement wherein I have ever been How many are departed this life who were they now living could witness if ever they saw me astonisht or lose my judgment in any action of war whether at an Assault or in any other Rencounter or Battel Messieurs de Lautrec de l' Escut de Barbezieux de Monpezat de Termes du Bié de Strozzy de Bourdillon de Brissac d' Angu●en de Boitieres and de Guise could have given testimony of me for they had all had me under their Command and have all seen me in a thousand and a thousand dangers without the least sign of fear or amazement Who could they again return to life would be good witness of the truth of what I have deliver'd and yet they are not all dead under whom and by whom I had the honor to serve and to be commanded who although they were much younger Captains than I it was nevertheless fit I should obey them Monsieur le Duc d' Aumale and the Mareschaux de Cossé and de Vielle Ville are of this number and I beseech you my noble Lords if my Book peradventure fall into your hands to do me right and declare whether what I have here deliver'd be true or false for you have been eye-witnesses of part of it and I fancie that after my death you will be curious to see what I have writ There are others also who are able to give me the lye if I have said ought but true namely Signior Ludovico de Biraga and Monsieur le President de Birague who never abandoned that brave Mareschal de Brissac Several others are yet living who have been my Companions in Arms and many others who have serv'd under my Command all which are able to affirm the truth of what I have said and whether whenever there was a debate about any Execution I did not alwayes think nothing impossible but on the contrary concluded things feasible which others concluded impossible to be effected I undertook it and brought it about having evermore that stedfast assurance in God that he would not forsake me but open the eyes of my understanding to see what was to be done to make my Enterprize succeed I never thought any thing impossible but the taking of Thionville of which the honor is to be attributed to Monsieur de Guise alone and in truth there was more of fortune than reason in that success though the said Sieur de Guise was ever confident he should carry it and so he did Fellows in arms how many and how great things shall you perform if you put your whole trust in God and set honor continually before your eyes discoursing with your selves that if it be determin'd you shall end your dayes in a Breach ' t is to much purpose to stay behind in the Graffe Vn bel morir sayes the Italian tuta la vita honora 'T is to die like a beast for a man to leave no memory behind him Never go about to deprive another man of his honor nor ever set avarice and ambition in your prospect for you will find that it will all come to nought and end in misery and disgrace I do not say this that I have any mind to play the Preacher but meerly out of respect to truth How many are there in the world who are yet living and whom I shall forbear to name that have had the reputation of valiant men and yet have been very unfortunate in their undertaking Believe me the hand of God was in this and though they might implore his divine ayd their devotion was not right which made the Almighty adverse to them If therefore you would have God to be assisting to you you must strip your selves of ambition avarice and rancour and be full of the love and loyaltie we all owe to our Prince And in so doing although his quarrel should not be just God will not for all that withdraw his assistance from you for it is not for us to ask our King if his cause be good or evil but only to obey him And if you are not rewarded for the services you have performed you will not stomack your being neglected by reason it was not your intention nor design to fight upon the score of ambition and greatness nor out of a thirst of riches but upon the account of fidelity and duty that God has commanded you to bear to your Prince and Sovereign You will rejoyce to find your selves esteem'd and belov'd by all the world which is the greatest Treasure a man of honor ought to cove● For great Estates and high Titles perish with the body but a good Reputation and Renown are immortal as the Soul I now see my self drawing towards my end and languishing in my bed towards my dissolution and 't is a great consolation to me that in spite of Death my name shall live and flourish not only in Gascony but moreover in foreign Nations This then is the end of my Book and of thus far of my life which if God shall please longer to continue to me some other may write the rest if ever I shall again be in place where I shall perform any thing worthy of my self which nevertheless I do not hope for finding