Selected quad for the lemma: war_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	caesar_n	great_a	pompey_n	2,212	5	10.9836	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16676	The schollers medley, or, an intermixt discourse vpon historicall and poeticall relations A subiect of it selfe well meriting the approbation of the iudicious, who best know how to confirme their knowledge, by this briefe suruey, or generall table of mixed discourses. ... By Richard Brathvvayte Oxon.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1614 (1614)	STC 3583; ESTC S106127	82,694	128

so rewarded Hath Agamemnon no place for valour no r●…gard to honour Why then desist Achilles embarke your selfe for Greece and le●…ue this braue Champion to himselfe and his fortunes your merits being gone will be better esteemed you had but one prize and that prize vnworthy too of your valour and must that prize got with much sweate many difficulties imminent dangers multitude of occurrents now be taken from you But one Briseis one deere one and yet Achilles must loose her Alasse poore resolution Why it is better to be Aegystus a coward a recreant one that retires himselfe from Armes fighting close under Clytemnestra's target Such a Carpet-knight is better then a Martiall-knight Then would he presently moue Agam●…mnon in like sort in no case to moderate his desires Why should Achilles haue so faire a Paramour and the Prince of Greece want one These are poysonous and virulent heads that suggest into the eares of Princes arguments of reuenge causes of distrust motiues of suspition and iealousie not to profite themselues but to satisfie the deprauednesse of their owne natures intended to nothing but the subuersion of states the setting at discord vnited Princes En ' pallor c. It was thought that in that glorious and Christian-like expedition of those memorable Heroes Princes recorded in the eternall booke of fame against the Turkes whose hostility had laine waste those blessed and fruitfull coasts where the remnant of Israel was once planted that the greatest cause of the ill successe of that warre proceeded from some factious heads setting that vnfortunat yet neuer sufficiently praised Heroe the Duke of Normandie and the King of France at variance an impious and disasterous enmity being a maine impediment for the hindering a warre no lesse glorious to Heauen then generally beneficiall to all the world Some haue imputed the cause to certaine expostulations betwixt the two Princes which grew afterwards to words of publicke reproach and infamy vpbraiding each other with diuers insolencies offered by their Countries one to another What ere the motiue of this dissention was how varied soeuer the opinions of Writers bee herein the braine that contriued it was sure the forge of great impiety and an irrepairable detriment to the Christians exposing them to ruine slaughter and desolation The like we reade of those two renowned Citties Sparta and Athens which two flourishing Common-weales long time liued in vnity without the least motion of warre but in fine reading the workes of a mutinous Historian mutinous indeed for his factions before had beene sufficient without further inducements by writing such bloudy and cruell warres ensued as the fire of those intestine combustions was not extinguished with lesse then an vniuersall effusion of bloud Many more I could produce euen neere at home but I must not insist vpon one Argument too long since I haue entred a spacious and intricate maze that promiseth entrance enough if I can with Ariad●…es threed finde a passage to my precipitate aduenture Thus much haue I spoken of State-snarling Historians that make their workes like prickes or goads to the publicke state I will now proceed with my former diuision of History and finde in these two extreames Assentation and State-inuection a meane to direct vs in the perfect and exact vse of Historicall Narrations Medio tutissimus ibis neither too depressed as if thy labours exprest their maisters pouerty nor too erected to intimate thy states security Thou art too depressed when with lagging wings thou stoopest to euery base lure or obiect of affection making thy inuention a scale to others pleasure writing nothing lesse then truth because truth cannot teach thee how to liue Thou art too erected when like an eminent Censor thou taxes the acts of Princes with such an austere brow as if thou hadst forgot the discipline of History and w●…rt transformed to a profest Satyrist mixing thy I●…ke with farre more gall then discretion yet transported with imaginary motiues of selfe-conceit cares not who be galled so thou with Ctesiphon kicke against the Moiles heeles For the latter there 's no profession more easie nor subiect more frequent nor argument more generall and as Invenal saith Di●…ficile est Satyram nonscribere nam qui●… inique Tam patiens vrbis tam ferreus vt teneat se For the first I neuer knew any Discourse worth reading proceed from so base and ignoble Merchants They sell their workes by retaile and hope of a gainefull Dedicatory makes them contemne Methode Truth Subiect and all Irus skrippe is open relieue but the needy Artist hee will imitate the Bohemian Curre fawne on a good suite shew the proiect of his intendments to him and protest him he will insert monumentall Characters of honour to grace thee onely bestow thy bounty and shew not thy selfe vnworthy of so fabulous an Attendant His inuention is tied to his Benefactors then dries the source of his fancy when they restraine the spring of their bounty These two sorts as not worthy an Historicall Title haue I proscribed the bounds of my discourse if betwixt such two dangerous shelues I can finde a retired harbour for the truly named Historian to breath himselfe in I haue attained my wished expectance The meane betwixt these two giues vs obseruation of noting causes and effects how produced and how ended counsels and successes how intended how administred then he proceeds further making resemblance betwixt nature and nature state and state the gouernment of this prouince and of that then differences of actions euent some wisely carried bearing themselues faire and promising a compleat satisfaction to the vndertaker yet what opposition betwixt the end and beginning ruine being the period or extreme of his hopes Many such opposite Conuersions or Catastrophes rather may we daily see in the managements of warres who more happy in his Countries protection and who more successiue in his prosecution then Pompey the great in his first entrance to martiall exploits Yea as Caesar acknowledged himselfe he had conquered if he had knowne when he had conquered yet in euent whose designes more vnhappy Not onely depriued of the bent of his hopes proscribed as it were his natiue Countrey and enforced to begge a poore sepulchre in a forraine Countrey but euen most oppressed by their cruelty whose seruice vnder his owne Banner had beene rewarded royally Such discourses often moue in men a commiseration in seeing Vertue so ill guerdoned and Vice vnder a counterfeit garbe of Innocence receiue an immerited reward And this certainly haue most Historians euer obserued in their writings so liuely to expresse the disasters of deseruing men that their relations might moue a kinde of sensible pitty and remorce in the peruser which is best exemplified by circumstances for the time place cause and person with other necessary adiuncts do for the most part lay a more open and smooth Tract to the inforcement of passion Lucan that heroicke Historian brings forth