Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	build_v	call_v	great_a	6,838	4	3.1375	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23383	A meruailous combat of contrarieties Malignantlie striuing in the me[m]bers of mans bodie, allegoricallie representing vnto vs the enuied state of our florishing common wealth: wherin dialogue-wise by the way, are touched the extreame vices of this present time. VVith an earnest and vehement exhortation to all true English harts, couragiously to be readie prepared against the enemie. by W.A.	Averell, W. (William)	1588 (1588)	STC 981; ESTC S104468	32,149	54

liues Pugnate pro patria fight for your country your dearest countrie wherein you haue ben bred borne nourished brought vp toward which you ought to bee as inwardly affected as you are naturally moued to your mothers It is your natiue soile and therefore most swéete for what may bee dearer or swéeter than your Countrie No gold nor siluer comparable to your Countrie no pleasures nor delightes like to your Country for what so is néerest to nature that thing is swéetest to life and as Plato sayth in Critone Et patri et matri et progenito●●bus omnibus patriam esse anteponendum Our Countrie ought to be preferred before Father Mother or els our auncestours for though our fathers mothers and kindred die yet our Countrie doeth nourish vs cherish and preserue vs. When the people of Tegea in Arcadia made warre with them of Pheneum the battaile being set and ordered on each side redie to ioyne together they tooke counsaile each to send thrée brethren valiant and stout men who shoulde contend for the victory They of Tegea sent the sonnes of Rheximachus they of Pheneum of Demonstratus these sixe met and in fight two of Rheximachus sonnes were slaine the third named Critolaus ouercame his enemies with this stratagem he fained to flie and as each of the other pursued him he seuerally slew them all and returning with victorie was ioyfully receiued of all saue of his sister Demodice though he had saued the Citie by his valour yet because hee had by chance slaine her louer shee enuied at his victorie and reioyced not at his triumph which the young man disdayning as an enimie of her Countrie he slew her and beeing after accused of his mother was notwithstanding by the Citizens fréed If there be anie among vs that be such enuious traitors that regard rather theyr owne pleasures or commodities more than the safegard of their country be they fathers mothers sisters or brothers I would they had the rewarde of Demodice and famous haddest thou bene Critolaus in the memorie of all ages that preferredst thy Countrie before thy kinne and the honor thereof before thine owne life haddest thou not filed thy hands in womanish bloud Into this your Countrie your enemies boast to set foot they count vpō your riches and treasures your landes and possessions your wiues and fayrest daughters and to dispossesse you not onely of your pleasures but of your dearest liues but I remember the fable of Hermogenes that the Apes séeing the commodities that men had by Cities how the couerings of their houses and penteises kept out the raine and winde in Winter and shut out the hot Sunne in Summer their walles and doores shut out théeues and their defenced townes and great gates defended them from wilde beasts and enemies certaine of them especially those that liked this ciuill life concluded to call a counsell and in open assemblie as the nature of Apes is apt to imitate euery action they perswade to take from men a péece of ground whereon they would build Cities as men doe they reckon vp the commodities that the walled townes would kéepe out wolues their houses wind and wether but they adde this that they would build theirs more commodiously for they would haue their orchards and gardens all within their Cities the fruites whereof should maintain them Also they would haue their Theaters and playes for pleasure but they should be al within their wals this they perswaded the counsel was liked and with the remembrance hereof they were delighted it was soone contriued in thought and easie to be spoken but not so soone done for when the wood was to bée hewed the stones to bee squared the boords to be sawed and euerie other thing to be prepared they sawe then their Apish counsel was frustrate and too hard for them to accomplish euen so the proude Spaniards like Hermogenes Apes haue consulted and determined to enter your Iland and therein to inioy both their pleasure and commoditie but I doubt not deare Countrimen when it shal come to the push of the pike and dint of the sword but that our God wil so frustrate their purpose as through your valiant mindes and hardie déedes they shal finde their counsell but vaine and returne home again like Apes without tailes They play with vs as Iulianus the Apostate did with the Christians in his time who as Theodoritus in his 6. booke and 44. Chapter telleth after the Parthian warres made great preparation against the Christians whō he scornfully tearmed Galilaeans threatning he would race them out and set vp deuillish images in their Churches At that time Libanius a singular Sophist but an enemie to the truth and a follower of Iulian looking and longing after his maisters victory in regard of his threates came to a godly Schoolemaister and teacher of youth in Antiochia scoffing at his religion scornfully asked him Fabri filius quid nunc putas agit What thinkest thou nowe doeth the Carpenters sonne But hee inspired with the spirite of GOD foretolde that which presently followed saying O thou Sophist the creacreator of all things whom thou callest the carpenters son Loculum Juli●●o concinnat is making a coffin for Iulian and in deede according to his prophesie within few dayes after this Apostate died was put in a coffin and being laide in the graue for all his swelling pride came short of that which he proudly threatned I might tell of Sancherib of the Philistines against Saul and diuerse others that haue threatned the Saints of God which because they boasted agaynst the Lorde were ouerthrowen But because I haue fallen in hand with Iulian I will not let passe the apt Antithesis that is betwéene the Spaniards and Iulian with his followers They bragged to ouerthrowe the Galilaeans as they tearmed them so doe the Spaniards the Protestants or the Lutherans as they name them they threatned to set vp Idols so doe the Spaniardes images they protested to root race out Christians so do the Spaniards the true professors they threatned to shed their bloud most spitefully so do the Spaniards beast to spil ours most cruelly but doubt not louing Countriemen but that Christ Iesus whom you serue is making their coffins and that eyther the sea or a straunge lande shal be their graues that cannot be contented with their owne but proudly séeke to oppresse the Saints of God Therefore I exhort you as Hezechia did those of Iuda Be strong and couragious feare not neither bee afraide for the force of Spaniards nor for al the multitude that is with them for there be more with vs than with them with them is an arme of flesh but with vs is the Lord our God to helpe vs and to fight our battailes They doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fight agaynst God wee do fight in defence of his word they seek after spoyle we after the building of Gods Church they séeke wretchedly to rent from vs that is not