Selected quad for the lemma: enemy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	battle_n	fight_v	3,956	5	7.3572	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40792	The history of the most unfortunate prince King Edward II with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston & Spencer, containing several rare passages of those times, not found in other historians / found among the papers of, and (supposed to be) writ by Henry Viscount Faulkland ...	Falkland, Henry Cary, Viscount, d. 1633.; Fannant, Edward.	1680 (1680)	Wing F314; ESTC R8909	44,640	88

accompanied with as strange a story which suggests the instigation of a Spirit that in likeness of a Cat had for two years space advised it The King with a true seeling grief lamenting his dishonourable Return from Scotland where his noble Father had so oft display'd his victorious Arms doth vow with a speedy rescue to revenge it He communicates his resolution with the whole body of his Council who are in their advice equally concurrent in the Action The former loss exacts a more care and a better provision York as the fittest place is made the Senate of this grave Assembly Thither resort all the Sages of the Kingdom and make it their first deliberation to secure Berwick that is one of the Keys of the Kingdom and exposed to the greatest hazard This Charge is given to Sir Peter Spalden who was believed able enough both in fidelity and valour A short time discovers him truly possest of neither A small Sum of Money with an expectant Preferment promised betrays the trust reposed and gives the Scots the full possession of the Charge to him committed The Pope wisely foreseeing into the misery of this dissention out of his Christian and pious care sends over two Cardinals to mediate a Peace and Agreement They being arrived in England find the King well disposed so the Conditions might be reasonable and such as might become his Interest and Honour They pass from hence into Scotland and are by the way with a barbarous Example surprized and robb'd The King is infinitely discontented with so inhuman an Act that threw a taint upon the whole Nation Great enquiry is presently made which finds out the Actors and sends Sir Peter Middleton and Sir Walter Selby to a shameful and untimely execution Immediately at the heels of this follows another Example no less infamous and full of danger Sir Gilbert Denvil and others pretending themselves to be Outlaws with a jolly Army to the number of Two hundred ramble up and down the Country acting divers notorious Insolencies and Robberies The Fame of an attempt so new and unexpected without a speedy prevention seemed to intimate a greater danger A Commission is immediately sent out which apprehends the heads of this encreasing mischief and delivers them over to the hand of Justice They which confest themselves out of the protection of the Law and glory in their being so fall under his rigour Those that duly examined the truth of this action believed the pretence to be but a Mask that hid a more perilous intention The King by his untemperate and undiscreet actions had lost the hearts of his People and there was a general face of discontent throughout the whole Kingdom The Ulcers festered daily more and more which seemed to presage and threaten without some speedy prevention a dangerous issue All Men discover their ill affections expecting but a Patron that durst declare himself and adventure to hang the Bell about the Cat 's Neck If this disorderly attempt which was but to tast the Peoples Inclinations had succeded the King as it was to be feared had much sooner felt the general loss and revolt of his whole Kingdom But this work was reserved to future time and the operation of those who had the time to effect it with more power and pretence of Justice The crying Maladies of this Climat were such that the Divine Power sent down at one and the self-same instant his three fatal Executioners Plague Dearth and Famine to call upon us for a repentant Reformation No part of the Kingdom is free but was grievously afflicted by the unmerciful Prosecution of one or all these fatal angry Sisters So great a Misery was too much but it is seconded with a sudden Invasion of the hungry Scots who apprehending the advantage of the present Visitation and ill Estate of their Neighbours like a Land-Flood over-run the naked and unprovided Borders The Arch-Bishop of York a grave and wise Prelate in his Element but as far from the Nature as Name of a Soldier resolves to oppose this over-daring and insolent Eruption He levies in hast an Army in number hopeful but it was compos'd of Men fitter to pray for the success of a Battel than to fight it With these and an undaunted hoping Spirit he affronts the Scots and gives them Battel making Mitton upon Swale that honoured his Enemies with the Glory of a second Triumph the place of his Disaster Many Religious Church-men with the purchase of their Lives begin their first Apprentiship in Arms whose loss christ'ned this overthrow The White Battel The intent of this grave Prelate was questionless worthy of a great and singular Commendation but the Act was wholly inconsiderate weak and unadvised It was not proper for his Calling to undertake a Military Function in which he had no experience neither did it agree with his Wisdom or Piety to be an Actor in Blood though the occasion were so great and weighty Too much care and confidence improperly exprest doth many times overthrow and ruin the Cause it seeks to strengthen and advantage There ought to be in all considerations of this nature a mature Deliberation before we come to Action else we lose the Glory of our Aims and commit all to the uncertain hazard of Time and Fortune The Cardinals are now returned out of Scotland by whom the King truly understands that the hopes of Peace are desperate Their leave taken and losses fairly repaired they return to Rome acquainting his Holiness with the success of their Employment The Pope being truly informed that the Scots were neither conformable to his Will or the general Good excommunicates both that usurping King and Kingdom The King nearly touch'd with the loss of Berwick enflamed with the Insolency of his barbarous Enemies and grieved with so great a loss of his People resolves no more to suffer but to transport the War into the very Bowels of Scotland To this effect with speed he hastens out his Directions and gives present Order for the levying of Men Arms and Money to begin the War and continue it The Royal Command and desire of Revenge gives Wings to this Resolution An Army is ready and attends the King's Pleasure before he conceits his Will truly understood or bruited Nothing is wanting but his own Person or a fit Commander to lead them he oseth no time but appears in the Head of his Army before his Enemies had the least knowledge of this Assembly With a hopeful expectation he leads them on and makes Berwick the Rendezvous that should make his Number compleat and perfect Before this Strength that had the warranty of Art and Nature he makes the first Experiment of this Expedition The Town begirt was not more confident of their own strength than assured of a speedy supply or rescue This gave the King a longer delay than he believed and his Enemies leasure to raise and enable their Provisions They saw it a work too full of Danger and Hazard to