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	day_n	put_v	1,260	5	4.4811	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26372	The Moores baffled being a discourse concerning Tanger, especially when it was under the Earl of Teviot : by which you may find what methods and government is fittest to secure that place against the Moors : in a letter from a learned person (long resident in that place) at the desire of a person of quality.	Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.	1681 (1681)	Wing A525; ESTC R10902	17,828	36

be cut and measured hewn and polisht that goes to mend those decays of Nature and how at last any little mistake may pull down what has so long been a patching he may by some faint resemblance be able to conjecture how much watchfulness and industry was necessary to recover the health of a body Military whose belly was shrivel'd with hunger hands nasty with idleness and whose very heart was broken with ill success Besides who knows not but that after-games in Courage are as dangerous as those in Reputation Such was the condition of Tanger that it would scarce admit of consultation something was instantly to be done And the Earl who had Tack Time for his Motto would not suffer a minute thereof to slip through his fingers or the least opportunity to be eaten up of delay Dangers appeared on all hands nought heard of but Anakims and some either to dissemble their own Cowardise or to dishearten the present Undertaking as likely to disparage former proceedings preach'd up the Moors Valour as uncontroulable and that their cunning was beyond defeat Others who rather wisht the Earl's safety than his honour and loved Tiveot better than the General strongly disswaded him from going out of the Gates And others again prophesied his coming short home if he ventured far abroad Most thought the City in no security but under Lock and Key and as men fallen in love with their prison nothing by them seemed so much feared as enlargement The Earl gave every story the patience of his ear and without betraying the least token of daring considence or drooping despair he began gently to compose the affairs of the Garrison First he viewed the number of his Forces which with 400 Recruits brought with him would not amount to the number which the Muster rolls had promised in England A thing that cost the Earl no small resentment who knew the dangers of false Musters especially where there was no Fortifications but Men. The second day after his arrival he reduced the Irish Regiments into one and took care to transport the Reformed having first discharged their Arrears His next act of Justice for the former was no less to his Majesty's service he open'd the City-gates and in person all alone took a view of the ground next the Walls marking the best Grass for Hay and the fittest places to essay a Fortification whence he return'd safe with this intelligence That nothing but Sweat and Bloud was to water his Laurels that he was to proceed with the industry of the Ox and not with the force of the Lion The Horse he commanded out to forage setting others to mow and make Hay whereby the want of that provision was quickly well supplied and also many places made bare which by tallness of the Grass made them more convenient for the Enemies Ambush The fourth day after his arrival having reduced the English Foot to one Regiment he marcht them out of the Gates Upon the fifth being Tuesday a day auspicious to the Earl and solemn to his entrance upon any considerable affair he began a little Redoubt in a place where the Enemy used to lay their Ambush and from whence they might command some part of the City-Walls This Redoubt proceeded so well that within few days it was finished with Lines and Trenches In the mean time the Earl in person every night laid Perdues to prevent Surprisals it being the Moors custom to plant their Ambuscade a little before day And now began the Garrison to express their resolution and courage in undergoing the difficulties and hardships of Military Discipline not fainting under the tedious travels which attend great and warlike designs until the Earl had finished five Redoubts and forced Gayland into a Truce The Roman Empire saith Appian was raised to its greatness not by fortune or good luck but by Valour patience of want and hardship And Tanger could not have arrived at that State in which Tiveot left it but by Sweat and Watchfulness without yielding to danger or giving place to Ease The generous diligence of his Officers and others did much alleviate the Earl's Travels for they disputed not his Orders but even seem'd to flatter him in an emulous execution of his Commands ever praising their happiness to serve under a General who wanted neither Wisdom nor Justice to value and reward their Merits The first Redoubt being finished about the 7th of June the Earl laid the foundation of a second more considerable for Size Scituation and Strength than the former In the building of this he was dayly interrupted by the Moors who meeting in Parties gave continual Alarms And it conduced not a little to the Earls success in these first Essays that Gayland was marcht with the main Body of his Army against Saly which as yet was under the command of Abdalla Ebn Mahumed Ebn Abebeker vulgarly called the Saint But being advised of what was doing in the Fields of Tanger Gayland marcht back in great haste and with all the Forces he could raise advanced toward the Earl who upon June 15. was luckily informed thereof by a Negro who running away from Gayland made Tanger his Sanctuary The Negro's Tydings of Gayland's being in the neighbouring Woods and Vallies with his whole Army was the next day confirm'd by another Moor. Whereupon the General order'd his affairs accordingly and put himself in such a posture as he judg'd fittest to receive an Enemy whom success had made confident and hardy The next morning being Sunday the Earl contrary to his custom stay'd from Church in expectation of the Moors But that subtle wary people would not raise their Ambushes laid close to our Lines till they saw our Reserves drawn off Nor was this done till a Party of Horse had first discover'd the Ground which returning confidently affirm'd No Enemy was within two miles of the City The Earl trusting the Report about midday retired to the upper Castle where he was no sooner enter'd but the Moors swift and sudden as Lightning were fallen upon our out-Guards and begun to storm Pole-fort then but half built but it was so bravely defended with Hand-Granadoes that the Moors were soon forced to forsake their Attempt The ground about the said Fort and the several Avenues were thick sown with Galtraps a Grain which seem'd the more strange to the shooless Moors in that they reapt it with their feet The Granadoes and Galtraps so cool'd their impetuousuess that they were wary for the future how they came near the Forts and Lines In this first Engagement with the Earl the Enemy express'd great Resolution and Courage One of them a stout brave fellow pursued some of the English to within forty paces of the Gate and had not 't is like staid there if not stopt by Death The General would very gladly have taken him alive to know of him what opinion or fate made him so desperate as to throw himself into dangers which in humane reason he could not hope to