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	leave_v	place_n	1,328	5	3.9143	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59700	Discoveries, or, An exploration and explication of some enigmatical verities hitherto not handled by any author viz., in the written Word of God, in the commentaries of the fathers, in the cabal of the stoicks, many choice inferences and unheard of (yet considerable) nicities [sic] never proposed : also A seraphick rhapsodie on the passion of Jesus Christ our sole redeemer / by S. Sheppard.	Sheppard, S. (Samuel)	1652 (1652)	Wing S3160A; ESTC R29355	30,691	88

examples of abstinence and sobriety the primitive time afforded store of Now rather on the contrary we never think we have provisions store enough unlesse our Kitchins may vie with Noah's Ark for varicty and and our Table-cloaths with St. Peters sheet Vitellius board that was furnished at one Feast with 2000. Fish and twice as many Fowl may be surpassed by some of our Westminster bils of fare if not for variety yet expence and costlinesse and if at any time exceedings in this kind might be permitted least of all at this time the time of war when widdows weep over the dead bodles of their murrhered husbands and orphans crying for bread are fed with stones but these Swine consider not that penury scarcity and want are ever the companions of war if that lead up the Van famine ever follows in the Rear and indeed what other can be expected when the plough-share is turned into a sword and the pruning hook into a battel-axe but empty barns and lean bellies When Cyrus the Persian Monarch entred with his Army the Countrey of the Amazons and Thomiris their Queen with a great Army drew up towards him to give him battel he caused throughout his Gampe tables to be spread well furnished with store of meats and feigns a sudden flight hearing of the enemis approach leaving all his provisions behind him the Amazons upon this drew up to the place and finding the enemies gone presently fell to eating and rioting with what they found till being full fed and night comming on slept as securely and soundly as they had eat before Cyrus in the dead of night drew forth his men from a neighbouring wood where they were hid before fell upon the Amazons in this security and utterly defeated the whole army How easily we are taken with the pleasure of our palate and how dangerous they have proved we may see in our first parents Adam and Eve the first motive that drew the woman to disobedience to Gods command was that the tree was good for sood her appetite betrayed her soul and engaged all her posterity to perpetual guilt Afterwards in the holy seed we find an Isaac apt to mis-place a blessing for a piece of Venison and his son selling his Birthright for a mesle of broth Seneca hath told us upon experience that Multos morbos multa fecerunt sercola multiplicity of Dishes cause multiplicity of Diseases And a greater Philosopher then he could set down that Sicknesses and Infirmities are the natural issues of great entertainments and it is too well known that Feasts have ever been accounted the Physitians best Friends More die of eating then fighting the bellie killeth more the bullet To this purpose it is wittily said in the Italian Proverb that the Glutton diggeth his grave with his own teeth is guilty of his own death cuts his throat with his knife our food is our Kitchin-physick given us by God to take every day a competency to keep us alive let us use it then as Physick moderately left our Physick prove our bane and we be poysoned by our preservative Rioting and Drunkenness was once reputed the national sin of Germany onely but if we hold on as we have of late years continued they are like to lose their Charter we out go them in their profession the word Carowse we speak now as naturally as they and it passes for as good English as ever it was Dutch it hath made a deluge and overflowed our whole Land and yet I cannot see why men should so universally fall in love with it and so eagerly pursue it unless they were possessed with the mad opinion Musaeus the Poet was once who thought the onely fit reward of Vertue to be perpetual Drunkennesse Procopius makes the question why Sampsen had so strict a charge laid on him not to drink wine nor strong drink nor ony thing that came of the Vine and he gives this reason for it Because saith he the Holy Ghost knew the natural tempter of Sampson to be so fierce and violent that if he should at any time enflame it with wine it might do much mischief to his own people and friends as well as his foes And so St. Chrysostome observes in his 26 Sermon that the unruly servant that beat and wounded his fellows Luke 13. 45. is said to have eat and drank and to be drunken and from thence the Father notes that Drunkennesse is the mother of Quarrels such Frays usually ending in bloudshed To this purpose I have read a story A Monk whom the Devil had often tryed and could never fasten any thing The Story of a Monk tampted by the Devil upon him at last told him if he would yeeld but to one vice and he should take his choice of three that he would never assaile him more upon this he yeelded and of the three that were proposed viz. Murther Adultery and Drunkennesse as thinking to chuse ex malis minimum the lesser evil of the three he was content for once to ouer drink himself but when he was drunk he presently lusted after his neighbours wife and her husband comming in in rage that he was discovered ran to him and stabbed him and so in the highest degree became guilty of all Socrates passing by a house where he knew a frequent Reveller had lived and finding it empty burst out into these words I ever thought said he that this house always accustomed to so much drinking would at length spew out its owner Saint Basil in a Homily of his bemoans a valiant souldier and a brave comander in those days that he saw overcome with drink Miserum oculis spectaculum says he qui terribilis hostibus fuerit c. it is a miserable sight a lamentable case to see such a man when drunk made a laughing stock by boys children in the street who when he is fresh would strike terrour into his stoutest foe It is a vile and pernicious sin in any I speak it with shame and sorrow having my self been too guilty of ebriety but more inexcusable in a souldier but most of all in a Commander for how can he have any comand upon others that hath none over himself if a Governour be too good a fellow every one will look to be Tiberius Mero Mahomet in his Alchoran to fright his Turks from drinking of wine t s them tels them that in every grape there is lodged a Divel St. Augustine in his confessions tels us a passage of his mother Monicha that being by her maid servant once upbrayded and twitted to her face for bibbing of wine which she did rather out of curiosity then pleasure upon that taunt or reprehension of her fervant took up a resolution never to drink drop of wine more which she kept to her dying day CHAP. IIII. Of dancing and kissing the lawfulnesse thereof THough I am as much against the abuse of this as any man yet no man I think that hath read the Scripture can