Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	duke_n	king_n	slay_v	2,938	5	8.4265	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22011	Toxophilus the schole of shootinge contayned in tvvo bookes. To all gentlemen and yomen of Englande, pleasaunte for theyr pastyme to rede, and profitable for theyr use to folow, both in war and peace ...	Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568.	1545 (1545)	STC 837; ESTC S104391	106,118	194

daye all the nobilite of Fraunce onlye wyth hys archers Such lyke battel also fought y● noble black prince Edward beside Poeters where Iohn y● french king with hys sonne in a maner al y● peres of Fraūce were taken beside .xxx. M. which that daye were ●layue verie few Englyshe men by reason of theyr bowes Kynge Henrie the fifte a prince pereles and moste vyctoriouse conqueroure of all that euer dyed yet in this parte of the world at the battel of Dagin court with .vii. M. fyghtynge men and yet many of them sycke beynge suche Archers as the Cronycle sayeth that mooste parte of them drewe a yarde slewe all the Cheualrie of Fraunce to the nomber of XL. M. and moo and lost not paste .xxvi. Englysshe men The bloudye Ciuil warre of England betwixt the house of Yorke and Lancaster where shaftes flewe of bothe sydes to the destruction of mannye a yoman of Englande whome foreine battell coulde neuer haue subdewed bothe I wyll passe ouer for the pyttyefulnesse of it and yet maye we hyghelye prayse GOD in the remembraunce of it seynge he of hys prouydence hathe so knytte to gether those .ii. noble houses with so noble and pleasunte a flowre The excellent prince Thomas Hawarde nowe Duke of Northfolk for whose good prosperite with al his noble familie al English hertes dayly doth pray with bowmē of England slew kyng Iamie with many a noble Scot euē brāt agēst Flodō hil in which battel y● stoute archers of Cheshire Lanchasshire for one day bestowed to y● death for their price coūtry sake hath gotten immortall name and prayse for euer The feare onely of Englysh Archers hathe done more wonderfull thinges than euer I redde in anye historye greke or latin and moost wonderfull of all now of late beside Carlile betwixt Eske and Leuen at Sandy sikes where the hoole nobilite of Scotlande for fere of the Archers of Englonde next the stroke of God as both Englysh men and Scotyshe men that were present hath toulde me were drowened and taken prisoners Nor that noble acte also whyche althoughe it be almost iost by tyme commeth not behynd in worthinesse whyc●e my synguler good frende and Master Sir William ●algraue and Sir George Somerset dyd with a few Archers to y● number as it is sayd of .xvi. at the Turne pike besyde Hāmes where they turned with so fewe Archers so many Frenchemen to flight and turned so many oute of theyr Iackes whych turne turned all fraunce to shame reproche and those .ii. noble Knightes to perpetuall prayse fame And thus you se Philologe in al contries Asia Aphrike and Europe in Inde Aethiop Aegypt Iurie Parthia Persia Grece and Italie Schythia Turkey and Englande from the begynninge of the world euen to thys daye that shotynge hath had the cheife stroke in warre PHI. These examples surelye apte for the prayse of shotynge I not feyned by poetes but proued by trewe histories distinct by tyme and order hath delyted me excedyng muche but yet me thynke that all thys prayse belongeth to stronge shootynge and drawynge of myghtye bowes not to prickyng and nere shotinge for which cause you and many other bothe loue vse shootyng TOX. Euer more Philologe you wyl haue some ouertwhart reson to drawe forthe more communication with all but neuerthelesse you shall perceaue if you wyl that vse of prickyng and desyre of nere shootynge at home are the onelye causes of stronge shootyng in warre and why for you se that the strongest men do not drawe alwayes the strongest shoote whiche thyng prouethe that drawinge stronge liethe not so muche in the strength of man as in the vse of shotyng And experience teacheth the same in other thynges for you shal se a weake smithe whiche wyl wyth a lipe and turnyng of his arme take vp a barre of yron y● another man thrise as stronge can not stirre And a strong man not vsed to shote hath his armes breste and shoulders and other partes wherwith he shuld drawe stronglye one hindering and stoppinge an other euen as a dosen stronge horses not vsed to the carte lettes troubles one another And so the more stronge man not vsed to shoote shootes moost vnhāsumlye but yet if a strong man with vse of shooting coulde applye all the partes of hys bodye togyther to theyr moost strengthe than should he both drawe stronger than other and also shoote better than other But nowe a stronge man not vsed to shoote at a girde can heue vp plucke in sūder many a good bowe as wild horses at a brunte doth race pluck in peces many a stronge carte And thus strong mē without vse can do nothynge in shoting to any purpose neither in warre nor peace but if they happen to shoote yet they haue done within a shoote or two when a weake man that is vsed to shoote shal serue for all tymes and purposes and shall shoote .x. shaftes agaynst the others .iiii. drawe them vp to the poynte euerye tyme and shoote them to the mooste aduauntage drawyng and withdrawing his shafte when he list marky ●ge at one man yet let driuyng at an other man whiche thynges in a set battayle although a man shal not alwayes vse yet in bickerynges and at ouerthwarte meatinges when fewe archers be togyther they do moste good of all Agayne he that is not vsed to shoote shall euermore with vntowardnesse of houldynge his bowe nockynge his shafte not lookyng to his stryng betyme put his bowe alwayes in ieoperdy of breakynge than he were better to be at home moreouer he shal shoote very fewe shaftes and those full vnhandsum lye some not halfe drawen some to hygh and some to lowe nor he can not driue a shoote at a tyme nor stoppe a shoote at a neede but oute muste it and verye ofte to euel profe PHI. And that is best I trow in war to let it go and not to stoppe it TOX. No not so but somtyme to houlde a shafte at the heade whyche if they be but few archers doth more good with the feare of it than it shoulde do if it were shot with the stroke of it PHI. That is a wonder to me y● the feare of a displeasure shoulde do more harme than the displeasure it selfe TOX. Yes ye knowe that a man whiche fereth to be banyshed out of hys cuntrye can neyther be mery eate drynke nor sleape for feare yet when he is banished in dede he slepeth and eateth as well as any other And many menne doubtyng and fearyng whether they shoulde dye or no euen for verye feare of deathe preuenteth them selfe with a more bytter deathe then the other death shoulde haue bene in deade And thus feare is euer worse than the thynge feared ●irl p●d 3. as is pratelye proued by the communication of Cyrus and Tigranes the kynges sunne of Armenie in Xenophou PHI. I grante Toxophile that vse of shotyng maketh a man drawe strong to shoote at most aduauntage to