Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	see_v	word_n	3,340	5	3.8251	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01143	Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, to ioyne together, and take armes speedily (by commandement of the King) against theeues and robbers, which are now abroade ruining the poore people setting downe an order and policie how they should take armes, to auoide all disorder and confusion amongst them. Whereunto is adioyned, a declaration published by the Duke de Mont-pencier for the reclaiming of the cleargie and nobilitie of Normandie, vnto his Maiesties obedience, &c. With certaine newes of the ouerthrow of the Gautiers, and diuerse other rebels against the French King, by the said Duke of Mont-pencier, on the sixt, and on the twentieth daie of Aprill. 1589. Translated out of the French into English, by I. Eliote.	Eliot, John.; Montpensier, François de Bourbon, duc de. Copie d'une lettre contenant le progres des choses advenues au voyage de duc de Montpensier. English.	1589 (1589)	STC 11256; ESTC S120926	33,284	60

expedient for all Catholikes if the effectes were correspondent to the wordes but in stead of making an vnion of Catholikes they haue vsed this holie pretext to haue a cast onelie at the king to diuide the Catholikes by this meanes into sides bringing in by this diuision al the disorder and riot that you see at this present in this Monarchie that yet you are like to see if God put not to his helping hand speedelie This is the cause that the Catholiks are now diuided and at variance among themselues that the honester sort call this league an vnion of rebels and a faction of conspirators the reason why they call it so is because they haue ioined their drifte to reforme the estate with the pretext of the holie League whereby they haue plainly medled with the king and called his authoritie in question that which the more vertuous and honester sorte cannot allowe for that as I haue said before in the second Chapter of the book that I haue already setforth and as I will shewe you hereafter more at large is not permitted of God see for certaine that which hath caused all true Catholikes to hate contemne this league alliance although they neuer found one word of truth in all that the Lorraine Princes promised beeing the first authors of this conspiracie They haue sworne and protested to you to encourage you to make you thinke well of their factious fetches proceedings that they wish the ruine of heretikes and vnder this false pretence they haue attempted against their King They let their armies take vp the best places of this Realme and lodge themselues and their souldiers where neuer anie souldiers came before and the profit that you reape therby is their troupes of souldiers are round about your Cities who vse and entreate you as Turkes and not as their Catholike brethren they promised to cause the Kings souldiers to kepe good rule yet you neuer saw more detestable theeues then these that go to the wars now for thē these are say they Catholiks of the holy League yet they force women they rauish the daughters of Catholiks they beat Priests they prison thē hang them vp by the heeles to make them giue money they warre saie they to ruine heretikes which haue retired themselues into their houses to cleere the Countrie of them but if anie one shewe a countenance as though he would defend himselfe they let him alone and seeke but those that are without all defence and cannot resist and specially aboue all those that are full of money who haue reconciled themselues within the compasse of the Church and are retired vnder her protection and safegard those are they that they seeke they take them first he that embraceth the Church with them hath no better assurance than he that renounceth her It is inough to be an heretike say they if a man haue at this present a good purse and a naughty swoord they made an abatement of taxes to be proclaimed but for euery penny that they haue abated they make it cost a crowne for in many places they haue begun to leuie and taxe for the maintenance of their forces for the m unition of their fortresses in summe see how they haue performed nothing of all that they promised and so farre are they from leauing their fellonie and rebellion that they doo what they can euery daie to make you commit their detestable insolencies and villanies The Duke of Maine in stead of going to besiege Niort that the Hugonites haue taken in speaketh of nothing but assailing his King if he could assemble but forces sufficient his adherents cause now to be proclaimed in diuerse Prouinces and chiefly in Normandie that the pesants and Countrimen haue to arme themselues without anie leaue or consent of the Nobles who are not of their side and they saie it is for the defence of the common people Know you what craft and subtiltie they meane euerie one of them which hath a good place already hath no lesse hope than to make himself soueraigne Lord of the Bishopricke Bailywicke and Vicountie where his fortresse is situated yea and to climbe higher if opportunitie serue and for this occasion they would be ridde of those Gentlemen that dwell neare them of whom they cannot be assured but hauing no forces strong in ough to set vpon thē they will make at your costes and deniers a company in euery hundred and vicounty at the least of twelue or fifteene hundred men well armed and hauing once armed you by the helpe of your owne purse-strings and appointed Captaines and gouernours ouer you at their owne deuotion pleasure they shal win quickly a great number of you to thē who shall serue their turne to kepe the other vnder and to ruine if they can euery one whom they thinke is not for them from whō they thinke you might haue some assistance when you should be a weary of supporting their tyrannie and euen as they haue set a great part of the Nobilitie together by the eares so will they doo you to that this is most true ye see alreadie the great diuision that is happened amongst you and how in diuerse places your next neighbours haue murthered one another in taking of partes where they are diuerslie affected and when you shall be armed and ioyned together vnder these Leaguers themselues and when you shall haue helped to establish them to the preiudice of good Catholikes the Kinges true and faithfull seruantes to bee briefe when they shall be setled peaceablie in their gouernments doubt not but yee shall fall into greater miserie then so for the ambition wherewith they are carried headlong receiuing no limite will bring them on to warre one against the other and euerie one will labour to make himselfe greater by suppressing his neighbour and trust vppon his intelligence that he shal haue with forain Princes in the meane while that these Princes of Lorraine shall iarre with those that they shall finde able to aunswere them and as you see euerie Prince of Lorraine seeketh to haue as good parte in the Cake as another and will not referre all that they doo to one sole mans authoritie euen so if you looke neere into the matter do there adherents also for euerie man thinketh hee hath as good right to haue a peece as the Duke of Maine to haue all the whole himselfe The chiefe gouernours amongst them doo saise vpon the receit of taxes for themselues in euery quarter and vse them as if they were their owne proper they graunt out Commissions as they list to leauie souldiers in their owne names they enroll and cassere whome they list they fetch downe the bels out of the Church steeples to cast them into Cannons they take vp and dismisse souldiers as they thinke best they giue protections and safegardes as they please they set prisoners at libertie and they entertaine gardes for their owne bodies