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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	lord_n	read_v	2,705	5	6.4090	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41374	The golden apophthegms of His Royall Maiesty [sic] King Charles I and Henry Marq. of Worcester both divine and morall as they were delivered upon several occasions in the time of the late unhappy war between His Majesty and the old Parliament : wherein is observable ... / written by Tho. Bayly ...	Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649.; Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646. Selections. 1660.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657? Witty apothegms delivered at several times and upon several occasions.	1660 (1660)	Wing G1012; ESTC R4827	8,700	8

latter end of Supper led by the arm with a slow pace expressing much a Spanish gravity with a silver dish in each hand filled with rarities and a little basket on his arm as a reserve where making his obeysance he thus speaks May it please your Majesty if the four Elements could have been rob'd to have entertained your Majesty I think I had but done my duty but I must do as I may if I had sent to Bristol for some good things to entertain your Majesty that had been no wonder at all If I had procured from London some goodness that might have been acceptable to your Majesty but here I present your Majesty placing his dishes upon the Table with what that came not from Lincoln that was not London that is not York that is to be but I assure your Majesty that this present came from Troy whereupon the King smiled and answered the Marquesse Truly my Lord I have heard That corn now grows where Troy Town stood but I never thought there had grown any apricocks there before Whereupon the Marquess replyed any thing to please your Majesty when my Lord Marquesse departed the presence one told his Lordship that he would make a very good Courtier the Marquesse said I remember I said one thing that may give you some hopes of me Any thing to please your Majesty 13. The first night his Majesty came into Ragland Castle the King desired to see the great Tower where his Lordship did use to keep his Treasure his Majesty spake unto Doctor Baily then standing by to fetch the Keyes he ran down to the Marquesse and acquainted him with the Kings pleasure who would needs bring them to the King and shew him the Tower himself when the King saw the Marquesse bringing the keyes himself he thus spake unto the Marquesse My Lord there are some men so unreasonable as to make me believe that your Lordship hath good store of gold yet left within this Tower but I knowing how I have exhausted you together with your own occasions could never have believed it until now I see you will not trust the keyes with any but your self to which the Marquesse made this reply Sir I was so far from giving your Majesty any such occasion of thought by this tender of my duty that I protest unto you that I was once resolves that your Majesty should have lain there but that I was loath to commit your Majesty to the Tower 14. When the King first entred the gates of Ragland the Marquess delivered his Majesty the keyes according to the ordinary custome the King restoring them to the Marquesse the Marquesse said I beseech your Majesty to keep them if you please for they are in a good hand but I am afraid that ere it be long I shall be forced to deliver them into the hands of who will spoil the Complement 15. King Charls coming to Ragland when the tall Cedar of our Lebanon was brought so low and those Sycomores flourished when the Royal Oak was in the fall of the leaf it happened that his Majesty was at Bowls upon Ragland Castle Green a place proudly situated where after he had ended his Recreation his Majesty was pleased to delight himself with observing the Countrey round about it happened that one Prichard the Kings partner at bowls presuming more upon his good bowling then good manners continued that familiarity that should have ended with the rubbers shewing the King where his house stood and told his Majesty he must look through the wood and he might see a white thing and that was it moreover acquainted his Majesty what the Lord of Worcester had advised him viz. to cut down some of those trees that the house might plainly be discerned from the Green whereby his Lordship when he wanted a good bowler might make a sign and so have him at a beck to which the King replyed Mr. Prichard let me give you better advise put up more trees where the trees are so thin that my Lord of Worcester may not see thy house at all The Marq. of Worcester supposing the King had dreamed of this greediness of purchasing all the Land which was near unto him shewed his Majesty a row of trees and told the King that beyond that row of trees stood a pretty Tenement and because he would not have Naboths vineyard to be an eye-sore to him he had planted those trees to hoodwink his eyes from such temptations Apophthegms of the Earl of Worcester 1. The Marquess had a mind to tell the King as handsomely as he could of some of his as he thought faults and thus he contrived his plot against the time that his Majesty was wont to give his Lordship a visit as commonly he used to do after dinner his Lordship had the book of John Gower lying before him on the Table the King casting his eye upon the book told the Marquess that he had never seen it before O said the Marquess it is a book of books which if your Majesty had been well versed in it would have made you a King of Kings Why so my Lord said the King Why said the Marquess here is set down how Aristotle brought up and instructed Alexander the great in all his rudiments and principles belonging to a Prince and under the persons of Alexander and Aristotle he read the King such a lesson that all the standers by were amazed at his boldness and the King supposing that he had gone further then his Text would have given him leave asked the Marquess whether he had his lesson by heart or whether he spake out of the book the Marquess replyed Sir if you could read my heart it may be you might find it there or if your Majesty please to get it by heart I will lend it you upon these conditions 1. That you read it 2. That you make use of it but perceiving how some of the new made Lords fretted and bit the thumbs at certain passages in the Marquesses discourse he thought a little to please his Majesty though he displeased them the men who were so much displeased already protesting unto his Majesty that no man was so much for the absolute power of a King Aristotle desiring the book out of the King he would shew him one remarkable passage to that purpose turning to that place that had this verse viz. A King can kill a King can save A King can make a Lord a knave And of a knave a Lord also Whereupon there were divers new made Lords slunk out of the room on which the King said At this rate you will drive away all my Nobilty 2. The Marquesse travelling was as he thought surprized by enemies but recovering the top of a high mountain by the advantage of the ground he could see the enemy marching off another way at which sight the Marquess dwelt with his eyes a little longer upon that object then the L. John Somerset his Son thought convenient whereunto