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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	king_n	see_v	time_n	2,784	5	3.3358	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96775	A suddain flash timely discovering, some reasons wherefore, the stile of Protector, should not be deserted by these nations, with some other things, by them very considerable. It was first made visible, the fourth day, after the author heard it reported, that the Lord Protector, had waved the title of King. / By Britans remembrancer.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1657 (1657)	Wing W3195; Thomason E1584_3; ESTC R204088	37,311	75

A Suddain Flash Timely Discovering Some Reasons wherefore the stile of PROTECTOR should not be deserted by these NATIONS with some other things by them very considerable It was first made visible The fourth day after the Author heard it reported that the Lord Protector had waved the Title of KING By BRITANS REMEMBRANCER Poetis Quidlibet audendum semper fuit estque Potestas A Preoccupation relating to this Title If some shall think this Book mis-nam'd hath been Because so long a Flash was never seen Know that through Cranies it did thither fly Where Touchwood and where smoking Flax did ly Which kindling made it longer then intended And was a chance that cannot now be mended But Flashie Names and things those times beseem Which do not solid-serious things esteem And they who are not pleas'd to run a Course On Pegasus may like a Hobby-horse LONDON Printed for J.S. in little Britain and are to be sold there and at the Pile of Bibles the corner shop of the East end of the Fish-market in the Stocks looking into Lumbard street 1657. To his Highnesse the Lord PROTECTOR SIR though this Poem's Title fitted be To what I hear the World expects from me Upon this Subject yet a seriousnesse It hath and shall no Flashie-things expresse For t is a Flash of light as well as Fire Which may give sight of somthing you desire And such as will no way disparage you To give them either hearing or a veiw Betwixt your Highness and the Parlament I purpose not to cherish that Dissent Which lately was begun nor do intend That which may justly you or them offend But rather to unite you so together That Disadvantage may befall to neither By what your Adversaries hope to finde Effected if you have a changing minde And upon hope whereof they did prepare To act according as resolv'd you were I am not for my self yet grown so wise That when at hazzard Publick safety lies I can be silent though I both disease My self and others oftentimes displease By my expressions who have pow'r and will To mischieve me who purpose them no ill For though a well approved Author sayes To please great men it merits not least praise I think he merits more who speaks in season Truths warranted by conscionable Reason Although on him a Prince's wrath it brings Then if he flatter'd Parlaments and Kings In that respect I judg'd it not amisse Unto your ear or eye to offer this A few weeks past But things did intervene That seem's of more concernment to have been And kept it off untill nigh out of date It was become and came almost too late Yet since good use may thereof still be made And some advantage also thereby had It now comes forth that witnesse it might bear To that which now resolv'd on doth appeare For though we know there is in every thing But one Essential Truth yet thence may spring Such various Illustrations as perchance The certainty thereof may much advance When it appears they did the same Truths own Whose judgments to each other were unknown For when there is thereof no mediation But as their spirits have communication It doth assure it flow'd from Providence And not from any carnal influence Your eye sees much and yet it cannot see It self or what the colours of it be Save by inferiour things and through inspections Acquired by the medium of reflexions From sight-less objects through which you may lear● Those truths which they themselves do not discern And such like Objects peradventure He Who offers this and these his offers be SIR therefore now be pleas'd one houre to hear What by my Muse is fitted for your ear And was prepar'd long since to be presented Though accidentally till now prevented And if it be not such as then will seem To merit some part of your good esteem And usefull to preserve and to increase Your Honour safety and the Common-peace Return it with an Ignominious Dash And let it then in scorn be call'd a Flash Britans Remembrancer A Suddain Flash Made visible the fourth day after his Highnesse the Lord Protector had first waved the Title of KING A Prologue to him who shall behold or hear this Flash A Flash I term this and 't is like enough That many men will call it so in Scoff But I have got before them and have too Some Reason wherefore I have call'd it so For to mine ears when first that news was brought A thousand thoughts Flusht in and this Flasht out Which I have now thus Paper'd up for thee To bring to minde what is and what may be Although it speaks in Rimes it Rimes with Reason And comes in Hast that it may come in Season If thou regard it so If not my Cost Is Paper Inck and part of three dayes lost Thine may be more For much affraid I am That thou who saw'st this Flash wilt see a Flame Vnless an intervening Providence Prevents what likely seems to give Offence Which here will burn as well as give a light Till it hath purg'd us or consum'd us quite The Flash MY Muse hath on a suddain once again Invited me to this unusual strain Which as the state of my Affairs now stands Hath put upon me Dangerous Commands But I who must obey Her when she calls What ever hazzard on my self befalls Submitted to expresse what I should finde Infused by her pow'r in to my mind And hearing that his Highnesse had deny'd The Kingship thereupon thus versifi'd For Poets priviledg'd as Prophets were Their Inspirations freely may declare But hath he wav'd that Title and I pray Are you aright inform'd of what you say Did not a false-report your ears abuse A Crown a Triple-Crown doth he refuse And will not he as Bishops us'd to do Say No and take it as compell'd thereto Oh Miracle of men doth he deny A Kingship freely offered which to Buy So many thousand Princes have made sale Of Fame Faith Conscience Body Soul and all If this as you affirm it is be true Friends bid henceforth your jealousies adue And let him who mistrusts him any more Suspect his Honest wife to be a Whore And in his brest the torments thereof cherish Till he repent that injury or perish But since I know what many do surmize And what objections malice doth devise Let me a little more expostulate Is it not think you done to palliate The souldiers humor or a Trick of State To draw on some thing more yet aimed at Is it not by Design to bring about Advantages by oversight left out Or to delay a while what he intends To feel the Peoples pulse or for such ends No doubtlesse Then make answer but to Three Short Questions more and they the last shall be Expects he not when twenty dayes are past It should be Nolens volens on him cast Nor is it so for by that Instrument Which doth yet regulate this Government No Law thereto repugnant