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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	see_v	word_n	1,655	5	3.6979	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00271	The copy of a letter lately vvritten by a Spanishe gentleman, to his freind in England in refutation of sundry calumnies, there falsly bruited, and spred emonge the people. The originall vvhereof vvas vvritten in Spanish, since the authors being in England, vvho by reason of a ship of those that miscaried of the late Armado, vvas taken, and there detained prisoner, vntill his deliuery by ransome. Now newly translated into Englishe, for the benefite of those (of that nation) that vnderstand not the Spanishe tounge.	Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640.	1589 (1589)	STC 1038; ESTC S116630	20,141	40

THE COPY OF A LETTER LATELY VVRITTEN BY A SPANISHE GENTLEMAN TO HIS FREIND IN ENGLAND IN refutation of sundry calumnies there falsly bruited and spred emonge the people The originall vvhereof vvas vvritten in Spanish since the authors being in England vvho by reason of a ship of those that miscaried of the late Armado vvas taken and there detained prisoner vntill his deliuery by ransome Now newly translated into Englishe for the benefite of those of that nation that vnderstand not the Spanishe tounge Anno M.D.LXXXIX THE COPY OF A LETTER LATELY WRITTEN BY A SPANISHE GENTLEMAN TO HIS freind in England in refutation of sundry calumnies there falsly bruited and spred emonge the people GOOD Sir and courteous freinde since the tyme of my late deliuery from captiuitie I haue often called to mynde hovv desirous I founde you to vnderstand the truthe of our intentiō thoughe litle doubtfull of the iustnesse of our cause but seing the suspitious Iealousy of guilty conscyences permitted not such conuersation as accordeth vvith humaine curtesy and that free speach is theare so fatr intolerable that men are examyned by torture not ouly of there indifferent vvoordes but euen of their very thoughtes and future actions I vvished oportunitie to giue you satisfaction but vsed silence to auoyde your trooble Well seing it hathe since pleased God to lend me lyf liberty and meanes to send vnto you vvhich in so dangerous and vvatchfull a vvorld is moste difficill to be founde I could not omitt to vvrite at this present vvhereby your self and such others as to vvhome you may vvith safty communicate it may be the better satisfied It is to you very apparent and vvel knovvne to the vvhole vvorld hovv it hathe of late pleased God to dispose of mens actions according to his ovvne pleasure vvhich vve vvill rather accepte as a punishment for our sinnes then take for a discouragement to our cause Neither can our enimyes therein receaue any occasion to be the more insolent or to glory in that they deserue not sithe theire valour neuer made our enterprise frustrate themselues confessing it vvas not donne by the puisance of man but by the povver of God vvhich they let not to say may giue sufficient proof of their cause not seeming to remember hovv sundry examples can giue testimony of diuers attempts misfortuned at the first that aftervvard haue succeded vvel And of all others that that of the children of Israell is the moste notable They being comaunded at tvvo seuerall tymes by God himself to make vvar against the tribe of Beniamin vvere notvvithstanding at bothe those tymes ouerthrovvne vvho yet at the laste preuailed to the great foile and confusion of there enimyes And to giue you an example neerer home you may reade hovv the expedition that Iulius Ceaser made into England not for that the Britaines had assisted his rebells robbed his treasure or entruded themselues into his dominions but only for that they had aydid the frenche vvhen he made vvar against them came at the first to no effect yet vvere those Britaines no vvhit the more assured of securitie for the yeare follovving he returned againe and gat the victorie God hathe punished vs for our sinnes vvhich are great but the punishment of our faultes excuseth not your far greater offences your superiours must vvel knovve they haue deserued a plague and their guilty consciences greatly feare to fynde it hovvsoeuer they strugle and striue against God as did Nemrode vvhen vvith his Giants he buylded the tovvre of Babilon thincking there vvas no other way to ouerthrowe there designementes then a newe inundation Vaine are those persuasions of theirs that our losses are irrecouerable and that there remaineth for vs neither hope nor comforte Which yf it were so yet are not they freed from deserued vengeance and that it is not so a litle tyme can make manifest Such speaches only argue that they haue made a resolution to run on in all impiety and to trie to the vttermoste vvhether Gods puisance or their vngodly practises can moste preuaile vvhere in they shall vvell fynde that he can many wayes confounde the vvicked vvhen themselues shall no vvay preuent it Meane vvhyle there outvvarde courage is mixte vvith invvarde care and there fayned Ioy vvith restlesse iealousy vvho in seeming to feare nothing are seene to start at their ovvne shadovves This intolerable feare is more manifested in your Englishe Gouernment then in any state els in the vvhole vvorld the great impression thereof enforcing them to all their spyings abroade and inquisitions at home searchings of houses more at midnighte then at noone dayes apprehensions examinations and such daily exercise and practise of the racke as neuer the like vvas hard of still fynding by experience that neuer more labour hathe bin employed to lesse purpose those innocents only able to confesse no more then that vvhich cōcerneth their ovvne religion and conscience notvvithstanding all vvhich the remedies remaining rather to patche vp the state of a body so far infected then to cure an incurable disease are principally grounded vpon extreme tyranny and deepe dissimulation Their tyranny is chiefly extended to the Catholiques of your owne country of whome very many before and sundry since our disastre they haue cruelly executed and by false lying libells after there deathes haue soughte to insinuate that they vvere of conspiracie vvith vs albeit it pleased God to discouer this their great iniustice euen in the very execution thereof for tvvo of that nomber vvich vvere nexte after condemned to deathe for treason condescending throughe frailty to recant their religion vvere forthvvith pardoned and restored to libertie Which benefyte of lyf all the others mighte aswell and as easely haue enioyed as they yf the grace of God had not in them bin the greater Which euidently argueth for vvhat cause they vvere condemned since recantation from treason after or afore condemnation to death I neuer knevve could saue a mannes lyf yf himself list Touching their dissimulation being the grounde and substance of their gouernment and conteyning the infynite nombers of deceatfull practises false fictions and slaunderous lies vvhich asvvell in the vvorld abroade as also at home they haue artificially exercysed in euery action is suche a laborinthe to looke into that it vvould rather require a vvhole volume then a brief relation I vvil there fore leaue the nomber of those vnto such as by longe experience haue made better obseruation then my self for breuitie only sett dovvne some fevve notable examples of their vntrue speaches familiar to your selues vvherevvith they haue foughte to make odious to the people to calumniate and condemne such as themselues pleased By vvhich fevve you may receaue lighte to looke into the others and to giue such credit to the like hereafter as experience hathe prooued the former to deserue It may therefore please yon amonge many late rumours of the lyke condition and qualitie to cal to remembrance vvhat dispytefull