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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	justice_n	law_n	3,065	5	4.7299	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37182	Poem upon His Sacred Majesties most happy return to his dominions written by Sr William Davenant.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1660 (1660)	Wing D334; ESTC R10462	4,829	24

POEM UPON HIS SACRED MAJESTIES MOST HAPPY RETURN TO HIS DOMINIONS Written by Sr William Davenant LONDON Printed for Henry Herringman and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Anchor on the Lower walk in the New Exchange 1660. POEM Upon his Sacred Majestie's most happy RETURN To His DOMINIONS WHen from your Towns all hastned to the shore What shame could urge your Peoples blushes more Than to behold their Royall Martyr's Son Appeas'd even with their grief for what was done So great your Mercy is that you will grieve If your wise Senate cannot all forgive Nor can the Spies of Malice e're discern That you from Int'rest did this Virtue learn Great Julius in disguise might act that part But Nature has in you out-done his Art Your perfect Father to such height did come Of God-like pitty near his Martyrdom That he his Subject-Judges did forgive And left it as their punishment to live Pitty not onely flowes from him to you But doubly from your Mother's Mercy too The limits of it none could ever know Nor to the bounds of her compassion go Whose Father in forgivnesse did transcend The insolence of all that durst offend VVhen his Remorse seem'd led by their Despair Beyond the sight of Hope or voice of Prayer No more shall your bold Subjects strive to Reign And fatall Honor on each other gain Their courage which mistook the way to Fame And may find pitty where it meets with shame Shall by your valour guided far out-shine Our glory got in France and Palestine No more shall sacred Priests fall from their own Supported Pow'r by shrinking from the Throne Nor in divided shapes that Garment tear VVhich their Great Chief did whole and seamless wear No more shall any Antient of our Law From old Records such modern Meaning draw As made even Lawyers lawlesse and enquire How justly Kings to armed Pow'r aspire The Civill Robe did Armed Pow'r suspect Though onely Armed Pow'r can Law protect And rescue Wealth from Crowds when Poverty Treads down those Laws on which the Rich rely Yet Law where Kings are arm'd rescues the Crowd Even from themselves when Plenty makes them proud No more shall any of the Noble Blood Too faintly stemm the People's rising Flood But when the VVind Opinion does grow loud Moving like waves the Many-headed Crowd Then those great ships shall fast at Anchor ride And not be hurri'd backward with the Tyde The Throne 's the Port to which their Course shall bear As well at distance too as sailing near Or Anch'ring shall for change of weather stay And never lose when they can gain no way No more shall publick wealth on Spies be spent To hunt the Loyall and the Innocent Nor Jaylors in contracted Prisons be The Keepers of the People's Libertie Nor Chiefs in Civill Causes toyl and doe The task of Judges and of Juries too In whose high-High-Courts their Wills for Laws were know And all the Civill Pow'r was Martiall grown How usefull must the Regall Office be Where both those Pow'rs for publick good agree VVhere Justice in a Ballance weighs the Cause And wears a Sword but to defend the Laws VVhen Mighty Monarch your Three Nations count To what their gain by gaining you will mount They justly reckon that the least you bring Of Greatnesse is that Blood which makes you King And casting up what Satisfaction they In full return of all your Vertues pay The Product shews you bring in value more Than those Three Realms which they do but restore You bring such Clemency as shews you have More Pardons than your Angel-Father gave VVhich shews a Greatnesse that does most incline To what is greatest in the Pow'r Divine 'T is that to which all Human kind does bow And tend'rest sense of obligation owe For wretched Man by ev'ry passion led Born sinfull and to many errors bred Has use of Mercy still and does esteem Creation a lesse work than to Redeem You bring a Judgment deeper than the Sea And as in deepest Seas wee safest be So in your Judgment 's depths we may endure All Empire 's suddain storms and sleep secure And as in deeper Seas we never sound Or seek that Depth which never can be found Unlesse as Pilots who for triall near The Ocean's Borders cast a Plummet there But cease to sound when they no bottom find So whilst I try to measure your deep Mind I stop even at the Verges of your Court Knowing my Plummet light and Line too short You bring with depth of Judgment all the height And fire of Thought that can give wings to Weight A Mind so swift that in a moment's space Not onely flies o're the Diurnall Race But does collect all objects of the Sun And marks what through the Globe the Great have done You no endowment can like this possesse Which will preserve what Valour can increase For Pow'r requires an universall Eye It should like yours see all and suddainly If thus it watch not ever for the State It either sees too little or too late You bring such Valour as dares farther tread Then Love dares follow or Ambition lead Valour so watchfull as may safely keep A Camp untrencht and suffer scouts to sleep Fit to surprize Surprizers early spys It danger loves as good for exercise The honor you near Severn's Banks obtain'd Did make the Victors lose by what they gain'd When you reclaim'd their malice who with shame Blush't that they kept your Realms yet gave you fame You bring such charming vertues as move more Then all the secret gifts of bounteous Pou'r Your kind approaches to invite accesse Your patient Eare to troublesome Distresse Your nat'rall greatnesse never artfull made Nor so retir'd as if you sought a shade And by reserv'dnesse would misterious seem As formall men retire to get esteem But you would so be visible and free As Truth and Valor still would publick be Those hate obscurenesse and would still be shown They grow more lov'd as they become more known You bring Religion which before like Fame Was nothing but a Trumpet and a Name Here most seem'd holy but in Masquerade Most vizards wore and in disguise were clad Abroad your firme Religion gain'd renoun Through all the trialls of Comparison It will at home unmask dissembling Art And what was wholy Face shall grow all Heart Thus shewing what you are how quickly we Infer what all your Subjects soon will be For from the Monarchs vertue Subjects take Th' ingredient which does publick-vertue make At his bright beam they all their Tapers light And by his Diall set their motion right Your Clemency has taught us to believe It wise as well as vertuous to forgive And now the most offended shall proceed In great forgiving till no laws we need For laws slow progresses would quickly end Could we forgive as fast as men offend Revenge of past offences is the cause Why peacefull minds consented to have Laws Yet Plaintifs and Defendants much