Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	england_n	france_n	king_n	3,694	5	4.2233	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02447	The true picture and relation of Prince Henry his noble and vertuous disposition containing certaine observations and proofes of his towardly and notable inclination to vertue, of the pregnancie of his wit, farre above his age, comprehended in sundry of his witty and pleasant speaches. By W.H. With the true relation of the sicknesse and death of the same most illustrious prince, vvith the opening of his body. Written by a famous doctor of physick in French, and newly translated into English.	W. H., fl. 1634.; Haydone, William.; Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.	1634 (1634)	STC 12581; ESTC S103592	29,247	48

you are my Lords Sonne and my Kousin but if you be not better conditioned I will loue such a one better naming the childe that complained of him The first time that hee went out of the towne of Stirling to meet the King seeing a little without the gate of the towne a stake of corne in proportion to a topp wherewith he had wont to play he said to some that were with him Loe there a goodly topp whereupon one of them saying why doe you not then play with it He answered sett you it to me and I will play with it Being asked very young what Instruments of Musicke hee liked best he answered a Trumpet On a time that he saw some hunting on a Deere being asked whether he loved that hunting well He answered yes but I loue another kinde of hunting better One asking him what maner of hunting that was hee answered hunting of theeues and rebelles with braue men and horses And turning him to one of his Pages descended of Highland Parents who were bruted to be theeues he added and such theeues as I take shall be hanged the great ones higher then the rest and you Sirra if you bee a theefe highest of all Once in his childhood in a merry humour taking up Strawberies with two spoones when one might suffice hee said the one I use as a Rappier and the other as a Dagger Being asked of a Nobleman whether after his Father hee had rather be King of England or Schotland he demanded whether of them was best and answere being made that it was England then said he would I haue both A controversy for sport being stirred up by the King his Majesty betwixt two the one of whom seruing him in good place by a nickname was called a Tailler and loued very well his liquor the other was knowne to bee a tall Trencherman they were both neare falling together by the eares when as the Prince was willed by the King to make an agreement betweene them which agreement some that were by said must be written and sealed by them Whereunto the Prince answered then must W. M. this was he which hath the nickename of a taillor seal it with chalke for he can not write his name and then I will agree them upon condition that M. G. this was the tall Trencherman goe into the celler and drinke with W. M. and that W. M. make a cloakbag for M. G. to cary his victuals in Eating in the Kings presence a dish of Milk his Majesty asked him why he eated so much childes meat Sir quot he it is mans meate also And immediatly after fed well of a Partrich the King said to him that meate will make you a coward Whereunto he answered though it be a cowardly bird yet it shall not make me a coward The King asking him whether hee loved Englishmen or Frenchmen better hee answered Englishmen The King demanded the cause thereof because said he I am a kin to moe noble persones of England then of Fraunce Then the King asked him whether he loued the English or the Germanes better hee answered the English Whereunto the King replying that his Mother was a German hee answered Sir you are the cause thereof At the same time his Majestie asked him upon some mention made of Queene Elisabeth whether she had anie children he answered hee understoode of none And hath she none said the King that may bee called her sonne hee said yes Sir your selfe and who nixt after me said his Majestie Sir said he your Sonne Another standing by saying that was Duke Charles no Sir said his Highnes it must bee the eldest wherein his discretion and modestie in not once naming himselfe is worth the noting On a certaine time his Highnes wearing white shoes one that resorted sometimes to him said that he longed to kisse his feete whereunto his Highnes answered Sir I am not the Pope The other replying that he would not kisse the Popes foote unles it were to byte off his great too his H ● answered if you were in Rome you would be gladde to kisse his feete without byting of his great too Some one reporting to him how the French King had saide that as wel his Bastard as the Bastard of Normandie might conquere England I will bee at eares with him said his Highnes if he go about any such matter Some of his Seruants running to breake their faste and returning after a quicke dispatch being asked what they had been doing said they Wee were at our disiune One who stood by said that word is French and that the right English was breakfast it may so bee called indeede said his Highnes for you breakefast to it It being told him by some of his seruants in a house where once he lay how some of them had gone to bedd without their supper through the fault of some pinching Officers of the house he seemed at that instant to take no great notice but the Lady of the house the nixt day comming to visit him whiles he was turning a booke that had manie pictures whereof one was of some that were painted sitting at a feast he said to her Madame I inuite you to a feast She smiling asked him Wat feast it was he answered to this feast What said she to a painted feast No better is that said he which is made in this house to some about mee One who was present and had heard his Seruants complaine before yet not guessing what he meaned asked him if he understoode not that of some persones figured in the Tapistrie of the Chamber no said he you know well enough who I meane In Sir Thomas Sommerset and Sir Henry Goodyeares presence a litle before his iourney to England the Earle of Marre said unto him Sir you heare how goodly and how rich a countrey England is yet Sir considering that you haue been borne and brought up in Scotland if I may be so bold let me aske you which of both countreys you loue best Whereunto he answered My Lord after I haue been there a while I will tell you One who was fatt and corpulent being by a Nobleman recommended to his Majestie for a good huntsman yet said his Highnes standing by it seemeth thereby that he loueth Venison verie well Whill he was telling a certaine Nobleman something that he could haue done but that his Schoolemaister was the cause why he did it not one who had some credit about him mistaking what he said as if he would haue layde some fault committed by himselfe upon his Tutor said to the Nobleman It is the Prince his maner to lay his owne fault upon others Hereat the Prince smyling taxed his impertinency saying Sir indeed I might haue learned that lesson of you A certaine courtly and merrily conceipted Lady who had a husband whom shee could not well enjoy in presence of as pleasant a conceipted Gentleman who was then a widower jesting with his Highnes requested him that he would send her