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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	father_n	person_n	son_n	3,185	5	5.8825	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36592	All for love, or, The world well lost a tragedy, as it is acted at the Theatre-Royal, and written in imitation of Shakespeare's stile / written by Mr. Dryden.	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Antony and Cleopatra.	1692 (1692)	Wing D2230; ESTC R8598	57,629	88

farther check upon them and the People must suffer without a Remedy because they are Oppress'd by their Representatives If I must s●…rve the number of my Masters who were Born my Equals would but add to 〈◊〉 Ignominy of my Bondage The Nature of our Government above all others is exactly Suited both to the Situation of our Country and the Temper of the Natives An Island being more proper for Commerce and for Defence than for extending its Dominions on the Continent For what the Valour of its Inhabitants might gain by Reason of its Remoteness and the Casualties of the Seas it cou'd not so easily preserve And therefore neither the Arbitrary Power of one in a Monarchy n●…r of many in a Commonwealth could make us greater than we are 'T is true that vaster and more frequent Taxes might be gather'd when the Cons●…nt of the People was not Ask'd or Needed but this were only by Conquering abroad to be Poor at home And the Examples of our Neighbours teach us that they are not always the Happiest Subjects whose Kings extend their Dominions farthest Since therefore we cannot win by an Offensive War at least a Land-War the Model of our Government seems Naturally contriv'd for the Defensive part And the Cons●…nt of a People is easily obtain'd to contribute to that Power which must protect it Felices nimium bona si sua nôrint Angligenae And yet there are not wanting Malecontents amongst us who Surf●…iting themselves on too much Happiness wou'd perswàde the People that they might be Happier by a Change 'T was indeed the Policy of their old For father when himself was fallen from the Station of Glory to seduce Mankind into the same Rebellion with him by telling him he might yet be freer than he was That is more free than his Nature wou'd allow or if I may so say than God cou'd make him We have already all the Liberty which Free-Born Subjects can enjoy and all beyond it is but License But if it be Liberty of Conscience which they pretend the Moderation of our Church is such that its Practice extends not to the severity of Persecution and its Discipline is withal so easie that it allows more freedom to Dissenters than any of the Sects wou'd allow to it In the mean time what Right can be pretended by these Men to attempt Innovations in Church or State Who made them the Trustees or to Speak a little nearer their own Language the Keepers of the Liberty of England If their Call be extraordinary let them Convince us by working Miracles for ordinary Vocation they can have none to disturb the Government under which they were Born and which protects them He who has often chang'd his Party and always has made his Interest the Rule of it gives little Evidence of his Sincerity for the Publick Good 'T is manif●…st he changes but for himself and takes the People for Tools to work his Fortune Yet the Experience of all Ages might ●…t him know that they who trouble the Waters first have s●…ldom the benefit of the Fishing As they who began the late Rebellion enjoy'd not the Fruit of their Undertaking but were crush'd themselves by the Usurpation of their own Instrument Neither is it enough for them to Answer that they only intend a Reformation of the Government but not the Subversion of it On such pretences all Insurrections have been founded 'T is striking at the Root of Power which is Obedience Every Remonstrance of private Men has the seed of Treason in it and Discourses which are couch'd in ambiguous Terms are therefore the more dangerous because they do all the Mischief of open Sedition yet are safe from the Punishment of the Laws These My Lord are Considerations which I should not pass so lightly over had I room to manage them as they deserve for no Man can be so inconsiderable in a Nation as not to have a share in the welfare of it and if he be a true Englishmen he must at the same time be fir'd with Indignation and revenge himself as he can on the Disturbers of his Country And to whom could I more fitly apply my self than to your Lordship who have not only an inborn but an Hereditary Loyalty The memorable constancy and sufferings of your Father almost to the ●…uine of his Estate for the Royal Cause were an earnest of that which such a Parent and such an Institution wou'd produce in the Person of a Son But so unhappy an occasion of manifesting your own Zeal in suffering for his present Majesty the Providence of God and the Prudence of your Administration will I hope prevent That as your Fathers Fortune waited on the unhappiness of his Sovereign so your own may participate of the better Fate which attends his Son The Relation which you have by Alliance to the Noble Family of your Lady serves to confirm to you both this happy Angury For what can deserve a greater place in the English Chronicle than the Loyalty and Courege the Actions and Death of the General of an Army Fighting for His Prince and Country The Honour and Gallantry of the Earl of Lindsey is so illustrious a Subject that 't is fit to adorn an Heroick Poem for He was the Proto-Martyr of the Cause and the Type of his unfortunate Royal Master Yet after all My Lord if I may speak my thoughts you are happy rather to us than to your self for the Multiplicity the Cares and the Vexations of your Imployment have betray'd you from your self and given you up into the Possession of the Publick You are Robb'd of your Privacy and Friends and scarce any hour of your Life you can call your own Those who envy your Fortnne if they wanted not good Nature might more justly pity it and when they see you watch'd by a Croud of Suitors whose importunity 't is impossible to avoid would conclude with Reason that you have lost much more in true Content than you have gain'd by Dignity and that a private Gentleman is better attended by a single Servant than your Lordship with so clamorous a Train Pardon me My Lord If I speak like a Philosopher on this Subject the Fortune which makes a Man uneasie cannot make him Happy and a Wise Man must think himself uneasie when few of his Actions are in his Choice This last Consideration has brought me to another and a very seasonable one for your Relief which is That while I pity your want of leisure I have impertinently Detain'd you so long a time I have put off my own Business which was my Dedication till 't is so late that I am now asham'd to begin it And therefore I will say nothing of the Poem which I Present to you because I know not if you are like to have an Hour which with a good Conscience you may throw away in perusing it And for the Author I have only to beg the continuance of your Protection to him who is MY LORD