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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	france_n	great_a	king_n	3,502	5	3.8136	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10283	The memorie of the most worthie and renowmed Bernard Stuart, Lord D'Aubigni renewed VVhereunto are added vvishes presented to the Prince at his creation. By Walter Quin, seruant to his Highnesse.	Quin, Walter.	1619 (1619)	STC 20566; ESTC S110563	24,989	50

thee tye Yea and the present subiect thee inuite And going on where thou didst leaue indite To me his worthy deedes whom we may blesse As instrument of so great happinesse When as King Henry crown'd and settled was Lord D'Aubigny backe into France did passe Where by the King and his Nobility His valour wisedome and felicity In his late action was with great applause Extol'd and magnifi'd and for that cause He worthy was esteem'd of greater charge And place wherein as in a field more large Or Theater he might his Martiall skill And prowesse vse and exercise at will Whereof a fit occasion shortly came For Charles then King th' eighth being of that name Encourag'd by his heat and strength of youth And by ambition whose enormeous grouth Exceedeth in that age more hardy made Resolu'd the Realme of Naples to inuade Which to the Dukes of Aniou appertain'd Some ages past but then from them detain'd Was by th'vsurping house of Aragon And Sforza Duke of Milain egging on Charles to this action him to be therein More forward mou'd But ere he would beginne He knew that when his gifts he thus did sow Thence to himselfe such fruits should after grow Of honour seruice and fidelity As he with great increase should gaine thereby And in effect right so to passe it came For D'Aubigni himselfe did euer frame To honour him and serue him faithfully In warre and peace with care and industry And with vnfained loue and ardent zeale Both to his good and to the Publike weale In his Calabrian gouernment appear'd This to be true whiles there the helme he steer'd Where still to worke his Masters good he sought And what he could for publike good he wrought That people ruling with much equity With moderation and with lenity 〈…〉 So as when they his goodnesse tride and prou'd He was by them much honour'd and belou'd Though they were Demi-Grecians and defam'd As factious and rebellious yea and nam'd Diuels by a nick-name old as yet they are Such force haue vertues eminent and rare In Rulers as the stubborn'st they allure And them to loue and reuerence procure And for his sake so much they him respected They to the French the better were affected Nor any in that Realme surmounted them In loyalty to the French Diadem The power whereof awhile there being great Was much diminisht by the Kings retreat But more by reason of his dalliance And negligence wen he return'd to France King Ferdinand that had a long time houer'd And lurk't to saue himselfe thereby recouer'd Both strength and courage and was hart'ned more By new supplies which from the Spanish shore Came to assist him vnder the command Of that Consaluo surnamed Hernand To whom as eminent in worth and fame The Spaniards of Great Captaine gaue the name The King his forces hauing with his owne Conioyn'd and thereby the more hardy grown Into Calabria passeth in all haste Where th' Angeuins possessions he doth waste And all subuerts that would his passage stop Like to a Torrent from a mountaines top Downe falling after stormy snowes and raines Which ouer-flowing all the lower plaines Trees bridges cottages and countrey townes With violence downe beares subuerts and drownes But D'Aubigni whose courage like a Rock Or Bulwark strong did nothing feare the shock Of this his furious force himselfe prepares Him to encounter yea and stoutly dares His passage finding out by wise foresight To meete him hie apace and with him fight Guiec l. 2. Iou. Hist l. 3. Neere to the walles of Seminare he found Him and his Spanish Champion so renoun'd With all their army which did his surpasse In number farre but such the valour was Which he himselfe and all his warlike crue Of Frenchmen North-Britaines then did shew wise As they defeated quite their enemies Whose Leaders though themselues both stout They shew'd yet to escape by flight were faine The King in danger being to be slaine Or taken through the falling of his Steed When faithfull Altauile in this his need His horse to him and for him gaue his life Thus our braue Warriour in this warlike strife To his immortall honour ouercame A King and a Commander of such fame As was Consalue whose worth and valiant deedes Of Spaines renown and greatnes were the seedes But fortune of his glorious victory Or rather of so great prosperity Of the French Nation growing enuious The course of his exploits victorious Stop't by a sicknesse trouble some and long 〈…〉 3. Theuet des hommes illustres enla●ie de Consalue Which on him seas'd wherein as she did wrong His glory so much woe thereby she wrought To the French side which to decay was brought Not hauing Chiefetaines able to withstand The re-inforc'd assaults of Ferdinand And of Consalue that did the French assaile And euery where against them did preuaile The Vice-Roy Lord Monpensier without doubt Was both a noble personage and stout But not so circumspect and prouident As needefull was such dangers to preuent Wherewith Lord D'Aubigni that then diseas'd With sicknesse lay was vexed and displeas'd As also seeing that no new supply Came from the King who liuing carelesly In pleasure suffred by his negligence That to be lost which with so great expence Of treasure yea with care and toile sustain'd Euen by himselfe he rather bought then gain'd But this his Champion although euer true And faithfull to him much displeas'd he grew That his affaires were in so euill estate Yet seeing that with prouidence and fate Which wrought this change he should but striue in vaine Himselfe in end to yeeld thereto was faine When of his long disease not wholy rid By true relation vnderstand he did How that the Lord Monpensier hauing lost The field and with the remnant of his Host Besieged in Atella did agree And solemnely capitulate that he With all his Freuchmen should that Land forsake And therefore he not able head to make To th' Aragonian forces nor to mend What was by others mar'd did condescend Though much against his stomack to be tied To Th'articles already ratified And seeing that no hope to him was left Since he was wholy of all meanes bereft Of doing seruice to his King or good To those distress'd Naipolitanes that stood Well-minded and affected to him still He vs'd his best endeuours and good will To saue that remnant of the French that were Suruiuing to their woes and dangers there Then as among the first he thither past So in departing was he of the last Much was he grac't when backe to France he came Both by the King and those to whom by fame His vertues rare and eminent were knowne Which by his worthy actions he had showne As Trees do shew their goodnesse by their fruite Which to him chiefly made them attribute What victories and honour had beene wonne And whatsoeuer other good was donne In Naples by the Frenchmen as the blame Of all the losses crosses