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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	king_n	5,512	5	3.6764	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28903	The prince of Conde made English.; Prince de Condé. English	Boursault, M. (Edme), 1638-1701.	1675 (1675)	Wing B3860; ESTC R19455	60,258	204

the Queens Coach into which she was no sooner entred but he faced about and returned to the Admiral This Conference having no better success and the Forces on both sides being near acts of hostility were begun and the King reduced to an unfortunate necessity of conquering his own Kingdom Roüen having declared for the Hugonots was the first Town that was besieged It endured several assaults with a resolution that would have gained it much honor had the cause been as good as their courage but at last the Prince of Condé having in vain endeavored to relieve it the Mareschal de S. André having blocked up the Passes it was taken by storm and the King of Navarre entred in triumph thorow the Breaches This action was great and made a great noise but it was bought very dear For the King of Navarre receiving a shot in his shoulder which had not been dangerous but for the too frequent visits of Madamoiselle du Ruet it proved so ill that putting himself upon the Seyne to go back to Paris by Water a shivering took him by the way and after that a cold sweat which obliged him to stay at Andelis where the same day he died as he lived that is to say in the same uncertainty as to his Religion being neither true Protestant nor good Papist The Prince of Condé who had promised himself great honor from this expedition and knew it to be the only way to strike deep into the heart of Madam la Mareschalle de S. André was much dejected at the loss of Roüen However whilest the Kings Army was imployed in Normandy it came into his mind to advance with his Army to the very Walls of Paris hoping that the suddenness of his approach and the confusion it must needs bring upon so large and populous a City might make its conquest more easie but his success in that was no better then in his relieving of Roüen After the miscarriage of so great an enterprise he thought it inglorious to retire and therefore chose rather to advance against the Duke of Guise who was coming with his victorious Army from Roüen and to engage him if possible to a Battle that might revenge the Hugonots for the loss which they had sustained The Admiral was of the same opinion and they had doubtless defeated the Duke of Guise had their conduct been as good as their courage But their design being more talked of then was necessary the Mareschal de S. André came up with his Troops and joyned with the Royal Army which had need enough of their Succors The Prince was at the head of 12000 Men and the number of the Catholicks was no less They met near the Town of Dreux and the two Armies being drawn up in Battalia the Hugonots charged with that vigor that at first all the advantage was on their side They made themselves masters of the best part of the Catholicks Cannon and took the Connestable Montmerancy prisoner but being allured by the splendor of the Train and the hopes of Booty they put themselves out of order to plunder the Enemies Baggage which the Duke of Guise who was a great Officer observing he took the opportunity charged again and improved the advantage of their confusion so well that he turned the scales and forced the Hugonots out of the Field The Prince of Condé in the greatest heat of this charge advancing in opposition to the Duke of Guise found himself in the midst of a Party of Catholicks who demanded his Sword but instead of giving them an answer he made use of it to make his passage but finding it to no purpose he delivered it to Danville the Connestables second Son and yeilded himself his prisoner Whilest the Catholicks were in this manner engaged with the Prince of Condé a Body of the Hugonot Horse having made a charge upon the Mareschal de S. André who was too hotly in pursuit of the victory they put him to the same distress took him prisoner and were carrying him off to accompany the Connestable But a Parisian called Meziers who had been formerly disobliged by him took that opportunity to revenge himself and shot him dead upon the place The Admiral with the relicks of his Hugonot Troops recovered Orleans with all speed apprehending that if he were charged again he should be forced to quit the Connestable The Prince of Condé was presented by Danville to the Duke of Guise who treated him with a respect accompanied with many marks of esteem which were returned with so much generosity by the Prince that it was an astonishment to them both to consider that notwithstanding the great deference and civility they expressed one to the other that yet they should be so unhappy as to be Enemies Madam la Mareschalle de S. André whose vertue had hitherto been unshakable was much troubled for the death of her Husband But the news of the death of Eleonora Wife to the Prince of Condé arriving presently after gave her no small relaxation She had received a Letter from the Prince of Condé dated after the Battle of Dreux to comfort her against the loss of her Husband and she to requite it had condoled with him with the same ceremony upon the loss of his Wife But the design was only to advertise one another that those impediments being removed they were now at liberty and needed not any longer restraint In the mean time the Duke of Guise who had gained great reputation by the greatness of this exploit was unwilling to give the Hugonots breath the most of whose great Officers being prisoners he concluded the opportunity too favorable to be slipped and Orleans being the most considerable Town of their party he thought by forcing of that to reduce them to a necessity of admitting what terms and impositions he pleased to exact He began that siege the beginning of February and in spight of the extreamity of the season and opposition of the Garrison possessed himself of all the Suburbs with the loss only of eight or nine men but riding out one evening to meet his Lady who was at that time coming to the Leagure the infamous Poltrot having watched him three or four days before shot him treacherously with a Pistol of which he died six days after to the infinite regret of all that knew him and particularly of the Prince of Condé who though his Enemy could not forbear giving testimony of his sorrow at his first notice of the news All the Catholick Historians and even those whose Religion he would have destroyed have thought it an honor to do Justice to his memory and though they were not of the same sentiments in point of Religion yet in this they agreed That he had all the necessary qualifications of a Gentleman without any of the vices either of a Prince or a Courtier Least he might leave a stain upon his memory he imployed almost the last moments of his life in clearing himself of the