Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	judge_n	king_n	law_n	5,155	5	5.2571	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67127	Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...	Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.	1672 (1672)	Wing W3650; ESTC R34765	338,317	678

that all Nations prosecuted him with love and wonder as fast as the King with Grace and to his last he never lost any of his lustre His swiftness and nimbleness in rising may be with less injury ascribed to a Vivacity then any Ambition in his nature since it is certain the Kings eagerness to advance him so surprized his youth that he seemed only to submit his shoulders without resistance to such burdens as his Highness would be pleased to lay on him and rather to be held up by the violent inclination of the King then to climb up by any Art or industry of his own yet once seated he would not affront that judgement that raised him by an unseasonable diffidence of himself but endeavoured with an understanding boldness to manage those imployments which his modesty would never suffer him to court During the Reign of his first Master I cannot but say he enjoyed an indifferent calm in his Fortune and Favour for though there were some boisterous interruptions by the clamour of the people yet shortly again their affections were as violent and almost as senseless toward him as ever their accusations were before or after Insomuch as the Chief Rulers among them performed frequent visits to him when he was somewhat diseased in his health and out of a zealous care of him would have begot in him some jealousie that his Physicians and nearest Attendants about him being perhaps of the same Religion with the King of Spain had a purpose by poyson to revenge some injuries these people had conceived in the right of that Nation And here the Fortunes of our great Personages met when they were both the Favourites of the Princes and Darlings of the people But their affections to the Duke were but very short lived And now 't is seasonable to say somewhat of the disposition and spirit of this time since the Disparity of those we treat of will be in that discerned and the Earl be found by so much to have the advantage that there will be little need of conferring the particulars of their lives 'T was a busie querulous frowardtime so much degenerated from the purity of the former that the people under pretences of Reformation with some petulant discourses of Liberty which their great Impostors scattered among them like false glasses to multiply their fears began Abditos Principis sensus quid occultius parat exquirere extended their enquiries even to the Chamber and private actions of the King himself forgetting that truth of the Poet Nusquam Libertas gratior extat quam sub Rege pio 'T was strange to see how men afflicted themselves to find out calamities and mischiefs whilest they borrowed the name of some great persons to scandalize the State they lived in A general disorder throughout the whole body of the Commonwealth nay the vital part perishing the Laws violated by the Judges Religion prophaned by the Prelates Heresies crept into the Church and countenanced and yet all this shall be quickly rectified without so much as being beholding to the King or consulting with the Clergy Surely had Petronius now lived he would have found good cause to say Nostra regio tam praesentibus plena est numinibus ut facilius possis deum quam hominem invenire For my part whether the frenzy was nourish'd in the warm brest of young men who are commonly too much in love with their own time to think it capable of reformation or whether it was fomented by riper heads that had miscarried in their propositions of advancement and are violent in the successes of Queen Elizabeth or whether it was only the revolution of time that had made them unconcerned in the loyal fears that governed sixty years since I shall not presume to guess but shall rather wish for the spirit and condition of that time as he did for wars and commotions Quoniam acerbissima Dei flagella sunt quibus hominum pertinaciam punit ea perpetua oblivione sepelienda potius quàm memoriae mandanda esse King James being no sooner dead but such as had from his beginning impertinently endeavoured to supplant him and found that he was so deeply rooted in his Soveraigns acceptance that there should be no shaking him with clamorous objections found some means to commend over his condition and transcendent power as they termed it as a matter of publick consequence to the people and from this instant to his fatal end he stood as it were expos●…d notwithstanding all the shelter of the Soveraigns regard to all the calumnies and obloquies the impudent malice of the Rabble could fling on him and in all their pretences of Reformation as if their end were only his shame not amendment they rather cudge●… then repr●…hend him Of this wilde rage not within the main purpose of an Apology I shall give one or two instances insisting on them only as they were mentioned in the indigested noise of the people not as they were marshalled with other imployments in any publick Declaration or Remonstrance There were two errours chiefly laid to his charge and so eagerly urged that in them he was almost concluded an Enemy to the King and Countrey which certainly in the next Age will be conceived marvellous strange Objections the one being a strong Argument of his Worth the other a piece of its Reward the first was the plurality of Offices though they were immediately conferred on him by the King or else such as he was promoted to by his Majesties own allowance to acquire to the which there was no condition but his Majesty was a witness if not a surety for the performance and yet for the execution of them never man studied more to apt himself nor descended to meaner Arts to give general content And here possibly it concerned his Mirth to see his ambition prosecuted of some who desired to ease him of this Guilt by undertaking his Trust. The other was the preferment of his Kindred upon whom his Majesty delighting to give all gracious expression of his affection to the Duke would to enliven any branch that grew from the same Stock confer both Honour and Living And this surely had so little signification of offence in the Dukes conscience that he thought he should have sinned against the Law of Nature and a generous disposition that it would have been an eternal brand to his name and memory if being so seized of this great Kings favour he had no regard but to his own advancement And 't is not improbable that his noble care of his Family confirmed him in the estimation of his Master who knew that all Fountains ought to bestow themselves upon their Neighbour-brooks and could have hoped for little effects from his service whose care was only directed for him●…f Now whether the importunate clamour upon these two faults whereof he found no regret but comfort in himself made him so to esteem of the popular discretion and honesty or whether he esteemed it the same