Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	great_a	lord_n	5,583	4	3.6442	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79747	A candle for the blinde citizens of London, to see by: by a freeman of the same city, though of neither ranke or quality, yet reall in heart, fearing God, honouring his King, and a lover of truth, peace, and the brotherhood. With Englands farewell from its ancient prosperity, to its new change of misery.		1648 (1648)	Wing C424; Thomason E465_12; ESTC R205185	4,674	8

all Are you so blinde still that you cannot see take this candle and hold it to your noses see if you can see unto what a vast expence have you brought us to by going dayly to Westminster to guard them that neither feare God or regard man how is the wealth of this florishing City decayed how many thousand of Subjects bloud hath been spilt how many times have you beene deluded by bare votes how many assessments have been made to fetch our money how many mens estates have beene sequestred how many Bishops Lands have beene sold how much pole-money meale-money and contributions have beene given how much composition money hath been received how many plundred goods have beene so●d How much plate and money hath beene brought into Guild-hall of which we shall never see use nor principall how many thousand pounds out of His Majesties Revenues and out of the custome-house and how much hath beene payd at the excize Office and many others which my memory failes to speake of as money gived to the Scots to the reliefe of Ireland the buying of Irish Land for coales for collections and I know not what and of what one of these can there be a true accoumpt given and yet the Citizens cannot see and therefore have need of a candle lighted and if it bee but to see how many thousands of soules have beene sent to their untimely ends and for all this our Citizens still run post hast to fulfill every command of theirs and be ready to performe it in as dutifull and respective manner as can be done which makes me think that the older the Citizens be the more childish they grow and that great men are not alwayes wise for who would have thought that the Fathers of the mother City of three Kingdomes should have proved such d●nces so blockish and so wedded to their owne foolishnesse that blindnesse is their father that begat them and fearfullnesse their mother that brings them up so that now wee may bid a farewell to all our former injoyments and take up this lamentation and all long of such Asses I had almost said farewell to the King and Prince for we have got Thomas and Oliver farewell Bishops for wee have got Elders farewell councell table for we have got Goldsmiths Hall farewell High commission Court for wee have got close Committees farewell Pattentees for wee have got Excize and sessments farewell head for we have members farewell justice for we have got just Asses farewell Government for heere is Liberty of conscience farewell good neighbourhood for heere is base envy farewell money and Plate for we have got the publique faith farewell Religion for we have got superstition farewell Roundhead and Cavaleer for we have got Shimies and Rabshakehs farewell conscience for wee have got a Parliament farewell Lords and Ladies for we have got Souldiers and their Laffes farewell Nobility for wee will have all common farewell Common prayer for wee have a Directory farewell a preaching Ministry for we have got prating Coblers farewell Pulpits for we have got Tubs farewell Saints for wee have got Divells farewell Loyalty for heere is Rebellion farewell honesty for we have got hypocrisie fare well Churches and Chappels for we have got barnes and stables farewell freedome for we have got slavery and farewell citizens for we are made Asses Thus we may bid a farewell to all that ever wee have injoyed for by such meanes a well governed Kingdome is brought to destruction and who may we thank for this but the foreheaded Saints that have brought us into such a purgatory which was wont to be at Rome but now abides in England O here is a sweet resurrection a resurrection to destruction if we were not blinde to see it for such confusion comes by shaking off loyalty and joyning hands with rebellion this City hath beene the nurse that hath brought it up and dandled it on her knees and give it suck that it is growne to such a height of impudency that it dares call into question the unspotted life of the Lords anoynted I will not prophesie against thee thou great City but I will be so bold to tell thee that through thy meanes and in thee is all manner of wickednes maintained and thou must speedily-suffer except thou take this candle lighted to see by for thou hast plotted thy owne destruction and others also for it is nigh at hand and thou art sinking t is not the golden chaines about my Lords neck or the Aldermens or the great places of preferment that will secure them from vengeance no but let them rather take ropes about their necks and go to the King of England for he is a mercifull King and peradventure they may finde acceptance for t is high time to leave off dissembling You have protested vowed and covenanted with hands lifted up to the most high but neither Protestation vow or Covenant will you keepe Take this candle in your owne hands and see if you bee not a company of perfidious wretches and blinde Citizens You have troubled your Common Councel-men day after day and almost whole nights have been consumed in canvasing the affaires of the City and what hath been produced ye were as very fooles when you made an end as when you began notwithstanding you had candles lighted to see by The sweet proffits that have come into some of your purses from the Common people hath blinded your eyes that you cannot see when many a poore creature is turned out of all and ready to starve and you stand insulting over them that men are become wolves to one nother you have had fourscore fasting dayes since these troubles besides other dayes of humiliation to enlighten your eyes and yet you are blinde and there hath been 21 thanksgiving dayes at least when you have rejoysed and feasted your selves at divers Hals in triumph for joy of the killing victories of the Kings good subjects as if it were a sport to you to destroy them and for shame wipe your eyes that you may see your folly and leave off your assisting of Rebels lest you purchase a Rebels reward both to your selves and your posterity My candle is out FINIS