Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	king_n	kingdom_n	9,660	5	5.5175	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42687	A Touch of the times, or, Two letters casually intercepted the first, from the author of a late pamplet intituled, Day-fatality, to the supposed author of the Weekly packet of advice from Rome, 1679 : the second, the answer thereunto.	Gibbon, John, 1629-1718. Day-fatality.; Care, Henry, 1646-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing G653; ESTC R39569	2,332	2

A Touch of the Times OR TWO LETTERS Casually Intercepted The First From the Author of a late Pamphlet Intituled Day-Fatality To the supposed Author of the Weekly Packet of Advice from Rome The Second The ANSWER thereunto REturning out of the Country I was shewed a Pamphlet of yours Wherein you made Reflexion upon me as a Two Penny Scribler with other Unhandsom Termes I am told you Write for a Living Sedulitatem tuam lando and yet your Books are but Pence apiece c. to unbraid my Two Pence I Wrote mine for no Reward or Gain and if you understand Latine you may know when I did it and guess upon what Account It being Compil'd shortly after his Highness Recess Upon a Duty I owe to Him as being the KING my Master's only Brother I proffered it to several to do Gratis but none durst till the Press Open and Parliaments Dissolution I 'le assure you its Impression was upon my Contribution without any designe of Profit You made a Damnable Reflexion upon the Duke 's Safe therefore I say Happy Arrival taken Notice of by more than my self and for which no Doubt you must give Account to Greater Persons than the Gotham Author who is no Red-Letter Man as you would have it And whom also you have injured in this Particular In hitting him in the Teeth with the Second of September when as he himself Acknowledges it A Dismal and Vnhappy Day not only to the City of London but consequently to the whole Kingdom pag. 4. Paragraph the last I shall then and not before prove an Impertinent Coxcomb when such as you come to have the Rule of that Providence that Attends his Royal Highness and will then apply to my self your 1 Kings 22. 22 23. verses I have made Enquiry after you and find you were Bred an Attorney as such you cannot but have at least some little kind of Gammar-Learning Read Then Reges ac ipsis ortos reverenter habeto Ranaque desistat torvum irritare Leonem It was at the Printers Request I set my Name But I Faith Sir I would you were out of Harmes Way as well as he is You know what I mean Enquire for me if you have any thing to say to me at Mr. Bilingslies a Stationer near the Exchange South Door I am not unknown to Mr. Stephens belonging to the Kings Printing-House and one of his Majesties Poursivant Messengers or Mr. Philip Foxcroft belonging to the Printing-House in Little Britain And my Name is Septemb. 15. 1679. JOHAN GIBBON The Answer Most Illustrious Vnknown LAst Night I received a Paper which you did me the Honour to send or perhaps out of Good husbandry bring me What that meant I cannot throughly comprehend If you imagine me to be the Author of the Antipapal Pacquet be Convinc'd the small Intelligencers possibly some of those your good Friends you mention may have deceived you For I am told the same is written by I know not who with Three Capps a piece your small Wits of St. Omers t is like will call 'um Legion for it s confidently Aver'd they are many If you are not a Papist I am glad of it not for my own sake but yours but must needs tell you you are then one of the most Vnfortunate Protestants that have writ Pamphlet since the Reign of Mr. L'Estrange Expir'd You say you have inquired after me Sedulitatem tuam Laudo to return you one of your own scraps for I mortally hate to be endepted to any Body for Pedantry but I fear the pains in that as well as in your printed Labours prov'd to little purpose VVhat a company of Raskals were these Printers that they would not break an Act of Parliament to Oblige the VVorld and the Bog-houses with such an Excellent Piece and then at last to make you pay Contribution too as you say you did towards Printing really Sir that was unkind and a man were better write for a living as you are told you know or rather know not who does than scrible to undoe ones-self which must Infallibly be your Fate If on such unconscionable Terms you publish any more such 〈…〉 ear For since an Inundation of VVit and Latine is as mischeivous as that of the Sea 't is most wise mens Opinion That the Fee-simple of an Author will never turn to any more Account to you than the Land in the Marsh did Dear Sir Consult Erra Pater next bout Did not you begin that That Fatality-work on a Childermass-day As for your terrible Reges ac Ipsis c. I carried it late as it was last Night to a Pedagogue for Construction who tells me the English of it is That 't is good sleeping in a whole Skin Now I must profess That though I Love and Revere my King as well and would venture my Blood to serve him against Rome or Geneva as freely as any little Fellow between Barwick and Dover Peer yet I cannot very Cordially brook any of the Popes Subjects as such be they what they will though in other respects I honour them as much and somewhat more than any that shall go about with Freaks and ridiculous Flim flams to flatter them I like your humour rarely well for Swearing with your Pen though I must to deal plainly as you know Friends should do tell you t is not altogether so Jantes as by word of mouth For observe me If I that am but a bad Reader though my Grannum and my Grammer as you note right well might teach me at least some little kind of Learning should not happen to Tone I Faith luckily in pronunciation Then would the Grace of that Expression be utterly lost As for the wishing me out of Harms-way 't is most Obligingly done but I beseech you do not you give your self the trouble of putting me out of the way the Phrase is known alamode de Godfrey were I not assur'd under your hand that you are none of the Bloody Letter I should not like those Menacings But to obtain your favour I do assure you If you please to Write an Hundred and Fifty more such Volumns as the Last I will henceforward never so much as directly or indirectly read one of them This is all at present besides my love kindly remembred to you and my respects to Philip Foxcroft who for ought I know may be your Godfather for I never heard of him before in my Life so hoping that all our friends at home and going abroad are in good health I rest Septem 17. 79. Your much obliged Servant and my Name lest you should have forgot it Is HEN. CARE