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	year_n	10,409	5	4.7494	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87908	Treason arraigned, in answer to Plain English; being a trayterous, and phanatique pamphlet, which was condemned by the Counsel of State, suppressed by authority; and the printer declared against by proclamation. It is directed to the Lord General Monck, and the officers of his army, &c.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1318A; Thomason E1019_14; ESTC R203945	22,391	35

TREASON ARRAIGNED In ANSWER to Plain English BEING A Trayterous and Phanatique Pamphlet which was condemned by the Counsel of State Suppressed by Authority and the Printer declared against by Proclamation It is directed to the Lord General Monck and the Officers of his Army c. London printed in the year 1660. An Advertisement to the Reader TAking notice of a Pestilent and Seditious Pamphlet Entitled PLAIN ENGLISH c. which is grown too Publique notwithstanding the utmost Care and Prudence of the Counsel of State and the Magistrates of the City imployed to suppresse it I thought it my Duty to unmasque the Designe to prevent further mischiefs which might Arise from the mistake either of the Scope or Reasonings of it I should rather have Printed my Reply single and only Quoted what concerns my Purpose but for these Reasons First That Infamous Paper is already dispersed and the reprinting of it with these Remarques upon it I hope will not Endanger the most partial or weak person into whose hands it Falls Next I suppose it a more Equal and Impartial way to subject Both at once as liable to to a more strict examination The Declaration which Hee draws out at length is neither My Concern nor Subject The Text is all my businesse and the extent of my Design is Honestly to serve my Country To his Excellency the Lord General Monk and the Officers of the Army under his Commaud My Lord and Gentlemen IT is written The prudent shall keep silence in an evil time and 't is like we also might hold our peace but that we fear a knife is at the very throat not only of our and your Liberties but of our persons too In this condition we hope it will be no offence if we cry out to you for help you that thr ugh Gods goodness have helped us so often and strenuously maintained the same Cause with us against the return of that Family which pretends to the Government of these Nations It is the publick interest and yours that we hitherto fought for and for which we now plead therefore we insist upon it with the greater confidence before you because we are all equally concerned in the good or ill of your transactions We cannot yet be perswaded though our fears and jealousies are strong and the grounds of them many that you can so lull asleep your Consciences or forget the publick Interest and your own as to be returning back with the multitude to Egypt or that you should with them be hankering after the Leeks and Onions of our old bondage Though it were possible you should forget yet certainly God will not all the injuries and oppressions done by that Family to his Church and people in these and other Nations Though the Inscription Exit Tyrannus which was fixed over the place where the Statue of the late King formerly stood at the Exchange hath been blotted out by the Rabble yet it is written with the Pen of a Diamond in the hearts of many thousands and will he so hereafter in the adamantine Rolls of Fame and History No matter then though the prophane Vulgar take a liberty to proclaim him both Saint and Martyr in the midst of there Bon-fires and their Tipple All the good fellows were ever at his Devotion because he was for theirs and commanded it to be observed upon the Sundays But to the end it may be better known how goood a King and how great a Saint he was we have taken the boldness at this instant to offer you an accompt of some part of the transactions during his Reign because there are too many in the City who wait the good time to re erect his Statue we desire in the fi●st place to present you his Picture as it was drawn by a good hand the Parliament in the year 1647. at which time it was resolved upon the Qu●stion joyntly by the Lords and Commons in Parliament Ass●mbled That they would make no further Addresses or Applications to the King or receive any Message from him Treason Arraigned in Answer to Plain English c. SOme two dayes since came to my view a Bold Sharp Pamphlet call'd PLAIN ENGLISH directed to the GENERAL and his OFFICERS c. It is a Piece drawn by no Fool and it deserves a serious Answer By the D sign the Subject Malice and the stile I should suspect it for a Blot of the same Pen that wrote ICONOCLASTES It runs foule tends to Tumult and not content Barely to Applaud the Murther of the King the excrable Author of it vemits upon his Ashes with a Pedantique and Envenom'd scorn pursuing still his sacred Memory Betwixt Him and his Brother Rabshakeh I think a man may venture to divide the glory of it It relishes the mixture of their united faculties and wickedn●sse As yet 't is true the Hand is somewhat Doubtfull to us but the Drift Certain and 't is as Clear from whence it first mov'd as to what end it tends It speaks the Rancour and the Interest of the Rump be the Contrivance whose it will and beyond doubt It was written by some Mercenary to the Faction and That by their Direction and Appointment 'T is too Malicious for a private Passion and too Dangerous for one that writes not either for Bread or Life Take it in gross 't is an Alarm to all the Phanatiques in England couch'd under the specious notion of an Appeal to the General and his Army asserting to all purposes the Interests and Justifying the horrid Practices of the Regicide-Party It Remonstrates Expostulates Tempts Threatens Flatters Begs Prevaricates and by all Artifices toward all Humours it moulds it self into an application suitable only upon the Blood and Family of the late King it lashes out into an Impious and Inhumane fury sufficient to Disgrace the Sober in comparison promoters of his Death and to Startle their very Consciences that spilt his Blood with Pleasure Nor does the Brutish Rebel only quitt the Man in point of Tendernesse his Rage against the Royal Line disturbs his Reason too otherwise smooth enough to delude such as are not very well aware of him Whether it be the Agony and Horrour of a Wounded Soul which thus transports him or that in these excesses he only P●rsonates the last Convulsions of a Heart-broken Faction It matters not Thus much we may collect from his distempers That Rabble is at this instant upon a Combination to Tumultuate the Army and the People and such as will not share the Guilt of their Conspiracy they labour to engage within the Reach and Danger of it That we may better understand what they Design wee 'll see a little what they say This Pamphlet speaks the sense of the whole Gang and throughly Examined will discover the frame and the extent of their lewd Purposes I look upon 't as an Affront to Christianity and to Reasonable Nature so scandalous I vow to God in Favour meerly of Humanity I would suppresse