Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	charles_n	king_n	son_n	5,345	5	5.4847	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05336	A pleasant satyre or poesie wherein is discouered the Catholicon of Spayne, and the chiefe leaders of the League. Finelie fetcht ouer, and laide open in their colours. Newly turned out of French into English.; Satyre Ménippée. English.	T. W. (Thomas Wilcox), 1549?-1608, attributed name.; Leroy, Pierre, Canon of Rouen.; T. W., fl. 1573-1595.	1595 (1595)	STC 15489; ESTC S108539	162,266	208

into Italie to her kinsfolkes God pardon that good Ladie A deuout praier for a holie woman But for the apprehension and conceit that she had of these things I feare much that she was the cause of many euils that we saw in her time For vpon this matter she did so hate theÌ„ that she neuer ceased till she had destroyed them as she did the one of them in the battaile of Iarnac and the other at the massacre of S. Bartholomew where if all they of Montmorency had been found they had had no better market of it then the rest To which poynt Messieur your vncle did very nimbly put his hand and valiantly pushed or lifted at the wheele that so he might put fire in the head of that young King Charles without whose death wee neede not doubt but that he had had the like scorne that Monsieur the Mareschall of Montmorency gaue him and Monsieur your brother in this towne Doubtie Dukes and very cleanly wheÌ„ he made them do all in their breeches because they bare weapons and armour forbidden them without his passeport and leaue But it seemeth that the sodaine death of these their Kings one after another did alwaies breake set out of square the goodly attempts of your house and saued or at the least prolonged the liues of your principall enemies Now let vs come to that which fell out afterwards for it is time to speak of you and of Monsieur your brother who began from that time forward to appeare in armes and to walke in the footsteps and tracts of your predecessors A fardle of frumps against Duke du Mayenne You haue alreadie caused your valours and valiances to appeare in the siege of Poictiers which you brauely defended contrarie to the aduise of the first husband of Madame la Lieutenant Monsieur of Montpezat your predecessor who counselled you to forsake all and to get you packing thence Afterwards you were at the battaile of Montcontour and after that at the iourney or exployt done vpon S. Bartholomews day where the companions on the other side were taken napping if not on sleepe and prouoked to say whence come you Cardinall of Lorraine And though Monsieur your vncle at that time was turning ouer his portuise in Italie yet the play was not performed without his intermedling and seeking to haue the King of Spaynes approbation of it the Popes absolution touching the marriage which seemed for a lure and a trappe also to the Huguenots Afterwards you continued your blowes at the siege of Rochel where meÌ„ did perceiue that he that is at this day the King of Nauarre and Monsieur your brother were but one heart one soule Men may maske but dissimulation wil break out and their great puritie and familiaritie ingendred ielousie and suspition in all the world But we must come to the matter When you sawe that King Charles was dead who otherwise did not loue you very much had sundrie times repeated the saying of the great King Francis For he had no cause so to do whereof he himselfe had made these foure verses now very rife and common in euery mans mouth King Francis was no whit beguiled When he foretold that the Guisian race Would spoyle his sonnes of all they had And leaue his subiects in worse case When you saw him A steppe to the scepter as they thought I say dead without children and the late King his brother married with your barren and vnfruitfull cousin you began Monsieur your brother and you I meane to attempt and assay many practises and plots which many people sayd were the cause of all our miseries I am not of that number which beleeue that Messieurs your father and vncle had from their time layd the foundation of the building that your brother you haue builded since though there bee that speake of the notes of Dauid and of Piles who haue better then Nostradamus prognosticated foretold all that which we haue seene since their death and though some assure ys that Monsieur your vncle Cardinall of Lotraine had framed a certaine forme of all the order that was to beheld therein But I cannot beleeue that he that had as much vnderstanding as a maÌ„ could haue could hope to make his nephewes kings of France seeing as yet three brethren children of the Kings house in the right line all of theÌ„ very puissant and in the floure of their age readie to be married and be could not diuine or gesse that they should dye without issue as they did afterwards Besides hee sawe a great number of the Princes of the royall bloud that kept not themselues warme with the robe of heretikes that should haue cut off all hope from his desires I knowe very well that in his time he was the author that the Archdeacon of Thoul writ this much A pedigree published but to small purpose that those of the house of Lorraine were descended from Charles the great by the males that is to say of Charles Duke of Lorraine to whom the kingdome appertained after the death of Lewes the fifth king of France and that Hugh Capet hauing taken him at Laon and brought him and his wife prisoner to Orleans he had a sonne or male child of whom he affirmed the Dukes of Lorraine are descended this was vnder hand cast amongst the people As all did well perceiue and you were neuer a whit grieued with it though that the common and true histories doe plainly enough shew and witnesse that there was an interruption breaking off of males in the race of Lorraine by two women and namely in the wife of Godfrey of Bouillon named Idain A worthie Archdeacon So the sayd Archdeacon made an honourable amends for it according to the arrest and sentence giuen against him and like a lewd fellowe and sloathfull or fainthearted man vnsayd that he had spoken But in fine there was small appearance that at that time my sayd Lord your vncle could aspire to the kingdome hauing so many hinderances and heads either to fight against Two worthie waies to work by or to cause to dye by the sword or by poyson It is very true that euen from his beginning he was very ambitious and desirous of greatnes and of the gouernment of the state more then any other of his age and I make no doubt of it but that he desired to possesse the Kings and to haue held them had hee been able in tutorship and vnder gouernment as in olde time the Maiors of the palace did that so he might dispose of all according to his pleasure and set vp or pull downe those whom hee had listed Wicked mens purposes and practises are vaine which is the thing whereto commonly the greatest aspire Notwithstanding being almost come thereunto while he was liuing he gathered together and prepared for you the materiall sluffe with which you haue built this proued

attempt with your foot to hold the crowne of France hauing left in your hand first great riches great estates the chiefe offices charges of the kingdome great gouernments many souldiers bound by good turnes done them many seruants also great intelligences with the Pope the King of Spayne and other Princes your kinsfolkes and allies and which is more a great opinion amongst the common people that you were good Catholikes and sworne enemies to the Huguenots You knew very well how to make great profite to your selues by these preparations and sundrie sorts of stuffe which ye found after his death all readie to bring vnto the worke When I say you I meane your self brethren and cousins After King Charles his death many things succeeded well to you one after another Diuers deuises to strengthen the Guisian faction and to very good purpose First the barrennes of the King or of your cousin his wife then the retraite and absence of the King of Nauarre of which you were in part a cause for the distrusts into which you brought him and after that the diuision and dissention between the King and Monsieur the Duke his brother whereof you were the onely authors and promoters vnder hand and closely sharpening the spirits of the one against the other and secretly promising them to ayd them Another thing wherewith you thought to strengthen your selues well was the assistance that Messieurs the Princes of Conty and of Soyssons yeelded for a time to the King of Nauarre their cousin germane when they sawe that the things you went about were directly against all their familie and that you boasted you would supplant or vndermine them for thereupon you vndertooke the matter which you haue neuer since forsaken or forgotten namely to cause to be comprehended by and vnder the Popes bull If Spayne play not a part in this pageant nothing can be done and by oths and protestations of the King of Spayne neuer to approue hereticall princes nor the children of heretikes and then ye found out and first deuised these goodly names of adherents and fautors of heretikes After all this ye made your practises with the King of Spayne more openly and assured your conditions and couenanted then for your pensions promising him the kingdome of Nauarre Bern for his share with the townes that should serue his turne in Picardie and Champagne and ye communed with him concerning the meanes that you would vse to get hold of the estate And the pretext that ye pretended thereto was the wicked gouernment of the king Good pretexts to countenaÌ„ce a bad cause the prodigalities which he bestowed vpon his two minions Esperon and Mercurie whereof you drew one to your owne line which was thought neuer a whit the better You imployed all your diligence to make the poore prince odious to his people you counselled him to raise the taxes to inuent new imposts to create newe officers by which you your felues profited for some did maintaine to Monsieur your brother at Chartres after the barricades that he had receiued halfe the money of three edicts made to fill the purse Fine deuises to shred him of his kingdome and which also were very pernicious or hurtfull whereof notwithstanding you cast and layd the hatred vpon that poore king whom you made to muse vpon and dwell in ridiculous deuotions whilest you your selues sued for the good fauour of the people and contrarie to his liking tooke vpoÌ„ you the charge and conducting of great armies drawing vnto you the heads and captaines of warre courting and making much of in words the very simple and meane souldiers that ye might get them to bee on your side practising the townes buying the gouernmeÌ„ts and putting into the best places gouernours folke at your owne deuotion And this was then that you conceiued the kingdome present almost euen as the appetite commeth many times by eating when you sawe King Henry without hope of issue He must needs goe that the diuell driueth the chiefe Princes accounted for heretikes or fautors of heretikes the Consistorie of Rome to lay the raines or bridle in your necke and the King of Spayne to giue you the spurre You had no more to hinder you but the late Monsieur who was a shrewd hollow dreamer and who vnderstood well with what wood you warmed your selues He must be dispatched out of the way and Salcede his testament discouered vnto vs the meanes of it Who can staÌ„d against such deadly atteÌ„pts but force preuailing not poyson did the deede All your seruants foretold this his death more then three moneths before it came to passe Afterwards ye made no more small mouths or spake closely for the dissembling of your purpose you went no more creeping as cunnies nor in secret but you plainly layd open your selues And yet notwithstanding the better to set forward your affayres you would make honest people beleeue that this was for the publique benefite and for the defence of the Catholique religion Catholike religion a fayre pretext which is a pretext and cloake that seditious persons and stirrers vp of nouelties haue alwaies taken to couer themselues withall Into this insensible net you drew that good man Monsieur the Cardinall of Bourbon a prince without malice and ye were able so cunningly to turne and wind him that yee seized him with a foolish and vndiscreet ambition that in the end ye might deale with him as the eat doth with the mouse that is to say after ye had plaied with him to eate him vp No vnapt coÌ„parison No vntrue exposition You drew thereunto sundry Lordes of the Realme diuers gentlemen and captaines many cities townes and communalties and amongst others this miserable citie which suffered it selfe to bee taken as it were with birde lime partly by reason of the hatred that they had against the misdemeanours of the late King partly also by reason of the impression which you put into them that the Catholike religion would vtterly be ouerthrowne if the King did die without childreÌ„ the succession of the kingdom shuld come to the King of Nauar who called himself the first prince of the blood Hereupon you forged framed your first declaration or manifestatioÌ„ that had not in it so much as one only word of religioÌ„ but you did indeed demaund therein They will hardly agree with others that diffent froÌ„ themselues that althe states gouernments of this kingdome shuld be taken from them that possessed them and were not at your deuotion which escape you amended in your second declaration by the counsell of Rosne who to the end hee might set alon a fire said that there needed nothing else but the setting out of religion and then you preached vnto vs of a Synod at Montauban A fine deuise to foster the fire of faction in Fraunce and of a diet in Germanie where you saide that all the Huguenots of the worlde had

am a friend to my couÌ„try as becoÌ„meth a good burgesse citizen of Paris I am iealous for the preseruation of my religion and am in all that I am able your seruaÌ„t the seruant of your house To be short euery one is wearie of warre in which we now very well perceiue there is no more question touching our religion That is the point indeed but concerning our bondage and to whom amongst you the carcases of our bones shall remaine Thinke not to finde in time to come so many men as you haue done that in liuelines of heart will cast themselues away and betroth or marry themselues to desperation for the rest of their life and of their posteritie also Wee very well perceiue that you your selues are in the snares of the King of Spaine and that ye can neuer come out of them but wretched and as it were forlorne You haue done like the horse A fable but yet good in the morall and meaning of it who to defende himselfe from the hart who he perceiued was more liuely and full of strength than he called for man to his succour But man put a bridle in his mouth sadled him and betrapped him afterwards he put on his spurs backed him brought him to the hunting of the hart and to euery other place where he thought good neuer comming off of his backe nor taking off his bridse and saddle and by this meanes made himselfe subiect to the hollie crap and to the spur to serue his turne in euery worke in euery charge yea and in the very cart it selfe as the King of Spaine hath done with you And doubt ye not of this This is no lye for be hath practised it vpon others as nigh to him as he but if by your meanes be were once made master of the kingdome but that he would very quickly be rid of you by poyson by slauÌ„ders or otherwise for this is the fashion that he vseth wherwith he commonly saith hee must needes recompence them that betray their prince and their countrie Let them serue for witnesses and examples that wickedly deliuered vnto him the kingdome of Portugall who comming vnto him to demaund the recompence which hee had promised them before he was in possession of it sent them vnto that councell of his which is called the councell of conscience where answer was giuen them that if they had brought Portugall into the hands of the King of Spaine as a thing appertaining vnto him they had done nothing but that which good and loyall subiectes should haue done and they should haue their recompence and hire for it in heauen But if they deliuered it vp beleeuing that it did not appertaine vnto him meaning so to take it from their master they deserued to be haÌ„ged as traytors A good reason for of like sins there should be the like punishment And this is the wages that you must looke for after that you shall haue deliuered vs vp vnto such people which we for our parts are not purposed to endure We knowe too well that the Spaniards and Castillians and Bourguignons are our auncient and deadly enemies which of two thinges demaund the one either to bring vs vnder Spaine hath a double practise and purpose in assaulting Fraunce and to make vs slaues if they can that so they may ioyne Spaine Fraunce and the low countries in one tenure and vnder one gouernement or else if they cannot as indeed the best aduised and most wise amongst them doe not hope for that yet they may at the least in weaken vs and bring vs so low that neuer or for a long season we should neuer bee able to relieue our selues nor withstand them to the face For the King of Spaine which is an old fox knoweth wel the iniurie that he doth vs vsurping against all right and iustice the Kingdome of Naples the Duchy of Millan and the Countie of Roussillon which belong vnto vs he knoweth the natural disposition of the french nation that knoweth not how any long season to continue in peace without setting vpon their neighbours Whereof the Flemmings haue made a prouerbe A wittie sentence which saith that when the Frenchman sleepeth the diuell rocketh the cradle Besides he seeth his estates and countries deuided and almost all of them vsurped by violence against the good will and liking of the inhabitants who are ill affected to him ward He seeth himselfe to be olde and brittle and his eldest sonne smally valiant of euill health and the rest of his familie to be in two daughters one whereof he hath married with the most ambitious The Duke of Sauoy and yet needie prince of Europe and the other that maketh a partie and cannot faile but find a great one If after his death which cannot in the very course of nature be very farre off his estates and countries should bee deuided and that one of his sonnes in law should set vpon his owne sonne he knoweth that the Frenchmen would not sleepe and that they would wake againe their olde pretenses titles and claimes Doth hee not then herein play the part of a very prudent foreseeing prince to infeeble vs by our selues to bring vs to so low an estate that wee shall not bee able to hurt him no not after his death You see also how hee hath caried himselfe in the succours that hee hath sent vs All bewraieth the treachery of Spaine the greatest part in paper and in hope the waiting for whereof hath wrought vs more euil then the comming thereof hath done vs good His double duckets and his men came not but euen wheÌ„ we had a long time drawn our breath and were not able to doe any more although hee might much more soone haue succoured relieued vs. He maketh vs not fatte to sell vs as the butchers doe their hogges but for feare we should die ouer soone and minding to reserue vs to a greater destruction hee prolongeth our languishing life Weigh these comparisons with a little water brued and tossed with crummes of browne bread which also hee giueth vs with a licked or cleane finger as iaylors nourish and feede condemned persons the better to reserue them to the execution of punishment What is become of so many millions of double duckets which he braggeth he hath spent for the safetie of our estate And why should not the people haue them seeing it is the price of themselues except you wil sell them for nothing We see none of them amongst the people the greatest parte thereof are in the hands of our aduersaries or amongst you Messieurs the princes gouernors captaines and preachers who keepe them very fast locked vp in your coffers there remaineth to the people nothing but redde or copper coyne for the stamping whereof we haue imployed al our kettles caldrons chafers weights chaynes and copper vessell and will imploy therein our gunnes and our belles if

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