Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	crown_n	king_n	son_n	5,450	5	5.2450	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01260	The French herald summoning all true Christian princes to a generall croisade, for a holy warr against the great enemy of Christendome, and all his slaues. Vpon the occasion of the most execrable murther of Henry the great. To the Prince.	Loiseau de Tourval, Jean.; Marcelline, George, attributed name.	1611 (1611)	STC 11374; ESTC S111986	28,778	56

instrument Our King Frauncis the great had no other ground for that bloudy warr he made against the Emperor but only the reuenge of a seruant of his Merueilles The death of that man alone cost the liues of an hundreth thousand and shooke the very foundacions of Europe And now shall the death of the greatest king that euer wore the Crowne of France be so meanely regarded so slightly past ouer euen by his owne feruants by his owne sonne without more feeling without more stirring then for a glasse broken And shall all posterity see the story our Nephewes read therein without blushing at the impassibility of their Fathers What would so many Nations say which do so honorably esteeme of the French name if they should see vs drinke vp such a shame What would we say our selues to the sacred ghost of that famous Prince if as once that of Achilles to the Greeks it returned and would reproch vs we sacrificed nothing vpon his Tombe Wil we say it is want of mony The Bastille is heaped full with it want of men Fraunce ouerfloweth with them want of friends Neuer any King had more or better want of Armes and munition Neuer store-house was better furnished both for quantity and goodnes What want wee then but that rare King hath most aboundantly left it vs to reuenge his death Ah Sir I can well tell what we want nine or ten yeares more nothing els you should haue had them for vs if that vnhappy wretch had not so vntimely preuented the natural death of your healthful father But what Did we neuer beat our Enemies euen vnder yonger Kings then your selfe what then vnder the infant Clotaire whom our Queene his mother carried hanging on her breast in his swadling bands at the fore-front of the battell crying aloud French-men this is your King She was a Queene indeed and he a king neuerthelesse though young nor those olde French daunted euer the more And yet by the way I would wish you to note that this young King this sucking babe being scarce foure moneths old when he wonne battells was the first afterwards who for his greatnes valor and worth got the glorious surname of great amōg his French thogh yet in those dayes of a general goodnes they were more ready to nich-name their kings for one onely vice then to honour them for many good qualities so rife were these so scarce those What and vnder Lewis your owne Ancetor whose happy name you carry as well as his Scepter Did not he succeed in this same State and very neere at the selfe-same age as your selfe And did he leaue to chastise his Enemies abroad his rebels at home and afterwards to vndertake vpon Palestine and Egipt Then comming backe into Fraunce make a new iourney into Affrick yet found he at his entry to the Crowne all his kingdome in trouble neuer more quiet then at this present his Princes and great ones deuided from him vnited against him which doe not deuise any thing now but generall vnion and your seruice and did neuerthelesse most happily ouercome all those difficulties his kingdome being not so great as yours by much nor his renenue the tenth part of that which you possesse Do you thinke Sir that that braue Prince which so valiantly vndertooke so great warres as farre from his interest as from his limits would haue demurred vpon the reuenge of so high an iniury Foraine examples would euen shame our owne being so faire and so worthy of imitation as among many I cannot heere deny due place to one most famous and very neere our case Philip of Macedon a great Captaine and a great king as our eyes haue seen our great HENRY hauing conquered all Greece as he Fraunce is murthered euen as he in his own chiefe Citty in a publick reioycing and vpon the very instant when he was to execute the greatest enterprise he euer had in hand His sonne Alexander the great yet a childe for so Demosthenes cals him ascended vpon the Throne of Philip as our LEWIS vpon that of HENRY but he feeles it shake vnder his feete sees Greekes and Barbarians vp against him on euery side his Counsell dismayed wish him to leaue off the affaires of Greece and quietly compound the rest Nay saith he but if I be perceiued to shrink at the beginning I shall euer haue my hands full of them and following this braue resolution ouer-throwes the Barbarians in a great battaile ouer-runnes all Greece like a fire and destroyes the Empire of the Persians the greatest then in the world with a small Army of thirty thousand men at the first and a stocke of thirty Talents Yet with so small meanes neuer would goe out of the Hauen but he would requite olde seruants and get newe giuing all away saue hope which he only kept for himselfe And when he had endeludged the world with a generall inundation of bloud yet is not contented if Iupiter from heauen do not assure him the death of his father is fully reuenged and his Manes fully appeased And you Sir who haue more Captaines then he Souldiers more Millions then he Talents more stedfastnes in your estate more obedience in your subiects more loue in your Nobility more wisedome in your Counsell then euer Alexander had with so many aduantages wil you not resolue your selfe to the execution of that vengeance wil you not steele your selfe in that resolution and will you rather be faint-harted at this first tryal will you winck at your Fathers murther and tarry till another knife forged perhaps vpon the same Anuile send you the same way tell his dolefull Shadow that for contemning the reuenge of his death you your selfe lost your owne life Oh! let me rather loose mine eyes then see it rather my senses rather my vnderstanding rather all then feele it or at any time come to the knowledge thereof This puts me out of frame this kills me when in the fit of this burning Ague in the sharpnes of this paine those who but yesterday armed them selues for some Duch come tell me now we must not speake of warr for the Kings death for what els then Country-men for a foote of ground for Cleves or Iuliers which are none of ours I neuer spoke of Naples Millan and Navarre which are ours indeed there they stand stil there shal we euer find thē But where shall we recouer that great HENRY who hath ben taken so traiterously taken from vs Yet if we had lost him in war where the heat of the fight spares none Pacience Armes are doubtfull oft-times number surmounts valour But to haue him murthered in cold bloud in a full peace before the eyes of al the world that we durst not and that we should not reuenge it it would be the shamfullest and greatest dishonour that euer hapned vnto vs to cover darken kill bury for euer the whole French name and what-soever glorious we haue done