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death_n	daughter_n	earl_n	marry_v	4,628	5	9.3121	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40792	The history of the most unfortunate prince King Edward II with choice political observations on him and his unhappy favourites, Gaveston & Spencer, containing several rare passages of those times, not found in other historians / found among the papers of, and (supposed to be) writ by Henry Viscount Faulkland ...	Falkland, Henry Cary, Viscount, d. 1633.; Fannant, Edward.	1680 (1680)	Wing F314; ESTC R8909	44,640	88

position may for a time flatter the Professor but it perpetually ends with Infamy which stands with Reason and Justice for as vertue is the Road-way to perfection so is the corruption of a false heart the true path to a certain and an unpittied ruin The enraged Barons are not more sensible of their own disparagement than the inconstancy and injustice of their Soveraign They think this affront done to them and the whole Kingdom of too high a nature to be dispens'd with yet with a temperate resolution they a while attend the issue The Actions of injustice seldom lessen they believe progression to be in all things an excellent Moral vertue He that hath a will to do ill and doth it seldom looks back until he be at the top of the Stairs This makes the ill affected return of this our Favourite more infamous and hated With an imperious storm he lets the Lords know he meditates nothing but revenge and waits a fit advantage to entertain it They believe time ill lost in so weighty a cause and therefore draw themselves and their Forces together before the King could prevent or his abuser shun it The Clouds presaging so great a storm he studies the best means he could to avoid it The general distast of the Kingdom takes from him the hope of an able party Scarborough Castle his last refuge he makes his Sanctuary but it was too weak against the number of his Enemies and the justice of their quarrel He falls at length into the power of those from whom he had no cause to expect protection or mercy The Butterflies of the time that were the Friends of his Fortunes not him seeing the Season chang'd betake themselves to the warmer Climate His Greatness had won him many Servants but they were but Retainers that like Rats forsook the House when they beheld it falling The Spring was laden with many glorious and goodly Blossoms but the Winter of his Age leaves him naked without a Leaf to trust to In this uncomfortable case remains this glorious Cedar in the hands of those whom in his greater height he had too much condemn'd and abused They resolve to make short and sure work unwilling to receive a command to the contrary which they must not obey though it should come from him to whom they had sworn Obedience Forsaken unpittied scorn'd and hated he falls under the the hands of Justice Gaverseed is the place which gives the Epilogue to this fatal Tragedy whence his Adversaries return more satisfied than assured Thus fell that glorious Minion of Edward the Second who for a time appeared liked a blazing Comet and sway'd the jurisdiction of the state of England and her Confederates He did not remember in the smiles and embraces of his lovely Mistris that she was blind nor made himself such a refuge as might secure him when she prov'd unconstant Such a Providence had made his end as glorious as his beginning fortunate leaving neither to the just censure of Time or Envy The King's vexations in the Knowledge are as infinite as hopeless his Passions transport him beyond the height of Sorrow He vows a bitter revenge which in his weakness he strives to execute with more speed than advisement The graver Senators that had most Interest in his favour mildly discourse his loss to the best advantage They lay before him his contempt and abusive carriage his insolence Honour beyond his Birth and Wealth above his Merit which must to all Ages give a just cause to approve their Actions and his Fortune The least touch of his memory adds more to the King's affliction who is fixt not to forget o● forgive so hold and heinous a Trespass The operations in the King were yet so powerful but the jealousies of the Actors are as cautelous so fair a warning-piece bids them in time make good their own security Lincoln the principal Pillar of this Faction follows his Adversary to the Grave but with a much fairer Fortune This Man was a goodly piece of true Nobility being in Speech and conversation sweet and affable in resolution grave and weighty his aged temper active above belief and his wisdom far more excellent in a solid inward knowledge than in outward appearance When the harbinger of Death pluck'd him by the Sleeve and he saw and knew he must leave the World he calls unto him Thomas Earl of Lancaster that had married his Daughter giving him a strict Imposition on his Death-bed that he should carefully maintain the welfare of the Kingdom and make good his place among the Barons This reverend old Statesman saw the King's ways and knew him to be a most implacable Enemy and with a kind of speculative prediction would often seem to lament the Misery of the time where either the King Kingdom or both must suffer The Son whose noble Heart was before seasoned with the same impressions assures it which he in time as really performs though it cost him the loss of his Estate Life and Honour Things are too far past to admit a reconciliation the King's Meditations are solely fix'd upon revenge and the Lords how they may prevent or withstand it The Kingdom hangs in a doubtful suspence and all Mens minds are variously carried with the expectation of what would be the issue Meditation and intercession brings it at length to Parliamentary discussion which being assembled at London enacts many excellent Laws and binds both the King and Lords by a solemn Oath to observe them Thus the violence of this Fire is a while suppressed and raked up in the Embers that it may in opportunity and advantage beget a great danger A new occasion presents it self that makes each part temporize for a while and smothers the thoughts of the ensuing Rumour Robert le Bruce re-enters Scotland whence he had been by Edward the First expuls'd inverting all the English Institutions that had so lately setled the Peace and subjection of the Kingdom Edward tender of his Honour and careful to preserve that purchase that had proved so dear a bargain adjourns his private spleen and provides to suppress this unlook'd for Rebellion He knew the justice of his quarrel and wakens from the Dream that had given him so large a cause of sorrow He gives his intentions a small intermission and a less respite with all speed he levies an Army and leads it with his own Person Whether it were the justice of Heaven or his own misfortune or improvidence the Scots attend and encounter him making Eastrivelyn the fatal witness of his disaster His Army lost and defeated he returns home laden with his own shame and sorrow His return is welcomed with a strange Impostor that pretends himself the Heir of Edward the First and the King the Son of a Baker A Tale so weak in truth and probability wins neither belief or credit Voidras this imaginary King is apprehended and makes Northampton Gallows the first Stair of his Preferment His Execution is