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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	daughter_n	king_n	queen_n	4,187	5	7.0732	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68972	Here begynneth the lyfe of saynt Radegunde	Bradshaw, Henry, d. 1513.	1525 (1525)	STC 3507; ESTC S104675	21,988	60

and feestes principall The quene was reuest with clothes of golde With tissewes fyne and veluettes at all And whan the comon people yong and olde Praysed suche garmentes with fame manyfolde She vtterly abhorred suche riall riche clothyng Sende them to churhces for preestes in to syng By fortune if Lothary her lorde were absent Who wolde than byleue her singuler deuocion Her prayer abstinence and hert penetent Her great contricion and humble supplicacion Euer remembryng our lordes passion Submittyng her selfe as vnto his fete Wasshesyng his woundes with teares salt and wete She refused glotony by vertuous temparaunce Our sauyour Iesu was her hole refeccion Upon bodely feding gaue litell attendaunce Dayly prouidyng her soules sustentacion Great vigilles penaunce and holy orison Refresshed her soule and the body also No penaunce was tedious for her to do If any transgressour were Iuged to dye Or any man suffred wrong accusacion She was so mercyable and full of pitie For them to the kyng she made intercession Knelyng full mekely desyring peticyon And to his counsell with prayer continuall Tyll she had pardon and grace for them all All the kynges court example myght take To vse humilite and great gentylnesse At lady Radegunde and synne to forsake For why she was called of more and of lesse Rather a minister than to be a maistresse Deligent to serue euery tyme and season Pore as well as ryche with great deuocion Nother man ne childe dwellyng in the palace Was discontent at this swete lady She had suche wysdone and singuler grace Transcendyng other ladyes of memory Dukes erles and barons and all theyr progeny Example may take at this quene ryall To encrease in mekenesse and vertuous morall By her great prudence and exortacion The kyng was moued to grace and pitie Merciable to the pore in all his region Hauyng compassion lyberall and fre To execute Iustice prompte with mercie A good benefactour to places religyous By the instant mocion of his quene vertuous ¶ Howe quene Radegunde shewed a great myracle deliueryng prisoners out of captiuite THis noble quene euery solempne day Of custome wolde ryse erly as the lyght And go to her chapell secretly to pray Seruyng our sauyour with all her hert and myght Ensuyng mary Magdalayne in mynde full ryght To mattens and to masse after she wolde gone And all day folowyng vse meditacion Thus by contynuaunce in grace and goodnesse In prayer abstinence vigils and chastite This lady Radegunde quene and princesse Replete with mekenesse vertue and charyte Shewed dyuerse myracles within the countre The fyrst myracle was done in the palace As saythe the history by deuyne grace As Radegunde passed the palace by a prison where many prisoners were fettred in durances For her pastyme solace and consolacion With lordes knyghtes and other seruauntes Whan the prisoners perceyued beynge in penaunce That it was the quene theyr souerayne lady With loude voyce they began on her to call and cry O noble princesse O kynges doughter dere O lady of grace and quene imperiall Succoure vs thy seruantes whiche lye bounde here Extende thy charite vpon vs wretches all Delyuer vs from deth saue from paynes thrall Be mercyfull to vs hartfully we the pray And we wyll amende our lyues after this day This lady heryng suche great lamentacion Inwardly was moued to mercy and pitie Required to knowe with tender compassyon What people cryed on her so piteously The seruantes answered agayne verite Sayeng that they were beggers at the gate Comon to haue almes of so great estate Also the Iayler agayne all conscience Rebuked his prisoners vnpiteously Causyd them be styll and kepe scilence Manasing them to beate punisshe and mortyfy Conciled the truethe from his souerayne lady Thus the sayd prisoners put to more payne Had payne vpon payne without mercy certayne But the next nyght folowyng by myracle ryght The fetters the bondes of the prisoners all Sodenly were broken and losed in theyr syght And they were delyuered from paynes thrall They passyng from prison the gates downe dyd fall They came the sayd nyght to Radegunde theyr lady Thankyng her echone for her grace and mercy They knelyd on kne for gladnesse wepyng Sayeng O souerayne lady and maistresse Honour be to the grace and long lyueng Whiche hath delyuered vs from distresse Personally this nyght or els one in thy lykenesse Nowe blessed Iesu redemptour of vs all Rewarde you this dede in the blysse eternall ¶ Howe quene Radegund desyred to be religyous of a myracle shewed at her departyng by the way goyng WHiche myracle knowen this blessed lady Made instant desyre and hūble supplicacion To her husband and lorde kyng Lothary That she myght haue lycense to go to religyon Whose meke request and singuler peticion At last was graunted with dis ficulte Of the sayd kyng to be at her lyberte She loued our lorde in hert worde and dede Of this fre graunt and good expedicyon She send to saynt Inedard bysshop in good spede Desyring hym for charite and of his deuocyon For to receyue her in to holy religion The palce was apoynted the tyme secretly Of her comyng to Pictauis religious to be In the meane whyle Radegund gaue to the poore Moche ryall rychesse and vestures liberally Reseruyng to her person and her vse no more Than she dayly vsed for honour necessary So alone proseded vnto the monastery From the kynges court priuely in the nyght Unknowen to eche creature saue to y e kyng of myght Upon the other day where the kyng perceyued The sodayne departure of his lady sufferayne He bitterly wayled that he was dysceued Sende dyuerse messangers with a sure capitayne Fyrst to enquire and bringe her agayne Supposyng to haue her in short tyme and space After she aproched to the religious place But the holy goost confortour of all care Defendyd Radegunde at this extremite For as she passyd the fayre feldes all bare She sayd to an husbande besy in husbandry People wyll folowe after for to persue me From whiche company I declyne certayne Prayeng the consyle my presens and it layne It behoueth the nat from the trueth to varray Say that thou seme come this same way The season day and tyme rennyng full hastely Thou dyd sowe this corne affirmyng it varray And thus excuse me hertfully I the pray She passyd this plowman in to a secrete place For drede druly daryng trustyng our lordes grace Incontinently the corne newly cast in grounde Began for to blade and bere in euery place To eare and to rype her enemyes to confounde All redy to be shorne within an houre space The otes began to shede the husbande besy was And made great prouisiō with sicle sythe that morne To cut downe the otes in sauyng of the corne After the sayd virgyn messangers made great haste Shortly to to supple theyr lordes commaundement They founde the husbande repyng corne full fast Whome they required to shewe on payne of prisōmēt If any fayre lady or mayde by hym