Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	daughter_n	king_n	wife_n	4,569	5	6.4342	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30612	Aristippus, or, Monsr. de Balsac's masterpiece being a discourse concerning the court : with an exact table of the principall matter / Englished by R.W.; Aristippe. English	Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez, seigneur de, 1597-1654.; R. W.	1659 (1659)	Wing B612; ESTC R7761	82,994	192

called to the Government in such troublesome times ought to uphold himself on these principles he ought to pass from the Philosophy of words to that of actions an unforeseen accident will never overthrow his Rules nor his Maxims because there can be no accident which he foresees not and smels not a far off He will neither apprehend the danger of his person nor the ruine of his fortune he will apprehend nothing but blame and an ill reputation And although Prudence be a Vertue principally employed for the preservation of him who possesseth it yet neither will Prudence hinder him from prizing several other goods more then his own life But when things grow better and times become less evil he for that will not sleep out a calm nor unbend himself from his former vigor Our wiseman will go before all disorders not onely with quick and penetrating eyes but also with a firm and an undaunted heart If he sees some signe of change appear and the least presage of a civil War he will endeavor to stiffle the Monster before its birth It would be vain to represent unto him those inconveniencies which threaten him in particular if he will oppose himself to a springing faction he will pass by all those considerations which stop the greatest part of our other wisemen and he will onely mind the performance of his duty without caring for the greatness of the danger he is engaged in Were there a Son or the Brother of a King who were perswaded to embr●il themselves he would never sharpen that Son or that Brother far less would he flatter them He will give counsel to the Father and the elder Brother which should neither be timerous nor cruel And if any man seek to estrange from him the affection of these young Princes he will rather serve them without their good will then please them by disserving them He will not so much respect what they would then seem to will as what hereafter they would indeed nor so much the interest of others wherein others engage them as he will their true and natural interests which can never be separate from those of the King and Crown After this manner he will undertake the publick Cause with a couragious Pro●i●y and will not make the least appearance 〈…〉 indiscreet zeal appear his force will be without rudeness or sharpness his fidelity to his Master without hatred to his Masters Brother or Son he will manifest a respectful bol●ness and full of modesty in those occasion wherein others would ruine all by violence or negligence Howsoever as it was said at first he must be resolved come what will to the worst can happen to save the State he must be prodigal of himself he is the Kings own man He must not onely engage himself in a dangerous action the event whereof is doubtful but devote himself to an assured death if his Masters service exact it from him It 's this quality which is so necessary for a Minister To love the Princes person as much as the State the one and the other passion ought equally to possess his Soul one without the other being deficient we went yet further and after having answered what was alledged in de Aubignys History concerning the Dukes of Joyeuse and Espernon I thus return to our subject IT hath been formerly spoken of two Macedonians That the one loved Alexander and that the other loved the King it 's not well done to part what ought to remain entire why should we separate the King from Alexander and divide that poor Prince in pieces it were a violent division and a violence even to Nature it 's to cut one body into two the Kings interests are inseparably united with those of the State and I must confess that I cannot approve the meaness of Cardinal Birage who usually said I am not Chancelor of France I am the Kings Chancelor he might as well ●ave added And the Queen his Mother whose Creature he was not to take things at worse methinks he is not to be commended for so ill an expression Good Princes themselves protest They belong to others and owe themselves and all to the Commonwealth Magistrates and other Officers with far more reason ow themselves unto it They will never therefore at the same time give and take away the same thing their souls are too noble to be capable of so base an avarice will they repent themselves of their liberality will they secretly take back a present which they solemnly made before all the world for so I call the administration of Justice of good Judges and of good Laws Unless than Melanois reckoned France as nothing he could no way better then thereby have made it appear that he was a stranger to it and that to him it was altogether indifferent But let it not be displeasing to the Cardinal of Birague the Minister ought to love the King and State both at once together And if besides that he love some other thing his second affections must always ranck themselves under the subjection and orders of the first If he marry he ought not to contract himself with any who is suspected by the State or gives any cause of jealousie to his Prince but for this its too too much he ought to renounce his own Country he ought to break all the bonds of Nature he ought to sacrifice all for the good of the State if the good of the State require it He ought to make it appear that in a Monarchy there may be a young Brutus who prefers his duty before his Children and can even lose them when its necessary ●or the Kings service He shall witness himself another Marquis of Pisani who one day said of his only Daugher of she who since and to this day is the wonder of her Age If I knew that after my death she should be the wife of a man who were not the Kings Servant I would strangle her now persently with mine own hands But if the Minister be unmarried and if he keeps himself chaste it will be so much the greater advantage to his Masters affairs and they will be less subject to inconveniencies it wil be no smal matter That to him who ought perpetually to labor either with courage or with his mind defended pleasures are unknown which have turned so many wise men into beasts and led so many Victors in triumph but the ground of it indeed were that even he would be without legitimate passions which at least amuse and divert if they do not debauch and corrupt Domestick cares which usurp so much time from business will not rob an hour from such a Minister he will never think of the establishment of his Family he will not have one thought but for the Eternity of the State his affection which would have been divided betwixt his Wise his Sons and Sons in Law which would have run into other successions and other dependancies of Mariage so that the