Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	desire_a	desire_v	great_a	33	3	2.1023	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92757	Scrinia sacra; secrets of empire, in letters of illustrious persons. A supplement of the Cabala. In which business of the same quality and grandeur is contained: with many famous passages of the late reigns of K. Henry 8. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charls.; Cábala. Part 2.	Bedell, Gabriel, d. 1668.; Collins, Thomas, fl. 1650-1682.	1654 (1654)	Wing S2110; Thomason E228_2; ESTC R8769	210,018	264

never to be thought men will willingly without shame lye And therefore the sense if any may be gathered true or like to be true is to be taken and not that which is a lye And when we write to the Pope Sanctissimo we mean not holier then S. Peter though it sound so and he that in our Letters should object that should be thought ridiculous He that should say he rode beyond the sea were not conveniently interrupted in his tale by him that would object sailing upon the sea where he could not ride at all And rather then men would note a lye when they know what is meant they will sooner by allegory or methaphor draw the word to the truth then by cavillation of the word note a lye Hath not the Pope been called Caput Ecclesiae and who hath put any addition unto it Have not men said that the Pope may dispence cum Jure divino and yet in a part Juris divini viz. moralis naturalis the same men would say he might not dispence wherefore if in all other matters it was never thought inconvenient to speak absolutely the truth without distinction why should there be more scruple in our case The truth cannot be changed by words that we be as Gods law suffereth us to be whereunto we do and must conform our selves And if ye understand as ye ought to understand Temporalibus for the passing over this life in quietness ye at last descend to agree to that which in the former part of your Letters you intend to impugne and sticking to that it were most improperly spoken to say We be illus Ecclesiae Caput in temporalibus which hath not temporalia Queen Anne of Bullen to King Henry from the Tower May 6. 1536. SIR YOur Graces displeasure and my imprisonment are things so strange unto me as what to write or what to excuse I am altogether ignorant Whereas you send unto me willing me to confess a truth and so to obtain your favour by such a one whom you know to be my ancient professed enemy I no sooner received this message then I rightly conceived your menning And if as you say confessing a truth indeed may procure my safety I shall with all willingness and duty perform your command but let not your Grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to acknowledg a fault where not so much as a thought ever proceeded And to speak a truth never Prince had wife more loyal in all duty and in all true affection then you have ever found in Anne Bullen with which name and place I could willingly have contented my self if God and your Graces pleasure had so been pleased Neither did I at any time forget my self in my exaltation or received Queenship but that I always look'd for such an alteration as now I find the ground of my preferment being on no surer foundation then your Graces fancie the least alteration whereof I knew was fit and sufficient to draw that fancie to some other subject You have chosen me from a low estate to be your Queen and Companion far beyond my desert or desire If then you find me worthy of such honour Good your Grace let not any light fancie or bad councel of my Enemies withdraw your Princely favour from me neither let that stain that unworthy stain of a disloyal heart towards your good Grace ever cast so foul a blot on your most dutiful wife and the Infant-Princess your daughter Try me good King but let me have a lawful trial and let not my sworn enemies sit as my accusers and Judges yea let me receive an open Trial for my truths shall fear no open shames then shall you see either my innocencie cleered your suspition and conscience satisfied the ignominy and slander of the world stopped or my guilt openly declared So that whatsoever God or you may determine of me your Grace may be freed from an open censure and my offence being so lawfully proved your Grace is at liberty both before God and man not only to execute worthy punishment on me as an unfaithfull wife but to follow your affection already setled on that party for whose sake I am now as I am whose name I could some while since have pointed to your Grace being not ignorant of my suspition therein But if you have already determined of me and that not only my death but an infamous slander must bring you the enjoying of a desired happiness then I desire of God that he will pardon your great sin herein and likewise my enemies the instruments thereof and that he will not call you to a strict accompt for your unprincely and cruel usage of me at his general Judgment-seat where both you and my self must both shortly appear and in whose just judgment I doubt not whatsoever the world may think of me my innocencie shall be openly known and sufficiently cleered My last and onely request shall be That my self may bear the burthen of your Graces displeasure and that it may not touch the innocent souls of those poor Gentlemen who as I understand are in strait imprisonment for my sake If ever I have found favour in your sight if ever the name of Anne Bullen have been pleasing in your ears let me obtain this last request and I will so leave to trouble your Grace any further with my earnest prayers to the Trinity to have your Grace in his good keeping and to direct you in all your actions From my dolefull prison in the Tower this sixth of May. Your most loyal and faithful wife ANNE BULLEN Queen Elizabeths Letter to the Lady Norris upon the death of her Son ALthough we have deferred long to represent unto you our grieved thoughts because we liked full well to yield you the first reflections of our misfortunes whom we have always sought to cherish and comfort yet knowing now that necessity must bring it to your ears and nature consequently must move many passionate affections in your heart we have resolved no longer to smother either our care for your sorrow or the sympathy of our grief for his death wherein if society in sorrowing work diminution we do assure you by this true messenger of our mind that Nature can have stirred no more dolorous affections in you as a mother for a dear son then the gratefulness and memory of his services past hath wrought in Us his Soveraign apprehension of the miss of so worthy a servant But now that natures common work is done and he that was born to die hath paid his tribute let that Christian discretion stay the flux of your immoderate grieving which hath instructed you both by example and knowledge that nothing of this kind hath happened but by Gods providence and that these lines from your loving and gracious Soveraign serve to assure you that there shal ever appear the lively characters of you and yours that are left in our valuing rightly all their faithfull