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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	duke_n	great_a	king_n	6,693	5	3.8621	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01143	Aduise giuen by a Catholike gentleman, to the nobilitie & commons of France, to ioyne together, and take armes speedily (by commandement of the King) against theeues and robbers, which are now abroade ruining the poore people setting downe an order and policie how they should take armes, to auoide all disorder and confusion amongst them. Whereunto is adioyned, a declaration published by the Duke de Mont-pencier for the reclaiming of the cleargie and nobilitie of Normandie, vnto his Maiesties obedience, &c. With certaine newes of the ouerthrow of the Gautiers, and diuerse other rebels against the French King, by the said Duke of Mont-pencier, on the sixt, and on the twentieth daie of Aprill. 1589. Translated out of the French into English, by I. Eliote.	Eliot, John.; Montpensier, François de Bourbon, duc de. Copie d'une lettre contenant le progres des choses advenues au voyage de duc de Montpensier. English.	1589 (1589)	STC 11256; ESTC S120926	33,284	60

his church do command and the preachers who doe dissuade the people frō the obedience that they owe to their king do as Ananias the false prophet did who for prophecying against the obedience that God commanded the people of Israel to shew to Nabuchodonoser died one yere after by the iust iudgemēt of God Ye wold say to heare these mē preach that their preisthod doth licēce to iniury those that are right honourable and that it exempteth them from punishment for any fault that they shal commit and besides that it setteth them free from all homage and fealtie that they owe to their soueraigne Princes whereas their dutie commandeth them the cleane contrarie But I would faine knowe of these good prelates of the Church who causeth them to intermedle so farre with matters of state sith that is no part of their vocation Had they rather abandon the Church altogether out of the which they are departed then to forsake the affaires of this world If they finde the King to be an euill liuer in their owne false iudgement why should they refourme him seeing it is no poynt of their dutie What matter haue they wherewith to charge his conscience seeing they cannot prooue that hee euer attempted any thing against the honour of God Can any amongst them say truely ' that his Maiestie hath punished or caused to bee punished any man for his honest behauiour or for his good deedes Is there anie Catholike to bee founde that can say and lie not that his Maiestie hath wished him to become an heretike or to doe any other villanie Those that giue almes to the poore that euerie day doe their deuotion at the Church that spend the one halfe of the yeare in fasting and praier to be short that seeke by al means to winne heauen can they iustly complaine that his Maiestie hath reprehended them at any time therefore or that hee hath forbidden them to perseuer in their lawdable exercises of Christianitie ●pon what doe they ground themselues then to say that the king is wicked and a naughtie liuer it is not vpon his cruelties that hee hath done for I doe not thinke that there euer was anie Prince in this state lesse giuen to seeke vengeance and that tooke lesse delight to shed and spill bloud than he I know diuerse vnto whom he doth good daily and yet hee knoweth certainely that they haue erst conspired against his authority and resisted his magistrates And when they shall alleage the death of the Cardinall and Duke of Guise I will but desire all them that haue anie reason to consider aduisedly how intollerable a thing it is for a great seignior and maister of the qualitie of our King to bee misused snapt vp controlled by his owne subiectes by his owne housholde seruantes and I assure my selfe that those that would laie all partiall affections aside to pause consider of this matter aright should see that the King coulde not beeing a man and subiect to humane passions wish any good vnto these two Princes that had sought so neere his life and honour To saie then that he should not haue sworne vnto them so solemnly to pardon them and yet to keepe hidden that mortall hatred in his heart I thinke well and woulde not excuse him if I thought they had not extreamlie prouoked him since the promise that it pleased his maiestie to make them and since the assurance that he had giuen them but forasmuch as I know the aduertismentes that the King had hourely of their sinister meaning I cannot blame him that hee hath sought by punishing them to saue his owne life his lineage and his estate In deede say the rebels the King did wel to preuent them if hee were sure that they were but his owne seruants but hee shoulde not haue proceeded against them so as he did but should haue let them bin tried by waie of iustice and so to haue proceeded against them as though it had bin in the Kings power to make two men prisoners to proceede against thē by the way of publike iustice that a little before had chased him out of his principal citie being accompanied with an infinit number of theeues came boldly before his Maiestie and all his magistrates and no man durst once lay holde on their collers Further as though it were not lawfull by the lawes of God to punish in the field without anie long ceremonie of inditement to put to death those that are conuinced of treason towards their chiefe gouernors as these were of whom the inditement was ready drawen whē their crime was proued they sound guiltie the proofe was is so sufficient that al French men except those that be blind and of their conspiracie may cleerly perceiue their naughtie driftes To bee short sith they had deserued death it cannot greatly skill how they haue suffered it and there is no sufficient matter in that for vs to rise vp in armes against our King but I feare me it will fall out to the Duke of Maine to those that prouoke prick him forward to reuenge the death of his brethren if he can as it did vnto Absalon to Achitophel his wicked counseller who for cōspiring against their King seeking to bereaue him of his authoritie had both most lamentable and tragicall ends I beseech you let vs now speake of another matter ye are preached vnto daily and pricked forwards to arme your selues against your King yea to resolue to set vppon him and to encounter against him I aske you but this one question if any one amongst you were so miserable as to haue takē his life frō him were it either in battel or otherwise what recompence do ye thinke he should haue at the hāds of the Duke of Maine other his confederates the professed enemies of his maiesty can you but thinke that hee woulde like well of such a peece of seruice No no maisters perswade not your selues so thinke that the reward he should haue for his labour should be a seuere and rigorous punishment Know then that the first thing that an vsurper pretendeth after that he hath established himselfe is to ridde himselfe of such who infringing their loialtie and faith to their natural Prince haue aided to kill and murther him And these are the reasōs that moue him or ought at the least to moue him to do this if he haue neuer so litle iudgement at all First to shew that he hath such trechery in horror to purchase by this meanes among the best reputation fame to be of a generous lofty mind secondly to put the rest of his subiects in feare and to make them take heed by this example not to attempt the like against his own person thirdly because he cannot liue in securitie of such persons but alwaies standeth in great doubt of thē fearing least they withdraw themselues from his seruice with as much facilitie as they had