Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	end_n	great_a	life_n	6,716	5	4.3418	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85915	A letter sent from a gentleman in The Hague, to a noble and loyal earl in Scotland.	R. G.	1649 (1649)	Wing G55; Thomason E532_36; ESTC R204628	9,453	12

wondrous sorry to see the old but pregnant Mother of truth delivered of more Monsters and prodigies I feare all will miscary if there appear no likelihood of quick sudden action our big expectation and seeming hopes will conclude in a tympany I feare ill designes and worse intendments when tedious advise and lingring counsell serve for no other end then to retard execution when long deliberations prevent necessary performances and give his Majesties enemies who are not wanting in Scotland opportunity to strengthen and corroborate themselves and oppose him with greater advantages principiis obsta is sound advise when we sensibly find sero medicina paratur The continuation of there practises wants nothing but continuance of time to cement those deadly conspirators of both Kingdoms to strongly that I know not how many ages will suffice to dissolve them They will be so firmly linckt together the King will find it a difficult work and an uncouth labour to unrivit and break them in peeces the Kings flownes when danger and necessity urge will adde to them and take from himself How providently do they begin to secure themselves by either securing the Royall party or forcing those whose loyalty they suspect and of whose disloyalty they have not a perfect assurance to give caution good security nor to disturbe the peace of there Sion We may vainly flatter and fondly deceive our selves with hopes from those Men who have taken off the heads of so many gallant persons for no other cause then that of the Kings and there faithfulnes to his commands and service And which is the most inhumane and savage thing sold there King into the Land of Bondage to be cruelly opprest and basely suffered him to be butchered where a profest Hangman in that then themselves more noble disdaind the base employment And both are rendred to posterity memorable only the Hangman takes place as justly deserving the preheminence and I am confident there would arise a contention about his were some of them to be exalred My Lord I wish it were as safe as necessary for the King to appeare there in his Royall Person and indisputable right Or that there were not a necessity for one of the Royall line Certainly the presence and Majesty of a King hath at least such influence on rebels that if it terrify them not it abates much of their pride and malice many will readily rise in armes to assist him that will not stir a foot to follow though the best of their fellow Subjects Carry what vertue soever a Commission can it is their vice among many others they foolishly distinguish his Person and his power and fondly beleeve to justifie there resistance that they rebell not against the King when they fight against his authority And albeit they cannot deny in the word of a King against whom there is no rising there is Power many of them will oppose that power derived from him that will not dare to affront his person So unwisely doe they argue and dispute his personall and politick capacity a costly distinction But how shall the King be entertained in Scotland by those that so earnestly invited and gave so full and hearty a welcome to his most cruell enemy would they not entreate the second time there coming to keep him company False people in common civilities out done by a Hangman who in that one act the not doing it exprest lesse of the slave and more of loyalty to the King then ever they had done in there counterfet pretences And ignoble shadows of faith and Allegiance This is the reason why many declare there dislike to that Nation and anaversion to the Kings going into Scotland providing meerly for his safety and their owne they are extreamly unwilling he should adventure his Person and imbarke with those that had shipwrackt your Royall Soveraigne he is an unskilfull Mariner or too bold and hardy that hazards the splitting of his vessell against a discover'd Rock or running on ground on shelves and knowne quicksands where he is swallowed up unpittied Really it is a high adventure and his Majesty enterpriseth a dangerous and desperate voyage when he goes to harbour in Scotland But when we discourse of crowns and Scepters and regaining of revolted Kingdomes and when he hath nothing left him but his life which Heaven preserve to make himself and his Subjects happy who will not hazard that which will otherwise be spent under the degree of a Prince heire apparent and undoubted Successor to three potent Kingdomes In the persuit of private affaires let who will stop or desist at pleasure as they find it most conducing to their advantages and the attaining of their proposed ends in the progres to the recovery of an Empire there is no meane between the death of an enemy and the life of a Prince It was the Devils doctrine all that a man hath he will give for his life The gallant man returns him the lye who to save that life will not loose his honour For the King of Great Brittaine France and Ireland to reside in Holland ubi precario regnatur aliena vivitur Quadra is to goe lesse then himself when his high attempts and mighty Actions should proclaime to the whole world from what Royall and most renowned Ancestors he is lineally descended My Noble Lord how should we joy to view him on the head of a Puissant Army confronting the Eenmy in that bold posture Lucan draws Caesar when he courts his metal'd Souldiers Steel'd with courage and resolution Ita per ignavas gentes per inhospita Regna Atque uno ferri motu prosternite Mundum I have as great regards to his Royall Person as who bears the most but I know Non jacet in molli lecto veneranda Corona The Gods sell all things to us Mortals here below at the price of labour and sweat and sure they set Crowns at a higher Rate I would see him make the tributary earth his couch and the auspicious Heavens spreading there embrodered and spangled Cannopy over his sacred Head And when the busy Traitor and too troublesome Enemy will spare him so much leave and leisure as to refresh himself make the grasse his Carpet and the ground his table that was lately both his pillow and bed I would see him cut out a way to his Crown through the bowells of his proud and rebellious Foes Heap up Piles of slaughtered Bodys and make there bleeding necks the steps by which he should ascend into his Royall Throne I would see him run the hazard of a War and trust the propitious heavens with the successe I know what share Fortune challengeth to her self in every Battaile and I would allow that Blind Chance better Christians call it Providence no more then what cannot be denyd Not to trust were to disparage providence not to beleeve it were a peece of Atheisme It were absolute madnes to imagine and beleeve that the justly provoked deity against which the