Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	king_n	prince_n	son_n	10,029	5	5.2752	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85466	The gossips feast or, Morrall tales taking a view of things past, discoursing of things present, and conjecturing of things to come. By a well known moderne author.	A Well Known Moderne Author.	1647 (1647)	Wing G1316; Thomason E404_11; ESTC R201849	7,647	16

those that did thee sell The Fates are just And Jove I trust Will state thee as thou wert before Then will we sing Long live the King And send him blisse for evermore The Gossips were well pleased with the contents of this antient Ballad and Gammer Gowty Legs replyed by my faith Martin Parker never got a faster Brat no not when he pend that sweet Ballad When the King injoyes his own again Quoth Gammer Grumble nay mother Bumbey le ts now have your tale too each of us will do the like every one of us shall sing a song and tell a tale and so we will drive away the tedious night but first stirre up the fire and let us have the other pitcher of Ale Mother Bumbey replyed my good neighbour in my mind your councell is good and seasonable I will rehearse unto you an ancient tale which I have often heard Mother Hookenose my Mothers mate repeat There is an Island in the world which is wholly surrounded with the Sea at first inhabited with Gyants afterwards certain Outlawes exploring about the world for shelter landing there and finding the Soile fat and the Climate temperate resolved to make their abode there and in divers conflicts discomfited the Gyants and their Prince began to sway with regall power after they mightily increased and became very numerous and were subject under many famous Kings their neighbors the Picts or Scots and unfaithfull or perjured generation on all occasions took opportunity to invade them often made incursions and inrodes but it so hapned after the death of a Maiden Queen the daughter of one of their magnificent Kings they with one consent chose a King of the Picts or Scots to be their King partly for that it was his by succession partly in hope to prevent future wars and with an intent to unite the two Kingdoms but after his death his son a vertuous and mild Prince began to reigne at what time it happened that the Almighty wroth with the people of that Land for their crying sins called a fury to him named Contention and gave her Commission to use all meanes and practise all wayes to dissolve and break the peace of that people to make them as throughly wretched and miserable as they were before glorious and potent the Fury according to her command at her arrivall so wrought and tempered the mindes of some of the chiefe of that Ille that they began to grudge at their own welfare and therefore now they would be no longer contentd to continue in the state they were but would first after their government Secondly limit Kingly power Thirdly have no Uniformity in Gods Worship the Prince of this People perceiving what Contention had done that his people dayly made head against him giving out dangerous speeches and threats hee being then in his Palace scituated in the chiefe City of his Land called Cleapolas with some few of his loyall Subjects who could not bee drawne to take part against him fled away to the further part of his Kingdome there to arme his faithfull Subjects against those who had put on Armour against him erected his Royall Standard to which resorted many thousands of his people many noble Peers valiant Knights and gallant spirited Gentlemen so that he had gathered a strong and resolved Army with which hee often encountted his Enemies slaying thousands of them and oncr brought them so low that they would have made peace with him on reasonable conditions but after through the negligence of his Commanders who gave their mindes more to inrich themselvs with plunder then to do him service to serve in the wars of Venus then those of Mars hee was on a sudden vanquished and then being plunged in a Sea of misery hee hazarded his Royall Person and then with two or three of his most trusty friends took his flight to the Picts of whom hee was first royally entertained and his friends had faire hopes that that Nation would then by preserving his person have wiped away the stain wherewith they have from the beginning been branded of being disloyall and treacherous but their entertainment was only such as an Inne-keeper affordeth his Guest to make the best of him O disloyall traytors til they had made their bargaine to the utmost they stood on termes capittulating about his honour and safety but when they were assured of their vast sums they sold him into their hands who persecuted him the consideration of so vile an act made many hearts ready to breake and moved an odd fellow to write this Poem which he called The Scottish Treachery HA can the Scots be so perfidious found What doubt I it their best of deeds were crownd Even ab origine with horrid Treason And can they now be loyall out of season Nature fore-saw the basenesse of their stem And scornes that they should touch her garments hem And that they may as is their merits eate She feeds them like to Swine with Oates not wheat Were Iudas now alive he sooner might Lay hold on mercy be a Convertite Then find a tree bought with his ill bought pelfe Where he might mock his woe and hang himselfe Brethren hereafter wee 'l your march fore-stall And stop your passage with an Adrian wall You have done well wondrous well I vow Your utmost praises I le to you allow You forc't Newcastle which affords this sense Desperate Traytors fight with confidence Two hundred thousand pound why such a summe would make men march without or Fife or Drum Even in the face of death it was the Gold Made you defend the Cause your zeale was cold As is your Horizon what was there none That you might practise your black Ills upon But even your Soveraign O unhospitable Your Lands a Den like Diomedes stable Or like Avernus Lake leading to Hell It ruines all approach it what to sell Your King for money O perfidious Act Demosthenes could not excuse the Fact Could I work your conversion by my rime Yea great in ills could that excuse your crime All true hearts will the ancient phrase renew I hate him as a Scotchman or a Jew Neptune that he Almighty Iove may please Will swallow up your ships that scoure his Seas Or if they arrive on any forraign Coast Your hungry expectation will be lost The Seithians will refuse to have to doe With any men so treacherous as you And for the time to come ye lowsie Elves You shall but be a burthen to your selves And when your bodies as your names shall rot Amongst the damned you shall have your lot These Verses qd she I learnt by heart after I had once heard them repeated I dare say Gossip Grumble I have repeated them word for word according to the Authors intention who had a name amongst those they call Poets a merry man he was and could write the finest Songs of Mercury Mercifull Jove Jobs Son and of June Jone his wife come Gammer Grumble le ts have your