Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	best_a	zeal_n	zealous_a	21	3	8.8452	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70163	A sommary description manifesting that greater profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could [sic] parts off the coast off America and how much the public good is concerned therein referring to the annexed advertissement for men inclined to plantations.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1660 (1660)	Wing G571; ESTC R7876	17,347	26

A Sommary DESCRIPTION Manifesting that greater Profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could parts off the Coast off AMERICA And how much the public good is concerned therein Referring to the annexed ADVERTISSEMENT For men inclined to PLANTATIONS Printed for Sir Balthazar Gerbier Kyt Douvilly Anno 1660. To the KING of Greate Britanne May it please your Sacred Mayesty AS all the World takes a respect full notice of your Sacred Majesties most gracious care for the advancement of his Loyall subjects good and itt would bee a horride president that in the number of those whose zeale is awakonned by so greate and matchlesse example one should bee found neglect full in his duty nott immitating those whoe sayle nott to sett theire little pockett watches by the grand Dyall of the Sunne parfaict in its coursse and splendor I have most devoutly persuaded my selfe that the following Summary Description and Advertissement ought to bee made publicke to the end all men desirous to improve themselves by Plantations might bee well informed on what certainty thy could engage And as your Sacred Majesties subjects have a greate experience in Plantations yett most of them to have bestowed much tyme labour and cost on Plantations in the Charibdien Eylands butt have nott beene soo well informed of better progresses to bee made under the best clyme of the firme Land on the Coast of America and may drawe benefitt of relations grounded on certanty I have therefore thought it my duty to putt forth the said Sommary Description as a marke of the Loyal Zeale and dependency of Your Sacred Majesties Most humble most obedient most Loyal Zealous naturallized subject and Servant B. GERBIER Douvily A Sommary DESCRIPTION Manifesting that greater Profits are to bee done in the hott then in the could parts off the Coast off AMERICA And how much the public good is concerned therein Referring to the annexed ADVERTISSEMENT For men inclined to Plantations AN Advertissement for men inclined to Plantations manifesting that greater profits are to bee donne in the hott then in the could parts off the Coast off America and which was printed att Rotterdam as appeares by the annexed hath promissed this Summary Description and the which was conceaved fitt to bee publisht with all due and zealous respects unto his Sacred Majesty as att so greate incomparable an example of his most extraordinary gratious care for the publicke good all men are obliged to bee awakened and to offer according unto theire tallent whatsoever may bee off use And should not all men doe soe then must every one bee an open enemy to himselfe as also onworthy that a Souverayne should as to say fatigate himselfe in seeking and pracktysing all advantages whereby benefits may bee procured unto them which hath so manifestly appeared as forrayne nations have not only admired his gracious bounty in the behalffe off his Loyall subjects butt moved some to offer likewyse certayne expedients Whereby his service and the good off his subjects may bee much advanced The said beeing not only a manifest truth concerning forrayne Nations in Europe but a most remarcable one in the Inhabitants off the coast off America who about the tyme of his Sacred Majestys returning into England when no Courriers nor weeckly Intelligencers could bring that happy neewes theire exprest theire ressentments which may well deserve to bee taken notice off as lickewyse that thy had the tyding even in the month of May Anno 1660. which the heavens must have brought unto them The said wilde in name but nor wilde in nature for that thy are off a most milde disposition said that thy could not endure those men whoe doe not love theire Anna Cajoury which is to say king or Scheeff butt bid wilcome all such as are true unto him bring them refrechments off Annasses And other fruites as also Wilde deare fish and foule besydes all what thy could finde in those parts which thy doe inhabite And as thy knowe that number off them are on the Hands of Barbados S. Christosters as also on the same Coast of America as at Sarename thy for as much theire capacity makes them discusse matters doe not a little wonder how such as leave the cold clyme in Eurorope will transporte themselves to the cold parts of America and not preferre the hot where it never winters and no fire needes to bee made but to boile theire fish and Crabs and to coste wilde deere and foule That then the love off a Christian for the advancement of the publick good may not bee said to bee more could then the frozen Northeren clyme nor the innocent Charibdiens reproache unto such a one whoe thy have not fayled to visitte and to impart unto him what the hot parts off America is capable off his want off charity This Summary Description must defend and most seasonnably free frome desadvantagious explications on the fresh returne off a notable Equipage which in the yeare 1659. hath been sent from Amsterdam to the Coast of America and that likewyse no men sudued with comon Sence may have any just cause to● doubt of the truth that this Description is wel grounded it hath seemed necessary to hould forth the cause of the re in facta returne of that Equipage and wy the men whoe were sent to that much more beneficiall hot part off America thou the cold did not settle theire which though it should require every ample Description hath beene thought fit to contract in as seemlynes as possibly may bee since it is but to serve as replaye unto the particular Quaeritur which may bee made concerning the cause of such returne yet must the sayd description bee taken frome the spring off the evill the which proceded frome a hellish ambition off certayne Thrusties sent whith the afore said Equipage and who before theire departure frome Texell conbyned against the cheeff Commandor and Patron off an intended Colonie to bee setled on the Coast off America To make them selves masters so thy could dispocesse him or distroy his persson and his familly that theire might remayne no pretenders to the Land which he was to pocesse Which conbination beeing discovred to the said cheefe Commandor Sir Balthazar Gerber authorised by speciall commission off the Lords Estates generall off the united Provinces and off the West-Indian Company obliged him by the prime Law of selffe preservation to defend him selffe as much possibly hee could against such a damnable plot which never oughst to have beene expected frome rationals nor frome men to whome hee was a benefactor and whoe would not have beene admitted without his consent Yet so farre had the spirrit off Diluzion charmed them as forgetting God and the property off Human Soules thy only represented to them selves as the Phabulous Midas tot choake them selves with Gold and Silver and to runne head long to those parts were precious things are said to bee had as also to meete with cheefs off famillies who might