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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	master_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,280	5	11.2870	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17130	Seaven sparkes of the enkindled soule With foure lamentations, which composed in the hard times of Queene Elizabeth, may be vsed at all times, when the Church hapneth to be extreamely persecuted. Drawne out of the holy Scriptures, after the forme of Psalmes. By R.B.P.	Buckland, Ralph, 1564-1611.	1604-1605 (1605)	STC 4008; ESTC S117366	36,700	158

Christs birth-right some of our Ladies dowry King Lucius by thy secret motion inclined his hart to search thy truth Animated by thee O Soueraigne Sanctifier to Rome as the fountayne he sent for water of life Thy high Steward Lieutenant Eleutherius assigned Priests for execution of his holy desires The light of thy word was soone spred through Britaine to the saluation of many soules The Prophecy was so fulfilled that from the Islāds our Lord should beginne his raigne In this thy garden grewe vvhite Lillies without number and integrity of life adorned the Realme But neither was the red Rose wanting purpled with the bloud of thy Saintes Alban the Prothomartir for harbouring a Priest lost his life Amphiabel thy consecrated seruant was slaine for thy sake Iulius Aaron with many more When the Saxons inuaded with fire and sword thou laiedst not aside the care of thy land But pittying that Infidels should possesse the jewell which thou louedst so well Thou broughtest to passe by incomprehensible wisdome that they also were by Gregory conuerted Thus from the holy City from Peters Seate both the conquerour and conquered receiued Religion And being otherwise mortall enemies yet in points of beliefe consented in one Neither did the Brittaine argue the Saxon of heresie or reproach him to haue receiued an vpstart and falsified faith As likewise neither did the Dane chaunge the Saxons beliefe nor the victorious Norman bring in newe opinions For they found no other then all Christendome at that time professed Of the faith Catholike vvhich in this Island thou O eternal truth hadest in this wise planted watred and established Who is able to comprehend the successe what tongue can expresse the encrease All quarters of the earth talked of her fruit all corners of this Realme testifie it So many Churches Chappels so many Colledges and Hospitals so many sundry foundations of charity So many thousandes of vowed Religious among whome night nor day thy prayses neuer ceassed Who spent their time in praying for their Country putting themselues as a wall betweene thy wrath and the people Watching vvhilst others slept liuing in penance whilst others past their time in pleasures No Country yealded more Kings Canonized for their liues or Martirs by their deaths More that visited in Pilgrimage the Temples and Monuments of the chiefe Apostles More Princes which laying aside their Crowne and Scepter in Religious habite and Cloisters finished their age Or more Queenes and Kinges Daughters who renouncing worldly pompe chose Christ for their Spouse Holy Bishops in whome thy hart was well pleased were very many some of which lost their liues for their flocke Thou hadst here also Eremites Anchorets many equall in perfection to the Fathers of Aegipt Both sanctity and wisdome thou didst powre aboundantly vpon diuers of thy seruantes This Isle as a nource of learning sent teachers into straunge landes As a Seminary of Religion it did spread abroade the Christian faith No Country but boasteth of some English Saint honouring his reliques whose life they had in admiration Germany acknowledgeth from Enland her first Apostles and Euangelistes Who founded there thy faith O Lord by word workes and by their bloud By one of our nation were the Noruegians reclaymed from their superstitions And the frosen nations of the North-pole beganne to be enflamed with thy loue Our Kinges also in honour of thy sacred name and in signe of perfect vnion to thy Church Offered vp their protestation of obedient Children and made the Realme tributary to Peters chaire They erected a Colledge at Rome thy holy City that from whence their faith first proceeded it might still be conserued The deuotion of all to thy holy and dreadfull Sacrifices it is not my tongue thou knowest can expresse It vvas thou vvhich gauest them both ability and will to crect so many stately Temples with towres aspiring to the cloudes To adorne the same with such rich furniture Crosses Chalices and shrines of pretious mettall So that neither sparing labour nor cost they left examples of deuotion to all posterity Religious zeale being well grounded in all mens hartes other fruits of good life followed accordingly The vine yealdeth not Scamony the Pomegranate beareth not Coloquintida Neither could good Doctrine bring forth euill fruits It delighted thee to looke vpon this Realme and to regard the state thereof To see howe parentes loued their children more to thee then to the world more by reason then fond affection Howe children obeyed their parents not to the eye only but from the hart not for their owne behoofe but for thy commaundement Howe Masters to their seruants seruants to their Masters the Prince to the people the people to the Prince Each obserued to other their duty inuiolable The Clergy to the laity the laity toward the Clergy Howe all Superiors to their Inferiors bare themselues vpright and receiued likevvise of them their due Howe each man had just care of his soule and fewe gaue themselues ouer to iniquity How sinners hastned by penance and teares to reconcile themselues to thy mercifull Majesty All thinges went in order and the sweet cōsort of the common wealth was as the harmony of a wel-tuned instrument A DEPLORATION OF THE REVOLT OF ENgland from the receiued faith THE FOVRTH PSALME MY God O my God O God of our Auncestors vvhere is the goodly tree of thy planting become Which prospered and grewe so mightily which flourished so beautifully Whose shade was most pleasant and recreatiue whose armes streatched to the foure Seas The Cedars of Libanus vvere not taller the Palmes of Palestina fairer nor the Okes of the forrest stronger I heard of the glory and fame thereof and I wondred I looked about to see it and it is not to be found Alas O Lord that thou hast suffered a parching wind to blow from the North which made the boughs thereof to wither and the flourish thereof to decay The leaues first fell away by one and by one other followed by ten and by twenty As when the Sunne draweth to his farthest point and the cold nipping winter prepareth his recourse The smaller boughes beganne to fall to the ground being become dry stickes without sappe The contagion at length possessing the hart maine branches brake away The trunke all rotten fell downe the fall thereof was very great The cracke vvas heard into all landes and made Nations quake for feare Peeuish shrubs whome her shade oppressed inferiour trees whome her glory disgraced Such triumphed at her fall and rejoyced at her ruine But the other goodly trees of the wood pittied her calamity and feared their owne estate Yet just art thou O judge of all the world and there is no iniquity in thy wayes Before thou didst thus abase our Nation they sinned and before thou didst so chastise our Country it deserued the rodde Our forefathers were vnmindfull of the multitude of thy mercies and kept not the couenant of thy commaundements But beginning to vvauer at