Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	act_n	crown_n	parliament_n	2,582	5	6.5434	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68445	The triumphs of King Iames the First, of Great Brittaine, France, and Ireland, King; defender of the faith Published vpon his Maiesties aduertisement to all the kings, princes, and potentates of Christendome, and confirmed by the wonderfull workes of God, declared in his life. Deuoted, dedicated, and consecrated to the most excellent prince Henry Prince of Wales.	Marcelline, George.	1620 (1620)	STC 17309; ESTC S111857	40,901	114

learnedly testifieth vnto vs Was there euer any Prince more forgetfull of wrongs and more apt to remit iniuries done against him then his Maiesty euen then when he might be very easily reuenged How many Actes of Parliament full of benignitie clemency and kindnesse hath hee set toorth since his happy comming to the Crowne of England euen towards his very enimies themselues which is the onely reason that his subiects both loue and obey him the more willingly and that straungers ought to bee the more respectiue of him For my selfe J may say that by good right of him which the Romaine Orator did of Iulius Caesar Hee is a great Iusticer Vpright Equall true But in all his vertues there is none more Great more Excellent or more commendable then is his Clemency and Benignity I speake not this as a Learner or beeing Tutored thereto but out of knowledge and good experience and as one willing with poore Vzza to set a hand to helpe the Arke whereof J feared the falling And if I haue done it with out any great paine yet am I glad that it hath returned me no danger and so long as I shall haue any iot of life in mee I will publish euerie where and sing in heart though it bee to my selfe En tibi praepetibus foelix victoria pennis Quae volat laet am adducit Clementiapacem Vnde salus populis te Rege Iacobe beatis But fearing the like inconuenience as that which happened vnto the High-Priest Cecilius Metellus for hauing dared to be so bold as to put his hand neere to the Statue of the Goddesse Pallas I am constrained to turne my sight from the faire Eye of the Worlde His Beams do force me to kisse the very liddes of those eyes euen as the perfection and proportion of his other Visible parts do restraine my tongue from deliuering the misticall and Physiognomicall sence of euery one of them In like maner it was neuer mine intention to note al the Anatomical considerations of his Imperial Body or to pierce any further then vnto the subtiltie of our owne reach and apprehension which dooth sufficiently content it selfe to referre all the functions of his parts to the apparent appearance thereby to erect a Triumph not onely fully rich but also morral to following posterity We will beginne with his Crowne which is the Ornament for the Head the chiefest member and that which is most honourable of all the body euen that part wherein are composed al the principal instruments of life by the perfection of numbers This rich chief part is crowned to the end that his enemies beholding the same should enter into the apprehensions of Cassander King of Macedon who hauing founde the Statue of Alexander entred into such a fear that he trembled at the verie sight thereof And to let bee seene that meere glory hath defended him from his greatest aduersaries they shoulde bring him no such fraile Crownes wherewith in elder times they were wont to honor the Conquetors in the Olympian Pythian Ismyan and Nemean games but that duety which shineth in heauen and can neuer bee withered because it was first wrought and wouen with the verie fingers of the sonne of God himselfe It is a Crown of Gold enriched with Pearls and precious Stones Of Gold which reioyceth the heart healeth all putride Vlcers Woolfes or rotted corruption To declare thereby that this King shall beare the precious Balme the Cataplasme and Seare-cloath to heale vlcered hearts and consciences euen those which are most fired and cauthorized thereby to bring the new birth againe of the former Golden dayes of Saturne The Pearles are the Hieroglyphickes of his soules immaculate whitenesse or integrity do testifie vnto the whole worlde that hee is Protector of Innocency and Truth The Diamonds do shine and deliuer a clear white luster which cheareth the eye The Rubies do dart foorth to sight very straunge flaming beams which may offend some perhaps more then they please These are the two most precious Stones aboue all other the Symboles or Creeds of our Churches Nothing can bite or cut the Diamond but the Diamond it selfe neither can we shape or figure any thing else therby of any indamagement or hurt towards vs but it must come by our owne selues The Diamond is inuulnerable and not to be bruised by hammers on the Anuile but wil enter farre into the Ruby who is subiect to be wrought therewith penetrated cut carued or imprinted thereon in whatsoeuer a man pleaseth euen as our beleese worketh the like effectes in vnbeleeuing harts which they may very aptly signifie The Sphear-like forme of his Crowne doth denote the euen roundnesse wherein hee proceedeth to euery one as well towards the smal as the great the poore as the rich That he is the Common Father of all his people ordering all his affections in an equall partage like vnto the Geometricall point which beholdeth all his circumference in one the same proportion Answerable to the Sun which shineth equally vpon all Or as the heart which furnisheth all the other members with life heat Or like vnto the Palme-tree which distributeth his nourishment to his leaues and braunches euen as if it were by iust weight measure Before that Parliament he contented himselfe to expresse vnto the Papistes themselues rather the power of his Authority then the rigour of his Iustice Hee permitted to all the free communication of his fauour as of his Conntreyes ayre and the enioying of his presence as the sweet breath of his fertile kingdome The Booke and the Scepter which his Maiesty holdeth in his hands do represent Reason and Rigor which are the two Engines wherby all men are drawne to their dutie For if Reason profit not recourse must then be had to Power According vnto the example of our Lord Iesus Christ and of his Apostles For they presenting peace in all mildnesse thorough all places where they came shooke off in the spirit of Justice the dust frō their feet on them which resisted thē Saying for reason of the first That be was soft and gentle and for the second That he was vpright or iust In the first that he is good gracious in the second That he is terrible In the first That hee helpeth the desolate in hart bindeth vp their wounds In the second That he is Dominus percutiens a Lord that smiteth In like maner Our King Gestans leua decus wil neuer presse with his Scepter of authority which he beareth in his right till he may vse his pen no longer and that the left hand be wholly despised He applyeth not the Rasor to the Canker and Gangrena of Heresie so long as Reason and soft and lenitiue remedies may serue the turne Throughout antiquity The Scepter hath bin common to al Kings on the earth The Booke perticularly and for the exclusion of others appertaineth to our Mercuriall Heros to enstruct vs that of him properly ought the double