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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	conqueror_n	king_n	scotland_n	2,527	5	9.9151	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33325	The life and death of the thrice noble and illustrious Edvvard, surnamed the Black Prince son to our victorious King Edward the Third, by whom he was made the First Knight of the most honourable Order of the Garter / by Samuel Clark ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1673 (1673)	Wing C4532; ESTC R19883	15,827	34

with the day was done And all return'd In his Pavilion Brave Edward feasts his Royal Prisoner At which as Noble did the Prince appear As erst in battel and by sweetness won As great a Conquest as his Sword had don No fair respect or Honour that might cheer That Kings afflicted breast was wanting there No Reverence nor humble courtesie That might preserve his state and dignity But Edward shew'd at full And at the Feast In Person waited on his captive Guest But what content what Object fit could Fate Present to comfort such a changed State For him Whose State the Morning Sun had seen so high This night beholds in sad captivity His restless passions rowling to and fro No calm admit when thus his noble Fo Prince Edward spake Great King for such you are In my thoughts still whate're the Chance of War Hath lately wrought against you here forgive Your humble Kinsmans service if I strive To ease your sorrow and presume to do What is too much for me to counsel you Do not deject your Princely thoughts or think The Mnrtial Fame that you have gain'd can sink In one succesless Field Or too much fear Your Nations Honour should be tainted here Mens strength and Honours we most truly try Where Fields are fought with most equality But God was pleas'd to make this days success The more miraculous that we the less Might challenge to our selves and humbly know That in so great and strnge an overthrow Some secret Judgment of our God was wrought And that the Sword of Heaven not England fought c. And for your self Great King all History That shall hereafter to the VVorld make known Th' event of Poictiers Battel shall renown Your Personal Prowesse which appear'd so high As justly seem'd to challenge Victory Had not Gods secret Providence oppos'd But though his Will Great Sir hath thus dispos'd Your State remains your Person and your Fame Shall in my humble thoughts be still the same And till my Father see your Face to show How he respects your Worth and State to you As to himself were he in Person here In all observance Edward shall appear The Noble King a while amaz'd to see Victorious Youth so full of Courtesie At last replies Brave Cousin you have shown Your Self a Man built up for true Renown And as in Action of the Wars to be This Ages Phaenix in Humanity Why do you wrong me thus as to enthrall Me doubly Not insulting o're my Fall You rob me Cousin of that sole Renown Which I though vanquish'd might have made mine own To bear Adversity I might have shew'd Had you been proud a Passive Fortitude And let the world though I am fallen see What spirit I had in scorning misery But you have rob'd me of that Honour now And I am bound in Honour to allow That Noble Theft content since such are you To be your Captive and your Debtor too And since my Stars ordein'd a King of France Arm'd with such odds so great a Puissance Must in a fatal Field be lost to raise So great a Trophie to anothers Praise I am best pleas'd it should advance thy Story And Johns dishonour be Prince Edwards Glory After the Battel which was fought on the 19. day of September Anno Christi 1357. Prince Edward led King Iohn and the Captive Nobles Prisoners to Bourdeaux the Archiepiscopal See and chief City of his Dominions in France where he retained them till the Spring following But sent present News of this Victory to his Father who thereupon took speedy Order by Simon Arch-bishop of Canterbury that a Thanksgiving should be celebrated all over England for eight days together The Prince having sufficiently rested and refreshed his people the May following set sail for England with his Prisoners and safely arrived at Plimouth and was with great joy and acclamations received everie where At his coming to London where at that time a magnificent Citizen Henry Picard he who afterwards at one time so Nobly Feasted the four Kings of England France Scotland and Cyprus was Lord Major who received him with all imaginable Honour And the multitude of People that came to see the Victorious Prince with the King of France his Son Philip and the other Prisoners was so great that they could hardly get to Westminster between three a Clock in the Morning and twelve at Noon Great Edward saving that he forgat not the Majestie of a Conquerour and of a King of England omitted no kind of Noble courtesy towards the Prisoners King Iohn and his Son were lodged under a safe Guard at the Savoy which was then a goodly Palace belonging unto Henry Duke of Lancaster and the other Prisoners in other places Some time after Prince Edward by dispensation was maried to the Countess of Kent Daughter to Edmund Brother to King Edward the second and his Father invested him with the Dutchy of Aquitain So that he was now Prince of Wales Duke of Aquitain Duke of Cornwal and Earle of Chester and Kent And not long after he with his Beloved Wife passed over into France and kept his Court at Bourdeaux The Prince of Wales was now grown famous over all the Christian world and the man to whom all wronged Princes seemed to Appeal and to fly for succour For which end there came at this time to his Court Iames King of Majorca and Richard King of Navarr just when his beloved Lady brought him a Son for whom these two Kings undertook at his Baptisme giving him the Name of Richard The Companies of Soldiers most of whose Captaines were English either by Birth or Obedience wanting employment because the Warrs of Britain were quieted for the Present ranged tumultuously up and down France But about this time Sir Bertram de Glequin having paid his Ransom found employment for them drawing the greatest part of that Millitary Pestilence into another Coast. For by the assistance of Peter King of Arragon and the Power of Glequin with his floting Bands called The Companions or Adventurers Peter King of Castile and Leon a cruel Tyrant was driven out of his Kingdome his Bastard Brother Henry being chosen in his room and Crowned King of Spain at Burgos This Peter was Son to Alphonsus the eleventh King of Castile and had to Wife a French Lady called Blanch Daughter to Peter Duke of Bourbon who was Father also of Ioan the French Kings Wife His Tyrannical cruelties were so many and so foul that the Spanish Stories scarce suffer Nero or Caligula to go beyond him For which by his Subjects he was deposed and his Brother Henry as is said before was substituted and Crowned in his room Peter thus driven out of his Kingdome by the aid of the French applyed himself to Prince Edward craving his assistance for his restitution making many and large Promises to him upon the accomplishment thereof And the Prince partly out of Charity to succour a distressed Prince and partly out of policy to keep