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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	crown_n	france_n	king_n	13,129	5	4.3101	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10131	A chaine of pearle. Or A memoriall of the peerles graces, and heroick vertues of Queene Elizabeth, of glorious memory. Composed by the noble lady, Diana Primrose	Primrose, Diana.	1630 (1630)	STC 20388; ESTC S101193	5,780	22

Pearle PRVDENCE HOW prudent was her Government appeard By her wise Counsels by the which SHEE steer'd In the most dangerous Times that ever were Since King or Queene did Crowne in England weare Her choice of Famous Councellers did show That Shee did all the Rules of Prudence know For though her Wit and Spirit were divine Counsels Shee knew were best where more combine That for Experience and deepe Policy Are well approved whose Fidelity Retaines them in the bonds of Loyall Loue And no great Pensions from their Prince can moue Thus rul'd SHEE prudently with all her power With Argus Eyes foreseeing every houre All dangers imminent least any harmes Should vs befall by Spanish Arts or Armes This Gift in her was much more emminent In that it is so rarely incident To our weake Sex And as a precious stone Deepe set in Gold shines fairer then alone Or set in Lead so did all Graces shine In Her more gloriously because Divine For Kings are Gods and Queenes are Goddesses On Earth whose facred Vertues best expresses Their true Divinitie wherein if WEE Them imitate t is our Felicity This Pearle of Prudence then Wee all should prize Most highly for it doth indeede comprise All Morall Vertues which are resident In that blest soule where this is president The fourth Pearle TEMPERANCE THE Golden Bridle of Bellerephon Is Temperance by which our Passion And Appetite we conquer and subdue To Reasons Regiment else may we rue Our yeelding to Mens Syren-blandishments Which are attended with so foule Events This Pearle in HER was so conspicuous As that the * Edward King Her Brother still did vse To stile HER His sweete Sister Temperance By which Her much admir'd Selfe-governance Her Passions still SHEE checkt and still SHEE made The World astonisht that so vndismaid SHEE did with equall Tenor still proceede In one faire course not shaken as a reed * Semper eadem But built vpon the Rocke of Temperance Not daz'd with feare not maz'd with any Chance Not wiih vaine Hope as with an emptie Spoone Fed or allur'd to cast beyond the Moone Not with rash Anger to precipitate Not fond to loue nor too too prone to hate Not charm'd with Parasites or Syrens Songs Whose hearts are poison'd though their sugred Tongues Sweare vow and promise all Fidelity When they are bruing deepest Villany Not led to vaine or too profuse Expence Pretending thereby State Magnificence Not spending on these momentany pleasures Her precious Time but deeming her best Treasures Her Subiects Loue Omnibus incutiens bland●● per pectorae amorem which SHEE so well preserv'd By sweete and milde Deameanor as it seru'd To guard Her surer then an Armie Royall So true their Loues were to Her and so Loyall O Golden Age O blest and happie Yeares O Musicke sweeter then that of the Spheares When Prince and people mutually agree In sacred Concord and sweete Symphonie The fift Pearle CLEMENCY HER Royall Clemency comes next in view The Vertue which in HER did most renew The Image of Her Maker who in that Exceeds himselfe and doth commiserate His very Rebells lending them the light Of Sunne and Moone and all those Diamonds bright * monstrae teterrima monstra So did ELIZA cast Her Golden Rayes Of Clemency on those which many wayes Transgrest Her Lawes and sought to vndermine The Church and State and did with Spaine combine And though by Rigor of the Law Shee might Not wronging them haue taken all Her right Yet Her Innate and princely Clemencie Mov'd Her to pardon their Delinquencie Which sought Her Gracious Mercy and repented Their Misdemeanors and their Crimes lamented So doth the the Kingly Lyon with his foe Which once prostrate he scornes to worke his woe So did this Vertues sacred Auri flame Immortalize our Great ELIZA'S Name The sixt Pearle IVSTICE HER Iustice next appeares which did support Her Crowne and was her Kingdomes strongest Fort. For should not Lawes be executed well And Malefactors curb'd a very Hell Of all Confusion and disorder would Among all States ensue Hereto vnfold The exemplary Penalties of those Which to the Realme were knowne and mortall Foes And as some putrid members par'd away Least their transcendent Villany should sway Others to like Disloyalty would aske A larger Volume and would be a Taske Vnfit for Feminine hands which rather loue To write of pleasing subiects then approue The most deserved slaughtering of any Which justly cannot argue Tyranny For though the Pope haue lately sent from Rome Strange Bookes and pictures painting out the Doome Of his pretended Martyrs as that they Were baited in Beares skins and made a prey To wilde Beasts and had Bootes with boiling Lead Drawne on their Legges and Hornes nail'd to their head Yet all our British world knowes these are fables Chimaera's Phantasm's Dreames and very Bables For Fooles to play with and right Goblin-Sprights Wherewith our Nurses oft their Babes affrights His Holinesse these Martyrdomes may adde To the Golden Legend for they are as madde That first invented them as * Vappa Voraginosa he that write That branelesse Booke and yet some credit it For Cruelty and fond Credulity Are the maine Pillers of Romes Hierarchy The seventh Pearle FORTITVDE THIS goodly Pearle is that rare Fortitude Wherewith this Sacred Princesse was endu'd Witnesse Her braue vndaunted Looke when Parry Was fully bent SHEE should by him miscarry The Wretch confest that Her Great Majestie With strange amazement did him terrifie So Heavenly-Gracefull and so full of Awe Was that Majesticke Queene which when some saw They thought an Angell did appeare SHEE shon So bright as None else could Her Paragon But that which doth beyond all Admiration Illustrate Her and in Her this whole Nation Is that Heroicke March of Her 's and Speech At Tilbury where Shee did All beseech Brauely to fight for England telling them That what their Fortune was should Hers be then And that with full Resolue Shee thither came Ready to win or quite to loose the Game Which words deliver'd in most Princely sort Did animate the Army and report To all the World Her Magnanimity Whose haughtie Courage nought could terrify Well did Shee shew Great Henry was Her Sire Whom Europe did for Valor most admire ' Mongst all the Warlike Princes which were then Enthronized with Regall Diadem The Eight Pearle SCIENCE AMong the Vertues Intellectuall The Van is lead by that we Science call A Pearle more precious then th' Aegyptian Queene Quaft off to Anthony of more Esteeme Then Indian Gold or most resplendent Gemmes Which ravish vs with their translucent Beames How many Arts and Sciences did decke This HEROINA Who still had at becke The Muses and the Graces when that Shee Gaue Audience in State and Maiestie Then did the Goddesse Eloquence inspire Her Royall Brest Apollo with his Lyre Ne're made such Musicke On her Sacred Lips Angells enthron'd most Heavenly Manna sips Then might you see her Nectar-flowing Veine Surround the Hearers in which sugred Streame SHEE able was to drowne a World of men And drown'd with Sweetnes to reuiue agen Alasco the Embassador Polonian Who perorated like a meere Slavonian And in rude rambling Rhetoricke did roule SHEE did with Atticke Eloquence controule Her Speeches to our Academians Well shew'd Shee knew among Athenians How to deliver such well-tuned Words As with such Places punctually accords But with what Oratory-ravishments Did Shee imparadise Her Parliaments Her last most Princely Speech doth verify How highly Shee did England dignify Her Loyall Commons how did Shee embrace And entertaine with a most Royall Grace The ninth Pearle PATIENCE NOW come we Her rare Patience to display Which as with purest Gold did paue her way To Englands Crowne for when her Sister rul'd Shee was with many great Afflictions schoold Yet all the while Her Mot was Tanquam Ovis Nor could her Enemies proue ought amisse In Her although they thirsted for her bloud Reputing it once shed their Soveraigne good Sometime in Prison this sweere Saint was pent Then hastily away Shee thence was sent To Places more remote and all her Friends Debar'd accesse and none but such attends As ready were with poison or with knife To Sacrifice this Sacred Princesse life At bloudy Bonners becke or Gardiners nod Had they not bin pre●ented by that GOD Who did Susanna from the Elders free And at the last gaue her her Liberty Thus by her patient bearing of the Crosse Shee reaped greatest Gaine from greatest Losse For he that looseth his blest Liberty Hath found a very Hell of misery By many Crosses thus Shee got the Crowne To Englands Glory and her great Renowne The tenth Pearle BOVNTY AS Rose and Lillie challenge cheefest place For milke-white Lustre and for Purple Grace So Englands Rose and Lillie had no Peere For Princely Bounty shining every-where This made her Fame with Golden Wings to fly About the World aboue the Starry Sky Witnesse France Portugall Virginia Germany Scotland Ireland Belgia Whose Provinces and Princes found her Aid On all Occasions which sore dismaid Spaines King whose Europaean Monarchy Could never thriue during her Soveraignty So did Shee beare him with her Distaffe so By * Elisabethae fuit Terrae Regina Marisquè Primo Iacobi Sea and Land Shee him did ouerthrow Yea so that Tyrant on his knees Shee brought That of braue England Peace he * beg'd and thought Himselfe most happie that by begging so Preserv'd all Spaine from Beggery and Woe Here all amaz'd my Muse sets vp her rest Adoring HER was so Divinely blest At nos horrifico cinefactam TE propè Busto Insatiabiliter deslebimus aeternumque FINIS