Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	pembroke_n	3,481	5	13.4594	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89059	Angliæ speculum: or Englands looking-glasse. Devided into two pats [sic], / by C.VV. Mercer.; Angliæ speculum. Parts 1 and 2	Mercer, William, 1605?-1676?	1646 (1646)	Wing M1735; Thomason E327_13; ESTC R200657	49,047	130

it cannot be unfit For to befriend them they deserved it In Suits so just what is' t you may not do They covenanted for to answer you And then your actions cannot but must thrive Such grave Divines assist you to contrive Who constantly invoke with holy words For blessings from above and so affords Assistance alway's from the heavenly Throne And still obtains the same before they 'r gone Then in a three-fold manner may you take Concurrence also and a Linck may make Of such-like strength as it will ever last For to prevail and take it from the rest I meane of those judicions Gentlemen Whose Ayd you have and I am certain then You nothing can desire not yet demand But you will surely have it at their hand Excuse my boldnesse that I speak so much But I presume because I know you such You will but smile to see a souldiers Pen Imployd to write unto such mighty men But to be plain I am so poor in purse And void of learning which the greater curse That I consider neither what I say Nor what I write nor have I time to stay Yet Noble Lords the errors that I make I pray you pardon for the Countries sake W. M. TO THE HONOVRABLE COMMITTEES COmmittee-men so cald no question then It were most needfull you were honest men For by the name Committee you may finde All is committed to your honest minde Abuse not then what comes into your trust Committee-men should constantly be just Know you are Members of that Noble place Which pleads its pow'r proceeds of Law and Grace You all are sworn to be just and then If yee be so ye 'r right Committee-men I do believe ye all are just but ye Must not believe me not unlesse ye be Both just and honest and you must examine Your selves in secret what concerns the samen Stain not that State from whence you do proceed Shun long debate in things concerning need You men of honour think upon your fame Be not defil'd it is a fearfull shame And you who are men of a meaner kinde Be not perswaded to a partiall minde Nor let not love nor hatred nor the lust Of earthly things move thee to be unjust Nor waxe too proud because thou sees thou can Sit in the Chair as chief Committee-man But now I fear that thou wilt shake thy head And think me sawcie for the thing ye read Yet I have had experience now and then Of some of those you call Committee-men And if you chide or challenge me in spite I will accompt you one of whom I write Besides conceive the nature of the time And you will give me leave to speak in rime Or if you quarrell and will call me to it And question me how I durst dare to do it I tell you this the wat 's have made me bold And I am lately very scarce of gold That to be plain I have no more to say But cure this evill I shall humbly pray W. M. TO The Right Honourable the Earl of Northumberland Earl ALGERNOUNE PERCIE Anagr. Areall Princel'e Governer Vers A reall Princely Governour so be Thy royall Name denotes so much to me Epig. TO thee brave Piercy in thy prime of yeers Who art made choise of ' mongst the chiefest Peers To be great Guardian for the good of them The royall Off-springs of a Diadem Those hopefull branches of that high-born Stock Those Infant-Anchors Englands fenced Rock The rarest fruit which heretofore have sprung Apparent heyrs to Kingdomes though they 'r young How grea● 〈◊〉 trust then is repos'd in thee To have su●● Treasures in thy custody But sure experience of thy by-past worth Hath thee promoted and haste pointed forth Thee onely fit for such brave high designes The education of such Princely Vines Long may they live and rise to honours high Even till each one become a Majesty And thou great Earl whose Grandor shines in state Live still in spight of destiny and fate I know not whether of thy parts to praise Thy self place fame thou equall art in these W. M. To the Right Honourable the Earl of PEMBROOK Earle PHILLIP HERBERT Anagr. Peer help al liberty Vers Peer help all liberty Brave Lord we see Thy actions and thy Anagram agree REnowned Lord brave Earl fair Englands pride I stile thee so since England doth conside And ever did in thy fidelity Both in their triumphs and tranquilitie First while this Nation did securely rest As thou wast Noble thou wert worthiest For still the Court thy carriage did commend Didst not co-act for thy luxurious end And now when Mars did muster all at armes Thou still art constant upon equall termes True to the State couragious in faith Most absolute in minde unto the death A rare example in a case so high Friend both to subject and His Majestie The Tombs of Traitours where their Hersesare Shall all bear witnesse how wise Pembrook farre Surpass'd their practice and his Trophées shall Survive in honour when theirs perish all Patron of truth patern in Pietie Two matchlesse Emblems of Nobilitie Pembrook for Prudence Piety and worth These Epethites shall onely set thee forth W. M. To the Right Honourable Earl Lord WILLIAM CECIL of SALISBURY Anag I Will really accord Vers Agree in truth I will really accord To nothing else Will I consent afford Epig. SO high a Task to undertake or chuse For my so empty brdin or shallow Muse Doth argue Weaknesse for it is a thing My knowledge cannot to perfection bring Yet in submission from a loyall heart I undertake sincerely to impart Those high extended excellencies rare Which with the best most worthy may compare A high-born Baron ancient Lord and Earl Of matchlesse splendor bright as any Pearl True Conquerour of Honour Valour fame Of vertue favour and magnifick name So Constant in the cause for which we fight And spend our bloud maintaining Englands right Adds thy assisting Land unto tho●e Lords Whose matchlesse wisedome all true worth affords Of thee therefore whose Vertues are so high I take my leave in all humility W. M. To the Right Honourable the Earl of Warwick Lord High-Admirall of England Earle ROBERT RICH. Anag Thrice real or beter Vers Warwicks Heroick Thrice reall or better Brave Admirall all England is thy debtor Epigr. THis new prepared piece though it be dumb Yet represents as it is Speculum The chiefest Actors in this Great debate Between the Sovereign and this Mighty State I am not ty'd nor must I stand content Howbe't it be without my Element But since your honour had the sole command By Sea and guarded us upon the Land Where when your greatnesse did on Neptune ride And notwithstanding of his swelling pride Triumphed there mongst his frothy flouds Whose threatnings seem'd to swallow up the Clouds Yet there you rul'd and forced forraign pow'rs For to forbear these Islands here of ours Wherefore while I those Worthies do proclaim I must make bold to magnifie

' Avouch that London may out-brag it far For neither Plato for his wisest parts Nor Mars for valour Cato for his Arts Nor yet Mecoenas for his worthy praise They need not make so much report of these Nor yet needs Rome extoll and tell so much As if the world nor we could shew them such Against them all I do protest appeal To thee brave Fiennes Lord Viscount Say and Seal W. M. To the Right Honourable William Gray Lord GRAY Anagr. Aym I will agr'e Vers What good I gather in your mindes to be First I will speak then Aym I will agr'e Epigr. THose worthy Heroes thrice Renowned Earles Whose lustre shines more bright then Orient Pearles Or as those Stars which glister in the sphear When duskie darknesse mantles o'er the ayr VVhen they brave Lord in presence of that place Approach with prudence statelinesse and grace They do make choise to charge thee for thy worth To contribute those secret thoughts sent forth From their so wise impartiall breasts they aym And thou a wise Mecoenas sits with them And finding all their actions faithfull be Thou hear'st them speak then sayes I will agree To thee brave Lord the Loadstone of the State VVhose worth appears in intricate debate Attractive and by understanding too Thou first collects then wisely dost thou do Dispensing all in such a pious way Pure in thy colour constant reall Gray The acts of England shall be clad with thee And thy rich fame thereby renowned be But worthy Lord let me pertake of this Thy Noble word though in Parenthesis And then return into thy state again In endlesse honour and I say Amen W. M. TO The Right Honourable LORD IOHN ROBERTS Lord ROBERTS of Truro Anagr. Trie on bold Hero's Vers Try on bold Hero's do thou nothing remove at In all attempts Fortuna audaces juvat Epig. HEroick Roberts and renowned Lord With Martiall actions in aboundance stor'd Whose valour hath triumphantly trode down Brave Englands foes with thy undaunted frown Those feats of Warre which from thy force did flye And seconded so by thy piercing eye Did crush thy foes and make them trembling stand By Manhood and thy Method in command Great Mars Field-Marshall when his Armies met Sole sentence-giver when his Consuls set Thy worth thy vertue and unequal'd fame Are Epithites but onely of thy Name Thy passive actions pious peremptory Are reall Emblems of thy endlesse glory What then although I often was a witnesse Of thy exploits yet must my Muse's unfitnesse Forbear and cease nor can she solemnize Thy high deservings in their just degrees Or why should I with this my fleeting quill Seek for to sound thy praise I do but ill Thy worth is written with those drops of Blood Which seals thy Honour for thy Countries good W. M. TO the right Honourable Thomas Bruce Lord BRUCE Anag Com be as tru ' Vers Come be as true unto your State as I. Who shall assist with all fidelity Epigr. I Stand obliged by a strong relation To pay thee tribute one is from the Nation Whereof thou art an ancient Earl true born And I a Native of the same am sworn The second cause by which I finde me bound Is this thy actions have been alwayes found So faithfull here in what thou dost afford For Englands good wherein thou art a Lord And hast remained certain by-past yeers In Parliament in number of the Peers The last is this which makes a threefold tie I stand ingaged by affinitie These three may challenge since they all are true A dutifull remembrance of thy due And were it not I partiall should be held I would expresse thee searcely Paralleld But I forbear because thy fame doth flie Beyond the reach of my arrested eye Continue still in favour wealth and fame And honours encrease on thy Noble name And if curst envie doth affirm I flatter Yet can my lines not make thee worse nor better W. M. TO The Honourable William Lenthall Esq Speaker of the Honourable House of COMMONS Anagr. I hat ' all'vill men Vers I have all evill men the chair have I To sit and plead speak and impartially Epig. THou wast found fittest after long debate To be chief Speaker in the Chair of State A place so high so weighty honourable Thou hadst not had it hadst thou not been able Nor when thou hadst it had thou not been just Thou hadst not had it so long in thy trust But thou hast prov'd so painfull pregnant wise Appear'd so upright in brave Englands eyes That so long as the greatest Councell sit By all consents thou maist inherit it The mouth of those who sits about that throne Speaks all their mindes and yet thou art but one To thee each grievance must be given out Then prudently thou speaks it round about And then those worthies what they finde is best Return't to thee by thee to be exprest VVhich thou by Order causest to dispence In method manner to divulge the sence Of their designe so that thou still remains Full of conceptions and uncessant pains The place belongs most properly to thee I wish thou wouldst speak once a word for mee They fay that Poëts still continue poor And this makes me so often at the door But if thou pleasest when the House is set Think on my service and declare my debt I know I may just curtesie receive Amongst such Masters having much to crave I hope you will not let me praise your pay And yet my self come craving every day You all are gods your actions ever pure And I presume because your Creature Yet I appeal unto that place so high VVhich is establisht in fidelity VVhere thou dost sit whose vertues I adore I kisse thy hand and so I say no more W. M. TO THE HONOURABLE JAMES FIENNES Anagr. 1. My fansi'seen 2. I see sinnes aim Vers My fansie seen I see sinenesse aime These are the just Characters of thy Name Epig. I Shall be thought to have some slight intent Or that I speak by way of complement Nor can I shun but they will censure me Upon the sight of what I say to thee But I appeal unto the mindes of those If thou hast any who art term'd thy foes They will bear witnesse that I have a Theam In venturing to write upon thy Name Which neither Poët Prophet nor Divine Can change the Nature it is truly fien And what is Fien But onely the extract Of all things good which wholly is compact In one entire and formall shape of thing Which if they ask me where it is Must bring Thy self in presence proving it is thine Or thou art it that brave and Noble Fien Which yet I finde is but a branch that springs From such re-fiens as are renowned things Thus of such ancient Worthies art thou sprung But wilt exceed them all thou art but young W. M. To the Right Worshipfull Sir JOHN MERRICK Knight Anagr. 1. I kno ' merci's hire 2. I