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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	lord_n	sir_n	21,670	5	6.9416	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11779	The Belgick souldier vvarre vvas a blessing.	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1624 (1624)	STC 22071; ESTC S116965	21,486	44

ordinary courses to the disappointing of his Garrisons in Europe which hath caused many mutinies and innouations amongst the souldiers The East Indies haue been visited by them and so visited that they haue planted Colonies in the Ilands in despight of opposition they haue dared the Portingals and ouertopped the English their ships exceed in number and their Merchants in industrie and husbandry their labours haue made way vnto continual thriuing and the seuerall Kings of the nations haue reputed them greater then the English The Philippines and Molunes haue been searched by them and neither Iland nor harbour but reioyced at their trade and traffique The South seas with the streights of Magellane haue been adventured on and their voyages set the pens of learned Chronologers on worke Both the Guincies and the coasts of Afrik are explored by them and if there be no more in the satisfaction of expectation then knowledge experience and augmentation of wealth they attained to all by their nauall encounters and adventures The Leuant is stored with their shippes and the Streights of Gibraster are not so straight but in their defiances with Spaine they rushed them open to giue them passage so that both Turkey and Italy have admitted their factories and opened the lapps of their plenty to bid them take the blessings by shippes full If you step into France you shall finde they not onely stepped thether but visited every towne of importance yeelding an honest account of their traueles What thinke you of the fishing in Newland of Whales in Greeneland of the commodities of Island Freezland of the Herings of Scotland Ireland and England of the coasts of America and all those Nations which are accessable yeelding either pleasure or profit they haue euery where suckt the hony with the Bee and extended their trauaile with the Ant so that the summers labour hath fed and cloathed them in winter and the winter it selfe never had such fearefull blasts but the winde either breathed good vpon them or draue them to seeke it in all the corners of the earth If you are not afraid of the Easterne violence and mountanous ice of Russia you shall finde that they are not afraid of winters snow nor summers contagion but visit Norway Sweden Goteland the sound of Denmarke the Haus Townes Prussia Poland Muscouia and all maritime coastes Insomuch that like the honest explorators of the land of Canaan they not onely returne with clusters of grapes but continue undaunted So that I may well say warre hath beene a blessing unto them and the God of all blessings hath multiplied Israel euen vnder their grieuances But now if they kindly let you within their doores you will be amazed at the furniture of their houses I meane the successe of their affaires and the noble proceedings of the warres which hath made them famous in the successe and left their honest defences exemplary to all posterity They haue expulsed the Spaniard out of Zealand Holland and as it were exprobrated great Princes for not being content to insult ouer the obedienc of their subjects but they must tyranize their soules either by Inquisition or change of religion is it any other then the working of slumbring patience which being abused turneth to fury disobedience They haue not onely preserued their virgin prouinces from the rauishings of Burgundy but reuenged the vsurpation which challenged their captiuitie by hereditary birthright yea besides their owne ordinary walkes to visit Vtreck Gelderland and many fortified Townes they haue made larger steps vpon their enemies Countries and by maine force shouldred open the Castillian gates and throwne the Portcullis on the ground which boasted of Austrias fasting and the Popes Benediction so they entred Hamlers and still keepe Sluice and the adiacent places to depend vpon their garrisons they possesse Breda diuers Bergens the fort of Lillo and aboue 20 forts and fortresses in Brabant What haue they done in Cleue Munster Westphalia the Land of Luke and those places of Freezland wherein the Spaniards are now politicke intruders For what Papist or Hispanolized temporiser can yeeld an accou●t of any thriuing action or preuailing successe against them these 50 yeares yet the Pope curseth and excommunicateth the Emperor threats the Archdutches proscribes them Spaine assembles armies the Iesuites coniure the Priests imposture and all the practises which pollicies mightinesse treasure or friends haue hatched and brought forth was but to amaze them with some monstrous birth of treason and perfidious reuenge yea those strange hindrances of diuers reuolts and couert supplantations haue proued their owne shame Thus by the corruption of Spanish rewards haue diuers English themselues proued traitors to Holland and onely abused their honors and loyalty by such inconstancy which yet ended with Spaines scornes and their Countries eternall hate and banishment Yet for all this haue the Low Countries thriued by such exasperating difficulties and the following warrs haue beene a blessing vnto them insomuch that the Spaniard hath not onely admired theirs and Englands happy estate but blasphemed heauen to suppose we had a pulling hooke to bring prosperity vnto vs. In the time of Don Lewis Requescens Commander and Captaine Generall for the King of Spaine by the exciting of diuers Priests certaine English reuolted which added life to the Spanish affaires After this Aegremont Ratelife Grey and some others Gentlemen of Noble Families in England went from the Low Countries and fell into the seruice of Spaine as if they had fallen into a deuouring graue At the siege of Audenard 600 English vnder Norris Barney Cornish and Gipson proued traytors to the States and violated their first alleageance to be afterward abused by them which set them on worke Alost was betrayed to the King of Spaine by a whole Regiment of English ouer whom Pigot commanded who with the association of Dalton Tailor Vincent Smith and We●sh thought to pull away the stones of the high built walles of the Low Countries bulwarks In my Lord of Leicesters time Deu●●ter and Zutphen were deliuered to Stanley and Yorke in the Queenes name who in the diuels name redeliuered them to Spaine Grane was betrayed by Hermet the Gouernour Venlo sold by the Burghers before the enemy approached Newis lost by treachery Berck besieged and so abandoned And many other places and persons left the seruice of the States to state themselues in the King of Spaines intertainment Yea by perfidious practises another Regiment vnder Sir William Stanley whose Captaines were Scurlock Peter Winn Hart Guin Salsbury Eaton Reignolds and Harison forsooke their first faith and flattered themselues with the hope of great treasu●es of Spaines Indies I could also name the failing and falling away from Englands loue and the Low Countrey embraces of the Earle of Westmerland Lord Paget Charles Paget Sir Francis Englefield Hugh Owen Dakers Tempest Norton Harman Markenfield Tremaine Stradling Carew Allen Southwell Fleming Bulmer with diuers others whose reuoults might haue been great discouragments to the States