Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	great_a	king_n	26,882	5	4.1773	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92044	The royal chronicle: wherein is contained, an historical narration of His Majesties Royal progress; the princely cabinet laid open, with an embleme to Great Brittain; the peoples diadem, proceeding from the ornament and crown of their gracious Lord and soveraign; the incomparable studies of His Majesty in the government of Kings, to the admiration of all forreign princes; and His Majesties leige people within these His realms and dominions; His great endowments aud [sic] experience, in religion, law, and governments; His mercy rejoycing over justice, and his justice cutting out work for his mercy; His gracious pardon to offenders, and His Christian speech to the London ministers.		1660 (1660)	Wing R2104; Thomason E1034_2; ESTC R209029	4,759	8

THE Royal Chronicle Wherein is contained An Historical Narration of His Majesties Royal Progress The Princely Cabinet laid open with an Embleme to Great Brittain The Peoples Diadem proceeding from the Ornament and Crown of their gracious Lord and Soveraign The incomparable Studies of His Majesty in the Government of Kings to the admiration of all forreign Princes and His Majesties Liege People within these His Realms and Dominions His great Endowments and Experience in Religion Law and Governments His Mercy rejoycing over Justice and his Justice cutting out work for his Mercy His gracious Pardon to Offenders and His Christian Speech to the London Ministers DIEV ET MON DROIT C. R. HONI SOIT QVI MAY Y PENSE LONDON Printed for G. Horton living near the three Crowns in Barbican 1660. THE Royal Chronicle IF Violence and Time had conspired to wear out all the Memorials of former Ages give me leave to present you with a brief but pleasant Chronicle to all Posterity of his Royal Maiesties Birth Education and Progress And should modern worth be blotted out of all Records a restored Charles sufficeth in whom the forlorn Vertue of our worst of Times took sanctuary 'T is his Soveraign Graces that delights the Soules of his loyal Subjects And we need not wonder that Nature was 5 years meditating on the great piece that was to result from such a Royal Conflux both of Father and Mother in whose Bed all the Royal Families of Europe met in his Father there was by his great Grandmother the wife of James the Fourth Brittish Maiesty by his Grandfather he shared of the Saxon Royalty by his Mother of the Danish by his Father of the Norman by his Sister he was allied to the Elector Palatine as he was related to Denmark so he was to Sweden and Po●and and to most of the German or Italian Princes in our Soveraigns Mother there lodgeth all that 's Soveraign in the Bourbons of France the Austrians of Spain the Medices of Fl●rence so true is it that God made all Nations of one blood It was after five years mutual enjoyment of each other Charles the first King of England c. and Mary Daughter to a great and Sister to a just King of France received this Son the sacred pledge to them of Heavens and each others Love For He was born the 29 Day of May 1630. St. Augustines birth-day where we may hope this Nursing Father of our Church will with his sword which He bears not in vain prove as great a Defender of the faith once delivered to the Saints as the other Holy Father did with his pen and we made as happy in this Crown and Scepter as the Antient Church was in that Miter and Crosier May never knew a more hopeful Flower then this that happily sprung up from the Roses of York and Lancaster joyned to the Lillies of France a flower to whose composure it seems Nature summoned its divided glories as Zouxis did his several Beauties to make up one Venus well this May was then thought most happy until now we have lived to see another May as much more happy as it is to be brought to a Kingdom then to be brought to the world to be received as a Prince into the discreet embraces of Nations then as a Child into the fond Embraces of a Nurse to be crowned then to be cradled Great was the remark of this Royal Infant through each tender Line relating to so worthy a Prince as is fit to be consecrated to Solemnities worthy a Chronicle The Heavens seemed to congratulate his royal birth a Star appearing at mid-day over St. James displaying its modest beams in spight of Sun-shine in the middle of the Air an embleme of his future glory Thus did the Heavens express themselves in miracles and wonders and it is our duty to admire them as the works of the Lord and therefore wonderful in our eyes Yet the great Selden attempted to interpret that Star thus When to Pauls Cross the greatful King drew near A shining Star did in the Heavens appear Thou that consult'st with Divine Mysteries Tell me what this bright Comet signifies Now is there born a valiant Prince it 'h West That shall eclipse the Kingdoms of the East The King our Soveraigns Father being sensible that Children to any man especially to a Prince are an inheritance from the Lord went solemnly to St. Pauls once a Cathedral since a stable once a Church to entertain Christ in since a Manger for Rebels to revel in and there acknowledged with the Emperour Antoninus in St. Pauls phrase that by God and through God and therefore to Him and the glory of his praise are all things This Bud of Majesty was committed to the care of the honourable Countess of Dorset to be by her tender hands and softer care cherished to grow up a Soveraign where He sucked graces in with milk and vertues as early as nourishment as appears by the most incomparable gifts and graces wherewith God hath bin pleased to endow his Majesty To pass by his outward Man comelier and with Saul higher then all the people so that there is none like him among all the people so exactly formed that with Absalon from the Crown of his head to the soul of his foot the most curious eye could not discern an error or a spot the pleasing severity and soft rigorousness of that face which is both Majestick and beautiful solemn and comely though of late he is grown leaner with cares and age the dark and night complexion of his face and the twin-stars of his quick and sharp eyes sparkling in that night He is most beautiful when he speaks his black shining Locks naturally curled into great Rings hath hitherto been his Ornament and Crown his motions easie and graceful and plainly Majestick c. I say to pass by these lower worths of neat shaped dust and well framed earth come we to his Mind which is indeed himself which you may guess noble by that body wherein it dwels such Cabinets were made onely for the most precious Jewel the pleasing parts and motions of that body are emblems of his mind beauty comeliness proportion c. the gross Ornaments of the body are so many refined vertues in his soul 1. His vast Understanding as spreading and as wide as the things to be understood three Nations put limits to his power it s the world onely that confines his thoughts His Majesty understands Spanish and Italian writes French correctly the French Italian Spaniards like those Parthians Medes and Elamites in the Acts are amazed to hear Him replying to each of them in their own Tongue wherein they were born In these several Languages he peruseth such parts of knowledge as may compleat a Soveraign Logick seems to be his Nature as well as Reason He cannot speak inconsequently He hath read divers of the choicest pieces of policy gathered the scattered wisdom and reason that run through Politicians