Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	prince_n	18,120	5	5.7862	4	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12625	An humble supplication to her Maiestie	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1600 (1600)	STC 22949.5; ESTC S118938	34,797	92

effect that intended by it For though they had cut off some of the Councell yea and dismantled the realme of your sacred maiesty which Gods goodnesse neither woulde nor we hope wil permit yet had their purpose beene farre from any semblance of their desired issue for then they must haue proclaimed either the Queene of Scotts or at least by some means haue sought her deliuery consequentlie haue notified to the worlde that for her rising was your Maiesties going downe And what a tide of resistance would this notice haue done none can be so seely but he must needs see For first by the oath of associatioÌ„ al the Nobility had bin bound to persist hir to death which many without an oth would otherwise haue beene apte enough to doe The crowne also beeing lefte without anie declared owner a faire goale for them that runne first at it no doubte but diuerse competitors woulde haue hindered her course to haue made her hopes-way to so faire an aime Then the act of PARLIAMENT excluding straingers from the Crowne as she by diuerse meanes was diuoulged to be woulde also haue added dainger to her claime especially considering the auncient deepe rooted dislike betweene the Scottishe and the Englishe no small motiue to a popular mutiny but most of all her vehemency in the Catholicke religion against which both the Nobility Cleargy commons were most violently bent woulde haue made them ready in that respecte to take heed of the least of these lettes to exclude her from the Crowne and to translate the title to some other more suteable to their beleefe All which impedimentes meeting so full with euery eie that did but loke towards them must needs haue made any in reason to conclude it an impossibility for these gentlemen to haue compassed their drifte which also they might easily haue discerned had they not bin bewitched with master secretaties fine deuises deluded with his spies cosoning letters and messages from forraine partes for the Spanishe fleete was not ready in two yeers after and in Fraunce more than a fewe that in Gascoine were imploied against the Hugonits there was no kinde of prouision by sea nor lande yea the king was then knowen to be so sure a friend to England and so sharpe an enimy to the Guisian partie in which the Queenes affiance was only fastined that he woulde neuer haue suffered her hopes to haue had ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ by any French assistants And from Scotland they neuer looked for any aide knowing that if they were not euery way blinde howe the king was wholly carried a way with an English byas and so setled in the possession of the Crowne and in the bent of the contrary faith that what soeuer he might haue attempted for himselfe it was neuer likely he woulde haue followed their designement of which the principall scope was the alteration of Religion And he that in respecte of his beleefe refused with the Infant of Spaine the present possessioÌ„ of the Lowe-Countries assistance for the chalenging of his other titles and promised to be proclamed heire if the Spanishe king should faile was doubtlesse much better armed against their slender perswations which could neuer haue tempted him with such glorious offers Finally the weaknesse of their beginning was an apparant proofe that it was conceaued and bred by them that woulde be sure to bring it to an abortion and neuer suffer it to preuaile to any other purpose but to make vs more hatefull and to bereaue your Maiesty of your more infamed than faulty Cosen Thus much Gratious Soueraigne is your Highnes drawen by these indirect courses to vse your vnwilling sword against your lesse fauoured then faithfull Subiects and put in vngrounded feares of theyr disloyaltie who are of themselues so farre from defiling theyr hartes with any treasonable thoughts that theyr heauie enimies had no other wayes to dismount them from theyr best deseruing buy by violenting them too euill by these sinester inuentions wee know your Maiesties minde to be from yeelding your Royall assent to so vglie shifts you euer binding your desires to the limits of vertue and measuring your Regalitie more by will to saue then by power to kill Yet it cannot but afflict vs to see your Highnes eares so gaurded against our complaints and possessed with theyr perswations that most maligne vs that we can haue no other orators for your gratious fauours then the tongues that cannot afford vs any fauourable word It hath bin alwaies the pollicie of our aduersaries to keepe vs aloofe from reuealing our vniust oppressions lest they should incline your mercie to pitty vs and they so arme your Highnesse with so hard informations against vs that they make our very sute for lenity seeme an offensiue motion yet sith wee must eyther speake or dye seeing so many slightes are put in vre to burie vs quicke in all miseries we hope God will make our petitions weigh into your hart and winne your clemency to consider our distresse Notwithstanding the slaunders that are published against vs and if we may make our benefit of that which others haue vsed to our greatest harmes we thinke that very act of Babington may insure your Highnesse of the impossibility of Catholickes to bee drawen to rebellion for when our oppressions were heauiest our deathes ordinary and so fine wittes busied to drawe vs into the foyle yet was there not in all England in so long time founde out aboue one Priest and he one of the meanest and fewe more than a dozen Lay-men that coulde be wonne to stoope to these odious lures Let not therefore this more preiudice vs than so open threats and direct menacings of the whole state haue endamaged others sith of our side there followed no effecte our numbers were lesse likely to hurt not ariuing to a scoare than these that dared your Maiesties Scepter with many thousands but because we like God-Almighties fooles as some scornefully call vs lay our shoulders vnder euery loade and are contented to make patience the onely salue for all sores many that see are willing to vse the awe of conscience for the warrant to treade vs downe whereas they presume not to meddle with others although more fatall to your Highnesse estate knowing that if they shoulde make them partners but of halfe our afflictions they woulde seeme to bewray more impatient stomackes for if the working of their spirites bee so vehement as with so little feare and so much solemnity to proclaime a newe Christ and king of the earth adding the creast of an vsurped Messias to countenance the chalenge of humane soueraignty If being so freely permitted to vse their consciences to themselues and to enioie their honours offices and fauours in the common wealth without any taste of your scourges they notwithstanding sparkle not such tokens of a concealed flame it can not choose but bee seene and knowne howe much more cause there is to loke into their actions and to feare their

much diligence haue searched out the truth by an indifferent triall betweene the learned on both sides as they haue with violence martyred and oppressed vs they vvould happilie thinke themselues more vnnaturall for hauing misledde infinite soules into endlesse perdition then vs that with the sweat of our dearest blood seeke to gleane a few scattered eares the sillie reliques of their infortunate haruest And if our due care of our Countrie be such that to reare the least fallen soule amongst your Maiesties Subiects from a fatall lapse we are contented to pay our liues for the ransome how much better should wee thinke them bestowed if so high a penny-worth as your GRACIOVS SELFE or the whole Realme might be the gaynes of our dearest purchase But though they that hunt this fault in vs might best be their owne pray faith being the strongest of true and naturall fidelitie yet must we be accounted vnnaturall being ballanced in their affections that draw all causes of compassion to motiues of crueltie and make theyr condemning reports the contraries of our dutiful meanings with the like spirit still breathing more ill will then truth He tearmeth the Right Honorable the Lord Cardinall Archbishop Allen and Father Parsons both learned reuerent men two seditious heads looking happily through such eyes as iudge all men by theyr owne colours what cause haue they giuen to this slaunderer vnlesse it be couÌ„ted sedition to gather the ruins of Gods afflicted Church and to haue prouided Sanctuaries for persecuted succourlesse soules which forced at home either to liue with a goared conscience or to lie open to continuall vexations rather choose to leaue theyr countrie then their Catholike Religion It was no sedition for many in Queene Maries time to be harboured in Geneua maintained theÌ„ by those that now enuie against vs. It is no sedition to admit such multitudes of straungers as for theyr faith swarme into England out of all countries It is thought Charity to aid the Stats of Flaunders in the behalfe of Religion It is extolled in your Maiestie as an Honorable fauour to protect the Portingall and S. Horatio Palanisine but if wee whose case at home in respect of our faith is more miserable then any Protestantes in any other Countries haue chosen two venerable men to procure vs some refuge from our domesticall scourges where wee may follow our studies and exercise Pietie strait your Maiestie though induced to practise the same curtesie to others is informed against them as seditious heades So true it is the same thing is not it selfe in diuers persons yet as God almightie and the world is our witnesse nothing in those Seminaries is either intended or practised but the releefe and good education of such forsaken men as from the storme of our English shoare flie thether for a calme roade that perfited in the course of learning vertue they may returne to offer theyr blood for the recouerie of soules As for the basenes of theyr birthes which among other like pointes is interlaced vvith as impertinent as scornefull a parenthesis as a fitter noate for the penners than for your maiesties obseruatioÌ„ I meane not to dwel long vpon it for the thing neither importeth any offence to God not crime against your Maiesty nor greatly abaseth them whom excellent vertue the onely true measure of worthinesse hath ennobled Yet this without disparagement to any may truely be auoided that the Cardinalls grace is of as good ancient a house euery way as worshipfully allied as some of the highest Counselours were in their meaner fortunes till your Maiesties fauors and their rare abilities made them steppes to clime into their present honours And whether he might of likelihood haue carried as high a sail if the time had equally secunded him with fauorable gales I leaue to their iudgementes who are priuy to his present estate greater than England can afford to any cleargy man For your Maiesty being as able to know we lesse willing to vse the excelleÌ„cy of your subiects thaÌ„ other Princes it may be iustly presumed that he might as well haue entred into credite at home if his Faith had not drawen his foote from the first step as with strangers in a forraine country wher nether familiarity with the Peers nor acquaintaÌ„ce with the Prince but the only fame of his worthines sent an admiration loue of him into thir harts whosoeuer considereth the manner of his aduancement being created Cardinal alone out of the ordinary times a prerogatiue seldom yeelded but to special persons who marketh his wisdome to haue bin in such reuerence that in Pope Greg. the 14. his sickenes he was thought fitest among the Cardinals to be vizgerent in spiritual causes who is ignoraÌ„t of the smal cause of our country by laws libels other meanes seeeking to vndermine the Popes Sea hath giuen him to reward her subiects with so high promotions who finally weyeth the aduentures of our Councel to hinder his preferment and darken his vertues with hard information shal easly beleeue the maÌ„ to be of rare perfectioÌ„s that hauing no other wings to beare his credite but learning and vertue could reach to so high points of fauour notwithstaÌ„ding so mighty lets As for Father Parsons he hauing placed the vttermost of his ambition in coÌ„tempt of honor the highest of his wealth in voluntary pouerty will easlie acknowledge his birth to haue bin of more honest theÌ„ great parents yet were they not so meane but that they were able to afford him such education as might haue made his good parts a way to no small prefermeÌ„t And albeit his credit be great with the K. of Spaine yet did hee neuer Vsurpe the Title of the KINGES CONFESSOVR as as this inditor would perswade your Maiestie though some of the simple sort of our English souldiers in the Gallies vpon error and ignorance muttered some such speeches amongst them selues As for other Priestes how many of them are Knights Esquires sonnes as otherwise both to worshipfull and noble houses alleyed heires to faire reuenewes let their owne friendes and Parents dispersed through the whole Realme beare witnesse This onely vvee may say in answere of our obiected basenes that in the small number of the Catholike Priestes of our Nation vvhich reacheth not to the tenth of the Protestant Ministrie there are very neare as many yea happily more Gentlemen then in all the other Cleargie of the whole Realme Now whereas we are most vncourteouslie called a multitude of disolute young-men wee desire no other euidence to disproue this accusation then an indifferent censure For first before our departure out of the Realme we must resolue to abandon our Countrie friendes and all such comforts as naturally all men seeke and finde in theyr natiue Countrie Wee must relinquish all possibilities of fauour riches and credit We must limite our mindes to the restrained and seuere course of the SOCIETY OF IESVS or the

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