Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	french_a	king_n	lewis_n	2,585	5	10.4886	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68519	An oration militarie to all naturall Englishmen, whether Protestants, or otherwise in religion affected, to moue resolution in these dangerous times vvherein is expressed the delight of libertie, and the tyrannie of the enemie : with a praier both pithie and necessarie / written by a zealous affected subiect.	Zealous affected subject.	1588 (1588)	STC 18836.5; ESTC S110216	3,640	18

AN Oration Militarie to all naturall Englishmen whether Protestants or otherwise in Religion affected to moue resolution in these dangerous times VVherein is expressed the delight of libertie and the tyrannie of the enemie With a Praier both pithie and necessarie Written by a zealous affected Subiect Non nobis solùm nascimur AT LONDON Printed by Thomas Orwin and Thomas Cadman 1588. An Oration Militarie WOrthy Coūtrymen whose predecessors were not onely feared in Europe but famous through all the discouered partes of the Earth doubtfull it is not but your harts are prepared and your mindes as it were one fire valiantly to resist the force of any forreyne inuasion yet to adde flame vnto your fire I thought good in this breefe exhortation to animate each of you if it may be to more resolution Know then worthy Countrymen for why we know you are not ignorant what rumors are spread of the preparation of that man of sinne that worthlesse Priest of Rome against this Royall Realme and be you assured that whatsoeuer pretence of Iustice our aduersaries by their false Apostles or Seminarie Priests shall buzze into your eares as redresse of wrongs reformation of Religion or such like yet if you respect your auncient libertie consider the thraldome of your neighbours subiected to the tyranie of Spanish gouernment and the double dealing of the Popes feined holines weying besides that of all bondage there is none more vile than the seruice of the vile you will I doubt not resolue euery one rather on death were it neuer so bitter than either by perswasions of flatterie or feare submit your selues to such as neyther merit names of men or are for courtesie to be accoūted among reasonable creatures The heathen men good Christian Coūtreymen were so affected vnto their natiue soyle that some of them haue entred the armies of the enemies and aymed at the harts of their cheefe Rulers setting so light by torments that being apprehended they themselues haue burnt off the hand whose deathfull stroke mistooke the man their hearts desired to dispatch some cast themselues into raging gulphes others detested life when Countreyes libertie hath bene lost most crying out O fortunata mers quae naturae debira pro Patria potissimum est reddita Then much more we who are not onely bound by like loue but by a greater bonde euen Christian libertie ought to set light by life willingly imbrace the greatest torments that tyranny can oppose rather than see Religion defaced our Countrie ruinated our Souereigne Princesse iniured our wiues and virgins defiled our infants tost on pikes and our goods the greedie Spaniardes spoyle Take courage Countreymen and if they come resolue on victorie or death if they come not determine some of you to braue the cowardes at their doores Yea more let not anie either English traytor or foreyne tyrant be named leader but of a bande against this noble Iland or the least part of her Maiesties Dominions but let his heart bloud by some deuice or other satisfie for an attempt so iniurious Set before your eyes the desolation of the Lowe Countrie whose people flourished within these thirtie yeres no Nation in more felicitie but fince the Spaniardes haue opprest their gouernment no men so miserable Of their affliction it is needlesse to speake for that your eyes are witnesses of their exiled numbers your eares haue heard of the mercilesse massacres among them and the whole worlde reporteth the wretchednesse of their defaced Cities and desolate habitations But some may say to me seeing the Pope is Patrone of this hallowed armie there shal be mercie shewed to the submisse and reward to such as resist not for thus his fauourers will report of him but bee not you deceiued Countreymen to you I now speake that haue affected our Antichristian enemy the elder brother to Mahomet by whose pride the yonger grew to such pompe learne nowe at last to discerne him by his deedes His pride O Countreymen lost all Asia Syria Arabia Armenia Cappadocia Aegypt Africa a great part of Europe as Thracia Constantinople all Greece almost all Hungarie Epyrus Illyria a great part of Austria with those famous Iles of Rhodes and Candie and infinite other Regions nowe subiect to Turkish tyrannie yea he that will needes bee called high Bishop of Christendome hath betrayed these Christian Kingdomes and yet ceaseth not by like dissension to lay open this little remnant for the Turkish inuasion His mercie the mercie of his adherents is like that which Mustapha his spiritual brother shewed whē Famogosta was deliuered by the Prince of Cyprus who forced through long famin to compound couenanted souldier like he and his people should depart with bag and baggage but most faithlessely when they were issued after manie vile reproches they stript the Prince and with hotte pincers blistered his bodie thrusting wier into euerie blister being dead with famine and this torment they bowelled and stufte him full of strawe on their greatest galleyes mast whereinto his souldiers were thrust for slaues they hanged the martyred Prince to augment his seruants miserie such mercie as the Spaniards shewed to the Portugalls in Tercera who were al without respect of age or innocence put either to tormenting deaths or condemned to the Gallyes yet were they of the same religiō as their enimies both subiect to the Sea of Rome such mercie as the silly Indians finde whō the Spaniards haue bayted with dogs throwen to wilde beasts butchered by hundreds as their owne Writers report therfore it is euidēt that they regard not Religion but seeke for Englands ruine wherefore beleeue them not but remember the resolution of Lewys the French Kinges sonne discouered to the English Gentlemen cōfederates against their naturall Prince King Iohn by a noble man of France a counseller to the said Lewys beeing in London at the point of death and for that it is so excellent an example in these times the pretence of the English rebellious was to defend the Papal dignitie I thinke good breefely to note the effect of his admonition My Lords saith he and Gentlemen of England I am in conscience mooued my houre of death approching to warne you of imminent danger that hangeth ouer your heads You see that my Lord the Prince Lewys through your assistance hath gained many forces in this Realme of England and if you were not blinded with too much malice you might easily perceiue what he intendeth toward you in that he makes French men rulers ouer those holdes but to assure you better of his intent I protest vpon my soule which must shortly answere if I speake vntruth that before euer we left Paris it was agreed that not one of you which assisted him against your Souereigne but should hane the reward of traytors when he was possessed of the crowne Remēber this good Coūtreymen and trust not strangers beleeue not the secret messengers from Rome but be ye all of one minde in the defence