Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	normandy_n	8,654	5	11.5816	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50818	Miscellanea, or, A choice collection of wise and ingenious sayings, &c of princes, philosophers, statesmen, courtiers, and others out of several antient and modern authors, for the pleasurable entertainment of the nobility and gentry of both sexes / by G.M.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1694 (1694)	Wing M2014; ESTC R31228	47,603	172

my part said one 't is less Trouble to me than to swallow the Yolk of an Egg. Then sure Madam reply'd one of the Company your Throat is very narrow DYING MEN AND WOMEN I. THE ancient Romans were so superstitious and so apt to flatter their Emperors as to Deify them after their Decease Which made Vespasian one of their Emperors being at the point of Death express himself in these Words to his Friends about him I find says he that I become a God meaning that he was a dying Which he said probably in derision to the Roman Superstition and Flattery II. A Man condemned to be hanged at Caen in Normandy being come to the Place of Execution protested that he died Innocent and summoned the Judg to appear that Day Twelve-month before God To which the Judg answered I shall be guilty of Default III. Socrates going to suffer Death I am sorry said his Wife to him that you should die Innocent And I replied Socrates should be very sorry to die otherwise IV. Syward the Martial Earl of Northumberland finding himself a dying rose out of his Bed and put on his Armour saying That it became not a valiant Man to to die lying like a Beast and so gave up the Ghost As valiantly both spoken and performed as it was by Vespasian V. N. Heinsius Son of Daniel being upon his Death-bed charged a Friend of his with Compliments from him to the Duke of Montausier Monsieur Bigot and several others VI. A Popish Gentleman being at the point of Death a Confessor was brought unto him And being told what he was come for he lookt upon him and said I neither know you nor you me and so bidding him farewel turned his Face from him VII A Priest having given the Extream Unction to another dying Priest aged 90 Years Your Turn will come Brother said the dying Priest to him Your Turn will come VIII A dying Gentleman advising with another about a Preamble to his Will he told him of one he knew of Where the usual Words In the Name of the Father c. were followed by these I shall soon have done having but little to bequeath IX One dictating his Will to some Lawyers left a great many Legacies more than his Estate could bear and shewed his Disposition to leave Something likewise to the said Lawyers Who having writ hitherto very quietly began now it was their Concern to ask the Testator out of what these Legacies must be paid for upon this say they doth depend the Validity of the Will That I know very well answered the Testator and that 's the Thing which puzzles me most of all X. Another well knowing the Steward's way to make Hay while the Sun shines made this an Article of his Will I leave nothing to my Steward because he has served me Twenty Years XI Impious rather than Witty or Facetious was that Dean's Will in the Reign of Henry III who bequeathed his Estate to the King his Body to the Earth and his Soul to the Devil XII One who had been always Jocose in his Life-time lying upon his Death-bed his chief Clerk came and desired he would leave him a Legacy Upon which he gave him a Key and told him that in such a Drawer he would find that which would make him drink Dying not long after the Young Man greedily opened the Box and found in it but two red Herrings XIII A Person of Quality deeply indebted fell dangerously ill His Confessor being sent for he begged of God in the presence of his Confessor that he would be pleased to prolong his Life until he had paid his Debts The Confessor putting the best Construction upon his Words told him his Principle was so just that he hoped God would hear his Prayer Whereupon the Person of Quality turning to one of his Friends whispered these Words in his Ear Should God grant my Request I should be sure never to die for I would never pay my Debts BVRYINGS I. UPON one's saying that the Heart of King Francis I was bury'd at Rambouillet another said Then he is all there because he was all Heart II. John Duke of Bedford Regent of France was buried in the Cathedral of Rouen in Normandy in a fair plain Monument King Charles VIII of France being advised by one of his Courtiers to deface it as a disgraceful Monument to France he would not hearken unto it but made this generous Return Let him rest in peace says he now he is dead whom we feared while he lived III. A Gentleman having sent his Wife to be buried four or five hours after she was dead one came and told him that she was scarce cold yet No matter says he do as you are bid she is dead enough for me He was in the right she being of a great age when he married her So that it was said of him that to help him to live he had contracted Society with a dead Body IV. Another being buried by his Order without a Coffin in a Capuchin's Habit a Widow that had lost her Husband by his means cried out in the funeral-Procession Murderer thy Disguise will signify nothing God will find thee out for all that V. A poor Country-woman in Poitou fell into such a Lethargy that her Husband and all about her gave her over for dead To bury her they wrapt her up only in a sheet as is usual with poor people in those Parts and so carried her to the Place of Burial But the Bearers passing too near a Thorn-bush she was prick'd alive again out of her Lethargy Fourteen Years after she died in good earnest Her Husband fearing another Resurrection remembred still the Thorn-bush in the way to the Church-yard So that when her Corps came near it he carefully cried out several times Take heed of the Thorn-bush and come not too near the Hedge EPITAPHS I. UPON King HENRY I. Who being dead his Heart and Brains were bury'd in Normandy and his Body in England HENRICI cujus celebrat Vox publica Nomen Hoc pro parte jacent Membra sepulta Loco Quem neque viventem capiebat Terra nec unus Defunctum potuit consepelire Locus In tria partitus sua Jura quibusque resignat Partibus illustrans sic tria Regna tribus Spiritui Coelum Cordi Cerebroque dicata est Neustria quod dederat Anglia Corpus habet II. Another Poet made him this flattering Epitaph Rex HENRICUS obit Deus olim nunc Dolor Orbis Numina flent Numen deperiisse suum Mercurius minor Eloquio vi Mentis Apollo Jupiter Imperio Marsque Vigore gemunt c. III. MAVD the Empress was Daughter to the foresaid King Wife to Henry IV Emperour and Mother to King Henry II. Happy in her Poet who in one Distich thus expressed her Princely Parentage Match and Issue Magna Ortu majorque Viro sed maxima Partu Hîc jacet HENRICI Filia Sponsa Parens IV. Upon King HENRY II who by his own Right annexed to the Crown of England the