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	lord_n	treasurer_n	2,937	5	10.7353	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06484	The second part and knitting vp of the boke entituled Too good to be true Wherin is continued the discourse of the wonderfull lawes, commendable customes, [and] strange manners of the people of Mauqsun. Newely penned and published by Thomas Lupton.; Too good to be true. Part 2	Lupton, Thomas.	1581 (1581)	STC 16954; ESTC S109660	170,117	212

Imprinted at London by Abel Ieffs dwelling in the forestrete without Crepelgate at the signe of the Bell. Anno. 1587. The Second part and Knitting vp of the Boke entituled Too good to be true Wherin is continued the discourse of the wonderfull Lawes commendable customes strange manners of the people of Mauqsun Newely penned and published by THOMAS LVPTON AT LONDON Printed by Henry Binneman ANNO DOMINI 1581. Cum Priuilegio Septembris 6. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR VVILLIAM CICILL OF THE NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER KNIGHT BARON OF Burghley Lord high Treasurer of Englande and one of hir Maiesties most honorable priuie Counsell AS THE first Styrpe whereof we did spring Right Honorable was bewitched by that wily wicked serpent Euen so the same wicked serpent hath neuer since ceased to enchaunt and bewitch hir posteritie knowing them to be hir deare darlings and sweete mouthed like their mother For who is it that feedeth not where fancie doth fauour And what fauoureth fancie but sweete pleasaunt poyson That flattering feend was the first founder of our fond affection and entised EVE did spinne the threede of our thraldom but ADAM alas did weaue vp this wofull web And hath not his pieuish posteritie delited euer since to prowle for their pleasure though it worke their owne woe yea beside wicked praise and priuate profit to the hurt of other And to make it more manifest what thing hath bene done from the beginning or is now dailie practised except of a few but only for selfe pleasure wicked praise or priuat profit Examples hereof are as rare to be founde as to espie one winke that sleepeth nothing almost hath else bene esteemed what else at this time of vs is embraced But if we will not wilfullie winke but willinglie see the publike paine such pleasures haue preferred the perilous practises such praise hath permitted the pitifull penurie such profit hath procured that it will make vs loath that so many hath loued cause vs detest that so many haue desired feare vs to fauor that thousands haue followed LVCIFER the ringleader of this daunce practising for his pleasure to be higher than God did appoint him brought him selfe and many thousands of Angells to endles sorrowes EVES pleasure in the forbodden apple wrought the greatest displeasure to man that could be DAVIDS pleasure in the beautie of a woman cost VRIAS his life the pleasure of HOLOFERNES in IVDITH was the losse of his head and the spoile of his armie many a giltlesse child was murthered for the pleasure of HEROD the pleasure that ACHAE had in a litle vineyard caused NABOTH be killed NEROES vile pleasure made his mother be murthered his sister deslowred and Rome to be burned Wicked praise likewise hath bin preferred to the great grief of both godly other for did not PILATE to be praised of the people saue a murtherer and condemne innocēt Christ did not HEROD to be praised for the keeping of his wicked promise cause IOHN BAPTISTS head to be cut of Did not CAMEISES to be praised in his drunkennes shoote his good Counsellors child through the hart with an arrow Besides a great number of mischiefs wrought only for wicked praise And hath not priuat profit also to the hurt of many bin esteemed and that of such that ought chiefly to haue abhorred it Yes I trow for BAALAM the Prophet of God through greedy gaine did curse the people of God IVDAS one of CHRISTS Apostles for priuat profit did betray CHRIST his maister what made ALEXANDER go about to conquer the whole earth but a priuat cōmoditie and a regall rule to himself What cities haue bin betraied what coūtries cōsumed what people spoyled and murthered what pouerty vnhoused what right peruerted what townes decaied how many periured what widowes wronged what fatherlesse defrauded and what poore oppressed and al for priuat profit These are the blossoms that such braūches do beare these are the floods that flowe frō such fountaines and these are the grapes that grow on such grafts But if this selfe pleasure which hurteth many doth good to none were chaūged into godly pleasure which helpeth other though it hinder it selfe and if wicked praise which maketh truth be oft troubled and much wrōg to be winked at were altered into honest and godly report which iudgeth vprightly and fauoreth no falshood and if priuat profit which vndoeth many to make a few riche were turned into common commoditie that enricheth many and impouerisheth none then many displeasured should liue in quiet many that want should then haue enough and thousandes that are wronged should then haue their right Which godly chaunge most meete for Christians is smally preferred not much procured and a great deale lesse practised Yet the Ethnikes not knowing the gaine of godly life as we do so much did preferre the pleasures of other before their owne honest praise aboue other riches and publike welth before their owne profit that it is wonderfull to heare straunge to be tolde and hard to be credited CVRTIVS to pleasure the Romaines in ceasing the infectious fume left all his owne pleasures lept into a stinking pit and so died him selfe MVTIVS SCEVOLA to profit his owne Citie did burne his arme stoutly with a couragious hart ZOPIRVS to come in credit with the Babylonians his enemies did cut off his owne nose eares and lippes whereby being made Captaine of Babylon did after deliuer the same to DARIVS his Lord maister PHILIP king of Macedon father to ALEXANDER the great esteeming equity honest praise before his owne priuate profit gaue to a certaine man so much money out of his coffers as by wrong vndaduised iudgement he gaue from the same AGESILAVS preferring the profit of his subiects the Lacedemonians before his owne gaine did giue all king AGIS treasure among the poorest of them Now seing these Ethnickes and many mo with the losse of their liues the dismembring of themselues and with their liberall gifts haue shewed themselues by their deedes rather Christians than Ethnickes making pleasure praise and profite three vertues then these Christians that hurt and displease other to pleasure and profite themselues do shewe by their deedes that they are rather Ethnickes than Christians turning pleasure praise and profite into three vices whereof there are no small number But that pleasure prayse and profite were vsed as they ought not as they are I haue with some paines and studie facioned and framed not onely of late a worke for that purpose called To good to be true but also now newly compiled and finished a Seconde parte thereof Wherby it may appeare if my will were to my wishe the same three frequented vices should be changed into three vnaccustomed vertues But seing I can not performe it I would faine procure it and therefore for that I can not profite my countrie with my purse as I wishe yet I meane to pleasure the same with my penne as I may Which Booke as it