Selected quad for the lemma: king_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	bishop_n	knight_n	queen_n	271,212	5	11.8520	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96739	Amygdala Britannica, almonds for parrets. A dish of stone-fruit, partly shel'd and partly unshel'd; which (if crack'd, pick'd and well digested) may be wholesome against those epidemick distempers of the brain, now predominant: and prevent some malignant diseases, likely to ensue. / Composed, heretofore, by a well-knowne moderne author; and, now published according to a copie, found written with his own hand.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing W3141; Thomason E516_2; ESTC R206145	11,362	15

AMYGDALA BRITANNICA Almonds for Parrets A Dish of STONE-FRUIT partly shel'd and partly unshel'd WHICH Jf crack'd pick'd and well digested May be wholsome against those Epidemick Distempers of the Brain now predominant and prevent some Malignant Diseases likely to ensue Composed heretofore by a well-knowne Moderne Author and now published according to a Copie found written with his own Hand Qui bene latuit bene vixit MATTH XIII XIII XIV XV. Therefore speak I to them in parables because they seeing see not and hearing they hear not neither do they understand And in them is fulfilled the Prophesie of Esaias which saith By hearing ye shall hear and shall not understand and seeing ye shall see and shall not perceive For this peoples heart is waxed grosse and their eares are dull of hearing and their eyes they have closed left at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their eares and understand with their heart and should be converted and healed Anno M. D.C.XLVII AMYGDALA BRITANNICA Almonds for Parrets When Wisemen found plain-dealing did offend In Hieroglyphicks they their Musings pen'd And to the meek conveighed in a cloud The light which was disdained by the proud That so the scorner hearing might not heare Nor seeing see what plainly doth appeare For just it is that they should lose their sight Who would not see their safety when they might 'T is much observed that this Generation Hath taken up the Parrets inclination Who loves on shells to exercise his beake And words not understood delights to speake Wee therefore since the labour may be spar'd For private entertainment have prepar'd This dish of Stone-fruits whereof there are some That yeeld a kernell better then the plumb And such that if they well digested bee Will cleare their eyes who have a mind to see Here till affaires are wholly mis-transpos'd You shall perceive in Parables disclos'd Vpon what actions and contingencies The Fortune of this British Empire lies And by what symptomes you may truly know Which way the Publike Fate will ebb or flow Thus he conceives who seriously hath weigh'd Those things in these words his thoughts arai'd ALL things terrestriall have their dates Kings Kingdoms and the greatest States And warnings do appeare to some Of all such changes ere they come Whereby were timely means assaid Plagues might be scaped or allaid And peradventure to that use This which ensueth may conduce The time drawes neere and hasteth on In which strange works will be begun And prosecutions whereon shall Depend much future blisse or bale If to the left-hand you decline Assur'd destruction they divine But if the right-hand course ye take This Island it will happy make A time drawes near in which you may As you shall please the Chesse-men play Remove confine check leave or take Dispose depose undoe or make Pawne Rook Knight Bishop Queen or King And act your wills in every thing But if that time let slip you shall For yesterday in vaine you call A time drawes near in which the Sun Will give more light then he hath done Then also you shall see the Moon Shine brighter then the Sun at noon And many Stars now seeming dull Give shadowes like the Moon at full Yet then shall some who think they see Wrapt in Egyptian darknesse be A time drawes near when with your blood You shall preserve the Vipers brood And starve your own yet fancy than That you have plaid the Pelican But when you think the frozen Snakes Have chang'd their natures for your sakes They in requitall will contrive Your mischief who did them revive A time will come when they that wake Shall dreame and sleepers undertake The grand-Affaires yet few men know Which are the Dreamers of these two And fewer care by which of these They guided be so they have ease But an Alarum shall advance Your drowzie spirits from that trance A time shall come ere long in which Meer Beggars shall grow soonest rich The rich with wants be pinched more Then such as go from door to doore The honourable by the base Shall be despighted to their face The truth defamed be with lies The foole preferr'd before the wise And he that fighteh to be free By conquering inslav'd shall be A Time shall come when they that would Discredit truths which were foretold Of ev'ry newes will stand in feare And credit ev'ry lie they heare Till they by penance done have paid For ev'ry truth they have gainsaid Then they who have expected Fish Shall finde a Scorpion in their dish The children shall have stones for bread And starved be whilst dogs are fed Then also shall each work you do Ere it be finish'd make you two And render all when much is done Far worse then when the Plague begun A time drawes neere in which your peace Shall make your quarrells more increase Then shall you by false-brethren lose More then by all your open-foes Then one-mans hate shall rob of more Then five times twenty can restore Three men shall act more mischiefs here Then three great Kingdoms well can beare And then shall they be better priz'd Whose counsells have been long despis'd The time is drawing near when wee Our own Antipodes shall bee When our most dangerous disease Shall be the Scribes and Pharises When Seamen shall usurp the whip Plowmen presume to guide the ship The children frequently begin To teach their grandams how to spin And then shall that which was a crime Be deem'd the vertue of the time And that impietie be thought Which hath for sanctitie been taught A time will come in which the Flocks Shall see their Shepheard play the Fox And range and ramble up and downe Till he into a wolf be growne Then they that hounds and sleugh-dogs keep Shall hunt him till he growes a Sheep And then if what he seemes he be He shall be safe and so shall we A time will come when see you shall Toads fly aloft and Eagles crawle Wolves walke abroad in humane shapes Men turne to asses hogs and apes But when that cursed time is come Well's he that is both deafe and dumbe That nothing speaketh nothing heares And neither hopes desires nor feares The time will come when you shall see A Headlesse-body active bee And many actions full of dread Performed by a Trunklesse-head Which Head and Body being brought To knit together as they ought Might prove to be in time to come The joy and awe of Chiristendome But e're such happie daies be seen There will some changes intervene Our hopes and them to make or marre the sequele as they mannag'd are And therefore that discerne you may When these approach and which are they And what to do when they are knowne Here they in easie types are showne Or by those tokens which fore-hint What you should labour to prevent When you see many things effected Which were nor feared nor suspected The Mountains sink the Valleyes clime Stars