Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	england_n	king_n	sovereign_a	4,994	5	9.8308	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07563	1603. The vvonderfull yeare. Wherein is shewed the picture of London lying sicke of the Plague. ...	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; N. L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580-1607, printer.; Creede, Thomas, d. 1619?, printer.	1603 (1603)	STC 6535; ESTC S91632	33,610	47

thereof left it Shée came in with the fall of the leafe and went away in the Spring her life which was dedicated to Virginitie both beginning closing vp a miraculous Mayden circle for she was borne vpon a Lady Eue and died vpon a Lady Eue her Natiuitie death being memorable by this wonder the first and last yeares of her Raigne by this that a Lee was Lorde Maior when she came to the Crowne and a Lee Lorde Maior when she departed from it Thrée places are made famous by her for thrée things Greenwich for her birth Richmount for her death White-Hall for her Funerall vpon her remouing from whence to lend our tiring prose a breathing time stay and looke vpon these Epigrams being composed 1. Vpon the Queenes last Remoue being dead THe Queene 's remou'de in solemne sort Yet this was strange and seldome seene The Queene vsde to remoue the Court But now the Court remou'de the Queene 2. Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall THe Queene was brought by water to White Hall At euery stroake the owers teares let fall More clung about the Barge Fish vnder water Wept out their eyes of pearle and swom blind after I thinke the Barge-men might with easier thyes Haue rowde her thither in her peoples eyes For howsoe're thus much my thoughts haue skand S'had come by water had she come by land 3. Vpon her lying dead at White Hall THe Queene lies now at White Hall dead And now at White Hall liuing To make this rough obiection euen Dead at White Hall in Westminster But liuing at White-Hall in Heauen Thus you sée that both in her life and her death she was appointed to be the mirror of her time And surely if since the first stone that was layd for the foundation of this great house of the world there was euer a yeare ordeined to be wondred at it is only this 1603. A more wonderfull yeere than 88. the Sibils Octogesimus Octauus Annus that same terrible 88. which came sayling hither in the Spanish Armada and made mens hearts colder then the frozen Zone when they heard but an inckling of it that 88. by whose horrible predictions Almanack-makers stoode in bodily feare their trade would be vtterly ouerthrowne and poore Erra Pater was threatned because he was a Iew to be put to baser offices than the stopping of mustard-pots that same 88. which had more prophecies waiting at his héeles than euer Merlin the Magitian had in his head was a yeare of Iubile to this Platoes Mirabilis Annus whither it be past alreadie or to come within these foure yeares may throwe Platoes cap at Mirabilis for that title of wonderfull is bestowed vpon 1603. If that sacred Aromatically-perfumed fire of wit out of whose flames Phoenix poesie doth arise were burning in any brest I would féede it with no other stuffe for a tweluemoneth and a day than with kindling papers full of lines that should tell only of the chances changes and strange shapes that this Protean Climactericall yeare hath metamorphosed himselfe into It is able to finde ten Chroniclers a competent liuing and to set twentie Printers at worke You shall perceiue I lye not if with Peter Bales you will take the paines to drawe the whole volume of it into the compasse of a pennie As first to begin with the Quéenes death then the Kingdomes falling into an Ague vpon that Next followes the curing of that feauer by the wholesome receipt of a proclaymed King That wonder begat more for in an houre two mightie Nations were made one wilde Ireland became tame on the sudden and some English great ones that before séemed tame on the sudden turned wilde The same Parke which great Iulius Caesar inclosd to hold in that Déere whom they before hunted being now circled by a second Caesar with stronger pales to kéepe them from leaping ouer And last of all if that wonder be the last and shut vp the yeare a most dreadfull plague This is the Abstract and yet like Stowes Chronicle in Decimo sexto to huge Hollinshead these small pricks in this Sea-card of ours represent mightie Countreys whilst I haue the quill in my hand let me blow them bigger The Quéene being honored with a Diademe of Starres France Spaine and Belgia lift vp their heads preparing to do asmuch for England by giuing ayme whilst she shot arrowes at her owne brest as they imagined as she had done many a yeare together for them and her owne Nation betted on their sides looking with distracted countenance for no better guests than Ciuill Sedition Vprores Rapes Murders and Massacres But the whéele of Fate turned a better Lottery was drawne Pro Troia stabat Apollo God stuck valiantlie to vs For behold vp rises a comfortable Sun out of the North whose glorious beames like a fan dispersed all thick and contagious clowdes The losse of a Quéene was paid with the double interest of a King and Quéene The Cedar of her gouerment which stoode alone and bare no fruit is changed now to an Oliue vpon whose spreading branches grow both Kings and Quéenes Oh it were able to fill a hundred paire of writing tables with notes but to sée the parts plaid in the compasse of one houre on the stage of this new-found world Vpon Thurseday it was treason to cry God saue king Iames king of England King Iames proclaymed and vpon Friday hye treason not to cry so In the morning no voice heard but murmures and lamentation at noone nothing but shoutes of gladnes triumph S. George and S. Andrew that many hundred yeares had defied one another were now sworne brothers England and Scotland being parted only with a narrow Riuer and the people of both Empires speaking a language lesse differing than english within it selfe as tho prouidence had enacted that one day those two Nations should marry one another are now made sure together and king Iames his Coronation is the solemne wedding day Happiest of all thy Ancestors thou mirror of all Princes that euer were or are that at seauen of the clock wert a king but ouer a péece of a little Iland and before eleuen the greatest Monarch in Christendome Now Siluer Crowds Of blisfull Angels and tryed Martirs tread On the Star-seeling ouer Englands head Now heauen broke into a wonder and brought forth Our omne bonum from the holesome North Our fruitfull souereigne Iames at whose dread name Rebellion swounded and ere since became Groueling and nerue-lesse wanting bloud to nourish For Ruine gnawes her selfe when kingdomes flourish Now are our hopes planted in regall springs Neuer to wither for our aire breedes kings And in all ages from this soueraigne time England shall still be cald the royall clime Most blisfull Monarch of all earthen powers Seru'd with a messe of kingdomes foure such bowers For prosprous hiues and rare industrious swarmes The world conteines not in her solid armes O thou that art the Meeter of our dayes