Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	great_a	king_n	war_n	9,681	5	6.1684	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07106	A speach deliuered, to the Kings most excellent Maiestie in the name of the sheriffes of London and Middlesex. By Maister Richard Martin of the Middle Temple	Martin, Richard, 1570-1618.	1603 (1603)	STC 17510; ESTC S112363	3,751	12

strengthen the sinnews of your Maiesties kingdomes The neglected and almost worne out nobility shall now as bright Dyamonds and burning Carbunckles adorne your Kingly Diadem The too much contemned Clergy shall hang as a precious earing at your Princly eare your Maiesty still lystning to their holy Councels The wearied Commons shall be worne as a rich ring on your royall finger which your Maiesty with a watchfull eye will still gratiously looke vpon For we haue now a King that will heare with his owne eares see with his own eyes and be euer iealous of any great trust which being afterwardes become necessary may be abused to an vnlymmitted power O my gracious Leige let neuer any wrye Councels dyuert or puddle the fayre streame of your naturall goodnesse Let wicked vsurpers seeke lewd arts to mayntaine their lewd purchases To your Maiesty called to this Empyre by the consent of God and men and now King of so many faithfull harts plaine and dyrect vertue is the safest pollicy and loue to them who haue shewne such loyalty to you is a wall of brasse They meane to sell the King to his subiects at their owne price and abuse th' authority of his maiesty to their priuate gayne greatnes who perswade him that to shut himselfe vp from the accesse of his people is the meanes to augment his state Let me not seeme tedious to your Maiesty my gracious Soueraigne nor yet presumptuous for I counsell not But whiles your Maiesty hath bin perchance wearied with the complaints and insinnuations of perticulars for pryuate respects let it be lawfull my leige for a hart free from feare or hope to shew your Maiestie the agues which keepe lowe this great body whereof your Maiesty is the sound-head Nor are we fed with hopes of redresse by immagination as hungry men with a painted banquet but by assurance of certaine knowledge drawne out of the obseruation of your Maiesties forepast actions and some bookes now fresh in euery mans hands beeing to vse your Maiesties owne wordes the Viue ideas or representations of the minde Whose excellent wholesome rules your Maiesty will neuer transgresse hauing bound your Princely sonne by such heauy penalties to obserue them after you nor dooth any wiseman wish or good man desire that your Maiesty should followe other Counselles or examples then your owne by which your Maiestye is soe neerelye bound To conclude therefore what great cause haue we to welcome to the territories of our Cittie your most excellent Maiestie who to make vs the glorious and happie head of this Iland haue by your fyrst entrance brought vs th' addition of another kingdome which warre could neuer subdue So your Maiesties vpright gouernment shall make vs partakers of that felicitie which diuine Plato did onely apprehend but neuer see whose king is a Philosopher a Philosopher beeing our King Receiue then most gracious Soueraigne that loyall welcome which our Cittie sendeth out to meete your Maiestie our Cittie which for the long tryall of her loyaltie obedience and faithfull readinesse in all occasions your maiesties royall progenitors haue honoured with the title of their Chamber whose faythfull Citizens with true and well approued harts humbly lay at your royall feete their goods and liues which they will sacrifice for your maiesties seruice and defence with longing eyes desiring to receiue your Maiestie within their walles whom they haue long since lodged in their harts praying to heauē that your Maiesties person may be free frō practize your soule safe from flaterie your life extended to the possibilitie of nature and that if not your naturall life yet your royall line may haue one period with tbe world your princely ofspring sitting vpon the throne of their fathers for euermore And we your Maiesties faythfull seruants humbly surrendring into your Maiesties hands that authority which we holde from you wishing from our harts that all plagues may pursue his posterity that but conspires your Maisties daunger