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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	affect_v	christian_n	great_a	47	3	2.1250	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25235	The Ambitious practices of France, or, A relation of the ways and methods used by them to attain to that supreame grandeur as also, the secret intrigues of the French king's ministers at the courts of most of the princes and states of Europe : with remarks thereupon, and some reflections on the interest of those princes.		1689 (1689)	Wing A2949; ESTC R8728	42,003	71

with Mont-George who was kill'd in these last Wars and was then a Captain in Candale being a brave Man and loving War above all things about Conducting Officers and Soldiers into Portugal Now Mont-George being Embark'd with them in order to his getting as soon as possible into that Country having been taken by the Spaniards who had notice of his departure for that time it was forc'd to pull off the Mask because the Spaniards already spake of taking off his Head. Whereupon a Courrier was dispatch'd in all haste to Madrid and the Court of Spain seeing he was re-demanded by France durst not proceed farther in that matter for fear of drawing upon itself the War which it was very willing to avoid So great a piece of Infidelity was followed with a world of others of the like nature without any Potentates interposing his Authority to bring these things to be regulated according to Justice Not but that there were Guarrands of the Peace of the Pyrenees but not the least aid would they give unto the Spaniards whom it was endeavour'd to oppress by so many indirect ways The Spaniards too whether that they were become insensible or as is more probable they knew their weakness suffer'd themselves to be thus Fool'd and good morrow'd if I may use that word without shewing any Resentment but by Complaints so little suitable to Soveraigns unless they be followed with some effects so as others seeing they swallow'd all these affronts without saying ought did not think themselves more oblig'd than they themselves to take their part Mean while if their weakness appear'd in any thing it was undoubtedly in what happen'd at London between Mon. D' Estrades and the Baron de Vatteville Ambassadors of the two Crowns For after the Baron de Vateville had got the precedence of Mon. D' Estrades at an entrance made by another Ambassador he was not only disown'd by Spain but Spain has for ever varnish'd its Reputation by a shameful Declaration which I dare not repeat nay which I dare not so much as call to mind for fear of blushing upon its account Yet if it be well remembred the fault thereof ought to be attributed to other Powers who shew'd themselves so passionate for Peace that they took not any share in the Affront that was meant upon Spain which seeing itself abondoned by all the World was obliged to relax of its usual haughtiness The best Head pieces then considering with what Arrogance France demean'd it self upon that occasion were of advice that before it was suffer'd to gather greater Forces endeavours should be used to oppose its Ambition but the voice of these wise Politicians was only listned to by way of Conversation and the blindness began to become so Epidemical that they consider'd those who held such like Discourses as People who had more mind to create stirs than foster Peace which they thought so necessary to all Europe Nor did they begin to see clear until that France being no longer able to bear the yoak of Ease resolv'd to make War in Flanders under the pretext of some Pretensions as Chymerical as those now on Foot But to which an Advocate of Paris whom they had been careful to cull out from among the most expert in puzling of Causes undertook to give a Varnish and some Colour Nevertheless an honest Man would have been very much puzled but this Advocate had serv'd his Apprentiship at the Bar where for two Crowns they 'l undertake the worst Cause that is thought that being much better paid for this he should not neglect a thing that might make his Fortune Thus Interest having prevail'd over Truth there quickly appear'd a Manifest by which they endeavoured to make out that though the King had renounc'd by the Treaty of the Pyrencas to what he might one day pretend in the Low-Countries and elsewhere upon the account of the Queen his Wife this Renunciation was null because that the Parliament would never be brought to ratify the Treaty This Manifest did moreover establish that the Queen had a Right from that time over several Provinces and to give this Manifest a Title that might suit with what it endeavoured to insinuate it was intituled The Rights of the Queen Now you must know 't was the King himself who hinder'd the Treaty of the Pyrenees from being Registred that so it might be a pretext upon occasion to thwart against what had been sign'd by the greatest Lords of France and what he himself had sign'd Mean while this new litigious pretension giving occasion to all the World to make Reflexion upon the little Faith of this Prince could not sufficiently admire that a great Monarch who affected wearing the Quality of most Christian King did things which would have made the very Infidels to blush whose actions some took pleasure in relating that by the Comparison of those of both Parties they might the more debase those of the King. And indeed they Query'd whether one was not obliged to keep ones word and principally a word given so solemnly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists confirmed by a great Allyance and in short wherein had been us'd all that was thought most considerable to render it the more inviolable They Query'd I say whether any thing could fall from so solemn an Oath to which every one answer'd that 't was an Action that created a Terrour in Men and merited a just punishment from God. And indeed a Man needs not be a great Divine to know that Christianity and the Church which is but one and the same thing teaches that we are to keep our Faith not only with a Christian Father-in-Law but even with a Turk There is a fine Example of this in a French Gentleman of the House of Anglure and which his Descendants do still Pride themselves in at this day The particular History of that Family does make mention that one of their Ancestors having been taken in a Battel by Saladin Sultan of Aegypt after a long Imprisonment was set at Liberty upon Condition he himself should return and bring his Ransom which Saladin had fix'd at a very considerable sum this Gentleman after being arrived at his own home and had sold a good part of his Estate to satisfie his Word went back to Saladin and told him That he was come with the Ransom he had agreed upon with him and that if he pleased to name any Person to receive it he would pay it him immediately down upon the nail Saladin not dreaming of him and when he had set him at liberty never expecting to see him more was so surpriz'd at his Generosity that after having embrac'd him and caress'd him to a high degree told him he should thenceforward have more Esteem for Christians than he had had before that he not only remitted to him his Ransom but also ordered his Treasurer to give him ten thousand Francs which was a considerable sum at that time that he requested his Friendship and