Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	ambition_n	friend_n	great_a	61	3	2.1251	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86163	An admonition to my Lord Protector and his Council, of their present danger, with the means to secure him and his posterity in their present greatnesse: with the generall applause and lasting tranquility of the nation,.	J. H.; Heath, James, 1629-1664, attributed name.; Howell, James, 1594?-1666, attributed name.	1654 (1654)	Wing H1317; Thomason E813_2; ESTC R207329	8,665	15

and the rest of the officers then with you for the saving of his life And let me ad a very late tryal of him when Wiseman and others proposed your murther to him he refused to consent to it notwithstanding his interest and the exasperation of his wants how then should he be feared when those motives are taken away But admit this were not so you have still all the power in your own hands and would have the affections of the people which he now hath if he should be perfidious to their disquiet anew If then it be clear that you are secure on the Kings side where lies the danger of this accommodation it is the undoubted interest of the military men to be alwaies governed by a Monarch especially if they be well provided of subordinate places under him and the people are so passionately affected to the old line as their onley constant security from rapine and bloudshed that they will never be at rest till they have an oportunity to destroy the rooter up of that three great fences of their Religion Laws and that unquestionable succession which would intirely secure them from any more disputes and even most of those who formerly fancyed better forms of Government are now for falling into the old channel out of dispair of drawing the peoples affections to their fancies without which they know the peace of the Nation can never be long preserved if your Highnesse should yet prove one of that number your name would be as good as it is great for a man may be thought reasonably to undertake indirect courses for a great and publick good so as he leave those courses when he sees his end is not to be compassed And if your Highness do so your curses will be turned into praises and you may sleep again without any fear of your own guards who otherwise are not like to scruple the murthering of so unjust a master for a greater reward than you can give them if the present seizure of your treasure were not sufficient for them For men of no Religion will at any tine betray a person as wicked as themselves for their interest and those that are zealous will do the same upon the score of Justice and their Oaths and Covenants to other forms or persons so that your Highness can be secure of no body nor any thing but the rewards of injustice with infamy for the preferring your Sons advancement before your Countreys security who if he were planted can never be secured by any Decrees or Oaths since both have been so commonly broken and ought to be so if unjustly made or taken and if his virtues be never so great his meer youth shall make him be despised by those that have had the start of him in successes and the affections of the Army and the seeming respect that is now paid him upon your Highness score shall vanish with your death and all your Family be destroyed like that of the great Alexanders by your own friends and followers if you your self should scape such a cup of poyson as he met with on such a dagger as finished the ambition of Julius Caesar And now my Lord for a Conclusion give me leave to wonder at the ambition of all ill men though they belive in no other world since their ambition is to gain esteem and how they should be esteemed and hated at once for the same fact I know not without a contradiction If they did but consider how even wicked men hate one another for fear of receiving the same injuries from their companions which they have inflicted together upon others they would prefer the love and admiration of Mankind before the being admirably hated which since your Highnesse may so easily do and cannot with justice honour and safety do any thing else it shall no more be doubted from your generosity by MY LORD