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lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	viscount_n	17,931	5	11.9058	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96909	Worcesters apophthegmes or witty sayings of the Right Honourable Henry (late) Marquess and Earl of Worcester, delivered upon severall occasions, and now published for the benefit of the reader. By T.B. a constant observer, and no lesse admirer of his Lordships wisdom and loyalty.	Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1650 (1650)	Wing W3535; Thomason E1350_2; ESTC R204142	43,802	125

sdom manus Prouidentia Iudgement Reason dependency Vild Rerum Precius Vicessitudo WORCESTERS APOPHTHEGMES OR WITTY SAYINGS OF THE Right Honourable HENRY late Marquess and Earl of WORCESTER Delivered upon severall occasions and now Published for the benefit of the READER By T. B. a constant observer and no lesse admirer of his Lordships Wisdom and Loyalty Et prodesse volunt et delectare LONDON Printed by J. Clowes for Edward Blackmore at the Angell in Pauls Church-yard 1650. To the Right Honourable EDWARD Marquesse and Earle of WORCESTER and GLAMORGAN Baron of Chepston Viscount Grossmount and Caldicott my very Honourable Lord. My very good Lord T●e many favours which I received from your Noble Family especially from your Lordship ●rought upon a disposition some-deale a pretender unto gratitude how it might in some measure or other answer the respect and cleare the heart that had layen charg'd so long w●th benefits but it found no meanes but onely thus to let your Honour see that the favours which were conferr'd upon me were not spilt but powred into a Violl that what it hath received and containes bears Paper of acknowledgment and that neither the distances of Time nor Place nor all the Left-handed stroaks of fortune which have lately fallen so heavily upon your Illustrious Family shall ever be able to beat down a respect that emulates the Cypresse which bears up still in growth maugre the heavy weights which the hand of fate ignorant of its virtue hath so hung on all her branches My Lord it may be it will not be unpleasing to your Lordship to read your Father speaking after death especially when you read him dying with such speeches in his mouth I layd your Noble Father in his grave with my own hands but I could not let such a memoriall of him lye buried under my own Manuscript but thought it a duty belonging to his fame and your merit to dedicate this book unto your Lordship Heir to all but apparently to nothing but his virtues and this memoriall of them which in all humility together with my self I prostrate at your feet who think it the greatest honour still to be owned Your Lordships humble and faithfull Servant THOMAS BAYLY THE EPISTLE TO THE READER Courteous Reader HAving lately published a private Discourse concerning Religion between the late King and the Marquess of Worcester in Raglan Castle as also certain papers which went so between them and this in justification of the late Kings constant affection to the Protestant Religion which hath been much oppugned by divers both before and after his death yet I hear there are some who pretend to love and honour the memory of the dead King and glory in the relation of being servants to his late Majesty that will not admit of that controversie otherwise then as a parable First because they were there heard of no such thing Secondly because they believed not the Marquesse of Worcester to have been so able a man and as I heare it hath been said so by some of his Majesties field-Chaplains who envying that a loyall pen should wagge where they can be contented to sow pillowes under the elbowes to beat cushions over the heads of a people against whom shaking the dust from off their feet as a witnesse against them had seem'd more like an Apostolicall imitation then preaching to them And preach such wholesom and sound Doctrine of Mortification Sanctification Justification and Good life that they thought they might safely get up into any Pulpit not caring what bottome it had nor what canopie was over head not much unlike the man who went to search after the surenesse of the foundation when his house was all on fire These men will tell you that this was no reall thing because they were there all the while whilest they were not there at all except at meales and when I tell you that they were the Doctours that were better at smelling out a good dinner then a disputation I have as good as told you their names I expected better reason from those Doctours then from the Knight that said he was sure there should be no such thing at Raglan for his boy Tom was there all the time as if the Marquess of Worcester could not watch his opportunity in a moneths time to have two hours private Discourse with the King while he was in his own house but al the Castle must take notice of it or that papers might not pass between them but all the world must know it But you will say you do not believe that there was any such private discourse Chuse then who cares let him believe it that will it was writ for satisfaction of Christians not infidels But it may be Mendax fama meanes to require me for the wrong she did my father who writ a good book and some would not believe it to be his and now I have set out a book as none of mine own and she will have it to be mine I thank her kindly but I had rather be without her praises then to be thought such an ingenious lyar As to the objection of the Marquesses inability to talke so to the King I shall assure you by his Apophthegmes in this book which I never had the least thought to have published but upon this occasion that he used to talk so wisely that all the wisdome that I had thought them worthy of record and now of publication To a great many of which sayings there are a great many witnesses to justifie a truth that cannot be denied and must needs verifie the former and so Good morrow or Good evening to you according unto the time of the day that the book lighted into your hands I am Your servant Tho. Bayley WORCESTERS APOPHTHEGMES APOPHTH I. THe first time that ever I had the happiness to be acquainted with this Noble-man was by accident upon the Welch Mountains where I met him flying a danger with a softer pace then it made after him whose condition so dangerous was the more desperate because he was unsensible of the approach of any Enemy and his security the sooner wrought because Intelligence had not given the enemy any Information how near they were unto him it was my fortune first to inform my self and then his Lordship of the one afterwards his Lordship of the other particular as also of the rub that I had cast in the way that had turn'd aside the Bowle that was running so fairely towards the mark After that I had told him all the particulars of what I had done and what I further meant to do in order to his preservation with a composed countenance wherein you might read not the least perturbation of mind he gave me this Language Sir it is fit that you should have your reward I am yours and imbracing me said Now I put you in full possession of your own I pray dispose of me as you please from which time forward untill the time that