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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	bishop_n	duke_n	earl_n	11,616	5	7.3012	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01375	The mirrour of maiestie: or, The badges of honour conceitedly emblazoned with emblemes annexed, poetically vnfolded.	H. G., fl. 1618.; Goodyere, Henry, Sir, 1551 or 2-1629.	1618 (1618)	STC 11496; ESTC S102778	12,143	74

THE MIRROVR OF MAIESTIE OR THE BADGES OF HONOVR CONCEITEDLY EMBLAZONED WITH EMBLEMES ANNEXED POETICALLY VNFOLDED Nec his Plebecula gaudet LONDON Printed by William Iones dwelling in Red-crosse-streete 1619. TO THOSE NOBLE Personages rancked in the CATALOGVE MY feebler Muse farre too too weake to sing Ha's got your Honours on her flaggring wing And borne them to the loftiest pitch she may Therefore submissiue she do's humbly pray That when her tongue reeles or Inuention haults Your Fauours will giue crutches to her faults Your LORDSHIPS in all dutifull obseruancie H. G. ❧ A CATALOGVE OF THOSE NAMES VNTO WHOM this worke is appropriated THE Kings Maiestie The Queene The Prince The Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterburie The Lord Chancellor The Lord Treasurer The Lord Priuie Seale The Lord Admirall The Duke of Lenox The Marquesse of Buckinghame The Lord Chamberlaine The Earle of Arundell The Earle of South-hampton The Earle of Hertford The Earle of Essex The Earle of Dorset The Earle of Mountgomerie The Viscount Lisle The Viscount Wallingford The Bishop of London The Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Ely The Lord Zouch The Lord Windsor The Lord Wentworth The Lord Darcie The Lord Wootton The Lord Stanhope The Lord Carew The Lord Hay The Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Kings-Bench The Lord Chiefe Iustice of the Common-Pleas The Lord Chiefe Baron of the Excheaquer FINIS TO THE KING I R QVI MAL Y PENSE HONI SOIT THose mighty Soueraigne are your Graces text Right King of Heralds not to any next You might their mysticke learning blazon best But you reserue your knowledge vnexprest As being most peculiar to you And yet because the people may allow That which concernes your selfe Let me to them Vnlocke the value of this prizelesse Iem The Lyons trebled thus may represent Your equall fitnes for the Regiment Of this faire Monarchie Brittaine then Which euer ha's bin stuft with valiant men May fittest beare a Lyon vrg'd to spoile Your Irish Kernes who neuer vs'd to toyle Are in their silver-studded Harpe explain'd These Splendent Beauties limm'd by Natures hand By grace of Ancient Kings made Royall flow'rs But now thrice Royall made by being Yours EMBLEME 1 REX ✚ ET ✚ SACERDOS ✚ DEI ✚ VVHy be these marshal'd equall as you see Are they dis-rankt or not No they should be Thus plac'd for Common-weales doe tottering stand Not vnder-propt thus by the mutuall hand Of King and Priest by Gods and humane lawes Divine assistance most effectuall drawes Kings to confesse that t'heav'n they homage owe Which consequently leads a King to knowe That that Ambition's by dead Embers fir'd Which ha's no beyond earth to heav'n aspir'd Earth can but make a King of earth partaker But Knowledge makes him neerest like his maker For mans meere power not built on Wisdomes for t Dos rather pluck downe kingdomes than support Perfectly mixt thus Power and Knowledge moue About thy iust designes ensphear'd with loue Which as a glasse serue neighbour-Kings to see How best to follow though not equall thee EMBLEME 2 NVLLVM BONVM INREMVNERATVM SEated on this three-headed Mountaine high Which represents Great Brytaines Monarchie Thus stand I furnisht t' entertaine the noise Of thronging clamours with an equall poyse And thus addrest to giue a constant weight To formall shewes of Vertue or Deceit Thus arm'd with Pow'r to punnish or protect When I haue weigh'd each scruple and defect Thus plentifully rich in parts and place To giue Aboundance or a poore disgrace But how to make these in iust circle moue Heav'n crownes my head with Wisedome from aboue Thus Merit on each part to whom 't is due With God-like power disbursed is by you TO THE QVEENE OF all proportions Madam diuers dare Conclude that absolute which is most square Well may they proue that Theoreme for I know Square Bodies doe the most perfection show Perfection still consisting in this best To stand more sure the more it is supprest Which speciall vertue chiefly doth belong Vnto square bodies or right do's them wrong Your Scutchion therefore and the Honours due May constantly support your Worth and You Whose life 's drawne out vnsoild with subiects hate By such a Samplar none can imitate EMBLEME 3. ❀ VNICA ✚ ETERNA ✚ AL ✚ MONDO ✚ HEre aboue number doth one wonder sit But One yet in her owne an infinit Being simply rare no Second can she beare Two Sunnes were neuer seene stalke in one Spheare From old Eliza's Vrne enricht with fire Of glorious wonders did your worth suspire So must from your dead life-infusing flame Your Multiplyed-selfe rise thence the Same She whose faire Memories by Thespian Swaines Are sung on Rheins greene banks and flowrie plaines Thus Time alternates in its single turnes One Phaenix borne another Phaenix burnes Your rare worths matchlesse Queene in you alone Liue free vnparalle'd entirely One. TO THE PRINCE C P ICH● DIEN YOur Princedome's Ensigne here Right-Royall Sir May pinion your vp-soaring thoughts and stirre Them to a pitch of loftier eminence Then can be reached by base vulgar sense These Plumes charact'red liuely signifie Valour in warre ioyn'd with velocitie The blacke Prince bearing Plumes approues this true When through the French he like win'gd-lightning flue And pull'd downe liues about him to the ground Till he himselfe with death had circled round His very looke did threaten publicke death With every stroke fell from him fled a breath Arm'd in the confidence of his iust cause Thus freely fearelesse his foes overthrowes Those high-borne acts which from his valour flue With new-additions are impress't in you EMBLEME 4. POST ✚ NVBILA ✚ PHEBVS ✚ VVHen Peace suspecting he would warre inferre Tooke Henry hence to liue aboue with her She bade Ioues Bird returne from 's quicke convoy Of his faire soule left in Heav'ns lasting Ioy And mildly offer to your Princely hands This Embleme of soft Peace and Warlike bands Both vvhich vs'd rightly their large cares extend To gaine o're others and their owne defend Though all bright Honours did their Beauties shroud In his Ecclipse like Phoebus in a cloud Yet at your Rising they more cleare againe Peept-forth like Sun-shine after clouds and raine And in your worth their worthinesse displayes To worthiest Princes as the Sun his rayes TO THE ARCH-BISHOP OF CANTERBVRY HOw well these sacred Ornaments become One who by earth walkes t' his celestiall home The Staffe of Comfort this to leane vpon This Pall of peace these Crosses vndergone How easily good men knowne well by this Lodge at the Inne of their eternall Blisse These Fruits are workes from Bounty springing found Perfuming Heau'n with Heau'ns bounties crown'd These shadow'd fruits but by a figure shew The Ioyes of Paradise prepar'd for you Saile thither with good speede then yet make stay Good Angels guide you y' are i' th Abbots way EMBLEME 5. MORIR ✚ PIV ✚ TOSTO ✚ CHE ✚ MANCAR ✚ DI ✚ FEDE THese Hands connext engird Religion Deciphring th' holy Concords vnison