Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	heir_n	son_n	21,397	5	5.3163	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08477	Barneuels apology: or Holland mysterie· With marginall castigations.; Mysteria Hollandica. English	Oldenbarnevelt, Johan van, 1547-1619.; Holderus, Petrus.	1618 (1618)	STC 18800; ESTC S121064	70,746	62

owes the Papists a good turne especially since the tokens of Prince William his death are yet to bee seene in the Monastery where she liues But if I be not much deceiued in her she is a professor of the ancient reformed Religion and an enemie to you and your followers the Dutchesse of Portingall the Electoresse and Countesse (c) What affection those Dutchesses of Germany beare you and your Arminians I know better then your selfe Yea I know that you most freely cite them for witnesses who are further off as though heere were not some present who respected the welfare of low-Germany and knew not your fetches and treacheries long agoe You deale cunningly Arminian you doe and that you may supplant the true Gospellers you pretend your selfe to bee a Gospeller and one of the reformed antient religion In the meane time what our Dutchesses thinke of your report what a reward your presumptuous impudencie deserues if no bodie make you shortly feele indeed I will tell you by writing vnlesse you repent betimes Palatine widowe The Dutchesse of Bouillon Toars The Countess of Hunno and Countesse Palatine Bipout daughters to the Princes wife and all their commissaries ioyntly And I haue yet in my custodie many letters of thankefulnesse and writings of remembrances How (e) The vaunting of a benefite is an vpbraiding thereof but still to harpe vpon this string as you shamefully doe is a monstrous reproach Then those visitations if necessary were they not enioined you either by your place and office or by the command of the honourable and mighty Lords of the States Why doe you prate then if you being a seruant executed your masters behests Why doe you bragge of your mercenarie labour But what say you to this most famous and gentle Prince of Orenge I see he leuels at you with his weapons point and menaces close wounds yet most noxious and pernicious to the author thereof And heere those your diuine words wonderfully affect please me as also all the approuers of the ancient Reformation which I must needes expresse in a more loftie language Ben che trafitto Io piango il feritor non le ferite Che l'error suo piu ch' el mio mal mi pesa That such a hand could wound it grieues me more Then th' anguish which I suffer by my sore Yet howsoeuer the speech chalengeth commendation take heed lest you too confidently continue your enemies assaults especially since no treason is so close and dangerous as that which is cloked with the name of duty and friendship much I haue laboured in furthering the gouernement and performance of of your renowned Princes Mandates how I haue beene with him in his Campe thirty (d) If you had we should haue seene them long before this time six seuerall times somtimes a whole moneth together sometimes lesse How many thousand times I haue gone vp and came down his chamber staires that knowledge of your mutuall affaires and vnity of your mindes and consents might be continued betwixt you his honourable Excellencie best knowes His Excellencies honour and authoritie were alwaies deere vnto me and my endeauours were wholly bent to accomplish his desires so farre forth as was lawfull for me And I verely perswade my selfe that his Excellencie had and exercised more ample authoritie in Holland and West-Frisland then in any other part of his Prouinces and gouernement I assisted his Excellencie in all his wishes neither was I euer wanting to my power to himselfe or those whom it pleased him to commend vnto mee as farre as my honour and oath would warrant mee Thus (a) If they had knowne your conditions they would not haue bought your affinitie For you are one of them the Poet speakes of Faciem cum aspicias eorum haud mali videntur opera fide fallunt Their faces promise truth and honestie Their deeds are full of guile and treacherie his Excellencie alwaies thought thus he spake of me and gaue euidence thereof many waies both in respect of my selfe and my children prouiding for both my sonnes out of those estates which were in his gift and disposing Which I desired his Excellencie to do to the intent that they might bee tied vnto him in more strait bonds and obliged to his faithfull seruice I married all my children into those (a) If they had knowne your conditions they would not haue bought your affinitie For you are one of them the Poet speakes of Faciem cum aspicias eorum haud mali videntur opera fide fallunt Their faces promise truth and honestie Their deeds are full of guile and treacherie families who were alwaies reputed the greatest well-willers of the Countrey and both those Princes I meane the Father and the Sonne My eldest sonne to the onely daughter and heire of the Lord of Brantwicke whose (b) Heree againe you bring in a Catalogue of yours and your childrens Progenitors But what doth this concerne you Was your Wife of the degree of a Gentlewoman Was your Grandmother so too your sonne is not admitted into any of the Assemblies of the Welue No not though his wife be an heire Grandfather a Prince of famous memory respected and vsed as the best deseruing Gentleman in Zeland My yonger sonne to the (c) Your enquirie findes out heires for your sonnes for no other reason but because they are rich this was knowne long agoe One thing I maruell at Why since you requested Philip Marnixius his daughter in marriage for your sonne you did not rather praise him for piety and diligence in making bookes against the Papists and Monkes amongst which his Bee-hiue and translation of the Psalmes into Verse are most excellent but you only mind high matters and whatsoeuer concernes religion that you slightly passe ouer You neither beleeue in God nor feare him onely daughter and heire of the Lord of Saint Aldegonde whose father and grand-father were great and notable States-men and wished all good to his Excellencie My (d) If you were your sonne in law his owne father you might iustly triumph and lawfully defend your cause Now seeing you are more fearefull then a Hart you trouble your selfe with the publishing of other mens actions to no purpose eldest daughter to a noble mans sonne viz. Lancelot of (e) Did not the true race of the house of Brederode faile and surcease vvhen the residue of that noble family within the compasse of a few late yeeres viz. foure male children perished altogether Brederode while he liued Lord of Veenhuyse who tooke part with the Lords and Nobles wheÌ„ the first vnion was made amongst them for the libertie of that Countrey and also against the Spanish Inquisition vvho was besieged at Harlem and there had his head cut off my yonger daughter to the Lord Gouernour Vander Myle his sonne Who alwaies shewed and approued himself to bee a faithfull and good friend to the Countrey to the (f) Yea of the ancient

(a) How great punishmeÌ„t had you escaped to which you are now reserued if you had eyther bin shot or hanged at Harlem-siege or kept the Gates at Leyden with Peter Pau or beene otherwise humbled there vpon the blew stone in the great Broad-streete or beene drowned at Soetnier in the Riuer adioyning thereto Harlem from whence (b) Vn beau mourir c'est mourir dans ses Armes Yet the Prouerb sayes It is a fayre death to die in Armes I freed my selfe very fairely In the yeare 74. I was personally in many expeditions to breake vp the siege at Leiden but while we lay before Soetnier I fell sicke and was hindered from raising the siege In the yeare 75. I married a (a) Of what house was shee noble or ignoble descended of a Marchant or a Countrie man I maruell why you conceale this who were so farre ouerseen by reason of vaine-glory that you pulled by the head and shoulders the Familie of Lockhorst into your linage and confounded it therewith you should haue gratified your sonnes thus farre that hereafter in publike writings and testimonies they might haue shewed their nobilitie and haue endeauoured to thrust themselues among the assemblies of Gelderland This would not haue stood both with yours and their honours But shee is some base woman and of the meaner sort and that he may not gull the Reader shall I say any more she is a Papist yea and perhaps worse Euery man thinkes his owne Crow white especially if it tend to profit wife vvhom I loued for her person but the more for that she brought with her in present for her dowrie and the assured hope of increasing and mending thereof In the year 76. I was wooed to accept a Counsellers and Pensioners place in the city of (b) If you had beene tied to Erasmus his statue and both it and you flung headlong from the bridge none now at Roterdam had beene infected with Arminius his frensie and opposed their lawfull Magistrates Roterdam I had good reasons which induced mee to vndertake that office and therein for the space of 9 yeares I performed (c) I will relate theÌ„ for you hereafter and now take this for one with you viz. you accepted this place for feare otherwise to haue gone many times supperlesse to bed extraordinary seruices both to the said City and the whole countrie in generall in respect whereof the Consulls and Gouernours of Roterdam did not onely honourably thanke mee but conferred the office of Aduocate-Generall in Holland vpon me in the yeare 1586 my (f) I remember the Man you meane him with the golden Armour brother being elected into my place that this might testifie their gracious acceptance of my seruice who continued also in their seruice to his dying day What I personally performed in this office bestowed by your Honours what (d) To your bed and your belly (e) Le paon loue aussi tot fait la rue Et le recache alors alors qu'on ne le loue The Peacock when he 's viewd dissheuels his faire traine When Men draw back their eyes he knits it vp againe others vnder me I haue (a) Yes we knew long agoe briefly heeretofore rehearsed I can (b) Looke the man sweares questionlesse he desires to be a good man without doubt to be counted so But he is starke naught yea guiltie of periurie for swearing thus for he cares not a straw eyther for this or that side so himselfe may be sure to be prouided for truely auouch thus much for my selfe that I from the yeare 72 to this present haue alwaies beene as (c) Impudent thou art as changeable as the weather and darest thou speake thus vnchangeably forward to defend the countries right both with my goods bloud (d) None will take your word Parasite and you haue no proofe where are the Wounds where are the Skarres where are the dammages receiued in the common wealths behalfe While you brag that you serued as a voluntarie souldier you ranne away from Harlem in the expedition to Leyden you counterfeited your self to be sicke you neuer were in any battell nay when you were a yong man you neuer durst looke a Souldier in the face what will you doe when you are old Le ferite la perditata dei membri sono le collare le medaglie Dei famigliari Morti Wounds and lost limbes are the golden chaynes and brooches of Mars his followers You haue womanish and dainty lims fitter for sporting and the Chamber then the Campe And certainely if you had but a sparkle of a Souldiers courage in you you would not so carefully haue reckoned vp your safe iourneyes to Graue-Maurice his Campe. and life euen to the vtmost against the vsurped claim of the Spaniard his coÌ„federats as (e) These are the leasings of a Coward for there are multitudes which out strippe you herein Euen I for my part dare challenge you and haue both gone through greater matters and am more ready to part with my life for the good of the Countrey then you or any of your sect I forbeare to say more at this time least if I draw the curtaine quite open all should be discouered any one whatsoeuer I except none will continue so for the time to come by Gods (f) Which lies in your bootes after the kitchin-wench hath greased them grace In like (g) You are nothing but words manner that I haue euen to the vtmost maintained with all alacritie sinceritie and resolution the priuiledges liberties rights and iurisdictions of the Prouinces of the particular members cities of Holland and West-Frisland and doe presume that I shall (h) You are too troublesome with your repetitions You were ill taught in your minoritie at Louaine my opinion is that eyther the Monkes learned you to chant it in their quier or old beldames to vse the Distaffe persist in this purpose by Gods leaue to the end without alteration or change I haue alwaies as much if not more then any remeÌ„bred extolled the deserts of my Lo. Master the Prince of OreÌ„ge in procuring the liberty rights of the Prouinces and the maintenance of the true Euangelicall religion I doubt not but these honourable personages following will giue mee testimony (a) But why doe you not bring in these testimonies especially the testimonies of Graue-Maurice and Prince Henry and the rest of those which suruiue Doe you take your selfe to bee a man of so great credit that your word will serue the turne I warrant you none beleeues you not those Princes whom you reckon vp yea you seeke to bleare their eyes put tricks vpon them but your plottes speede not God is on their side thereof The Lady and Dutchesse-dowager his ExcelleÌ„cies of happy remembrance his widow my good Lords The now Prince of Orenge and Prince Henry his sonnes the Countesse ab Hohenlo (b) I Yes shee

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