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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	edward_n	sir_n	son_n	17,437	5	5.7894	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03418	A letter to Mr. T.H. late minister: now fugitiue: from Sir Edvvard Hoby Knight. In answere of his first Motiue	Hoby, Edward, Sir, 1560-1617.	1609 (1609)	STC 13541; ESTC S104131	47,450	130

idem facit occidenti resolute My scope hath been to put you in remembrance from 1 whence 2 whither and 3 how you are fallen so that you may repent and doe the first workes Your errour in time reclaimed will be veniall your obstinacie will not onely bee dangerous but damnable if n Errare humanum perseuerare diabolicum perpetuall That you haue fallen the truth attributes it to your outward grieuances That you returne it will be acknowledged to come from your inward and more deliberate iudgement Neither will we doubt but that the broken bone being well set will bee much stronger then before It is now in your owne choice whether you will be o Si quis curet opem ferre dimittere fuuem non vis seruari healed or no. Now is the time either to raise or ruinate not onelie your fortunes but euen the finall estate both of bodie and soule The benefit you may perhaps bring to your Countrie by the discouerie of that which your trauel hath made knowne vnto you may make some satisfaction for your former reuolt vpon your true and loyall submission I am in good hope his Maiestie will reach out the scepter of his mercy vnto which his roiall nature is so inclinable that his Court of Parliament hath in my owne knowledge bin sundrie times an humble and earnest Petitioner to his Highnesse for the actuall execution of those necessarie lawes which were enacted long before he was inuested in this imperiall Crowne against malefactors of this nature You thinke I am sure your pen was very prodigall in wishing him the happinesse of p Pag. 51. Constantine but let me speak it without flatterie from which I was euer knowne to be naturally estranged whether you respect the gifts of nature or grace the quicknes of apprehension the deepenesse of iudgement the moderation of affections the weight of well seasoned speech in common discourse and scholasticall dispute the gouernmēt of State or the fatherly care in promoting the good of the Church he is if not many degrees before yet not one iot behind that worthie Constantine whose either politike neglect or fatall misfortune was such that he was not i●…itiated in that q Euseb de vit Const. lib. 4. ca. 62. Theodor Eccl. hist. lib. 2. ca. 32. holy Sacrament of Baptisme vntil a very little before his death And I am verily perswaded that in the matter of faith wherein you desire a parallel imitation he is so farre from learning of Constantine that he is able in single conference to grauell his best B B. were they now aliue to be his opposites and therefore not to take president of any of the weaker sex with whom you couertlie vpbraide him It is not my meaning to enlarge the lists of this comparison any further that which I would haue you know is this that as he is the vicegerent of the great King so is his throne supported as well by the pillar of r Dolet quoties cogitur esse serox Mercy as of Iustice I speake not this to hire your returne God bee thanked our land hauing great plentie of more skilfull warriers who dailie fight the Lords battell nor that we feare the venome of your poisonous pen which will bee soone beaten backe into your owne bowels but that your soule may not perish in the day of the Lord when if you thus persist the inexpiable crimes of blaspheming the true faith and drawing others into the same snare of death will be more heauie then millions of milstones about your neck Which fearefull iudgement that by timelie reconciliation you may escape these hastie lines shall bee seconded with my hearty Prayers From Queeneburrow Castle Festo S. Philip. Jacobi 1609. Edward Hoby THE PRINTER TO the Reader AS J had neere ended the Printing of the two former Letters J receiued a third from Sir Edward Hoby the originall now remaining with himselfe directed vnto him from the father of the said T. H. which he is desirous to insert for the better satisfaction of any vnpreiudicate Reader Faults escaped Pag. 32. lin 15. reade turned vp pag. 47. lin 9. reade Forsan aut desunt c. which is more aduantagious pag. 70. lin 21. reade as much as he pag. 71. lin vlt. reade mortuorum TO THE HON. SIR EDWARD HOBY Knight IT may please you to be aduertised that my vnhappie sonne Theophilus Higgons within some foure yeares or thereabouts after he was Master of Arts would needs forgoe the Vniuersity to go with my Lord of London that now is being then Elect Bishop of Glocester And in regard of his yong yeares I thought it verie vnfit perswaded him and commanded him to stay in the house till he were better read in Diuinitie and his iudgement therein in other things better rectified which I found to be verie defectiue My Lord for his part very honorably told me that he had perswaded him thereto and would be as carefull to do him good as if his time were spent in his house and after some two or three yeares would receiue him No perswasiōs might serue but he importuned my Lord so as from Oxford he went though I had told him before M. Ireland Schoole-master of Westminster and M. Iles the Proctor that if he would not be ruled by me and stay at Oxford my hope of his well doing was at an end When he had been lesse then two yeares with my Lord of London then Bishop of Glocester hee withdrew himselfe from his Lordship and made suite for the Lecture at S. Dunstons which I hearing of perswaded him from by my letters in the best manner I could for the reasons afore mentioned and the rather because I knew the Auditorie there to be verie learned and iudicious no perswasion might draw him backe to his Lord and Master though his Lordship wrote diuers letters to him to recall him to his place Afterwards a friend of mine told me that he thought he was in hand to marrie whereupon I wrote vnto him what I heard and my counsel aduice and charge withall His answere by Letter was that he was abused by the reporter and protested that as he desired Gods blessing and mine he neuer would marrie with any woman before I had knowledge of his liking that way and should giue approbation thereto this was about Michaelmas and he was maried in a clandestine manner before Christmas following whereof I neuer knew till after Midsommer terme following and he vnderstanding that I had knowledge of it and much grieued thereat eloyned himselfe from his wife and kept in the North-parts till neere Hollontide When he returned to London but not to his wife there he published a small booke in print flatly against the absurdities he now so strongly seemeth to maintaine and within twentie daies after at the most got him beyond the Seas leauing his wife in great distresse sorow and griefe Before his going he borrowed diuers summes of money with purpose I am perswaded neuer to repay them and amongst the rest abused my selfe for ten pound In May last past I trauelled to Saint Omers with a good friend of mine to seeke him out where finding him I laboured earnestly to bring him backe with me assured him of safetie c. He promised swore and protested his comming after me to my Lord of London within three weekes after my comming away though I thinke he neuer meant it Being in S. Omers I willed and charged him not to reueale my being there notwithstanding he made it knowne the same night to a Popish Priest as vpon examination he confessed to me the next morning which made vs presently to come away fearing our liues to be in danger amongst such a companie of helhounds as that towne is stuffed withall Sir I assure my selfe and all men that well knew him may be perswaded that his Poperie came from the discontentment by his vnhappie mariage wherin he dealt so perfidiously and so it hath pleased God to punish that sinne with many other sins How carefully I brought him vp and what meanes I vsed for his trayning vp in the truth of religion and in good institution of manners God knoweth and the world can witnes with me If I had had abilitie to haue answered his leaud booke I would gladly and speedily haue vndertaken it but I am glad that one so Honorable learned worthie and wise hath vouchsafed it For my hope is that the whole rabble of Papists shal vnderstād so much by you of the cause of his comming to their hotchpotch religion that they will be ashamed any longer to patronize him if they be not past all shame So hauing troubled your Worship with a long tedious relation which commeth from a grieued heart and the rather for that the vnhappie yong mans courses haue occasioned the death of his louing mother my late deare wife I craue pardon and leaue the man and the matter to your wisedome censure and pleasure and will euer rest Your Worships to be commanded ROBERT HIGGONS Chilton 28. May. 1609.