Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	elder_a	young_a	youth_n	71	3	7.6615	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16828	A true, sincere and modest defence, of English Catholiques that suffer for their faith both at home and abrode against a false, seditious and slanderous libel intituled; The exectuion of iustice in England. VVherein is declared, hovv vniustlie the Protestants doe charge Catholiques vvith treason ...	Allen, William, 1532-1594.	1584 (1584)	STC 373; ESTC S100110	150,813	230

as yow may reade in an oration Sr. Christopher Hattōs oration made by one of them vpon the accident that fel by the rashnes of a certaine seruing man discharging his peece at randone and striking one of the water-men in the Queenes barge nere her Highnes person then present In which oration he acknowlegeth nothing to be looked for after her death but confusion persecution blood vengeance warres spoile rauishmentes and al other maledictions that the world can yeeld and tenne thousand more then as he saieth can be by him foreseene Not doubting to conclude that that day we shal be the most miserable men in the world in the meane time onelie enioying al felicities heauenlie and worldlie by her life Thus much hath that honorable person of our general calamitie In the meane time The vaine felicitie of England set out by the Libeller the matters are so ruled that we must account our selues happie if our common wealth stand during the life of her Maiesty This is alas the felicitie of our countrie praised and admired by them that esteeme onelie the present vncertaine pleasure of a verie few yeares without regard of the posteritie but of wise men deemed for the highest miserie that can be nothing in a Common bodie being praisable that is not ioined with securitie and durabilitie Wherin our distresse is more markable that it is not onelie not preuented in so manie yeares of Gods patience and general foresight of the miseries by the graue Councellours and al other wise men Euil prouision for the succession but which is more pitiful and vnnatural it is by special lawes and capital penalties prouided to the contrarie that none may knowe or name the next lauful heire and successour vnder paine of highe treason nor anie make claime or chalenge anie future right therin except her Highnes natural issue Wherby vnder pretence of preseruing their present state they are contented to plonge their whole posteritie into eternal or verie long miseries Yea and which passeth al dishonour to the Realme and to her Maiesties person to insinuate that though the next in blood and lauful succession to her Highnes may not chalenge or be named yet onelie her natural may be aduaunced ther-vnto Which had bene shameful inough and to much iniurie to the next of lauful blood if it were graunted to the issue of a King gotten out of lauful matrimonie but to preferre the natural of a Queene in whos person by reason of her sexe fornication were fouler and the fruite therof nothing so capable that passed al shame and honour procured no doubt or set doune in statute by some wicked forgeries of such as sought to dishonour her Maiesty contrarie to the meaning of the whole Parliament which as we thinke did neuer deliberate of that special article though it be extant in the printed and published copies of the same How so euer it be our miserie herein is notorious and the old glorie and felicitie of our Realme the guides therof wittinglie and willinglie beholding it and consenting thervnto so fadeth and falleth to nothing in al mens sight that we can not complaine inough of our instant calamities nor attribute them to anie other cause then to Gods iudgements wherby first as the Italian saieth a mans braine is taken away when God entendeth to punishe him lest he should by prouidence auert the intended plague This our Countries scourge proceeding wholie of our notorious forsaking the Catholique Church and Sea Apostolique began first in K. Henrie the eight Kinge Henrie the eight the beginner of our Countries miserie being Radix peccati of our dayes as the scripture speaketh of * 1. Mal. 1.11 Antiochus vpō that his most iniust title and chalenge of the Headship and supreame gouernment of the Church whence al thes extremities are ensewed sithence Which king God plagued meruelouslie streight vpon his reuolt both spirituallie and temporallie For within a verie short space by his sufferance he killed his owne wife mother to her Maiesty that now is whom he loued so impotentlie a litle before that for her sake he both diuorced him self from his former wife with whom he had liued so honorablie twentie yeares together and from the vnitie of the Church which he and his predecessours had bene in nine hundreth yeares before and shed the blood of the learnedest Fisher worthiest and to him self the best beloued of al his Realme More After that he maried and remaried killed and dismissed both wiues and frendes as often King Henries great offences and as manie as he thought good in such intemperate sort as the like hath neuer bene seene He was in such torment of conscience and such perplexitie for his reuolt and other sacrileges that sometimes he went about to ioyne with protestant Princes in religion sometimes thrise at least after his fal to reconcile him self to the Pope againe which thing our Lord for his greater punishment suffred him not to bring to good effect but to die in passing anguishe of mind for the former offences and al the strange sacrileges committed by forcing into the world wel neere a hundreth thousand professed persons and by the destruction of ten thousand religious houses Churches in one yeare as one testifieth of him in this Epigramme Millia dena vnus templorum sustulit annus Quàm timeo in poenas vix satis vnus erit And he that without al feare of God brake so manie thousand holie mens wils and foundations had his owne testament broken falsified and forged before his bones were thorough cold and that Romane religion which he by force of his owne newlie chalenged supremacie and by sharpe lawes and humane deuises and punishmentes mainteined during his life and was by him speciallie recommended vnto such as he gaue the gouernment and education of his sonne was immediatlie abolished and the whole Realme altered into Zwinglianisme which of al other sectes he most abhorred And for his issue leauing behind him three goodlie and towardlie children first King Henries issue punished for his sinnes Edvvard of marueilous expectation whom God tooke away in his yong yeares euen then when he was towardes mariage after him his elder sister Marie who liuing long a virgin maried at length onelie for desire of issue and for the benefite of the Realme which our Lord did not accomplish by her but tooke her away within few yeares and lastlie the Queenes Maiesty that now is whom for her youth and great likelihood that way euerie man verelie looked streight that she would haue taken some noble Prince either stranger or subiect hauing profer of the best in Christendome and her self not seldome making semblance of good lykīg that way and of much loue to many Which yet the same Lord God for the due punishment of the said King her father would not suffer but by litle and litle causing the Realme to fal to this desolation that now we see it in and