Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36487	The Dovvnfall of greatnesse for the losse of goodnesse, a poem, or, A short survey of Thomas Lord Wentworth late Earle of Strafford, lord lieutenant generall of His Majesties army, generall, governour, and lord lieutenant of Ireland, lord president of the councell established in the north parts of England, and of the county and city of York : one of His Majesties most honourable privie councell, and knight of the noble order of the garter : his history and tragedy : who was accused and impeached of high treason, arraigned, found guilty, condemned, and beheaded on Tower-hill, May 12, 1641.		1641 (1641)	Wing D2086; ESTC R204322	3,197	9

THE DOVVNFALL OF GREATNESSE For the losse of GOODNESSE A POEM OR A short Survay of Thomas Lord VVentworth Late Earle of Strafford Lord Lieutenant Generall of His Majesties Army Generall Governour and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland Lord President of the Councell established in the North parts of England and of the County and City of York one of His Majesties most honourable Privie Councell and Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter His History and Tragedy Who was accused and impeached of high Treason arraigned found guilty condemned and beheaded on Tower-hill May 12. 1641. Printed in the Yeare 1641. THE DOVVNFALL OF GREATNESSE FOR THE LOSSE OF GOODNESSE IN this as in a mirrour you may see Wentworth want worth his life and tragedie He was a Peer once Pillar of this Land Who a whole Kingdome had at his command Indeed What had he not The confluence Of all things make men happy Emminence Bove others Learning Knowledge Eloquence The favour of his Prince familiarity With his Pe●res he had volubility Of his tongue with the strength of memory Honours offices wealth and potency He wa● a man of admirable parts Expert and skilfull both in armes and arts Souldier and Scholer able to compare With Ajax or Vlysses for his rare Perfections a grand Counceller of State Counsell might make him see not shun his Fate This great mans execution long expected Did come at last and quickly was effected So mortall was his life that daring death Depriv'd him at one stroke of vitall breath Why then haile death Lord of the land of clay Emperour of Churchyards King of Golgotha Seeing neither Arms nor Arts nor Caesars smile Whose glorious beames do blesse this Brittish Ile Could guard him from deaths fatall blow fix this Oh Truth in every Statists soule All blisse Borrow'd from breath is transient even as boyes With Cards build Castles so titles are but toyes Erected and strait ruin'd with a breath But vertue survives Marble Time and Death Honours are bubbles Phantasmes that delude Dull soules by them stout Strafford was subdude His haughty minde aspiring got a fall So ponderous that it caus'd his funerall Unfortunate he was from 's Mothers wombe And so continued hath unto his Tombe Some are slain by ambition some by lust He like a stone was cut in his own dust His Rule in Ireland ' its well known to all Was potent tyrannous and tragicall His life was a sad play his Mothers Wombe From which he ent'rd was the Tyring-Roome Wherein with Natures gifts he was so drest That he had acted well he had been blest To all Eternity happy had he bin Had he consider'd but the stipend of sin And call'd himselfe t' account his unto Master H 'had not then met with any such disaster But wretched man himselfe of 's selfe bereaves And like a silk-worme his owne sorrow weaves So inconsiderate and stupid that he Seldome prevents his future misery Carelesse and dreadlesse 't was his malignant Fate Instead of love t' incurre the peoples hate That hasten'd his death May his example prove There is no happinesse on earth like love May it warne great men who are high in blood To be as'ith ' State great so in mind good And may it be a caveat unto all That stand to take heed lest like him they fall Oh what is glory or the life of man Much like a vapour far lesse than a span What 's th' Earths pompe a ship of vanitie In which man sailes through a Sea of misery And never is in happinesse or rest Till he land at Heavens haven that Port blest He that does well and 's constant he shall finde Peace in his conscience comfort in his minde He that does ill Let him remember this There is a thing call'd direfull Nemesis Iudgement though slow is sure And honours flood Ebbes into ayre when man is great not good View it in him whose splendor was we see A well writ Prologue to his Tragedy A POSTSCRIPT TO THE PRECEDENT POEM THe fairest Prospect unto honour lyes from the hill of vertue and the best way to happinesse is in the high rode of holinesse Hee that lives well cannot dye ill And 't is not what a man has but what he is that makes him shine an eminent starre in the Sphere of the State Stemmata nil faciunt as the Poet accutely nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus T is only vertue which is the truest Nobilitie and that which makes man r●ally noble Hence it is that Nobilitas parta is farre better than Nobilitas parta to be borne great and to live sordid is ignominious and wretched but merit and the nob●e actions of the mind farre transcend the generositie of high-borne progenitors Hinc illae Lachrimae that from a pure fountaine should spring a foule stream from a good root a bad branch 't is much ●o bee deplored So true it is that the princely Prophet Man being in honour hath no understanding but is like the Beasts that perish T is verified in the subiect of this discourse Honos to him was Onus his preferment his perdi●ion his pompe was his pain and his rising his ruine The higher he was the heavier was his fall with Phaeton hee soar'd too high and with him aiming at the Suns Sphere to be mounted in Charls wain from the altitude and utmost pitch of Majesty he fell to the profundity extremity and abisse of misery Had h● been holy as he was honourable righteous as rich pious as politick and as prudent for the Sta●e as hee was pestilent to the State he had been the grace of his Countrey the glory of his age and a mirrour of succeeding generations to his eternall fame had he been what he was not he had never arriv'd to such a sad disaster as he did Hee was a man of admirable abilities Eloquence Learning Courage and valour were his servants to command all which hee might have imployed to the glory of God the honour of his Majestie the good and benefit of the Church and Common-wealth but hee perverted those good indowments which nature and the God of nature was pleased liberally to conferre upon him and imploy'd them to his owne ends for the effecting and accomplishing of his hainous doings and facinorous designes His capitall crimes were Ambition Pride Injustice Cruelty and Treachery Cum multis aliis which for brevity sake I omit He endeavour'd to subvert the Lawes the ancient and fundamentall Lawes and Government of the Kings Realms of England and Ireland And whereas he alledged at his tryall in Westminster Hall that he never introduced an arbitrary and tyrannicall Government although he hath not effected it God be thanked being prevented yet he intended it He exercised tyrannous and exorbitant power above and against the Lawes over the libertie states and lives of his Majesties subjects He was the firebrand and incendiary of the wars between the two Kingdomes of England and Scotland The better to preserve him and his confederates he labored as much as in him lay to dissolve Parliaments and to subvert the rights liberties and privileges of Parliaments and the ancient course of Parliamentary proceedings He who was under the Law did assume to himselfe a power above Law yea without and against Law He was a terrour to the City and an eye-sore to the Countrey his look was grimme his anger intolerable his rage implacable He was tyranny in the Abstract without any bowels of compassion How many honest men did he cause to be committed compelling the great Councell of the Kingdome of Ireland to condescend to his commands trampling on the Peeres oppressing his Mejesties subjects and insulting over people of all ranks quality and condition whatsoever When he was first sent into Ireland with commission and authority it was not long after but he pursued his intents and produced them into acts Such horrid offences and nefarious crimes did he perpetrate and commit of so exorbitant and transcendent a nature that they indang'rd a generall insurrection against Majestie it selfe To contract what I might protract He attempted at one blow the ruine of the three Kingdomes and their posteritie to bring them into perpetuall captivity which is treason and in the highest degree These were his plots and projects these were his crimes and offences For which by the high and honorable Court of Parliament he was convicted and condemned to suffer death in the place and on the day before mentioned Iam illum premit nox The Sun of his Summers day is now set and the sad night of dreadfull death is come upon him Let not the headlesse multitude or rather that many headed monster bellua multorum capitum censure and condemne this great man as one utterly lost We ought to judge charitably of him who died in the feare of his Maker and faith of his Redeemer He had sweet Christian expressions of his Repentance of faith his obedience and humble subjection to the will of God Without doubt God did open his eyes both before and at the houre of his death And though his latter dayes were his bad dayes yet in the judgement of charity his last day way his best das FINIS