Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	robert_n	sir_n	william_n	59,764	5	8.6810	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95615	Ormonds curtain drawn. In a short discourse concerning Ireland; wherein his treasons, and the corruption of his instruments are laid bare to the stroke of justice.	Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing T631; Thomason E513_14; ESTC R205632	31,448	32

trecheries that ever I heard or read of compared to this me thinks they look but like so many Piaefraudes and the torments of all past ages may be thought to have proceeded more from the favourable mercies of men then from their cruelty I am confident that God that has so preserved you has done it partly for this end that your owne eyes might behold the Vyals of his wrath and vengeance which he has filled and laid up in store plentifully poured out uon them and I am perswaded if we can but with patience expect his owne time the time will come and your eyes shall see it when those tongues that cryed so loud in the day of Jerusalem Race it raee it even to the foundation shall cry as loud but all in vaine to those same mountaines whereon you were scattered and hunted like Partridges to fall and cover them and those hands that have laine so heavy on the backs of so many thousands of you shall strike as hard their owne brests and cleave as fast to their owne loynes and those feet that have been so swift to shed blood shall not carry them away so fast but that the fierce anger of the Lord shall overtake them Though I cannot be so eloquent as my friend CIVILIS Marcus yet my Amen may very well stand at the end of his speech So let thine enemies perish O Lord and those that hate thee flee before thee I perceive MARCUS that the sad Relation which you have newly heard has not wrought so kindly with you Civilis as it has done with me since you can so soon abuse your friend but I will beare it for once if you promise me to be content with our company all this evening and you DECIUS will be pleased I hope to beare part of his burden Both being well satisfied CIVILIS turning to DECIUS spake to this purpose Since you have been pleased to trouble your selfe thus farre give me leave to disturb you a little more and to know how long you have been in this Kingdome and what occasions brought you out of Ireland I doubt not but you will excuse me knowing how particular an interest my affection gives me in every thing that concernes you and I know MARCUS will take it for the best part of his entertainment in this house to sit and heare you MARCUS agreeing to what was said for him he sate downe by CIVILIS and DECIUS spake as followes You cannot desire that of me which I shall not be ready to grant you you must know then that at my first coming to Dublin Decius I found the City in great perplexity the English not knowing which they should feare first either the Irish without or those within amongst themselves they were all as it were at their wits ends and no body almost knew which way to turne himselfe The Rebels were infinite for numbers and within the City onely a poore company of raw ignorant Townsmen that for their number could not be thought able to conquer so often as their enemies might be overcome Notwithstanding all these discouragements though I saw palenesse in every mans face each one accounting himselfe already as it were amongst the dead I observed so much courage and resolution in those that then sate at the Helme that I for my part could not at all feare a shipwrack and therefore at that time could not think of quitting the Kidgdome though I saw many take that course as the safest hazarding themselves in a storm at Sea in open Botes to scape that they feared on Land if they should stay behind Those that onely attended the service and were carefull to discharge their duties though with the apparent danger of their lives by sitting constantly at Counsell-Board whither multitudes of such as were then secret and afterwards professed Rebels daily resorted and might if God had not stayed their hands have put their plot in execution for many weeks after their three and twentieth of October as well as they could have done at that day Those I say that in al that foul weather when the Heavens were all blackk about them and not so much as one beame of comfort to be seen stood still to their tackling and plyed their work without ever giving over were onely the two Lords Justices by name Sir William Parions and Sir John Bortase and Sir Adam Lofius Vice-treasurer Sir John Temple Master of the Rolls Sir Charles Coot from the time that he arrived at Dublin and when he was not abroad in the Field and Sir Robert Meredith Chancellour of the Exchequer Those other blazing-starres and unlucky meteors that have since hung over our heads and have had such ill influence on all the affaires of that Kingdome and put all into combustion being some of them at that time not exhaled from the earth as little known by name of Privy-Counsellours as they deserved it and others some for feare and some for dis-affection to the service keeping themselves at home and seldome or never comming to Counsell or having fled into England It was the great mercy of God Civilis that a that time of extream hazard and necessity sent you such men as were not afraid to stand for you and to open their mouths in your defence when yours and their enemies fists were ready to enclose them with a blow and truly they ought to be had in everlasting remembrance and those that absenced themselves in that time of pressing necessity by my consent should have had the Counsell-chamber-doores for ever shut in their faces I can as little excuse those that kept themselves away through feare as those others that did it through dis-affection it being a breach of trust in both and he that feares even his life when his Religion and Country cals for and requires his help will to save his life or perhaps a poorer commodity betray both We have found what you say very true and could have wished that they that kept themselves then away ahd done so still and not to have come to doe the English the greatest mischiefe instead of service But if you please I shall proceed You will doe us a speciall favour in it Civilis Decius Sir Charles Coot by a speciall providence being sent to Dublin when the English stood in so much need of a man of his spirits was immediately made Governour of that City how he carried himselfe in that charge and what resolution and gallantry he shewed in the field against the Rebels with that small handfull of men which the State put under his command If I were able to expresse to you I might very well be thought to speak a piece of a Romanse It shall suffice that I tell you that by his couragious execution and the as faithfull contrivement of those that sate at Counsell-board the blessing of God accompanying their endeavours whereas at first for the English with all their strength to march out of the City