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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	word_n	work_n	year_n	708	4	4.3046	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04973	Babylon is fallen	T. L., fl. 1595.	1597 (1597)	STC 15111; ESTC S106742	19,446	64

resemblance to be obserued is his power set forth in these words And he reigned ouer all the earth For after he had subdued France broken the heart of Germany made his name knowen to England he returned into Itali● ouerthrew the great Protector of the liberty Sr. Pompey and his host in the fields of Pharsalie And like the fire of heauen as one of her Poets saith with such celeritie drew after the reliques of that stricken faction both in Africa and Spaine that in two yeres space he brought to pas that nether citie nor creature durst opē against him which done he ascended into Italie and took vpon him as Lord therof triumphing in the spoiles of the world and the blood of his country And knowing that the name of a King which he so much affected was odious to the quality and nature of that People inuaded the gouernment vnder the maske of a perpetuel Dictator preseruing therunder for he was wise aboue al the fethers some hope of recouering their late slaine liberty but indeed establishing a kingdom from which it could neuer redeeme it selfe againe And when it had reigned the Verse 13. end of it came and the place therof appeered no more But this new-borne prosperitie as is the nature of all this worldes felicitie lasted but a while for in the third yere of his Dictatorship he was saine in the Senat by the conspiration of 24. of whom the most both in his own so dangerous is the name of trust and other mens opinions were thought his cheefest frendes And thus was this fether blowen awaye after it had inioyed his pleasure 56. yeres and raigned 3. A man for letters armes and counsell famous far-aboue all his succeeders and in discreete bounty and Princely clemencye rare vertues in such a fortune without controuersie surpassing all Princes made of earth So the next stoode vp and Verse 14. reigned and it continued a long time but after it had reigned his end also came and as the first it appeered no more Next after him arose Octauius the adopted sonne of Julius otherwise also neere him in blood as being the sonne of his neece Accia who hauing taken reuenge vpon the murtherers of his father and obtained in all his warres forreine and at home triumphed Lord ouer all adding to his fathers pomp which he had bought so deer th' honors of Parens patriae and Augustus And this fether continued as the Prophet saw a long time for it reigned Triumuir with Anthonie and Lepidus two yeres as Duumuir with Anthonie alone ten yeres and then deuouring his fellow in a Sea-fight at Actium reigned al alone 44. yeres But after it had reigned his end also came and as the Prophet concludeth he discended like the first and appered no more For by the treason of Liuia his wife impatient to tarie th'inthronizing of her sonne as is the nature of ambition the nerer the goal the faster it runnes his lingring soul was taken from him at Nola in the 70. and sixth yere of his transgression when he had reigned 20. lesse Then there came a voice vnto Verse 15. it and said Hear thou that hast kept Verse 16. th' earth so long this I say vnto thee before thou beginst t' appeere no more Ther shal none after thee attaine Verse 17. vnto thy time nor yet to the halfe therof That we may know ther is no God like vnto the Highest who only holdeth the measures and times of al thinges in his hand the Prophet foresheweth that none of the twelue should continue like to Octauius nor yet attaine vnto halfe his time which according to the word of the Lord was accomplished for his sonne Tiberius of al the rest reigned longest and longer by eight yeres then any of the rest and yet could not attaine to halfe the time of his father which discended before him That God only might be honored in al his workes and iustified when he speal●●● Then arose the third and Verse ●● reigned as th' other afore and it appeered no more also Then stept vp Tiberius and reigned in great abhomination as did his fathers before him but after a while he discended also and appeered no more No al his skil in sortilege and wisdom mathematical wherunto he had sold him-self from hisyouth could ether fore-tel or fore-warn him of Caius his nephew by whome he was poisoned in the 70. and 8. yere of his mortalitie and three and twentith of his raigne And so came it to al th 'others Verse 19 one after an other so that euery one reigned and then appeered no more In like so●● saith the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 al the rest which of the 12. remained suc●●●●●●ely ●se reigne and perish Of whome the first in blasphemy ex●●●●●g ●●ligula was 〈◊〉 by the Captaine of his guard after he had sat in the chaire of the scorneful 29. yeres and in the throne of his fathers almost 4. The second only wise in ●uil was poysoned ●laudins by his incestuous wife his neece Agri●●ina in the 64 yere of his 〈◊〉 and 14. of his reigne The third a monster deformed in life Nero. in mariage and end his life scornefull to the height of his fathers his mariage thrice more detestable his end more vnnatural then any of th●●rs for after he had reigned in sinne fourteene yeres and sinne in him eighteene more fel by his own sword into the graue of his fathers and in him des 〈◊〉 the house of the Iul●● The fourth was of an other extraction ●alba but not of a better descended of th' antient 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rose vp la● but perished early for he was 60. and 3. yeres olde before he tasted th' Empire which he got and lost in 7. moneths The 〈◊〉 like wise of a new house but ●th● of th' old building got possession by the bloud of his Predecessor and by spilling his owne in three moneths and od daies lost it againe after he had walkte in the abhomination of his fathers eight and thirtie yeres The sixt also was new and olde in nothing saue gluttony excelling his fellowes Vitellius thing saue gluttony excelling his fellowes in life and death like filthie descended in the eight moneth of his tyrannie after he had wearied himselfe in the pleasures of Capri●●um wh●● first his youth was branded 7. and 10. yeres After him arose the seuenth who Vespatian bought the crowne with the bloud of his Mr. and ware it in base couetousnes ten yeres but then was likewise blowen down hauing fulfild the pleasures of 59. more The eight was he which executed the Titus vengeance due to the great murtheres th' earthly Hierusalem who in the 40. yere of his pleasure after he had reigned 2. yeres and so many moneths was also blowen down not without the suspected treason of his brother and successor The ninth and last and if it 〈◊〉 possible Domitian the worst of all who