Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	affection_n	father_n	son_n	3,406	5	5.4504	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76943	The life of Sr Thomas Bodley, the honourable founder of the publique library in the Vniversity of Oxford. / VVritten by himselfe.	Bodley, Thomas, Sir, 1545-1613.	1647 (1647)	Wing B3392; Thomason E391_14; ESTC R201556	7,448	20

Germany A good while after my returne to wit in the yeare 1585. I was employed by the Queene to Fredericke Father to the present King of Denmarke to Iulius Duke of Brunswicke to VVilliam Landgrave of Hesse and other German Princes the effect of my message was to draw them to joine their forces with hers for giving assistance to the King of Navarre now Henry the fourth King of France my next employment was to Henry the third at such time as he was forced by the Duke of Guise to fly out of Paris which I performed in such sort as I had in charge with extraordinary secrecy not being accompanied with any one servant for so much I was commanded nor with any other Letters then such as were written with the Queenes owne hand to the King and some selected persons about him the effect of that message it is fit I should conceale But it tended greatly to the advantage not onely of the King but of all the Protestants in France to the Dukes apparent overthrow which also followed soon upon it It so befell after this in the year 88. that for the better conduct of her Highnesse affaires in the Provinces united I was thought a fit person to reside in those parts and was sent thereupon to the Hague in Holland where according to the contract that had formerly past betweene her Highnesse and the States I was admitted for one of their Councell of Estate taking place in their Assemblies next to Count Maurice and yeilding my suffrage in all that was proposed During all that time what approbation was given of my painefull endeavours by the Queene Lords in England by the States of the Country there and by all the English Souldiery I referre it to be notified by some others relation sith it was not unknowne to any of any calling that then were acquainted with the State of that government For at my first comming thither the people of that Country stood in dangerous termes of discontentment partly for some courses that were held in England as they thought to their singular prejudice but most of all in respect of the insolent demeanour of some of her Highnesse Ministers which onely respected their private emolument little weighing in their dealing what the Queene had contracted with the States of the Country whereupon was conceived a mighty feare on every side that both a present dissolution of the Contract would ensue and a downright breach of amity betweene us and them Now what meanes I set a foot for redresse of those perils and by what degrees the state of things was reduced into order it would require a long treatise to report it exactly but this I may averre with modesty and truth and the Country did alwaies acknowledge it with gratitude that had I not of my selfe without any direction from my Superiours proceeded in my charge with extreame circumspection as well in all my speeches and proposalls to the States as in the tenour of my letters that I writ into England some suddaine alarme had beene given to the utter subversion and ruine of the State of those Provinces which in processe of time must needs have wrought in all probability the self-same effect in the state of this Realme Of this my diligence and care in the managing of my busines there was as I have signified very speciall notice taken by the Queene and State at home for which I received from her Majesty many comfortable Letters of her gracious acceptance as withall from that time forward I did never receive allmost any set instructions how to governe my proceedings in her Majesties occasions but the carriage in a manner of all her affaires was left to mee and my direction Through this my long absence out of England which wanted very little of five whole yeares my private estate did greatly require my speedy returne which when I had obtained by intercession of friends and a tedious suite I could enjoy but a while being shortly after enjoyned to repaire to the Hague againe Neverthelesse upon a certaine occasion to deliver unto her some secret overtures and of performing thereupon an extraordinary service I came againe home within lesse then a Twelve-moneth and I was no sooner come but her Highnesse embracing the fruit of my discoveries I was presently commanded to returne to the States with charge to pursue those affaires to performance which I had secretly proposed and according to the project which I had conceived and imparted unto her all things were concluded and brought to that issue that was instantly desired whereupon I procured my last revocation Now here I can not choose but in making report of the principall accidents that have fallen unto me in the course of my life but record among the rest that from the very first day I had no man more to friend among the Lords of the Councell then was the Lord Treasurer Burleigh for when occasion had beene offered of declaring his conceit as touching my service he would alwaies tell the Queen which I received from her selfe some other ear-witnesses that there was not any man in England so meet as my selfe to undergoe the office of the Secretary And sithence his sonne the present Lord Treasurer hath signified unto me in private conference that when his father first intended to advance him to that place his purpose was withall to make me his Colleague But the case stood thus in my behalf before such time as I returned from the Provinces united which was in the yeare 1597. and likewise after my returne the then Earle of Essex did use mee so kindly both by letters and messages and other great tokens of his inward favours to me that although I had no meaning but to settle in my mind my chiefest desire and dependance upon the Lord Burleigh as one that I reputed to be both the best able and therewithall the most willing to worke my advancement with the Queene yet I know not how the Earle who sought by all devises to divert her love and liking both from the Father and the Son but from the Sonne in speciall to withdraw my affection from the one and the other and to winne mee altogether to depend upon himselfe did so often take occasion to entertaine the Queene with some prodigall speeches of my sufficiency for a Secretary which were ever accompanied with words of disgrace against the present Lord Treasurer as neither she her selfe of whose favour before I was throughly assured tooke any great pleasure to preferre me the sooner for she hated his ambition and would give little countenance to any of his followers and both the Lord Burleigh and his Sonne waxed jealous of my courses as if under hand I had beene induced by the cunning and kindnesse of the Earle of Essex to oppose my selfe against their dealings And though in very truth they had no solid ground at all of the least alteration in my disposition towards either of them both for I did