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	good_a	know_v	2,539	5	3.6358	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96759	Opobalsamum Anglicanum: = An English balme, lately pressed out of a shrub, and spread upon these papers, for the cure of some scabs, gangreeves and cancers indangering the bodie of this common-wealth; and, to whom it is now tendred, by the vvell-affected English, in a double-speech, disjunctively delivered, by one of their fellow-ship, both to the faithfull, and malignant members of the representative-body of this Kingdome. / Penned, by the author of Britaines remembrancer Geo: Wither Esquire.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1646 (1646)	Wing W3175; Thomason E513_6; ESTC R205629	32,213	27

multiplieth wrongs That all your Engineers and cunning plots Shall nor divide the English from the Scots Nor separate those English from each other VVho by their Covenant are knit together Till they have done their work and you are pai'd VVhat they deserve who have their trust betrai'd Or else till they or we commit that act VVhich totally dissolveth our contract And wee to them who shall unjustly take Or give the cause that cursed Breach to make But whatsoever Blessing may ensue No portion of it can belong to you In this estate For plainly we descry That in the gall of bitternesse you lye VVe 〈◊〉 although we cannot hinder it VVhat you pursue whilst in the House you sit VVhat things abroad you practise and allow VVhat you in secret favour and avow And to effect your purposes to bring How you abuse both Parliament and King We know the means by which you entred in Upon what Principles you did begin What course you took before you were elected What fame you had of what you were suspected In what base projects you a hand have had How poor some of you were how rich now made By publike ruins and what follow must If you be long continued in your Trust We have observ'd though many crooks it hath The turnings and the windings of your path How you divide the Clergie by your sidings How your divisions and your sub-dividings You multiply and manie waies foment To work destruction to the Government In Church Common-wealth and how your tricks Extracted from the Jesuits politicks Do shake the Fundamentalls whereon stand The safety wealth and honour of the Land We see although we cannot yet prevent Or well expresse the same how you have spent The Publike-Treasures how the Publike-Pow'r Is brought it self to weaken and devour How you oppresse the Countrey without pity How you abuse the Bounty of the City Her valiant sons how you have wrong'd and sleighted Their faithfull service how you have requited And what unlesse both you and we amend Will be our portion and your later end Yea we grow sensible with what delay Our suits are trifled off from day to day How long we wait to have Petitions heard And when committed how you dis-regard Our charge by keeping witnesses in town Our tedious pains in trotting up and down To wooe for meetings that our time and cost In feeing Clerks and Councell be not lost All these with other hind'rances unnam'd For which the Houses are not to be blam'd We suffer to our bitter discontent And to the scandall of the Parliament Through your defaults who have by sitting long Learn'd new contrivances for doing wrong And such obstructive and destructive waies As were to us unknown in former daies GOD be your speed as your designes are just Els let them thrive as we believe they must Our hope you were but now our Fear you be And kept by you as lambs by wolves are we Regardlesse of our wellfare you are grown Gods cause pretending you pursue your own Increasing by the Common-wealths decrease Improoving by the ruin of our Peace And making to your selves ev'n as you list A Priesthood Lawes a Gospell and a Christ We that have been your first and fastest friends If ever you had honouroble ends In order to the publike have of late But serv'd your turns in serving of the State This having for our fordwardnesse enjoy'd That we are most opprest and first destroy'd And through your fault are griev'd by their neglect Whom we most honour and do best affect Nay which is worse you who on us have brought This mischief must the Publike-friends be thought And we Delinquents for no other cause But seeking execution of the Lawes Or for endeavouring how to break ope Some necessarie passage to our hope VVhen we are almost stifled in the throng Of miseries which have opprest us long If as our VOW injoyns us we accuse Your Fellowes who have seemed to abuse Their Publike-Trust Though by our Information VVe only seek the Kingdoms Reformation Yet such is your injustice that instead Of suffering us to have a faire proceed According to the merit of the Cause The Subjects Priviledges and the Lawes You fall on us as if that we were they VVho were accus'd the Kingdom to betray At leastwise we are us'd and look'd upon As if some great offences we had done The men inform'd against you do permit In their own Cause Examiners to sit To hear debates our witnesses to see And speak with them ere they examin'd be To act as Judge and Party To enlarge The guilty to condemn without a charge Us that are innocent and to pursue us As if unquestionable Rogues they knew us And if you were not yet more impudent It might be borne But to the Parliament You seek to make us odious and to leave us Nor friend nor bread nor ought that ease may give us And which is worse then this by having thus Thus impudently made a scorn of us Whose good affections gen'rally are knowne The people so discouraged are growne That had not some a love unto the State Which will out-live your tyranny and hate The Parliament would be deserted so And their Just-Quarrell so defamed grow That Traytors would be traitors without feare And none be bold to say they Traytors are A multitude of other wayes you grieve us Through misinforming them who should reli●… 〈◊〉 Through mis-reports and making outward showes Of better fruit then on your dunghill growes And we have little hope of gaining ease Till GOD himself by miracle shall please Or by some extraordinary way To change your minds or root you quite away For our most just-complaints do nought asswage Your cruelty but more encrease your rage Our Patience no respect at all hath won us But rather makes you more insult upon us Yea and the more your wills we stoop unto The more we have to suffer and to do If we seeme forward for the Common-weal With popularity you brand our zeal If we contribute more then some of you With enviousnesse our bounty you pursue And whereas we should favour'd be therefore You do not only make our burthens more Then other mens when ablenesse have we But lay them on when we unable be And for our being first in contribution Intend to make us last in restitution Nay some of us have cause to be affraid Well-doing shall with evill be repay'd For we whilst you proceed as yet you do Have more then symptoms that it will be so If want compell us for our own to pray With empty hands you send us oft away With long delayes our patiences are tri'd Ere we can get our suits heard or deni'd And then lest too much grace you should afford You seldome give us one respective word But looke upon us with such pride and scorn As if to be your vassalls we were born Meanwhile your Favourites forsooth and they That humour you in your imperious way Are

And by this meanes our eyes And Eares have made some late discoveries Which your imployments for the Publike-weale Or trust-abusing friends from you conceale With such faire guildings that both You and wee Are lost unlesse they quickly heeded be And heeded so that likewise you provide A remedy and see the same applide For we have good Provisions oft and many But little execution made of any Your Courage and your wisdome we confesse Your Piety your Care and watchfulnesse In your own Persons and that you oppose With good successe your most Malignant Foes Which are abroad by meanes of that dispis'd Yet valiant Armie lately modelliz'd In Gods own time But noble SIRS there be Worse Foes within then those abroad you see And such they be as doe require you should As much reduce your Houses if you could As you have done your Armie For we feare Disguised Foes doe lurk among you there Which need a Privy-search one to shew them Who by their Spots secret marks doth know them Foes that have put your Friends quite out of grace Plead Priviledge of Person and of Place Such as by some well-doing now and then Have done more harm then Troops of fighting men And Private-Priviledges have enjoyd Till Publike-Freedomes are almost destroyd Hîc Dolor WORTHIES all our doubts are here Hence is our greatest Grievance and our Feare We sleight as Trifles all the Frights and Foes Which some for our discouragement propose To be consider'd on We sleight all that Wherewith we have been menaced of late Aswell the threats of open-Foes at home As those which from beyond-Sea hither come The Cavaleers who swagger up and downe And mixe among us now in every Towne And Country village with their foolish brags We fear no more then when their Feather wags Although the King should frowardly be bent Against the Propositions you have sent Or by delaying his assent delay That Blessing which we look for every day It would not startle us Nor do we fear Those Inconveniences which may appear Drawne on us by the Prince his running from The Kingdome whereto he was praid to come To make a misadventure into France Nor how the Queene her Projects may advance By that Occasion For GOD'S providence Hath for our good it may be sent him hence And we may find when all accounts are cast Their Losses will be greatest at the last Our hearts it not a whit discourage can That some have hopes the Hollander or Dane May by perswasions their own fingers burne To do their Neighbours here an evill-turne Which ere the Cup now filled hath gone round Unto their own destruction may redound Nor feare we those Alliances with which Great Princes one another doe bewitch And knit themselves together in a band Which binds them like a Cable made with Sand. Nor are we frighted with the Leagues of those Which have been old confederated Foes Against this Kingdome though we often heare Of mighty men who in their Cause appear And of great sums rais'd by their Munks and Fryers Whose brats men say sit by their neighbours fires Though Fame reports of many Horse and Men Which they will set aflote they know not when With Ships and Armes and other things in hope Beside the Curse and Blessing of the Pope We feare them not for GOD before they come May peradventure find them work at home Or they will as of old but make a crack And stinck and smoke a little and fall back Since they who act their Catholick-Designes Observe the Principle self-Selfe-Love injoynes As men do here and will no longer drive Their neighbors Car then they thereby may thrive Yea we our selves by dear experience know That Ayd soone promis'd is in comming slow Nor fear we that our Armie or the Citie As they who more suspitious are then witty Suspect of late will any thing assay But that which they with your good liking may Whilst firme to your own Principles you stand And act not with your left-malignant hand Nor do we fear a breaking with the Scot For greater cause of fear they give us not By ought we see then some of us have given To them of late So we and they are even In giving Cause as we hereafter shall In ruines be if we asunder fall Nor fear we though reviv'd among us are Old-Prophesies which put Young-fooles in fear That they who do with Ireland now begin Shall not give off till England they do win For till our wickednesse doth here increase To equall us with them in barbarousnesse And bloody crying-sinnes there is no dread Of being by those Blood-hounds conquered Or any other if we will prevent The threatned Plagues by being penitent And ere it be too late some course foresee To scape those Foes that mixt among us be These are the Foes whom most of all we fear And those of whom we wish you to beware For without these all other outward F●…s Would prove like ragges set up to fear the ●rowes And harme us by their furiousnesse no more Then Paper-guns discharg'd against the shore Nay other Foes would be occasion rather To make us prudently more strength to gather Arme us within against our Foes abroad And make us fly unfainedly to GOD. But these if long conniv'd at will be able To make the meanest Rascals formidable That shall oppose us These will skrew into us If suffred Principles that will undo us VVithout another Foe and draw us on To trust in our own wits as they have done And leave our Faith and confidence in GOD To seek our happinesse in flesh and blood These have already made us grow afrayd Of those that are our Friends and bring us ayd Yea fearfull of our selves nay of our shade And things by meer imagination made These will deprive us e're perceiv'd they are Both of the Bones and sinewes of the VVar Steale from us to be Factors for their ends Our Wives our Children and our bosome-friends Enfeeble by degrees the publike-strength And altogether ruine us at length That you may know we speak the truth of these Observe it now in practise if you please For you your selves have seen with lamentations Their practises and their prevarications Behold your Friends and servants are disgrac'd Malignants in Authority are plac'd They who inform you how we are abus'd Are for Suborners shamelesly accus'd And voted such without due proofe or hearing Or any probability appearing They who came first our Freedomes to redeem Are set among the hindmost in esteem Even by their prevalency who conceale Their disaffections to the Common-weale These by their cruelty injustice pride And wicked practises have justifide All Courts and Persons that corrupt have bin Before this Reformation did begin And these by fooling some and failing more By making Villaines rich and good men poore By sleighting others by oppressing many And seldome doing Justice unto any Have so displeased and inraged so The generalitie that mad they grow And are upon