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	heart_n	set_v	2,588	5	5.0743	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93459	The souldiers demand· Shewing their present misery; and prescribing a perfect remedy.		1649 (1649)	Wing S4421; Thomason E555_29; ESTC R3057	11,196	16

be stopped Have not many of us been hanged and shot at their pleasure Must we not goe and run when they will have us and whither they will send us Must we not lye at their doores day and night like doggs to watch and guard them else are we not accounted mutinous and Rebels and that is a mighty thing with them and a great care they have to suppresse it Do they not make us worse than the very Janizaries to the Great Turke For are not they the greatest enemies to their owne Parents to their owne Religion to their owne Countrey so are not we their slaves to persecute our owne Countrey by killing and fighting with our own brethren against our naturall Parents and setting up false Religions by quartering upon them in eating them up and famishing of many Families these hard times by our wastfull charge and ●yot when alas they like miscreants with-hold our pay from us and force us thus cruelly to devoure them and their children Are not we their instruments to fetch in their oppressive Taxes from the poore Countrey men If any poore man has it not to pay yet we violently take it from him with much advantage over besides to our selves Oh the bitter curses the poore people lay to our charge anti our Superiours that set us a-worke We are afraid they reach up into the eares of God against us and for these unjust extortions upon his Children we shall one day receive a sharp censure Are we not tossed too and fro over the earth at their pleasure or else we are Rebels against their Greatnesses and so lyable to what punishment they will please to inflict upon us Sometimes we must march to London by and by downe to Barwicke to the West to the North to Scotland to Ireland even whither they will and if they doe but heare of any of the poore people but murmur against their oppression and cruelty do they not presently send us to see the matter and to quaile them peradventure if they be resolute we must kill them or be killed by them Do we not expose our selves to all danger and misery to uphold these domineering Rascals in their pomp and luxury Doe they not most insolently invassall us Doe they not vilifie us How base and meane are we in their conceit to themselves Doe they not keep our pay and hire from us and thrust us upon the poore people to shift for our selves Doe not they themselves pamper and feast their bodies wheresoever they come with the best and choisest refreshments at other mens Tables incouch themselves in the sumptuous lodgings and furniture Doe they not live in all delicatenesse Doe they not oppresse and violently take away every bodies Right Inheritance Possession goods money treasure where and from whom they please under the colour of Taxes Assize and opposition against the State as they call it Was there ever such a pack of Knaves in the world and such villany acted as is by them and all under such faire pretences It is for the good of State and the maintaining of the Army yet the Army must be paid as they in their discretion shall hold fit For their policy is to pay us short that so we must depend upon their courtesie and crouch and bow downe to them to pray for our owne right and out of our necessity to impoverish the State that we may make them as poore and base as they doe strive to make us to themselves and we being all poore and they having gotten all into their owne possession we must repaire to them as the young Crowes flye to the old ones for food or else we must starve This is their drift and intent to bring us all to that they may insult and rule us at their pleasure and when they have it thus then we must come at their becke and goe when they send or else cashiered our Arreares confiscated and then what shall we doe when we are turned out of their service Is there any such slavery as ours You Fellow-souldiers doe very well know these base affronts continually and alwayes have been put upon us and you very well may perceive how we have been requited for all our gallant service done for these our ingratefull Masters One thing more of their basenesse towards us let me put you in mind of before I have done with them Can they put a greater dishonour upon a Souldier than to make him a hangman or an Executioner of his Fellow-Souldier as they have done many times and nor very long since to the perpetuall infamy of men of our noble Profession that we should be hangmen or executioners of one another or Gaoller That man whosoever has been an actor in any of these courses let us abhorre and detest him and count him not worthy to be associated in our honourable Society but cashiere him out of the Army for a base infamous person that would be the executioner of a noble Souldier Let him be shunned as a man of bloud and hatefull to all men of our Profession and be a vagabond all his dayes We need call but your owne experience to bring these wrongs and indignities cast upon us into your memories by those that ought most to have honoured us we have undergone the servitude of these hard Masters for these many yeares yet hitherto we find no amends but rather worse and more insolency and tyranny every day than other But if you desire to be free from this base servitude as gallant souldiers we lye under and cleare your Countrey from these oppressive villaines who by their craft and treachery have mounted themselves into the Seats of Regality by our only fortitude and prowesse and gaine the love of your native Nation be perswaded and ruled by us and we will present you a way how to vindicate our selves from these our inthrallers so you will be constant and firme one to another and resolved in heart and unity of affections one with another we shall not only set our selves free from our cruell Taskmasters but also enrich our selves out of them and make them our slaves and the most basest abjects upon the earth howsoever they slant it now Yet we have not done with our Superiours they doe so hang in our teeth yet not out of any malice to their persons but against their ignoble and discourteous dealing against their owne Souldiers who have done so gallantly under their command doe we further set them forth in their lively colours before we come to our remedy You may see our slavish condition that they cunningly and Masterfully endeavour to keep us under and to effect their designes by us their vassals if we will be any longer ruled by them And likewise you may see the advancement we are like to rise to by what we have here truly set forth the highest is to a paire of gallowes if they can help us up the ladder as we see their blessed good meaning towards us if