Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	9,628	5	12.3529	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23268	Austins Vrania, or, The heauenly muse in a poem full of most feeling meditations for the comfort of all soules, at all times: by S.A. B. of Arts of Ex. Colledge in Oxford.; Urania	Austin, Samuel, b. 1605 or 6.	1629 (1629)	STC 971; ESTC S104457	102,044	160

Lord to rule and sway O're all the rest vntill hee fell away By faithlesse disobedience to his Prince From whome hee had his right and euer since Hee prou'd disloyall to the Deitie Hee hath beene heire of nought but miserie But when I had reuiewd this goodly Ball Of Earth and Heau'n with furniture and all Pertaining to 't as my vnhappy Sire Sometimes in Paradise I had desire To know beyond my reach the matter whence This all was made of but my forward sense Was quickly ouertopt for there mine Eye Began at first to see my misery Within these sacred Axioms there I saw A new-found Generation Natures law Earst feign'd was quite abolisht all this frame Was made of nought but nothing for that Name Of God was all in all till Gracious Hee Willing the Creature should a partner bee In his exceeding goodnesse spake the word The earth and Heau'ns were made and all accord To do his will who wills what ere hee lists And when Hee wills ther 's nothing that resists For Hee is Lord of all and all within This Vniuerse hath nothing but from Him For all was nothing till it pleasd him say Let it be so and should Hee take away His face a while behold this goodly frame Would turne into that nothing whence it came And silly wretch There began to view My Nakednesse which made me sad to rue My poore estate that durst not write one Line To tell the world that this or this was mine For I was not mine owne but at his will Who gaue mee all I had besides mine ill And this my Parents gaue when earst their eyes Were op't as mine to see their miseries A cursed gift alas but yet t was all Poore Soules they had after their haplesse fall For soone as they had trespast on that Tree Which God forbad them touch their simple fee In Paradise was lost their former state Was voyded quite both Adam and his Mate Were tumbled out at dores and all they had Was ta'ne away onely they kept the bad And thi 's that cursed portion which they left Vnto their Issues who no sooner reft Of what their Parents had but as in spight They'd vowd to warre against the Lord of might From whom they had their being all in rage They 'gan at once to rush vpon the Stage Tooke vp their Fathers Action laid a plot To make compleat what Adam acted not Successiuely they come each enters in Bedight with various Robes of Scarlet Sin To act their seuerall ills each takes his place The greatest hee that is the least by Grace Here comes a Tyrannizing King and there A flattring Courtier lulls him in the eare Your Maiestie is wise to lop away Such pearching Twigs as these that durst gainesay Your high decrees for bee they good or ill It is enough for Kings to say We will Next enter in the Nobles Dukes and Earles Vicounts and Lords bedeckt with gold and pearles All draw their swords in fury and combine To fight against that One-Eternall-Trine This vomits out such horrid oathes and words As pierce far deeper then a thousand swords That sends an Ambassage an angry frowne To tell the weaker they must needs go downe ' Cause he is rising higher and t were best They murmur not if that they meane to rest Some others that haue got a Treasury By lawlesse meanes Extortion Vsury By bribry or the like and with the same Haue bought themselues an honourable Name Looke vp aloft and scorne to stoop so low As looke on them whom they were wont to know T is high disgrace they thinke to cast an eye Away on such as are in misery And if poore soules for griefe of heart they say The Men are proud t were good they run away For they will haue their tongues that dare to prate So lauishly on Men of their Estate They 'l force them eat their words and what they see They must not say t is ill although it bee If touching them but t is a Mystery Or some high point of their Nobility Thus pride the hatefulst of the rest is fled So high that it begins to take a head Aboue our reach and proudly seemes to call Some heauy Iudgement on this wicked all Scarce these were silent but there came in haste Three roaring Knights Each bragging of the waste That hee had made this tells how hee had spent Some three or foure hundred pounds of rent Per Annum on his whores his hawkes his hounds And thus proclaimes how hee bad sold his grounds The Right his Father left him all to buy A thousand trickes to nourish luxury Another boasts that he had throwne away So much vpon the cardes and diceing play As ere he knew Godliest of them all Bestow in building vp an Hospitall T was I said one did best another I The last would needs bee first in villanie Thus all would haue the Mastery and say T was I that wan the glory of the day Next follow in the Gentry all bedight With armour of vnrighteousnesse to fight Against their Lord and Maker euery Lim Had vow'd it selfe a seruant vnto Sin Then come the vulgar and the rusticke crue With Bills and Staues and Malberts to pursue As earst the wicked Iewes and still they add Some ten times worse vnto the former bad Thus Kings and Nobles all the hatefull traine Meet here at once and take their oaths againe To actuate at full ere they had don Th' vnhappy Scene that Adam had begun Here might you see if that a humane Eye Could tearelesse gaze vpon a Tragedy Fild with such horrid Actions euery part Set forth with new-found euils Satans Art Was eminent in all they plaid so well That euery one could act himselfe to Hell Adam was nothing had he beene but here Amongst this rout it scarsly would appeare That ere he did a fault his lowly lapse Would ne'r beene heard amongst these thunder-claps And should I speake sure t were not much amisse His ill was good in reference to this For he at first it seemes had but a will To know the diffrence twixt the good and ill And sure his aimes in this were good to stray If that he had not sin'd to disobey But when he 'd erred thus his opened eye No sooner saw then saw his misery This was his recompence his knowledge taught Himselfe to know that he was worse then naught But when hee 'd seen his fault I do not doubt His eye againe wept teares to wash it out But these had other aimes their imbred spight Was onely darted ' gainst the Lord of might To pull him downe from Heau'n as if that they Could authorize what e'r they did or say With Who shall vs controll Their wicked will Did aime at nothing else but what was ill Good was a Paradox as strange to them As sin at first to Adam was for when