Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	honourable_a	lord_n	viscount_n	3,313	5	11.4579	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19935	A funerall sermon preached the xxvi. day of Nouember in the yeare of our Lord M.D.LXXVI. in the parishe church of Caermerthyn, by the Reuerende Father in God, Richard by the permission of God, Bishoppe of Saint Dauys, at the buriall of the Right Honourable VValter Earle of Essex and Ewe ...	Davies, Richard, 1501-1581.; Waterhouse, Edward, Sir, 1535-1591.	1577 (1577)	STC 6364; ESTC S109385	23,626	69

❧ A FVNERALL SERMON PREACHED THE XXVI DAY OF NOVEMBER IN THE YEARE OF OVR LORD M. D. LXXVI IN THE PARISHE CHVRCH OF CAERMERTHYN BY THE REVERENDE FATHER in God Richard by the permission of God Bishoppe of Saint Dauys at the buriall OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE VVALTER EARLE OF ESSEX AND EWE EARLE MARSHALL OF IRELANDE VISCOVNT HEREforde Bourgcher Lord Ferrers of Chartley Bourgcher Louein of the most Noble order of the Garter Knight ¶ Imprinted at London by Henry Denham dwelling in Pater noster Row at the signe of the Starre Anno Domi. 1577. HONI SOYT QVY MAL Y PENSE ❧ To the right Honourable my very good L. Robert Earle of Essex and Ewe Viscount of Hereforde and Bourgchier Lorde ferrers of Chartley Bourgchier and Louayne hir Maiesties Warde c. MY Lord your absence lately from the Funeralles of my L. your Father was lamented by such in VVales as would gladly haue beheld the liuely Image of him in you and if the tendernesse of your yeares vnmeete for so tedious and so vnseasonable traueyle had not by necessitie disappoynted their hope then shoulde the lamentable speache of the graue and reuerent Father the Byshop of S. Dauies expressed wyth abundaunce of dolour and teares haue left in you a deepe impression of griefe for the intollerable losse of so Honorable a parent But it may be iudged that God hath turned your absence to your more benefit Since the importunacie of such as loue and honour you and who couet to haue your Fathers vertues discende with his inheritaunce hath obtayned the publishing of that learned Sermon wherein your L. may at good leysure view in the iust report of his lyfe and death the paterne and forme of true Nobilitie The Heroicall discription that the Byshop maketh of Nobilitie comparing it to a mountayne from which foure famous ryuers must issue the Mountaine true Religion the riuers Prudence Iustice Fortitude and Temperaunce is a rule to you ▪ first to follow your Father in truth of Religion then to be as he was wyse iust valiaunt and temperate The naturall and vnforced courtesie and affability that was in your Father and that excellent mixture of disposition and aptnesse both for warre and peace doth promise to the worlde a singular perfection in you hereafter For as your Grandfather who dyed in his young yeares dyd make shewe of much more Honour then was in the Noble Viscount his Father And this our Earle by famous actions dyd altogither eclips the vertuous hope cōceyued of your Grandfather so considering that God in nature continueth as it were the race by outward shew of good partes in you and that you haue more aduauntage of education both by the place where you liue and by the Honour and wisedome of your patrones then your Grandfather or father had we cannot but hope of a further degree of excellencie in you to ouershine the goodnesse both of your Father and Grandfather Some people there be that can hardly discerne betwene honour and profit that doe ouer much thinke of the disaduantage offered you by the Earle your Father in diminishing some part of his patrimonie in his forrayne Seruices and will wish you perhaps with a contrarie course to deserue more of your heire and woorse of the worlde But as I wishe in you a liberall frugalitie vnder this rule and protestation that nothing can be profitable that is not honest so to deserue well as your Father dyd of your Soueraigne and countrey in matters appertayning to hir Maiesties obedience rather throw the helue after the hatchet and leaue your ruynes to be repayred by your Prince then any thing to degenerate from Honorable liberalitie And as in attempting great things it is good to be circumspect and wyth iudgement wysely to foresee the ende before you beginne so hauing entered into any Honourable attempt that may be iustly grounded vpon reason follow the same with such inuincible cōstancie in all extremities as your Father dyd for so shall you iustly deserue lyke testimonie as hir Maiestie gaue to him in hir gracious letters namelye that he was a rare Iewell of hir Realme and an ornament of hir Nobilitie True Religion and wisedome vpon whome Iustice dependeth doe proceede from God by grace and therefore by inuocation prayer and studie to be obtayned but the other vertues as Fortitude temperaunce courtesie affabilitie liberalitie and constancie be peculiar to your house discending by nature and graffed as it were in your principles so that to degenerate into the lothsome contraries of these and in steade of habite of vertue to disguyse your selfe with vice shall be harder to you and more impossible for the contrarietie of your nature then to attayne in good things to the perfection of excellencie And to the end that you may know what you are by birth and bloud and that you shoulde not by ignoraunce or lacke of knowledge of your selfe doe any thing vnworthy the Noble houses from whence you are discended a welwiller of yours hath ioyned to this Sermon amongs other Epitaphes contayning your Fathers due prayses his stately discent in well digested Latine verses not to puffe you vp with any swelling vaniteis but to giue you a reason how you beare your Armour and Badges of Honour and to remember you what errour you enter into if you should blemish the vertues of your Noble Auncestours or to doe any thing as I sayde vnworthy your birth and calling Lastly my L. haue alwayes before your eyes the feare of God and the Counsell of the Earle your Father at his death namely that you shoulde euer be mindefull of the moment of tyme assigned both to your Father and Grandfather the eldest hauing attayned but to sixe and thirtie yeares to the ende that vpon consideratiō of the short course of lyfe that you in nature are to looke for you might so imploy your tender yeares in vertuous studies and exercises as you might in the prime of your youth become a man well accomplished to serue hir Maiestie and your Countrey aswell in warre as peace wherevnto he commaunded you to bende all your indeuours and with those conditions heaped his blessings vpon you I pray therefore that God will increase those condicionall blessinges and the causes of them in you to the ende that hir Maiestie may thinke of you hereafter as of a true seruaunt and humble subiect one of the pillers of hir estate hir Maiesties kinsman by many alliances and the sonne of a most Noble Father Your L. at commaundement E. W. EPitaphium genealogicum in obitum illustrissimi Gualteri Comitis Essexiae Euiae Comitis Mareschalli regni Hiberniae Vicecomitis Hereford Bourgcher Domini Ferrers de Chartley Bourgcher Louein praenobilis ordinis Garterij militis qui obijt Dublinij 21. Sept. 1576. Aetatis suae 36. Sepulti apud Maridunum 26. Nouembris SI quisquam claret veterum splendore parentum Aut famam meritus morum probitate perennem Profiteatur