Selected quad for the lemma: majesty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
majesty_n	john_n	sir_n	thomas_n	31,802	5	10.0915	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55329	Kalōz telōnēsantai or, The excise-man Shewing the excellency of his profession, how and in what it precedes all others; the felicity he enjoys, the pleasures as well as qualifications that inevitably attend him, notwithstanding the opprobrious calunmies of the most inveterate detractor. Discovering his knowledge in the arts, men and laws in an essay. By Ezekiel Polsted, A.B.	Polsted, Ezekiel.	1697 (1697)	Wing P2780B; ESTC R218302	49,596	137

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE Excise-Man Shewing The Excellency of his Profession how and in what it precedes all others the Felicity he enjoys the Pleasures as well as Qualifications that inevitably attend him notwithstanding the opprobrious Calumnies of the most inveterate Detractor Discovering his Knowledge in the ARTS MEN and LAWS In an Essay By EZEKIEL POLSTED A.B. Nor shall my Muse d●scend To Clap with such who Knaves and Fools commend Their Smiles and Censures are to me the same I care not what they praise or what they blame Dryden in Juvenal LONDON Printed and Sold by John Mayos at the Golden Cross in Thames-street near Queenhithe 1697. To the Honoured Sir Stephen Evans Kts. Sir John Foche Kts. Francis Parry Esqs William Strong Esqs Edward Clark Esqs Foot Onslow Esqs John Danvers Esqs Philip Medows Esqs Thomas Everard Esqs Chief Commissioners and Governors for the Management and Receipt of His Majesties Revenue of Excise within the Kingdom of England c. Honoured Sirs WEre not your Candor and Clemency as eminently distributed to every Criminal as are Your piercing Judgments to discover him he must be possess'd with a more than shivering Extasy that should presume to accost You with the present Dedication For though the following Paper appears in great Necessity of such Patrons yet that it should be petition'd by so perfect a Stranger and that without a Licence might create a Wonder beyond the belief of the most Credulous Notwithstanding Ingratitude having been ever esteem'd the Epitome of all Vices and consequently the Guilt of the former being much more eligible with all imaginable Submission I crave Leave to present You with the grateful Sentiments of the Kingdom for Your Impartial Administration whereby You have taken a Charter of the Peoples Hearts never to be cancell'd I shall not be guilty of an Additional Presumption by descending to Particulars but most humbly implore a Pardon for subjoining that Your Endeavours have been vigorous beyond a President in Your equally asserting His Majesty's and the Countries Rights by encouraging any thing that has but the Tincture of Probity and Ingenuity and wholly exploding and discountenancing that Rigor which has been usually perpetrated under the specious Pretext of Law These are so publickly known and such uncommon Actions as will be Register'd in every unprejudic'd Breast till Time it self shall have an End by which we find You acquiesce in the Opinion of the Great Agesilaus who dying in his Voyage from Egypt forbad any Statue in memorial of Him saying He had left those Actions behind him as would render it wholly insignificant These being such great Verities as admit not of a Contradiction we have Reason to be assur'd That by Your extraordinary Management the Excise like the Athenian Ship by being so often mended will in a short time arrive to that perfection that there never will be found a rotten or imperfect Stick And therefore pray That Health which gives the only Relish to all Your outward Enjoyments and Prosperity may be Your constant Slaves and Lacquies That a continu'd Succession of all Terrestrial Felicities may ever court You And that You may ever move as Refulgent Stars in the Orb You are plac'd for the encouragement of Ingenuity and destruction of every Action that might carry the Epithet of Ill And althô 't is usual to wish You many Years yet I shall wish You but ONE Sed Annus Hic mea si valeant Vota Platonis erit I am Honoured Sirs Your most humble and Obedient Servant Ezekiel Polsted Lond. Calend. Januar. An. 1697. TO THE Gentlemen Employ'd in the REVENUE OF EXCISE Gentlemen THE many Reflections which have been cast on your Persons and Profession induc'd me to an exact Examination of their Merit and finding them to be wholly the Result of Malice and Ignorance I could not avoid this Publick Confession of it But this is not all Your particular Favours to me command a much greater Acknowledgment than Expression is capable of giving yet I think my self sufficiently happy that I have an opportunity of telling the World so and consequently that your Favours and my Gratitude are equally illimitable which Consideration has wholly occasion'd this Trouble and therefore the innumerable Censures that must inevitably attend it are extremely below my Concern for I must own that I shall receive them with an extraordinary Pride since it must be thought too it was wholly for your sakes The following Vindication then such as it is I present you with and thô it might possibly be thought to want one it self or that your Innocency is such as to render it altogether insignificant yet I must aver that I can very calmly receive the former provided the latter does not as unanswerably intervene Thô considering that the Illiterate make up the greatest part of Mankind I presume it not impertinent sometimes to answer them in their own Terms for all the Reflections in the following Paper are only bestow'd on such who are so maliciously extravagant in giving them I am extreamly sensible of my detaining you too long from your Ravishing Felcities and therefore shall say nothing to the Gentle Reader but only acquaint him and all the World that your innumerable Obligations have created such grateful Sentiments as shall meet with a Duration that can never terminate as being Gentlemen Your humble Servant Ezekiel Polsted Lond. Calend. Januar. 1697. ON THE Author and Subject Bravely begun and bravely ended too The Arts receive their Character from you They gratefully attend you since th' EXCISE Exact Perfection in it self implies Arithmetick is short in vain we strive To find that which no Rule could ever give Addition here a quick Substraction meets As to the happy Persons as the Sheets For by the bold Attempt we must submit That to your Fame whatever can be writ Like * Decimal Arithmetick Right-Hand Cyphers only lessens it John Morgan Junior de Wenalt in Com' Brecon ALIVD TO THE Officers of the Excise WE own'd your Power and the Pleasures too That as their Center ever meet in you But your monopolizing Sense affords A Ravishment beyond the Pow'r of Words To Silence thus Consin'd I must obey And only 〈◊〉 say that I can nothing say Henry Vaughan ●ilurist 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 OR THE Excise-Man CHAP. I. THere is nothing that is a greater Subject of Admiration or has created more Wonder in me than the great Difference and Vnreasonableness of some persons attaining and others again missing Preferment and the variety of Methods conducing thereunto it often waiting upon some without either Endeavour or Merit and as often flies those who are most excellently qualified in Both. I confess I could never guess at the Causes of this so seemingly great a piece of Injustice unless they may be applicable to one of the two subsequent I beg pardon for calling them Reasons First then If you 'll believe the Astrologers there are some that are unfortunate even in their Nativity