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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	father_n	holy_a	sinner_n	9,874	5	9.5686	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41556	Some observations on the fables of Æsop as commented upon by Sir Roger L'Estrange, kt. Yet not on all, for some need not any addition or review, and there be many of them which are coincident as to the individual scope, I mean the same moral instruction, which is couched in them. Illustrated with several pertinent stories of antient and modern history. By a divine of the Church of Scotland.	Gordon, James, 1640?-1714.	1700 (1700)	Wing G1284; ESTC R215162	66,798	60

but the elder being killed in the civil Warrs by the Martiall Conduct of Henry King of Navarr The younger brother was constrayned by the Pope for the good of the Catholick Cause which in their opinion justifies a dispensation for any thing not only to succeed his brother in his estate but also in his office of Generall under Henrie III. Thus we find the honest Capuchine transformed into a Duke and Peer of France and into a man of war But how soon it pleased the LORD of Hosts to restore Peace to France by the settlement of Henry IV. in the capital city the new Duke instantly abandoned all the pleasures of the court with all his great Estate and Ti●…les of Honour and returned to his old order of Capuchine and it was on the streets of Par●…s in a cold winter day that a lice●…tious droll a modern Dei ●… or to say better a reall Atheist rancountred this religious father bare legged and bare footed save only that he had sandalls under his soles But the duply of that truly religious noble Soul ought not to be forgot As I beleeve those regions of Bless and mar●…sions of eternall Glorie to which I hope GOD of his infinite Mercie and for the infinit merits of holy Iesus will bring me when it 's his good pleasure that I be delivered from a vain a sinfull and miserable life so if there be a ●…ell where incorrigible sinners shall be eternally tormented whereof I am fully perswaded because the Justice of GOD requires it then Sir you will be found to be the greatest fool of the two FAB CCCCLII Page 428. Rondelitius a French Physitian hath a story somewhat to this Purpose of a cheating Rogue in France who gained no little money by countersitting that strange Disease named the Catalepsy whose real stupefaction do●…h so resemble the Insensibility of a dead Body that the People of Cullen buried the Subtile Doctor alive but Rondelitius having good ground to suspect the counterfit Cataleptic as an Impostor He said that He had cured many o●… that Disease by a very easie remedie yet so effectual that they never relapsed into it again and that was only to bastinado them soundly from head to foot 〈◊〉 how soon the Eck statick Cheat heard this he gat up and away and ●…o the Disease was cured FAB CCCCLVIII Page 434. Plutarch in his Moralls reports a Parallel storie to this Miser with his rotten Apples Of a Merchant in Chios who had many sorts of Greek Wines to traffick with Yea the Isle of Chios is famous for produceing naturally very generous wines this merchant was a great miser and having bought a slave in the morning he ordered him to tast his serveral sorts of wine and to 〈◊〉 by themselves any bottles which contained sour or vappid wine but when the Slave perceived His Mister to make Use of those and of ●…one 〈◊〉 at his Meat he shewed Him a fair Pair of Heels after Dinner but being brought back again and told that it was death by the Law for a slave to become Fugitive I know no less replied he for I would rather choose death than serve a Fool a Fool said his overtakers He is accounted a very wise man who is your master he must either be a fool or a madman said the slave who having many good Wines in his Possession and the Propriety of them also that will still take the worst to his own Use. FAB CCCCLXIV Page 〈◊〉 The most lamentable Story that ever I read of an Outrage of this Nature commited in cold blood not on a beast but on a man not on a stranger but the mans own Son and the eldest too was perpetrated by Sha Ab●…as K. of Persia who lived not long agoe he was a Prince of great parts but very Tyrannicall as generally the Asiatick monarchs are and when their people come to a general grudging and a murmuring against the Goverment it 's an infallible evidence that it 's highly Tyrannical for it 's well known to Historians that the Asiaticks have been generally slaves since the dayes of Nimrod tho' some of their Princes are less severe than others We need no other Evidence of their being so inured to slaverie that they affected these chaines than the proffer which the Romans made to the Cappadocians even to set them at liberty that they might become a Common-Wealth since their Kings had so tyrannized over them but their Answer was surprising to the Romans who expected great Thanks for tendering that to them which is acounted the greatest Blessing upon earth next to bodily Health We have been so accust ●…med to Kingly Government said the Cappadocians that We will choose rather to have a King let him be never so great a Tyrant than to have none at all But let Us return to Sha Abbas who had a Son and his first born too that was a Prince of great Vertue and greatly beloved by all Ranks of People and never a Son honoured his Parents more than He did His Royall Father He was also arrived at such an Age as to have Wife and Children This unfortunate Prince found one day a little Schedule of Paper lying in his chamber unsealed and unsubscribed with very odd contents the sum thereof was this that if he were willing he should be put in present possession of the administration of the government since neither the nobility nor body of the people could any longer endure the intolerable Tyrannie of his Father We may easily imagine how surprising this paper was to an innocent Soul who had never harboured such unnatural thoughts Yea abhorred them as he did the Devil and Hell it self so that in a true filial rage he was once resolved to throw that treasonable paper into the fire as most worthy of Hell fire till he began to reflect on two things 1. that it might be a politick Fetch of his Father to try how he would behave for he knew Him to be of as Jealous a temper as any man living Or supposeing it to be a reall effect of the conspiracie of the nobles against his father yet he judged it probable that some pick thank among them or a timerous Soul might reveale the combination to the King with the circumstance of that dropped paper so that the Maxime of Law might be applyed to himself Qui tacet consentire videtur Therefore he finaly determined to acquaint the King with that unhappy emergencie and withall to make infinite protestatons of his own ignorance of the matter and His fitter Abhorrence of so vile a Designe The father was well pleased with the prudent Conduct of his Son and throughly convinced of his innocencie Yet that fatal paper had raised such suspicions of the Nobles in his head and such sinistrous suppositions concerning His own Son that it was possible he might yet be prevailed upon to comply with that treasonable designe since a great Crown is a great temptation or that it would