Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	lord_n	spare_v	2,870	5	9.3705	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95944	A vindication of my Lord Windsor's late proceedings with Mr. John Griffith, occasioned by his vain aspersions. / And undertaken by an unknown servant of his Lordship.	Unknown servant of his Lordship.	1650 (1650)	Wing V485; Thomason E594_16; ESTC R204695	4,623	8

Sergeant Major Goff and wounded him whereof he dyed within a week but my Lord to revenge this made a full thrust at him and tumbled him off his horse and having him thus at mercy thought it a greater Conquest to spare then take away his despicable life and thereupon wheeled off because he would not pursue the advantage Indeed Griffith had then the impudence to say My Lord if you are a gallant man alight and fight with me on foot which in good English signifieth no better then thus My Lord now you have disarmed me throw away your Sword if you are a gallant man and fight with me at Cuffs My Lord told him He would give him leave to get up on his horse again if he had not yet enough but Lieutenant Colonel Apsley Second to Mr. Griffith stepped in and said That was too great an advantage to be given and he being the onely Second left could not in honor suffer it My Lord then asked Mr. Griffith If he had any more to say to him he replyed He was his Servant and taking up the Pistols which my Lord had thrown away in the fight kissed them and gave them to his Lordship and so my Lord came off The most material of these Circumstances appeareth in a Letter written by Lieutenant Colonel Apsley to his Brother Sir Allain Apsley which I therefore here insert verbatim Gaunt 6 June New Stile DEar Brother Knowing that in all publike actions a mans Reputation is wracked by the inclination of of the parties affected either to the one or the other side I thought good to give you the true Relation of a mortal quarrel for these four moneths the onely discourse of this Countrey which was betwixt my Lord Windsor and Mr. Griffith the last of which chose me to be his Second and this Sunday morning we met betwixt Sass and Gaunt where we being engaged onely as witnesses to our Principals valour saw a very handsom Charge on each side with their Pistols but when it came to be tryed by the Sword my Lord had so much the advantage of the other Gentleman as he tumbled him clear from his horse At which seeing his Lordship unwilling to take an advantage of an Enemy in his power it rather invited me to part them then to stand still and see the death of one of them Mr. Griffith desired to fight again I being the onely judge left the other being accidentally wounded did believe dismounting from horse-back to be the same as disarming on foot and though my Lord would have freely consented to it that Mr. Griffith should mount and fight again I thought I should have been injurious to his Lordship if I should have consented to it c. After my Lord had spent Five or Six hundred pounds to give satisfaction to this unequal Enemy he returned home I dare say more ashamed of his Victory then his Adversary was of his Defeat and was very sparing of the discourse of it Indeed Mr. Griffiths Second had so much Honor in him as to do my Lord all right in his relations howsoever some have unworthily published stories in his Name to my Lords disadvantage Mr. Griffith finding himself fallen in the opinion of the world from the reputation of that great Kill-cow which he passed for amongst some hath since endeavored contrary to the Law of Arms to provoke my Lord to a second tryal and bring him to fight on foot where his own skill and in that his courage chiefly lieth and to this end hath multiplyed provocations against his Lordship by Discourse and Letters To the which his Lordship hath divers times made this answer That he will receive no more Letters from him nor endeavor to give him any further satisfaction since his Spirit is so restless and his Desires so exorbitant And in pursuance of this resolution his Lordship hath torn many of Mr. Griffiths Letters and burnt them unread before the face of those that brought them Yet the last week another Letter was brought his Lordship from Mr. Griffith by one Mr. Marbles if I mistake him not who required an answer to it my Lord tore it in his sight and gave it his Foot-man to burn saying He would afford Mr. Griffith no other answer as not esteeming him worthy of any other respect but if any Gentleman or Mr. Marbles himself would undertake to justifie Mr. Griffiths proceedings he would fight with him To this Mr. Marbles scraped some few legs and desired to be excused but within Two days after posted up a scurrilous disgraceful paper against my Lord in divers places of the Town which was surrounded with Knaves of Spades and Clubs proper Hierogliphicks of Mr. Griffiths honesty and wit and intended to have set out all his gallant acts in print but he was prevented by Mr. Speakers Warrant by vertue whereof he was apprehended and sent to Newgate This my Lord hath suffered without any the least distemper or trouble as conceiving Mr. Griffiths tongue or pen no Slander and that all these little Buffoneries serve but to blazon his own Baseness and Folly who if he were not quite out of his Wits or not yet quite out of his Pagery could not think this proceeding Man-like to argue my Lord a Coward because he dare not be mad But where lieth the Policy of all this ado to prove and publish my Lord Windsor a Coward For grant Mr. Griffiths Allegation true in that point What a poor Wretch doth he conclude himself who was dismounted by the man he endeavoreth to lessen I hope this Discourse will serve not only to vindicate my Lord who in this very business with Griffith is so far from suffering in the reputation of his Courage that most men have rather condemned him of precipitancy and rashness but likewise let the world see that Mr. Griffith is not fit for any Gentlemans conversation whether by way of friendship or defiance having broken the Laws of Honor in holding up his hand against a Gentleman who gave him his Life unless he will plead it a fresh injury That he is permitted to survive and contemplate his own Disgrace FINIS