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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	heart_n	incline_v	lord_n	19,971	5	7.2728	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01371	A watch-vvorde for warre Not so new as necessary: published by reason of the disperced rumors amongst vs, and the suspected comming of the Spanyard against vs. Wherein we may learne how to prepare our selues to repell the enemie, and to behaue our selues all the tyme of that trouble. Compendious for the memorie, comfortable for the matter, profitable for the matter, profitable for the tyme.	Gibbon, Charles, fl. 1589-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 11492; ESTC S117690	33,754	62

A Watch-worde for Warre Not so new as necessary Published by reason of the disperced rumors amongst vs and the suspected comming of the Spanyard against vs. Wherein we may learne how to prepare our selues to repell the Enemie and to behaue our selues all the tyme of that trouble Compendious for the memorie comfortable for the matter profitable for the tyme. Ezekiell 21 12. The terrors of the sword shall be vppon my people smyte therefore vpon thy thigh ¶ Printed by Iohn Legat Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge 1596. Eternall good and gracious God stretch forth thy sauing hand Let not our sinnes prouoke thy wrath but looke vpon this Land In thee we doe repose our trust as one that neuer faile Subuert both far and fawning foes they neuer may preuaile Alas what are we of our selues and want thee on our side But euen as chaffe against the winde not able to abide Extend therefore thy heauenly helpe and though we were but ten They shall repell tenne thousand foes if thou doost say Amen Hee that doth rule the harts of all theyr bodies can subiect An arme of flesh is of no force where he doth not direct Remember Lord our soueraigne Prince thine owne annointed deere Expell her foes increase her friends no hurt may happen heere Giue to her subiects faithfull harts to loue her as they ought Infold all secrete trecheries and bring them vnto nought Nowe for thy mercies sake good Lord vnto our sute incline And so direct her highnes dayes shee may at last be thine To the right Worshipfull the Mayor of the borrough of Kings Lynne and to his Associats or Bretheren the Aldermen of the same Towne C G wisheth much health with prosperitie and all happines with eternitie PLato that diuine Philosopher right Worshipfull dyd cast out of the common-wealth of wise-men which he made Homer and Hesiode two Poets because he perceyued some vanitie in theyr Poems Ouid neuer more iustlie deserued exilement then for hys lasciuious verse because they incline to the nourishment of vyce If we punish such by penall lawes which vse false waights and measures those are not to be permitted vvhich diuulgate corrupt dyscourses for these are meanes to vitiat the minde the other can but defraud vs of money That vvhich is infectious to publish must needes be infamous to patronize it is a credit to giue countenance to a good worke for that cause I haue made choyse of such a matter as shall neyther offend your W. for vanitie in the inuention or for indignitie in the protection The Subiect handled is vvarre the rumor of it is fearefull and therefore the discourse of it may be fruitfull vvhich hauing finished I haue presented to your W. not to that ende many ayme at in giuing whereof Gratian speaketh Do vt des vel do vt facias Decret caus 14. To giue to haue giuen agayne but as a gyft proceeding of mere good-will and I am the rather induced heerevnto for these causes First in respect of promise the Ciuilians say Vir iustus est vota et promissa praestare I promised long since to gratifie your W. with some grauer attempt The Philosopher sayth that the bird of Egypt being olde purgeth all the humors of her bodie by eating spyces of Arabia and sendeth forth of her mouth a sweete breath so I hauing expelled the vanities of youth by the experience of more yeares may haue a more rype and seasoned iudgment for as Euripides sayth the second actions are more singuler vve see that Aritificers be more excellent in theyr second workes then much more are the studies of the minde alwayes amended by future meditation as Cicero sayth Posteriores cogitationes sapientiores esse solent the latter cogitations are wont to be wiser Secondly in regard of your kindnesse vvhich not onely deserueth to be cannonized for a vertue by the Schoolemen T. Aqui. Art 1 but to be spoken of to the reproch of many ingratefull persons in thys age for there be some that respect not a gyft vvhen it is giuen others that vvill sooner crucifie then gratifie a well-willer but there is in your W. both a ciuill kind of curtesie to accept and also more then a common course of kindnesse to requite now it is true that Tully sayth Omnes immemorem benificii oderunt all men hate hym who is not mindfull of a benefite and therefore if Heathen men vvould punish vnthankfull persons with seruitude as Claudius Caesar did Sueton cap. 25 and vvith death as the Persians dyd Melanct. lib. 1 vvhat were I worthie to haue if I should not remember your kindnes and some-way remunerate againe These things considered hauing neyther store of Indian treasure to bestowe or costlie Iuels of Egypt to offer I could doe no lesse then dedicate my labours to your W. Vltra posse non est esse there is no defect in affection but in action but Kings in former tymes would not refuse gyfts of good-will though they brought but a handfull of vvater Christ him selfe dyd accept the widowes offer though she gaue but a myte and therefore I hope you will not reiect my simple present though it be but a peece of paper So presuming of your accustomed kindnesse I commit the protection heereof to your W. and the preseruation of your selues to the Almightie vvho make you gloryous Cittizens in heauen as he hath made you graue Senators vpon earth Your Worships alwayes in the Lord C. G. To the Reader THE mutabilitie of reports had almost dismaide mee in proceeding for one while there runne nothing but rumors of vvarre an otherwhile there passe manie speeches of peace the same mouth that saith at one time the Spanyard will come another time affirmeth we neede not expect his comming There be many that wish warrs because they cannot thriue with peace and others that speak of peace because they loue not to heare of war but good Reader as there is no smoke without fire so there ariseth no rumor without some original for rumors are commonly fore-runners of warre VVhen tydings of vvarre were voyced in Iuda the enemies tarried not long after and therefore the speeches which are giuen out of the Spanyard may put vs in expectation of his comming he which hath made so great preparation for warre may be suspected to weight oportunitie to effect his will There were many false Prophets amongst the Iewes which perswaded them of peace for some lewd pretence when they knew the Assyrians were ready to assault them Ierem 6 14. I pray GOD there be not some false-harted subiects amongst vs that giue out reports of peace for som ill purpose when they are perswaded the Spanyard is approching Howsoeuer it be dubia timenda things doubtful are to be dreadfull It is better to liue in feare then security for feare maketh vs to flie to God as Iehoshaphat did when he feared the Moabites to come vpon him 2 Chro 20 3 but securitie maketh vs forget God as Dauid did