Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	let_v	lord_n	people_n	9,048	5	5.3230	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09517	Digitus Dei. Or, Good newes from Holland Sent to the wor. Iohn Treffry and Iohn Trefusis. Esquires: as allso to all that haue shot arrows agayst Babels brats, and wish well to Sion wheresouer.	Peters, Hugh, 1598-1660.	1631 (1631)	STC 19798.3; ESTC S101483	10,887	14

ordinary successe that to this day Dunkerk a meane Dunghill hauen dare write her selfe a M rs The 2 o was this that they should not spend themselues thus yeare after yeare in the beseiging beleaguring taking in of any one towne which did spend them much treasure could not much disaduantage the enimy but that they should though with double cost attempt the diuiding of the Provinces especially Holland Zeeland which hee demonstrated to bee feasable And for the better understanding the way may it please you to take notice that about two or three houres sailing from Dort there lies a village calld the Plate with a conuenient hauen able to receiue many smal vessels this village with the whole Iland uppon which it stands is all together vnfortified soe are all places about it this hauen lookes right against Princeland a place of the same strenght with the Plate betwixt these two passe all our shipps to Zeland Bergen Ter Goose Tertoll Zeerikze● ect This yeare about the time of this attempt their army entred Princeland ●othing remained but that they might make themselves M r of the Plate soe 〈◊〉 once cut of the passage to Zeland the parts aboue said soone put Dort Roterdam the Hart of the land in feare from whence likewise they might haue an easie way to Dunkerk they recourse to them agayne This with the consequences being vnderstood I shall labor to show yow what faythfull ouerseers the Marquese had to his wil and how tender they are on the other side to follow the mind of the dead After the Prince of Orange had retreated out of fflaunders whether through the foreslowing of time or too many loope holes made in their counsails or unfaithfulnesse in men betrusted or correspondence by any false heart with the enimy he had lost his designe inquartered himselfe at Drunen neare Huisden little other tidings came to vs but the constant and extraordinary prouisions of the enimy by land water especially concerning certaine sloopes flat bottomed boates an engeneering Preist who should haue spent much oyle candle in the advancing of a strange designe The tidings whereof comming thicker the child being neere the birth the towne of Bergen petition the ayde who with that part of his army that lay at Drunen being about 12 or 14000. foot beside horse set forward for Bergen the 25. of August and within 3. or 4 dayes was inquartered on the North-side of the towne Sargeant Maior Cary being sent before with diuers companies for a safegard to those parts by which these shalloopes might passe as also 15. or 17. men of war that vsually waite uppon the In-land waters Vppon the 11. of Septem being thursday at 4. or 5 ' of the clock at night wee heard shooting from Falconesse and the Doel and there-abous and saw shipping but did generally conceiue that the enemy had made an attempt to come forth and was beaten back by our men when as it appeared otherwise t●e next day for the next morning being friday wee discerned vppon the wals of Bergen a fleete of 80. sayle or more comming towards the towne and farther off some greater shipps in an other fleete It is strange to see heare how hardly men were drawne to beleeve that the enemy was so neare nor was there much credit giuen to it till they were before the very towne of Bergen where my-selfe being a spectator amongst the rest could tell above 80. sayle who as it seemes came the day before from Antwerpe soe past by our shipping as wee saw over night onely changd a few shot without farther Danger Sargeant Maior Cary carefully attending vppon the chardge committed to him they bent their course toward Tertoll land about 8. or 9. in morning 22. saile of their Reregard comming on ground the rest stayed for them betwixt Rommers-wali Tertoll till the returning of the next tide which was at 3. in the afternoone and thus they lay this whole day in the sight not onely of Berghen but of the Princes whole army mee thought this time was alotted us from heaven as if a voice had cried and bid vs yet try what prayer will doe and if I should bee playner with you open you a window into my owne heart mee thought this stopp was the time wherein Iustice Mercy compeered before the great God of heaven earth as indeed it was a time for our saddest thoughts Take Vengeance cries Iustice Oh spare sayes Mercy Kill cries the one Saue the other There are no sins like theirs cries Iustice No God like theirs sayes Mercy Give successe to this designe cries the One Lord they are Thy enemies sayes the Other Holland is p●oud secure sayes Iustice But they may amend by this diliuerance They haue not improoued former kindnesses But they may bee tried by one more Reuenge thy Sabbaths let them haue noe rest that neglect this day of rest heere Mercye paused at lentgh charging their teachers with this excusing the poore people that knew noe better You shall see what followed and whic● preuayled The Prince perceiuing that it was now no time to aske what shall we doe ●ut to bee doing vnder command of Generall Morgan sent 3. Regements 〈…〉 oll to guard those parts from the incursion landing of the enemy who went to their worke with no ordinary resolution came close by those partes where the enemy lay onely gave them notice by some shot that they there attended them with which troopes the Prince went in person In the meane time Count Ernest advised for the cutting off the Reregard that lay on ground to that purpose commanded such warlike shipping as lay at Bergen to be made ready 12 musketteres out of every companie of the army to bee imployed in the designe which came to 1200 or there abouts the commander in cheife of our nation was the noble valiant Earle of Oxford Lieutenant Collonel to my Lord Generall Vere to whōe were added Sergeant Maior Hollis Captaine Dudly Captaine Skippon S r Thomas Colpeper Captaine Iackson with some other officers and this I must say my hart wittnesseth I flatter not I never saw men hugg an enterprise so the common souldier even beseeching their captaines with teares that they might bee preferred to it nor were they without the company of diuers Noble volunteers amongst whom that Noble Gentle-man my Lord Crauen who hath much honored his nation abroad must not be forgotten who with the first presented him-felfe with his musket ready to share in the common condition whether good or bad But as great bodyes mooue slowely so these tfor they set not forth till the enemie floated who with the comming of the tide were soone at worke as before hauing a small boate with them sounding the way ouer the many sands they were to passe made toward Zerickzea hauing gotten their whole fleete together about 4. of the