Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	charles_n	king_n	navarre_n	2,711	5	11.8052	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38480	Eikon basilike deutera, The pourtraicture of His Sacred Majesty King Charles II with his reasons for turning Roman Catholick / published by K. James.; Eikon basilike.		1694 (1694)	Wing E312; ESTC R14898	141,838	350

their Fault and not mine if their Security be not provided for By this means I shall amuse the Publick and prevent the general Disgust of the Nation And if I can but preserve my Honour with the People I shall despise the Reflections of particular Men for herein I think Saul acted truly like a Monarch that though Samuel had denounced the Anger of God against him for disobeying his Commands he was not in the least solicitous about that but pray'd that the Prophet would honour him before the People he took care of his Concerns for this Life let it fare with him as it would for what was to come But to what I say my self my Friends shall have Instructions to add the Right of making Peace and War is in me alone that if they with-hold Money I will neither declare War nor make Leagues that I have already exhausted my own Treasury in rigging out 44 Ships of War to preserve their Trade and convoy the Merchants and yet the City of London is so ungrateful as to refuse me Credit for 200000 l. and therefore if my People perish it 's their own Fault Those Suggestions will be readily imbib'd and diligently improv'd by the Courtiers and Clergy and then let my Enemies insist as much as they please upon the Necessity of shutting the Door towards France else our Treasure and Trade will creep out and their Religion and Tyranny creep in I am sure to have the Advantage of them when my Dictates shall be delivered from the Pulpits once per Week as the Oracles of Heaven And thus I shall make void all their Efforts for lessening the Power of France which I perceive they dread as carrying with it the Bane of their Heresy and Republican Principles and therefore it 's as necessary for my Design that the Power of the French King be kept up as it is necessary for theirs that it should be brought low I am unhappy that notwithstanding of all my Pensions an Address for an Alliance with the States c. should be carried in the House and have but two Negatives against it especially considering that they alledg it to be unprecedented to grant any Money till the Wars and Alliances for which they are demanded be signified in Parliament which plainly implies their Distrust of me that though I should have the Money yet I would not answer their Address which is so mischievously composed and so strongly back'd with popular Reasons that it seems to be calculated for possessing the Subjects that I would never suffer the French King to increase his Strength so much to the manifest Hazard of my Kingdoms if I were not engaged in the same Design with him I do also perceive that the Allegations of my Friends in the House of their intrenching upon my Prerogative by directing me with whom to make Alliances is nothing regarded but their Practice defended by former Precedents of Parliaments who have not only advised to Alliances but also confirm'd them as in the Reigns of Edward III. Richard II. and Henry V. c. And though my Pensioners were more serviceable in voting against the Manner and Words of the Address than formerly that there should be one yet they are worsted by a considerable Majority so unhappy is it for a King to depend upon the Humour of his Subjects which is as unconstant as the Waves of the Sea and liable to the Tossings of every Wind for however complaisant they have formerly been yet now they are all on a fire again about Popery and France So that I find my self under a Necessity of cooling them by an Adjournment and checking them by a severe Speech for intrenching on my Prerogative of making Peace and War in such an unprecedented manner while King and Parliament were not at mutual Enmity By which they would seem to claim a Privilege not only of directing me what Alliances to make but also to insinuate that it were not in my Power to make any without their leave so that I shall be look'd on by Foreigners as a King merely in Title I shall also take care that their Proceedings shall not dare to appear in print Whereas my Speech shall publickly proclaim their Disloyalty and the Speaker being made to my purpose I shall hinder the Commons from debating the Adjournment or diving into the Intrigues of the Court for if ever they begin to meddle in it he shall have Orders to quit the Chair by which the House must break up of Course and then the French shall have liberty to pursue their Conquests without Interruption by the Clamours of my Heretical Parliament who as also those that they represent shall be duly chastis'd in time convenient CHAP. LXII Vpon the Prince of Orange's Arrival at Whitehall and Marriage with the Lady Mary eldest Daughter to the Duke of York The Address of the Commons thereupon and their insisting upon the Alliance with the Dutch and War against France THe safest and most secure way of ridding ones self of an Enemy is to smite them under the fifth Rib while they imbrace them on pretence of Kindness And as Charles the IXth of France and Queen Katherine contriv'd the Destruction of the Protestants under the Covert of a Marriage with their Chief the King of Navar I may carry on the like Design by matching my Niece with the Prince of Orange Saul gave his Daughter Michal to David to be a Snare to him Nor is it out of any Kindness to my Nephew the Prince of Orange that I do now marry him upon my Niece He hath not hitherto behaved himself so like a dutiful Nephew as to deserve such a Favour having not only been the chief Support of the War against the French but incouraged the Dutch boldly in their Wars against my self But it may be this Match may take him off or at least will afford me an Opportunity of attempting it with more Vigour and Frequency than hitherto However let the Success as to that be what it will this Advantage I am sure of reaping from it that my Protestant Subjects will be thereby pleased and their Jealousies as to my Design of introducing Popery and Arbitrary Government abated so that being the less suspected I shall go on with the more Success and forward my Purpose My Parliament I perceive are pleas'd with this Alliance and have therefore ordered me an Address of Thanks yet their Fears and Jealousies are not so much quieted as to leave me at freedom from their Solicitations but still they insist on my not admitting any Treaty of Peace by which the French may be left in possession of any thing that they have taken since the Pyrenaean Treaty and confine their Promises of Support to my making a War with France How happy are unlimited Monarchs whose Will is their Law and whom their Subjects dare not controul but my Stars have not yet blessed me with any such Influences I cannot imagine how this phanatical discontented Humour hath