Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	duke_n	king_n	savoy_n	4,461	5	11.5012	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48496	Catastrophe mundi, or, Merlin reviv'd in a discourse of prophecies and predictions and their remarkable accomplishment : with Mr. Lilly's hieroglyphicks exactly cut, and notes and observations thereon as also a collection of all the antient (reputed) prophecies that are extant touching the grand revolutions like to happen in these latter ages / by a learned pen.	Learned pen.; Lilly, William, 1602-1681. Monarchy or no monarchy.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2214; ESTC R32469	37,157	144

dreadful plague or mortal Contagion amongst the Greeks a considerable time before it began to rage Did not Thales Milesius inrich himself by foreseeing a Scarcity of Olives in the Milesian Fields and buying up a great quantity before hand Did not Socrates foretell the death of Crito Sulla the Death of Caligula The Caldeans the Death and Parricide of Aggripina the Empress by her own Son Nero when he should come to be Emperour and yet so possess'd she was with the Devil of Ambition that she cry'd out Occidat modo Imperet I say with all my Heart Let him kill mee provided he may but Raign Alexander the Great was foretold his Fate by Calanits and Indian and that if he Entred Babylon it would prove fatal and he would dye there which came to pass accordingly Caesar had fair notice given him by Spurina to beware of the Ides of March and fell a sacrifice to his own Incredulity or Negligence in not observing that Caution Ascletarion the Mathematician being accused that he had predicted the Death of the Emperour Domitian The Emperor demanded of him whether he had so done or not And confessing that he had Then quoth the Emperor Pray Sir you that are so Skillful in finding out other Peoples Fate tell me what shall be your own To which he answered That he should very shortly be torn to pieces by Doggs Dominitian resolves as he thought utterly to spoil this Prediction and therefore having order'd him forthwith to be put to Death Causes his body to be laid in a very deep ditch and a great heap of Earth to be laid thereon that no Dogs should come near it But mighty Rains happening washt away the new unsetled Earth and Dogs did accordingly tear his Body And soon after Domitian's Death confirmed the residue of his Prediction Rantzovivus a Noble and Learned Dame p. 99. tells us That the Astrologer of the Emperour Frederiek the Second being question'd by him why he paid so much respect to Rodolphus Earl of Haspurgh than but a poor Retainer to the Court Answered Because all thy Sons being Dead and the Emperour at that time had no fewer than 10 alive He and his Posterity shall come to and Enjoy those Kingdomes whieh now your Majesty does possess Which was answered with a punctual Success Rodolphus being Elected King of the Romans by the Germans Anno 1273. And page 97. he Relates That one Master Christian an Astrologer of Prague Admonished Ladislaus Jagello King of Poland by a Priest that belonged to him Anno 1434. That he should beware of Death that year for that many Planets were then Conjoin'd and there would be an Ecclipse of the Moon under the Earth and accordingly the same year he was Lodg'd in his Grave In the same page he gives that Remarkable Instance of the Incomparably Learned Johannes Picus Mirandula having written and Published a very smart Treatise against Astrology several Artists viz. Bellantius of Sena Antonius Sirigatus a Florentine and Angelus de Catastiris a Carmelite That they might demonstrate the Truth of their Art and Convince him of his Mistake positively told him in their publick Writings That he himself should not Escape or Survive the 33d year of his Age by reason of the Direction of the Ascendant in his Nativity to the Body of Mars who flattering himself with a false Conceit As if he could wrangle away Death or elude the Significations of his Stars by Writing against Astrology indeavouring to prove the Art vain his Death concurring exactly which the Time predicted Confirmed the same Art to be true and more actually Confuted all that he had written against it Than if all the World besides had Conspired to Answer him Fulgosius Lib. 8. Ca. 11. Records the wondrous exploits perform'd by Guido Bonatus the Astrologer at Forly in Italy at what time that City was close Besiedg'd For he Elected or fortold a Lucky Day for Guido Earl of Montferrat wherein if he would make a Sally he should rout his Enemies and obtain over them a Compleat Victory but not without receiving a slight wound in the Knee And that the Earl might be more assured of what he so foretold Bonatus would needs march out along with him and carryed Towe and Eggs and other Necessaries for dressing his wound And in the Engagement the Enemy was vanquisht and the Earl wounded punctually in the place foretold Regiomontanus a little before his death at Rome viz. in the year 1475. One hundred and Thirteen yares before it came pointed out the year 1588. as a time of most signal Revolutions and grand Transactions in the world And to the same purpose there was a Prophecy publisht in High Dutch as followeth Tansen funfhundert achtzitchtacht Das ist das iar das ich betracht Geth in dem de weltnixt under Geschicht doth groz merklich wunder Which I have found thus paraphras'd into Latine Post mille expletos a partu Virginis Annos Et post Quingentos rursus ab Orbe datos Octogesimus Octavus mirabilis Annus Ingruet is secum tristia Fata feret Si non hoc Anno totus malus occidet Orbis Si non in Nihilum terra fretumque ruet Cuncta tamen mundi Sursum ibunt atque retrorsum Imperia Luctus undique grandis erit And may bee thus English From Christo Birth count a Thousand Years compleat And add five hundred more with Eighty Eight That year approaching all men will affright With wofull Terrors which on them will light If the whole world to ruin do not run Or into nothing Land and Seas bee done At least most Realms shall Topsy Turvy turn And men on all sides Lamentably mourn Now if wee examine our Chronicles wee shall find most memorable passages in diverse parts of the world to have happend in that year Was it not unusual and strange That Poland this year should have three Kings assuming the Title whilst the Fourth viz. Stephen Battori was yet unburied Namely Sigismund the Swede Maximilian the Emperors Brother and Henry Valois of France Of which three Maximiliam in the begining of this year was taken prisoner his Army Cut in pieces and by means there of many thousands of men women and Children carryed away Captives by the Tartars That Suedeland in the mean tyme was all in a Combustion which Tumults and lost severall strong Places to the Muscovite The Muscovite himself ran madd and lost his witts The King of Denmark Frederick the Second dyed In France there happend The Barricado of Paris The flight of the King from thence The slaughter of the great Duke of Guise and his brother the Cardinal of Lorrain The Death of the Queen Mother The poisoning of the Prince of Condee and the Overthrow which the King of Navarre gave unto Duke Mercoeurs All which gave that Kingdome sufficient Cause to think 88. a year Extraordinary At the same tyme the Duke of Savoy prepared his Army and surprized the French Kings cheif Magazine in Saluze The Sophy of