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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	edward_n	england_n	wales_n	3,387	5	10.2709	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81080	Unparalleld varieties: or, The matchless actions and passions of mankind. Displayed in near four hundred notable instances and examples. Discovering the transcendent effects; I. Of love, friendship, and gratitude. II. Of magnanimity, courage, and fidelity. III. Of chastity, temperance, and humility. And on the contrary the tremendous consequences, IV. Of hatred, revenge, and ingratitude. V. Of cowardice, barbarity, treachery. VI. Of unchastity, intemperance, and ambition. : Imbellished with proper figures. / By R.B. ...	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1683 (1683)	Wing C7352; ESTC R171627	176,132	257

continued there eight months before he was Absolved at the end whereof he said to one about him Truly I will go and see what Pennance my Pastor will lay upon me for mine offence and so he went to the Church door where St. Ambrose was and intreated him to absolve him But what Repentance have you shew'd said the Bishop for so hainous an Offence And with what Salve have you healed so mortal a wound You said the Emperor are to instruct and shew me what I am to do and you shall see I will accomplish what you shall prescribe The Bishop seeing the Emp. Mildness and Humility and judging it sufficient pennance that he had been so long Excommunicated courteously replied Your Pennance Theodosius shall be this that seeing in your hasty fury you committed such an horrid Murther you shall presently establish a Law that no man whom you shall adjudge to die shall be executed within thirty days after you have pronounced the Sentence at the end of which time you shall either ratify or disannul your Sentence as you shall see cause The Emperor immediately caused this Law to be written and proclaimed which he ever after observed and whereof much good ensued and so being absolved he came into the Church prayed and received the Sacrament and ever after loved St. Ambrose very dearly and used his Council in many matters and for his Companies sake he continued in Millain the remainder of his life Clarks Lives p. 20. XXXVII It is reported by Gualter Mapes an old Historian of ours who lived four hundred years since that King Edward the first of England and Leoline Prince of Wales being at an interview at or near Aust upon Severn in Glocestershire and the Prince being sent for but refusing to come the King would needs go over to him which Leoline perceiving went up to the Arms in water and laying hold on the Kings Boat would have carried the King out upon his Sholders adding That his Humility and Wisdom had triumphed over his pride and folly and thereupon was reconciled to him and did his homage Burtons Melanch p. 307. XXXVIII After what manner Humility and Compassion doth sometimes meet with unexpected rewards methinks is prettily represented by Vrsinus Velius in the following Verses A Fisher angling in a Brook With a strong line and baited Hook When he for his wish'd Prey did pull It happen'd he brought up a Skull Of one before drown'd which imprest A Pious Motion in his Breast Thinks he since I such leisure have Vpon it I 'le bestow a Grave For what did unto it befal May chance to any of us all He takes it wraps it in his Coat And bears it to a place remote To bury it and then digs deep Because the Earth it safe should keep And lo in digging he espies Where a great heap of Treasure lies For Heaven do's never prove ingrate To such as are Commiserate XXXIX Alphonsus the most noble King of Arragon Naples and Sicily as he passed through Campania lighted by accident upon a Muleteer whose Mule overladen with Corn stuck in the Mire nor was he able with all his strength to deliver her thence the Muleteer beseeched all that passed by to help him but in vain at last the King himself dismounts from his Horse and was so good an help to the poor man that he freed his Beast when he knew it was the King falling on his knees he begged his pardon the King with courteous words dismist him this may seem a thing of small moment yet hereby several People of Campania became reconciled to the King This same Prince being informed by his Vice-Roy at Naples that in his absence one of those two mighty Ships which he had built and which seemed like Mountains by the negligence of the Seamen had taken fire and was burnt down he told the Messenger That he well knew that Ship though great and magnificent would yet after some years be corrupted or perish by some accident or other and that therefore the Vice-Roy if he were wise would bear that misfortune with an equal mind as he himself did By this may be discovered the humility and patience likewise of this great Personage which are both very excellent Accomplishments but especially when they have been improved so far as to repress our rising Passions in the midst of injurious Provocations and under great losses and injuries received in bearing patiently reproofs from Inferiors and likewise in supporting men in the midst of the most exquisite torments and hardships of all which we have divers instances in History and shall relate some of each particular XXXIX Philip King of Macedon had one Nicanor that went about rayling against him whereupon his Courtiers persuaded him to punish him severely for it to whom Philip answered Nicanor is none of the worst of my Subjects I must rather therefore observe and see whether I have not committed any evil whereby I have given him cause to speak so evil of me And making serious inquiry he found that there was a certain poor man who had deserved well of him to whom he had never given a reward whereupon he made him large satisfaction and the poor man did every where extol his goodness and bounty then said Philip to his Attendants You see my Friends it is in our own power either to be spoken well or ill of The Peleponesians who had received many and great favours from King Philip yet hated him spoke evil of him and when he came to the Olympick Games hissed at him whereupon his Friends stirred him up to revenge but he mildly answered them saying If they do thus when I do them good what would they do if I should do them hurt At another time the Athenians sending Ambassadors to request some favours of him he entertained them courteously and granted their requests asking them if there were any thing else wherein he might gratify the Athenians to which one of them answered Yes truly if thou wilt hang thy self This exceedingly inraged Philips Courtiers but he without being moved sent them away courteously only bidding them tell the Athenians That they who spake such things were far weaker than those who could hear and bear them patiently He used to say That he was beholding to the Athenian Orators who by their reproaches made him better whilst he was forced by his Actions to confute their slanders and make them Lyars As King Philip besieged the City of Methon and was walking about to view the Walls one shot an Arrow at him from thence whereby he put out his right Eye which yet he took so patiently that when the Citizens a few days after sent out to treat with him about the surrender he gave them honourable terms and after they had put the City into his hands took no revenge on them for the loss of his Eye In one Battle having taken a considerable number of Prisoners he was himself in Person to see them sold as he sate in