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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	field_n	foreign_a	great_a	41	3	2.1206	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00983	[The fleur de luce.]; Collection Fleur de lys.	Forget, Pierre, 1544-1610, attributed name. aut; Arnauld, Antoine, 1560-1619, attributed name. aut	1593 (1593)	STC 11088; ESTC S116011	15,272	28

receiue from their good maister causeth them to acknowledge him and to terme him The mightie king the vniuersall king the Catholicke king the king of kings the great Monarck victorious both by sea and by land and whatsoeuer other flattery may be inuented they will heape vppon him in exchange of his duckats What more assured testimony cā we craue to proue that such people are no frenchmen The Achayans bring already entered into acknowledgement of the Romane empire Aristaenetus the Megapolitain a man of great credit amongst them on a time in open connsaile said that it were good to honour the Romans and not to shew any ingratitude toward them whervpon Philopoemen a man who iustly was by the history-graphers termed the last Grecian hearing this speech a while held his peace but in the end so pressed with impacience and choller that he could no longer keepe silence said Aristaenetus why makest thou such hast to see the wretched destiny of Greece For thefe thirty yeares haue there bene among vs a geuerall complaint prosecuted not only by the nobility but euen by al men of courage for y t the king of Spaine hath presumed to thinke to cause his Embassadors to take the precedence from ours What frenchman hath not with iust indignation complained hereof and yet now euen at once he that intituleth himselfe the pretector and liutenant of the crowne of the mightienesse and maiestie of France hath shewed himselfe such a coward or rather such a traytor to terme the king of Spaine the great king and in what comparison but that the king of France must be little Why Charles of Lorraine canst thou find any example that by letters patents sealed with the Flower de Luce the title of Great was euer attributed to any forreine kings nay but contrariwise many times haue the fields flowed with blood for the preseruation of the title of Augustus to the kings of France the first the ancientest and the most mighty princes in Christiandome who doe inioy the crowne of liberty and glory aboue all other kings yet now aloud publiquely in letters patents sealed with the Flower de Luce by thee falsified thou callest the Spanyard the great king a title which in our fathers dayes would alone haue cost thee thy life Why Duke of Mayenne art thou in such hast to aduance the wretched destinies of France He hast sayst thou succoured our Catholicke religion nay say thy ambitious and the practizes of thy family against this estate To the ende to vndermine a crowne of many yeares standing and to lay hould againe vppon the sundrie vaine pretences euer since Charlemagne by histories conuicted of falshood as shewing that it is not past sixe score yeares since the race of Vaudemont entered into the house of Lorraine which in lesse then 460. yeares haue fallen into seauen seuerall families To strike I say so great a stroke to extinguish the blood royall and to stepe into their place it is requisite to haue great support and a woonderfull plausible pretence this forteresse is not to be assaulted with weake battery considering that in such actions the lest errors are so perilous The support hath bene the king of Spaine the ancient enemie to France and one who by inheritance purposeth to become Monarck ouer all Christiandome The onely pretence any way to be taken was for religion all others being farre to weake Vpon this ground haue they long since hired those whose tounges haue bene saleable in the pulpits dedicated to the truth by whose meanes they haue cast vppon the people al those charmes that haue brought this estate so neere to distruction Herevppon likewise haue they long since sent the Ieswistes very Spanish Colonies who haue shed forth the poyson of their consperacy vnder the shadow of holinesse and vnder the colour of confession O woonderfull policie haue abused the deuotion of the French nation whom by seceret othes they haue bound to their league Who also in liew of instructing our people in the Catholike religion are become trumpets of warre firebrands of sedition protectors and defenders of murther and robbery to be briefe who are waxen forein leuine to sower the dowe of our France and to alter the fedility into trechery and rebellion so cunningly conducting their masters affaires that they haue filled this realme before flourishing with fire and blood and euen with the French swords murthered so much braue and valiant nobility as had bene of force and power sufficient to reconquer Naples and Millan which this Gothicke race hath stollen from our fordfathers These cursed policies did long lie hidden but at y e last the war begun with all extremity about the yeare 85. against a most Catholicke king and so acknowledged by those that most hated him against a king yet in the flower of his age together with the detestable murder committed vppon his person fower yeares after haue too euidently declared this pretence of religion to be vtterly false and of no apparance This cruell and horrible murder of their king hauing brought them into execration with all courageous persons now to couer their subtilties vsed in the compassing thereof they doe in their declarations giue out this impression to the people that the kings death was a blow from heauen Oh abhominable impiety Oh mightie king whome all the subtilties of thy enemies who abusing thy authority and too much lenity were become masters of thy best townes could neuer stop from inclosing them in the capitall city of thy realme where they found themselues brought into such extreamity that without that knife forged in hell the had bene already chastized for all their notable treazons Oh mightie king who couldest not haue any fuller confession of the victory euen at thy enemies hands then the kinde of thy death is it possible that thy subiectes euen thy children who yet do speake the french language should endure this cruell parricide the like whereof was neuer seene neither any thing so detestable which hath replenished all men with sorrow and teares to bee termed a blow from heauen O God who neuer without punishment sufferest thy holy name to be abused in such and so horrible transgrassions canst thou permit the inuention euen a blow of the diuel who tormenteth mankind to be attributed vnto thee and that thou who art protector of kings shouldest be proclaimed their murderer Suffer not O Lord such blasphemies but with a stripe of thy mightie arme euen a blow indeede from heauen breake the cursed head of these traytors to their king of these bloody paricides who seeke to couer their detestable coniuration and conspiracie vnder the vayle of thy holy name What an indignity is this O ye french nation that they who impudent and shamelesse dare yet though falsey cause themselues to be called as you should bewayle the death of the Duke of Parma whome they intitle of happy memorie a title neuer publickely attributed to other but kings and contrariwise wish vs to beleeue

Spaine of Sauoy or of Lorraine so often mētioned in your declaration who vnder pretence of succour do seeke to driue them out of the inheritance purchased with their ancesters bloud y e like whereof haue happened almost to all the natiōs in the world as histories do testifie Our holy Cath. Romish Religiō is not otherwise assaulted but by your wretched League which withall breedeth Atheisme defloratiō of sacred virgins murder of priests sacking of Churches in all parts of the Realme so farre is our king from bringing any alteration whatsoeuer or from contrarying his oath euen in the least title that contrariwise he is carefull of all that cōcerneth our Religion the celebratiō of y e holy misteries as our selues Witnesse all the townes that he hath subdued vnder his obedience in the which it can not be found that he hath diminished the least relick or one onely sacred vessel yet the most part of yours is either moulten or trāsported into Arthois Neither is there any one Religious person or Priest that cōtained him selfe within his habit and his profession that was euer molested euen with the least word whereas yours are either dead for hunger or withdrawne into such townes as rest in his Maiesties obedience where they haue bene receaued susteined found acknowledging those things which they could neuer haue imagined and which your falshoodes and slanders continually preached forth did debarre them the sight of Vpon what occasion ween you hath God sent you these great afflictions this wāt of all things especially of siluer but euē to the end that the people being by litle and litle slipped from you and retired into such townes as rest in their kings obedience should confesse their fault and simplicitie in that they haue so long suffered them selues to be abused by these enchantments which made them see the things that neuer were that made them beleeue that all the Princes all the Officers of the Crown so many braue Lordes and Gentlemen were no longer Catholickes because they would not stoope to the commandements of this great Catholicke king and the letters patents of Charles of Lorrayne Is it not for this crime of heresie that ye haue robbed and spoiled the house of Neuers and geuen the Dutchie of Rethelois to a Spartaque whom ye haue procured to take the title of Duke of Rethelois Peer of France or haue ye so euill entreated this Duke of Neuers at the expresse cōmandemēt of the king of Spaine who hateth him as much as any Prince vpō the earth because that hauing more deeply penetrated and more manifestly reuealed to all France his pernicious practises to the end to stoppe and cōfound them vnder the protection of our king he dayly encreaseth in affection bringing of valour couradge diligence and militarie discretion so much as may be desired And besides the matter which I accoumpt to fulnesse of all his commēdations is this y t he bringeth vp his onely sonne his Maiesties cosin germain in extreame dislike and hatred of this Spanish League Must we not also as heretickes condemne excommunicate and proscribe Venise Florence Mantua Soleure Fribourg and other Catholickes our faithfull confederates who are so presumptuous as to dare to vndertake to stoppe the encrease of your great kings Monarchie who also will be partakers in the glorious reuendge of the murder of the first Prince of Christendome whereto all Europe standeth bound Beleeue me this beautifull and glistering cloake of Religiō wherewith your ambitiō hath bene so long shadowed is now threed bare full of holes we may see through it and euidētly discerne your wretched and pernitious purposes Now that the incredible felicitie that had guided you euen to the marke so as ye were ready to mount vnto the flower Royall hath forsaken you whom thinke you to perswade to enter into your ship halfe broken when it is vpon the point of shipwracke Whom wee● you to perswade to come starue for hunger amōg your sixtene robbers who after the Spanish manner hung vp their chief Iustice in the view of all Paris in the middest of the cōfederates of the conspiracie of the haulter whose dagger is at y e throats of all those in whose harts there resteth any sparcke of humanitie or clemencie to be brief among so many fearefull tokens of Gods wrath cruelties diuisions ruines all sortes of desolations yea and diseases vtterly new and vnknowen to the Frēch of whom you are no longer How I say do you now thincke to make such poisons to worke considering that in August and September 89. when ye seemed to haue atchieued your affaires hauing murdered our king and with an armie of 30000. men enclosed his successor in Dieppe after you had published like pardons like abolitions yet could you not in all finde aboue three or foure remissionaries and among them but one onely Gentleman whose name will remaine infamous among all posteritie vnlesse by some notable seruice he wash away so shamefull a blot of treason cōmitted immediatly after the slaughter of his king his good maister and one who had so highly fauored him Is it possible Vitry that the tall pale and fearefull image of this great king should not continually appeare in thy sight or follow thee wheresoeuer thou goest doest thou not see him with one hand houlding his bloudie wound and with the other the red gore knife continually following thee to be reuendged of thy notable trecherie Is it possible that thou canst without trēbling and sighing heare him with a fearefull voyce obiect vnto thee thy trespas in these wordes Oh traitor while I liued thou diddest honor me but the next day after my death thou hast worshipped my murderers thou hast bowed thy knee in those places where they deified that monster more cruell then the Tygers thou hast accompanied those that triumphed and publickly reioyced in my death yet doe I more maruell how our Lieutenant general of the Spanish crowne in France who seeth that in liew of so many Gentlemen that haue habandoned his rebellion and ranged them selues vnder the flower de Luce he could not winne past two or three in foure yeares how I say he is now perswaded that he may deuide the Princes of the bloud of France and draw them to his partie O ambitious Lorraine hast thou dared to thincke that thou shouldest haue such subiectes to stoope to thy commandementes or to obey to thy letters patentes as necessarily they must if they had taken thy side or wilt thou habandon to them thy Lieutenancie and submit thy selfe vnder the lawes and Magistrats ouer whom thou now doest so proudly commaund in those townes whcih thy tyrānie doth possesse If thou wilt why hast thou not spoken the word why hast thou not said that thou wert ready to lay away all thy power and to establish them aboue thy selfe and aboue all thy stocke of Lorraine Thou hast bene warie inough for proceeding so farre not that thou art not assured that they all