Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	france_n	king_n	navarre_n	4,410	5	11.4462	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03192	A curtaine lecture as it is read by a countrey farmers wife to her good man. By a countrey gentlewoman or lady to her esquire or knight. By a souldiers wife to her captain or lievtenant. By a citizens or tradesmans wife to her husband. By a court lady to her lord. Concluding with an imitable lecture read by a queene to her soveraigne lord and king.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 13312; ESTC S104055	48,969	275

thee I 'm still Alcides thine Notwithstanding all this goodnesse inherent to her greatnesse the dissolute King growing neglectfull of his first faire choice bends his inordinate affections fully upon fresh change Hee sleepes now onely in the bosomes of Catamites and base prostitutes whil'st her company and consociety is both at boord and bed quite abandoned But the good Queen lesse troubled with the want of his boord or bed fellowship than grieved with the dispaire shee had of hopefull and princely issue knowing as Basil saith that barren marriage is seldome without braules she bethought her selfe how by redeeming the one she might recover the other And to that purpose she dealt privately being wonderously for her vertues sake beloved of all with one of the Pages of the Kings bed-chamber whom he most imploied in his private prostitutions to bring her covertly to the Kings bed to supply the place appointed for one of his best loved mistresses This was as effectually performed as considerately plotted so that the King once more injoyed his Queen and was as prodigall of those favours to her as he pretended to another The morning growing on and he now sufficiently sated hastens her departure both for his owne honour and her credit But shee taking hold of the present occasion began to discover her selfe in these or the like words and read unto him this short Lecture My gracious Lord and Husband if I have offended you in the fervencie of my love I here voluntarily submit my s●lfe to the ty●annie of your hate yet if it please you considerately to examine the cause of my hither com●ing it was neither to quench any immoderate desire in my selfe nor envie to intercept any of those favours you intended unto another it was not lust but love hoping that this nights unexpected passage may blesse us with issue and beautifie the Kingdome with a joyfull heire For why should strangers inherit where there is yet hope left that we may have of our own to succeed Nor will I leave your side till you call into your chamber some persons of honour and ●rust to the end that if heaven be so gracious unto us that royall fruit by me so much desired may ensue by this adventure the world by their testimony may take notice that it is legitimate to crowne me with the name of an happy Mother and not adulterate to brand mee with the title of a lewd and lascivious strumper The King though he seemed somewhat troubled at the first yet better recollecting himselfe was not any vvay displeased vvith the Q●eenes honest deceit but presently called in two Gentlemen of his chamber as witnesses of that truth considering it touched his own honour as much as the Queenes desire The event of this stratagem proved fortunate both to the Parents and the kingdome for by that meeting she conceived vvith childe and according to the season of vvomen vvas delivered of a son on the first day of February in the veere of Grace 1196. The Father and Mother when the solemnity of his Baptisme vvas to bee celebrated differing about the name they caused twelve torches of equall length and making to bee alighted at once they bearing the names of the 12. Apostles with this omen that the name of that torch vvhich vvas first burnt out should bee given to the Infant vvhich happened to be that of S. Iames and so was hee called Iames being the chief Saint whom the Arragonians celebrate He proved a rare and an unparalleld Prince as well in forrain warres as domestick government he was beneficiall to his servants and bountifull to his souldiers his courage vvas full of constancy and continued vvithout change proving such an one as Socrates characters for valiant Great attempts he undertooke vvithout diffidence and managed them vvithout feare Making invasion upon the Mores he pierced vvith a great army the I le of Majorque then in their possession and after many skirmishes brought it under his owne subjection Hee invaded Carihage and made his name famous in Africa He had a faire and fertile issue sonnes and daughters His eldest was Don Peter who succeeded him in the kingdome of Arragon his second Don Iames whom hee made King of the two Iles Majorque and Minorque his third vvas Archbishop of Toledo His eldest daughter Donna Tollant vvas Queen of Castile the second Donna Isabella Queen of France the third Donna Urracha vvas married to Don Emanuell Prince of Castile His sonne Don Pedro espoused the daughter of the King of Navarre Great pity therefore it had beene that the meeting of that happy night had beene intermitted in vvhich the royall father of so kingly ● progeny vvas begot He lived 72. yeeres and died ●●●ligiously retiring himself to a sequestred life For being troubled vvith a gri●vous disease which ma● him unable for governmen● hee disposed of his scep●● and estate and expired in th● City Valentia in a Monast●ry in the yeere 1266. abo● the beginning of August I need not to have travell●● so far for an history to 〈◊〉 purpose vvhen our ow●● kingdome hath afforded ●work● like betwixt persons of 〈◊〉 greatest quality who by the like sleight practised by 〈◊〉 forsaken Ladies have not ●eene onely a meanes of re●onciliation but of happy propagation and issue Great ●hen hath beene the vertue and patience of those noble Matrons to suffer such corrivalship in conniving at their owne maid-servants and Gentlewomen considering that as Crates saith nuptiall faith is seldome violated vvithout revenge Besides there can be no greater temptation to corrupt the constancy and loyalty of a married woman than when shee perceives her husband to discharge upon her his discontents and virulencies and reserve all his time and consocietie for the person of another Aristotle affirmes th●● man or woman is worthy to be accounted stout bold and valiant who doe no● onely with patience indu●● injuries and rebukes of fered them but strive to repay the best good for th● worst evill For patiencei of such similitude and nee●● alliance unto fortitude th●● shee is either her sister or her daughter And thoug● this vertue as Cicero saith being often provoked with injuries may breake out into fury yet in such distraction it is good for wronged women to thinke upon the worst how to better it and to wish the best with intent to further it and whatsoever shall happen patiently to indure it For the onely remedy for injuries is to study how to forget them I conclude with the Emperour Aurelius who tells us that it is more safety to forget a wrong than to revenge it to suffer infirmities and dissemble mishaps the one is the office of a constant sicke man the other of a cunning Statesman But for a wife to beare with the weakenesse and imperfections of 〈◊〉 husband is the true Character of a wise and vertuous woman Gaudet patientia Duris FINIS