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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	france_n	king_n	orange_n	2,955	5	10.1958	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58391	Reflections upon two pamphlets lately published one called, A letter from Monsieur de Cros, concerning the memoirs of Christendom. And the other, An answer to that letter. Pretended to have been written by the author of the said memoirs. By a Lover of truth. Imprimatur, Edward Cooke. April 21st. 1693.	Lover of truth.	1693 (1693)	Wing R734AA; ESTC R220579	25,503	41

thence He plaisters it up with saying p. 25. If the late King of England did not approve of my Conduct in the Affairs of Nimeguen which in effect he declared in publick not to be pleased with in which he plaid his part to admiration c. But since we have seen the Character he gives of him as a King let us observe how he Treats His Majesty as a Mediator and how he Represents him ballancing the Affairs of Christendom then in his hands First de Cros tells us This Dispatch of his was concerted with Monsieur Barillon For tho he says That that Ambassadour had no had in the beginning of it yet he owns him in the same place to have part of it when it was concluding and that Monsieur de Ruvigny was dispatcht by the King with an Account of it to the French Court the very same day that de Cros was sent away for Nimeguen And p. 25. He tells us further That Prince Rupert askt him upon his Return with a stern Countenance If the Peace was concluded and he answering in the Affirmative the Prince cried out O Dissimulation And p. 28. he tells us That the Prince of Orange the Kings Nephew writ thundring Letters against him and all the Ministers of the Confederates called for Vengeance c. Yet after all these Marks of something so very injurious to the Allies and confidence to France The King says he in the page last mentioned laughs in his Sleeve at the Surprize at the Sorrow and Complaints of the Confederates Which is to give us just such a Character of a Mediator as he did before of a King I leave it to all mens Judgment whether more villanous Slanders could have been broached abroad by the worst of this Prince's Enemies and whether it be not a Scandal to our Country that they should be translated and published in English But since Monsieur de Cros is so bold with the Sacred Memory of a Great King for which he is yet so Impudent as to profess a most profound Respect What can a Subject expect for whom he owns such a virulent Malice and to whom he threatens such open Revenge The same vein of truth and sincerity shines through the whole Letter and the Author's Ingenuity is at the old pitch in what he pretends to rake out of the Memoirs concerning several Persons in great Employments as the D. of Lauder dale the present E. of Rochester Sir Joseph Williamson Sir Lionel Jenkins and Mons Beverning This Conjurer in all he says of them seems resolved to raise up the Spirits of the Dead to joyn with those of the Living in the Quarrel with these Memoirs and by such distorted Consequences draws Characters of them whereof there is no Apparition but what he himself raises So that the Characters he gives of these Persons by such false Deductions for Sir W. T 's may justly be said to be his own But from all I have observed in this Letter I have wonder'd at nothing so much as that impudent Vanity in the Writer who endeavours to make himself and the World believe that these Memoirs were intended chiefly against him whose very name is hardly twice mentioned after these two Pages in the whole Book which does not pretend to give Characters of Persons but only to relate things that were done or words that were said And the way to have made an answer with any Justice had been to have laid Exceptions either against the one or the other whereof there is not one word in all this Answer without any Answer However so ridiculous is this mans Insolence that he begins his Letter thus I have been informed of the Calumnies that Sir W. T. hath caused to be printed against me And p. 7. He set upon me first he writes out of a Spirit of Revenge c. The sensless Arrogance of which I cannot think of but it remembers me of the Fly on the Chariot-wheel For he would fain make it to have been a piece of Revenge against him for having brought that Dispatch to the Hague and yet he lays it much to heart that in that Affair he should only take him for a Messenger And this indeed is to make him a very reasonable person and like a man that when he receives a blow grows angry with the Stone by which it is given But by all I can observe in these Memoirs I do not find any thing which bears the least resemblance of Anger or Spleen much less of Revenge against Mons de Cros but so far from it that in the very Passage he lays most to heart of the Kings calling him Rogue the Memoirs mention particularly that His Majesty said it pleasantly which he himself cannot forbear observing in his Letter Having thus long been considering how far he is provok'd and how well he defends himself 't is time now to see how he attacks the Person whom he fancies his capital Enemy and how the Play begins 'T is then in these words p. 1. I know very well that Sir W. T. is of great worth and deserves well and that he hath been a long time imployed and that too upon important Occasions This is a piece indeed very much of a piece with all the rest Now in the name of wonder what can be the meaning I wot well enough what he would be at in all the rest of his Letter but the Sense the Wit or the Design of these sweet Lines is not easy to devise I confess I see a good many Plays and I believe I have read more but never met before so fair a Prologue to so foul a Farce I have read somewhere of a Monster among the Ancients with a Virgins face and all beside a Serpent which holds exact Resemblance here unless de Cros should object against it because Serpents have stings and his Letter has none However if we will not grant him a Conjurer as he would fain be thought yet we cannot in Conscience deny him to be a Jugler since the first thing he presents us with is meer slight of hand For he lays down a piece of Gold upon the Table and immediately Presto 't is gone and all we can see is only half a dozen Pellets of Dirt. In short I am not able to reach what he means by so whimsical a beginning and of so different a piece from every word that follows unless that being resolved to say nothing afterwards which any body would believe he thought fit to entertain us at first with three Lines he is sure no body doubts But to be serious If Sir W. T. be of great worth If de Cros either believes it himself or would have any body else to do so why is every word that follows so contradictory to these If he deserves well why is he used so very ill Does de Cros understand what a man of great worth means I doubt he does not either by himself or by such Company as so much