Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	henry_n	king_n	navarre_n	3,463	5	11.5896	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09252	A lamentable discourse, vpon the paricide and bloudy assasination: committed on the person of Henry the fourth (of famous memorie) King of France and Navarre. Translated out of the French copy, printed at Rouen by Peter Courant, and the copie of Paris, printed by Francis Huey, with permission; Discours lamentable sur l'attentat commis en la personne de très-heureuse mémoire Henri IIII. English	Pelletier, Thomas.; Pelletier, Pierre, fl. 1610, attributed name.	1610 (1610)	STC 19565; ESTC S112167	3,897	14

A LAMENTABLE DISCOVRSE VPON The paricide and bloudy assasination committed on the Person of HENRY the fourth of famous memorie King of FRANCE and NAVARRE Translated out of the French Copy Printed at Rouen by Peter Courant and the Copie of Paris Printed by FRANCIS HVBY with permission PRO LEGE REGE ET GREGE LOVE KEPYTH THE LAWE OBEYETH THE KYNGE AND IS GOOD TO THE COMMUN WELTHE · ❀ · LONDON Printed for Edward Blunt and William Barr●●… 16●● A LAMENTABLE DISCOVRSE VPON THE PARRICIDE AND BLOVDIE assasination committed on the person of H●●●● the fourth of famous memory King of France and of Nauarre IT is not the property of greatest sorrowes to speak much for teares heart-breaking sighes are fittest demonstrations to declare the greatest passions which maketh mee expresse in fewe Words the great griefe and publique sorrow France at this time suffereth nowe then and 〈◊〉 posserity euer lament that last Friday the foureteenth daye of May the next day after the ●●c●ing and coronation of the Queene out great Henry or most famous memory King of France and Nauarre beeing at Paris about three of the clocke in the afternoone intended to goe to his Arcenall tooke his Caroch and as a Prince which liued without feare or suspition of his people passed through the City accompanied with fewe of his Nobilitie without taking for his better assurance either Archers or any of his vsuall Gard. But mischiefe or rather our sinnes procured that an accursed and execrable assasigne named Francis Rauaill●rt borne in Angoulesme approached his person not farre from S. Innocents where seeing his Maiesties Caroche stayed by a Cart which met and stopped their passage taking opportunity assaulted with most hellish fury this good King with a long knife made of purpose with which hee gaue him two wounds in the left side the first was giuen nigh the shoulder which entered not farre but onely rased the skinne the second was mortall the blowe entering betwixt the fift and sixt rib cut asunder the veine leading to the heart and the wound was so deepe that it reached into the Caua Vena which was pierced with the point of the knife The Prince finding himselfe wounded to death lost vpon the instant his speech by reason of the aboundance of bloud which issued outo his mouth therfore they turned the caroch to the Louu're where hee was no sooner arriued but hee rendred his soule into the hands of Almighty God testifying with his eyes and hands lifted vp to heauen that hee died a true Christian and good Catholique My Lord the Archbishop of Ambrun doing the last seruice of a Church-man exhorted him in this last action Is it not now a wonder to the Christian world to see France a second Affrike breeding such detestable mōsters What shame doth this age breede to that of our forefathers What disastre that a king of France should not escape the rage fury of a cut-throat villaine his owne subiect Wicked villaine thou hast bereaued vs of this great Prince whō we lamēt with teares whose losse we shall euer feele Thou thoughtest in thy damnable dessigne to swallow vs vp in a gulfe of misery and desolation but God in his goodnesse hath relieued vs and otherwise disposed the hearts and affections of the French then thou in thy frenzie diddest imagine or the hellish counsell of Sathan suggest The darke prison wherein thou art iustly enclosed where new torments are inuented and prepared to chastise thy offence will not let thee see how that for all thy wicked act all things remaine cōstant in the same tranquility they were before It is to Gods grace alone we owe the thanks yet denie not due praise to those instrumēts he hath vouchsafed to vse for the Lords Officers of the Crowne this famous Court of Parliament the Magistrats of Paris haue al with one heart cōmō consent succored assured the estate so that there is not any shew of commotion or sedition amongst this great people Resolution and modestie which maketh the Parisians much to be commended and serueth as an example to all the other Prouinces of the Realme Thou I say canst not see how in the same houre of thy horrible attempt all the Nobility ran to the Louu're offering and protesting their fidelity thou seest not though the father be taken away the sonne is left vs to succeede in gouernment yong though he be yet shall he be strengthened with the sage aduise of great Princes the Queene his mother who a midst her great griefes will remember the common good and hath vouchsafed for our comfort to accept the Regencie and gouernment of the kingdome In the presēce of the Princes Peeres the Constable the Chancelour the Cardinals the Marshals of France other the great officers of the State all assembled in the great Chamber of the Pallace with authority of the Court of Parliament his lawfull successour sitting in his throne was solemnly acknowledged and proclaimed king of France the fifteenth of May. In summe this young Prince is so worthily brought vp in the loue and feare of God with all other vertues which serue to the ornament of a great king that treading in the footesteps of the late king his father hee will cherish Religion loue Iustice be generous meeke affable gracious and shine in a full lustre as a faire sunne ouer all France All things shall flourish vnder his raigne his people shall blesse him c with fixed eyes to heauen shall pray God for his happy preseruation Thus now we see this Prince happily established so well maintained with force of armes aduise of Councell and loue of his subiects that it shall be in vaine for any to dare to stir without receiuing condigne chastisemēt since then the entry to his kingdome is so blessed and seconded with the fauours of heauen let vs not prouoke the anger of God by out euill demeanors let vs so behaue our selues that amongst all the French onely this assasine be detested and held in abhomination amongst strangers let vs remenber that as there is nothing that raiseth tempests at Sea but contrary winds so nothing that troubleth a state but disunion if our owne iudgment and capacitie canot instruct vs yet let the schoole of reason reach vs let vs consider that in a humane body there is an head and vnder that head many noble parts that the member that is destined to one seruice dareth not exercise another office the legs will not be the armes nor the lunges the hart likewise in a well ordered estate one is acknowledged for head gi giueth life to all the other members which worke nor mooue but vnder his authority so that euery one acquitting himselfe of his dutie by a good vnion and correspondence kingdomes are conserued of small ones become great whereas contrarywise by disunion and ●ars great ones haue beene ruinated and come to nothing Remember you French men that it is aboue 1200. yeres since ●he