Selected quad for the lemma: saint_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
saint_n	pray_v	prayer_n	supplication_n	1,875	5	11.3215	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70642	The Russian imposter, or, The history of Muskovie, under the usurpation of Boris and the imposture of Demetrius, late emperors of Muskovy	Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688.	1674 (1674)	Wing M440A; ESTC R22560	101,264	264

Horses laid for them posted to Boris with the news of the execution of his Command and to receive their promised Salary The Tyrant upon the first advertisement labouring under the Impressions of his Joy received these Bloody Ministers of his will with no ordinary transport till the heat of that Passion being spent and reflecting upon what he had done as it is the Nature of Guilt and Treason never to think it self secure he thought likewise his Practices might come to light but being resolved these miscreants should not discover them he by the temptation of excessive rewards hired other Executioners to destroy and make away these four first Murtherers And that he might not be engaged upon new contrivances he designs the same Method for their Ruine which they had squared out for the death of the Prince in order whereto as Vglecz was Sacrificed to his destruction so Musko was put into flames for theirs The Town is fired in many places at once some hundreds of Houses buried in their own Ashes while these hated Traytors were though by unjust means punished with a just retaliation for their execrable Villany But to return to Vglecz As soon as the Fire was quenched and that the Citizens began to be Composed from their disorder a Rumor being spread that their Prince was Murthered they violently break into the Castle and finding what they feared to be true indeed their distraction being now heightened to Fury and Outrage they slaughtered all his Servants without distinction or enquiry supposing the carelesness and neglect of the Innocent no less culpable than the pernitious industry of the Guilty they thought happily to purge themselves from the stain of the Fact by their zeal in revenging it But in vain for Boris to clear himself if any durst suspect him and to signalize his pretended Passion to his Prince made use of this Irregular vengeance of the Citizens as an Argument of their Guilt and laying the Murther at their door because they had slain all those from whom inquisition might have been made concerning it without examining them at all he caused them to be proceeded against as Criminals Many of the chief amongst them were tortured hanged drowned Banished and exposed as examples of publique Justice while he the better to disguise his cruelty under the sence of so irreparable a loss vests himself and the whole Court in mourning And having dispatched Duke Basilius Zuisky with many prime Senators and Persons of Eminency with Orders to Celebrate his Obsequies with all the Funebrial Pomp and Honour imaginable he commanded that the very place of his Death as guilty in failing to protect him might not survive to be a witness to so great a loss but as Infamous be immediately razed and levelled with the ground Demetrius being thus removed Theodorus did not long survive him and 't is more than conjectural that his end was hastened by the impatience of Boris and the violence of a secret poyson However it was the Duke sensible of his weakness and the approach of his departure bequeathed the Government of the Empire to the conduct of the Lady Irena his Wife sister to Boris the Patriarch was appointed her Assistant and both of them by the dying Prince recommended to the Valour and Fidelity of the Great ones of his Kingdom Theodorus being dead and the Solemnities of his Funerals performed with all becoming Ceremonies and Circumstances his Dutchess did readily ascend the Throne but afterwards having some time toyled under the weight of so Great an Empire whether out of unwillingness to fustain so Great a Burthen or as is more probable to secure the succession in her own House by transferring it upon her Brother she declares her resolutions to quit so unequal a Charge And accordingly yeilds up the Ensigns of her Authority into the hands of the Nobles giving out that for the Repose of her Soul she would Sequester her self from the Turmoyls of this World into the Retirement of a private Life This news being spread amongst the people did infinitely perplex them for though they might have some reluctancy against the Government of a Woman or that the servility of their Nature might at other times render them patient of any Yoke yet they wisely considered it more safe to submit to one than many Tyrants Boris in the mean time laid his trayns at distance chusing rather to have the Government devolve upon him by necessary Consequence than rudely to break in upon it cherishes by his secret Agents and Emissaries the mutinous Temper of the People who without an head were become uneasie to themselves as well as others This subtile States-man had in the interim withdrawn himself from all publique business to the retirements of a Countrey-house All things in this State had a tendency towards confusion some not daring others not willing to lay hold upon the Government and indeed all the prime Ministers being raised by his Favour not secure in the Counsels of each other were emulous who should first conduct him to the Throne In order whereto they attend him with their Submissions and Addresses that he will take upon him the protection of a distracted State The people transported by the apprehensions of their Ruine seconded the Nobility with their Importunities The Clergy whose safety consisted in the Peace of the Empire brought in their Supplications The Nuns quitted their Cloysters and instead of praying for their exquisite Artist offer up their Prayers to him as their Tutelary Saint or Angel The very Children as if swayed by a Supernatural Impulsion besieged him with Tears and Cries And what he denied to all these Sollicitations either apart or united supposing them to have a respect to him only not to themselves he grants as he declared to the necessity of his Country which being without a Head and no man willing to undertake the care he must offer violence to his own nature rather than expose so glorious an Empire as a prey to every Invader Who could all this while under so dark a Veil suspect him guilty of Poysoning his Sovereign and the Murther of his Prince to make way for his Crown presented to him several times in vain by all the Orders of the Empire But permitting himself at length to be overcome he protested that he had given that to their importunity and the love of his Country which he should for ever have denied to his own Honor and Greatness and the Advancement of his House to so Illustrious a Rank He confessed himself too weak for so great a Burthen but Courting the Aid of his Petitioners to his Assistance he promised his utmost Endeavours to answer the obligingness of so Unanimous and Honorable an Election wherewith they were pleased to signalize him above his Fellows And since they had marked him out for their Emperour he would no longer Question their Judgment but chearfully receive the Honour of that Trust which he would die rather than betray or relinquish but into