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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ascend_v	body_n	heaven_n	3,915	5	6.0723	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93562	The Queen of Denmark's letter to the King of Scots, now resident in the city of Paris. Dated from Her Majesties royall court at Hamborough, Novemb. 16. 1651. Together with the removall of Major General Massey, and the sending of him prisoner to the Tower.	Sophie Amalie, Queen, consort of Frederik III, King of Denmark, 1628-1685.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1651 (1651)	Wing S4689; Thomason E649_1; ESTC R203732	2,664	8

THE QVEEN OF DENMARK'S LETTER TO THE KING of SCOTS Now resident in the City of Paris Dated from Her Majesties Royall Court at Hamborough Novemb. 16. 1651. Together with the Removall of Major General Massey and the sending of him prisoner to the Tower M R London Printed for George Horton 1651. The Queen of DENMARKS Letter to the King of Scots now in the City of PARIS dated from Hamburgh November 16. 1651. Highly Honoured and dearly loved Kinsman HAving with much remorse and morosity of mind received clear and unfallible Intelligence of your Majesties late defeat in England as also how miraculous an escape you made thence we thought fit to let you know that we think our self in a high nature obliged to congratulate your Majesties magnanimity the essence of a Prince in the managing of that Heroick and unparalleld attempt an Act which shall eternize your name as also to exult and rejoyce with you for your unheard of deliverance after so dire a storm providence appointing so safe an Harbour alotting you an Asylum or residence in such a metropolis where as you are honoured of all so are you dearly beloved by our Brother the Monarch of France and all the Princes of the blood your Majesty we doubt not needs no Phylosophical Lecture of patience or aequanimity since you breath that virilem sapientiam stoicorum which Seneca doth so much extol that masculine and heroick bravery of the Stoicks whereby they did put of man and tread above the stage of humane chance It is a High-way saying that we are Architects of our own fortune but fortune cannot be wrought or fram'd without the tools of vertue and so it becomes a Statute of vertue which was carv'd for the statute of fortune yet it is true that though we be not Authours of of its entity yet we are of its quality and the present power now Diameter to your Majesty may perceive how fickle the blind Goddess may be by your late invading them when they least doubted such an Inroad and had you but given them one blowe those that sung Hosanna before would soon have tuned their Pipes to a Crucifixion If every man have his fortune and every fortune its wheel how can we complain that our wheel descends since one part of the wheel doth not descend so much one way but it ascends another way those men only complain of fortune who have their soules so tack'd to their bodies that when one falls and precipitates the other doth so too but those who possess one part of the wheel with their soules and another part with their bodies do wish alwayes the adverse or contrary part of the wheel and if they have it not they make it so because the one part mounts towards Heaven when the other hurries down towards Hell But your Majesty may perhaps say you have lost your Kingdoms you have not left them but surrendred them they are the favours of fortune what other goodness have they in them but what he stamps that doth enjoy them Dignity is like a purple Attyre which doth embellish dirt because it hides the ugliness of it but disgraceth Gold because it hides the splendor of it every thing is bright where the Sun shineth but a Carbuncle if it glitter and sparkle must be placed in the dark it must be removed out of another light if you would see its own vertue desire to be naked dispoiled of Dignities and sequestred from Wealth you are come down from the Hill not thrown down from thence Men are not therefore nearer Heaven because they are advanced above us he that is sometimes nearest unto it sees it least he that stands on the top of a Mountain sees nothing else but the Sun whereas he that is in the bottom of a Well can thence number the Starres Also you may perhaps be agrieved that your Kingdoms are taken from you with as much violence as your Fathers Head was taken off but your Majesty may please to consider that nature which hath planted in Man that most ardent desire o Command would have shewed her self an envious Mother if she had not also given something to command There is no Man but hath a Kingdom within himself and he is not worthy to be a King over others that is not first a King over himself rejoyce that you are a Monarch over your own affections to see your passions so good Subjects this Harmony brings you to hear that of the sphears and to contemplate that of God himself and in this most delightful Symmetry you shall taste that peace and tranquility of mind which was by ancient Sages reputed the felicity of the blessed if you may not come in place to right the oppressed yet you may procure it to be done and though you have not to relieve your friends yet you have whereby to pitty them is not this body of Clay enough to presse down the soul unless we clog it also with the weight of Kingdoms and Provinces the greatest of Dignities is a circumstance that doth alwayes add weight to our faults it is very true that the transition from a place of eminent Command unto a private life is not easily concocted except only by those who do not change their intellect by changing their condition the changing of a mans condition is the death of one man and the Generation of another all Estates and conditions of men in the world are equal the felicities of this world are not in things themselves they subsist in opinion only and become great or small according as they are apprehended and they have the greatest share of them that believe they have it Soveraignty is like a Mountain which seems to the Subjects who are at the feet of it with his towring head to touch the Skies but to those that are at the top it seems with its basis to reach Hell Divine providence by an inscrutable decree by a most strange Revolution hath mutated the English Nation your Fathers Subjects in times past and over whom you claim a power from a Monarchical to a popular Estate your Majesty hath experience I hope that this change hath not hapned by Fate or Fortune but by Gods immediate decree nor is this more then hath hapned in all Ages to Bodies politick of a far vaster size then that of Great Brittain viz. to the Medes Persians and Romans c. those democratical demi-Gods that now sit at Helm and steere their Argosie of England Scotland and Ireland think themselves obliged to accept of that which divine providence I shall not determine why not only hath offered but thrust upon them pleading the same Right which William the Norman first laid claim to and his Posterity after him your Majesties best revenge will be to wait on the will of Heaven who in his own time will 〈…〉 for ought we know all back again to 〈…〉 form the wisdom of this Age 〈…〉 the folly of the next however for 〈…〉 shall ever endeavour all we may though with the hazzard of our life should the whole Universe beside conspire against your Majesty to make the World sensible that we are Your Majesties cordial and unfeigned Kinswoman M. R. Given at Our Court at Hamborough Novemb. 16. 1651. On Thursday last being the 27 of Nov. Major Gen. Massey was brought from Warwick Castle to London and guarded by a Troop of Horse to the Tower being confined to the same Lodgings that Mr. Love was lately in He is now recovered of his wounds and I wish mercy may intervene that a more fatal one doth not befal him FINIS