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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	advise_v	course_n	great_a	21	3	2.1554	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29968	Tyrannicall-government anatomized, or, A discovrse concerning evil-councellors being the life and death of John the Baptist : and presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty by the Author.; Baptistes. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5298; ESTC R4582	22,804	31

manners should our lives direct Malch This wicked fellow by a speedy death not threatnings had beene punished Gam •or our order cruelty is unmeet Malch Whats done for God holy and pious is Gam To put to death without desert is impious piety Malch Deserves not he to dye that all subverts Gam If he transgresse why do you not confute him in publicke view with arguments and reasons Why do you not shew there your light of wit you being expert learned and so old set upon one thats rude unlearned so young to the right way perhaps you may reduce him and glory to your selfe mongst all men gain Malch That wound is never to be gently cur•d but with •ord sword and fire or if you know any thing more to •ormenting Gam Be he such as you expresse him or worse if you will yet one thing to your selfe you ought to give that first you freely and in gentle wise admonish him least any one do think that you would rather cast him headlong down doubtfull of heaven then extend your hand to save him falling It concernes you much that all your Enemies may understand your will is good to save all none destroy but such a one as with a mind perverse precipitates himselfe one thing at least I crave ere you by wrath be further drawn consider by this obstinate condition what you may gaine Malch Why this confound a foe comfort the good and terrifie the shamelesse confirm the wavering mind and with this blood our Countries Laws establish Gam Rather this you shall obtaine to be accounted one that with all power of tyranny hath rom'd untill you did a holy man confound one whom by reason you could not convince Malch Then let him bee as holy as he will and grave Gods spirit doth not him direct who does neglect the Fathers ancient Rules and seeing no redresse with you I find I'le seeke the Kings assistance against Ruine Chorus Gamaliel in my judgement councells well obey him therefore but I speak in vain since wrath the enemy of Gods advise darkens his minds cleer sight who stops his ears to wholsome admonitions Gam Hee's gone in wrath and swelling with disdain for my part what was lawfull to my power I earnestly advised him with mild words endeavouring to asswage his raging spirits I gave him faithfull counsell but so far is he ingrate from giving any thanks that he even hates me for my good desert Such is the common course a great fault in our degree is this that we deceive with shew of sanctitie the common sort that safely we Gods precepts may despise but if against our customes ought they dare we practise to subvert them with our gold or witnesses suborn'd and cut them off by secret poyson filling Herods ears with feigned utterance what our mind offends revenging with false rumors while his breast with rage affected we the more incense and arm the violence of cruell wrath with calumnies But Malchus now is gone unmindfull of all modesty to Court where he will feigne the rising of new Sects deserting of the Fathers holy Rites and that the Kings Prerogative and power lyes open to derision to conclude what ere he holds commodious to himself masking his wickednesse with honest names if these he finds the King but little move another dart more cruell hee'l invent hee'l cry the sworne Bands that attend the King do secretly conspire some wicked plot preparing they digest Troops meet by night their private wealth by •actions to augment these he will feign or worse into his •ars these poysons of his wit he will instill And this in Princes is a common fault gently to hearken unto secret Tell-tales whereby what is most cruell though but feigned they easily beleeve and feign vain fears unto themselves pursuing the light ayre of moveable Report where he that gives faithfull advertisement is holden dull torped and •merous We change the name of quondam vertue now now not adorued with any vertue but with glorious titles proudly preferrd the Vulgar we beguile As for this Prophet with my soule I wish our Order with more modesty and wisdom and would bear themselves if hither he be sent by •ods appointment there's no power of man that can withstand him but if he devise mischief by fraud concealed with his sword hee'l soon confound himself •et every man interprete as his own condition guides him If any here my sentence do allow his hands he may keep cleer of guiltlesse bloud Nor let us be profuse of holy blood least those examples that in cruell sort wee make for others afterwards return on our own heads dwells not in Herods heart immanitie enough unlesse his rage by firebrands added to his wrath increase Cho O what a night of darkenesse doth possesse the minds of mortalls what Cymerian•ave do we inhabite while this brittle life doth swiftly fleet away False mod•sty doth skreen the brazen face pieties vale the impious doth conceale Litigious men peace in their looks do feigne and the decei•full veritie in words The Vissage where sad gravity did dwell the only Symbole of a modest life now turnes to cruelty with boyling wra•h and healdong estautes with furious •its Even as the vapours of hot Et•a's Furnace with a swift rolling turnes the stones about or into embers flames Vesveus burn so the blind fury of revenge excites this Malchus on a guiltlesse man to fall and falsly to accuse poor naked truth Oh thou desire of glory swo•n with pride mother of •o great mischiefe glittering praise of goodnesse coloured with a shew divine when the minds Kingdom thou hast once possest with flattering poison thou inchauntst our thoughts and reason bani•ht thou disturbst the Court the Court within us Piety and truth with shamefa•tnesse and faith are fled from thee Faith of the better Age a common Guest hath lastly left the vice-dishonor'd earth If there were any Artist that could set the foreheads clouds remov'd our cares to sight the brest being made transparent and disclose our minds dark inner parts you might perceive monsters there varied into wondrous forms and those all stabled in a little Cell being more than in remote and forreign parts Nilus and Ganges beare or all the births that Affrick• yeelds with furious portents and those that hored Caucasus affords in his darke Dens the cruell Tygers rage would not be wanting there nor the fierce wildnesse of the deep shining yellow Lyonesse nor the dire gluttony of ranging Wolves whose appetites no slaughter can asswage nor the fell Basalisk with poisoning breath or stinging Aspe that brings long lasting ••eepe or Scorpion dreaded for his hooky tayle or Crocodile whose voice with feigned tears so sound through the seaweeds nor the Foxes wiles or the Hyenaes •alse play Counter feit piety doth often cloak mercilesse Tyrants and the guarded stol•impiou• natures in a homely weed under the Cottage shadow of a swain vertue obscured lyes nor sells her selfe for haughty titles laughing as in scorn at