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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	affection_n	gentleman_n	great_a	36	3	2.1554	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97082	Alter Britanniæ heros: or The life of the most honourable knight, Sir Henry Gage, late Governour of Oxford, epitomiz'd.	Walsingham, Edward, d. 1663.	1645 (1645)	Wing W648; Thomason E303_6; ESTC R200291	20,449	31

places to make Garrisons in places convenient These and an hundred other excellent Designes he had which if God had granted him Life he would have accomplisht All which as all his other businesse he had chalk'd out for execution in a gallant discreet method which did the businesse home and yet left him in all without anger or aspersion from any Which in a moment got him such an excesse of love and authority together that all concluded never Towne could be more happy then this was like ere long to be But scarce had we possest this admirable Man three weeks and solac'd our selves in such a treasure When the Heavens envious of our felicity or angry at our desertlesse happinesse in love with those beauties and excellencies of his were pleas'd to deprive us of him making use of this occasion He seeing the exigence of securing the East side of this City to urge the demolishing of Columb Bridge neare Abington over which the Enemy made daily incursions into the Country to Plunder gather Contributions and spoyle our Markets Resolv'd upon the enterprize and gives instruction to his Lievtenant Governour for the execution of it he determining himselfe to attend his Government at home But it was the will of God to bereave us of him his Autumne was come and he must dye in the Bed of Honour In order to which decree those transcendent gallant Spirits who went in that Action out of their extraordinary esteeme of him by power and entreaties wooe him contrary to his owne principles to leave his domestique charge and expose himselfe in that fatall attempt Wherefore he drawes out of Oxford with 600 Horse and Foot accompanied with the two Princely Brothers P. Rupert and P. Maurice together with sundry other gallant Spirits who upon Saturday the 11th of March came thither about seven in the morning where this worthy Commander leading the men himselfe possest the Bridge Making it good a long time against the hot assaults of the enraged Enemy who endeavoured to preserve the freedome of so important a Passe which conduced so much to their subsistance and our annoyance The dispute was so sharp on both sides that the place was won and lost no lesse then twice on each side the noble Colonell seeing the difficulty had drawne himselfe to a place convenient to survey and consider in such manner the situation and accesses of advantage that he might the better thereby attaine his end Where whil'st he was designing how to pursue with successe what he had with such difficulty begun a wandring Bullet hits him on the side and transpierces his Body with which mortall wound be immediatly falls to the ground and together with him the whole enterprize which was presently deserted Shortly after this ●sho●ishment of this mortall Summons was past over he comes to himselfe and being taken up to be conveyed away recollects his powers to prepare himselfe for his approaching end Which with great piety and prudence he performed with no little edification to such as observ'd him At this instant he gave an ample testimony of the sincerity and resolution wherewith he came to serve His Majesty and his Country in this just Quarrell For being demanded what he would have done concerning his temporall Estate he replied I thank God that to my comfort is already setled onely Commend me to my deare Wife and put her in mind that if it can be shee see my Sonnes brought up according as shee and I had agreed so many yeares at Schoole where they are and after send them to LA FLESH in FRANCE to heare some part of their Philosophy and to learne those other necessary and becomming qualities of Gentlemen Tell my Children that their dying Father sends them his Blessing Except these few wordes in all the time of at least two houres which he lived in perfect sence and memory after that unfortunate wound he was not heard to open his mouth to any other end then to breath forth Heroike acts of Devotion attending wholly to reconcile himselfe to his Lord and Saviour into whose divine hands with unspeakable resignation and repose he yeelded his happy Soule The newes of this sad disaster comming before prepared Oxford to entertaine his Body with such a face of sorrow as I am deceiv'd if ever formerly had been seen such a generall dejection and lamentations so universall in that City amongst all degrees of Persons And it was well observ'd that the most generous and noble Spirits did most passionately expresse their affection and resent the losse of this renowned Gentleman But this appeared most abundantly in the Confluxe at his Funerall on the 13th of January where the Court the Camp the Vniversity the City did even contend who should expresse the greatest affection and yeeld him the greatest honour The Court honour'd him with Prince Rupert the Duke of Richmond the Lord Treasurer the Lords Chamberlaines Secretaries Comptroller the Lords of the Privy Councell and most of the Nobility and Gentry besides The Camp sends Deputies of her affection most of the great Commanders in the Kingdome The Vniversity and City afford both their representative Bodies in the Vice-Chancellor and Mayor with their severall Traines of followers Somerset and Chester Heralds were sent by His Majesty to attend and order the solemnity which was indeed worthily perform'd The Souldiers did guard the passage from the thronging multitude whil'st foure Trumpets in mourning went before beating the aire with the dolefull Ecchoes you may imagine this sad occasion did afford which they continued till they had brought to Christ-Church to use the Heralds words The most Honourable Sir Henry Gage Governour of Oxford who in the North Angle in the Body of the Church was at length deposited his Grave being honour'd with the Teares and Sighes of our whole Nation Epitomiz'd in this City Amongst which my affection doth perforce oblige me to preserve the memory of my affliction for this irreparable disaster in the following Elegy An ELEGY AS flowers whose lovely tinctures most invite Our eyes and feed them with the chast delight Of naked beauties which our senses chaine With choicest odors nature doth containe Charming our sight more strongly to behold The Bodies that these rarities enfold Intice us nearer which doth also woo Vs both to handle and to cull them too Neglecting others which were these away Were worth our notice and a like survay So men whose faire perfections best proclaime The fountaine whence those excellencies came With life and vigour insomuch thereby That Atheists urg'd confesse a Deity Such whose Heroike mindes and nobler soules The worlds great axe-tree out of both the poles Would cast in contestation to inthrone Justice and vertue though they lost their owne Men in whose bosomes shines immortall light Enricht with all that is not infinite No sooner these doth lustfull Heaven spye But fixes on them an inamour'd eye And eager lovesicke This disease to cure Purloynes them from us ere they be mature Thus