Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	day_n	lady_n	queen_n	2,012	5	9.5860	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16622	The historie of that vvise and fortunate prince, Henrie of that name the seventh, King of England With that famed battaile, fought betweene the sayd King Henry and Richard the third named Crookbacke, upon Redmoore neere Bosworth. In a poem by Charles Aleyn.	Aleyn, Charles, d. 1640.	1638 (1638)	STC 353; ESTC S100143	58,428	164

Bodies cease to grow 't is the presage Of a decline to their decrepit Age. Cald to these warres Henry good will did show To pay his money that himselfe might stay Yet please the Pope he would in person goe If Christian Princes first their discords lay For Henry knew they had the causes beene Why Christian Armes no good successe had seene While our first Richard that same Lyon-heart His banners did in Syria advance And with his Conquests made the Sultan start King Phillip seizd on Normandy and France Forc'd him to lay that glorious action downe And quit the worlds affaires to save his owne But when another Phillip had espousd The quarrell and such preparations made That the East trembled our third Edward rowsd And claiming France the expedition staid Thus Emulation foiles us and while we Conquer our selves the Turks triumphers be But at this time no Holy warre went on The pence for other use were kept in store For when the Faire and Jubile were done The rattle of the war was heard no more When the Deneirs were paid they understand They were for Rome and for no Holy-land Our Arthurs nuptiall with Spaines Katharine Succeedes this yeare of Jubile at Rome Which we deluded with our Hopes divine Would be a yeare of Iubile at home Vaine man to Hopes vaine as himselfe will trust And Dust will build its confidence on dust Things with slow strides to their perfection grow Then they take wings and to their period hast A seav'n yeares treaty made this marriage slow Whose joy with Arthur did not seven months last To the conjunction of the Moone and Sun A month 's requird but in an hou'r 't is done And heav'n it seemd the Marriage would retard The windes displeasd her landing did oppose Or Sea-borne Venus her arrivall bard Who with a frowne wrinckling the waves arose And stopd the Bark vext that her youthfull Nun Should tast of sweets which should so soone be don Married at Pauls with state celebrious The Tryumphs of the marriage did succeede He was Arcturus she was Hesperus And King Alphonsus did their fortunes reade No story tels what his predictions were But if for good he or the stars did erre For these two Princes in November met And th' April following divorced are By the command of Death Arcturus set And had his even before his evening-star His Hesperus who the new spheare did prove Of Henries armes where she did longer move For compensation of this yeare th' encrease Of Triumphs doe attend th' ensuing yeere With Brittaine 't is the Epocha of peace Her peace begins her computation there Write all that yeare in Red for it is all But as one Holy-day and Feastivall Margeret eldest daughter of the King King Iames to wife did by a Proxie take Which told by Fame the Bels contend to ring A peale as lowd as Fames and Bon-fires make So great a light that if heav'ns light were don They might have made a Day without a Sun Then into Scotland did this new Queene goe Whom a brave troope of Lords and Ladies bring I●●●llant order and Majestick show To Ed●nborrough to her spouse the King And there with all magnificence of state This glorious Marriage they did consummate A thousand little Cupids with their wings Did blow their fires and heighten their delights And every Grace a flowrie present brings Then Hymen president of marriage Rites Beckned for silence with his Torch of Pine Vsed at Nuptials and did thus divine My Torch turnes cleare and with the pointed flame Not dimme nor winking doth white houres foretell And if my skill be true I see the same Portended in the stars by which I spell Future events and fortunes that are set Downe in those lights Heav'ns mystick Alphabet In them Faire Bridegroome fairer Bride I reade This Marriage shall two hostile Realmes attone Which must be married too yours doth preceede As Introduction to that greater one That marriage as the substance Heav'n points at Yours is the figure and the Type of that Your Marriage is their contract and inferres Th' espousals of those Kingdomes in your hands The Genij of two nations hold out theirs Which shall hereafter consummate those bands But the Solemnities are kept by fate For your posterity to celebrate It is a worke of Time there cannot be The spring-time in your Age and Harvest too Your Age the seede the next the blade shall see A third the Eare. Thus China Grandsires doe Bury their Porcellan dishes in the ground Whose profits but to their sonnes heires redound Both Realmes a while with their own blood shall flow Alli'de in blood before alli'de but th' End Shall be a firmer love for a brave foe If reconciled m●kes the bravest friend All things from strife Originally rose And discords must this harmony compose Thus th' Elements did in the Chaos fight When jarring seedes did in her Matrix lye When cold with hot when heavie with the light Did combate with intestine mutinie Till on th' Abysse a Spirit did display His brooding wings and arbitrate the fray Mars bath'd in blood shall on the borders ride With terrour in the Van death in the Reere And in this quarrell fatall to decide These realmes with mutual cuts their brests shall teare As if they meant through those large wounds to see Each others hearts 'fore they would married be ●et shall this Vnion no debtour be To victory nor be a Conqu'rours prize The Authour shall descend from you and Hee ●hat must unite this Paire from you shall rise And that Rich Pearle which doth the Vnion hight Shall be derived from this Margarite Your off-spring a Pacificke Prince shall knit This sacred bond this true-love Knot shall tye Biest are Peacemakers shall be justly writ His Glorious Motto in whose Monarchie Drummes shall be silenc'd and alarums cease As at the Birth of the great Prince of Peace If the impressions of licentious rage And markes of ancient enmitie remaine They shall be cancel'd and effac'd that age By the milde peace of his auspicious reigne Nature no more her prickles shall disclose In Scottish thistle or in English Rose Thus Hymen spake this Heav'ns accomplish'd have And with the Sea as with a Ring have Knit This Royall paire Let Venice cease to brave That she contracts the Sea and marries it Let her stand dumbe at this more glorious thing What there is marri'd here is but the Ring Ne're could the Sea which doth about them flow With her imbrace put them in minde of love For her encircling armes did nothing doe But make a stage whereon their Armes to prove And two feirce realmes the Gladiatours were To combat in this Amphitheater T is thought the Policie of France did breake Th' intended marriage of this froward paire For if for us alone France were too weake Th' united Scots would force her to despaire Since th' English Aspect was alone so fear'd At their Conjunction how had they beene scar'd Therefore when th'