Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	devil_n	father_n	lie_n	3,415	5	9.0726	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34782	A most true and exact relation of that as honourable as unfortunate expedition of Kent, Essex, and Colchester by M.C., a loyall actor in that engagement, Anno Dom. 1648.	Carter, Matthew, fl. 1660.	1650 (1650)	Wing C662; ESTC R18227	90,623	268

A MOST TRVE And exact RELATION OF That as Honourable as unfortunate Expedition of Kent Essex and Colchester By M. C. A Loyall Actor in that Engagement Anno Dom. 1648. Printed in the Yeere 1650. The Authors Letter to the Publisher To the truly Noble and my Worthily honoured friend Sir C. K. Honoured Sir SInce through the Calamitous and dark distractions of these unfortunate times I am thus ecclips'd and linkt to an ill and duskie fate as by being Cloyster'd in a Dungeon am debarr'd of that happy liberty that might allow me the wish'd-for opportunity of kissing your hands Yet am I thus only Cloyster'd since though my Body suffer a most severe and strict confinement it rather addes to the liberty of my Soul and makes it expatiate it selfe with a greater Freedome And so I am alwayes waiting on you though not to your apprehension yet with my better Genius and though not as an Angell guarding you yet still attending the illustrious throne of the All-powerfull Majesty in my wishes and Prayers for you And that you may not onely know the reality of my Soul but the command also you have over it I have adventured to answer in my obedience your Will though perhaps not Expectation in sending to you with this my account of Colchester by which you shall only understand I stood not there as a dumb Cypher though not as a very eminently active Figure Other Honour to my self I dare not appropriate by it but am content chusing ex malis minimum to lay open to your serious scanning my greatest imperfections rather than adventure the hazard of falling under the censure of ingratefull disobedience hoping your Charity will extend to a Courteous reception of my Imbecillities because cloathed with as cheerfull endeavours in which garb they humbly thus come to waite on you having for attendance onely this serious request That your own eyes alone may be made witnesses of their nakednesse For though I know that truth which I assure you here really is and nothing else need not be abash't who ever she meet with she is naturally of her self so Beautifull and never was more than in this service Yet I am sensible enough how grosse an absurdity it is for any man to send her abroad in vile and ragged unshapen Garments of which I must acknowledge my self too much too guilty to expect a Justification when I shall appear at the bar of a judicious Examination but therefore suffer under the condemnation of a just and weighty Censure Which I might the more seriously expect were it more exactly done should it come to the publick stage since I have been inform'd and made it my observation too how the Honour of that unparallel'd action is dayly crucified with a confusion of monstrous and prejudiciall opinions almost metamorphosing it into a prodigious disguise past knowledge Yet I have a little digressed as possible knowing that many passionate Historians transported with splean against Tyrants or too great a luxury in the glorification of those theyhonored have imperfectly delineated the image of Truth like Aurelius a Roman Painter who when he was to draw the face of any Image alwayes made it to the resemblance of a Woman that he most dearly affected But I have confined my self to a strict-Commentary of the reall passages and to adde more to your satisfaction I have drawn my rise not onely from the first step of it's motion but the cause that gave a product to that motion By which means it must prove something more tedious to you Yet if your patience shall so far sympathize with my desires as my obedience hath done to your will and at some intermisse times permit you to run it over You shall not only receive the benefit of satisfaction to your own phancy in requitall but a knowledge to give the like to others that you shall finde unresolv'd and deserving in it and heap much of Obligation and Honour on Your most entirely devoted and humblest Servant M. C. To the Reader INgenious Reader for to none other doe I wish this may come not that I value any mans censure of the Author but because it is an Age wherein Truth is accounted Diabolicall and Loyalty a Treason unpardonable And I may justly suppose some thick-skull'd Separatist or frothybrain'd Ignoramus whose customes are to criticize because they would undervalue what they fancie not as much as what they understand not will be swarming about it with their Hypocriticall Censures to stifle it with an undeserving odium But let not the so sloslovenly and obscure birth of this off-spring of Loyall Zeale any whit derogate from its worth in your opinion for you cannot but know that many gallant Pieces and Personages have received life from as great an obscurity and truly I shall thus far Apologize for it though its deserts require not any read but the fore-going Letter not at all intended for what is now placed and you shall easily understand that the Authors will and desire of not publishing it as not intending it for the publike stage of the world hath been the chiefest reason of it having made it his request as being diffident of its worth that it might not suffer the danger of the Presse But I having raised a contrary reason and far exceeding his for silencing from the same grounds thought it a greater evill to let so worthy a structure lye buryed in the wombe of perpetuall oblivion when it had received so happy a conception then to give it a lasting life though by so obscure a birth I cannot but expect that the so many Legions of Lyes that doe every day oppresse the very Presse it selfe and tyre out mens fancies with their mutinous tumults upon the stage of the world will be ever justling at so handsome and candid a piece of Loyall truth whilst the Devill the Father of Lyes is so much adored and Christ that fountaine of honour and truth crucified and slandered every houre amongst us But I am confident their power will never prevaile to beat it off while there is yet a sparke of Loyaltie left to light us through this dark Chaos of Atheisticall Rebellion That I am cautious of too plainly divulging its Author is because otherwise there might much of inconveniency accrue to him for so bold a discovery of his conscience being already in prison by the splenitick malice of some base-born phlegmatick dispositions whose stomacks are so full gorg'd with Rebellion against God and his Vicegerent they can brooke or digest nothing that savours not of Treason or Disloyalty These reasons being well weighed by any ingenious and Loyall Reader will be sufficient Wherefore I shall urge no more but desire all such as they peruse to draw examples of Loyaltie from it and pick not out more cautiously what they may more artificially convert to poyson if not liked as it is too often seen and let your constant endeavour who ere you be in the behalfe and Service of