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truth_n	lord_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,458	5	4.2143	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96909	Worcesters apophthegmes or witty sayings of the Right Honourable Henry (late) Marquess and Earl of Worcester, delivered upon severall occasions, and now published for the benefit of the reader. By T.B. a constant observer, and no lesse admirer of his Lordships wisdom and loyalty.	Worcester, Henry Somerset, Marquis of, 1577-1646.; Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1650 (1650)	Wing W3535; Thomason E1350_2; ESTC R204142	43,802	125

rais'd a siedge in his life but he hath taken many a strong-hold then said the Marquess I will tell you how you shall make yours impregnable how my Lord said the Lady the Marquess said unto her whensoever you see a handsome young man be sure you shut your eyes or else he will take the fort of your Virginity flying in at your windowes APOPHTH XLIV THere was an old Servant of my Lords who would needs make a young Captain and at last took an opportunity to shew himself an arrant Coward this Captain upon a time was to command a party to go out to make a mock-sally but as soone as ever he came within sight of the enemy he squatted upon his belly behind the refuse of an old Brick-kill for which his behaviour he was laughed at sufficiently after that he came into the Castle some there were who told this unto the Marquess who being willing to bring his old Servant off with better credit then he had brought off himself told the informers I thought I had heard you say that it was a mock-sally to which they answered that it was so then said the Marquess if it was but a mock-sally he can be but a mock-coward if you had bin in earnest it may be he would not have plaid the foole APOPHTH XLV THere was a Roman Catholike who had bin converted to the Protestant Religion and giving the Marquess of Worcester a visit the Marquess question'd him very seriously concerning his revolt and the ground of his desertion the convertite told him that the ground of his departure from the Church of Rome was because she had departed from her self You say very well said the Marquess but how do you prove that to which demand the convertite made this reply viz. The Scriptures tell me so whereupon the Marquess called for a Bible giving command it should be a Bible Cum privilegie Regis which being brought unto him he said unto the Gentleman I will see whether it will tell me any such thing and holding it in his hands a pretty while at last he opened the Bible and held it open as long then he protested unto the foresaid Gentleman that the Bible told him no such matter and that he believed it to be so full of truth and sincerity and that it respected the salvation of mens souls so much that if there were any such thing it would in charity with which it was so fully fraught do no less then acquaint him also with it to which the Gentleman reply'd my Lord it is not the letter cover or paper that tels me so it is the sence and meaning I cry you mercy said the Marquess who shall be judge of that meaning you or I to whom the Gentleman gave his Lordship this answer he who comes nearest to the truth Then said the Marq how shall we know who comes nearest the truth we shall know that said the Gentleman by the word it self I have told you said the Marquess that the word it self saies nothing then said the Gentleman there is a perswasive spirit that directs every man and leads them into all truth who are seekers of her meerely for love of her self Indeed said the Marquess I have heard of such a Sect that is newly sprung up which go under the name of Seekers but I had rather be on the finders side to which the Gentleman made answer Seek and ye shall find to which my Lord reply'd you must have day-light or candle-light or else your own eyes will do you no good the Gentleman made answer that Christ was so easily to be found of all that sought him that if we did but groap after him we should find him I said the Marquess You say well but not when there is a light in the room and thereupon the Marquels entred into a large discourse perswading the Gentleman to return to his Mother again whose armes were alwayes open ready to imbrace all that should return into her bosome to whom the Gentleman thus spake my Lord if I should turn now I shall be despised on all sides by the Protestants because I have left them by the Papists because I sometimes left them too and they will repose no confidence in me hereafter fearing that I may do the like again O said the Marquess if that be all then all is nothing for what can any man say more to you then thus you have been abroad and you are come home again APOPHTH XLVI THe Marquess had a Daughter whose mind gave her to be a Nun thinking to make choice of such alover as no way regarded any bodies imperfections so the mind was streight the Marq fearing that she might ground her resolutions upon this discontent told her Daughter if thou runn'st thy head into a Nunnery because thy shoulder is a little out I 'le strike it in with a bagge of money that shall make thee as streight as any of thy Sisters but if thou dost wedde thy self out of pure affection to thy Saviour I shall think my self happier in thee then in all my Children besides that he thought me worthy of being Father unto such a Child that should dedicate her self so wholly unto Christ She asked her Father how much he would have given her in marriage if she had otherwise resolved and should marry to his liking telling him that she did not aske him that question because she had any such thoughts in her but that the husband to whom she had vow'd her self a spouse should take notice of what profers she had refused for his sake by this meanes the Marq told her not with the least then said she unto her Father Sir I am going where I shall never see you more nor never ask you for any thing hereafter therefore I beseech you to grant me this one request which is that the portion which you were willing to give me if I should marry you will not grudge me as my dower to bring to such a husband who is my Lord and Saviour the Marq perceiving himself caught gets out of the gin in this manner Daughter said he the husband you talk of will make you a very fair joynture without any portion at all but your self he wants no money give him your heart and he is satisfied APOPHTH XLVII THe Marquess had taken a new Servant to wait upon him who had the ill luck to think himself wiser then he was thought by others in so much that upon an occasion he told the Manquess that he was not wise in such a thing and that if he were as the Marquess he would do so and so the Marq hearing him made him this gentle reply Truly if I knew where to find a Servant that were wiser then his Master I would give gold for such a one but to have a Servant that thinks himself wiser then his Master I would not give a rush and therefore Sir I pray provide for your self for you are not for my turn and so