Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	edward_n	king_n	scotland_n	3,663	5	9.2317	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14936	A pithie exhortation to her Maiestie for establishing her successor to the crowne Whereunto is added a discourse containing the authors opinion of the true and lavvfull successor to her Maiestie. Both compiled by Peter Wentworth Esquire.	Wentworth, Peter, ca. 1530-1596.	1598 (1598)	STC 25245; ESTC S119716	85,250	228

of his most noble auncestor King Henrie the seventh who in answere of the same doubt affirmed to his honorable counsell that he made no question if any such thing should fall out but the Scottish king beeing as all Princes are by their royall nature enclined to Maiestie to statelines to eloquence to policie to civilitie should frame and conforme himselfe to the better countrie be taken with a liking of the more honorable discipline fashions and carriage of England the rather for that hee hath so ample and large a rewarde proposed to him for the same The meanest Scottishmen that are setled in England are content to forget their countrie kindred Parents and to frame and apply themselves vnto vs that they may freelie enjoy their poore condition or calling And is it like that hee who may still retaine his subjectes his countrie his Queene and children will not apply himself to vs in our lawfull and honourable desires that hee may rule vs Likenesse of manners doeth conciliate and fasten affections Therefore for mine owne part I doubt not but ere he haue beene any long time with vs he shall be so wonne to vs englished with vs by our naturall and reverent obedience to our Prince aboue other Nations and by al the verteous and commendable parts of our civilitie that Scotland shall haue more cause to feare their subiection to some Englishe deputie then wee haue nowe to feare our subiection to the Scots Trulie I mervaile not a little when I do consider how vnwilling and froward wee are to receiue that kingdome beeing offered which we haue fought for moste egerlie for manie hundreth yeers Is not this the way to subordinate if not to subdue to vs that people by policie whome wee coulde not by force Who beares the losse when we get the gain They depart with the best member that their bodie can afforde that they may become one bodie with vs. And to speake as I thinke in taking their King wee take also their kingdome which was wiselie foreseene of the afore-said Prince who stoode perswaded that the worthier kingdome would annexe and drawe to it the lesser and weaker and for the same purpose his moste famous sonne King Henrie the eight did earnestlie affect and go about at severall times by promises policies giftes and threatninges to vnite the two Realmes and their two Princes first when with the allegation and aunswere of this our doubt hee made offer of his onlie daughter and heire Ladie Mary to king Iames the fift the place of Holins is worth the reading And after when he sought in mariage for Prince Edward his sonne the young Princesse the late Queene of Scotland so as the refusall of the first and breache of the last beeing once agreed vppon was the occasion of bitter warres and great blood-shed betweene the two nations And nowe the difference is no other then this that wee did seek before to annexe them vnto vs and that they do seeke now to be annexed vnto vs. Therfore the ods is ours that they who did latelie refuse to giue vs their Queene are now most willing and content that wee doe take their King Wherein in my opinion we should bee as forward to receiue them as they are willing to make offer of themselves seeing it is plaine by proofe of experience that we shall no lesse keep our preheminence aboue the Scots though wee submit our selves to the Scottish king then wee haue kept it to this present day over the Walsh-men notwithstanding wee did submit our selves to King Henrie the seaventh Yet on the part wee are not to think or expect that he will quite abandon or banish them froÌ„ being about him for that were rather to rent them of from vs then to encorporate them with vs in one Politicke bodie The second point for the commodity it will bee much more then the bare encrease of subjectes if the opinion of a most faithfull and wise counseller as any this land hath may haue anie credite with vs who thought it the onlie safetie of England to stand fullie assured of our back dore And indeede wee had never more neede to haue it fast then at this time being environed and compassed about with so manie malicious and hatefull enemies as in a manner having no faster friends then such as are our friends for their owne advantage which giveth me occasion to distrust greatlie this new confirmed league with the French king which notwithstanding I wishe it may stand alwaies inviolable yet I greatlie feare by the president of former experience that it will no longer stand then the FreÌ„ch-meÌ„ may see how to help themselves better by newe friendship be it with This prophecv of that prudent man is now prooved true Spaniards or others And if we account it a great benefite that the Scottish king is not our enemie in these broken times is it not to be esteemed a thousand times a greater benefite to haue him made as fast and sure to vs as if he were our countrie-man or natiue English-man borne and one of our selves and that we be encreased and made vp with the accesse of his strength and kingdome by which we shall be so fenced and fortressed on that quarter without our charges or imployment of our men as now we are forced to doe that no port or part of Engl. shall be surer Nay whereas now we are driven to seeke the amitie and in a sort beg the favour of forrain nations yea of the heathen and Turkes and with infinite charges and lose of our men to entertaine their friendship beeing once enlarged and strengthened with the forces power of Scotland wee shall not neede to currie favour with Mahomet or Muscovite or weigh the displeasure or offence of all the Princes in the world And Ireland which now stealing furniture and provision of munition from thence doth with flashing flames of rebellion consume our people and emptie our coffers shall then being not onelie destitute of that aide but having it all emploied against it self be content with lesser charges then the owne revenewes to bee ruled and to be kept in loyall obedience having England on the one side ScotlaÌ„d on the other to command it Thus our treasures powers shal be encreased our people spared our subsidies eased our charges abated Lastlie the encrease of subiectes which some esteeme but as a matter of small or no importance I affirme it to be the greatest coÌ„modity that anie kingdome could ever afford I haue for my warrat the words of as wise rich a king as ever did raigne who sayeth not Prov. 14 28. that wealth or riches but that the multitude of subiectes are the honour of the Prince and that for the want of subiects coÌ„meth the destruction of a Prince That is the multitude of subiects is the riches strength power protection stay of the kingdome and it is the cause of al things for which any state

villanies wil be freelie in euerie corner committed Oh therfore but once to think that this land is like to come to these woful calamities will teare anie godlie pitifull or natural English hart in peeces Beholde therefore most gracious Ladie your Nobles Commons yea euen all your people men weomen and children lye prostrate now before your feete most lamentably humblie beseeching you to saue them and to preserue them from these heapes of confusions and chaos of miseries and most instantlie with bitter teares beg at your handes that you leaue them not who are now most readie to lay downe their liues for you in this lamentable miserable case to lose their liues with all that they haue and all at the beck and pleasure of euerie furious peasant Remember that Moses tooke the people without a certaine knowne head and governour as sheepe without a sheep-herd and that your most noble father fore-saw that no better then the fore-rehearsed calamities would be the state of this land if hee had died before hee had made his heire knowne yea that hee imputed all the miseries that this land had abode through the contention betwixt the two houses of Yorke and Lancaster to this to wit that the order right of successioÌ„ had not bene in former time carefullie enough looked vnto made publikely knowne And so you may perceiue that herein we doe not forecast more perils then these wise and graue persons haue done in the like case Yet for further That calamities doth befal any nation where the Prince dieth without a knowne successor proued by the example of the Israelites The booke of Iudges ground of this our fore-casting of perils the whol book of the Iudges of Israel serueth most fitlie for through that book we see how that when soeuer they were left without a knowne gouernour as in those times they were often they fell into extream miseries were straight brought into slauerie vnder the hands of their enemies the Cananites the Moabites the Midianites the Amalekites Philistins in which state sometimes they continued 18. yeeres sometimes 40. yeeres sometimes more sometimes lesse Wee reade also that Alexander the great when hee Of Alexanders empire Arrianus Q. Curtius had made himself the greatest Emperor in the world yet dying not determining of his successor before hee died but leaving his noble Empire to them that could catche it and hold it that therevpon immediatly after his death there grew most hote fierce bloodie warres amongst his noble Dukes Captaines and so in the end his kingdome or Empire was rent and torne into as manie severall kingdomes as he had noble Dukes able to take them and keep them Wee Of Scotland after Alex. 3. read also in the Scottish Chronicles of Alexander the third king there who lived in the time of Edward the first King of England that hee dying leauing his heire and successor vnknowne it came to passe that vppon his death his kingdome was torne into two parts the one part following one Bayllioll studied to make him King and the other fauoring one Brussius sought to advance him But in the meane time whiles thus the title was in debating it appeareth in the storie that the whole kingdome was brought to extreame desolation But what need we in this case to peruse forrain stories O that your Maiestie would but remember And of England after Lucius and Gorbodug the miserable state of this land after King Lucius and after the death of King Gorbodug and his two sonnes Ferrex and Porrex for you shall in those hystories finde that the root and fountaine of all those lamentable miseries of 15. and 50. yeares civill dissension grewe of this that then the land was left without a certain known successor Yea infinite be the stories in all Chronicles that lay forth most doleful sequels alwaies of this And sure wee are such is your Maiesties wisdom that you must needs fore-see that if you should so leaue vs it wer neuer more likely that thervpoÌ„ would follow the extreamest miseries that euer befell kingdome Wherfore once again most mercifull Lady cast your pitifull merciful eies vpon your noble Realme all your subiectes who with stretched out hands cry vnto you to shewe mercie vnto them in this point in delaying no longer to the hazard of the spilling of all their bloode and losing all their good to make knowne vnto them who of right is to succeede you O sweete Ladie let this long longed for and looked for most necessary drop of mercie drippe nowe at last downe from you to the chearing and comforting of all your true English subiects and so shal you establish your throne in mercie and purchase vnto your self the moste glorious title of a most mercifull Queene to the comfort of your owne conscience both before God and man and to your perpetuall good name and fame with all posteritie The 9. argument is from the safety honor and profit which will ensue the establishing of a successor both to her maiesty and to her subiectes But to prouoke you the more easilie to yeeld to shew this especial point of mercy coÌ„sider yet further that so to do is not onlie verie necessarie both for you vs in respect of both our safeties and also that it is not onlie profitable to vs but also euen very profitable and honorable to you both in respect of God man That it is verie necessarie and profitable for vs the contemplation of the good that wee shall reape and quyetlie enioye by it and the viewe of the euill that directlie shall therby be turned from vs maketh it most euident And that it is necessary for you also yea profitable honourable as we haue said diuersly it may appeare for first it cannot be denyed that amongst all the meanes that otherwise Princes haue amongst men in this world to make them selues strong by and to sit safe in their throne this is a principall one That they alienate not the hearts of their subiectes from them by their vnkinde and mercielesse dealing towardes them For howe stronglie soever Salomon left his sonne Rehoboam established in his kingdome yet hee by listning rather to the counsell of young greene heades about him then Princes that woulde establishe their thrones must deale kindlie with their subiectes plant in their hearts lone and affection 1. King 1â— to the advise of the graue and auncient and so by his vnkinde and hard answere to his subiects alienating the heartes of them grew so weak that a mean man a servant of his Ieroboam by name rose vp against him and ten Tribes of twelue farre the greater part of his kingdom revolted from him did cleaue to Ieroboam and neither hee nor anie of his successors could euer recouer them againe And on the otherside there is no one thing in the foresaid respect more necessarie profitable and honorable to anie King Queene or Emperour

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