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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
war_n	henry_n	king_n	richard_n	2,873	5	9.1432	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13109	The discouerie of a gaping gulf vvhereinto England is like to be swallovved by another French mariage, if the Lord forbid not the banes, by letting her Maiestie see the sin and punishment thereof	Stubbes, John, 1543-1591.	1579 (1579)	STC 23400; ESTC S117921	68,725	88

Spayn doates vpon that dronken harlot of Rome I vvould be loath that eyther Frannce or Spayne shoulde haue such a Porter here to let them in at a posterne gate as Monsieur is Yea I do not onely set thys popish French fayth behind the Spanishe honor of promise holding but I affirme without doubting that it is not so safe to contract this neere alliance with these French as to make some other commun amitie with those Moores beyonde Spayn whose barbarian religion and region though it be farther from vs then Fraunce yet doe those mores hold more Fayth with straungers then these French doe vvith themselues A most illcome guest therefore to all sorts of men here for to take thys vvhole land in a lump and to make no difference of papist or protestant I am sure the deuoutest papist that hath an Englysh hart left to knok vpon in his breast wyllbe afrayde to call Monsieur his mayster But a most daungerous guest to thys quiet of the state must he needes be that to the griefe of the greatest part and chiefe strength of the lande requires open exercise of a contrary religion for him selfe and hys giuing great hope therby to others of obteyning some indifferent Interim Now to proue that any alteration in religion or expectation to haue religion altered is a politique bile enflaming the peace of a setled and euen state I might haue sufficient authority to some men out of macciauel But I loath once to take vp hys best textes thoughe they were vvritten in golden letters of the fayrest text hand Hereon vvill I onely rest for thys poynt that to alter our good religion or to giue any premission to so wicked Idolatry as is hys takes avvay Gods blessing from the state whose prouidence it is wherby Rulers reigne and states doe stand And let him pardie that holdes himselfe the best politique hold thys with me for a corner stone and most luckie principle in policie that as to bring in and hold true religion procureth Gods protection and worketh subiects obedience of hart farre aboue all other lawes or feare of lawes so to put out Gods gospell and to bring in Idolatrye or to enlarge Antichrist and streighten the passage of Christ doth shut all bessing from heauen so as the Lord shall curse our counsayle and cast vs in our vvisedome of ouerweening In vvhich behalfe we haue somewhat already felt of that iudgemēt for our fault of once deliberating so vngodly a thing for wisemen in marieng of theyr children will most willingly seeke houses of auncient amitie and carefully doe auoyd the seede of olde enemity which is heriditarie as other diseases are and we are not so wise in mariage of our common vveale for what house is more aunciently enemy to her maiesties royall auncestors and thys land thē that of Valois what king more out of leage or longe truce with thys state then he of Fraunce as he who can not be content onely to vsurpe a kingdom from vs but is impatient that our prince shold so much as beare the true title thereof And if we vvere such ennemies when vve had but ciuill quarrelles and onely vter regnaret hovv should not our hate be multiplyed vvhen it is de aris et focis and consequently vter sit et viuat And if entermariages emongst themselues in theyr ovvne family can not stay this furye of theyrs but that for religion onely and none other quarel their very pitie is cruelty euen vpon theyr ovvne bovvels murdering and massacring one another by thousands and ten thousandes hovv shall any mariage make them friendes to vs vvhom they repute as olde enemies and haue yet bleeding in theyr chronicles the dishonors and vvounds heretofore giuen from hence to their kinges aunceters No no vvell sayd that vvise Troyan Timeo Danaos vel dona ferentes and vvell may a simple Englishman say timeo gallos namely Valesios nuptias ambientes especiallye such mixt mariages vvhich vve knovv to be othervvise agaynste theyr ovvne conscience It vvere vvell vve learned that conscience of them if not of conscience at least by horror of those streames of french blood that vvas shedde throughe such a mariage in Paris assuring our selues that if they vvent vp to the knocles in french blood they vvyll vp to the elboes in English blood And that cruelty raged not onely on the poore and selye ones but it tooke the noble men and great princes by the throate Yea the king of Nauarre hymselfe who vvas the spouse in that infamous mariage to the end of the world had the deadly sword hanging ouer his head by a tvvine thred and had felt the poynt thereof if he had not to hys dishonour the Lord be honoured in his repentance renied hys god Frō these mē that haue eaten the people of God as bread haue bene fleshed in murdering of multitudes drunk the blod of noble men vvhy should any good manner stay a good louing subiecte from fearing the same daungers and cruelties from the same men to our Queene and soe a vvretched confusion in this land if for the sins thereof she should come in theyr fingers to be a doleful bryde in theyr bloody brydchambers vvhich God for his Christes sake preuent Amen Beside thys late experience in our eyes of theyr daungerous dealings in mariages emong them selues vve may learne if vve be so happy by the auncient hurts that Englande haue receiued through royall intermariages vvith that nation and by the rules vvhich the vvise English counsellers of those times haue set down as a state vvisedome for their succeding counsellers yea vve may see that these mariages vvith Fraunce or vvith any other partes of that present dominion before or sence it vvas united to that crovvne haue alvvayes endamaged England and sometime Fraunce to so as for most part they might be reckoned emong those ill bargaynes that no bodye gaynes by and therefore be lyke cursed from aboue Such vvere the mariages vvhere Henrye the first gaue his daughter Mault the Empris in second mariage to the Earle of Angeovv and hys sister Aelix as some chronicles call her to Steeuen Erle of Bloys for thereof sprang the losse of a kingdome to Mault during her lvfe by being so farre out of the land in another country vvhen she should haue accepted it here thereof sprang the periuries of Steuen king of England entised to a kingdome through the commoditie of hys neere place vvhych seemed to prouoke him and therefro came the ciuile miseries to the people vvho through the incertaintye of a gouernor were in field and armes one agaynste another with lyke blessing dyd Henry her son take to wyfe Eleonor daughter to the Erle of Aquitaine and Poictou vvho through her ovvne vvickednes and the freendes she made on the otherside entertained many yeares an vnnaturall warre betweene hir owne husbande and hys and her children Henry Rychard and Iohn And yet thys vnhappy Henry the father must goe and take Marguerit the daughter of Lewis the eyght for a vvyfe to hys son Henry and for his son Richard tooke Aelix an other daughter of Fraunce vvhich alliances proued such assurances to Henry the second as his last fiue or sixe yeeres vvere nothing but an vnkinde stryfe with his ovvne sons and especially hys sonne Rychard made open vvarre against him and vvan from him a part of Normandie by the helpe of his trustie friend Lewes the French king After thys vvhen Rychard him selfe

was king not vvithstanding all the French friendships and alliances at vvhat tyme he vvas taken prisoner in hys returne from Ierusalem the French king vvas not ashamed to excite Iohn the brother of England to seize himselfe of the crovvne The sayd Iohn vvhen he vvas king marieng the daughter of the Earle of Engolesme in Fraunce and his son Henry the third hauing maried first a daughter of the Earle of prouence and secondly french Marguerit sister to Phillip the fayer found in the seueral dayes of theyr raignes the French king to be no better then a pricke in theyr sides taking part against them and prouoking theyr people to be as it vvere thornes in theyr feete Edvvard the second succeding his auncesters aswell in theyr vnhappy folly as in they re kingdome vvill needes marry vvith Isabel daughter to the same Phillip vvhich proued such an assurance to hymselfe as that hys French vvife vvas able to bereaue hym first of hys son carying him into Fraunce and hauing there made a strong part could returne and bereaue her husband of hys liberty and kingdome and in the ende of hys lyfe to after a vvretched captiuitie vnder hys owne son So that of old the alliances of Fraunce dyd set husbande and vvife together by the eares as in Henry the second and Edvvarde the second the father and son together as they did Henry the second and hys three sons Henry Rycharde and Iohn brother against brother as Rychard and Iohn the king and hys people togither as they did king Iohn and Henry the thyrd against the people and as they did aftervvard in Rychard the second Henry the sixt vvhich the duke Thomas of Glocester in his tyme vvell foresavv and therefore vpon treaty of the like mariage for Rychard the second vvho hauing novv raigned xix yeeres and being thyrtye yeeres olde fell amourous most vnkindlye and vnkingly vvith a french girle but eyght yeeres of age daughter to Charles the sixt French king he the same Thomas of Glocester vncle to the king stept vp and vvithstode that match hauing belike in these former experiences obserued the truth of that general rule set dovvne vpon the French by that Greeke Emperor And because I find the vvords of thys Duke set dovvne more expresly in a French chronicle then any vvhere els I vvill vse theyr ovvne vvords as the fittest testimony in thys case The alliance of Fraunce sayth that Duke in that french story hath bene the ruine of England and this nevve frendship betvveene these kings sayth the Duke shall neuer make me loke for any assured peace attvvene thē for sayth he ther vvas neuer yet any trust or religiō or truth in the vvord or promises of the french VVhat an auncient hereditary disease of disloyalty is this in the royall seate of Fraunce especially since the Maiors of the housholde became kinges And though thys Dukes voice in thys counsell vvere ouerruled by the multitude or rather by the lust of the king yet did the king and his people and their children feele hovve true it was in sequele For first thys externe amitie with Fraunce bred home enemitye in England It cost vs for an earnest penny the tovvne of Brest in Britanie by meanes of the kings outlandish Queen And poore king Richard vsing in priuate connsaise altogether the French companions such as his vvyfe brought began to disdeyne his ovvne naturall kinsmen and subiects and finallye follovving ouermuch the cruell and riotous counsel of such minions namely the Constable of Fraunce and Erle of S. Pol vvhō the French king sent of purpose to king Rycharde his son in lavve polling the people and putting to death such nobles as his french counsail put in hys head in the end he vvas quite vnkinged by Henry of Lancaster afterwardes Henry the fourth vvho during the tyme that he platted thys enterprise founde hospitalitye in Fraunce for all king Rychards alliance vnder his father in lavves nose The French match it vvas vvhich vvithin one yere brought the king to dishonorable captiuitie death and deposing vvhich appeares for that in story it is rekoned emong other thinges that alienated from him the loue of hys subiects so farre as when he vvas taken hys enemy vvas fayne to saue hys lyfe by garde from hys ovvn people and also it is obiected agaynst hym that he had made thys alliance vvith Fraunce not calling to counsail the thre estates of England Euen the last mariages vve made vvith France vvere lyke vnhappy to the end Henry the fift that noble king had the alliance of Katherin daughter to Charles the seauenth of Fraunce and after had the possession of Fraunce first by right of descent and mariage then by conquest of sword and lastly by couenant agreed with king Charles and his peeres yet coulde he none othervvise hold theyr loue but hauing theyr necks vnder hys yoke VVhych vnion of possession and right to that realme vvas aftervvard fortified by crouning hys sonne Henry the sixt in Paris and by a nevv match betweene hym and Marguerit daughter of a French Charles as most men saien vvhich cost hym first for a princely brybe the dukedome of Angeow and Ereldome of Main and after many miserable destructions of our English cheualry people lost both the new cōquired title ancient heriditarye dominions on that side and finally vvrought an ignominious depriuation of Henry the sixt from this realme I think I might set dovvue all such matches as vnhappy ones and contrarivvise those matches nothing so vnhappy but for the most parte prosperous vvhich were made eyther at home or in other places as vveren al those mariages made since Henry the sixt as by Edvvarde the fourth her Maiesties greatgraundfather and by her maiesties graundfather and by her father And if a sister or daughter vvho had no or dinarye counsail allowed her out of France could yet continually preuaile so much to the trobling of the state and deposing of the king here vvhat peril is it to dravv hether a brother vvho is to haue his ordinarye counsail and some gard of force and continuall-intelligence with the French king and is also to be a leader and executer of any deuise himselfe vvhich a French woman could not doe so vvell the daunger therefore in thys match is encreased beyond that in the former matches for there the party for or by vvhom the danger came vvas a vvoman and therefore