Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	common_a	law_n	statute_n	4,861	5	8.7366	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07728	A lamentation in vvhiche is shevved what ruyne and destruction cometh of seditious rebellyon	Morison, Richard, Sir, d. 1556.; Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557, attributed name.	1536 (1536)	STC 18113.3; ESTC S109322	10,957	24

all those in whome vertue shyneth whiche in dede can promote none but suche as honestie gyueth reputation vnto It farre passeth Coblers crafte to discusse what lordes what byshops what counsaylours what actes statutes and lawes are mooste mete for a common welthe and whose iudgement shuld be beste or worst concernynge matters of relygion Good lorde is it possible that suche a nombre of men shulde caste them selfe away there where a Cobler shal be coūted a capitayne If England coude speake might it not say thus I am one why doo you make me twayne Ye are all myne howe canne any of you where none ought so to do seke the distruction of me my mooste noble and prudente prynce kynge HENRY the VIII and his trewe subiectes It is a shrewde hande that scratcheth out the eyen a shreude fote that for his faute putttih the necke in ieoperdy Lyncolneshire thou art a mēbre of myn I thought if nede had ben if myne ennemies had infested me to haue founde helpe and succour at thy hand and thou thus traiterously settest vpon me whan meate whiche shulde kepe the body lusty sleeth what meruayle if hungre kylle many a one If thy weapon whiche shoulde defende the fyght ayenst the what wonder to see an other mās dagger busy with thy bosome If Lyncolneshyre seke to distroye Englande what wonder is hit yf Fraunce and Scotlande sometime haue soughte to offende me Alas who canne blame me if I be woo whiche fynde none I thanke the prudence of my prynce and his counsayllours that seeketh my sorowe but suche as I haue to longe nourysshed and pampered vp Lyncolnshire I toke the for my frende so dyd the kynge also and I truste he woll do ageyne if thou pourged of these traytours hereafter do as thou shalt wyshe thou haddest nowe done Thus Englande myght say and moche more which I wyl say for her If the feare of god the loue of the common welth and loyall obeysance to our moost gratious prince had moued the reste of his subiectes no more thanne they dyd you myght not we haue feared least it shuld haue chanced vnto vs as it dyd to them that came of the serpentes tethe The fable is not longe nother feyned without good cause Cadmus by the consent of the poetis kylled a great serpent whose teth he was commaunded to sowe in the ground of the which sodeynely arose harneist men a rowe on the one syde an nother on the other whiche streight fell to gether by the eares in soo moche that they were almooste deed er they were fullye borne The poetes wolde declare that where as is dissention bothe the parties go to wracke But what nedeth me to vse a fable whan I maye confirme this thynge with so many histories Fyrste what brought downe the grekes or to begynne somewhat farther what was the cause that some tyme the Lacedemoniens were vnder the Atheniens sometyme contrarye Loke the histories you shall euermore for the most parte fynde that neuer great realme or common welth hath ben distroyed without sedition at home Dissention dissention hath bene the ruyne the venome the poyson of all great estates In so moche that the discorde of capitaynes onely ofte tymes put the grekes to moche calamitie How oft was Athens vexed by reason of the priuate hatrede betwyxte Aristides and Themistocles Cimon and Pericles Nicias and Alcibiades their capitaynes Surely the diuision of Grece that is to saye the Lacedemonyens ageynste the Atheniens the Corinthians and Thebans indifferent frende to nere nother made the Romayns lordes of Grece Nowe what broughte downe the Romayns which were conquerours of al the hole world wel nygh Doth not Silla Marius Cinna Pompeius and Cesar seditious citisins make almost the ende of the reigne of the Romaynes You se in other landes sedition hath ben euermore the bringer in of al sorowe and mischief Hath sedition doone no hurte in Englande haue we hadde no experience before nowe I wolde we had not howe be it I truste the kynges grace will so prudently and gratiously order this that here after Englande shall haue lytel feare of insurrections Is there any in Englande that hathe not harde of Palme sonday filde Blacke hethe felde and many other whiche bycause they are almoste forgoten I wold no body shuld at any time speke of theym I am of Platos mynde I wolde haue no histories to make mention of theym that haue fought ayenste their countrey I wolde no sedition shulde be wrytten of no nor spoken of I wold haue men beleue that there was neuer none so vnnatural as to ryse ayenst his prince and countrey But seinge it is to farre past and the hurt to gret to be so soone forgotten lette vs take in all thynges some fruite For what is so yuell but somme good commeth of it These two feldes how many wydowes made they howe many fatherles chylderne what bloode they coste vs fewe be but they knowe I lette passe howe all that euer came into Englande to infeste vs neuer dyd hurte excepte we were diuided Iulius Cesar the best capitayne that euer the Romaynes hadde and peraduenture that euer was at his fyrste settynge vpon vs dyd no man hurte but hym selfe I praye you see what opinion he hadde of vs. Rede Paulus Orosius where at the fyrst he came but with .lxxx. shyppes at his retourninge he came with no lesse than syxe hūdred shippes furnished with piked souldiours And as Cesar hym selfe writeth Mandubratius sonne of the kynge of London called Imanuentius stale out of Englande and folowed hym beinge than at variance with Casseuelaunus kynge of Kent And so Cesar cam in holpen by this sedition O cruel sedition O venomus hatred O vnlucky debate O pernitious dissention O spiteful rancour O blynde euer hurtfull enuy O seldom wel endyng malice why dost thou in one houre oft tymes marre more than in an hūdred yeres can be restored agayn What foly what madnes is this to make an hole in the shyppe that thou saylest in what wylful frowardnes is this to lese both thyn eyes that thyn ennemie may lese one I pray god the Cobbler be chief captayne I pray god there be no polshorne pedlers I had almost called them by their name that put the Cobbler out of his roume Who wil think but it was gret pitie to put out suche good religioꝰ mē y t now haue turned their coules in to iackes their portessis beadis into billes bowes twenty other praty thynges and comme nowe harneist into the feld ayenst god their king and bothe their lawes Is it not verye lyke that they liued vertuously in their cloisters where they myght do al mischiefe and no man see them whiche now in the face of the worlde are not ashamed to be the ryngleaders of these trayterous rebelles Is it nat pitie that these shulde lacke whiche wyll sooner vndo as farre as they may an hole countrey thā not haue for their harlottes as they haue had in