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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	crown_n	king_n	richard_n	3,753	5	8.8517	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52534	Campania fœlix, or, A discourse of the benefits and improvements of husbandry containing directions for all manner of tillage, pasturage, and plantation : as also for the making of cyder and perry : with some considerations upon I. Justices of the peace and inferior officers, II. On inns and alehouses, III. On servants and labourers, IV. On the poor : to which are added two essays : I. Of a country-house, II. Of the fuel of London / by Tim. Nourse, gent.	Nourse, Timothy, d. 1699.	1700 (1700)	Wing N1416; ESTC R30752	181,404	370

will not much concern themselves which way Matters go whereas the Rich having all at Stake will push hard to defend their Interest which if they cannot do by their own Persons they are capable nevertheless of procuring others to fight for them by means of their Money as is at this Day evident in the Dutch who are not very good at Conquest or the Enlargement of their Boundaries but are very resolute and obstinate in Defence of their own so that in the Main or Summ of the Matter Commonwealths are better at keeping and Monarchies at enlarging their Territories and certainly that Prince or Commonwealth is in the best Post and Circumstance for War which has Subjects of both these Capacities I mean some which are inur'd to Hardship and others which are Wealthy and by this means a Prince has Money wherewith to furnish himself with Arms and Military Provisions and Men to manage them upon all Emergencies And 't is as certain too that that People or Nation is in the best Condition of any which live under such a Prince or Government as does not thirst after Conquest and widening of Empire but contrives rather to preserve Subjects in Peace and Plenty For 't is the Peoples Purse which must bleed to carry on the Designs of an Ambitious Prince in which if he miscarry they who did contribute to the War are utterly undone and if he be successful the People are never reimburs'd their Money but are still miserable by falling under one whose Appetite of Dominion is enlarg'd by Conquest and by this means also has greater Strength to wrest future Supplies to carry on his windy Pretences having a drawn Sword in his Hand and being surrounded with Armies inur'd to Blood so that they who first supported him in his popular Quarrels and hugg'd themselves by claiming a Share in the good Fortunes which their own Money procur'd will be found in the end to be in a vanquish'd and very miserable Condition when they thought most of being happy Whether the Bird be kill'd by a sudden and unavoidable Shot or fall leisurely and smoothly into the Snares or Net of the Fowler by listening to the sweet Modulation of his soft and fallacious Prize is much the same to the poor Creature which becomes a Prey Nay rather of the two 't is better for Men to fall under the Hands of a Conqueror who may challenge a just Title to their Service than to step insensibly into Slavery by their own Sloth and Over-Credulity When the Inhabitants of Himera a City of Sicily consulted the Poet Stesichorus about choosing Phalaris for their General he tells them this Fable The Horse and the Stag feeding in a Meadow they could not well agree together whereupon the former being distrustful of his own Strength to wage War with a Creature of so much Activity and Majesty flies to the Husbandman for succour who told him he would undertake to deliver him from his Fears were he but arm'd and mounted The Horse overjoy'd at the Vndertaking suffers the armed Man to bridle and saddle him and to get upon him insomuch that by the help of the Man upon his Back he made the Stag quit the Coast and began to triumph as Victor But on the other hand the Husbandman finding the Horse he had mounted to be a serviceable Beast would not suffer him to return and wanton again in the rich Meadows but inuring him to the Bridle and Saddle continually rid him as often as he pleas'd laying also heavy Burthens upon the Back of the poor Creature from time to time and at all times insomuch that the Carrion now spurr'd and gall'd and almost jaded to Death by his Deliverer wish'd a thousand times he had liv'd Neighbour-like with the Stag of which formerly he was so fondly fearful This Story of Stesichorus made the Citizens reject the Help which the Tyrant Phalaris offer'd Men being uneasie under the present Government and of seeking Relief by changing Masters has caus'd great Revolutions in Kingdoms and involv'd Subjects in perpetual Wars and Miseries as is obvious from infinite Examples I shall for the present content my self with one and a very Remarkable one in this our Kingdom Richard II. was a Prince who suffer'd himself to be too much biassed by evil Councils and thereby gave great Distast to most of his Subjects amongst whom Henry of Bullingbrook a subtile Prince and near Allied to the Crown was more eminently offended insomuch that crossing the Seas with a small Force being before-hand assur'd of the Affection and Assistance of the Nobility Gentry and Common People who all flock'd to him upon his Landing as did also the Army which was levied to oppose him he easily surpriz'd the abandon'd King pretending at first and swearing solemnly upon the Sacrament that he came not over to seek the Crown but to set the King and his People to rights and to preserve his Own The poor easie or rather uneasie King finding himself forsaken by all was forc'd to credit his Cousin's Protestations till resigning up himself into his Hands he became his Prisoner and to lengthen out his unfortunate Life a little was contented to call a Parliament and there resigning the Crown was afterwards murdered No sooner was Henry IV. saluted King but the People began to repent of what they had done finding all Henry's Pretences of Reforming Abuses and Redressing of Grievances to be meer Sham So that great Plots and Conspiracies were laid to dismount their Rider after which ensued a most Bloody and Lasting Civil War which never ended till the House of York to whom the Crown of Right belong'd was seated in the Throne The Calamities ensuing upon Richard's being depos'd are elegantly express'd by Mr. Daniel who was a Poet of more than ordinary Depth of Thought when he brings in that unfortunate King by a Prosopopoeia upbraiding England in this manner 1. Then shalt thou find the Name of Liberty The Watch-word of Rebellion ever us'd The idle Eccho of Vncertainty Which evermore the Simple hath abus'd But new-turn'd Servitude or Misery The same or rather worse before refus'd The Asper having once clim'd to the Top Cuts off the Means by which himself got up 2. And with a harder Hand and streighter Rein Doth curb that Loosness he did find before Doubting th' Occasion like might seem again His own Example makes him fear the more Then O Injurious Land what hast thou gain'd To aggravate thine own Afflictions Store Since thou must needs obey Kings Government And no Rule ever yet could all content The Summ of the whole Matter then is this That 't is much safer for a Nation to bear some Burdens under the present Powers than out of Hopes of greater Liberty or of bettering their Fortunes to fall a Prey to new Masters who like fresh Leeches will be sure to draw hard and suck out the remaining Blood and Wealth of those they fasten on which in the end must leave a Kingdom in a