Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	swear_v	2,584	5	8.7846	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03455	A fair character of the Presbyterian reformling's just and sober vindication of his observations upon the 30th of January, and the 29th of May, in defence of the reformer rack'd. Being an answer to J.G.G.'s new vile rant, and the Weekly Observator's invidious and false reflections on it.		1695 (1695)	Wing F94A; ESTC R176917	32,606	43

Arbitrary and Magisterial were their own proceedings while they pretended to be doing nothing else but preventing the Arbitrary Power of another How many Honest and Loyal Gentlemen did they force to do the Penance of falling down and Worshipping them for speaking Blasphemy against their Authority while Treason against a higher Power past unquestioned How crosly and resolutely did they always deny His Majesties just Demands though they were to be employed for the Nations security And at last how saucily would they have cried down the King by debarring him of the priviledge of the meanest Subject making it unlawful for any one to turn his Creditor though on never so good security This is not the moity of what might be said but perhaps in this case 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Vetus Fabula only wanted the Curtains drawing and Parliament Candles lighting of being acted on an Oxford Theatre and the Novi Historiones with some of the Veteres too perhaps had played their Parts of the like Tragedy over again if they had been so successful as not to have been hissed off before they came to Prologue to 't However the Reformling will have King Charles the Second to be beholden to his Party for his Restoration and peaceable injoyment of his Royalty and certainly he was just as the Father Dotard was beholden to the Son who flatter'd him into a Settlement and then burn'd his House about his Ears for his Daddy to rost his Eggs with Our Sons of Faction could love uproars and Bonefires too but that they hate Rumps and it looks too much like Sacrificing to the Genius of Restauration At an Election of a Member for the approaching Parliament at Oxon The Loyal Pudsey and Whorewood Candidates it is pleasantly storied of a brisk Mechanick in the Van of a Tumultuous Crowd who hearing a Graduate exclaiming no Round-head no Round-head reparteed him with no Square-head no Square-head when all the University knew they were for no Head at all or at best not for a Crown'd Rowly-Head I am afraid I shall be tedious on the face and complexion of his Pamphlet but if length be not the Picture of him it is his best Character at a Vindication or one of his Sixteenthly Beloveds Now I cannot imagine what he would be at have done or prevented the Pope is not like to be Lord Mayor next Year nor King JAMES to be in his Throne again the next Moon Popery is out of Doors he needs but give it an Alms or send the Cripple to the next Constable Authority will take care of it But it may be he has an extraordinary knack at Reforming he may have as good and Religious a God-piece as King Henry the Eighth and can Whistle a better Tune too in Divisions that would make the Rabble Dance a Common-wealth Morisco The Reformer needs but lead up the Figure of three four Heptarchy or a hundred the Piper's paid Cut the first Caper and protest he wishes England as well as the Duke of Burgundy once did France when he swore He lov'd France so well that for one King he wish'd she had twenty and then you are all of a Litter quoth Lambert Let me tell you Lylly's Grammer comprehended a great deal of policy in it's Neutram modo mas modo vulgus but it is Aes in presenti that must carry on the business effectually to persection and what not The Mobb love variety and every Body knows what is as good for a Sow as a Pancake A Fartical Raskal that bid a KING kiss his Posteriors I conceive and presume saving J.G. G's presence would make an excellent Tool for his Arsie-Farsie Reformation At this rate every Wat Tyler or Jack Straw with a fair Wind and auspicious opportunity will be invading and matching Politicks with King and Council and if the Green-pated Reformer Heads but well and puts Liberty and Property and the Old State Quibble of Personal and Politick Capacity into the Mouth of the Moabites the Man STUART may be cut off and the King ne're the worse hurt A Second Oliver may chance to drop out of the Clouds and then defiance to the Powers of the Earth our Soveraign Lord the People are as assuredly as the Rebels against King John the Army of God Any New Coin gains acceptance with the Lower Mobb from its Stamp of Novelty and if the upper sort of Mobb mints it but with a popular App●ause Vogue and Reputation it has Credit Justice and Authority enough to abide their Test The next thing our good Gentleman does is as wise as he can make Solomon not Solomon him to call his Adversary a Fool and the worst of the sort a self-conceited Fool Surely if Robin Wisdom sets not up for an Author and Fools not the rest of Mankind the Press cannot blame him for it But the would-be Solomon presently starts a Fool out of the Proverbs before he enters the Field no if he had not been besides the Bush Page 18. and had had the good luck to have thrown his UTINAM SAPEREM soon enough in his tail as the No vice-hunter carries Salt to catch the Hare with he had taken him too and might have Sounded his Triumph of the Prey at the first View Many a one has had the fortune to Course the Hare and catch the Witch He mistakes his Fool and his Game And well remembred Wise man of Gotham how the Scot tuke the Tartar and the Tartar prov'd the Conqueror I might have dwelt longer upon his Title-page sufficiently answer'd him and never have gone farther than the Porch But curiosity prompts me to shew his Guests what better entertainment or welcome they and I must be treated with in the House At the Threshold then I shall only premise a gross injury done me and soberly good morrow his passionate ELDERSHIPS scandals and misconstructions of me For in my Remarks or Reflections Page 12. which I allow him to take in the worst sense on his Observations I fully declared my propo's and design which he has run Counter to with a full cry almost throughout his Vindication only coldly chopping on 't here and there The Mungrel-hound often flings off and runs a back-scent But a worse Nose than his might have taken the right Game and made a truer chase of it A false pursuit never obtain'd the least Quarry Having waved the Divinity of his King-killing and traducing Pamphlet let the unbiass'd Judge if it is fair play to be bid keep close to the Text ho Religion is the Province of our Learned Clergy there were eleven Apostles for one Judas and we have Orthodox Divines enough to confute his Schismatical Doctrine though too many follow their Master like Peter at a distance in secular Persecutions and it is well if more do not deny him In all Don Quevedo's Visions Judas was the only Man in Hell for selling his God but there was a number for buying of HIM But I never intended to meddle with those matters