Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	henry_n	king_n	spain_n	3,841	5	8.4366	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90200	A persvvasive to a mutuall compliance under the present government. Together with a plea for a free state compared with monarchy.	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1652 (1652)	Wing O517; Thomason E655_5; ESTC R203026	31,118	47

at to repaire the utensils of a Crowne which the charge or fate of warre hath exposed to sale or ruine We see it is the fortune of most private Families notwithstanding their severer education to fall within two or three generations under a foole or which is worse one so infatuated with an immoderate thirst of pleasure as to hazard the cutting off the strongest Intaile And can people be pronounced so happy who have no more to shew for their felicity but the crazied and uncertain life of a King rarely found to be indifferently good in the first but ever intolerable in the second or third Descent as a Senate which never dyes but growes daily more acquainted with the Constitution of the Nation being taught by experience how to administer to the peoples necessities Whose children doe not remaine a burden and terrour to the Common-wealth as those of Monarchs Which makes the Great Turke to strangle them like Vermin and the Persian to put out their eyes lest they should bewitch their Kingdomes into seditions as in the Annals of our English Monarchs is legible in red letters though many deepe markes of bloud have beene expunged by their power or covered by the flattery of such as pen'd their Stories And if we would seriously consider it without prejudice we might clearly foresee That no State is able without stocking up the ancient Nobility and Gentry to beare the true much lesse the borrowed issue of three Queenes in succession so fruitfull as our last Mary The pregnancy of whose head for mischiefe hath not yet beene so fatall to this Nation as her wombe may prove hereafter to Posterity that perhaps may be ignorant how few Kings come to the Crowne unspotted with the bloud of their Predecessours And that Nature is so farre buried in their jealousies and feares as oftentimes she cannot be heard in behalfe of her owne Children manifested in Philip the Second of Spain who put his owne Son and Heire to death A Tragedy since revived and acted by the same Kings Players upon the person of Prince Henry in England at the especiall command as was thought of c because he seemed averse from a Match with the Infanta for whose sweet sake his Brother undertooke that honourable journey into Spain by which not to reckon the vast expence and shame it brought the perpetuall quiet of this Nation was in hazard And till any can parallel this with a like absurdity committed by a Senate they must excuse all who thinke Monarchy not the wisest or happiest Government Neither are the progeny of Kings lesse unmindfull of their filiall duty since it is notorious that Lewis the XIth and Charles his Son were found in the head of an Army against their Fathers before discretion could securely intrust them with a Sword for feare of hurting themselves the eldest not having attained the age of twelve yeares What Tragedies the Royall issue have acted in England is well knowne But in Scotland they have beene so frequent and dismall that their Crown seemes rather a snare to catch unadvised fooles then a Symbole of Honour proving as fatall to most have worne it as the Shirt of Hercules the Drab had poysoned Though a Senate may be tempted to severity at first out of care and love to the people and themselves The disturbers of peace being subdued or reformed it is as contrary to their natures and discretions to delight in bloud as for a wise Physician to use Phlebotomy when the distemper is over Whereas under a Monarchy the Nation runs a hazard of blouding upon every change being ready to fall into a Feaver by the contrary humours and claimes of those of the same line who upon the least nicety they are able to create raise a civill and destructive warre as betweene Lancaster and Yorke which lasted so long as the people out of meere poverty and wearinesse were willing to sell themselves for Slaves to the succeeding Pharaohs of the prevalent Line And having found such mischiefes to result from contrary claimes they to perpetuate a single Title made the justest endeavours to oppose it Treason and so entail'd a perpetuall inconvenience unto Posterity that fell into the clutches of the Law upon the least offer they made to free themselves from these arbitrary Taske-masters at whose devotion they have ever since eaten the bread of affliction and constraint which they might have avoided by changing the Government But that like Lucian they lay under so strong a fascination as they were in their abused judgements capable of no cure but first by recovering a Conjunction between the Roses and then an union with Scotland And though the vanity of this conceipt be made apparent by 40 yeares contrary experience yet the generality cannot be wooed to assume their naturall shape of Free-men but desire rather to remain Asses still under the heavy pressures of a King not considering that the old Line is so exasperated That if any of it come to succeed they cannot in Prudence or Safety but so bush up all waies leading never so little towards liberty as we may well groane but shall not have so much as hope to be heard or redressed hereafter When those that stand for Kings shall receive as severe a doome as the rest out of feare they may another time be as well able and as willing to oppose as now to assist them After having weighed the deeds of the Vnited Provinces and Venice Consider what despicable Nations if capable of that Title these had been under absolute Princes Or what King deduction being made for the expense of his Court only without reckoning the concomitant vanities of Plaie Revels c. in which our last Kings spent more then they have done in bringing home Victory from Spaine or Turkey would be able with so small revenues to pay so many Garrisons and maintain such an Army as the Dutch have done for 80 years Neither is the advantage lessened by objecting the vast sums they stand accountable for to the Subjects of stranger Princes which being intrusted without paune is the greater honour all mens repute in the world having been sutable to their debts Therefore since no Prince was ever thought capable of so much credit with his Neighbours as to be intrusted with the like inestimable sums as these and other Free States are known to be who are made depositaries for the Fatherlesse and Widowes it is an infallible argument of their lesse esteem of Kings never found true to their natur all Subjects which makes none willing to lend to them but out of feare or constraint when mony is by heaps layed voluntarily at the feet of this more free government And what is to be expected frō our redemption out of Monarchical thraldom may be guest by the words of the Kings own Agent who urged as an inducement to Holland to favour his party that if England could be free they would be formidable unto them not only by interrupting their