Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	prince_n	11,508	5	5.6826	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30105	Chirologia, or, The naturall language of the hand composed of the speaking motions, and discoursing gestures thereof : whereunto is added Chironomia, or, The art of manuall rhetoricke, consisting of the naturall expressions, digested by art in the hand, as the chiefest instrument of eloquence, by historicall manifesto's exemplified out of the authentique registers of common life and civill conversation : with types, or chyrograms, a long-wish'd for illustration of this argument / by J.B. ...	J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5462A; ESTC R208625	185,856	386

restrained by some sumptuary Law made against the naturall munificence of the Right Hand refer all matters of beneficence to the penurious discretion of the Left Hand Nay are there not some who as if they held ignorance to bee the mother of thrift to elude this nesciat of the Gospel have made their Hands strike a league together and agree never to know any such thing one by the other Auxilium fero Gestus XXVI TO EXTEND AND OFFER OUT THE RIGHT HAND UNTO ANY is an expression of pity and of an intention to afford comfort and reliefe used also as a token of assurance peace security and promised safety and salvation An expression much desired by those who are in distresse and are not able to shift for themselves who use to call for the guift or auxiliary loan of this Hand for thus Palinurus calls to Aeneas Da dextram misero tecum me tolle per undas Hence Dare manum alicui vel manum admovere sign opem auxilium ferre Symmachus calls this adjutricem manum the helping Hand Cassiodorus Dextram salutarem the comfortable Hand and with Isidor it is the witnesse of salvation Pierius makes this gesture the hieroglyphicke of fortitude and aid in which sense it is very frequently used by the learned Romans The same manner of expression hath prevailed also with the Greeks and with the Hebrews likewise for so saith the Scripture The wicked lend one another the Hand but in vaine for though HAND IOYNE IN HAND the wicked shall not scape unpunished The like expression of gesture is frequent in sacred Writ The Prophet Isaiah in reference to the signification of comfort saith they shall not STRETCH OUT THE HANDS for them in the morning to comfort them for the dead And Salomon speaking of the vertuous woman saith She spreadeth out her Hands to the poore and putteth forth her Hand to the needy To this intent Jesus immediately STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND and caught up sinking Peter crying out unto him to save him And so significant and demonstrative to succour and support is this gesture that Uzza for putting forth his Hand to stay the Arke of God was smitten with death for that speaking errour of his Hand This gesture of succour and reliefe hath been observed in ancient coines stamped with the image of the goddesse Ops by that posture promising a willingnes to helpe all that invoke her name ¶ This gesture is also a naturall token of assurance and promised safety Thus the King of Persia saved Mentors life by REACHING HIM HIS RIGHT HAND Ammianus Marcellinus saith the same of one Nebridius who was the only man that refused to conspire with others against Constantins and therefore to save himselfe from the fury of the Souldiers who had drawne their swords upon him flying with all speed he could make to Julian besought him that for assurance he would vouchsafe to GIVE HIM HIS RIGHT HAND whereunto Julian made answer what shall I keep especially for my friends in case thou touch my Hand but goe thy wayes from hence whither thou wilt in safety and security Commisereor Gestus XXVII TO LET DOWN THE HAND with intent to reare some languishing creature from off the ground is a greater expression of pity and commiseration then to afford a STRETCHED OUT HAND to one who riseth of his owne accord for between these expressions the Learned have made a distinction To this expression I finde that of the Psalmist referred Send downe thy Hand from above Irascor Gestus XXVIII TO STRIKE A TABLE OR SOME SUCH LIKE THING WITH THE HAND is the gesture of one angry or grieved in minde and very impatient To which gesture that of the Prophet Ezekiel is referred Thus saith the Lord God SMITE WITH THINE HAND c. By this signe inciting the Prophet to signifie the great wrath and destruction to come The natural reason of which gesture is the minde fretted that it cannot meet with a revenge doth out of Hand endeavour to quench her fervent heat some other way to wit by STROKES or noise or some other remedy which somewhat ease the minde To descend downe into our owne Historie for an example of this patheticall motion of the Hand a Royall Copie whereof we have in a Prince whose passions were as himselfe great to wit Henry the eight who demanding of one of his Physicians whose patient Cardinall Woolsey was what distemper Woolsey had who then was sicke the Doctor replyed what disease soever he hath hee will not live to the end of three dayes more The King STRIKING THE TABLE WITH HIS HAND cryed out I had rather lose two thousand pounds then hee should dye make haste therefore you and as many Physicians as are about the Court and by all meanes endeavour his recovery Another example of this expression I finde in our Chronicles before the times of this Prince and that is in the Duke of Gloster Protectour to young King Edward the fifth For among other passionate gestures which accompanied his changed countenance when he accused the Queene Mother and her complices of plotting his death and my Lord Hastings had adventur'd to returne some answer to his fierce interrogatory submissively saying If the Queene have conspired The word was no sooner out of the Lord Hastings mouth when the Protectour CLAPPING HIS HAND UPON THE BOARD and frowningly looking upon him said Tellest thou me of If and And I tell thee they and none but they have done it and thou thy self art partaker of the villany c. Cohorto Gestus XXIX TO HOLD UP THE HAND HOLLOW ABOVE THE SHOULDER POINTS AND TO SHAKE IT IN ORBE BY THE TURNE AND RETURNE OF THE WREST is their naturall expression who encourage embolden and exhort one to be of good chéere Antonius in stead of speech significantly used this gesture For it is written of him that while he was setting his men in order of battaile at Actium being resolved for a navall fight to end the controversie betweene Octavius Caesar and him for the Monarchie of the world there was a Captaine and a valiant man that had served Antonius in many battailes and conflicts and had all his body hacked and cut who as Antonius passed by him cryed out unto him and said O noble Emperour how commeth it to passe that you trust in these vile brittle ships what doe you mistrust these wounds of mine and this sword Let the Aegyptians and the Phoenicians fight by Sea and set us on the main land where we use to conquer and to bee slaine on our feet Antonius passed by him and said never a word but only BECKOND TO HIM WITH HIS HAND and Head as though he willed him to be of good courage although indeed he had no great courage himselfe Praeclara aggedior Gestus XXX TO EXALT OR LIFT UP THE STRETCH'D OUT HAND is the habit of one attempting