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	marry_v	scotland_n	3,597	5	8.6540	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43394	Certaine conceptions, or, Considerations of Sir Percy Herbert, upon the strange change of peoples dispositions and actions in these latter times directed to his sonne.	Herbert, Percy, Sir.	1650 (1650)	Wing H1524A; ESTC R13695	141,161	274

thought upon Now I say if these perturbations and casualties be incident to the best and most solid time of our humane condition when as our bodies and understandings are most in vigour to enjoy earthly felicities and content what may we thinke of our decaying and criped age when as we shall see our teeth dayly to drop one by one from our hollow jawes and dryed gums untill at last we have none at all left for our necessary use and commodity Our eyes in like manner by degrees to grow dim having onely their faculties preserved a while by spectacles and other meanes untill at the length we become starke blind leaving us in a posture uncomfortable since we are sure never more to behold the glorious Sunne or the cheerfull dayes light and for our legs they will appeare rather like small stalkes of withered plants then convenient or substantiall supporters of our weake bodies which must necessarily be assisted by crutches or some other artifice to helpe us in our motion from place to place whereby the best to give us a little ease and recreation whilst we are able in any sort to crawle upon the face of the earth and however this helpe may serve for a while to supply the defects of decaying nature yet in the end our beds or some solitary couch being overburthened with Catars and Rhumes must be the onely receptacle of our age and infirmity where perhaps we shall converse with nothing but excessive pain and melancholy thoughts as a neere preparation for our graves to which station it may be doubted scarce a tear shal accompany us from the eyes of any of our friends imagining we have had a sufficient time of being in the world whereupon I must here remember the custome of the Indians who used to put to death such people amongst them that by reason of their extraordinary age were thought past action and imployment which testifies that even Barbarians themselves apprehend nothing but unhappinesses in our last continuance Now I say if this condition appertaine to those that have been the greatest darling of fortune and prosperity in this world what may we judge of such that during their lives have had nothing but troublesome passage concerning their affaires in the whole course of their time as it were still conversing either with want imprisonment diseases or some other apparent afflictions of this life Alas if we consider but the poore husbandman that doth not onely continually toyle for a contemptible subsistence in heat and cold in wet and dry but is oftentimes in danger to be plundered of all he hath and not seldom loseth his own life in defence of his small family by the violent oppressions of mercilesse souldiers we may imagine his trouble and vexations give him no great cause of felicity In what a miserable and horrid condition is a Galleyslave however he be endued with the same nobility of soule as the greatest and mightiest Prince upon earth Certainly the beggers that goe from doore to doore spin out a life in outward appearance of sufficient misery and vexation notwithstanding they neither hope nor expect any other And truly however some few persons may seem to be in a more prosperous condition yet considering the uncertainty of what they possesse and the impossibility of coutinuance without change and alteration they are not to be esteemed very far from them in unhappinesse For although perchance we may look with eyes of envy upon many glorious Potentates in the world yet if their thoughts perhaps were truly examined we shall finde multitudes of vexations depending upon their condition to the destroying of all certaine content for what Prince was there ever yet that commanded so intirely prosperity that hath not often been troubled with naturall infirmities as the stone gout and the like to free himselfe from which paine perhaps he would willingly have parted with much of his Dominion if it had been possible to have procured such a redemption at any price How many people againe are born blinde dumbe and deafe with other notorious imperfections of nature that render them contemptible in the world and yet are as greedy after the appetite of living long as those which enjoy most felicity which shews that it is not the reall fruition of any earthly delight that gives us occasion to value our being here but meerly a senselesse stupidity of flesh and blood that makes us covet we know not what without the soules consideration Withall if we but look at the chances accidents and misfortunes of many glorious Monarches we shall have cause little enough to depend upon the certaine happinesse of any condition whatsoever As for example the Emperour Morisius being in possession of as much prosperity as could be devised of a sudden in his greatest Majesty was surprized by the conspiracy of a base and barbarous fellow of his Army and presently brought bound before his insulting prefence where on his knees he was constrained to behold the cruell slaughter of his deare wife and all his young children one after another untill at last himself made up the doleful Catastrophy as a period to his affliction and misery whilst his worst enemy in the interim was proclamed before his eyes Again Bagazat King of the Turkes that brought three hundred thousand souldiers into the field against Tamberlin was that very day taken prisoner with all his glory and presently shut up in an Iron-cage to be made a spectacle of wonder and contempt to all the world where not long after he ended his dayes violently by his own hands We may also in this place remember the sudden misfortunes of the late Queene of Scots that was a young brave and beautifull Princesse married to the King of France yet notwithstanding within a few yeares returning into Scotland to take possession of her native Kingdome she was brought to such confusion by the treason of her owne naturall subjects that Flying into England for assistance against their rebellions she was betrayed and cast into prison where she remained untill she lost her head upon a Scaffold in the view of all the people without having so much as one sword drawne in her revenge though she was allyed to most of all the powerfull Princes of Christendome If we looke also at the glories of Herod the great who seemed fortunate and prosperous beyond measure in this world yet we finde his life so mixt with such intolerable crosses and vexations that he was not onely induced to the slaugher of his most beloved wife and naturall children to maintaine his Crown in safety against his suspicions but towards his last end was in that fearfull manner tormented with paine and griefe that one time in a certaine desperate humour calling for a knife to paire an apple he would have killed himselfe if he had not beene suddenly prevented by some of his friends and servants We read also of a Duke of Vrben who was esteemed by all that knew him a Paragon