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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
father_n	know_v	son_n	spirit_n	19,914	5	5.9742	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15357	Three miseries of Barbary: plague. famine. ciuill warre With a relation of the death of Mahamet the late Emperour: and a briefe report of the now present wars betweene the three brothers.	Wilkins, George, fl. 1607.	1607 (1607)	STC 25639; ESTC S101854	13,457	29

spend an houre til the rest met in renewing the emperors pallace where his Concubins liued because he was told it was a rare and rich place and that it was not lawfull without great meanes to enter That report more inflamed his desire insomuch that in the end watching his time by stealth he got in Where being and staring vp and downe it chanced that one of the Women saw him who presently screeked out and ranne crying A man a man for you must note that if any one of them spy a Man except the Eunuches that attend them and doe not call for helpe it is death to her and what Man soeuer rudely presume to haue a fight of thē it is death to him It was knowne by inquiry vpon her noyse that it was Enhamet the Customers Sonne who had thus offended the lawes the Emperor being giuen to vnderstand so much made an oath he should dye for it Immediately vpon this by occasion of some busines comes the olde Man Enhamets Father to the King who supposing it hadde beene about his Sonnes pardon and his indignation being now a little cooler suddainely demaunded of him what that Man deserued that durst breake into the place where his Emperours Concubins were Cidde Abdela not suspecting the offender answered that hee deserued the sharpest sentence of death for so the Law would adiudge him Be thou then quoth the Emperor thine owne Sonnes condemnation As thou hast iudged him so let it be But the King beholding death sitting in the olde Mans face at that doome grew pittifull and for loue he bare the Father forgaue the Sonne which mercy notwithstanding Abdela Creme not truely laying holde of but mistaking the Noble spirit of a Prince and imagining that this fauor so strangely extended was but a snare to intrap his owne life because offences of that nature were neuer before pardoned in any home hee comes with sorrow in his afflicted looks and his heart euen murdered within him by the cruelty of his owne thoughtes his Sonne demaunded the cause of this so strange and suddaine distemperature but his Father giuing no answer sends for cordes shewes them onely insteade of speech and to make this dumb Tragedy fall in the end he causeth him before his owne eyes to bee strangled great were the lamentations of the Sonne and aboundant were the teares he let fall to soften his Fathers heart a mighty conflict was there in the poore old mans bosome betweene naturall piety to a Child and naturall feare of a Soueraigne but the last of the two preuailed and hauing bestowed vpon the dead body the ceremonies of the graue according to the custome of the Countrey hee caused the Act to bee registred downe for his owne safety alledging that howsoeuer the Emperor when he heard this blacke and vnnaturall deed reported would happily bee moued vnto wrath yet inwardly he would be highly contented with it Mahamet being thus feared and loued of his subiects wanted nothing that according to humane Iudgement could make a Prince happy pleasure was his slaue and waighted on him whensoeuer he lusted for her company Riches flowed into his houses of treasure in large Goldē streams his Court was ful of counsellors his Cittyes full Merchants his Castles full of souldiers he was a mightie King himselfe had sonnes that were as mightie as hee their Dominions were ample they were full of men and full of all thinges that maintaine men It seemed that the Father lost much of his imperiall state and dignitie when hee placed his three sonnes like three great lights to shine equally in his kingdome considering that all the beames of maiestie that came from them might if he had pleased haue beene sent foorth from the centred glory of his owne head but euen this borrowed reflexions of theirs made his brightnes the greater and his sonnes yeelding acknowledgement of all their royaltie to flow from him did like Riuers paying tribute to the Sea seeme not a whit the lesse for such homage and fealtie Fortune hauing turnd the wheele of this Emperours fate along time with steddie hand had now brought it about to the vppermost point highest on which she meant he should sitte he should be no more her darling and therefore shee tooke her fauours from him Or to speake of a power that cōtrolls Fortune and whose very finger throwes downe kingdoms to vtter confusion or holdes thē vp in their greatnesse whether the generall sinnes of the whole Nation deserued it or whether the people were punisht for the particular faults of the king and his Courtiers as many times it falls out and as it hapned to the Grecians for Quicquid delirant Reges plestantur Achini or for what other faultes soeuer the rodde of vengeance was made readie it is in man to thinke vppon and feare but not to examine yet sure it is that as a fire catching hold at first but of some meane cottage in some one end or corner of a Cittie hath oftentimes ere the furie of it could bee put out swallowed vp in his flames the goodliest and most beautifull buildings that stoode euen fardest out of reach so did the clowdes of infection burst open their vaines and let fall the poyson of them on this kingdom of Barbary If euer the Plague in any place got his true name there he had it At the beginning it strooke like an Arrowe on the head but of one Citty but in a short time after it fleme from Cittie to Citty and in the end stucke in the very hart of the whole kingdome Insomuch that Death came like a tyrannous Usurper to the Court gates threatned to depose the Emperour himselfe Hee that before sate in his throne of maiestie greatly feared of other Nations round about him and strongly garded by his owne is on the suddaine daunted and beeing accounted one of the mightiest amongst the Kings of the earth is ready to submit to him with whom euen Infants doe euery howre fight hand to hand See the authoritie fame and terror of that Inuader Death hee strooke but vp an Allarum in this Emperous Pallace and the Emperour himselfe trembled through feare thereof his conceites that stood before like so many aged Oakes bowed presently to the earth like so many ranks of young Willowes yet his Cittie 's shooke at the voyce no lesse then if it had beene at an Earth-quake And so hardly did the pestilence pursue Mahamet that he durst not sleep for it in one place twice together euery night was he compelled for safety to flye vnto a contrary lodging As his Court remoued so did the plague whersoeuer the one kept his standing house there the other pitched vp his Pauilion as a proud and daring Challenger to all commers Insomuch that sicknesse in the end though weake of himselfe wrastled with so many that were neere and about the Princes person and still got the better of thē that Mahomet had not men to remoue those tents which hee was