Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	bring_v	good_a	see_v	1,546	5	3.3026	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02726	An exhortacion to the Scottes to conforme them selfes to the honorable, expedie[n]t, and godly vnion, betwene the twoo realmes of Englande and Scotlande.	Harrison, James, fl. 1547.	1547 (1547)	STC 12857; ESTC S103818	29,237	128

to bring vs in belefe that we bee in some parte of estimacioÌ„ with theim thei make of our nacion certain chief presioentes in Fraunce the kyng hath of vs a certain numbre in his garde for the defence of his persone in whom howe litle he trusteth God knoweth and daily experieÌ„ce teacheth By this he maketh vs silly soules beleue that he hath vs in singuler trust when in deede it is but a golden and glisteryng bayte alluryng our simplicitie and credulitie to that IroÌ„ hoke that hath caught and killed afore now the moste part of our auncestors now of late no fewer of oure fathers of our childreÌ„ and of our kinsfolke while the Frenche lose not a maÌ„ but a fewe golden crounes And yet our presideÌ„tes for al the honor aucthoritie that thei be set in doo serue but as Cyphers in Algorisme to fill the place and in stede of Iupiters blocke sent to rule the Frogges whereupon thei treade and leape withoute feare daunger And our countreymen of the gard after many yeres worne in Fraunce haue this onely rewarde at length to bee called of all the worlde in mockery Iehan de Escoce Yet is there one thyng wherein wee repose a certain honor and yet in deede is the same one of the most dishonors that euer we receiued whiche was when at thentre of a league with Charles the greate Kyng of Fraunce wee receiued for an encrease of the Armes of our realme a trace of flour deluces not considering how shamefull and dishonorable it was to vs being so noble pleople to deface our auncieÌ„t Armes and receiue the note and token of nobilitie and worthines of straungers On thother part how honorable a thyng this attonemeÌ„t with Englande were for vs the blynd man maie se For beeyng then as algates we must be vnder some one bothe vnder one kyng the more large and ample the Empire wer the more honorable and glorious the kyng of greater dominion gouernaunce power and fame and the subiectes more renoumed more happy and more quiet the realme more sure and formidable to the enemies and thei lesse eshuned and feared THVS beyng bothe our people and forces ioyned in one we should be the more puyssaunt to inuade more stroÌ„g to resist and defende And our power beeyng suche so great should be an occasion for I wil not now speake of all thynges to make vs fre sure froÌ„ outward inuasiceÌ„r wherof peace beyng first betwene vs and Englande should folowe peace with al others In sort as the laboryng man might safely tille his grounde and as safely gather in the profites and fruites therof the marchaunt might withoute feare goo abrode and bryng in forreine commodities into the realme the gouernours beeyng in tranquillitie and not hauyng their thought and cure diuided into many sundery partes should with lesse carefulnesse and anxietie of mynde see to the good ordre of the commoÌ„ wealth whiche neuer so truely florisheth as in peace In fine all murders robberies spoyles slaughters and desolacions beyng the sequele and as it wer the children of warre yea and warr it self the Parente of the same should cease in whose places should succede peace wealthe quiet ordre and all other graces and good happes But if we be so blynd that we will not see and deafe that we will not harken to these holsome admonicions when without the feare of God and without regard of the commoÌ„ weale we shall rush still hedlong into the fury of warre lette vs recken with our selfes whose cause is moste iniust and wrongfull what is to bee loked for towardes vs at the conquerors handes seing that we haue refused so honorable so equall and so easie yea and frendly coÌ„dicions of peace specially being called not into subieccioÌ„ or seruitude but into one societie and feloweship with Englishemen and that by so honorable a meane as the mariage of our Princes with the kinges maiestie of Englande a Prince of so greate towardnes honor and expectacioÌ„ bothe for that he is desceÌ„ded of such pareÌ„tes and also for that those vertues bee all ready in hym as the like were perchaunce in no one prince afore So as we may surely hope and promise to our selfes more at his maiesties hand then peraduenture were lawfull to looke for of a mortall man Then what should wee feare at the handes of such a Prince hauing maried our natural quene but all grace clemencie and benignitie aswell for her graces sake whoÌ„ he shall haue maried as also for those vertues which be to his Maiestie naturall and propre Moreouer what other thyng is to be loked for at the haÌ„des of the succession of theÌ„ both which shall take aswell parte of her grace as of his Maiestie then al gentle and louing treatment and prerogatyue seyng froÌ„ the same we shal no more be straÌ„gers vnto that nacion but asnye and as dere as the self Englishmen And so muche the rather when those hatefull termes of Scottes Englishemen shal be abolisshed and blotted oute for euer and that we shal al agre in the onely title and name of Britons as verely we ought to do and the selfe realme beeyng eftsones reduced into the fourme of one sole Monarchie shal bee called Britayn Then the which forme there is none other better nor no commoÌ„ weale so well gouerned as the same is that is ruled by one kyng The experience wherof we haue seen euen from the beginning of the worlde coÌ„tinually to our time For who so shall well consider the states of all commone weales that haue been gouerned by mo then one shal perceiue that the same hath been the cause of their finall ruine exterminion For gouernaunce maye in no wyse suffer an equal companyon ne any more be diuided into the rule of twoo sundrie administers then one bodye maye beare two heades or the worlde endure to haue twoo sunnes to geue lighte at once And that same appereth in all other creatures emonge whom there is any societie or body politique wherby it may easily be gathered to be the primatiue decre and the due ordre of nature Whiche like as in many other thynges so doth it specially appere in the swarme of Bees for thei beyng ledde with the onely and mere instinct of nature will neither bee without one Kyng and gouernor ne yet admit any mo Kynges then one at once And by the same nature bee wee taught to repute and reckeÌ„ that body to be moÌ„streous that hath twoo heddes and no lesse is the realme that hath twoo kynges Then if in all thinges we shuld as nigh as might be approche to the likenesse of heauen aswell in our lifes and actes as in all our fashions wee should not allowe the regiment of many for that the heauenly thynges haue but one gouernor whiche thyng Homere though he were but an HeatheÌ„ poete semeth to expresse in these verses To haue mani gouernors is not good But let there bee one ruler of Kynges and one Kyng

preceptes Godly examples and sincere educacion as he shall proue a Kyng equal with those whom old histories do moste commend Wherein your graces laude cannot wante beyng so worthie a gouernor of so noble a kyng and muche more if by your pollicie diligeÌ„ce and circumspeccion he shal at his perfect yeres bee restaured to the whole isle of Britayn wherunto as he is iustely entitled So God the protector of al iust causes shal bryng your atteÌ„ptes therin to good successe For the furtheraunce whereof I haue declared myne opinion in writyng whiche with humble harte I offre and dedicate vnto your good grace not as a gyfte worthie so greate an estate but yet not vnmete for my purpose ne for the tyme occasion present wherin though I neither perswade my cause so pithihely ne open it so liuely as to so weightie a matter is requisite Yet it maie serue either for a testimonye of myne honest meanyng or minister occasion to better learned men to dilate this argument more largely whereby all warre and hostilitie maie cease and peace and concord take place GOD the verie aucthor of peace euer preserue your grace to the increase of the same and furtheranÌ„ce of all Godlinesse and graunte to the Kynges Maiestie of England his righteous possession of the whole monarchie of Britayn to thaduauncemeÌ„t of Gods glory coÌ„fort to his lieges and confusion of his enemies DIEV ET MON DROVT AN EXHORTACION The cause wher of I treate beeyng so weightie the discourse so large my witte and cunnyng so small to set it furthe I might well be discoraged to entre so greate a ground but that loue to my countrey on the one side and desire of concorde and quietnes on the other side moue me to speake hopyng that the honesty of the matter shall supplie the rude handelyng and the plain veritie to stand in stede of eloqueÌ„ce and cunnyng For like as in an euill cause muche arte and conueyaunce must be vsed afore it can appere good euen so in a cause true honest and righteous there needeth no subtile perswasions or finesse of woordes but how muche the plainer so muche the better and how muche the more eloquent somuch the more suspicious For truthe is sufficient of her selfe and needeth no colours no more then natural beawty nedeth of paintyng Taking this for my foundacion I maie the more boldely procede without feare of offence seeyng my cause is suche as all good men will further all wise men fauor and all Godly men defende as that whiche beeyng enbraced shall doo good to many and hurt to none and beyng neglected shall hurte a multitude and auayle no man tendyng no lesse to the commoditie of the aduersaries then of the fauorers Thus the ground beyng so true the occasion so honest and the querell so righteous there wanteth nothyng but one that could set the same furth accordyngly And seeyng suche as canne best liste not and that ought moste will not and that wold faynest dare not take this vniuersall cause in hande I beyng simple vnlearned and most barayn of all orators arte and perswasioÌ„ yet armed with truth moued with honestie and prouoked by loue towardes God and my countrey as Dauid against Golias entre the felde against the mightie Giauntes enemies of concorde and vnitie desiryng all my countreymen of Scottande whose cause I now specially entreat to geue me pacient hearyng whilest I suade theim to that whiche shal be acceptable to God commendable to the world ioyfull to their freÌ„des hatefull to their enemies profitable to all parties and to none so muche as to themselfes TO grouÌ„d my cause vpoÌ„ truth as I promised I will sette my foundacion vpon the infallible truthe of Gods woorde takyng this texte for my purpose Omne regnuÌ„ in se diuisum desolabitur that is to saie euery kyngdoÌ„ diuided in it self shal be brought to desolacion If this sentence bee well marked and the persone of the speaker considered I shall not nede to bee long in perswadyng you to beleue it The wordes be true for he that spake them cannot lye whiche is Christ himself the aucthor of al truth and veritie But though Christ had not spokeÌ„ them let vs se whether comon reason dooth not affirme theim and the experience of all realmes and countreis in al tymes and ages hath not approued theim And to fet our examples not out of straunge countreys loke well vpon the Chronicles of this island of Britain and consider the estate thereof from the beginnyng and compare theim with the histories of other nacions and you shal not lightly heare or read of any one countrey sithe the worldes creacion more inuaded wasted and destroyed then this I stande ne of people more often ne more curelly spoyled exiled or afflicted then the inhabiters thereof and all by diuision and discord the sedes wherof beyng laied in by the deuil as pouder vnder a walle after it once toke fire did so terribly shake the fouÌ„dacioÌ„s of their common weale that it riued a sunder their Kyngdome and monarchie and diuidyng it into partes broughte the whole at last to ruyne and desolacion which hath not been fully recouered to this daie nor in my iud gement like to be so long as the islande is diuided into two partes and knowen by two names that is to saie England Scotlande and vnder twoo seuerall gouernours The cause whereof though it maie chiefly bee ascribed to the iuste vengeaunce of God prouoked with the synnes of the people as Gildas witnesseth yet is it clere that the onely meane thereof was discord and diuision emong the Insulanes wherby it came to passe whylest euery one striued all were ouer comen and made an easy prey to strauÌ„ge nacions For althoughe outward enemies vpon tiranny and conquest as the Romayns or els expulsed from their countreys and driuen to seke newe dwellynges as the Pictes or allured with the fertilitie of the soyle as the Scottes inhabityng the north partes of Irelande inuaded this islande Yet could those people neuer haue kepte quiete possession ne reigne so long as thei did but through diuision and discord emong the Britaynes whiche beeyng stiffe necked against God and ingrate eche to other as the said aucthor writeth by their demerites wer not onely ouercome with outwarde inuasions but finally lost their name and Empire whereby the inhabitauntes beyng mixt with straungers haue euer sithe been vexed with intestine warres and ciuill discorde to the irremediable ruine and desolacion therof vntil it shal please Gods goodnesse to haue mercie on the people and to reduce the islande to the firste estate to one Monarchy vnder one kyng and gouernor as it was in the Britons tyme. But if God of his goodnesse without our desertes hath in these latter daies prouided that blessed meane and remedy for the glorie of his name and for our wealth and commoditie and wee for our parte either of stubburnesse will not or of wilfulnesse liste not thankefully to receiue

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