Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	bring_v	great_a	king_n	7,720	5	3.5751	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08514	An oration to the most illustrious and mightie prince Frederick King of Bohemia. Made by Martin Opitius of Silesia. Translated out of Latin; Oratio ad serenissimum ac potentissimum principem Fridericum, Regem Bohemiæ. English	Opitz, Martin, 1597-1639.	1620 (1620)	STC 18831; ESTC S121204	10,382	23

of sinning Let them wallow in adulterous embracings passe ouer the nights in Lasciuiousnes and their dayes in Gluttony You are wholy Sobriety and Continence Needes must these vertues be in the height of excellence that doe issue from a Fountaine so cleere so mudlesse so pure To these may bee added your ardent loue to Learning and Knowledge which how much you doe esteeme so many learned men about you doe abundantly testifie That I say nothing of that Sanctuarie of Learning your Librarie of admired greatnesse which you are not onely content to maintayne but doe also as a new Philadelphus daily adde vnto it and adorne it Neither doe I touch your skill in diuers Languages diuers of which you speake with that facility that euery on seems to be your Natiue Tongue Herein you are farre more fortunate then Alexander who when hee had subdued so many Nations did scarce vnderstand the Tongue of any one of them And let these suffice as a small taste taken out of the infinite ranke of your Vertues wee will leaue the true commendation of them to such whose abilitie and assurednesse in speaking is bounded within the same limits with your eternall praise which praise if Marbles and Books were not too hard your selfe haue engrauen with the golden Chesill of Loue in the most inward affections of your Countrymen These Eies of mine are witnesses how old and young men aswell as women followed you departing from them out of your Pallatinate with a sad gladnesse In such strange manner did the publike safetie and priuate Orbitie set ioy and sorrow to fight together with diuers affections One would haue thought that euery man in the Countrey had beene depriued of his Parent You were not yet gone away most desired Prince and yet we did desire your return Neckar the gentlest of all Riuers seemed as in times past to the Romans so now to it selfe barbarous Euen this Heroick Seate of thine these Temples these Towers followed after their Sun in a mournfull manner That I speake not of men whose infinite multitude powred out it selfe in euery place where you came in the very vast Wildernesse and yet euery one thought himself to be sorsaken when you left them sighes and teares stroue to breake out in abundance And whereas in bodie not very many of those multitudes did follow you yet all with heart and prayers for otherwise they might not did attend you departing from them And did not your Wife the Heire of the Name and Vertues of that euer renowned Queene great Elizabeth seeme now againe to her selfe to leaue Brittaine onely glad in this that it was with you How had Rednesse the Painter of cheekes dyed her face more then ordinary Milke white how had a pious shower of teares violated her eyes cleerer then the Stars shining wi thout the Moone sighes gaue the farewell because words sufficed not And for your selfe I cannot say whether greater Piety perswaded your stay or your iourney You left your Mother that Princesse of highest birth who is yet higher then her birth for that shee hath borne you You left your children that is to say a great part of your heart you left your Subiects euery of which could wish to liue and die with you You went from peace to Warre from Acquaintance to Strangers from the most peaceable Shore of Rheine to Mulda whose streames were swelled with the bloud of the Inhabitants from Vineyards and a Garden of admirable beautie to Fields stayned with the Robberies of sauage Murtherers and couered with the carkasses of the slaine from a most pleasant Castle to a vast yet desolate and despoyled Place An vnhappy change saue that thereby you bring with you splendor to the Place a perpetuall spring to the Fields tranquillitie to Mulda a friend to strangers and peace to men in Armes You come then into this Scene into this most intricate Tragedie as a very God out of the Engine Pietie hath ouercome this bard iourney the loue of vs hath ouercome the sharpe and high Mountaines of Bohemia within which Nature hath entrenched it Your Clemencie hath ouercome the Inclemencie of the place with much better luck then Hannibal the brauest of Commanders who in old time passed his Armie ouer the tops of the high Alpes thorough the Cloudes that seemed to touch Heauen For at the sight of him all Italie trembled as at the falling of a Thunderbolt But by your comming the Tempest is appeased the winde are layed all things are become calme and cleare Hee brought with him Troupes of Souldiers that he might cut vp the Romans but you come attended with Troups for our preseruation He had sharpned his Sword against the Citie but your back doth blunt the Swords of our Enemies Sauage and sworne hatred opened the way to him but incredible loue laies it open to you He seemed to be borne to the murder of men and the wasting of Cities but you are borne to the infinite good of the Common-wealth His approch to the gates raysed feare and horrour You they would be glad to beare in their very eyes into the Throne of so many Emperers and Kings Him the fearefull Mothers Children Virgines women and men ranne away from You they come out to meet in Triumph His presence all did detest with mourning and pittifull yellings yours they doe celebrate with gladnesse and great reioycing They that haue ouer-liued their former sorrow are now scarce able to beare their present ioy I doe also verily beleeue that if there be left in dead men any sence of things on earth that the ghosts of those men that haue sacrificed their heart bloud to the publique libertie are now replenished with vnspeakable ioy and doe thinke that they haue spent their liues to good purpose O braue King this is not enough O King worthy of the Empire of the whole World worthy of the fauour worthy also of the admiration of thy very Enemies O thou pious Prince whom not our felicitie and prosperitie but the hardnesse of our fortune the wounds engrauen in our bodies with the Swords of our Enemies hath sollicited to accept our Diadem O most happy you not because you haue already subdued the whole furie of our Enemies but because you seeme to deserue happinesse for vs all O happy day that brought you forth into the World and first designed you vnto this Kingdome Which birth day of so great a Prince beginnes to bee vnto vs also another birth day which hath brough forth so diuine a Mansion for Vertue and did also consecrate it to the whole Christian World All Haile O Lord For we haue not cast off Rule but outrage and crueltie ruling ouer vs. Wee can well enough obey but we cannot beare Tyranny we will serue thee that we may be freed All haile O King all haile O Father of our Countrey All haile thou Darling and Minion of Mankind For thee O Illustrious Honour of our Age for thy safetie doe we pray

for vnder thy Gouernment are wee secure of our owne safetie God grant vnto thee that by thy hand our tottering State may be vnderpropped and restored that thou mayest be partaker of that Vow which Octauius did once so much desire that thou mayest truly be styled Optimi Status Auctor The Founder of a most happle State And let late olde Age draw in the swelling Sailes of thy glorious Reigne which in your Youth you haue now hoysed vp to so fauourable a wind And beare away with you this hope when by death you shall leaue vs That the happy foundations which you haue layed shall abide for euer in their proper place God saue thee O Queene Daughter of that most Illustrious Heros whose Prayses cannot bee pent vp in the Straits of this Age who hath ioyned profound Learning to incredible Wisdom of gouerning who vnder a happie Starre hath added England vnto Scotland God saue thee O Wife of this Prince who doth now couple our Kingdomes to his owne Countrey with like glorie I would to God it may be with equall fortune God blesse you both who are by consent of God and man a most choice paire All haile to you Sunne and Moone How sweet a sight is it to our Citizens to see what a Lord to our Souldiers to see what a Leader they haue with vniuersall consent elected and with such longing desire expected How pleasant O King is it to vs to heare these words out of thy blessed mouth That this Acceptance of the Kingdome proceeded from the loue of Peace and not of Empire that you are drawne into these stirres by our miserie and not carryed by your owne disposition that the Modestie of your refusing was ouercome by the obstinacie of our offering That you haue preferred the publique Securitie before your owne priuate ease That it is but a small matter to desire a people but not so easie to defend them And that it is almost better to let goe an Empire that is in right ones owne then to purchase a new one with the bloud of the Citizens But now sith this Scepter can neither be possest nor forsaken without perill that now our estate and condition is your owne and that therefore you will now vse your best endeauour that wee should not neede to desire another King while God shall giue you life We know we know very well most gracious Prince that you did vnwillingly enter vpon this Kingdome which was vnwillingly left We also were compelled we came not of our own accord to implore your fortitude and defence who were not ignorant of your Clemencie We call God and men to witnesse that by compulsion we tooke vp Armes to defend the safetie of our Countrey and that Liberty which is allowed to the besest Nations and lastly our Religion which is to be preferred before all other Causes and whose name was in time past so sacred among the very Gentiles that at the time that the French were spoyling Rome Lu. Albunius one of the common people putting out of his Cart his Wife and Children tooke vp into it the Vestall Virgines which did follow vpon their bare feet the sacred things which fled from the furie of their Enemies So much at that time in the meanest men did publique Religion excell priuate affections To be assailed in body and estate is grieuous but in Conscience is intollerable And such we see is the nature of Liberty that no good man will lose it but with his life As courage and strength vses to increase to wilde beasts broke out of their Dennes and doth become in a maner double So is it with our Nation it could no longer dissemble their manly courage the due prayse of which none could euer depriue vs of when besides the iust hatred it bore to cruell counsels and practises against vs it burnt in desire of regaining the Libertie of the Countrey desperately lost and oppressed Which it is alwayes lawfull for them to repurchase who by nature were borne to liue free and had also their Libertie established vnto them by the fundamentall Lawes and Priuiledges of the Kingdome confirmed vnto them with the sacred Bond of Othes and ratified by the Charters and great Seales of Kings and Emperours Wee doe very well know that the prayse of obedience is enough in Subiects that good Princes are to be wished for that euill if they fall to their lot are to bee endured But these things doe in no sort concerne vs this is not our Case We wee haue taken vp Armes after incredible Patience not with any mind of rebelling but at the Exigence of extreme Necessitie Not in any priuate Conspiracie of some few but with the vniuersall and ioynt consent of the whole State not in any contempt of Magistracie but in defiance of most damnable practize against our Liues Libertie and Religion Neither did we doe this against a lawfull King but to escape the deuillish deceits of bloudie Murtherers who doe openly profesle that no Faith is to be kept whereby we haue receiued vnvaluable damage who gaine time and coozen well-meaning people by Periurie as Cheaters doe Children with false Dice and Cards We haue now at length learned to distrust being taught by too many wofull Examples Wee know very well what horrible Thunderbolts are darted from the Tarpeian Rock at Rome And that Romes Iupiter can by the way transferre Principalities and Kingdomes from whom and to whom he please like the Deuill his Master All this will I giue thee if thou wilt fall downe and worship me And that he doth damme soules to Hell for his Recreation and to make his Holinesse sport Who knowes not how small protection Hus a Citizen of this Kingdome found in the safe conduct of Caesar No lesse Tempest had ouer-taken Luther at Wormes had not the braue Emperour put on a resolution neuer to stampe such a staine vpon his honourable Name Had not Lewis also the most clement Prince of your Progenitors withstood the Romish dishonourable determination to breake faith By the very like Game and foule Play should we haue bin coozened and in the like Trap did Iesuites these men endeuour to haue caught vs who doe vsually inuade Lords of Nations with Poniards and Parricidiall Arts which grow remarkable in the World and glorious Martyrs at Rome by the bloud and murther of Kings who by superlatiue horrible wickednesse did destroy great Henry of France that Thunderbolt of Warre subiecting him whom the huge weight of his whole Countrey when he stood vnder it could not moue to the butcherie of one desperate Villaine who did their best to haue dasht to the wals of his Kingdome with fire and Gunpowder your Father-in-Law the matchlesse Monarch of great Britaine who haue perswaded themselues and others that Saluation of Soules consists in Murders of Kings and wasting of Kingdomes who make it but sport and play to murther the poore to condemne the innocent to take away mens liues with Rack