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kingdom_n	city_n	king_n	lord_n	4,004	5	3.6249	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29968	Tyrannicall-government anatomized, or, A discovrse concerning evil-councellors being the life and death of John the Baptist : and presented to the Kings most excellent Majesty by the Author.; Baptistes. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Milton, John, 1608-1674.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5298; ESTC R4582	22,804	31

purchase for the peoples hate Daugh The people must obey and Kings command Hero 'Tis a Kings duty iust things to command Daugh Kings by commanding may make those things iust which were before uniust Hero But Kings commands the Law doth moderate Daugh If that be right which pleaseth Princes then they rule the Lawes •ot the Lawes them Hero Then for a King a Tyrant the people will divulge me Daugh But your Scepter keeps them in awe Hero It doth and yet they'l babble Daugh Such babbling Sir by punishment severe is brid•ed Hero Kingdomes are ill kept with feare Daugh And Kingdomes by impunity of crimes are easily subverted Hero Yet we finde Kings are securest in the Cities faith Daugh It is not needfull that a King be lov'd but fear'd Hero The cruell are or• whelm'd with hate Daugh A gentle King the Vulgar do• despise Qu. My Lord all you have pleaded only tends in my opinion that your promise past in vaine may passe away as yet me thinks you do not know the duties of a King if th•se things which the common sort •uppose hone•t and otherwise you for a King bel•eve to be the same King Herod erres Brothers and sisters fathers sonnes in law friends kindred Citizens and adverse parties are bonds for poor men but vaine words for Kings Let him that on his head once puts a Crowne put from him all degrees of Common duty let him judge all things honest that conduce to a Kings benefit and hold no fact to be unseemly that he shall effect for his ow•e safety on the King depends the peoples welfare Whosoever then to wards his Prince is pious hath regard unto the pecples welfare shall the blood of this base fellow be so highly prizd that for anxietie by day nor night you can repose release us of this feare of shame your Scepter and of waste your City of rapine Armes and all of civill warre 'Tis fit by an example new and great you should ordein that Kingdomes to all men be sacred and inviolably stand he has committed an ungracious act and by that let him perish if no crime he has committed let him seeke for me• Give to your Queene her enemy your Queene if you neglect yet as a King and father your promise to your daughter see performd Her That Promise to performe with my best faith I am determind but if my advice the •i•le doe aske more wisely shee will wish Qu. But if shee aske my counsell yours my Lord she may not change or take Her Is't even so should I so unadvised have made a vow thus to a foolish girle my faith obligd and thus committed to a womans ha•ds my Kingdome safety treasure life and death Qu. Kings promises let certaine truth confirme Her Well fith I may not what I may deny againe I doe admonish and intreat let not wrath urge you to a bloudy act unworthy of your dignity and sex Qu. Grant this and leave all other things to us Her If of the Prophet you determi•e ought more rigourous the perill blame and shame is only yours Qu. Now shall we vindicate our royall dignity in future times to be of none derided now I'l force the flubborne people to speake well of Kings or learne it to their grief and make them hold that all their Kings commands they gladly must beare and obey though never so unjust Chorus Cho. O thou great City where King David reign'd you Towers of wealthy Salomon and Salem from whence against thy Prophets doth arise a rage so terrible and cruell thrist of blood so innocent unhappy thou whom it becomes to be a pattern rule or helme of pi•ty art now become the only mirror of a wicked life Slaughter with violence fraud theft and rapine are thy chiefe exercise no Godly zeale perswades the Churchman to restraine his hands from horrible deceits the people now forsake the Lord that all things did create and worship Idols for God stone and wood with Calves and Lambes their Altars are still hot and Images the workman doth adore which hee himself hath wrought life he requires of a meere stock and eloquence he craves of a dumb stone the rich intereats the poore the Lo••• the Servant ancient Rites are lost The guiltlesse Prophets blood brings thee perforce to the Tribunall of the greatest Iudge The poore exclaime and widowes fill the ayre with their complaints for which the fearfull paine of just revenge attends the• unlesses • be in my divination much de•eiv'd for he• that throwes down insolence and pride being the 〈◊〉 of Neaven Earth and Seas views from above th'oppressed peoples teares their heav•e prayers never doth forget and speedily with a 〈◊〉 arme will punish thy unspeak•ble misdeeds And over 〈◊〉 thy Towers where with thou swelst in silent victor-like The barbarous foe shall all thy Buildings Farmes and Lands possesse The V•neyard Keeper shall repaire his fruit to am Out 〈◊〉 Master And where now Salomons Temple high towards Heaven do th•ise • foraign ru•tick shall his harvest make O therefore while Gods favour to rep••• affords thee respit of thy ill pa•t life the sinnes 〈…〉 a move those fruitlesse Images of foreigne Rites Cu•b thy proph••e desire of wretched wealth and greedy thirsting for thy Brot••rs blood But thou wilt not repent thy ill past lif• 〈…〉 Rites amove nor shun the greedy thirst of brothers blood not one profane desire of wretched wealth A vicious P•ague shall therefore fe•se on thee Famine and warre with barrennesse 〈◊〉 want shall over whelm thee no• to be withstood till thou be quitted with dese••ed blood Nuncius Cho••s Nun. Where may I finde O who will tell me where The Prophets followers that I may relate my heavy tydings Ch• Stay your pace a while 〈…〉 in briefe for what you beare I gladly would pertake Nun. O but to know what you to know desire 'twill not delight you Cho. Yet your short abode think not too long how ere the master stands Nun. Know you what boone the Daughter of our King hath beg'd of him Cho. To have the Prophets head given her in a Charger Nun. And his head even so shee hath obtaind Cho. O horrible and most inhumane act that heavenly vigour and comly countenance by rigorous death is utterly decayed and cruell force with ever during silence hath shut up those lips that did abound with sacred vertue Nun. why weepe you cease to poure out vaine complaints Cho. When things to be bewaild I see and heare why should I not bewaile them Nun. If death be to be bewaild let us bewaile the dead whose hopes doe with their bodyes lye interrd who doe not thinke their short sleep being done their bones must rise again and there remaines another life Let wretched men bewaile those that are dead and only wretched liv'd None can be made by fortune miserable though the like and of mortall life betide the innocent and guilty good and bad no man shall die ill that hath lived well If by the severall manners of their ends you judge men miserable you will thinke so many holy fathers to be such who dyed by fire or water sword or crosse for him that dyed Defender of the truth both for Religion and his Countrey Lawes in all good things pursuing wee should pray and wish to have like end or funerall day Cho. Verily you have uttered nought amisse but we whom errors and opinion draw foolish by flying death with death doe meet the water drowning whom the fire hath spard And by the power of contagious ayre others are killd that have escap'd the sea And some that in the battell have surviv'd with sicknesse pyning die God doth ordeine wee may deferre but not our deaths eschew And daily wee delay our houres of death yet with Diseases danger troubles griefe Long life is nothing but a brittle chaine Of diuturnall evill which is knit With a contiuall course and speedy race Even to the bounds of death Not doe wee hold Bound with this bond our selves to bee inthral'd In misery but feare the fatall knife With deeper horror then a servile life FINIS

could serve at once the King and God To ravish •ruse violence abuse or •ircu•vent the simple with deceit I utt•rly forbad •hem To compose their sensuall desires I gave them charge according to the measure of their meanes nor any hope of new things do I preach but only that which you believe with me out of the ancient Prophets i•h meane time none of so many thousand is produced that through my doctrine hath contemned his Prince Those matters whether by uncertain fame to you related or by hood winkt wrath still raging head-long with desire to hurt falsly invented naked verity will by it self and easily confute How piously I prize the holy Rites and ancient institutions theres no sign more certain then the impeacher of my crimes because he comes not forth to publick view where feigned things be easily beleeved he secretly may murmure For my denying that your Brothers wife is yours by right consider with your self whether you ought to serve your carnall will rather then your Creator and I wish all men devoted to the love of Kings would be in mind alike to mention things that are both profitable true and good rather then whas are pleasant and will soon turne to their damage Then against how many mischiefs and molestations would the Gate or entrance be shut up If heretofore freely and truely I have spoken ought do you that in your wayes are just and good as Equities defenders are obliged receive it in good part and set these bounds to your high potency which are prescribed you by the Laws measure For what Law you hold here against others God the King Supream against you and others of your place retains Then whatsoever you shall judge of me beleeve that God will judge the same of you Her When thou shalt come to Heaven speak heavenly things but whi•e thou livest on earth earths Laws abide Iohn To earthly Kingdoms reverence I bear and Kings obey but those eternall Kingdoms I hold my Country and their King adore Her The matter even it selfe i•structs thee how Kings to obey that doest desire a King such Laws as thou ordeinest to obey Iohn If I may Laws ordeine I would proclaime to Kings their people should obedience yield and Kings to God Her Thou hast enough contended bear him hence the case is doubtfull nought can I determine untill all things more ceartainly appear Chor. Who doth conceive that by a Tyrants words the close or hidden meaning of his mind he can perceive let him well underdand he trusts into a foule deceitfull glasse God prosper and turne all things to the best what my soule fears it trembles to divine Her How wretched and how overwhelmed with care a Kings condition is no tongue of man or politique Oration can expresse nor any thoughts attain the vulgar hold us only free and happy that are vexed with terror and with poverty besieged with miserable servitude oppre•t the people whatsoever they desire or love or dread they freely dare confesse and modest riches without fear en•oy But when we walke abroad we must assume an honest persons habit and are forced to promise courteously with gracious lookes our anger to defer and hide our hate till a fit season chiefly then to threat when greatest cause of fear our mindes torments A modest Prince the people do desp•e one rigerous they hate the wavering vulgar we are compelled to serve and can command nothing to our desire This new-come Prophet if I cut off I shall offend the people if I preserve him for my Royall State I little do provide what shall I do then I must regard my Kingdom none so neer as I am to my selfe if I must serve the people for a Scepter what's more foolish then while thou seekest to please the vulgar sort to cast away a Kingdom Joy and wrath the people rashly take and rashly leave tis now my resolution to conffrm the Royall power that I hold with blood the vulgar will be easily appeased If by my sufferance this evill creep a little further twill be past redresse why he forsooth durst tell me to my teeth my marriage was unchast and if he scape for this unpunished his audacious will there will not rest but Scepters to his Laws then he will force to stoop then he will cast his Captives into chaynes then he will seeke to rule and not be ruled give Laws to Kings and turne all upside down we must apply unto a g•owing evill speedy cure flames rising must be quenched ere they increase By suffering old injuries we raise fresh contumelies new reproachfull termes If with the peoples favour I may gaine some satisfaction by this pun•shment to wyn their favour I will not neglect But if perverse against me they persist What Malchus of our Laws may freely bable what curious questions he may vainly cast with intricate debate that I conceive concernes not me and let the people know this one Law to be kept that they may think All things to me are lawfull without Law Chor. Oh thou Creator of this spatious Orbe whose nod makes all things tremble Heaven adorned with glittering stars Earth variously deckt with flourishing Array and Seas that swell with raging violent motions ebbes and flouds Hath not lowd flame that knew the former age brought to our hearing thy then famous acts When thou by vigor of thy puissant arme proud Kingdoms boasting of their gold and wealth hast utterly abolished and exextirped us in their land to plant their land to prepard neither by counsell strength nor Arms of ours But Heavens Almighty favour safely brought us through the fierce Armies art not thou the King of 〈…〉 a•t not thou the God of the Iews Nation by whose guiding hand our enemies destroyd their treacherous Tents we trampled under foot con•iding not in our own strength and com•ge but in thee our most auspicious Leader bringing spoyles and triumph to our Countrey• wilt thou now being once our Father utterly for sake the people whom thou lovest Are we now left a f•ble for our foes Religion lyes with Piety despised in purpled Courts fraud is predomanant the holy flocke yeild as a sacrifice their pious necks to the •ell Axe our Prophets by the sword perish our Tyrant enemies rejoi•e in our laments and they they the Kingdom rule un•er pretext of piety and zeale though punishment descr•ing whilest they smart whose worth deserves a Kingdome Ri•e O Lord and helpe thy people To our Adversaries shew thy sel•e such as Thee our Fathers saw in the Red-sea confounding Pharao•s Hoast Such as the Prophets boy did thee behold when to disperse the flames throughout the Camp Thou to thy fiery Horses gavest the re•gns The must of error that obscures the light of humane understanding overwhelmed with a darke cloud O Lord now drive away let both the Land warmd with the rising Sun and that which doth it in down-going view confesse that onely thou c•nst all things do The third Part. MALCHUS THus