Selected quad for the lemma: kingdom_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
kingdom_n	earth_n	whole_a	world_n	2,865	5	4.3077	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64195	A preter-plvperfect spick and span new nocturnall, or Mercuries weekly night-newes wherein the publique faith is published and the banquet of Oxford mice described.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1643 (1643)	Wing T498; ESTC R690	12,385	21

meat drinke apparell or any manner of necessaries whatsoever except the said parties shall have the gaining possessions of the said necessaries either by the meanes of credit ready money love or by the new made true and lawfull way of stealing and plundering Moreover the said Tuesday Night the Garrison at Wallingford being all Carosists Royalists and Cavaliers are in such distresse that Radishes and Onions are exceeding scarce and to their further griefe Oranges and Limmons are dearer to them than to us so that all manner of meates are like to be in good request amongst them their best and only sawces are stomacke pepper and salt Also this Night was brought from Brainsford to Queenhithe that the Malignant partie did oppose his Excellencie and that they would shew themselves the Benignant partie for the service of God their King Countrey and the Protestant Religion and that we the true Anabaptisticall Brownisticall and zealous Reformers shall be as opposite to the Truth as the Truth is to us which was Voted Also this Night there were papers found with some scriblings written by no bodie wherein our London new Bulworkes Rampires Trenches and Workes were abused with nick-names as they called our Fortifications but Twentyfications and our Bul-workes Cow-workes because the women made them but they said the men were onely for the Ram-peire It was also Voted that by reason of Feares and Jealousies that the Cavaliers would come and plunder the Citie in policie the people should be all plundered by the Parliament Forces so that if the Cavaliers do chance to come they shall finde nothing to take away for we have a purpose to consume all by this kinde of stratagem of robbing one another Wednesday Night THis Night there were Pamphlets scattered one of them was concerning Squares and Rounds the Authour of Square-dealing was one Homo Quadratus the other was Non Angulus Rotundus wherein some worthy Citizens of Oxford were both taxed and vindicated namely T. Gol. Iacke of all Trades W. G. a diligent zealous brother in warning and meeting at holy Conventicles with many others meritorious brethren and sisters who have forsaken Oxford and their King Religion and Alleageance who now suffer worthily for their holy Rebellion as the Book of Homo Quadratus doth most abusively and truly deliver and lay open Also there came from the Presse A New Learned Weake Description of Weekly Newes it was so acute that it did cut and curry the Cavaliers in such fearfull fashion that a deafe man would rejoyce to hear it this Volume of one sheet was called Mercurius Civicus the Authour never wrote before that time and died in his first Week of his Travels it is said by the Malignants that he was most unfortunately choaked with seventeen neat and palpable Lyes which he had carefully invented and incerted in the said Book for the credit of our Armie he is worse than dead for his reputation is buried with this Epitaph Here Mercurius Civicus lyes in his throat for we are resolved to believe any thing that makes for the advancing of our Cause and likewise we suppresse and politiquely give no credit to such Newes or Losses as do make against us in briefe we have lost a profitable Member by the death of this painfull Authour but hang him it is reported that he is alive again or the Devill in his likenesse however it is to be conjectured that he that was so nimble to abuse and tell the Malignant partieso roundly in one week no doubt but if he had lived longer he would have bang'd them backe and side beyond all beliefe and credit It it almost certain that Bruno Combertus the High and Mightie Emperour of Aethiopia and Quoba Cond●na Pheodorwich the puissant King of the large Territories of the invincible and invisible Utopia it is said that they are both in our Narrow Seas with a thousand shippes gallies sloopes and other Vessels for the War they have brought two thousand Tunnes of Gold Silver pretious stones and some Hangings they are come to aid us against the Rebels that obey the King they have brought five thousand Pieces of wooden Ordnance powder more than can be counted or to be spoken of and shot beyond reckoning with all other necessaries for War or Peace they were feasted bravely aboord our Admirall and they will be ready to give Battail at Brumingham as soon as ever the waters are high enough to bring the shippes thither Newes came this Night that the Authour of a seditious Pamphlet was taken at Lewis in Sussex It was a Book wherein was declared the goodnesse and happinesse of the King that beyond all example or record in 15 yeares Raigne had not any Nobleman Gentleman or any Subject that arose against him in any way of opposition or Rebellion so that the Sword of Justice had no occasion to be drawn to cut of Treason a blessing unparallel'd in this Kingdom or any other for so long time till now the Book said further that when Augustus Caesar raigned our Saviour was borne and that the Emperour was Monarch of all the discovered Kingdomes of the World and that Peace was then over the face of the whole Earth which whole Earth Augustus commanded to be taxed Luke 2.1 Shortly after there was raised a Rebellion in Spain by an Armie of Thieves under the command of one Crocotus a mad hare-brain'd desperate ambitious fellow This Crocotus with his crew troubled Caesar and committed many outrages upon peaceable people and to suppresse the Rebellion the Emperour caused Proclamations to be set forth that whosoever could vanquish the Rebels or take their Generall Crocotus and bring him alive or dead should have twenty five thousand Crownes for his service and pardon withall for any former faults committed as soon as Crocotus heard of this Proclamation he began to fear that some of his own Souldiers would cut his throat or surprise and deliver him to Caesar for so great a reward as was proclaimed upon which consideration he wisely disguised himselfe ran away from his Armie and fell at Caesars feet claiming the benefit of the Proclamation for he had brought Crocotus alive and so revealed himselfe and was received into grace and favour mending his manners contrary to all expectation The application of this storie was that it was desired that every offender would imitate Crocotus Thursday Night THis Night much Time was spent in drinke smoake and talke at the Signe of the Man in the Moon without Dowgate where after some halfe a score rouses every one began to talke of that which they had nothing to do withall amongst the rest one ignorant fellow was bold to aske what manner of thing the Publique Faith is and what the reason is that it is laid to pawn for Money every where but that which made him most wonder was wherefore any one man would be so mad as to adventure to lend any thing upon it except upon especiall good and lawfull grounded Reasons therefore he