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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	find_v	great_a	king_n	3,579	5	3.5272	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28011	Sir Francis Bacon his apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earle of Essex written to the Right Honourable his very good lord, the Earle of Devon-shire, lord livetenant [sic] of Ireland.; Apologie in certaine imputations concerning the late Earl of Essex	Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.	1642 (1642)	Wing B267; ESTC R11758	17,898	22

the which his Lordship had been a long and earnest sutor on my behalfe it pleased him to come to mee from Richmond to Twicknam Parke and brake with me and said Master Bacon the Queene hath denied me you place for you and hath placed another I know you are the least part of your owne matter but you fare ill because you have chosen me for your meane and dependance you have spent your time thoughts in my matters I die these were his very words if I doe not somewhat towards your fortune you shall not deny to accept a peece of Land which I will bestow upon you My answer I remember was that for my fortune it was no great matter but that his Lordships offer made me call to minde what was wont to bee said when I was in France of the Duke of Guise that he was the greatest Vsurer in France because he had turned all his estate into Obligations meaning that he had left himselfe nothing but only had bound numbers of persons to him Now my Lord said I I would not have you immitate his course nor turne your state thus by great gifts into obligations for you will finde many bad debters He bad me take no care for that and pressed it whereupon I said My Lord I see I must be your homager and hold land of your gift but doe you know the manner of doing homage in Law alwayes it is with a saving of his faith to the King and his other Lords and therefore my Lord said I I can bee no more yours then I was and it may be with the ancient savings and if I grow to be a rich man you will give me leave to give it backe to some of your un●ewarded followers But to returne sure I am though I can arrogate nothing to my selfe but that I was a faithfull remembrance to his Lordship that while I had most credit with him his fortune went on best And yet in two maine points wee alwayes directly and contradictorily differed which I will mention to your Lordship because it giveth light to all that followed The one was I ever set this down that the only course to be held with the Queene was by obsequiousnesse and observance and I remember I would usually gage confidently that if he would take that course constantly and with choise of good particulars to expresse it the Queen would be brought in time to Assuerus question to aske What should be done to the man that the King would honour meaning that her goodnesse was without limit where there was a true concurrence which I knew in her nature to bee true My Lord on the other side had a setled opinion that the Queene could be brought to nothing but by a kinde of necessitie and authority and I will remember when by violent courses at any time he had got his will he would aske me Now Sir whose principles be true and I would againe say to him My Lord these courses be like to hot waters they will help at a pang but if you use them you shal spoile the stomack you shal be faine stil to make them stronger and stronger and in the end they will lesse their operation with much other variety wherewith I used to touch that string Another point was I alwayes vehemently disswaded him from seeking greatnes by a military dependance or by a popular dependance as that which would breed in the Queen jealousie in himselfe presumption and in the State perturbation And I did usually compare them to Iearus two wings which were joyned on with wax and would make him venture to soare too high and then faile him at the height And I would further say unto him My Lord stand upon two feet and flie not upon two wings The two feet are the two kinds of Justice Commutative and Distributive use your greatnesse for advancing of merit and vertue and relieving wrongs and burdens you shall need no other art or finenesse but hee would tell mee that opinion came not from my minde but from my robe But it is very true that I that never meant to in-thrall my selfe to my Lord of Essex nor any other man more than stood with the publike good did though I could little prevaile divert him by all meanes possible from courses of the Warres and popularitie for I saw plainely the Queene must either live or die if she lived then the times would bee as in the declination of an old Prince if shee died the times would bee as in the beginning of a new and that if his Lordship did rise too fast in these courses the times might be dangerous for him and he for them Nay I remember I was thus plaine with him upon his voyage to the Ilands when I saw every spring put forth such actions of Charge and provocation that I said to him My Lord when I came first unto you I tooke you for a Physitian that desired to cure the diseases of the State but now I doubt you will bee like those Physitians which can bee content to keepe their patients low because they would alwayes be in request which plainesse he neverthelesse took very well as he had an excellent care and was patientissimus veri and assured mee the case of the Realme required it and I thinke this speech of mine and the like renewed afterwards pricked him to write that Apologie which is in many mens hands But this difference in two points so maine and materiall bred in processe of time a discontinuance of privatenes as it is the manner of men seldome to communicate where they thinke their courses not approved betweene his Lordship and my selfe so as I was not called nor advised with for some yeere and a halfe before his Lordships going into Ireland as in former time yet neverthelesse touching his going into Ireland it pleased him expresly and in a set manner to desire mine opinion and counsell At which time I did not onely disswade but protest against his going telling him with as much vehemency and asseveration as I could that absence in that kind would exulcerate the Queens mind whereby it would not be possible for him to carry himselfe so as to give her sufficient contentment nor for her to carry her selfe so as to give him sufficient countenance which would be ill for her ill for him and ill for the State And because I would omit no argument I remember I stood also upon the difficulty of the action setting before him out of Histories that the Irish was such an enemy as the ancient Gaules or Britons or Germaines were and that wee saw how the Romans who had such discipline to governe their Souldiers and such donatives to encourage them and the whole world in a manner to leavie them yet when they came to deale with enemies which placed their felicity only in liberty and the sharpnesse of their sword and had the naturall and elementall advantages of woods and bogges and hardnesse of