Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	good_a	great_a	will_n	4,822	5	5.8442	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07149	A declaration of the Queene, mother of the most Christian King Containing the reasons of her departure out of the Low-Countreys; and disadvowing a manifest, set out in her name upon the same argument.; Declaration da la reyne Mere du Roy tres-Crestien. English	Marie de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1573-1642.	1639 (1639)	STC 17554; ESTC S112376	6,615	18

have almost thought them my owne had not my ill fortune already too much accustomed me to know that they are no more mine And as to the entertainment given me by the King of Great Brittaine my Sonne in Law all that I can say of it would but derogate from what was publikely seen and my selfe must acknowledge By His extraordidinary magnificence at my entrance into London he hath published the esteem he had of my Person by the cheerefulnesse appearing in his own Countenance and in that of all his Subjects he shewed how deare my presence was to him But above all I acknowledge the true friendship which I read in his heart the freenes of his proceeding and the tender affections of the Queen my Daughter towards me which have few examples and haue given so much ease to my pressing afflictions that it could not have been more if God had sent an angel from heaven to comfort me Insomuch that I could not have had in all my voyage other occasion then of joy if those things which were prepared for my delight had not likewise beene Subjects of my Sorrow In that they made me thinke that the late King my lord appeared yet living in my person in strange Countrys but in effect his very memory seemed dead for my sake in his owne Kingdome Now to returne to my discourse I must say that having runne over all that hath past in this my retreat from Flanders I cannot thinke that any can charge me with neglect of my reputation for my diligence in the good of my affaires nor that it will be hard to perswade such as will indifferently judge thereof that in this Retreat I have done any thing either in Circumstances or Consequences more then all the time I sojourned in the Low-Countries which may be repugnant to gratitude And I adde that I had done nothing unseemly if when I had left the territories of Spain I had remained in Holland though it be an Enemies Country because in this Occasion I had not sought Holland as an Enemy to Spaine but as an Allie and Confederate with France And this quality of Holland which was then advantagious to me was not hurtfull to Spaine in profiting me So that remaining in Holland I should not have prejudiced Spaine in doing my selfe good And as for the bruites spread abroad that I went into Holland to doe ill offices to Spaine and that some of my people by order from me had given up to my Cousin the Prince of Orange the Mappe of sundry places of the Low-Countries It is a rumour so ridiculous that it deserves no answer but of scorne Surely it had been much to my credit by this example to have demonstrated to my Cousin the Prince of Orange who received me so courteously how well I used my hosts when I was gone from them and besides in giving him a good impression of my integrity I had also made him know that I had a better of his providence judging it such as that he had not care enough to provide himselfe of a Plattforme of all the places of the Low-Countries Truly this would have passed for a faire Compliment at my arrivall And this rumor is not more contemptible then another quite contrary is false savoring of a malicious Invention That I should go into Holland to treat of the Truce or to practise against that State and against my Cousin the Prince of Orange under the pretence of hospitality But time having made appear even to the most simple that these rumours were altogether false and reason having made the wisest apprehend that they had no resemblance of truth I will rely upon that which is of more weight and for Justification of all my designes declare ingeniously what were the motives of my resolution in regard both of France and Spaine whilst I remained in the Low-Countreys and why I retired from thence All the time I passed in Flanders I kept this Temper that my affections as well as my behaviour were al waies Neutrall in respect of Publique affaires betweene France and Spaine The assistance which I received from Spaine on one side and the Obligations which I had to France on the other side obliged me to carry my selfe in that Manner And to speake cleerely I should have held it as unjust whilest I remained in the Dominions of Spaine and lived at their expence to take part with France to the prejudice of Spain as contrary to my owne inclination to have taken part with Spaine to the prejudice of France And howsoever that pretended Manifest aggravating the complaints which it makes under my name of Spaine doth artificially insinuate that I have borne much affection to the good of their affaires which is but a hidden venome to perplex me on the part of France The truth is that Spain in that point hath no more obligation to me then that I have ever passionately longed for that Union and Concord between those two Crowns whereof in former times I had laid the foundations by a double Alliance And that besides I have alwayes endeavoured since the rupture to contribute all I was able to the reestablishment of Peace God forbid I should desire to pay the new obligations I have to Spaine to the prejudice of those ancient bonds which I have contracted with France it is to that I have vowed my first affections And it is that which shall for ever keepe them with the ashes of my deceased Lord. But God forbid likewise that for any advantage I might have from France it should ever enter into my thoughts to disadvow the Obligations I have to Spaine I know too well that it is the utmost degree of ingratitude to denie benefits received I am so farre from that that I will alwayes proclaime them with advantage And I confesse it troubles me that I have no other meanes to acquit my selfe then on all occasions as on this to acknowledge the subsistence which the King of Spaine my Sonne in Law gave me seven yeers together and the proofs of Cordiall love which I received from the Queen my Daughter the care which my late sister the Infanta had of my person who besides did no lesse instruct me with her vertues then comfort me with her good offices And lastly the great courtesie and good will of my Nephew the Cardinal Infante All which are effects which I referre principally to the King of Spaine my Sonne in Law to whose intentions my Nephew and my deceased Sister the Infanta have but joyned their naturall inclinations Moreover I am farre from weakening these publike testimonies which I desire to confirme in all places by making complaint against any of his Officers and herein I am injured by the Authors of that pretended Manifest in their exposing false ones to the view of the world under my name On the contrary it imports me that it be knowne as it is true that in case there had been any disrespect of me through the fault of