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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	know_v	let_v	see_v	5,984	5	3.0591	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90921	The vindication of Colonel General Poyntz, against the false and malicious slanders secretly cast forth against him; as in a letter to a friend of his, and a servant to the state doth appear.	Poyntz, Sydenham.	1646 (1646)	Wing P3137; Thomason E320_8; ESTC R200567	4,602	8

THE VINDICATION OF Colonel General POYNTZ AGAINST The false and malicious Slanders secretly cast forth against him As in a Letter to a Friend of his and a Servant to the State doth appear LONDON Printed for Edward Husband Printer to the Honorable House of Commons February 3. 1645. SIR I Received your Letter wherein you have shewn not onely love but fidelity to your Kinsman in that your freedom of advice and information in both which I cannot say whether I have the greater occasion of thanks for your goodnesse or sorrow for other mens malice in aspersing him who by an unfeigned heart and diligence hath sought to serve them Yet me thinks when I consider what personages of fidelity and honour have been abused by secret Emulations and the unworthy Scandals of weak and light spirits I begin to question with my self Who am I that I should be thus troubled at this fatall vanity and in such a time when even the community of all things at present seems to suffer under it Indeed were not the tyranny of envious and depraving tongues become almost universal I had not wanted all reason for complaint but seeing the Disease is grown so Epidemical too much sence thereof in me a particular person would render me not only too partial but even ridiculous which invites me to be as patient of the affront as I am hopelesse of reparation That alone which sticks with me beyond the strength of removal is That these false whisperers have insinuated these palpable untruths into the ears of divers in the Parliament this very Parliament under whom I serve from whom I have received such testimonies of trust and favour the actions of whom I do not alone honour but admire And for whom I shall with all quietnesse and resolution submit me to the extreamest sufferings of life and fortune When therefore I consider my self presented to them in so rude and false a vizard without any pretence of merit this I confesse cuts me deep even to the very soul and compels me to stoop so much to the importunities of truth and mine own conscience as to think it no misexpence of time to give a true answer to the particulars of those reproaches cast upon me I observe the first wedge by which these discreet Engineers have sought to rend me is matter of Religion as though I neither were religious my self or respected it in other men wherein to challenge to my self perfection were more then Pharisaical yet I may take the leave not only to say but truly to aver this That I ever did and trust ever shall sincerely love and honour both Religion and religious men and do professe that generally I have and do value honesty beyond meer abilities even in my own element as a Souldier and should acknowledge my self truly convicted might but one Example be produced of that honest man whom I have not countenanced and loved against all opposition Truly it hath been my grief that for publique duties sake as well as private helps and conveniency I never had a Chaplein allowed me to my Regiment since I was honored with the service of the Parliament although I have solicited and intreated the same from eminent and worthy Members of the House yet I never was I thank God without one although in three moneths time be scarce ever rested from a march on the Sabbath day the necessity of the publique Service and the just regards I owed to the Enemies motions and endeavours compelling me thereunto I have given so much obedience to advantage and opportunity that many times the exigency of Action requiring much dispatch I have been censured as rash by some who pretend to more Souldiery then their Experience can make them capable of Certainly if any necessities are to be yielded unto those of a Souldier may challenge place where the obligations of life and fortune run on equal hazards and in the action it self I rather care to serve the State then to please mens fancies wherein I may say that had I not neglected Objections and Scruples but been guided by the safe contemplations of some the Kings army of horse had been yet unfought withall by this under my command I know very well how uselesse an army is without care and providence yet when action shall be converted into speculation and to be then counselling when we should be doing is but indeed to undo all For the losse of time is a mistake of such a nature as many times to fail once is to be undone for ever For the other Objection That I am an oppressor of the country This is a falshood so notorious that I call to witnes the Gentlemen of all Committees in my march from Yorkshire throughout the greatest part of England nay I call the people themselves to witnesse Whether ever I assessed the country for Six pence and Whether I have not even before them in the head of an army given strict order to the contrary letting them know my coming to them was for their preservation and that I was bound by my trust to see no injury should be offered them all that was desired was no more but a nights quarter upon our march which with abundant cheerfulnesse and love they offered neither knew I how to spare this unlesse I knew how to compound with the nature of men and beasts who must have food for their present subsistence That some Offences may have been committed I will not take upon me to deny but yet as much against my Orders and Desires as any mans living yet when I consider the tedious marches accompanied with continual and hard duty and comparing the pay with the pains of these Forces me thinks it deserves admiration as much as censure and how I endeavour here to prevent disorders that all armies labour under and which the want of pay doth produce I refer to the judgement and report of the Gentlemen in these parts residing with me There is yet a more blasting and spightfull report not so weak as purely false which is That I should assume the Title of Excellency on purpose to draw the Curtain of Envie upon me this I do with all opennesse disclaim and protest I have been am and will be so far from the vanity of such Ambition that whenever it shall please the Parliament to command me I will with as much faithfulnesse as alacrity trail a Pike under that honored and gallant Gentleman Sir Thomas Fairfax where that Title meets with proportionable merit And as my conversation is plain and open so my Accusers shall since neither my heart or actions incline to so much pride as once to own so vain a Contemplation I observe where the tongue hath once broken the limits of its own Sphere like parralell lines it runs on for ever else how can any man cloath himself with so much and so brazen impudence as to report me a debaucht person for besides that reverence I owe to God I cannot as a