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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	father_n	king_n	servant_n	3,226	4	6.7708	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54586	The visions of government wherein the antimonarchical principles and practices of all fanatical commonwealths-men and Jesuitical politicians are discovered, confuted, and exposed / by Edward Pettit ...	Pettit, Edward.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1892; ESTC R272	100,706	264

e poi patienza Patience to the loss of our heads and patience after that Since the case is thus with us his other Subjects have little encouragement to build plant or sow any more than what will protect them from the immediate Injuries of Hunger and Cold or to provide for the next Generation who are so miserable in their own But pray Sir said he to me what is the reason that the people of England are so very Rich so very Happy as they seem to be They really are so replyed I if they knew their own happiness The people of England by the Providence of God and the Goodness of their Princes from the Times that were before your Empire had a Name or Being have enjoy'd many great Priviledges under the Name of Property and what may seem strange to you the Prerogative of the King is the very Property or Liberty of the Subject a Mysterie as unknown to you in our State as the Articles of the Christian Faith in our Church 'T is hard indeed I believe said he many of your own people do'nt understand it I wish they did said I for our Government is so divinely temper'd that the Honour of the King consists in the Happiness of his People and the Happiness of the People in the Honour of the King He by his good and wholsome Laws protects and encourages them and they all ought to honour and defend him By his Laws those Lands have those delightful limits and boundaries which you see and instead of Thorns and Briars are rich in what is good for food and pleasant to the taste By his Laws the Lusts Ambition and Covetousness of men are kept under every one being confin'd to his proper Business and Station to the encrease of Vertue Honour and Justice Hence 't is that you see the waters burden'd with the Fruits and Products of other Nations and the Land with our own Hence 't is that all Arts and Sciences flourish and even from our improv'd Arts of War for our defence you learn how to invade the effects of our peace Look but into that famous City of London and see how vastly the condition of mankind is altered from what you find it in Constantinople here you will see the Markets crowded with fatted Sheep and Oxen there with lean Slaves whose only hopes depend upon the being bought by a good Master here our greatest trouble is to get a good Servant and if they were but all good Subjects there is not a better King in the World Not good Subjects cry'd He then 't is too good a Land for so bad a People but methinks they seem to have little either of Business or Trouble for they walk to and fro as they please pray Sir let me be so happy as to partake with them of their great freedom At this we went down into the Walks and on a sudden fell upon two Persons that were talking together very earnestly we were unwilling to interrupt them yet kept at such a distance as to overhear them for they talk't very loud one of them saying well well I confess I have pretty well feathered my Nest but let the Kings affairs go how they will I will e'en secure my self I will e'en lie and Lowng as they call it let others stickle that have a great deal to get and little to lose for my part I am for Cokesing of Mammon I 'll not hazard my Fortunes truly not I. Indeed said the other things are carried very strangely at Court I wonder what becomes of all the money I think they did well to vote that no body should lend him any upon any Branch of his Revenue Of whom do they speak said the Turk Of the King said I And who made that Vote the Parliament said I And what is that replyed He The Great Council of the Nation into which some Seditious persons crept in of late years and promoted such a Vote And who are these persons that talk at this rate said He Why said I they have both of them very good Offices under the King how many Aspers a day have they said He again Aspers said I do you talk of Aspers they have at the rate of 4. or 5000. pieces of Eight of Yearly Revenues besides what they get by the bye At this the Turk fell into such a rage that he had like to have run over me and looking sternly upon them Ye ungrateful Dogs quoth He do Ye eat your Masters Bread to vomit it up in his face again were ye in the Grand Seigniors Dominions he would scorn to defile the meanest Slave he has by being your Executioner but would cram ye both into a hole until ye either devoured one another for Hunger or that those Mouths that spoke those words eat up those Hands that used to feed them And then turning to me Are these said he the fruits of Virtue Honour and Justice you lately talkt of You talkt Sir said I of Patience too lately pray have a little now I could rather said he indure to have my head cut off than my ears on to hear what such ungrateful men say But perhaps those other two Gentlemen that walk yonder are of a better mind they too are hot in discourse let us hear them As soon as we came near them What Justice Tom cry'd one of them can we expect from those Tory Lawyers now they are got upon the Bench the very name of Whigg is enough to cast a man in any Suit or Trial that comes before them That is an hard case said the Turk to me And what will become of the Protestant Religion Jack said the other for Dr. Oates tells us That most of the Bishops are Popishly inclin'd and you know Popery is Image-worship mere Idolatry Poor men said the Turk I protest I pity them But hark you Tom said he again pray lend me 50. l. for a Fortnight I vow Jack reply'd the other thou art a merry fellow but thou hast such slippery tricks with thee you know how you serv'd Mr. L. N. t'other day who was your good friend and besides if Fortune frown'd upon you or your Friends were unkind to you that you could not pay Your Debts t' were another case but you have got a trick of Borrowing Money when you have a great deal by you either for the sake of the use of it or with a design never to repay it However I have a Bottle of Wine or two and a Wench at your service but a pox on the pulling down these Conventicles a man cannot get a wholsom Wench half so conveniently now as formerly Prithee Tom don't stand fooling said he let me have so much Money I 'll be faithful to you At this the other began to Curse and Swear at such a desperate rate that the Turk jumpt as if he had been frighted out of his wits and rolling his eyes to and fro and looking upwards Are we said he poor Turks so careful of defiling that

Attempt do it for us Pray Sir said he What did you expect would be the consequence of that Bills passing Why said the Jesuit we in a short time would have made the Kingdom of England Elective and this would have dissolv'd the Hereditary lineal Descent for ever for by that Precedent we had never wanted some excuse or other for a Bill of Exclusion which would have been of greater Authority than all the Antiquated and disparate instances which Doleman hath gathered from all History And then we should have removed the greatest Obstacle in the world to our affairs by setting up Kings of another Family in opposition to the true Hereditary Line which was the advice of Campanella a great many years ago and it was wise Counsel then and wiser now For First That Family is so mortally and justly incens'd against us that we can never expect that they will ever trust or be reconcil'd unto us Secondly The Profits Honours and security which that Royal Family according to the Laws of the present Establisht Government injoys and to which it has a fundamental Right are greater than any Prince that is a Roman Catholick can have were it not for the disturbances we give them by making Factions and Divisions among the People And Thirdly The People of England under the Rules of that Government and the protection of that Royal Family enjoy such advantages not only of Riches but of Knowledge and good Conversation that all the little Monastical Arts and Devices of Monks and Friars can never over-reach or impose upon them but if we could ruine that Family their Government would soon fall and nothing would more effectually have done it than the Bill of Exclusion had it passed Well! and What then reply'd the Gentleman looking a little sternly upon him Why then said he England should have been an Island of Jesuits An Island of Devils said the Gentleman frowning You will never have done until you have ruin'd us our condition was pretty tolerable before such perfidious Traytors as you are justly provok't the Government to which you have been so injurious to Enact severe Laws and Statutes against us 'T is you that have imbroil'd all the rest of Christendom and now you envy that so small a spot of ground should injoy the blessings of Peace For by this infernal stratagem you would again involve us in the miserable Confusions of Civil Wars that so no part of the Earth may be free from your wickedness and no place in Hell too hot for your reward What do you mean Sir said the Jesuit What! are you turn'd Heretick No Sir replyed he I acknowledge that I am a Roman Catholick yet I detest such barbarous and unnatural Doctrines and Practices the very Venemous Conceptions of Father Parsons who was not only the worst of Jesuits but a Bastard to boot and I have here with me a poor Indian Savage that can indeed speak English but has scarceshak't of his Soot and Grease and is just polisht enough for the common Civilities of life and I dare venture my reputation that as soon as you shall acquaint him with and make him understand such a Proposition that he will naturally abhor and condemn it All this while there stood waiting behind him a tall man of a true Philomot complexion but a very lusty Fellow Co●●● Come hither said the Gentleman his Master come hither to this man At this he fell a shuddering and went backwards so that his Master stept to him and took him by the Arm but then he drew back until his breech almost toucht the ground spreading out his hands and staring like a wild Bull. I pray Master said he I am afraid indeed I am not Christian enough yet What do you mean Sirrah said his Master Is not this Sir said he Tanto Tanto said the Jesuit What is that That is replyed the Gentleman the Devil or the Tempter but Co●●● Why do you fancy this man to be Tanto Why then he is a Presbyterian Christian as you call 'um and I tell you why I am afraid of him My Father knowing that I was tamper'd with one of them like this man at Boston in New England beat me almost to death for it telling me that he would learn me to kill my Father and to kill my King Well Corëe said his Master tell me one thing do you Indians love your King And do you love his Son for his sake And when your King dies and goes to the Green Fields behind the Hills has his Son his Matts his Skins his Canoes his Feathers his Bracelets and all his fine things Yes yes said he All All. And if the King said his Master has no Sons do you Indians love his Brother if he has one O yes said he and his Brother has all his Whigwhams his Womans all all and then we go lay our hands on our knees and he laies his head on his shoulders and then we sing and dance and go out to sight for him and to hunt for him and indeed if it were not for our Kings we should utterly destroy one another Now although the Massachusetes are several Nations yet every one takes their Kings part and do what he commands and honour him as much as he can and so keep together and defend one another Nor is it only the Custome of the Massachusetes in New England but the Paroisti ' s in Florida are honoured so too When English men came first to New England our people used to say that King James was a good King and his God a good God but our Tanto naught But when they heard that they killed that Kings Son when he came to be King they said that they were all Tanto's and could not endure them but said that you sent thither the worst Christians you had for in all places the Indians love their Kings and his Brothers and his Sons and do but ask those that have a Plantation call'd New York and they will give you a better account than I can for I was very young when I came first among the English That place replyed the Gentleman is so called from his Royal Highness the chief Proprietor and then turning to his Indian hark you Corëe thou art Christian enough to incounter that Tanto Devil therefore beat him soundly and tell him I bid you do so The Jesuit seeing the Indian coming up to him in good earnest began to run for it however he soon overtook him and gave him half a dozen American Complements with his Indian Bill in exchange for his Bill of Exclusion As soon as they were gone I am very glad Sir said I to see this Jesuit so disappointed I do not question Sir said he but you may find a great many called Roman Catholicks of my mind as to the Doctrine of Submission and Obedience to the Civil Magistrate And I do declare that I from the bottom of my heart do abhor all Traiterous Positions and Practices tending to