Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	father_n	king_n	son_n	3,169	4	5.2990	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31743	Numerus infaustus a short view of the unfortunate reigns of William the Second, Henry the Second, Edward the Second, Richard the Second, Charles the Second, James the Second.	Caesar, Charles, 1636-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing C203; ESTC R20386	35,156	134

his actions so that he tamely condescended to seek a Peace at their hands to whom before he scorn'd to vouchsafe the favour of any conditions but when he came to understand that his beloved Son John was in the Conspiracy against him he fell into a fit of fainting and dy'd within four days King Henry was the Author and instrument of his own misfortunes He came to the Crown in peace and quiet but never injoy'd it in content or satisfaction He was an ungrateful Son an indiscreet Father an unnatural Brother an unjust Husband a niggardly Master a fickle Friend a severe Enemy a valiant King but too penurious His Actions were great and renowned but smutted with the tincture of notorious Vices He dealt unjustly with the King of the Scots and to his cruelty extended to his Brother was added a manifest Perjury He made his Son a Rival in his Throne and took many strange Women to be Rivals in his Bed. As his Wife was divorced from her other Husband so was his conjugal love estranged from her His Partiality to his Sons is too manifest while he fondly gave to Henry a share of his Crown and substracted from his other Sons a competent maintenance But these contrary causes produced the same effect his Indulgence to one and his Niggardliness to the rest provoked them all to be Rebels against him His Incontinency is so evident that it supersedes all the misprisions of Jealousie His close Amours with the fair Rosamond were palpably detected by the industrious curiosity of his Queen but his incestuous dalliance with the Spouse of his Son has left an indelible blot upon his memory His carriage toward Thomas Becket while alive speaks him brave and magnanimous but his mean submission to a sordid Penance at the Tomb of that sawcy Prelate discovers plainly that Superstition was predominant in him beyond a sense of true Religion Parsimony which is commendable in men of lower ranks was a vice in him by it he lost the love of his Children and disobliged his Subjects while by Taxes Confiscations Seisure on Bishopricks and Abbies and other avaritious practises he lived poorly only that he might die rich THE LIFE and REIGN OF EDWARD the Second EDWARD of Carnarven was the Eldest Son of Edward the First and succeeded his Father in the Kingdom of England He was in his Person handsome in his Conversation acceptable in his Inclinations not extrémely Vicious continent beyond any of his Predecessors not given to grind his Subjects by hard Taxations or to enrich himself by their Impoverishment He ascended the Throne with the Universal Joy and Acclamations both of the Nobility and the People the way to it was plain and the Seat easy He had the Advantages of an extraordinary Education the example of an Illustrious Father and a Victorious King an early initiation in the Business of State a happy opportunity to understand the Art of Reigning by commanding the Realm and presiding in Parliament during his Fathers absence When he took the Reins of Government into his hands he was neither in his Nonage nor Dotage the Kingdom stood in no need of a Protector because of His Minority nor an Administrator because he was super-annuated He was just ripe for Rule and all circumstances concurr'd to make the Conclusion of his Reign as prosperous as the beginning Notwithstanding all these happy Prcludiums never was there a Prince more unfortunate never was there a Life perplexed with more Disasters or a Death attended with sharper Instances of Misery and Horror being persecuted by his Subjects deserted by his Qeen deposed by the People and inhumanly Murdered by wretched Miscreants He began his Reign with a rude and irreligious contempt of his renowned Fathers Will and dying Commands which as it gave just cause to the Subjects to suspect his Veracity and Constancy so it appear'd an ominous presage of his future Calamities and Desertion by Heaven For whereas his Father had expresly charged him never to recall Pierce Gaveston from Banishment who had been the Pandar to the young Prince's Lusts and the Debaucher of his Youth he immediately sent for him home heaped Honours and Riches upon him and grew scandalously fond of him His Father setled his Quarrel with Scotland upon him by Entayl requiring him to carry his Bones about with him through that Kingdom till he had subdued it but so little Veneration had he for those Glorious Reliques that he neither took them with him in a Military Procession nor regarded their quiet Sepulture but rather to affront them he entred into a Treaty for his own Nuptials before he had solemnized the Funerals of his Father The Old King had obliged him to send his heart to the Holy Land with Sevenscore Knights to prosecute the Holy War and two and thirty Thousand Pounds a mighty Sum in those Days which he had gathered for that Pious use But he not only neglected his Fathers Directions but in plain scorn and despight to his Commands he prodigally squander'd it on that same Gaveston from whose very sight he was precluded by his dying Father I shall not need to divide the History of his Life into several Acts I may recite it as it was in one Scene of Trouble and misfortune The revocation of Peirce Gaveston from perpetual Exile was very displeasing to the People His admission to the highest Honours and Favours about the Court did smartly aggravate their just Resentments but his Pride and Ostentation at the Marriage of the King in France where the Four Kings and Four Queens were seen in all their Pomp besides the King and his Bride yet he was observed to excel them all in Bravery had so sensible an Operation on the Lords of England that when Edward and Isabel expected to be Crown'd in the presence of many Princes and Noble Persons they boldly went to him and briskly told him how haynously he had transgressed his Fathers Will in recalling Gaveston to which since they were Cautioners they would see it performed and unless he would remove Gaveston from Court and Kingdom they would not suffer his Coronotion to proceed King Edward confounded with this stinging Declaration gave them satisfaction and solmnly Swore to do what they desired in the next Parliment and so the Coronation proceeded In the solmnizing whereof the King again provoked the Lords to Discontent adding the honour of carrying St. Edwards Crown before him to the other Titles he had conferred on Gaveston which urged them to enter into Consultation how to contrive some plausible way to restrain the Violence of the Kings Affection which in a short time took affect For Gaveston not content to engross the Kings Favor and dictate his arbitrary Orders through the Kingdom encroached on the honour of the Nobility and placed opprobious Nick-Names upon divers of them who therefore did not only envy him for his undeserved Advancement but mortally hated him for his un-sufferable Insolency It was not long before a Parliment met