Selected quad for the lemma: mercy_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	good_a	grace_n	work_n	6,662	5	5.6625	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59992	Six new playes ... the five first were acted at the private house in Black Fryers with great applause, the last was never acted / all written by James Shirley.; Plays. Selections	Shirley, James, 1596-1666.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650.	1653 (1653)	Wing S3486; ESTC R20878	80,770	488

Duke Roderigo my Lord desires Your conference in the garden Pir. I 'll attend him Exeunt Ped. He is my Kinsman Sir and did salute me Men. I would thou wert his Cosen ten removes Pedro as far as the two Poles are distant Cla. My father need not fear Prince Carlo now I find another guest here 't is Don Manuel Holds chief intelligence with my thoughts Men. Well Pedro Take heed my life is in thy lips Ped. I know my duty Sir if you suspect Command me to be dumb Sir you must trust me Men. I know not how to help it wait upon My daughter Exeunt I would my Lady had liv'd or died without Bequeathing me this Legacy on her death-bed A Secret to consume me this servant whom I dare not much displease is all the witness Survives sworn with the rest to secresie And though I have small argument to suspect him After so long a silence yet I am Not safe to be at his devotion I could soon purge him with a Fig but that 's Not honest Was it ever known a man So innocent should have so many Agues In 's conscience I am weary of the Court I must have some device Enter Roderigo and Piracquo Duke Roderigo And Don Piracquo they are whispering too This jealousie will take my brains apieces Exit Ro. I have said now expect my Lord your answer Pi. I must acknowledge from your Grace a favour That you have been so clear and free with me I might have thought my self secure i' th' dark And ignorant of this expectation Incurr'd your Graces jealousie Ro. I had allwaies A firm opinion of your Lordships gratitude Pi. But for the sum he fifty thousand Ducats I must acknowledge if your Grace had mediated My pardon then with the good King your brother It had oblig'd my payment but my cause Not worth your Graces agitation Or breath was like a vessell struck upon Some shelf without all hope t' have sayl'd agen Had not the Prince's mercie when he came To Portugal reliev'd it with a gale And set my bark afloat Ro. The Prince Why doth your Lordship think I had no part I' th' work of your repair the power and office I hold at Court is not asleep my Lord When any act of grace is done by th' King Pi. I dare not do so much injustice to The Prince's bounty to divide and ow But half the benefit to his Grace I not Extenuate your prevalence at Court but His Highness did compassionate my exile And I am return'd by his commands my Lord I am his creature for it and shall sooner Lose what he hath preserv'd my life and peace here Than doubt his honour or dispute his power In my behalf Ro. Sir you are not safe yet There has past no seal I take it for your pardon You hang i' th' air not fixt to th' roof of heaven As when you shin'd a star take heed you prove No Comet a prodigious thing snatch'd up To blaze and be let fall agen upon Their eyes that so mistook the region Where you were plac'd Pi. I know my Lord your greatness And hold it not becoming to contest In language wi' ee but I am confident Ro. Of what Pi. And will wager if your Grace please The to ther fifty thousand Ducats Sir That I 'll not pay you a Marvedie if I may On other honourable terms possess Your favour I shall meet your just commands But if you set such price upon your smile After the Prince's honor to secure me I know my self my fortune and upon What strength I must depend Ro. I shall my Lord Send you to sea agen Pi. I made a shift and may agen my Lord Amongst the Merchants Ro. Pirate Pi. 'T is confest I was so but your Grace may be inform'd I was not born to th' trade I had a soul Above my fortune and a toy I took To lose what was beneath my birth and titles Or purchase an estate fit to sustain 'em The sea was my Exchequer for I thriv'd I thank my watry Destinies and commanded Many a tall ship won with so much horror As possibly would have made your Lordship had you But in a cloud or airie scaffold stood Spectator of our fight sweat out your soul Like a thin vapour with the fright and after Drop your forsaken body on our deck To encrease the number of the dead Ro. But we May deal with you at land agen Pi. With reverence to your blood as 't is the Kings with all my age My wounds upon me and that innocence The Prince's word hath new created in me I do not fear Ro. Whom Pi. The Devil Ro. I shall conjure down the spirit Pi. Hell hath not art to keep it down Ro. So brave Pi. So just Ro. Thou talking fool do'st think I have no stings Pi. I know you are a Statesman Sir but he That fears with his own innocence about him Deserves not a protection offers to go in Ro. Piracquo Stay I now see thou hast a gallant spirit Let me embrace thee and with this confirm An honourable friendship I have not A thought so base to injure thee Pi. I have An easy faith my Lord Ro. Farewell Noble Piracquo I have tri'd and found thee Pi. I wo not trust you for all this I know The Devill 's excellent at the hug your Servant Enter Manuell and Clara at the other dore Maria Man The Princess Mar. I doe not like his Courtship there Don Manuel Manuel leaves Clara and goes to Maria Ro. So gratious with my Neece I 'll make him curse Those smiles Exit Cl. All is not well within me and the Princess Was never so unwelcome they conferr With much delight or else my fears abuse me What hath she in the greatness of her birth That I should be so passive Heaven look on Our hearts and if my love want a degree Of noble heat when they are both compar'd Let what I carry be the Funerall pile And my own flame consume it Ha the Prince Enter Carlo I shall betray my self too soon I fear Car. My sweetest Clara Mar. Either there were no Ladies that could love In that Court or you could not want a Mistris Man They are not born with incapacity Of loving where they find a worth t' invite The fault was in my undesert that could Attract no Ladies grace to own me there So inconsiderable a servant Madam Ma. There is some hope you wil not be thought here Unworthy of a nobler Character I doe not think but Clara hath a better Opinion of your merit Car. You cannot be so cruell what could in My absence interpose to make your heart Unkind to those desires at my return Cla. My justice and the care of both our honours I have not lost nor can Time make me forfeit What Nature and the Laws of Heaven and Earth Command me to preserve my duty Sir What is above would tast ambitious Car. This was not wont Cla. If