Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	faith_n	true_a	truth_n	4,594	5	5.5207	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07004	Tamburlaine the Great Who, from a Scythian shephearde, by his rare and woonderfull conquests, became a most puissant and mightye monarque. And (for his tyranny, and terrour in warre) was tearmed, the scourge of God. Deuided into two tragicall discourses, as they were sundrie times shewed vpon stages in the citie of London. By the right honorable the Lord Admyrall, his seruauntes.	Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593.	1590 (1590)	STC 17425; ESTC S122101	73,426	165

Scaena 1. Sigismond Fredericke Baldwine with their traine Sigis. NOw say my Lords of Buda and Bohemia What motiō is it that inflames your thoughts And stirs your valures to such soddaine armes Fred. Your Maiesty remembers I am sure What cruell slaughter of our Christian bloods These heathnish Turks and Pagans lately made Betwixt the citie Zula and Danubius How through the midst of Verna and Bulgaria And almost to the very walles of Rome They haue not long since massacred our Camp It resteth now then that your Maiesly Take all aduantages of time and power And worke reuenge vpon these Infidels Your Highnesse knowes for Tamburlaines repaire That strikes a terrour to all Turkish hearts Natolia hath dismist the greatest part Of all his armie pitcht against our power Betwixt Cutheia and Orminius mount And sent them marching vp to Belgasar Acantha Antioch and Caesaria To aid the kings of Soria and Ierusalem Now thou my Lord aduantage take hereof And issue sodainly vpon the rest That in the fortune of their ouerthrow We may discourage all the pagan troope That dare attempt to war with Christians Sig. But cals not then your Grace to memorie The league we lately made with king Orcanes Confirm'd by oth and Articles of peace And calling Christ for record of our trueths This should be treacherie and violence Against the grace of our profession Bald. No whit my Lord for with such Infidels In whom no faith nor true religion rests We are not bound to those accomplishments The holy lawés of Christendome inioine But as the faith which they prophanely plight Is not by necessary pollycy To be esteem'd assurance for our selues So what we vow to them shauld not infringe Our liberty of armes and victory Sig. Though I confesse the othes they vndertake Breed litle strength to our securitie Yet those infirmities that thus defame Their faiths their honors and their religion Should not giue vs presumption to the like Our faiths are sound and must be consumate Religious righteous and inuiolate Fred. Assure your Grace t is superstition To stand so strictly on dispensiue faith And should we lose the opportunity That God hath giuen to venge our Christians death And scourge their foule blasphemous Paganisme As fell to Saule to Balaam and the rest That would not kill and curse at Gods command So surely will the vengeance of the highest And iealous anger of his fearefull arme Be pour'd with rigour on our sinfull heads If we neglect this offered victory Sig. Then arme my Lords and issue sodainly Giuing commandement to our generall hoste With expedition to assaile the Pagan And take the victorie our God hath giuen Exeunt Actus 2. Scaena 2. Orcanes Gazellus Vribassa with their traine Orcanes. GAzellus Vribassa and the rest Now will we march from proud Orminus mount To faire Natolia where our neighbour kings Expect our power and our royall presence T' incounter with the cruell tamburlain That nigh Larissa swaies a mighty hoste And with the thunder of his martial tooles Makes Earthquakes in the hearts of men and heauen Gaz. And now come we to make his sinowes shake With greater power than erst his pride hath felt An hundred kings by scores wil bid him armes And hundred thousands subiects to each score Which if a shower of wounding thunderbolts Should breake out off the bowels of the clowdes And fall as thick as haile vpon our heads In partiall aid of that proud Scythian Yet should our courages and steeled crestes And numbers more than infinit of men Be able to withstand and conquer him Vrib. Me thinks I see how glad the christian King Is made for ioy of your admitted truce That could not but before be terrified With vnacquainted power of our hoste Enter a messenger Mess Arme dread Soueraign and my noble Lords The treacherous army of the Christians Taking aduantage of your slender power Comes marching on vs and determines straight To bid vs battaile for our dearest liues Orc. Traitors villaines damned Christians Haue I not here the articles of peace And solemne couenants we haue both confirm'd He by his Christ and I by Mahomet Gaz. Hel and confusion light vpon their heads That with such treason seek our ouerthrow And cares so litle for their prophet Christ Orc. Can there be such deceit in Christians Or treason in the fleshly heart of man Whose shape is figure of the highest God Then if there be a Christ as Christians say But in their deeds deny him for their Christ If he be son to euerliuing Ioue And hath the power of his outstretched arme If he be iealous of his name and honor As is our holy prophet Mahomet Take here these papers as our sacrifice And witnesse of thy seruants periury Open thou shining vaile of Cynthia And make a passage from the imperiall heauen That he that sits on high and neuer sleeps Nor in one place is circumscriptible But euery where fils euery Continent With strange infusion of his sacred vigor May in his endlesse power and puritie Behold and venge this Traitors periury Thou Christ that art esteem'd omnipotent If thou wilt prooue thy selfe a perfect God Worthy the worship of all faithfull hearts Be now reueng'd vpon this Traitors soule And make the power I haue left behind Too litle to defend our guiltlesse liues Sufficient to discomfort and confound The trustlesse force of those false Christians To armes my Lords on Christ still let vs crie If there be Christ we shall haue victorie Sound to the battell and Sigismond comes out wounded Sig. Discomfited is all the Christian hoste And God hath thundered vengeance from on high For my accurst and hatefull periurie O iust and dreadfull punisher of sinne Let the dishonor of the paines I feele In this my mortall well deserued wound End all my penance in my sodaine death And let this death wherein to sinne I die Conceiue a second life in endlesse mercie Enter Orcanes Gazellus Vribassa with others Or. Now lie the Christians bathing in their bloods And Christ or Mahomet hath bene my friend Gaz. See here the periur'd traitor Hungary Bloody and breathlesse for his villany Orc. Now shall his barbarous body be a pray To beasts and foules and al the winds shall breath Through shady leaues of euery sencelesse tree Murmures and hisses for his hainous sin Now scaldes his soule in the Tartarian streames And feeds vpon the banefull tree of hell That zoacum that fruit of bytternesse That in the midst of fire is ingraft Yet flourisheth as Flora in her pride With apples like the heads of damned Feends The Dyuil 's there in chaines of quenchless flame Shall lead his soule through Orcus burning gulfes From paine to paine whose change shal neuer end What saiest thou yet Gazellus to his foile Which we referd to iustice of his Christ And to his power which here appeares as full As raies of Cynthia to the clearest sight Gaz. T is but the fortune of the wars my Lord Whose power