Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	good_a	king_n	subject_n	3,003	5	6.4581	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02478	Of golds kingdome, and this vnhelping age Described in sundry poems intermixedly placed after certaine other poems of more speciall respect: and before the same is an oration or speech intended to haue bene deliuered by the author hereof vnto the Kings Maiesty.	Hake, Edward, fl. 1560-1604.	1604 (1604)	STC 12607; ESTC S106139	24,599	66

holdeth place of high respect as he well worthy is A poore man with Petition annexed to his case To him repaires not hauing helpe of any friend in place Which when he had exhibited although that noble man Had great imployments of the State yet marke what followd than Not full two dayes expyrd before the poore man did receaue An Answer to his full content And thence did take his leaue Not rendring gifts to any one nor Secretaries fees But hasting home vnto his Hiue reioyced with his Bees A yeare thence after troubles came about that passed gift As that some sought to frustrate it by friends or fained shift The poore man for his helpe againe preferreth his complaint And by his onely writing doth that Lord therewith acquaint Himselfe vnable through disease in person to be seene This noble man as if the case had then like present bene What he had passed earst before Confirmes with greater force Right noble surely was this deed and full of true remorse Yea as before no peny went out of the poore mans purse So now againe no peny he to any did disburse Patron to pupils is that Lord so doth his office lie Amongst whose vertuous deedes this one the poore mans case did try And sith that I an Actor was to pen that poore mans case I therefore write it as a note of vertue in that place The rather for because this Age vnhelping is and why Few men will helpe in cases where they see no profit lie So that to speake what I conceiue I feare no Gold no Good No not perhaps for such as haue aduentured their bloud And for the man at home who hath of good deseruing bene Nor workes nor worth can him aduance if Gold come not betweene For now as good to beate the ayre as fill the eares of some Who Sutes preferre Nay fill their hands else looke to find them Mum. Yet write I not with mind to touch men of superiour place Nor do I know particulers that any should deface Many complaine and many cry God knoweth where the fault doth lie HVMBLE PETITIONS OF GOOD SVBIECTS TO THEIR GOOD KING against the Parliament COnfirme Religion as the Arke of God Preserue the places where the same shall rest Then lawes for life and maners as the Rod Wherewith offence of Sinne must be supprest So shall the land assuredly be blest But firie Spirits are not for that charge Nor such as seeke their profits to enlarge Next for the Common-wealth as is begun Take off oppressions from the Subiects backe And to the Commons do not alwayes runne For euery thing that Common-wealth doth lacke For so poore Subiects still shall go to wracke And yet must Subiects Caesars duties pay No faithfull Subiect will thereof say nay As for the Lawyers faults and griefes thereby The peoples plaints suffice to make them knowne And how huge monstrous fees on Suters lye Which Officers and Clarkes claime as their owne But if you aske quo iure they are growne The man say they must sell who first did buy A case to be redrest as cause shall lie In briefe the sores and sicknesses that are In Englands state which grieued men will shew In Parliament will moue the Princes care To finde the fountaines whence the same doe flow And fountaines found to purge them all arow The God of heauen preserue our blessed King That he to Church and Realme true peace may bring Astra Deo nil maius habent Nil Caesare Terra Sic Caesar Terras vt Deus Astra regat The Subiects loue is the riches and safety of the King IT is recorded in this wise At Wormes aGermaine Towne When all the Princes there were met And all were sitten downe To talke of matters of the State At length they tooke in hand Each one to praise and to extoll The goodnesse of his land Baua●ia Dukes their Cities praysde The Saxons praysd their Mines Duke Palatine his fertile Soyles And fatnesse of his vines Duke Eberard of Wittenberg Who likewise was in place And silent sate by Fredericke Who had the Soueraigne grace As Saxon Duke required was To tell his Countries praise And he obeying modestly As loath himselfe to raise My Lords sayd he t is nothing that By me can be declarde Who●am the lowest in this place And might full well be sparde Nathlesse this one thing do I know And knowing do protest That I in any Subiects lap Of mine can take my rest Although in open fields from prease Whereby our mutuall louesincrease A notable example of integrity in a King betweene himselfe and his Subiects LEwis King of Fraunce was accustomed to sit iudicially in the hearing of his owne causes And if he found any to flatter him therein and to say his cause was good Let vs heare the same sayd he whether Iustice or your beneuolence hath swayed most therein And oftentimes when hee found their Sentence to be with him he would pronounce the contrary and would bitterly chide those who had attributed too much to his side Another notable example of integritie in a Prince FRedericke Duke of Saxony had certaine woods neare adioyning vnto Wittenberg which had bene sometimes purchased by his progenitors Anhaldine mother of those Princes of that name who then liued being wise a good Oeconomist required those woods to be restored vnto her because they had bene at the first but mortgaged The Duke although it was very hard for him to depart with the woods insomuch as he had rather haue giuen more mony for them then to haue forgone them in respect that the price of woods did then daily increase yet he would by no meanes vexe or disquiet that most honest Matron or hold her long in suspence And therefore albeit he had counsell pretextes propounded vnto him how by a shew of right he might retaine them yet he would by no meanes burthen his conscience by admitting of any of the sayd pretextes for the retaining of them and such was his integrity as that he willingly restored the same to the house of the Anhaldi●es And hath not Iames our Englands King Shewd forth like Princely mind Who farmes of fines and forfeitures Which Subiects backes did grinde With Monopolyes lycences And priuiledges large Whereby he might haue bene enricht Though to his Subiects charge Hath royally released from His English Subiects backes Not minding to enrich himselfe By his poore Subiects wrackes What good so great hath earst bene done As by King Iames is now begun A Case of Difficultie in the Royall Administration GReat Difficultie may be found in this Vnto the Prince where Subiects doe complaine Of any that in office doth amisse As that percase he should some wrong maintaine For as the Prince is bound to aide the right Without respect of any Subiects might So meete it is that where he giueth power He should support the same and still vphold Th'authorized for why Else euery houre Th'vprightest men and men of