Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	king_n	prince_n	subject_n	3,995	5	6.4954	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50474	Cardinal Mazarin's letters to Lewis XIV, the present King of France, on his love to the Cardinal's niece together with his secret negotiation with Don Lewis D'Haro, chief minister to the King of Spain.; Correspondence. English. Selections	Mazarin, Jules, 1602-1661.; Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715.; Méndez de Haro, Luis, 1598-1661.	1691 (1691)	Wing M1540; ESTC R5209	91,866	304

by the Ordinary it was impossible I should receive them sooner Should you not have commanded me so strictly as you have done to speak to you with the greatest liberty when the Matter concerns your service yet I must have done it in this occasion lest I should have endanger'd the loss of your favour I have read what the Confident wrote me touching your Chagrin and the manner how you have dealt with her but knowing as I do that the love which she has for you is beyond all bounds and that your good nature as well as your duty make you restless as soon as you know you have displeased her and that you immediately return to the testifying to her the greatest tenderness on this account I am not greatly disquieted but I must tell you that I am not a little afflicted to hear from all hands how the world talks of you in a time when you were pleas'd to declare to me that you were resolv'd to apply your self with all possible earnestness to business and to leave nothing undone whereby you might become the greatest Prince on Earth The Letters of Paris Flanders and other parts say that you cannot be known to be the same Person since my departure and not because of me but on occasion of some one that belongs to me that you are in engagements which will hinder you from giving Peace to Christendom and to make your State and Subjects happy by your marriage and that if to avoid so great a prejudice you pass on to make it the Person whom you espouse will be very miserable without being culpable It 's said and it is confirm'd by Letters from the Court writ to persons of my Attendance which you may one day know as well as other Advices when I shall have the happiness to be near your Person It 's said then that you are always shut up to write to the Person you love and that you spend therein more time than you did in conversing with her whilst she was at Court 'T is farther added that I agree with you herein and connive at this to satisfie my Ambition and hinder the Peace It 's said that you are at odds with the Queen and those who write in softest terms say that you shun seeing her as much as you can I find moreover that the complaisance I have had for you when you were urgent with me to send sometimes News of you to this Person and receive hers ends in a continual commerce of long Letters which is to say to write to her every day and to receive an answer so that the Currier is always charged with as many Letters as there are days which cannot be without scandal nor even without blemishing the reputation of the Person and mine And that which is worse is that I am inform'd by the answers which the same Person has sent me when I would have advised her for her good and by the advises which I have continually from Rochelle that you omit nothing to engage her more and more by assuring her that your intentions are to do for her such things which you know ought not to be and which for several reasons are impossible Would to God that without wounding your reputation you could discover your thoughts to others and hear their answers which from the highest to the lowest in your Kingdom would so condemn them as to cover you with great shame and then I should not find my self in that sad condition wherein I have lain being not able to sleep a wink and knowing not what I do my mind being so opprest with sorrow that I cannot give you so good an account of your affairs as I have done heretofore God has establisht Kings after what respects Religion for the maintenance of which they ought to do all things for to watch for the good ease and preservation of their Subjects and not to sacrifice them to their particular Passions and when such unhappy Princes have appeared they have been commonly abandoned by the Divine Providence and Histories are full of the Revolutions and Miseries which they have drawn down on their Persons and States And therefore I boldly admonish you not to hesitate any longer and tho' you be the Master in a certain sense to do what you please yet you must give an account to God of your actions for saving your soul and to the World for the saving your credit and reputation For whatever you do they will judge of it as you give ●●em occasion And though you have the goodness to write to me that you are 〈…〉 to do whatever is requisite for your good and reputation yet you must permit me to tell you that writing in other terms to Rochelle I know not what your intentions are and in this doubtfulness I must represent to you that the matter here concerns not only your honour and glory 〈◊〉 raising States often one has means to raise up both one and the other when by misfortune it has happed that they have received an till storke But in this case should your Subjects be so unhappy by your not taking the resolution you ought nothing in the World can hinder them from falling into greater miseries than ever and all Christendom with them And I can assure you of my own knowledge that the Prince of Conde and many others are on the Watch waiting for the event of this hoping if things fall out according to their minds to make good advantage of the plausible pretence which you may give them in which case this dangerous Prince will not fail to have the Parliament the Grandees and the Nobility of the Kingdom and all the People favourable to him Besides that it would not be forgotten loudly to be proclaimed that I have been the adviser and upholder of the Conduct you have hitherto held I am farther oblig'd to tell you wi●● the same freedom that if you do not speedily surmount the passion which blinds you although your Marriage be perfected with the Infanta it is impossible but that in Spain they will have knowledge of the aversion you have thereto and the ill treatment the Infanta must expect if at the point of conclusion you continue to shew that all your thoughts and affections are elswhere Besides I hold it for certain that they will take at Madrid the resolutions which we would take here in like case And therefore I entreat you to consider what blessings you may expect from God and Men if for this we must begin again the bloodiest War was ever known and with the more prejudice that we have carried away the advantages of late that God has favoured your cause and the holy intentions which you and the Queen have ever had I the more willingly declare this to you in that Pimentel in his journey has intimated to me twice or thrice that all the World says you are too amorous to marry so soon and that the same thing was writ to him from