Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	blood_n	life_n	lord_n	4,921	5	3.7317	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68979	Newes of the present miseries of Rushia occasioned by the late warre in that countrey. Commenced betweene Sigimond now King of Poland. Charles late King of Swethland. Demetrius, the last of the name, Emperour of Rushia. Together with the memorable occurrences of our owne nationall forces, English, and Scottes, vnder the pay of the now King of Swethland.	Brereton, Henry.	1614 (1614)	STC 3609; ESTC S114176	37,550	62

that Common-wealth and where from such a mind there be acts committed though but criminall and feares depending of greater consequence in this case it is more then a politicke or nationall Lawe it is Religious Iustice and the seruice of our God to take away the life of such greatnesse and make it the peoples sacrifice and therefore with your consents since things cannot otherwise stand or be established I giue him ouer to the rigour of the Law and the ministers thereof All this while this captiue Prince although he saw how closely and indirectly euery thing was carried and had heard during the time of his imprisonment the supposed death of the Emperour the murther of the Poles and many of great place and office in the Palace actions so bloudy and so fatall that albeit be knew the world to be full of mischiefe and the pathes thereof troden with vnsanctifyed féet yet he thought there wanted that venemous matter in the minde of man to beget bréed and bring forth such hideous and horred murders he doth yet neuerthelesse neither in the conceit of these inhumane massacers past nor in the iudurance of his owne vnauoidable miseries present shew tokens of any feare or affrightment but with the same countenance he held before in his prosperous estate he now beheld the tiranous authors and bloody actors of his tragedy so nobly had the inward vertues of his minde framed and composed the outward actions and gestures of his body And thus with words as bould and as vndanted as his lookes he spake in this manner vnto them I haue strained withall my best within me to heare and beare patiently all your vnkind handlings vniust presumtions furious Inforcements your malicious and manifold appliments foule wrestings and impossible constructions and all to make me séeme to be a member dangerous to the state to take away my life as a common enemy which onely must be remoued to make smooth the way to your present ends and intendments for this cause was the true noble bloud of my royall Lord and kinsman shed to make you grow vp in this false greatnesse I speake to the Vansusce whose inward saule knowes my innocence in all my accusations and that al this shew of Law is but a form a méere ingine or deuice to set a glosse vpon your horred murders past and to take away my life by a pretext of iustice which you persue in mallice haue I showne my selfe dangerous to my Country when in the last wars with the Tartars I so little regarded mine owne life that I spent most of her bloud in that action and returned victorious against the eie and opinion of all that saw and knew the danger of that day did I wrong my Country when with your consents and allowances I made that honourable contract with the Polish Princes was that the Treasure I exhausted in that expedition when mine owne priuate Coffers are yet empty with that charge For the Polish guard it was rather my enforced consent then my voluntary counsell or approuement for the title of the Dukedome with the rest of the Articles which I scorne to repeate the great God of my hope knowes me to be as frée either in action or intention as he knowes the Vansusce to be guilty of these horrid treasons I doe not plead mine innocence to saue my life for that is foredoomed by an vnchanged decrée but only to ease my heart of an ouerburdening wait of griefe which your base wrongs and false wouen iniuries haue contracted there and it is one comfort yet that I am suffered to speake I doe not raile either against thy tyranny or the maleuolence of my starres there is no man greater then his destiny neither haue I set the gard of vertue so weakly within me against the spight of Fortune or your malice but that my spirit and resolution can suffer either in thy inhumaine cruelty Vansusce or thy vnnatural treachery vild Glasco or all your hates you vnkind Muscouites or what else is precious vnto mée as the losse of wife and children depriuation of lands and honours or torment or death or whatsoeuer can happen in humanity All these or what else is in the power of enuy hate malice or tiranouse oppression is beneath me Life is not my Paramour I stand not inamourad of her pleasures the world hath to me adulterated his faire protestations of loue and respect with the foule prostetucions of the times mischiefe I haue séene an end of my fortunes and haue set an end to all my desires all the ambition that is left in mée is the hopefull enioyment of a far more glorious kingdome thether doth my soule aspire and thither shall my spirit mount before your time prefixt if there be any therefore in this assembly that either is at this time or shall happen héereafter to rome into the like danger and would know how to mocke Vansusces tyranny let him learne it thus by my example And with that word hauing closly drawne a short dagger hid of purpose for this houre he stabbed himselfe to the heart an a● though in it selfe séeming desperate and full of horror yet in circumstance and considerate respects truly noble and ful of honour that would not suffer his opposite and mortall enemeies to triumph ouer his vertues and the freedome of his spirit in his end The sudden and voluntary death of this Noble man put them all into amasement and some there were present and those not of the meaner sort did for the time so inwardly sorrow for the hard disaster of the Prince his innocence and iniuries that they made outward manifestation thereof by there teares which Vansusce perceiuing and in their generall silence a generall sadnesse that from thence his Plots and Proiects might be more narrowly looked into with considerate eies began to looke about and to gather his wits together to draw this inward créeping suspition from the heart of the Muscocite vpon whose loue and opinion did principally depend the hope and meanes of his procéedings hée therefore spake againe vnto them so fully for the times condition so colourable against the guilty life and rash death of the Prince and so carefully for the security of the state together with all their safties that hée soone turned the gentle currant of their passionate sorrowes into the vast Ocean of their wonted rage crying out against the house of Demetrius his name and family and in this new humour like the flattering Iewes to Herod after his Oration to the people they falsly guild his words with an Angels eloquence crying out after their wonted manner Vansusce God saue Vansusce such a turning Phane is the peoples breath with these much looked for acclamations the Court was presently dissolued the dead body of the Prince carried backe to Prison from whence the next day it was brought forth againe and poorely buried making the world to stand at amasement that the earth which neuer failes of meanes in