Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	body_n	good_a	know_v	5,793	5	3.8366	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50730	A speech delivered by Sir Avdley Mervyn His Majesties prime serjeant at law in Ireland, and speaker of the House of Commons to his grace James Duke of Ormond, Lord Lievtenant of Ireland, in the presence chamber in the castle of Dublin, the 29. of July 1662	Mervyn, Audley, Sir, d. 1675.; Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.	1662 (1662)	Wing M1883; ESTC R9996	6,082	14

it retaines Sir I am not this day speaking of his Majesty we still praemise Rex nobis haec otia fecit of him we say Omnium domus illius vigilia defendit omnium otium illius labor omnium delitias illius industria omnium vacationem illius occupatio His Majesty is the Spirit that moves the wheels and Weare now upon one of the Master-wheels and happy is the Kingdome when the wheels moves as the Spirit moves His Majesty is the waters of healing and we applaud a tutelar Angel that stir'd the waters and helpt in this paralytical Kingdome in the croud of Patients And here give me leave to remember the five fold mess of your time that you afforded Benjamin Did the morning require your Graces attending in Parliament IRELAND must be first served Did afternoon Committees pray in and to your advice IREIAND must be first served were there particular causes designed for hearing at the Council Boord you have succesfully imployed your mediation that IRELAND might be first ferved when clauses and Proviso's were offered to be inserted in that great Bill your first care was to see if they were Declaration touch and held them up before it as the E●gle to try the legitimation of her brood dares their eyes with the Sun beams and in the throng of such addresses I have observed your Grace in civility to hear all persons but in justice to see none And if upon pretensions of Profit any intrenchments upon the Declaration had been offered your Grace knowing the nature of your Great Masters standard wherein a carack of honour outweigh'd pounds of profit you endeavoured to transmit the Bill as a seamless coat And now Sir I need not have recourse to any Rhetoricall Figure to make that great Bill to speak your Grace may take notice that as many dayes you waited upon it so it hath to this day waited upon your Grace It remembers how often when it was in the Cradle and swaddling bands you visited it It remembers when it was in the state of its minority and under a Committee of the Council Boord how faithful and tender a Guardian you was to it It remembers how powerfully instrumental you was to give it a body and now waits untill your Grace by the Royall assent breath a Soul into it It is now time to take in my sayles and make ready an anchor especially since me thinks I see a cloud rising upon your brow I know your Graces temper that you place your reward as well as your recreation in doing good and not in hearing of it being done But be pleased to remember it is the Commons of this Kingdome speak and then Vox populi nay more Vox populi Dei is Vox Dei As they are the great enquest to present criminals so they are the great records to preserve virtue and merits Could your Grace have been contented to have acted less my Commission would have been to have 〈◊〉 less But it is fit we give your Grace an Essay of that obedience that so unanimously we devote to your Commands and therefore I shall onely adde That as this House most submissively acknowledgeth the repeated obligations from his Majesty so they look upon this as the fermentation of them all that he hath put those Laws and Estates he hath so graciously bestowed on us under your Graces Government and Protection And that while it shall seem expedient to his Majesty to continue us in a Parliamentary way His Majesty shall find the effects of his great wisdom and goodness in giving your Grace unto us a Governour after our own hearts That so as we have been happy in your Grace your Grace may be happy in us and the union of both these Center in the ever prayed for happiness of his Majesty and his other Kingdomes FINIS