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soul_n	body_n	part_n	whole_a	26,351	5	6.3148	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42252	The Grounds of the present war between His Electoral Highnesse Palatine of the Rhine and the Duke of Lorrain expressed in a letter written from Frankendale to a person of quality here in England.		1669 (1669)	Wing G2143; ESTC R2862	7,754	8

and Ink to write himself All his affairs from the Highest to the lowest he takes notice and is the director of so that for certain he ever carryes all his Council along with him yet he is very willing and patient to hear what others can say upon any matter but all resolutions come immediately from him every Writing which comes from his Secretaries Office he peruses and Before he Signes it takes notice of the Orthography and of the very comma's that are wanting and in all this he is undesatigable for he enjoys himself amidst the croud of his business as much as if he had nothing to doe so that when he receives Company one would think he hath nothing else to do but study how to be civil and oblidging Yet his affairs are so casie to him that presently he dives into and findes the bottom of them for he hath a quick and pregnant wit and he is so judicious as to unsold that which is really true from that which is but seemingly so whereby he suffers not his judgment to be seduced by specious and plausible words or pretences As for his soul I do not believe there is one more noble in all the world high constant and fixed in his resolutions which are good and just he is generous without ostentation liberal with choice and without profusness and upon this account merit and vertue do avail with him more then savour so that 't is pitty the extent of his Dominions is not suitable to the greatness of his abilities to Govern but he is above the malice of his enemies who though they have usurped part of his S ates yet could never derogate any thing from his worth and since it is Gods pleasure he is well contented with his condition knowing it to be more honour for a Prince to deserve larger Dominions and not have them then to enjoy them and not be qualified for them In a word he is temperate at Table sweet and civil in Company rational and solid in his discourse wise in Councill valiant in the Field Noble and great every where And such as he is himself such he desires others should be therefore his Court is very well modeled consisting of select Persons who afford variety but breed no consesion for in it things are carried on in a hand some and orderly manner I must not omit to mention that extraordinary application his Highness hath upon Occasion to Warlike affairs those rare and regular sortifications of Manheim are most or rather all aster his direction and since this present War broke forth one would admire to see how carefull and active he hath been himself to see Provision Ammunition and Artillery conveyed to his Camp to view it and the fortifications of his places and ex tempore to give his directions so fit so judicious and so necessary The very devices of his Guidons and Colours with their Motto's which are so witty and so ingenious are all of his own contrivance so are the sentences of his medalls But to be short he is in his States that which the Soul is to the body whole in the whole and whole in every part of it he doth move all and animate it Words wouldfail me if I went about to exaggerate those vertues I know to be in him but I beleive it is better to hold his peace then not to speak enough of it Your Lordship will believe this the more that you know I have not any dependency upon that Prince but I think my self obliged to bear record to those qualities I have truly observed in him and I matter not who knows of it But one thing more I must say of this Prince that he remembers himself to be of the Royal English Blood and therefore every thing which concerns that Nation is so near to him that I doubt whether the best English man be more tender of the good and honour of England then this prince is he loves the Language which he speaks very well and the Nation too so that t is enough for one to be an English man thereby to get a free accesse to his Person and find a civil reception a● his Court as many have had and have a present experience of Of all this Princes neighbours te Duke of Lorrain hath been and is still one of the most trouble some he hath made himself so well known to the World that he saves me the trouble of giving you any character of his Person He is of a family which hath heretofore afforded so many bloody and cruel persecutors of the Protestants so that upon this account if he had any Religion at all he might be thought to be the Electors enemy but he walks upon other principles and considering himself to be an undone man despair makes him not to care what mischief he doth to others and as the Palatinate is a neighbouring Country to his so he hath taken every occasion to over run it with his Souldiers who are the Tartars of these parts thus not long using he joyned with the Elector of Mentz to Sack and Plunder that poor Country he using Fire and Sword to leave lamentable marks of his cruelty and as he is a man who neither stands to engagements nor doth performe any promises there is no trust to be put to any Treaties of peace with him but one is forced to sland upon his Guard and to be at great charges to prevent his attempts and Hostilities Now as the Palatinate is the Country the most exposed to his invasions his Highness is very much concerned to watch his designs as to defend his own so to protect those subjects who live under him A Prince like a compassionate father being to pity the miseries of his people so as to make them cease when they rise from with in and to prevent them by possible and lawfull means if feared from abroad As Princes may justly exact and require the hands and purses of their subjects upon account of the publick good so Subjects may justly expect Protection from their Soveraign when they are oppressed by strangers and as a wise Prince is not satisfied to remove the will and inclination which his neighbours have to do him wrong but also if possible and by lawfull meanes he will hinder them from having the power to hurt him or take it away from them if they have it as it is natural to fortifie his Ground against the feared overflowings of Sea an d Rivers so his Electoral Highness of late is wisely gone about to prevent for the future those desolations which the Lorrainers have heretofore too often caused in his Country leaving the success in the hand of God When I speak of those meanes which to right themselves Princes use the question is not whether they ought to be lawfull all though they had but common sense and reason do affirm it and every one thinks or at least pretends it that the meanes he uses are just but to judge of