Marked words are the most distinguishing words of T25: feare, kings, power, princes, lawes, loue, state, downe, honor, men.
Alaham! I grant these trialls be seuere: But know; temptation is misfortunes spie, To worke in resolution change, or feare: Attend your fathers death; still hold you there; Before to vndermine a Monarchy Is hard. Besides, iudge you your own intent: For such your brother is in this to you, As you before vnto your brother were; He hath his owne, and you liue out of feare. Who measures hopes, and losses by the truth, Goes euer naked in this world of might: Mine be the Crowne: my brothers be the right. Will you exceed his mischiefe whom you blame? When euill striues, the worst haue greatest name. Goodnesse is only at the greatest best. Those mischiefes prosper that exceed the rest. Thou art but one: for all a sufferer be. That one is more than all the world to me. Faults to the State all priuate faults exceed. My wounds then heale, when all the earth doth bleed. Let father moue thee: Pittie thou the State. Father descending kindnesse signifies: Our State is there, where our well-being lies. Fame euer liues, and euer will defame: The ruine of thy father; and his Crowne. They euer prosper whom the world doth blame; Shame sees not climing vp, but falling downe. Yet feare thy selfe, if fame thou doest not feare; Reuenge falls heauie, when God doth forbeare. Men only giddie be that be aboue, And will looke downe to doubts, when they be there. Shall name of King o'erthrow a Kings Estate? Hath publike good no friend? Shall priuate feare Of one weake man make all vnfortunate? No, No, deare Heli! I Gods Champion am; And will my father for a while depose, Lest he the Kingdome, we the Church doe lose. Alaham! If hands you on your father lay For priuate ends, and make the Church your stayres, By which you clime your owne ambitious way; Your glory will be short, and full of feares: Since nothing for the Church is done amisse; And nothing well done that against her is. So be the God eternall my beleefe; As I my father from his State depose, Only for feare the Church should honor lose. But Heli! Iudge not things with common eyes; The Church it is one linke of Gouernment, Of noblest Kings the noblest instrument. For while Kings sacred keepe her mysteries, She keepes the world to Kings obedient; Giuing the body to obey the spirit, So carrying power vp to infinite. But here with vs, the discipline is stain'd; Forme lost; truth scandaliz'd with noueltie; Louingnesse with craft; and faith with Atheisme. Honor, and zeale, with curiosity; The worst best vs'd; shame carrying honors face, And Innouation king in euery place. Downe must these ruines to be set vpright; Misfortune peec'd growes more vnfortunate; And parents Lawes must yeeld to Lawes of State. Then see the means: For though the end were good, Yet for a priuate man to change a State, With Monarchs sleights to alter Monarchie, Seemes hard, if not impossible, to me.
seed 43: T25 · seed 44: T6 — topic numbers are assigned independently in each run; equal or different numbers say nothing by themselves
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Alaham! I grant these trialls be seuere: But know; temptation is misfortunes spie, To worke in resolution change, or feare: Attend your fathers death; still hold you there; Before to vndermine a Monarchy Is hard. Besides, iudge you your own intent: For such your brother is in this to you, As you before vnto your brother were; He hath his owne, and you liue out of feare. Who measures hopes, and losses by the truth, Goes euer naked in this world of might: Mine be the Crowne: my brothers be the right. Will you exceed his mischiefe whom you blame? When euill striues, the worst haue greatest name. Goodnesse is only at the greatest best. Those mischiefes prosper that exceed the rest. Thou art but one: for all a sufferer be. That one is more than all the world to me. Faults to the State all priuate faults exceed. My wounds then heale, when all the earth doth bleed. Let father moue thee: Pittie thou the State. Father descending kindnesse signifies: Our State is there, where our well-being lies. Fame euer liues, and euer will defame: The ruine of thy father; and his Crowne. They euer prosper whom the world doth blame; Shame sees not climing vp, but falling downe. Yet feare thy selfe, if fame thou doest not feare; Reuenge falls heauie, when God doth forbeare. Men only giddie be that be aboue, And will looke downe to doubts, when they be there. Shall name of King o'erthrow a Kings Estate? Hath publike good no friend? Shall priuate feare Of one weake man make all vnfortunate? No, No, deare Heli! I Gods Champion am; And will my father for a while depose, Lest he the Kingdome, we the Church doe lose. Alaham! If hands you on your father lay For priuate ends, and make the Church your stayres, By which you clime your owne ambitious way; Your glory will be short, and full of feares: Since nothing for the Church is done amisse; And nothing well done that against her is. So be the God eternall my beleefe; As I my father from his State depose, Only for feare the Church should honor lose. But Heli! Iudge not things with common eyes; The Church it is one linke of Gouernment, Of noblest Kings the noblest instrument. For while Kings sacred keepe her mysteries, She keepes the world to Kings obedient; Giuing the body to obey the spirit, So carrying power vp to infinite. But here with vs, the discipline is stain'd; Forme lost; truth scandaliz'd with noueltie; Louingnesse with craft; and faith with Atheisme. Honor, and zeale, with curiosity; The worst best vs'd; shame carrying honors face, And Innouation king in euery place. Downe must these ruines to be set vpright; Misfortune peec'd growes more vnfortunate; And parents Lawes must yeeld to Lawes of State. Then see the means: For though the end were good, Yet for a priuate man to change a State, With Monarchs sleights to alter Monarchie, Seemes hard, if not impossible, to me.