Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	king_n	lord_n	2,772	5	3.6287	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12285	Here after foloweth a litel boke called Colyn Cloute compyled by mayster Skelton poete Laureate..; Colyn Clout	Skelton, John, 1460?-1529.	1545 (1545)	STC 22601; ESTC S110977	11,635	62

peope are glad The churche to depraue And some there are that raue Presumynge on theyr owne wyt Whan there is neuer a whyt To maynteyne argumentes Agaynst the sacramentes Some make epylogacyon Of hypghe predestynacyon And of resydenacyon They make interpretacyon Of an aquarde facyon And of the prescience Of dyuyne assence And what Ipostacis Of Christes manhode is Suche logyke men wyll chop And in theyr fury hop When the good ale sop Dothe daunce in theyr fore top Bothe women and men Suche ye may well knowe ken That agaynst preesthode Theyr malyee sprede abrode Raysynge haynously And dysdaynously Of prrestly dygnytes But theyr malygnytes And some haue a smacek Of Luthers sacke And a brennyng sparke Of Luthers welke And are some what suspecte In Luthers secte And some of them barek Clatter and carpe Of that heresy arte Called wytclyftista The deuelys the dogmatista And some be hussyans And some be arryans And some be pollegrans And make moche varyans Bytwene the clergye And the temporaltye ¶ Nowe y e church hath to mykel And they haue to lytell And bryng in maierialites And qualyfyed qualytes Of pluralytes Of tryalytes And of tot quottes They commune lyke sottes As cometh to theyr lottes Of prebendaries and deanes Howe some of them gleanes And gathereth vp the store For to catche more and more Of persons and vycaryes They make many out cryes They can not kepe theyr wyues From them for theyr lyues And thus the ●oselles stryues And lewdely sayes by Christ Agaynst the sely preest Alas and well away What ayles them thus to csay They mought be better aduysed Then to be so dysgysed But they haue enterprysed And shamfully surmysed Howe prelacy is solde and bought And come vp of nought And where the prelates be Come of lowe degre And set in maieste And spirituall dyngnyte Farewell benygnyte Farewell sympliciet Farewell humylyte Farewell good charyte Ye are so puffed with pryde That no man may abyde Your hygh and lordely lokes Ye cast vp then your bokes And vertue is forgotten For then ye wyll be wroken Of euery lyght quarell And call a lorde a iauell A knyght a knaue to make Ye bost ye face ye crake And vpon you take To rule kynge and kayser And yf ye may haue layser Ye wyll brynge all to noyght And that is all your thought For the lordes temporall Theyr rule is very small Almost nothyng at all Men saye howe ye appall The noble blode royall In ernest and in game Ye are the lesse to blame For lordes of noble blode If they well vuderstode How cónyng myght them auaūce They wold pype you another daūce But noble men borne To lerne they haue scorne But hunet and blowe an horne Lepe ouer lakes and dykes Set nothyng by polytykes There fore ye kepe them bace And mocke them to theyr face This is a pyteous case To you that ouer the whele Lordes must crouche and knele And breke theyr hose at the kne As dayly men may se And to remembraunce call Fortune so turneth the ball And ruleth so ouer all That honoure hath a great fall Shall I tell you more ye shall I am leth to tell all But the communalte ye call Ydolles of Babylon De terra zabulon De terra Neptalym For you loue to go trym Brought vp of poore estate With pryde inordinate Sodaynly vpstarte From the donge carte The mattockes and the shule To reygne and to rule And haue no grace to thynke Howe they were wonte to drynke Of a lether botell with a knauysshe stoppell Whā mamockes was your meate with moulde brede to eate ye wolde none other gete To chewe and to gnawe To fyll therwith your mawe Lodged in the strawe Couchyng your drousy heddes Somtyme in lousy beddes Alas this is out of mynde ye growe nowe out of kynde Many one haue but wynde And make the commons blynde But qui se existimat stare Let hym well beware Lest that his fote slyp And haue suche a tryp And false in suche dekay That all the worlde myght say Come downe on the deuyll way ¶ Yet ouer all that Of bysshops they chat That though ye round your hear An ynche aboue your ear And aures patentes And parum intendentes And your coursers be trapped your eares they be stopped For maister adulator And doctour assentator And blandior blandiris With mentior mentiris That ye can not espye They folowe your desyres And so they blere your eye Howe the male dothe wryte ¶ Alas for goddes wyll why syt ye prelates styll And suffre all this yll ye bysshops of estates Shulde open the brode gates For your spirituall charge And conforte at large Lyke lanternes of lyght In the peoples syght In pullpettes attentyke For the we le publyke Of preesthode in this case And alwayes to chase Suche maner of sysmatykes And halfe heretykes That wolde intoxicate That wolde conquinate That wolde contemminate And that wolde vyolate And that wolde derogate And that wolde abrogate The churche hygh estates After this maner rates The which shulde be Both franke and free And haue theyr lyberte And of antiquyte It was ratefyed And also gratifyed By holy synodalles And bulles papalles As it is res certa Conteyned in magna Carta ¶ But maister Damyan Or some other man That clerkely is and can Well scrypture expounde And textes grounde His benefyce worthe ten pou 〈…〉 Or skante warth twenty ma And yet a noble clerke He must do this werke As I knowe a parte Some maisters of arte Some doctours of lawe Some lernde in other sawe As in dyuynyte That hath no dygnyte But the pore degre Of the vnyuersyte Or els Frederyck ▪ Or els frere Dominike Or frere Hugulinus Or frere Agustinus Or frere Carmelus ●hat gostly can heale vs 〈…〉 ls yf we may 〈…〉 frere graye 〈…〉 of the order 〈…〉 Grenewyche border 〈…〉 obseruaunce 〈…〉 frere of fraunce 〈…〉 the poore scot 〈…〉 st come to his lot 〈…〉 te forthe his shot 〈…〉 〈…〉 abuell besy de Bery 〈…〉 eil vpon a ●●ry 〈…〉 wolde it shulde noted 〈…〉 scripture shulde be coted 〈…〉 clerkely promoted 〈…〉 the frere ●oted 〈…〉 Men say 〈…〉 ctoryte And your noble se And your bygnyte Shulde be imprynted better Then all the freres letter For if ye wolde take payne To preche a worde or twayne Though it were neuer so playne with clauses two or thre So as they myght be Compendyously conueyde These worde shuld be more weyd And better perceyued And thankfully receyued And better shulde remayne Amonge the people playne That wold your wordes retayne And reherce them agayne Thā a thousand thousande other That blaber barke and bloder And make a walshmans hose Of the texte and of the glose ¶ For protestatyon made That I shyll not wade Farther in this broke Nor farther for to loke In deuysyuge of this boke But answere that I may For my selfe alway Eyther analogice Or els cathagorice So that in diuinite Doctors that