Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	lord_n	love_n	love_v	2,989	5	6.7075	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04888	A most pleasant and merie nevv comedie, intituled, A knacke to knowe a knaue Newlie set foorth, as it hath sundrie tymes bene played by Ed. Allen and his companie. VVith Kemps applauded merrimentes of the men of Goteham, in receiuing the King into Goteham.; Knack to know a knave.	Kemp, William, fl. 1600.	1594 (1594)	STC 15027; ESTC S108088	34,481	56

giue vs notice straight That we may punish them for their amisse We giue thee leane to work what means thou maist So it be not preiudice to the state nor vs Honesty My gratious Lord if Honestie offend In anie thing that he hath promised And doe not as your Grace hath giuen in charge Stifle such Caterpillers as corrupt the state Let Honestie receiue such punishment As he deserues that leazes to the king King Honesty it is ynough but tel me now what moued thee first To vndertake this taske to visit vs speak truth desemble not Honest. If I shuld tel your Grace t wold make you laugh To heare how Honesty was entertainde Poore lame and blinde when I came once ashore Lord how they came in flocks to visit me The shepheard with his hooke and Thrasher with his flaile The very pedler with his dog and the tinker with his male Then comes a souldier counterfeit with him was his Iug And Wil the whipper of the dogs had got a bounsing trug And coging Dick was in the crue that swore he cam frō Frāce He swore that in the Kings defence he lost his arm by chance And yet in conscience if I were put to sweare I would be bound to lay a pound the knaue was neuer there And hapning mongst this companie by chance one day I had no sooner namde my name but they ran all away But now I will to my taske and leaue your Grace And so I take my conge of your Maiestie King Honestie farewel and looke vnto your charge Perin My gratious Lord if I might not offend I would intreat a fauour at your hand T is so I heard of late my gratious Lord That my kinde father lay at poynt of death And if my Lord I should not visite him The world I feare would fynd great fault with me King Nay Perin if your businesse bee of waight We are content to giue you leaue to goe Prouided this that you returne againe When you haue seene your Father and your friends Perin My gratious Lord I will not stay there long Only but see my father and returne againe Till when my gratious Lord I take my leaue Kin. Perin farewel and tel me Dunston now we are alone What doest thou thinke of beauteous Alfrida For she is reported to be be passing faire They say she hath a white pit in hir chin That makes her looke lyke to the Queene of loue When she was dalying with Endymion Beleeue me Dunston if she be so faire She will serue our turne to make a Concubine Me thinks t is good some tyme to haue a loue To sport withall and passe away the tyme Dun. I my good Lord Dunston could wel allow of it If so your Grace would marrie Alfrida King What wouldst thou haue me marie her I neuer saw Then men would say I doted on a wench But Dunston I haue found a policie Which must indeed be followed to the full Enter Ethenwald Earle Ethenwald welcome I thought to send for you You must goe doe a message for vs now T is nothing but to woo a Wench which you can doe You must not woo her for your selfe but me Tell her I sit and pine lyke Tantalus And if you can straine foorth a teare for me Tell her she shall be honoured in my Loue And beare a childe that one day may be King Bid her not stand on tearmes but send me word Whether she be resolued to loue me yea or no If she say no tell her I can enforce her Loue Or t is no matter though you leaue that out And tell her this we heare she is as wyse As eloquent and ful of Oratory as Thaly was daughter of Iupiter Whose speaches were so pleasing mong the Greeks That she was tearmde a second Socrates For some report women loue to be praised Then in my cause I pray thee loue thou Alfrida Ethen. My gratious Lord and Ethenwald shall not faile To shew his humble dutie to your Maiestie I will my Lord woe her in your behalfe Plead loue for you and straine a sigh to show your passions I will say she is fayrer than the Dolphins eie At whome amazde the night stars stand and gaze Then will I praise her chin and cheeke and prety hand Long made lyke Venus when she vsde the harp When Mars was reueling in loues high house Besides my Lord I will say she hath a pace Much like to Iuno in Idea vale When Argus watcht the Heifer on the mount These words my Lord will make her loue I am sure If these will not my Lord I haue better far King Nay this is well now Ethenwald be gone For I shall long to heare of thy returne Eth. My gratious Lord I humbly take my leaue Exit King Ethenwald farewel Dunston how likest thou this What haue I done well in sending Ethenwald But in good tyme how if he lyke the mayde Beleeue me Dunston then my game is mard Dunst. I doe not thinke my gratious Lord My Nephew Ethenwald beares that bad mind For hetherto he hath bene tearmed iust And kept your Grace his gratious fauourer Ki. True Dunston yet haue I read that Loue Hath made the sonne receiue the father oft But Dunston leauing this come le ts to court Dunston I will attend vpon your Maiesty Exeunt Enter Baylief of Hexam and his foure sonnes to wit a Courtier a Priest a Conicatcher and a Farmer Bayly MY sonnes you see how age decaies my state And that my lyfe lyke snow before the sun Gins to dissolue into that substance nowe From whose inclosure grew my syre of lyfe The earth I meane sweet mother of vs all Whom death authorised by heauens high power Shall bring at last from whence at first I came Yet ere I yeeld my selfe to death my sonnes Giue eare and heare what rules I set you downe And first to thee my sonne that liuest by wit I know thou hast so many honest sleights To shift and cosen smoothly on thy wit To cog and lie and braue it with the best That t were but labour lost to counsell thee And therfore to the next Walter that seemes in shew a husbandman My sonne when that thy master trusts thee most And thinks thou dealest as truelie as himselfe Be thou the first to worke deceit to him So by that means thou maist inrich thy selfe And liue at pleasure when thy maister 's dead And when to market thou art sent with woll Put sand amongst it and t will make it weigh The waight twise double that it did before The ouerplus is thine into thy purse But now my sonne that keeps the Court Be thou a means to set the Peeres at strife And curri fauour for the commons loue If any but in conference name the King Informe his Maiestie they enuie him And if the king but moue or speake to thee Kneele on both knees and say God saue your Maiestie If any man be fauoured by the King Speake