Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	call_v	mile_n	river_n	5,484	4	7.2108	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06607	Euphues and his England Containing his voyage and his aduentures, myxed with sundrie pretie discourses of honest loue, the discription of the countrey, the court, and the manners of that isle. Delightful to be read, and nothing hurtfull to be regarded: wherein there is small offence by lightnesse giuen to the wise, and lesse occasion of looseness proffered to the wanton. By Iohn Lyly, Maister of Arte. Commend it, or amend it.	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1580 (1580)	STC 17070; ESTC S106953	185,944	280

health and that thou art so I heare nothing to y e contrarie but I know not how it fareth with me for I cannot as yet brooke mine own coūtry I am so delighted with another Aduertise me by letters what estate thou art in also how thou lykest the state of Englande which I haue sent thée And so farewell Thine to vse Euphues To the Ladies and Gentlewomen of Italy Euphues wisheth health and honour IF I had brought Ladies little dogges from Malta or straunge stones from India or fine carpets from Turkie I am sure that either you would haue woed me to haue them or wished to sée them But I am come out of England with a Glasse wherin you shal behold the things which you neuer saw meruaile at the sights which you haue séene Not a glasse to make you beautifull but to make you blush yet not at your vices but others vertues not a glasse to dresse your haires but to redresse your harmes by the which if you euery morning correct your manners being as careful to amend faults in your hearts as you are curious to finde faults in your heads you shal in short time be as much commended for vertue of the wise as for beautie of the wanton Yet at the first sight if you séeme deformed by looking in this Glasse you must not thinke that the fault is in the glasse but in your manners not resembling Lauia who séeing hir beautie in a true glasse to be but deformitie washed hir face and broke the glasse Héere you shall sée beautie accompanied with virginiie temperance mercy iustice magnanimitie all other vertues whatsoeuer rare in your sex and but one rarer then the Phoenix where I thinke there is not one In this glasse shall you sée that the glasses which you carry in your fannes of fethers shewe you to be lighter then fethers that the Glasses wherein you carouse your wine make you to be more wanton then Bacchus that the new found glasse Cheynes that you were about your neckes argue you to be more bryttle thē glasse But your eyes being to old to iudge of so rare a spectacle my counsell is that you looke with spectacles for ill can you abide the beames of the cleere Sun being skant able to viewe the blase of a dimme candle The spectacles I wold haue you vse are for the one eye iudgement without flattering your selues for the other eye beliefe without mistrusting of me And then I doubt not but you shall both thanke me for this Glasse which I send also into all places of Europe and thinke worse of your garysh Glasses which maketh you of no more price then broken glasses Thus faire Ladyes hoping you will be as willing to pry in this Glasse for amendement of maners as you are to prancke your selues in a looking glasse for commendation of menne I wish you as much beautie as you wold haue so as you would endeuour to haue as much vertue as you should haue And so farewell Euphues ¶ Euphues Glasse for Europe THere is an Isle lying in the Ocean Sea directly against that part of Fraunce which containeth Picardie and Normandie called now England heretofore named Britaine it hath Ireland vppon the West side on the North the maine Sea on the East side the Germaine Ocean This Island is in circuit 1720. myles in forme lyke vnto a Triangle being broadest in the South part gathering narrower narrower till it come to the farthest poynt of Cathnesse Northward where it is narrowest ther endeth in manner of a Promonterie To repeat the auncient manner of this Island or what sundry Nations haue inhabited there to set downe the Giaunts which in highnesse of bone haue passed the common fise and almost commō credit to rehearse what diuersities of languages haue bene vsed into how many kingdomes it hath bene deuided what religions haue ben followed before y e comming of Christ although it would bréede great delight to your eares yet might it happily séeme tedious for that Honny taken excessiuely cloyeth the stomacke though it be Honny But my minde is briefely to touch such things as at my being there I gathered by mine owne study and enquirie not meaning to write a Chronicle but to set down in a word what I heard by conference It hath in it twentie sixe Cities of the which the chiefest is named London a place both for the beautie of building infinite riches varietie of all things that excelleth all the Cities in the world insomuch that it may be called the store-house and Mart of all Europe Close by this Citie runneth the famous Riuer called the Thames which from the head where it riseth named Isis vnto the fall midway it is thought to be an hundred fourescore myles What can ther be in any place vnder the heauēs that is not in this noble Citie either to be bought or borrowed It hath diuers Hospitals for the relieuing of y e poore six-score faire Churches for diuine seruice a glorious Burse which they call the Royall Exchange for the méeting of Merchants of all countries where any traffique is to be had And among all the straunge and beautifull shewes mée thinketh ther is none so notable as y e Bridge which crosseth y e Theames which is in manner of a continuall stréete well replinished with large stately houses on both sides situate vpon twentie Arches wher-of each one is made of excellent frée stone squared euery one of them being thrée-score foote in height and full twentie in distance one from an other To this place the whole Realme hath his recourse where-by it séemeth so populous that one woulde scarce thinke so many people to be in the whole Islande as hée shall sée sometymes in London This maketh Gentlemen braue and Merchaunts rich Citizens to purchase and soiourns to morgage so that it is to be thought that the greatest wealth and substance of the whole Realme is couched with-in the walles of London where they that be rich kéepe it from those that be riotous not deteyning it from the lustie youthes of England by rigor but encreasing it vntil young men shall sauour of reason wherein they shew them-selues Treasurers for others not horders for themselues yet although it be sure enough woulde they had it in my opinion it were better to be in the Gentle-mens purse then in the Merchauntes handes There are in this Isle two and twentie Bishops which are as it were superentendauntes ouer the Church men of great zeale and deepe knowledge diligent Preachers of the worde earnest followers of their doctrine carefull watchmen that the Woulfe deuoure not the Shéepe in ciuill gouernment politique in ruling the spirituall sworde as farre as to them vnder their Prince apperteineth iust cutting off those members from the Church by rigor that are obstinate in their herisies and instructing those that are ignorant appointing godly and learned Ministers in euery of their Seas that in their absence may be