Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	country_n	young_a	youth_n	67	3	7.7057	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11119	Humors looking glasse; Humors antique faces. Selections	Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630?; Rowlands, Samuel, 1570?-1630? Letting of humors blood in the head-vaine. Selections. aut	1608 (1608)	STC 21386; ESTC S110737	9,008	34

Vowes heel 'e be paid and S●r●ants he had feed Which ●a●●e your commng forth to do thy deede Boy god-amercy 〈◊〉 my Lady stay I le see no counter for her ●a●e to day Much a doe about chusing a wife AWiddower would haue a wife were old Past charge of children to preuent expence Her chests and bagges cram'd till they crake with gold And she vnto her graue post quickly hence But if all this were fitting to his minde Where is his lease of life to stay behinde A Batcheler would haue wife were wise Faire Rich and Younge amaiden for his bed Not proude nor chutlish but of faut les size A country housewife in the Citty bred But hee s a foole and longe in vaine hath staide He shoulde be speake her there 's none ready made The taming of a wilde Youth OF late a deare and louing friend of mine That all his time a Gallantyouth had bene From mirth to melancholy did decline Looking exeeding pale leane poore and thin I ask'd the cause he brought me through the streete Vnto his house and there hee let me see A woman proper faire wise and discreete And said behould heer 's that hath tamed mee Hath this quoth I can such a wife do so Lord how is he tam'd then that hath a shrow A straunge sighted Traueller AN honest Country foole being gentle bred Was by an odde conceited humor led To trauell and some English fashions see With such strange sights as heere at London be Stuffing his purse with a good golden some This wandring knight did to the Cittie come And there a seruingman he entertaines An honester in Newgate not remaines He shew'd his Maister sights to him most strange Great tall Pauls Steeple and the royall-Exchange The Bosse at Billings-gate and London stone And at White Hall the monstrous great Whales bone Brought him to the banck-side where Beares do dwell And vnto Shor-ditch where the whores keepe hell Shew'd him the Lyons Gyants in Guild-Hall King Lud at Lud-gate the Babounes and all At length his man on all he had did pray Shew'd him a theeuish trick and ran away The Traueller turnd home exceeding ciuill And swore in London he had seene the Deuill Three kinde of Couckoldes One And None FIrst there 's a Cuckolde called One and None Which foole from fortune hath receiu'd such He hath a wife for beutie stands alone Grac'd with good carriage and most sweete behauiour fauour Nature so bounteous hath her gifts extended From head to foote ther 's nothing to be mended Besides she is as perfect chast as faire But being married to a iealous asse He vowes she hornes him for he feeles a paire Haue bin a growing euer fince last grasse No contrary perswasions hee 'l indure But 's wife is faire and hee 's a Cuckolde sure The second None and One. THe second hath a wife that loues the game And playes the secret cunning whore at plaisure But in her husbands sight shee s wondrous tame Which makes him vow he hath Vlisses treasure shee le wish al whores were hang'd with weeping teares Yet she her selfe a whores cloathes dayly weares Her husbāds friends report how 's wife doth gull him Wi●h false d●ceitful and dissembling showe And that by both his hornes a man may pull him To such a goodly length they daylie growe He sayes they wrong her and he sweares they lye His wife is chaste and in that minde hee 'le dye The Third One and One. THe third is he that knowes women are weake And therefore they are dayly apt to fall Words of vnkindnesse their kind hearts may breake They are but flesh and therefore sinners all His wife is not the first hath trod a wry Amongst his neighbours he as bad can spye What can he helpe it if his wife do ill But take it as his crosse and be content For quietnesse he lets her haue her will When shee is old perhaps she will repent Let euery one amend their one bad life Th' are knaues and queans that medle with his wife FINIS