Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	henry_n	sir_n	thomas_n	14,508	5	9.0896	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50818	Miscellanea, or, A choice collection of wise and ingenious sayings, &c of princes, philosophers, statesmen, courtiers, and others out of several antient and modern authors, for the pleasurable entertainment of the nobility and gentry of both sexes / by G.M.	Miege, Guy, 1644-1718?	1694 (1694)	Wing M2014; ESTC R31228	47,603	172

which Tully made this witty Jest O vigilantem Consulem qui toto Consulatus sui tempore somnum Oculos non vidit O watchful Consul who did not shut his Eyes all the time of his Consulship III. Cato the Censor being asked how it came to pass that he had no Statue erected in his Honour who had so well deserved of the Common-wealth I had rather says he have this Question asked me than why I had one erected IV. Fabricius a Roman Consul upon the Offer made to him by King Pyrrhus his Physician to get him poisoned sent him back his Physician with these words Learn O thou King to make a better Choice both of thy Friends and Foes V. Clodius being to be tried for his Life by Roman Judges whom he had bribed with Money to get him off they desired a Guard to secure them so that the Trial might be free and undisturbed But Clodius being acquitted one Catulus made this Reflexion upon them What made you says he so eager for a Convoy Were you afraid to be robbed of the Money you had of Clodius VI. After the Reduction of Paris to Henry IV a Mareschal of France formerly against the King was bribed into a Submission to him The Provost of Merchants of that City having newly made his Submission in the Name of the City the said Mareschal told him that we ought to render unto Caesar the Things that are Caesar's My Lord said the Provost we must render it not sell it reflecting upon the Mareschal as a Man bought off out of Rebellion into his Allegiance VII No less Ingenious was the Answer of a Lord Mayor to our King James I. Who being displeased with the City for refusing to lend him a Sum of Money he required threatned that he would remove his Court with all the Records of the Tower and the Courts of Judicature to another Place with farther Expressions of his Indignation Your Majesty answered the Lord Mayor calmly may do what you please therein and your City of London will still prove dutiful but she comforts her self with the Thoughts that Your Majesty will leave the Thames behind you Whereby he gave the King to understand that as long as the Thames should run before the City of London it could not fail of flourishing by the Advantage of Trade whatever Disadvantages it lay under on his Majesty's Side VIII Witty but perhaps too Jocose for his Circumstances was the Answer of Sir Thomas Moor Lord Chancellor in the Reign of Henry VIII Who being committed to the Tower by the King would not suffer his Hair or Beard to be cut And being asked the Reason of it The King and I says he are at Law about my Head and I will be at no Charge to set it off till I know at whose Disposal it must be IX The Lord Bacon before his great Preferment received a Visit from Queen Elizabeth in a Country-house lately built by him What made you said the Queen to him build your House so little Madam answered he to the Queen I do not build it too little but 't is Your Majesty that made me too great for my House An ingenious Answer expressing in few Words both his Modesty and Gratitude X. When the Doge of Genoua came not long since in Person to the French Court with Submissions from the Republick little sutable to a Sovereign State being at Versailles and viewing the Magnificence thereof he was asked by one of the Court What he thought in it most worthy his Admiration To see my self here answered the Doge very pat LADIES I. A Lady used constantly to wait upon another at the beginning of every Year to know what Age they must go for that Year II. A Lady of wonderful Beauty telling another It was a wonder to see her received this handsom Return And when I see you Madam I may say I see a Miracle III. One that had a Petticoat extravagantly dawbed with Gold and Silver was wittily asked What Goldsmith had made her Peticoat IV. It was the way of the late Q. Christina of Sweden to appear always in a Justaucor and a Wig. When she came to Fontainebleau a Country Palace of the French King several Court-Ladies come to wait on Her Majesty stept to salute her with a Kiss The Queen not liking of it dropt these words What Passion transports these Ladies to kiss me thus Is it because I look like a young Man V. A Grandee of Spain having a Collar on of the Order of the Golden Fleece which the Prince's Favour not his own Merit had procured took particular Notice of a sparkling Diamond a Court-Lady wore upon one of her Fingers and said he had rather have the Ring than the Lady But she fitted him as well For having over-heard it she presently made this Return upon him And I should rather chuse the Halter than the Horse meaning him by the Horse and by the Halter his Collar VI. An Author holding a fair Lady with both his hands she got it off from ' em Upon which a Gentleman that stood by told him Sir 't is the finest Piece of Work that ever came out of your hands VII A Gentleman leading a Lady by the hand she told him he held her too fast Madam reply'd he I 'le lay with your Ladyship that before we part you will hold me as fast She laid to the contrary And whilst they were stepping into a Room the Gentleman made as if his foot slipt which made her hold him fast by the hand to keep him from falling And then she owned that she lost the Wager VIII A Lady in company with a Gentleman fell discoursing about the Influences of the Month of May when not only the Earth but all Creatures living upon it find themselves revived by the Sun's Heat After a pretty long Discourse on this Subject I dare trust my Honesty said she to the Gentleman all other Months of the Year which I dare not in May. IX The Place of a Maid of Honour said one is very Ticklish and difficult to keep X. A Curtizan of Rome took place in a Church near a vertuous Lady Who no sooner knew her but she removed to another place The Curtizan observing it Why should you Madam remove thus for my sake said she to the Lady my Infirmity never proves catching but to such as desire it XI A Spanish Lady reading in a French Romance a long Conversation betwixt two Lovers What a deal of Wit says the Lady is here ill bestowed They were together and they were alone XII A French Lady of great Wit jeering another in a Company where a Friend of this Lady was her Friend took her part and made the best of her But the first took her up and told her I find Madam that you have eaten Garlick Now 't is well known that those who have eaten Garlick are not sensible of the ill smell of others that have also eaten of the same XIII A Court-Lady gone