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	william_n	13,675	5	8.9418	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03217	The second part of, If you know not me, you know no bodie VVith the building of the Royall Exchange: and the famous victorie of Queene Elizabeth, in the yeare 1588.; If you know not me, you know no bodie. Part 2	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1606 (1606)	STC 13336; ESTC S106200	46,470	76

Quicke runne thou before and enter the action Ther 's money an action of an hundred pound Against Timothy Thin-beard M. Greshams Factor I hope I shall teach you to dog me Quick An action against Thin-beard I goe Exit Iohn Here Honestie there 's money for thy arrest Be sure to take good Bayle or clap him fast I hope I shall shew you a trick Honest. Mum for that Iohn See where he is God prosper it Fasten vpon him like a hungry Dog vpon a peece of meate And if this be not a tricke to chaste a foole A more knaue learne me and I le goe to schoole Honest. I arrest you Sir Tim: Arrest me thou seruant to Sathan at whose sute Honest. At your Masters M. Greshams Tim. O God for thy mercie M. Iohn M. Iohn Iohn Nay nay this 100. li hath other worke in hand for me You are in the Deuils hand and so agree Exit Tim. My good friend now what must become of me Honest. Vnles wee shall to the Tauerne and drinke till you can send for Baile you must to the Counter Tim. Is ther no difference made betwixt the faithfull and the vnfaithfull Honest. Faith very little in paying of debts but if you be so holy I maruel how you run so farre behind hand With your M. Tim. I must confesse I owe my M. 500. li. How I came so it is not fit to lay the sins of our flesh open to euery eie you know the saying T is bad to do euill but worse to boast of it yet hee aboue knowes that sometimes as soone as I haue come from Bowe-church I haue gone to a Baudie-house your knauerie Honest. Nay it appeares so that now your M. hath smelt out Tim. Not to commit in very deed good friend but only to see fashions or to recreat stir vp our drowsie appetites Enter Quic. Honest. Well here comes my fellow Quick and vnles you wil content vs for staying you must along to the Counter Tim. I hope you thinke The Labourer is worthie of his hire we will stay here at the Tauerne and Quick I will content thee to carry a letter to my master wherein I will make him a restitution of his 500. li. by repentance and shew him the way that my fraile nature hath run into Honest. Well wee le be pay'd by the houre Tim. It will not be amisse if you buy an houre-glasse Exeunt Enter D. Nowel Gresham sir Tho. Ramsie Hobson Lady Ramsie Gresh. Come M. D. Nowell now we haue done Our worst to your good cheere wee 'd faine be gone Onely we stay my kinsmans long returne To pay this hundred pound to sir Thomas Ramsie D. Now. Then assure you he will be heare presently In the meane time I haue drawne you to this walke A Gallerie wherein I keepe the Pictures Of many charitable Citizens That hauing fully satisfied your bodyes You may by them learne to refresh your soules Gresh. Are all these Pictures of good Cittizens D. Now. They are and I le describe to you some of their births How they bestowd their liues and did so liue The fruits of this life might a better giue Gresh. You shall gaine more in shewing this to vs Then you haue showne Lady Good M. Deane I pray you shew it vs This was the Picture of sir Iohn Philpot sometimes Mayor This man at one time at his owne charge Leauied ten thousand souldiers guarded the Realme From the incursions of our enemies And in the yeare a thousand three hundred and eightie VVhen Thomas of Woodstocke Thomas Percie with other noble VVere sent to ayd the Duke of Britannie men This sayd Iohn Filpot furnisht out foure ships At his owne charges and did release the armor That the poore souldiers had for victuals paw'nd This man did liue when Walworth was Lord Maior That prouident valiant and learned Citizen That both attacht and kild the traytor Tyler For which good seruice Walworth the Lord Maior This Filpot and foure other Aldermen Were knighted in the field Thus did he liue and yet before he di'd Assur'd reliefe for thirteene poore for euer Gres: By the marry God a worthy Citizen On good my Deare Now: This sir Richard Whitington three times Maior Sonne to a Knight and Prentise to a Mercer Began the Librarie of Gray-Friars in London And his Executors after him did build Whittington Colledge thirteene Almes-houses for poore men Repair'd S. Bartholmewes in Smithfield Glased the Guild-hall and built Newgate Hob. Bones of mee then I haue heard lyes For I haue heard he was a scullion And rai'sd himselfe by venture of a Cat Now: They did the more wrong to the gentleman This sir Iohn Allen Mercer and Maior of London A man so graue of life that he was made A priuie Counsellor to King Henrie the eight He gaue this Citie a rich Coller of gold That by the Maior succeeding should be worne Of which sir William Laxton was the first And is continued euen vnto this yeare A number more there are of whose good deeds This Citie florisht Gresh And we may be ashamed For in their deeds we see our owne disgrace We that are Citizens are rich as they were Behold their charitie in euery streete Churches for prayer Almes-houses for the poore Conduits which bring vs water all which good We doe see and are relieu'd withall And yet wee liue like beasts spend time and die Leauing no good to be remembred by Lady Among the Stories of these blessed men So many that inrich your Gallarie There are two womens Pictures what were they D. Now. They are two that haue deseru'd a memorie Worthy the note of our Posteritie This Agnes Foster wife to sir A. Foster That fre'd a Beggar at the grate of Lud-gate Was after Maior of this most famous Citie And builded the South-side of Lud-gate vp Vpon which wall these Verses I haue read Deuout soules that passe this way For M. Foster late Maior honestly pray And Agnes his Wife to God consecrate That of pitty this house made for Londoners in Lud.gate So that for lodging and water here nothing they pay As their Keepers shall answere at dreadfull Doomes day Lady O what a charitable deed was this This Aue Gibson who in her husbands life Being a Grocer and a sherife of London Founded a free Schoole at Ratcliffe There to instruct three-score poore children Built fourteene Almes-houses for fourteene poore Leauing for Tutors 50. li. a yeare And Quarterly for euery one a Noble Lady Why should not I liue so that being dead My name might haue a register with theirs Gresh. Why should not all of vs being wealthy men And by Gods blessing onely rais'd but Cast in our mindes how we might them exceed In godly workes helping of them that need Hob. Bones a me t is true why should we liue To haue the poore to curse vs being dead Heauen grant that I may liue that when I die Although my children laugh the poore may