Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	london_n	mayor_n	name_n	9,578	5	7.9009	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87208	Mr. Iohn Iretons oration at the choosing of the new lord mayor.	Ireton, John, Sir, 1615-1690, attributed name.	1659 (1659)	Wing I1035; Thomason E1001_14; ESTC R202605	4,560	8

Mr. IOHN IRETONS ORATION AT The Choosing of the new LORD MAYOR IF my fortunes my desires had run equally along together I should not now have stood here solliciting a Plaudite at my exit For I had the Fortune to be Lord Mayor to have a Horse and trappings for my Horse and likewise for my self truly I have worldly honours for Saints may have their saylings as well as other men Now you know I might have kept my preeminence a year longer and for that I may thank the Parliament but you Petitioned against me for which I am much beholding to you Verily Inever thought this City would have proved so unfaithfull to me I am sure I well remember when it was otherwise when my brother Harry in the behalf of the Good old Cause was mangled into peices by Gun-shot that very little if any part at all were left of him Oh how did you the Grave men of the City wait upon and walk after his empty Coffin what fine verses were made upon him how did the Heralds stretch their wits and tenter their invention to emblazon his Gentility 'T was even a hard work verily a hard work of much time and great labour and do you imagine I can think of such things without much hugging of my self it is pretty well known upon what foundation I first raised the fabrick of my greatnesse O t is a fine thing to have faith I had faith and it failed me not I trusted the Cavaleers men of quality men of estates when there wealth was a refining at Goldsmiths Half they payed me I got by it and ever since I hated them t is agreat eye-sore Gentlemen nay t is a heart-breaking when any person can hit it in our teeth that they raised us Oh those steps must be pulled down by such worthy acts I thought to have endeared the City and Consequently to have merited an everlasting Government and truly I must confesse it was as a worthy Alderman lately sayd my own seeking and can you blame me for such a seeking the great-men the Governours the Parliament they approved of my seeking but you were not pleased with it you were offended you cryed out of your Privileges that you should loose your Charter Why Gentlemen is it not better you should lose your Charter then I the reward of any good service If old things are to be laid aside you might have as well laid aside your old Charter as refuse me for fear I should be an old Mayor Truly Gentlemen yee need not court the Mayoralty so much for there are no Protectors to Knight yee now as soon as yee are out of your time I am sorry that a roll of Parchment should stick so in your stomachs pray God you may be able to digest it I am much afflicted to see you have so little manners in you I am sure you have chosen a thousand Mayors and you might have given the Parliament leave to choose one I was once a Mercer and cheated the people with false lights then I became Religious and cheated them with false lights afterwards I was a Publican and consequently a publick sinner but as I am a sinner did not think you would have us'd me so unkindly what need you keep such a stir with your Charter suppose you had never a Mayor do you think your City would perish Pray tell me where do you find that the City which Cain built in the Land of Nod had any Mayors and yet for all that I know it was Govern'd as well as London Besides I read no where in Scripture that there were any Mayors of Cities indeed we hear of Kings of particular Towns as of Sodom and Gomorrha c. I would I were King of London I believe I should be as great a King as Kedor-laomer for all his hard name I have likewise heard of the Rulers of the City but now I perceive a Mayor is no Ruler of your City for if I could have rul'd this City you may be sure I would have had my will a little better than now I have But hang 't let it go take your Mayorality and your Charter and wipe your tayles with your Charter and your Mayorality For when I consider what Metaphorical girds the Mayor is liable too truly I cannot conceive it so great a dignity as you imagine for some men call me Swin-herd of the people some call me Goat-herd of the people and some Shep-herd of the people against the two latter I knew not how to defend my self considering your tamenesse and wantonnesse but for the first said I Gentlemen pray do not lay that aspersion upon me for I never saw any Beast break under my charge but what had hornes on Well I cannot blame ye for men are covetous of novelties Nor can I blame my self for having an ill opinion of ye for you were always deserters of your friends no longer pipe no longer dance with you If the Parliament be interrupted then Oliver his red Nose must be met by you with Hosannaes all the glories you can invent are too little for his Highnesses entertainment he is no sooner dead but you creep to his Son no sooner did he like a tame foole yield up his power but ye whirld off to the Parliament truly friends he deserves to be whipt who pulls down his breeches for the lash Oh that Prince that would be had a soft place in his head and did he think we would stand up for a fool Nay verily we are other wise taught The Good old Cause appeared Oh the Good old Cause who would but fight for the Good old Cause On the sweet air of a Common-wealth It makes me rejoyce to breath in it I played Rex I domineer'd and playd the Devill c. Gods sake for to have playd the Devill any otherwise had been Prophane Unsafe and perhaps unprosperous Yet give me leave to tell ye I think I acted my part better than he for he kept a noise and bustle in the World to no purpose I did my businesse quietly making no noise but only with my tongue and my horse heels He only pull'd up Trees I rooted up Men mine and your Enemies Some have said that the Devill 's an Asse truly I beleive it For we hear how St. Dunstan pull'd him by the nose and we see how every Conjurer with saying a head word or two is able to send him on every pitty full errand though it be only to fetch a farthing-worth of mustard Some have said that he is honester than we are but would they could make it out I le assure you they are none of the Devils friends that say so for then a thing which perhaps they little dream on whereas he thinks to punish us we ought and it must be out right to punish him For what reason were it that he being more wicked than we are should punish us that are not so wicked as himself And now I think n●t I