Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	lord_n	richard_n	sir_n	4,631	4	6.1407	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08255	The scourge of corruption. Or A crafty knaue needs no broker. Written by Anthony Nixon	Nixon, Anthony.	1615 (1615)	STC 18590; ESTC S110169	26,216	42

THE SCOVRGE OF Corruption OR A CRAFTY KNAVE needs no Broker Qui bene latuit bene vixit Dominatur fraus in omnibus Written by ANTHONY NIXON Printed at London for Henry Gosson and William Houlmes and are to be sold at his shop in Popes-head Pallace 1615. TO THE VVORTHY and Iudicious Gentleman ROBERT GARSET Esquire SIR if you onely looke vpon the Title of this little Booke you will perhaps maruell that I am so bold to make passage of it vnder your Name it brings so harsh a name with it But if you be pleased to looke further into the substance I hope you will giue it a kinde intertainement For I haue taken that course in it not to be offensiue to any But if through mistaking some shal thinke themselues touched it proceedeth rather from their owne corruption then plaine meaning and in this humble tender of my loue vnto you I doe but play the ill debtor who knowing that hee is scarce able to ensconce himselfe against beggery yet goes wilfully into further dangers in hope to finde pitty at the hands of his Creditors trusting vpon mittigation or forbearance till hee bee better able to make satisfaction Euen so as I confesse my selfe bound to you for some benefits receiued and being vnable to make recompence I haue aduentured to cast my selfe into further perill in hope to be relieued by your wonted fauour and to haue my boldnesse remitted by your generous respects to which I wholy submit my selfe For I set before your eies a mixt banquet of sweet and sower mirth and mourning Seria cum iocis If it be not so good as you deserue nor so rich as I could wish it I must intreat you to blam the vanity of our times which affoord● no better condimenta or seasonings I know you loue to reade for that you know to censure Reade then as it is writ willingly and censure as it is sent in loue Beare with the hard fauourdnesse of the Title For Diamonds are not vnderualued by their roughnesse when they are vncut Nor can it be shame to gather a violet though it grow close to the ground As I haue better you shall enioy it Such as it is if you be pleased to embrace it I shall rest In the best of obseruantes deuoted yours Anthony Nixon THE SCOVRGE of Corruption OR A crafty Knaue needs no broker OVr English Chronicles haue left in remembrance that in the time of Henry the fourth there liued in sundry places of this Kingdome but especially about the City of London diuers lewd persons that gaue themselues to no good course of life but because the times were then some-what troublesome watched diligently when by the least occasion of mutiny they might pray vpon the goods of honest persons and so in rich themselues by their spoile At the same time likewise there liued a worthy gentleman whose many famous déeds which neither time nor occasion will permit me to rehearse doe renowne his name to all ensuing Posterities His name was Sir Richard Whittington founder of Whittington Colledge and thrée times Lord Maior of th● Citty of London This worthy man well obseruing the dangerous disposition of that euill disposed kind of people tooke such discréet order after he had sent many of them to the warres and they loath to doe so well returned to their former vomit that in no place about London they might haue entertainement vnlesse they applied themselues to such honest exercises as might witnesse their maintenance by true and lawfull meanes If any were found to the contrary they were sharpely proceeded withall in iustice as most hurtfull and dangerous members of a Common-wealth Now in this most quiet and happy time of Peace vnder out most Excellent and Soueraigne Head when all men in course of life should shew themselues thankefull for so great a benefit this famous Citty ray the most part of the kingdome is pestered with the like or worse ki●d of peo●le that beare an outward shew of honest disposition when fronte politus Astutaem vapido seruat sub pectore vulpem Their intentions being in deed very dete●●able and their behauiours infamous who as by many close and cunning practises they doe wrong and iniury to a multitude of people to their seuerall hurts and vndooings So if God should in iustice bee angry with ●s as our wickednesse hath well deserued and which God forfend our peace should be molested as in former times euen as they did So will these be the first that will seeke our Domes●icall spoile and ruine not skilling how they come by it so they may haue it By reading therefore and taking a slight suruey of th●se foure seuerall personages that from diuers places lately presented themselues to my sight in such anticke attire and variable carriages that they set my senses at amazement you shall see the subtile pollicy at foure deceiuers and discouer some of their abuses and corruptions And this as néere as I can is a true touch of their seuerall Characters The first is Conscience THe first carried the shape of a goodly old ●atherly Man but it séemed hee had béene much wronged for his cheekes were leane and bloodlesse his eyes hollow his looks like his fortunes downe and deiect his apparell comely but much torne his bosome was bare bloody and full of wounds his wrists and anckles worne almost to the bones with bolts and manacles so that I could not imagine what he was but that he had beene an ancient wronged prisoner The second Symon Saywell THe second both in plac● and order a proper man but of a contrar● garbe and temper His chéek● were plumpe and re● as a cram'd pullet and couered with red rose leaues his lookes cheer●●ull the sap of sherry sacke hunge at his muchato The top of his nose was sign'd ore with the English malt w●ich the Master of Copersmiths Hall had tane vp to build almeshouses in for certaine impotent and tradefalne wormes that pesterd their company The roofe of his head to my remembrance not much vnlike the property of Tiburne Red strossers and a blew codpiece garded with yellow like the iags of a Ia●kealents ierkin his gowne vnder one arme within the folds of that a latine Psalter cry him heartily mercy t' was a Pewter pot for I should blame him to say he euer carried a piece of lattine about him so much as in conceipt A pewter vessell t' was contain'd some quart or birlady more vnder one arme his Hostesse talley His gate was sprightly his habit anticke and his gesture apish and pear● The third Feedwell THe third a Countrey homespun Russetting none of the fattest and yet his Equinoctiall or vvast was at least two els in compasse His face and beard comely and not leane either chéeke about the muchnesse of a two penny Pumpion or a great Cabbage in September couered ouer with red oker and but I knew him to be fled out of England I should haue tane him for the God