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	sir_n	william_n	12,209	5	8.7561	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03242	Porta pietatis, or, The port or harbour of piety Exprest in sundry triumphes, pageants, and showes, at the initiation of the Right Honourable Sir Maurice Abbot Knight, into the Majoralty of the famous and farre renowned city London. All the charge and expence of the laborious projects both by water and land, being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Drapers. Written by Thomas Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1638 (1638)	STC 13359; ESTC S104071	7,653	22

Porta pietatis OR The Port or Harbour of Piety Exprest in sundry Triumphes Pageants and Showes at the Initiation of the Right Honourable Sir MAVRICE ABBOT Knight into the Majoralty of the famous and farre renowned City London All the charge and expence of the laborious Projects both by water and Land being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Drapers Written by Thomas Heywood Redeunt Spectacula Printed at London by I. Okes. 1638. To the Right Honorable Sr. Maurice Abbot Knight the Lord Maior of this renowned Metropolis London Right Honourable ANtiquity informes us in the most flourishing state of Rome of an Order of the Candidati so called because habited in white vesture betokning Innocence and those of the noblest Citizens who in that garbe walked the streets with humble lookes and submisse gesture thereby to insinuate themselves into the grace of the people being ambitious after honour and Office Great Lord it fareth not so with You who though for inward Candor and sincerity You may compare with the best of them yet have beene so far from affecting such popularity that though You in Your great Modesty would willingly have evaded it yet some places by importunity and this Your present Praetorship hath by a generall suffrage and the unanimous harmony of a free Election beene conferd upon You. Neither can I omit the happinesse of Your deceased Father remarkable in three most fortunate Sonnes the one for many yeares together Arch-Bishop of Canterbury and Metropolitane of all England another a reverend Father in God Bishop of Salisbury as memorable for his learned Workes and Writings as the other for his Episcopall government in the Church and Counsell in State And now lately Your Honour'd selfe the Lord Maior of this Metropolis the famous City London In which and of which as you are now Maximus so it is expected you shall prove Optimus Grave Sir it is a knowne Maxime that the honour which is acquired by Vertue hath a perpetuall assurance nor blame my boldnesse if I presume to prompt Your memory in what You have long studied The life of a Magistrate is the rule and square whereby inferior persons frame their carriage and deportment who sooner assimulate themselves to their Lives than their Lawes which Lawes if not executed are of no estimation But I cease further to trouble Your Lordship leaving you to Your Honourable charge with that of the Poet Qui sua metitur pondera ferre potest Your Lordships in all observance Thomas Heywood Londini Porta Pietatis Londons Gate to Piety LONDON and WESTMINSTER are two Twin-sister-Cities as joyned by one Street so watered by one streame the first a breeder of grave Magistrates the second the buriall-place of great Monarchs Both famous for their two Cathedrals the one Dedicated to the honour of Saint Paul the other of Saint Peter These I rather concatenate because as in the one the Right Honourable the Lord Major receiveth his honour so in the other he takes his Oath yet London may be presum'd to be the elder and more excellent in Birth Meanes and Issue in the first for her Antiquity in the second for her Ability in the third for her numerous Progeny she and her Suburbs being decored with two severall Burses or Exchanges and beautified with two eminent Gardens of Exercise knowne by the names of Artillery and Military I shall not need to insist much either upon her Extension or Dimension nor to compare her with other eminent Cities that were or are it having beene an Argument treated of by Authentick Authors and the laborious project of many learned Pennes and frequently celebrated upon the like dayes of Solemnity And although by the space of Tenne yeares last past there hath not beene any Lord Major free of that Company yet was there within Twelve yeeres before that sixe Lord Majors of the same And it shall not bee amisse to give you a briefe Nomination of some Honourable Praetors and those of prime Remarke in that Company Sir Henry Fitz-Alwin Draper was the first Lord Major of this Citie which place hee held for foure and twenty yeeres together and upward and in the first yeere of his Majoralty London-Bridge which was before made of Timber was begun to be built of Stone Sir William Powltney was foure times Lord Major 1337 he built a Chappell in Pauls where hee lyeth buried and erected a Colledge neere unto the Church of St. Laurence Powltney London He moreover built the Church of little Alhallows in Thames street with other pious and devout Acts. Iohn Hind Draper Lord Major 1405 built the Church of Sr. Swithen by London-stone c. Sir Iohn Norman was the first that rowed in his Bardge to Westminster when hee went to take his Oath Sir Richard Hardell face in the Judicatory Seate sixe yeares together Simon Eyre Lord Major built Leaden-Hall at his owne proper costs and charges Sir Richard Pipe George Monox Lord Major 1515 and Sir Iohn Milborne were great Erectors of Almes-houses Hospitalls c. and left liberally to the poore Sir Richard Campion perfected divers charitable workes left unfinish't by Sir Iohn Milborne before named Sir Thomas Hayes 1615 Sir Iohn Iolls 1616 Sir Edward Barkham Sir Martin Lumley Sir Allan Cotten Sir Cuthbert Hacket c. To speake of them all I should but spend Paper in a meere capitulation of their names and neglect the project now in agitation The first Show by Water THe first Show by Water is presented by Proteus in a beautiful Sea-Chariot for the better Ornament decored with divers Marine Nymphs and Sea-goddesses c. He sitteth or rideth upon a moving Tortois which is reckoned amongst the Amphibiae quòd in ambobus Elementis degant That is One of those Creatures that live in two Elements the Water and the Land alluding to the Trading of the Right Honourable the present Lord Major who is a Merchant free of the Turkey Italian French Spanish Muscovy and was late Governour of the East Indy-Company This Proteus or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Primus is held to be the first or most ancient of the Sea-gods the Sonne of Oceanus and Thetis who could transhape himselfe into any Figure whatsoever and was skilfull in Prediction He was call'd Vertumnus à vertendo because he indented or turned the course of the River Tyber which floweth up to Rome as the Thames to London he was a King and reigned in the Carpathian Island which because it was full of boggs and marish places as lying neere unto the maine Ocean he had that Title conferr'd on him to be a Marine god when the Scithians thought to invade him and by reason of the former impediments could no way damage his Countrey it therefore increased their superstitious opinion to have him Deified He was called also Pastor populi that is A Shepheard of the people and is said also to feede Neptunes Fishes call'd Phocae It was a Custome amongst the Aegyptian Kings to have their