Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	ambassador_n	king_n	pope_n	4,544	5	7.1893	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19322	Wits fittes and fancies Fronted and entermedled with presidentes of honour and wisdome. Also: Loves Ovvl. An idle conceited dialogue betwene loue, and an olde man. Recta securus. A. C.	Copley, Anthony, 1567-1607?; Santa Cruz de Dueñas, Melchor de. Floresta española.; Cota, Rodrigo de. Dialogo entre el amor y un caballero viejo.	1595 (1595)	STC 5738; ESTC S111171	147,931	246

seeing there the French king his chaire placed aboue his Lieges he push'd it downe with great impacience A Bishop that sate by rebuking him therfore and affirming that that was no meet time nor place to commit scandals Tut reuerend father he answered say you as beseemes a diuine and doe I as fitteth a Gentleman A Duke of Florence inuited to his pallace at Rome the Earle of Tendilia Spaines Ambassadour to Supper the Duke wold haue placed him at the vpper end of the boord vnder his cloth of estate but the Earle greatlie gainsaide it and refused it Then the Duke waxing hereat ciuilly angrie commaunded one of his Gentlemen to bring him foorthwith the keies of his pallace to the end to yeeld them vp to the Earle Frances King of France in a Letter that he wrote to the Emperours Ambassador endorsed it thus To th' Ambassadour of Kings and King of Ambassadours c. Cardinall Saluiates the Popes Legate in Spaine at the Emperour Charles his espousall being in mery conuersation said That Fraunce tasted of pride Spaine of malice Italie of wisdom England of vanity Portugall of fooles OF GENTLEMEN A Gentleman asking a Dier whether he could die his silk stockings of the collour of a womans honesty Fie said a Gentlewomā that stood by what a question is that Say you fie repli'd the Gentleman Beleeue me I had not thought a womans honesty had been of the collour of Fie A Sodomitical Gentleman walking in a Chu●chyard with an other poore Gentleman whom he greatly disdained and asking him where he would be buried when he were dead The other answered With you in Sodome Isabell Queen of Spaine saying to a yong gentleman whose father had before time sustained some iust disgrace at her highnes hands I trow N. you wil trimly raise vp your house again and make vs good amends for your fathers fault He being a silly sot answered Yea and like your Maiesty one end of my barne indeed is sore decayed with the last windes by reason that it stands somewhat high but my mother hath promised me to be at the charge of that reparation A Gentleman sitting at a play a Marchant by chaunce sate afore him whose hat was so high and broade that it hindered his view of the play wherupon he saide vnto him My good ●riend I beseech you doe off your hatte a while for I assure you it will greatly benefite my eie-sight A Spanish Gentleman had a many Moores to his slaues and in the winter time he kept them cold and bare A Church-man rebuking such his vncharitie and hard heart and saying that it was a shame vnto him He answered Passe they ouer the cold and I le passe ouer the shame wel ynough A Gentleman in regarde of a Gentlewomans rude behauiour towards him estranged himself for a season from conuersing with her Whereupon a friend of hers asking him on a time why hee became so great a straunger to that house hee answered Because better is ciuill strangenesse than rude familiarity A Gentleman riding along where sate a many Gentlewomen at the street doore an vgly Mastiffe curre flewe at him Whereupon the Gentleman desirous to view the Gentlewomen took this as an occasion to turne back and said vnto thē Gentlewoman this Curre is hell and all you are heauen A Gentleman bespake a paire of shooes of a shoomaker who at the monthes end brought them him Whereat the Gentleman somwhat angry with his so long delay say'd vnto him Euē as you came my friend so be gone for I weare not my shooes by your foot but by mine owne On S. Steuens day it is the custome all horses to be let bloud and drench'd A Gentleman being that morning demaunded whether it pleased him to haue his horse let bloud and drencht according to the fashion He answered No sirra my horse is not diseasd of the fashions A young Gentleman said vnto an olde Gentleman who was but his equal both in linage liuing and all other respects onely age excepted Sir I beseech you let mee kisse your reuerend hand Th' other was content and offered it him to kisse But the young Gentleman seeing such his vanitie only shooke him by the hand and said Good faith Sir you and I against any other two A poore Gentleman that for wealths sake had maried a rich pesants daughter compared such his mariage to a pudding whereinto hee had put the bloud and his Father in law the Chibbols A Ge●tleman came hungry home and called for dinner and his man answered That it was but new stroken tenne Tut said the Gentleman tellest thou me of ten by the clocke being twelue by my stomacke A poore Gentleman dying had three faire haukes which he thus disposed of viz. Th' one to be sold for the benefit of his soule th' other for the discharge of certain dribling debts and the third to remaine to his sonne whome he made his Executor This good Executor within a while after missing one of the hawkes sayd So wel fare thy heart hawke be thou gone for my fathers soule A Gentleman being releast out of prison the porter at parting demanded his fee and the Gentleman gaue him but a common prisoners fee viz. three pence Wherunto the Porter excepting and challenging sixe pence The Gentleman shaming belike to haue been prisoner for so foule a matter answered I am content thou take me for a pesant for this once A very ciuill Gentleman walking in conuersation with other his companions stayd talking by the way with a plaine Cuntryman who met him and deliuered him a letter And because his parly was somewhat long th 'others were discontented and walk'd on afore leauing him behind who at last ouertaking them said Gentlemen it is no lesse honourable to answere an inferiour then to comply with an equall A yoong Gentleman that had followed the warres complained when he came home of the Sciatica And being asked how he came by that ache he answered By lying in franke tenements viz. Vpon the bare earth One asking a Gentleman his acquaintance what good horses he had he answered As stately a one as euer you saw Th' other then desirous to see it to the stable they went where when they came a piteous poore iade it was God wot of pure skin and bone But looking still about for the foresaid stately horse and not seeing any such there he maruelled and often asked where he was become Then th' other answered Why loe heer where he standes pointing to the poore lade I warrant yee quoth he that he goes not aboue halfe a mile an houre to dy for it and can you haue a statelier horse then so A Gentleman seeing his man gallop a horse ilfauoredly said vnto him I assure thee N. thou doest not a whit discr●dit thy mother The seruing man asking him how so Mary quoth he because when one doth a thing passing wel with a good grace as now thou doest I haue hard it often said The