Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	baron_n	earl_n	viscount_n	2,923	5	11.7819	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12110	The shepardes kalender Here beginneth the kalender of shepardes newly augmented and corrected.; Compost et kalendrier des bergiers. English.	Copland, Robert, fl. 1508-1547, attributed name.	1570 (1570)	STC 22415; ESTC S107779	143,077	197

enuyous of the signe of aquarius the man that is borne vnder the signe of aquaquarius fro midde ianuary vnto mydde february shal be louely and yrefull he wyll 〈◊〉 beleue in vayne he shall haue syluer at xxiiii yeare he shall be in estate he shal winne where he goth or he shal be sorest 〈◊〉 shal be hurte with yron he shal haue feare on the water and afterwarde shal haue good fortune and shal go in to diuers straunge countreys ¶ the woman that is borne in this tyme shall be delycious and haue many noyses for her children she shal be in great peril at the age of xxiiii yere she shal be in felycytie she shal haue domage by ●eas●es with foure feete she shal lyue lxxvii yere after nature the dayes of uenus and of luna be right good for them the dayes of mars and saturne byn contrary● and bothe the m●n and women shal be resonable and they shall not ●e ouer ryche ¶ of the signe of pisces he that is borne vnder the sygne of pisces from myd february to myd marche shal be a greate goer a fornicatour a mocker and shal be couetous he will say one do an other he shall fynde money he wil truste in his sapience and shall haue good fortune he shall be a defender of orphelyus and wydowes he shall be fearefull on water he shall passe soone al his aduersyties and shall lyue .lxxiii. yeare and v. monthes after nature ¶ the woman that is borne in thys time shal be delicious familier in io●tes pleasaunt of courage feruent and shall haue syckenesse in her eyen and shall be sorowefull by shame her husbande will leaue her and she shall haue much peyne with straungers she shall not haue her owne she shall haue peyne in her stomake she shall lyue lxxvii yere after nature the dayes of mars and of saturne to them bin countrary and both the man and the woman shal lyue faythfullye ¶ thus endeth the natiuities of men and women after the xii signes ¶ here after foloweth the x. christen nations capitulo liiii i pretend in this lytle treatise to speake of diuers christi nacions the which bin deuided in x. of the which i will declare as i haue foūde written in the latin tonge will redyge it to our englishe maternal as shepardes speakethe in the fyeldes after the capacitie of myne vnderstandinge and if in so doynge i haue erred i require all other shepardes for to excuse any youth and to amende where as i haue made defaute and where as i haue fayled i submytte me vnto amendement for ageynste amendes no man may be ¶ the first nation is of latynes in the nation of latynes for the superioures is the emperoure many kinges that is to wyte the most christen redoubted king of englande and of fraunce with many noble dukes erles vycountes barons and knyghtes and is the nacyon moste resplendishinge of all other in honoure force and chyualry in the nation of spayne bin the kynges of castyle of aragon of portyngale of nauarre and other lordes in the nation of italye is the kynge of eycyle the kynge of naples and many other lordes as of uenyce florence and geane in almayne besyde the emperour is diuers kinges as of scotlande hungry boheme polaheye asye fryse suisse hornegy almacye and croacy and many other lordeshippes that byn vnder the obedience of the catolycke churche ¶ the seconde nation is of grekes horace complaynethe speaking oft his nation of grece for the vexation that it hath had in tyme● past the greekes haue the patriarke of constantinople archebishops ●ottes to the spiritualty and to the temporaltie emperours dukes and erles they be nowe but of small nombre for agar●e●s and turkes haue taken the greatest● parte of greece the whyche parte obeyeth not the catolycke churche for they re troure they byn condempned by the churche for that they say spiritus sanctus non procedit a filio ¶ the thirde nacion is of armenyens vue rede that the nacion of armenyens in nyghe antyoche they vse al one language in the deuyne seruyce and in holy scripture as who shuld synge englishe in the church and both the mē and women vnderstande all they haue theyr pryma●e whiche they call catholycke to who they obey as to the kyng in greate deuocion and reuerence they faste the lenten and eate no fyshe and they drynke no wyne and eate f●eshe ●n the saturday ¶ the fourth nacion of georgiens this nacion is called georgiēs of s. george of whom they beare the image in battaile and he is theyr patron they byn in the parties orential byn stronge and delycyous half percyens halfe assuriens they speake foule folysh language and make their sacramētes as the grekes the preste haue their crownes rounde reased on theyr heades the clerkes haue them square when they go to the holy sepulcre they paye no trybute to the sarazyns they entre into ierusalē theyr standerdes displayed for the sarazins feareth them the women vse armures as the men when they wryte to the sowdan incontinent that which they demaunde is graunted them ¶ the fyfth nacyon is of assuriens i fynde also by wrytinge that the nacion of suriens hath takē the name of a cyty named sur the which is the moste eminēt most vpholdē amonge al other cities townes of the contrey of surrey these people for their vulgare common speche speketh the language sarazynoys theyr holy scriptures deuinities officies of the seruis is in greke they haue bishops kepe the cōstituciōs of the grekes obey them in all thinges they sacrifyce with reysed bread haue opynious of the grekes as the latynes there be some christen men in the holy lande that ensuethe them and byn called samarytans whiche were conuerted in the tyme of the apostles but they be not perfyte christen men the syxte nation is of mororabyens sometime were wont to be a nacion of people in the contre of affryke spayne called mororabiens but now they bin but few they be called mororabiens for that in may thinges thei held the vse in christen men being in araby they vse the language of latin in the deuine officies sacred thinges obei to the church to the prelates of the latines they confesse them in the language azymonien or in latin they bin differēt to the latines for that in their dyuyne offices they haue the houres to longe and for the daye is deuyded in xxiiii houres of night and day so many offyres houres psalmes and all other orizons haue thei along the which they say not after the custome of the latines for that that the latynes saye in the begynnynge they say in the ende or in the middes some deuydeth the holye sacramentes in vii partes and other in .x. this is a ryght deuoute nation they conioyne no persons by mariage but if they be borne in theyr owne countrey and lande the