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

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66844	The gentlewomans companion; or, A guide to the female sex containing directions of behaviour, in all places, companies, relations, and conditions, from their childhood down to old age: viz. As, children to parents. Scholars to governours. Single to servants. Virgins to suitors. Married to husbands. Huswifes to the house Mistresses to servants. Mothers to children. Widows to the world Prudent to all. With letters and discourses upon all occasions. Whereunto is added, a guide for cook-maids, dairy-maids, chamber-maids, and all others that go to service. The whole being an exact rule for the female sex in general. By Hannah Woolley.	Woolley, Hannah, fl. 1670.; Faithorne, William, 1616-1691, engraver.	1673 (1673)	Wing W3276A; ESTC R204109	139,140	297

any former service yet adding withall that knowing her goodness and the delight her Ladiship takes in bestowing courtesies on the undeserver she fears not a denial If it be upon an urgent occasion let her endeavour to move her to compassionate her misery exaggerating the greatness thereof infisting that she hath no other way to retrieve her misfortune that if she cannot hereafter find any way a requital yet she shall notwithstanding retain the remembrance of her love or charity fixed in her heart Conclude with a Prayer to God so to increase her relicity here that she may never stand in need of a kindness from any till the Almighty hath fixed on her head a Crown of Glory Of Recommendation IN the recommending of a person you must shew your motives for so doing as first either as she is a Kinswoman or Friend and a person so worthy as deserving all favour that were it not for her goodness and virtue you would not utter a word in her behalf and conclude that what kindness is done her is shewn to your self How elegantly to complain of injuries done THis may be done several ways if you would mildly complain of a friend and yet not break with him or her let your complaint be mixt with praises saying that you are sorry the persons deportment hath not been such as your friendship required however you are so charitable as to believe the offence was not committed willingly but rather through misprision or ill perswasion But let the offence be ever so great do not rail in opprobrious terms though in smart and significant expressions saying that you have connived too long patiently at the injuries done you but finding instead of amendment the person growing worse you would be more sensless than stones if you should not speak referring your self to his own judgment if passion hath not quite extinguisht the eye of reason whether you are not very much wrong'd however upon a just acknowledgment you are willing to forget all and retain him or her still in the estimation of a friend Forms of Address or Visit. IN the first place insinuate your contentment in discoursing with your friend face to face but since you are deprived thereof you are happy still in having the opportunity and conveniency of writing That you desire to hear of her welfare both as to health and other concerns that your desire is earnest to see her and that those days wherein you see her not are years and those years seem ages especially when you receive no Letters from her that if she will continue that correspondence she shall find occasion of finding fault on your side more of importunity than carelesness or neglect and so conclude with a protestation of the continuance of an inviolable friendship Forms of Congratulation THis is done when we desire to rejoice with our friend for some great good that hath befaln him or her either by escaping from some eminent danger or sickness There are several other subjects of this nature which you may treat on as they happen and therefore I cannot prescribe you exact rules only you must testifie the great satisfaction you receive in your friends welfare and that your joy is not particular but all in general have it when good and virtuous persons are advanced and do prosper Of Consolation LEtters of Consolation seem to mitigate any evil or adversity that hath befaln a friend which being various cannot well have one remedy applied to them If the evil be but small alledg they have no such great cause for their sorrowing the subject not deserving it that they ought to have courage for pusillanimity wrongs the reputation or if it be great insist that it will not last long But if the disaster be very great indeed you must then acknowledg how much you are concerned in his or her sufferings and that having so great a share in her misfortune you are fitter to condole than comfort her therein yet however the interest of alliance or friendship oblige you to apply some lenitive That you cannot perswade her from grieving for that would argue inhumanity having sustain'd so great a loss of a Husband a Wife Father Mother c. but hope she or he will not be so heartless as to be carried away in the torrent of a fruitless grief that Reason must be used for Nature is not obliged to alter its course to please him or her particularly and exempt it self for the sake of one from those Laws to which the whole world is subject In short when a misfortune cannot be withstood immoderate grief doth but exasperate it and that being a Christian there ought to be a submission to Gods Will and subscribe with a prayer to the Almighty to give him or her patience to overcome this great affliction Form of thanks for Courtesies received THanks we must apply as well to the nature of the Courtesie as to the quality of him that hath done it You must begin with a commemoration of the Courtesie received acknowledging the receiver not worthy thereof having never done any obliging service or if you have yet this hath made double satisfaction then promise that the remembrance of her love shall be deeply engraven in your heart and that you will always retain a resentment of her kindness This you may write if the kindness be so highly qualified that the person looks for no other satisfaction than acknowledgment only I have given you several forms of Letters let me now shew you the parts of a Letter the common ones are Superscription and Subscription The Superscription of Letters is twofold the one external the other internal the outward Superscription is that when the Letter is folded up and containeth the name title and abode of the person we write unto but above all you must have a care that you give proper titles such as befit the quality of the person The Title of a King is To His most Excellent Majesty To the Queen the same altering the article To all Sons or Brethren of the King of England To His Royal Highness To a Duke To His Grace To a Duchess the same To all Earls Marquesses Viscounts and Barons To the right Honourable To Marchionesses and Countesses by Patent To the right Honourable To all Lords To the right Honourable To Knights To the right Worshipful To all Justices of Peace High Sheriffs Counsellors at Law Esquires either by birth or place c. To the Worshipful The Subscription is placed at the lower end of the Letter and in writing to great Persons you must subscribe thus   My Lord or Madam Your most humble and most obedient Servant or Your most faithful and most obliged Servant S. G. To persons of meaner degree subscribe your self thus   Your Servant or Your Friend and Servant If kindred write one to another the greater may express the relation in the beginning of the Letter but she that is of the meaner quality must be content to specifie