Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	france_n	king_n	war_n	17,303	5	6.8100	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20370	The mirrour of mirth and pleasant conceits containing many proper and pleasaunt inuentions, for the recreation and delight of many, and to the hurt and hinderance of none / framed in French by that worshipfull and learned gentleman, Bonaduenture de Periers ... and Englished by R.D.; Nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis. English. 1583	Des Périers, Bonaventure, 1500?-1544?; Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.	1583 (1583)	STC 6784.5; ESTC S4102	71,485	102

declare what he was willed him to holde his peace with a mischiefe let the Prouost alone said he for to teach him to hang folkes When the Prouost hard him named he caused him to come downe and to be loosed to whom the bastard said moreouer Wel you would haue hanged me it should haue béen the dearest hanging M. Prouost that euer thou hanged in thy life But why diddest not thou let him alone speaking to the man that did saue him verie angerlie Iudg now I pray you what wil this man had that would haue suffered him selfe to bee hanged and would haue beene reuenged afterward but who would once thinke that he was a Noble mans sonne and also a Gentleman The poore man was not of his mind that the French Kinge would haue sent to the Kinge of England who then had war against Fraunce for manie iniuries wrongs that Fraunce had offered the which Gentleman said vnto the French Kinge Sir and it like your grace I am yours body life and gooddes the which I will indeuour with all my power to bestow in your Graces seruice like an obedient Subiecte but if you send me into England in these troubles I shall neuer returne again which is for a matter of no such great waight but that it may be deferred vntill the Kinge of England haue pacified his anger for now that he is thus bent against you and your kingdome he will not sticke to cut off my head By the faith of a Gentleman said the French king if he do so I wilbe reuenged or it shall cost me fortie thousand mens liues Yea mary Sir saide the Gentleman but of all those heades there will not be one that will serue my turne it is a small comfort to a man that his death shalbe reuenged Indéed a man for the respect of his honour and for the common wealth will bee the more willing to offer his heade to be stricken off for that it is a vertuous act and a honourable execution ¶ Of a Taylor that would steale from himselfe and of the graye cloth that he restored againe to his Gossip the Hosyer A Taylor of the Towne of Poytiers named Lyon was a good workman of his occupation and could as wel make a garment for a woman as for a mā but sometimes he would cut out thrée quarters behinde in stéed of two or thrée sléeues in a cloke and sow on but twoo and he had so practised this legerdemaine that hee could not refraine it in nothing that he did cut out If he had cut out a garment for himself he would haue thoght his cloth had deceiued him if he cut not somthing beside the garment to cast into the chest As in like manner an other who was so great a théefe that when he found nothing to steale he wold rise from his bed and steale money out of his owne purse I will not saye that Taylors bee Théeues for they take no more then onely that which is brought them no more then the Ioyners as the Mayd said to her Mistrisse that hyred her wot ye what Dame I will serue you well but looke you what meanest thou by that said the woman My féete are swift to séeke a new seruice if I like not and this all the faulte I haue for in all other things you shal find me as diligent as is possible Also our Taylor could verie wel his occupation but that he had his fault It chaunced so that he made a cloke of Roan russet for a Gossip of his that was a Hosier who had occasion to ride abroad whereof he had stollen a good quarter The Hosier perceiued it well enough but saide nothing knowing by his owne occupation that euerie man must séeke to liue by theirs One day in y e morning the Hosier passing by the Taylors doore with his cloake on the Taylor asked him how he did and willed him to take a Hering with him to breakfast for it was in Lent He was content so they wente vp together to roste this Hering the Taylor called to his apprentice that was in the shop saying bring me the gridyron that is below the boy thought that he had called for the gray russet cloth y ● was lefte of the cloake and that he would haue restored it againe to his Gossip the Hosier he tooke the cloth and carried it vp to his Maister When the Hosier sawe this great péece of cloth why sayd he is this of my cloth and will no lesse serue thy turne then this Now surely I sée there is small honestie in thée The Taylor perceiuing that he was bewraied saide vnto him why doest thou thinks that I would haue kepte it from thée that art my Gossip Dost thou no● sée that I haue called for it to giue it thée againe I spare thy cloth and thou saiest I steale it from thée The Hosier was well pleased with this answered so he brake his fast and tooke hence his remnant of cloth But the Taylor gaue his prentise a lesson to make him wiser an other time ¶ Of Chykouan the Taborer that caused his Father in Law to appeare before the Iudge because he did not dye and the sentence that the Iudge gaue IT is not verie longe since that in the Towne of Amboyse there was taborer that euerie man called Chykouan a man merrie and full of pleasaunt wordes for the which he was welcome in euerie place He tooke to Wife an old mans Daughter in the Town of Amboyse a man that meaned good faith and had passed his time hauing no childe but one onely Daughter And because that Chykouan had no other means to sine but his Tabor hee requested of this good man some money with the marriage of his Daughter that he mighte buy some Implementes towards houshold But this old man would giue him none saying for his excuse to Chykouan My sonne aske me no money for I can geue you none at this time but you sée well that I am at the end of my daies ready to go to the graue I haue no heire but my Daughter you shall haue my house and all my moouables when I am gone for I cannot liue aboue a yeare or two at the most The good man told him so many reasons that he was content to take his Daughter without money but he said vnto him you shall vnderstand that I doe vpon your worde that which I would not doe to another but will you fulfill that truly which you haue promised What els said the old man I neuer yet deceiued any man in all my life and therefore God defend that I should begin now Wel then said Chykouan I wil haue no other contract but your promisse The day of mariage was come Chykouan goeth from his house to fetche his Wife at her Fathers and he himselfe brought her to the Church with his Tabor and pipe when he had brought her to Church yet all is not done said said he Chykou●n hath fetcht his