Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	great_a	lord_n	treasurer_n	3,709	5	10.7348	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08687	Epigrams of that most wittie and worthie epigrammatist Mr. Iohn Owen, Gentleman. Translated by Iohn Vicars; Epigrammata. English. Selections	Owen, John, 1560?-1622.; Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1619 (1619)	STC 18993; ESTC S113769	23,712	112

Time may see EPIG 58. A Secret against Hoary-Haires to Bithynicus THat in Old-Age thy Haire may not waxe Gray Baldnesse in Youth ô rare is the right way Probatum est EPIG 63. Against Pontia ALL Cuck-olds cast i th' Sea Pontius would haue Learne first to swim quoth's Wife thy selfe to saue EPIG 68. Venus Loue comes and goes retyres returnes As Sea's doe ebbe and flow How comes it Loue 's so like the Sea How Venus thence did g●ow In Venus is Varietie Sometimes Shee Nill Shee Will Therefore with Mouing-Planets plac'd Not with Starres standing still EPIG 70. Woman WOman as Weaker or more Soft is said Yet Eue o' th' Bone of Mā not Flesh was made EPIG 71. Affinity twixt Lawyers and Phisicians THe Lawyers and Phisicians case haue neere Affinitie For others Ruines make them Rich No doubt most Lawfully These Sucke the Sicke for Potions Pounds For Law Those Lands purloyne These promise Health and so get Wealth Those Quietnesse for Coyne EPIG 82. Of the Day THe Day with one-eye farre moe things espies Than Night can see with more than Argos-eies EPIG 87. A Good-man THings that be Rare are euer Deare And of great price esteemed Then sure I thinke an Honest-man Most precious may be deemed EPIG 89. Against PAVLINVS PAulinus when thy Friend Askes ought of thee Thine answer is Tomorrow come to me Wou'dst haue mee giue thee Thankes for what I borrow For thy Good-turne I le giue thee Thankes to morrow EPIG 92. A Machiuilian COgge Counterfeit as thou shalt see Both Time and Place require That when occasion's offered Thou mayst haue thy desire Yea now Hee 's Wise can Temporize His hoped prey to catch For Gold and Gaine who will refraine All seasons well to watch EPIG 101. Death WHat Death is dost thou aske of me Till Dead I doe not know Come to me when thou hear'st I 'm Dead Then what t is I' shall show EPIG 102. A Client THe Client going-Home may sing by th' way And needs not feare the theefe to bid him stay For Lawyers doe for Fees so filch their coyne That many times they scarce know where to Dine EPIG 104. Children and Fooles tell True CHildren Fooles our Prouerbe saith tell true As who shuold say th' are Fooles the truth that shew If thus they 'le haue it yet th' are Knaues that lie I 'le be Truths Foole let them loue Knauerie EPIG 106. Against Ball'd-pates BAll'd-pate my Haires I ne're could numerate Nor thou thine owne ther 's None left on thy pate EPIG 115. Backe-biters Flatterers A Naxagoras was wont to say that Snow Was Blacke more Blacke was Anaxag'ras Hart. Many such Enuious Elfes this Age doth know The flatt'ring Foxe with his dissembling Art Praysed the Whitenesse of the Cole-blacke Crow Such fawning Foxes are alas too many Who for aduantage Prayse and Dis-prayse any EPIG 117. An Herculean Labour TO Curbe the Courage and Wiues Tongue keep-vnder May wel be call'd Hercules thirteenth Wonder EPIG 123. Of Bardella a Theefe THe Theife Bardella being Iudg'd to Dye A Fryer gaue him Ghostly Exhortation Good-Brother saith he Dye most ioyfully For thou shalt Sup in Heau'ns blest Habitation Sir quoth Bardella I must Fast this Day Take you that Supper in my sted I pray EPIG 1●8 Answere to Cynthiaes Epistle THy Paper white thy Letter blacke came to me This thy foule-Hart That thy white skin doth shew me EPIG 129. To Sextillian Sp. SExtillian when thy Father thee begot To Get thee then his minde I thinke 't was not Himselfe to recreate not thee Create Was all I iudge he then did Cogitate If more the Gift than Giuers minde be praysed Then sure thy Life to him is not ingaged EPIG 131. Saturnes three Sonnes DIuines are doubtfull Lawyers lew'd and ill Physicians foule yet these the World rule still If such ill Gouernours the People nurse No maruel then though all grow worse worse EPIG 137. Against Pomponia POmponia did a fickle feather weare Vpon her head feathers doe Souldiers fit True and Shee this for Mars his Loue did beare This shewes that Mars in Venus Lap may sit Thogh on their heads our Hellēs feathers haue Marueile not for t is Paris fauour braue EPIG 146. Vertue in the Middle A Gallant Dame scarce of good Name i th' midst twixt two Men went Vertue as heere it may appeare Her place had lost or lent EPIG 150. To his absent Loue. I Burne poore wretch and so much more Am burnt with Loues desire By how much I am further off From my Loue-burning Fire EPIG 16● A Probleme of Hornes WHen Wiues defile their Husbands marriage Bed Why weares the harmeles Husband Hornes Hee 's Head EPIG 168. To the Reader of himselfe MY breuity though some may Sloth esteeme Yet to be briefe most Labour I doe deeme Much madly I speake not with vulgar sort Though mine perhaps be foolish yet t is short EPIG 170. Of Himselfe ASke and Receiue so Iames th' Apostle sayes O that King Iames to me would vse that Phrase FINIS EPIGRAMS Out of the second Booke EPIG 4. To the Lady MARY NEVELL IN Tables faire our fading formes are painted That what 'i th face would fade in Them may dure To paint in Tables I am vnacquainted My Verse shall pourtray what power can procure That what Frames cannot Verse may keepe vntainted Yet none but rare Apelles that can do And none but great Apollo this can show EPIG 10. A true Troian THe Troians Troy being brought t'annoy grew wise Himselfe this Troian who doth not agnize EPIG 16. To the Lord High Treasurer of England A Faithfull Treasurer thou art Vnto thy King and State Than all rich Treasures I thy Faith More precious estimate EPIG 24. To Richard Vaughan once Bishop of London THose Preachers are to be esteemed best Which Doe the things they Teach ought to bee Done Thou wast a Bishop learned best and blest Doing what thou hadst Taught men should not shun EPIG 29. To Sir Philip Sidney HE which doth Deeds in Bookes to be exprest Or things worth reading rarely doth Indite Is blest but thou who didst both these more blest Thou Deedes worth writing Workes to reade didst write Thy Writings doe thy Learning intimate Thy Vertuous Deeds thy Vertue demonstrate EPIG 32. To the Right Honourable Lucy Countesse of Bedford THe Light to thee sweet Lu●y giues a Name Which through the wo●ld shines to thy datelesse fame The Lustre of Illustrious Parēts wrought-Thee Thy Wit thy Vertue to this Light haue brought Thee EPIG 33. An Honourable Gold-Ring To Henry Goodyeer Knight NObilitie's the Gold Vertue the Stone For euer may'st thou by this Ring be knowne EPIG 35. To D. B. IF he Liue-well that Liues a Quiet Life If Wisedome 't be that Wisedome bee concealed Then thou Liu'dst-well whose Wit and Wisedome rife The more thou hidst the more thy worth reuealed EPIG 40. The Strength of England to the Prince ENglands safe Gates are her Cinque-Ports Her stately Ships her Walls