Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	honourable_a	lord_n	privy_a	3,111	5	10.0848	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11406	Babilon, a part of the Seconde vveeke of Guillaume de Saluste seigneur du Bartas, with the commentarie, and marginall notes of S.G.S. Englished by William L'Isle; Seconde sepmaine. Day 2. Part 2. English	Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste, seigneur, 1544-1590.; Lisle, William, 1579?-1637.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.	1595 (1595)	STC 21662; ESTC S110840	52,878	76

BABILON A PART OF THE SECONDE WEEKE OF GVILLAVME DE SALVSTE SEIGNEVR DV BARTAS With the Commentarie and marginall Notes of S. G. S. Englished by WILLIAM L'ISLE Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. Imprinted at London by Ed. Bollifant for Richard Watkins 1595 TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE CHARLES LORD HOWARD BARON OF Effingham Knight of the most renowmed order of the Garter one of hir Maiesties priuie Councell and Lord high Admirall of England c. WAying how neere it concernes your Honourable Charge what straungers passe the Seas into England I was thereby and otherwise in humble duty moued to giue your Lordship first intelligence of this Gentilman whom I haue newly transported out of Fraunce and also thought it necessarie to craue your fauorable protection of him in this his trauell A woorthie man is he my Lord in his owne country howsoeuer here disguised and one of the sonnes of that noble and diuine Poet LE SIEVR DV BARTAS in my simple iudgment the properest and best learned of them all I am sure the best affected to England and the gracious Emperesse thereof for which cause I made speciall choise of him and doe therefore the rather hope to finde fauour on his behalfe with your honorable Lordship whose loyaltie to the Crowne the Prince by trust of so high an office whose loue to the land the people by ioint-consent of daily-felt vertues haue so fully witnessed that the fame thereof hath spred it selfe far beyond that your admirable Regiment In so much as this gentle stranger though he were at the first vnwilling Vlisses-like to leaue his natiue soile especially now in this dangerous sea-faring time while all the world is in a maner troubled with Spanish Fleetes yet after he called to minde what he had heard and written of the mightie Goddesse of the English Ocean and who there swaied the Trident vnder hir trusting vpon such a Neptune he went aboord with a good courage doubting not at al but that the proud Spanish Caracks if they be not yet sufficiently dismaid by the wracke they suffered in their former aduenture but dare againe attempt the like be they neuer so many more or greater than they were if more and greater they can be shall againe by the grace of God directing as before the courage and wisedome of Englands renoumed Admirall be dispersed ouer the frowning face of our disdainfull Seas dronken with salt waues regorge the bodies of their presumptuous Pilots And so my Lord with a fauorable winde breathing directly from the French Helicon by the safe conduit of your Honourable name and helpe of the Muses at length I landed my stranger in England Where since his arriuall he hath gladly encountred diuers of his elder brethren that were come ouer before some in a princely Scottish attire others in faire English habits and to th' entent he might the better enioy their companie who by this time had almost forgotten their French he was desirous to learne English of me therefore I kept him a while about me was his teacher at home and enterpreter abroad and now that he hath gotten such a smattering of the toong as he can so as he can speake for himselfe may it please your good L. to talke with him at your leisure though I know you vnderstand very well his naturall speech I am of opinion it wil much delight you to heare him vtter such counterfait English as in so little time I was able to teach him He can say somwhat of the godly gouernment of good princes the wicked practises of Tyrants as well in compassing as maintaining a Scepter both woorthy your L. hearing for the manner sake though the matter be not vnknowne to your wisdome But som other things he doth report verie strange as of NIMROD that was the first Tyrant of the world after the time of Noah the first Admiral of the worlde his aspiring minde practises in seeking the peoples fauour his proud and subtle attempt in building the Tower of Babel Gods iust punishment thereof in confounding the language of the builders Verie truly reckoneth he that which few do consider the great and manifold inconueniences that are befallen mankinde by the diuersitie o● tongs Further he can tel of speech in general whether man speake by nature or haue but onelie an aptnes to speake by vse whether any other creature haue the like as for seuerall speeches he can prooue with many goodly reasons which is the best most ancient of them all what altereth each toong what continueth each in account what languages are in greatest regard now-adaies what Authors haue most excelled in them And vpon occasion of the English toong my Lord he setteth out in such maner the Queenes princely maiestie hir learning wisdome eloquence and other excellent vertues that I know your noble loyall hart wil greatly reioice to heare it at the mouth of such a stranger The rest if it be more curious then for the states waightie affaires your L. may intend to hear I wish referred vnto those goodly yong gentlemē your noble fatherlike-minded Sons whō after your L. I do most of all honor there shal they find profit so blended with pleasure learning with delight as it may easilie winne their harts alreadie vertuously aspiring from the wanton and faining Cantoes of other Syren-Poets wherewith manie yoong gentlemen and chiefely those of greatest hope are long and dangerously mis-led vnto a further acquaintance with this heauenly-poeticall writer of the truth who is now growne into such a liking of this countrey chiefely for the peaceable gouernment thereof blessed be that Gouernour and free course of the Gospell God continue it and sende the like into Fraunce that he is desirous to become a Freedenizen and hoping further to to be an eie-witnes of Gods woonderfull mercies towards this Land whereof in Fraunce he spake but by heare-saie to behold that pretious Northren Pearle and kisse hir Scepter-bearing hand whose woorthy praise he hath soong so sweetely he humblie beseech your gratious fauour to be enfranchised which if it may please you to graunt my Lorde vouchsafing also the patronage of him that vnder seale of your honourable name he may escape the carping censures of curious fault-finders and enioy all honours priuiledges liberties and lawes that belong eu'n to the naturall inhabitants of this noble Isle my selfe will vndertake to Fine for him at least harty praiers for your daily encrease of honour and all such obedience as it shall please your L. to impose Whose I rest euer at commaund VVilliam L'isle Th' Argument of the two first dayes of the second weeke of Guil. de SALVSTE Seigneur Du Bartas MOses saith that in sixe daies God created the heauen and the earth the sea and all in them contained then rested the seuenth day c. Which the Poet hath at large expounded in his first wéeke * The whole second weeke And hauing with