Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_v	good_a	see_v	1,023	5	2.8313	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69259	The last East-Indian voyage Containing much varietie of the state of the seuerall kingdomes where they haue traded: with the letters of three seuerall Kings to the Kings Maiestie of England, begun by one of the voyage: since continued out of the faithfull obseruations of them that are come home.	Middleton, Henry, Sir, 1570-1613, attrib. name.	1606 (1606)	STC 7456; ESTC S111992	42,695	86

with Captaine Torris to dinner where there was no lacke of good cheere After dinner come the high priest to welcome our Generall willing him to haue no doubt of any bad dealing in that place vpon his soule hee would vndertake that there were not any in the towne that wished him or any of his company any harme with many other complements and so departed Captain Torris made offer to the Generall to be his chiefe Factor and to helpe his brother and M. Woodnoth in their busines each hauing more to doe then they could well turne them to and to say the trueth he was so carefull in their busines as if it had bin his own This day died of the flixe M. Mitten our cooke and of the flixe Thomas Halls The Tydoryans came not aboard to sell vs any thing the Generall doubted it was long of the Portingals who had put them in some needlesse feare The 6. day the Generall sent his brother to the king of Tydore with a present and to diuers of his principal men desiring his highnesse he would giue his subiects leaue to repaire aboard with cloues and fresh victualls and that there was no cause of feare why they should abstaine from so doing The King said they should haue leaue to bring vs refreshing a board But for the cloues his people had should bee brought to the English-house otherwise the quantity wee should buy would not be knowne whereby the King of Portingall might loose his custome and presently vppon the same the King made a Proclamation willing all his people to repaire to the English factory with such Cloues as they had The Captaine of the Fort proclaiming the like in his towne there came a flying report the Hollanders were in sight and vpon the same the King sent out a Caricole to sea but saw no shipping The 9. day the Generall sent his brother a shore againe vnto the King with a present to desire his highnesse to giue his subiects leaue to repaire aboard with their Cloues for that the Portingalls would not permit them to repaire to his house but would be serued themselues with the best wares and let his people haue but their leauings Whereupon the King promised they should come aboard which they afterwards did The 12. day came newes the Hollanders were in sight and out went the bloudy colours at the Fort. The 14 day being Sunday Captaine Torris the Kings factor and diuers other of the principal of the Portingals dined with the General This day the Captain of the Fort sent our Generall word that the Hollanders were off and on Bachan willing the Generall to cause his factors to get in his debts that were owing before their comming The 15. day the Generall sent his brother a shore to gather in such debts as were owing and likewise to buy Cloues if any came to the house to bee sold which he performed buying some small quantity for that most in the Iland were in our hands without it were some 80. Bahars which the Kings Factor had which he could not sell because they did belong vnto the Marchants of Malaea The captaine of the fort gaue commandement to al men to make present paiment which they honestly performed The Generall sent to Captaine Torris to know the cause hee sent him word we had bought all they had without it were those which were in the factors hands which could not be sold The 19. day we prepared for our departure from hence to go to Makeau The 20. day came a Portingall a board with a letter to our Generall from the Captaine of the fort the effect thereof I could not learne The King of Tarnatas two men which all this time of our being in this place had tarried aboard were very earnest with the Generall for their departure to the I le of Makeau where they made no doubt but to lade our ship with cloues They began to be merry to see vs in such readinesse to bee gone for they liued in no small feare of some treason to be attempted against vs by the Portingals and Tydorians in so much that all the time of our being here they were the best watchmen in our ship The Generall sent his brother to the King desiring his highnesse he would write his letter to the Gouernour of Taffasoa to sell him such cloues as they had there which he presently did This towne of Taffasoa is vpon Makeau and holds for the King of Tydore all the rest of the Iland is the Kings of Tarnata The 21. day being Sunday came the same Portingall that brought our Generall the letter the day before with commendations from his Captaine to the Generall to certifie him the Hollanders ships were in sight The Portingall taking his leaue about eleuen a clocke wee weighed with a smal fauourable gale of winde to go for Makeau As we passed by the Fort we saluted thē with 5. peeces they answering vs with 3. Likewise comming thwart the Kings towne we gaue them 5. peeces and were answered with 6. from the Galcons At this present we had sight of the Hollanders Capten Torris our Generals great friend comming a board presēted him with hens which be both scarse and deare and so tooke his leaue we keping on our course with little winde for Makeau passing bettwene Mottera Poulacaualya the Hollāders seing vs come rome vpon them were in good hope we had beene a Portingall that for feare was flying away Night being at hand they spread themselues that we could not passe them but one or other must needes see vs. About midnight we came amongst thē sounding our trompetes whereby they did know we were not Portingales The Admirall sent his shiper in his pinnasse aboord to know what newes which was certified them at full He departing they saluted vs with 3. peeces of ordinance we answred them with the like They told our Generall that they had taken Amboyna castell and left a garrison therein The 22. day we came to an anchor about seuen a clocke at night a little to the eastwards of the chiefe towne of Makeau the towne is called Mofficia in which towne the Viceroy for the King of Tarrata is resident this after noone came a cary cole aboard before we came to an anchor and told our General they would go about the I le and to all the townes to giue them warning to repaire to our shippe with their cloues before night They had compassed the Iland and came aboard vs againe The 23. day the Generall sent his brother with the two Tarnataes and the Kings letters and a present to the Gouernor The present hee receiued and caused the letter to be publikely read but for the cloues of that Iland he said they were not ripe but those fewe that were to be had the Generall should haue them the next day This day died of the flixe our Baker Griffith Powell The 24. day the Generall went a shore himselfe to the Gouernor to