Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	worship_n	year_n	young_a	10	3	6.1198	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55761	The hectors, or, The false challenge a comedy written in the year MDCLV, the scene, London.	Prestwich, Edmund, fl. 1650-1651.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3315; ESTC R13616	58,451	74

the world were all things of one temper the Universe would not subsist one minute were all men wise the world would be at a stand whilst each do prove unmalleable unto others designes Fooles and Knaves are the two Poles on which the wheels of Fortune turne 'T is these make Riches Honour with a healthful course to ebb and flow through all the world which else would rot and putrifie in some particular names and families La. But I shall be staid for for I have appointed to meet at a certain place Had. Your servant Exeunt severall waies SCENE III. Enter Iustice and Pate Iust. Come my Chuck now thou art mine and whatsoever is in this house is thine Pat. But when my brother knowes this he will never endure me for serving him so Iust. 'T is no matter so long as thou hast my love Pat. I Sir if I were assured of that I would despise all the world besides but I doubt I have too much cause to fear that it is my Wealth you have married and not me Iust. But you shall have no such cause I 'l warrant you O my dear Honey I could wish that thou wert worth never a groat that thou mightst see how I love thee Enter Goosquil Goos. Sir there is the Constable without he hath brought a Gentleman Iust. What Cannot he let me be quiet on my Wedding-day Exit Pate Enter Constable c. Know-well Iust. Come Mr. Constable what is the matter Con. Why Sir an 't please your Worship I have reprehended a man upon suspicion of murder Iust. Of murther God forbid man I hope not so Con. Look you Sir I do but charge him of suspicion of murther I do not lay flat murther to his hands I 'll warrant you I know what I do Iust. Well but how stands the case What witnesse have you of it 1. If it please your Honourable Worship that which I have to say against this Gentleman under correction in brevity is only this 2. Nay an 't like your Worship I saw the first beginning therefore I hope you will give me leave to speak first Iust. Come on then friend you look like an honest fellow what are you 2. An 't like your Worship I am by Trade a Black-Smith I was a Prentice in Fetter-lane and have beene a man for my self ever since the last great Sicknesse which is some thirty years agoe I think for I am sure our Ned was born the year after and hee is nine and twenty now this next long Vacation Iust. Well but what can you say to the businesse 2. Why an 't like your Worship I this Afternoon after I had bid my wife lay down the shoulder of Mutton that an 't like your Worship I bought in the morning I went out into the fields an 't like your Worship to take a turne or two to get me a stomack But I had almost forgot one main thing for as I was going I met with an old companion of mine one Will Freeman by name An 't like your Worship I tell you no lye for as they say Tell the truth and shame the Divel Iust. Well but what then friend 2. Why An 't like your Worship honest Will said I it was a merry old world when you and I were Prentices together in Fetter-lane And upon that an 't like your Worship he would needs have me go spend my two pence with him Iust. Well but come to the point what do you know concerning this Gentleman 2. Nay by your Worships favour I am bound to speak the truth and the whole truth But stay where was I 1. Your friend and you were a going to drink you said 2. O I and then an 't like your Worship we went to the Ca• and Fiddle and when we had drunk our flaggon• a piece and we were just a coming away in came a neighbour of mine stay I shal hit on his name presently Iust. Well 't is no matter for his name but what of him 2. An 't like your Worship he would needs make us stay the drinking of his flaggon too and by that time that was done an 't like your Worship I began to think the shoulder of Mutton might be overroasted and therefore I made as much haste home as I could and as I was coming along by the wall imagining no hurt nor thinking of no harm O I saw the saddest and lamentable sight Iust. What was that 2. I never saw so much all the dayes of my life Iust. But what was it 2. And I hope I shall never see the like again Iust. Nay what was it 2. Why An 't like your Worship I saw a proper goodly young Gentleman as one shall see in a year and a day lye in the most yearnful condition all in gore bloud that it would have grieved any heart to have seen the like and then this same young man came Iust. And what can you say friend I think I have seen you som•where is not Mr. Du-cape the Mercer your Master • If it please your honourable worship I am resident with Mr. Du-cape upon the account of a Journeyman Iust. Cry mercy but what say you 1. Why if it please your honourable worship as I was going a long upon a very civil account to carry a piece of Satin to a person of Honour in the Peazza in Lincolnes Inne fields just under the wall I chanc't to cast my eyes and view the aforesaid Gent. whose name is Mr. Well-bred in the self same condition as this man has before specified and declared and I upon that account deeming him to be dead did debate with my selfe upon what account the said Man-slaughter should happen but I approaching neerer did descry him to be one that had been a customer to my Master and I upon that account knowing his lodging did desire this same man that upon that account he would be instrumentall in conveying him thither And when upon that account we began to stirre him his wound upon that account began to bleed with a most extreme violence in so much that I seeing his handkerchiefe hang out of his pocket did upon that account judge it requisite to pull it out to helpe stop his wound and pulling it out I chanced upon that account to pull out a letter which this man desiring me to read 2. You may see that some are wiser then some 1. Upon that account I read it and finding it to bee a challenge upon that account did I estimate this Gentleman to have fought a duel Iust. Where is the letter 1. Here if it please your honourable Worship Iust. Read it Goos-quill Goos-quill reades Sir I cannot but as I am a Genleman take notice of the affront you put on mee in pretending to Mistris Crisis to whom none living doth owe more service then my selfe wherefore I desire that you would hence-forward desist or else meet mee at the back side of Islington with your friend and a Rapier where I shall in the