Selected quad for the lemma: honour_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	duke_n	earl_n	guilty_a	2,880	5	12.7738	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09731	The beau's academy, or, The modern and genteel way of wooing and complementing after the most courtly manner in which is drawn to the life, the deportment of most accomplished lovers, the mode of their courtly entertainments, the charms of their persuasive language in their addresses or more secret dispatches, to which are added poems, songs, letters of love and others : proverbs, riddles, jests, posies, devices, with variety of pastimes and diversions as cross-purposes, the lovers alphabet &c. also a dictionary for making rhimes, four hundred and fifty delightful questions with their several answers together with a new invented art of logick : so plain and easie that the meanest capacity may in a short time attain to a perfection of arguing and disputing.	Phillips, Edward, 1630-1696?	1699 (1699)	Wing P2064; ESTC R181771	227,423	431

thou could'st sing me out of Hell I prithee sing thy self out of the Well Sing out quoth she with all thy might Or else thou' rt like to sing there all night The Fryer sang out with a pitifull sound Oh! help me out or I shall be Drown'd She heard him make such a pitiful moan She hope him out and bid him go home Quoth the Fryer I never was serv'd so before A way quoth the Wench come here no more The Fryer he walked a long the street As if he had been a new washed Sheep Sing hey down a derry and let 's be merry And from such sin ever to keep TOM a BEDLAM FOrth from my sad and darksome Cell From the deep abyss of Hell Mad Tom is come to view the world again To see if he can ease his distemper'd brain Fear and Despair possess my Soul Hark how the angry Furies howl Pluto laughs and Proserpine is glad To see poor naked Tom of bedlam mad Through the World I wander Night and Day To find my troubled Senses At last I found old Tine With his Pentateuch of Tenses When he me spies away he flyes For Time will stay for no man In vain with cryes I rend the Skies For pitty is not common Cold and comfortless I lye Oh help O help or else I dye Hark I hear Apollo's Team The Carman'gins to whistle Chast Diana bends her bow And the Bore begins to bristle Come Vulcan with tools and with tackles And knock off my troublesome Shackles Bid Charles ●…ake ready his Wain To fetch my five Senses again Last night I heard the Dog-Stark bark Mars met Venus in the dark Lymping Vulcan heat and Iron bar And furiously run at the god of War Mars with his weapon laid about Lymping Vulcan had the gout For his broad Horns hung so in his light That he could not see to aim aright Mercury the nimble Post of heaven Stay'd to see the Quarrel Gorrel belly Bacchus giantly bestrid A Strong-beer barrel To me he drank I did him thank But I could drink no Sider He drank whole Buts till he burst his guts But mine were ne're the wider Poor Tom is very dry A little drink for Charitie Hark! I hear Acteon's hounds The Hunts man hoopes and Hallows Ringwood Rockwood Jowler Bowman All the Chace doth follow The man in the Moon drinks Clarret Eats powder'd Beef Turnep and Carret But a Cup of old Maligo Sack Will fire the Bush at his Back Alas poor Scholar Whither wilt thou go OR Strange Alterations which at this time be There 's many did think they never should see IN a Melancholy Study None but my self Methought my Muse grew muddy After seven years Reading And costly breeding I felt but could find no pelf Into Learned Rags I 've rent my Plush and Satten And now am fit to beg In Hebrew Greek and Latin Instead of Aristotle Would I had got a Patten Alas poor Scholar whither wilt thou go Cambridge now I must leave thee And follow Fate Colledge hopes do deceive me I oft expected To have been elected But Desert is reprobate Masters of Colledges Have no Common Graces And they that have Fellowships Have but common Places And those that Scholars are They must have handsom faces Alas poor Scholar whither wilt thou go I have bow'd I have bended And all in hope One day to be befriended I have preach'd I have printed What e'r I hinted To please our English Pope I worship'd towards the East But the Sun doth not forsake me I find that I am falling The Northern winds do shake me Would I had been upright For Bowing now will break me At great preferment I aimed I looked lately To live most stately And have a Dairy of Bell-ropes milk But now alas My self I must not flatter Bigamy of Steeples Is a laughing matter Each man must have but one And Curates will grow fatter Alas poor Scholar whither wilt thou go Into some Country Village Now I must go Where neither Tythe nor Tillage The greedy Patron And parched Matron Swear to the Church they owe Yet if I can preach And Pray too on a sudden And confute the Pope At adventure without studying Then ten pounds a year Besides a Sunday Pudding All the Arts I have skill in Divine and Humane Yet all 's not worth a Shilling When the Women hear me They do but jeer me And say I am profane Once I remmember I preached with a Weaver I quoted Austin He quoted Dod and Clever I nothing got He got a Cloak and Bever Alas poor Scholar whither wilt thou go Ships Ships Ships I discover Crossing the Main Shall I in and go over Turn Jew or Atheist Turk or Papist To Geneva or Amsterdam Bishopricks are void In Scotland shall I thither Or follow Windebank And Finch to see if either Do want a Priest to shrive them O no 't is blust'ring weather Alas poor Scholar whither wilt thou go Ho ho ho I have hit it Peace good-man Fool Thou hast a Trade will fit it Draw thy Indenture Be bound at adventure An Apprentice to a Free-School There thou mayst command By William Lylies Charter There thou mayst whip strip And hang and draw and quarter And commit to the Red Rod Both Will and Tom and Arthur I I 't is thither thither will I go Superscriptions for Letters To a Duke A Duke first was made by the French Kings when they had chased the Romans out of Gallia bestowing the name of Dux a little altered to the French Idiom upon those to whom they gave the Principal Government over those Provinces which they had recovered in process of time they usurped the Inheritance of their Governments and made their Feifes which before were revocable at the Princes pleasure to be hereditary So that at length their Titles came to be so much esteemed as to be thought the next in order to that of a King The Title which is most usually applied to a Duke is that of Grace and we address ourselves to him by word of mouth thus May it please your Grace If he be the Kings Son or of the Royal blood we write to him thus To the most Illustrious Prince Henry c. To the most excellent Prince Or else To the most High and Noble EArls at the same time and upon the same account were created by the French King only here seem'd the difference to be between them for the Dukes seemed to have the Military Power and the Earls were only made to exercise the Civil Jurisdiction in the Towns where they were plac'd They are now the next in order to Marquess by word of mouth we make our Addresses thus May it please your Honour And write to him thus To the Right Honourable A Marquess formerly was the Governor of a Fronteer Town and inferiour to the Earl of a Province but superiour to the Earl of an Inland Town In speaking we thus address our selves to them May it please your Honour We write

are so extreamly high there is no extremity which I would not undergo to requite them This is no complemental discourse my heart dictates to my Pen all that which I write to you assuring you once more that I will long bear in vain the title of Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR I must complain of the excess of your civilities and curtesies since our interest consists in a reciprocal friendship You thank me for curtesies receiv'd from me as if I were not oblig'd to do them accustom not your self to such kind of Phrase and believe that the Language of Complements is unknown to friends I am in the number of them and moreover Your most humble Servant To desire a Curtesie SIR The fame of your generosity hath given me the boldness to require a favour from you to disintangle me from a business the success whereof depends much upon your authority 'T is true that I never had the honor to be acquainted with you But though this be my particular unhappiness I hope that you will not make any excuse to refuse me the Curtesie which I desire from you not doubting but that in some other matter I may have the honour to make my self known to you rather by my services then by my name since your descent obliges me to remain Sir Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR I have done all what you required of me with a great deal of satisfaction and little trouble Prepare your self to impose commands upon me that you may not let the passion which I have to serve you lie idle and you shall discern by my obedience that I take delight in nothing more then in making my self appear in all places Sir Your most humble Servant On the same Subject SIR ALthough I am the most unprofitable of all your Friends yet am I none of the least willing to serve you and from thence I take the liberty to desire you to give me a meeting All that I can say for the first acknowledgement of this favour is that I shall eternally remember this favour and that if I cannot meet with any opportunity to requite so great a kindness I shall bear my sorrow for it to my grave together with the title of Your most loyal Servant The Answer SIR WHen you desire any service from me I entreat you to consider whether it be in my power to perform it that I may be more bold to encounter the blame which my unhappiness obliges you to lay upon me You shall command when you please other proofs of my willingness to serve you desiring nothing more then the title of Sir Your most humble Servant To congratulate the good Fortune of his Friend SIR IF you know how acceptable the news of your good fortune is to me you would not doubt but that the joy which surprises me for the same is equal to yours Truly I cannot add any thing to it since it proceeds from the friendship which I have vow'd to you which is not common since your merit is the object I would tell you more if the excess of my joy would give me liberty It fuffices me to assure you that my content cannot equal the passion which I have to serve you as being Sir Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR I Did always believe that you were of so generous a spirit that you participate in my concernments But I perswade my self at the same instant of time that you doubt not of my willingness to serve you that I may in some measure merit the effects of your noble disposition This I am urg'd to not being able further to requite the continual proofs which you give me of your good will towards me I entreat you to esteem this for an undenyable truth as being from my heart and soul Sir Your most faithful Servant To his Accomplish'd Friend SIR If I have hope to be known to after ages it must be by the honour of your acquaintance Your reputation at this time being so just and so general that 't is become a verity wherein the Wise agree with the Vulgar Pardon me Sir if I presume thus to prevent your command by this early showing you my ready inclination to obey them But I am content that you should give it what name you please provided you judge well of the effects of my duty and do me the honor to believe that I am Your c. To his Learned Friend SIR All the riches both of Nature and Art dwell in you and are of such force that I acknowledge my inclinations to serve you carry with them immortal reason your discourse being so grave and soild that they cannot be sufficiently listen'd to for the edification of men that have seen four ages And for your Letters in what stile soever you write them They are always pleasing if not most admirably profitable as if your Spirit had been employ'd from your youth in perswading of Princes or instructing of Embassadours When your Lines are serious they strain not when familiar they are without neglect like beauties that appear in all fashions yet allure whether neatly drest or carelesly plain Pardon me Sir if I lay open my naked soul before you in this simplicity of my acknowledegments you having so absolutely purchast both my thoughts and affections that I must need ingenuously confess that I have nothing left but to assure you Sir how much I am Your c. To his Friend at Court SIR YOV seem to have so perfum'd your self with the sweetness of the Court that you cannot admit of the profaneness of a Village Such a rudeness is the errand this Letter carries with it but be pleas'd to accept of it as you know the height of my ambition is bounded in such rural presents neither should I dare to presume thus were I not perswaded that you allow me this liberty which otherwise I should never take But I am confident you delight to gratifie me and to do me the same good that I wish to you If you desire to know the cause of such extraordinary boldness in me I beseech you to believe there is no other then the great affection I have to serve you and to be Sir c. To his Friend upon the renewing of their Correspondence SIR To be separated from a man so dear to me as your self I do believe I could not live in the fortunate Islands and having till I embrace you no other way of traffick but by Letters I am extreamly angry with my self that you have prevented me in returning our old correspondence Though I must acknowledge there is some justice in it for since you were the first that broke it 't was fit you should be the first to reestablish it I write thus of the honour of your favour assuring you notwithstanding that I could no way deserve it Therefore Sir give me leave to beg your pardon for my neglect if I were guilty which I shall never be in any