Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	assize_n	peace_n	session_n	3,521	5	10.0568	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68983	The court and country, or A briefe discourse dialogue-wise set downe betweene a courtier and a country-man contayning the manner and condition of their liues, with many delectable and pithy sayings worthy obseruation. Also, necessary notes for a courtier. VVritten by N.B. Gent.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1618 (1618)	STC 3641; ESTC S104725	24,408	40

for your Officers their charge is so great that wee desire not their places for we hold a priuate quiet better then a publike trouble and a cleane conscience worth a world of wealth Now for your Orders perhaps your need of them is great where disorders may be grieuous for vs in the Country we haue few but in the Churches for our Seates and at our méetings for our places where when Maister Iustice and the high Constables are set honest men like good fellows will sit togeither except at a Sessions or an Assise wee bée called vpon a Iury then as it pleaseth the Clerk of the Peace set one afore another and therefore for orders what néede we trouble our selues with other then we are vsd vnto I remember I haue heard my father tell of a world of orders hee had seene in diuers places where he had traueld where right good Gentlemen that had followed great Lords and Ladies had enough to doe to study orders in their Seruice a Trencher must not be laid nor a Napkin folded out of order a dish set downe out of order A Capon carued nor a Rabbet vnlaced out of order a Goose broken vp nor a Pasty cut vp out of order a Glasse filled nor a Cup vncouered nor deliuered out of order you must not stand speake nor looke out of order which were such a busines for vs to goe about that we should be all out of time ere we should get into any good order but in that there is difference of places and euery one must haue their due it is méets for good manners to kéepe the rules of good orders But how much more at rest are we in the Country that are not troubled with these duties Now for your eyes of brightnesse I feare you are not troubled with too many of them late sitting vp long watching and night busines as writings readings casting vp of accounts long watchings and such like other busines besides gaming playing at Cards Tables and Dice or such sports as spend time are all dangerous for weake sights and make a world of sore eies But as you said some of the best sort are wiser in their actions and more temperate in their motions and therefore keep their sights in more perfection which may be examples to others if they haue the grace to follow them But for our eies if we do not hurt them with a stripe of a twig in the wood a flyo in the ayre or a mote in the Sunne our eyes are as bright as christall so that we can se the least thing that may doe vs good and if we can sée the Sunne in the morning and the Moone an night see our Cattell in our pastures our sheepe in the Common our Corne in the fields our houses in repaire and our money in our purses our meate on our tables and our wines with our Children and looke vp to heauen and giue God thankes for all wee seeke no better sight Now for the cleannes of your hands I feare that now and then some of ye haue your hands so troubled with an itch that you must haue them nointed with the oyle of gold before you can fall to any good worke and some of yes that though your wits haue good inuentions yet you cannot write without a golden pen which indéede best fits a sine hand But for vs in the Country when we haue washed our hands after no foule worke nor handling any vnwholesome thing wee néede no little Forks to make hay with our mouths to throw our meat into them Now for the purenes of your hearts except Kings Quéenes and Princes and such great persons make no comparison with Country people where yea and nay are our words of truth faith and troth are our bonds of loue plaine dealing passages of honesty and kinde thankes continues good neighbour-hood A lyer is hated a scoffer scorned a spend-thrift derided and a miser not beloued a Swaggerer imprisoned a Drunkard punished and a Iugler whipped and a Théefe hanged for our hearts will harbour no such Guests And for loue two eyes and one heart two hands and one body two louers and one loue ties a knot of such truth as nought but death can vndoe Now for braines of Wisdome I thinke hee is wiser that keepes his owne and spends no more then néeds then hee that spends much in hope of a little and yet may hay loose that too at last Now for tongues of truth let me tell you fayre words make fooles faine and Court holy-water will scarce wash a foule shirt cleane except it come from such a Fountaine as euery man must not dip his finger in But Cousin when hearts and hands goe together words and déeds goe together these are the tongues that will not faulter in their tales but tell truth in the face of the wide world and therefore excepting the best that may bee examples to the rest I thinke if truth be any where she is in the Country Now for the noblenesse of minds it fitteth the persons in their places but for vs in the Country wee had rather haue old Nobles in our purses then a bare name of noble without Nobles the reason may be that we doe not know the nature of noblenes so well as wee doe of Nobles and therefore wee heare onely so much of the cost of it that we haue no heart to looke after it but where it is truly we honour it and say God blesse them that haue it and if they be worthy of it well may they keepe it and that is all that I say to it Now to spirits of goodnes alas there is not one in the world Christ Iesus our Sauiour said so There is none good but God and if there be any on the earth I thinke a good beliefe and a good life doth best expresse the nature of it To conclude with Vertue in which you lay vp all the treasures of life I doubt not it is in the best I would it were so in all with you but bee it where it pleaseth God to send it once I verily belieue it to bee as truly in the Country as in places of higher compasse and by your leaue let me tell you of a Riddle of my fathers one writing touching that rare and pretious Iewell There is a secret few doe knowe And doth in speciall places grow A rich mans praise a poore mans wealth A weake mans strength a sicke mans health A Ladyes beauty a Lords blisse A matchlesse Iewell where it is And makes where it is truely seene A gracious King and glorious Queene And this said he is vertue which though he vnderstood in the Court yet he made vse of it in the Country Now therefore good Cousin be content with your humour and let me alone with mine I thinke I haue answered all your positions and let me tell you whatsoeuer you say I verily belieue that ere you die I shall finde you rather in the roole of peace