Selected quad for the lemma: justice_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
justice_n	knight_n	sir_n	thomas_n	12,947	5	9.6515	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02498	A letter sent by F.A. touchyng the proceedings in a priuate quarell and vnkindnesse betweene Arthur Hall, and Melchisedech Mallerie gentleman, to his very friende L.B. being in Italie. VVith an admonition to the father of F.A. to him being a burgesse of the Parliament, for his better behauiour therein.	Hall, Arthur, 1539?-1605.	1576 (1576)	STC 12629; ESTC S118961	87,420	125

for affection you stretch a string you cannot be excused for tho it carry some shew to beare with your friende yet is it none indede for your Country is the only marke you must shoote at As for particulars they are not incidente to the cause Aristides termed the Iust was so precise in the time of hys gouernement of Athens that hee auoyded the amity and familiarity almost of all bycause he would not be entreated by any to do vniustly Cleon whē he toke the charge of the common wealth vppon him called al his friendes renounced their friendships alledging that amytie was a stop many times to the right course of Iustice he renounced affection he cryed out of enuy he detested too wel standing in hys owne conceite Another waye Sir Thomas Androwes a worshipfull Knighte of Northampton Shire was by a yeomanly man his neyghbour thoughte to be sometime to much affectioned to the matter he liked wel to whom he brought a great Brawne the seruaunt letting his maister the knight vnderstand of thys present retourned him to knowe the giuers name which hearing he coulde not cal to remembrance any suche but forth he comes the presenter doth hys errand prayes his maistership to take in good part this poore pigge and with very lowe cursey wishes it better Sir Thomas sawe the Swyne was good with mustarde accepted the gifte demaunding his neighbour why hee was at that coste with hym sith he neither knew him nor euer had done him any pleasure True it is quoth he with a long leg in his hose neither will I require you too doe mee any But I bestowe thys hog on your worship that you shall do mee no harme Here is a new kind of Brybery which this country man was driuen to as he thought by the parcial affection he feared in Sir Thomas The like in effecte fell out betwene an Essex farmer and maister Anthonie Browne in Q. Maries time a whyle chiefe iustice of the Common pleyes a man of good spirite and wel read who hauing vsed the helpe of his neighbours towards hys building besides Burnedwood till they were weary and denyed further supply the house must vp my Lords Balife wil haue carts for loue or money and so he offers largely both the tourne is serued my friendes Carters must al dine out comes the stewarde willing such as bounded for good wil to come feed in the parlor and the mony people too hinde it in the Hall my farmer at the Oyes went and walked his stations abroade being demanded whether he woulde be a gentleman or a yomen he saide neither in thys respect for quoth he for good wil I do it not for I owe him none nether for money for I force not of so much but for feare and therefore I see no rome for me I pray you aunsweare mee if you had a matter in lawe before any iudge in Englande and hee shoulde either by corruption or blindefelde affection wreste a pin againste you and ouerthrowe you contrary to iustice woulde you not iudge hanging too good for suche a coyfe manne yes assuredly Then in the parliament where you sitte to make Laws wherby Master Iudge himself al the rest are to be gouerned if you be brybed w pelfe or led by liking of a perticular to beguile your trusters to bynde and poll innocents to wrong the righteous and to set the welfare of your cuntry at nought If Cambises pluckte the skinne ouer Sisamnes eares for lewde iudgement in particular causes what fleying and torment is not too good for the corrupt lawmaker who is supra iudicem If malice and enuie shall so reigne in you as to disgrace the holsome aduices of your countrey you wil refuse the matter bicause you fansie not the man and cauill without cause not onely to haue the motion reiected but also the partie deseruing well vnsemely to be barked at not only by your self but by other pupsies of your own heare the like detryment as before shall happen too your country Yea and more infamy if more may be shal lyghte on you if it so were that vnkindnesse or rather implacable wrath yea the Northern deadely fude were betwene you some other ye ought to come to the Parliament counsell lincked in amity sounde in fidelity and perfect in sincerity one with an other and as a teame of horses must draw all togither so muste you wholly ioyne too your businesse There are many times vnruely Iades vnagréeing and lāching one at another being out of their gares but in the carte they fal to as they should else he that loyters most or playes to much the gallāt is wel lambde for his labor cōmes home as weary as the rest is vp in Royles stable if he sooner mende not his manners Maister Miller must haue him who will coole hys courage with halfe a dosen Sackes on his backe and he on the top The weight shall make him amble and manerly tread and sooner he shal be laide on for groning than for kicking so if malice and displeasure to others shal make you to stomack them abrode yet in counsel for your country draw together else wil you be ready for the Miller who wil lay harde hande on you I meane the honest and wise meaning gentleman not by batting but by condēning your vnruled apetite and lamēting your mayme The serpent for so are all venimous things named that crepes on the Earth when for breede sake at the water side he séekes out the Lamprey hee firste puts forth hys poyson and as nature hath taught calles to whom the Lamprey as willing comes forth The acte of their kinde performed she to the flud he to the Earth taking vp againe his venom returnes which if perhap hee finde not present death ensues Here do you see that of all creatures the vylest and most accursed doth in daunger of hys life put aside the whole substance of the same by purenesse and cleanenesse to associate hym self with that Creature whom he wel knowes doth not holde of his mixture and wil rather venture his owne vndoing than hinder that which naturally is appointed If the Serpent doth thys following but onely a course by kinde and is allowed of How much more is a Parliament man who by nature by the commaundement of God by the profit redownding to hymselfe the duty to his Prince and country bounde too vomit vp and to bury in the greatest déepes that consuming pestiferous canker of Malice by the which so many mischiefes light vppon the Lampreys good soules that thinke no harme This Serpent is venimous from the beginning the lacke wherof is his ende Man by the first fall proceeding by the delusion of the Serpent is subiect to intemperate choler hate despite enuy many weaknesses more yet this subiection brings no such necessity y malice is so incorporate in a man as the poyson in the Serpent for the one cannot haue being without venome the other most quiet and