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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	case_n	life_n	rent_n	1,727	5	9.7039	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03069	Foure bookes of husbandry, collected by M. Conradus Heresbachius, counseller to the hygh and mighty prince, the Duke of Cleue: conteyning the whole arte and trade of husbandry, vvith the antiquitie, and commendation thereof. Nevvely Englished, and increased, by Barnabe Googe, Esquire; Rei rusticae libri quatuor. English	Heresbach, Conrad, 1496-1576.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.	1577 (1577)	STC 13196; ESTC S103974	336,239	412

no kinde of mischeefe vndoone Amongst all which commonly there is not so ill a neighbour as the newe vpstart that takes vpon him the name of a gentleman who though you vse him neuer so well wyll at one time or other geue you to vnderstand from whence he comes and make you syng with Claudian ASPERIVS NIHIL EST HV MILI CVM SVRGIT IN ALTVM A leudar vvretche there lyues not vnder skye Then Clovvne that climes from base estate to hye As the Prouerbe in Englande is Set a Knaue on horsebacke and you shall see him shoulder a Knight for an Ape wyll be an Ape though you clothe him in Purple Surely M. Portius would haue a man shunne the neighbourhood of suche as the pestilence I for my part am happie in this point that I haue no neighbour that I neede to feare RIGO Perhaps they dare not for your aucthoritie doo as otherwyse they woulde CONO But since death and other casualties riddes a man of them the dwelling is not to be left yf it haue other good commodities except it be placed in the borders of sundry Countreys that be subiect to great sicknesses Some commend the dwelling that hath faire wayes about it is neare some Riuer or good market wherby a man may carrie his marchādize with lesse charges The olde fellowes would neuer haue a man place him selfe neare the hie way for pilffering of such as passe by and troublesomenesse of ghestes as I saide before in speaking of the placing of an house In the letting of a Farme those thinges are to be obserued that I spake of before in describing of a Bayliffe of husbandry and his labour that you let it to suche whose trauayle and good behauiour you may be assured of and that you regard more their good ordering of the lande then the rent which is least hurtfull and most gaynefull For where as the grounde is well husbanded you shall commonly haue gayne and neuer losse except by vnreasonablenesse of the weather whiche the Ciuil Lawyer sayth shoulde not be any damage to the Tenaunt or the inuasion of the enimie where the Tenaunt can not helpe it Besides the Lorde must not deale with his Tenaunt so straightly in euery poynt as by lawe he might for his rent dayes bargaynes of wood quit rentes or suche the rigour wherein is more troublesome then beneficial neither ought we to take euery aduantage for lawe many times is right plaine wrong neither must ye be to slacke on the other side for too muche gentelnesse many times makes a man the woorst And therefore it is good yf the Farmer be slacke in his paimentes to make him to knowe it but in no wyse to be a rayser or enhaunser of rentes for that discomfortes and many times vndooeth the Tenaunt Moreouer you must not lightly change the olde Farmer both because of his desertes and that he is better acquainted with the grounde then a newe L. Volusius would alwayes say that he was in best case for his landes that had alwayes his Tenauntes borne and bread vp in them whereby the long familiaritie shoulde make them more louingly to vse them selues for sure it is an euill vse often to change Tenauntes and therefore I doo like well that order where the land is let for the liues of the Tenaunt his Wyfe and his Chylde paying a yeerely rent so that as long as he payes his rent and keepes the reparations it shall not be lawfull to deceiue him for hereby the Tenaunt shall be prouoked to order the grounde with more diligen●e to repayre the house to looke to it in al pointes as to his owne bestowyng many times as muche as he hath vppon it This way of letting lande mee see●es is best where the ground is subiect to the Sea or the Riuer or other daunger that the Tenaunt be charged with the maintenaunce of it And here be sure that you let it rather to one of habilitie then to a an vnthriftie man that is not able to beare it whereby you may loose both your land your rent In suche place as lyes neare the lord he may occupie it by his Bayliffe or to hawues but where it is farre of it is better to let it out for a yeerely rent vpon the foresayd couenantes For yf you occupie it with your seruauntes they wyl eyther looke yll to your cattel or your ground or suffer thinges to be stolen or steale them selues or make you be at more charges then needeth be carelesse in euery thing In letting of ground commonly it is couenaunted that the Tenaunt shall not let nor sell without leaue of the lorde and that he shall not breake any Pasture or Medowe lande and what and howe muche he shall sowe of eue●y kinde of grayne howe much he shall haue for Pasture howe muche he shall let lye and howe muche he shal mend Here haue you almost as muche as I am able to say in husbandyng of the grounde RIGO I thanke you you haue greatly delighted me with the describing of your Pasture grounde and Earable ¶ The ende of the fyrst Booke The seconde Booke of Gardens Orchardes and Wooddes Thrasybulus Marius Iulia. BEcause of the Aliance betwixt Hearbes Trees and Corne and because their husbandry is almost one it is reason that next to the first booke written of earable grounde and tyllage shoulde folowe the description of Orchardes Gardens and their fruites Virgil in wryting of husbandry left this part vnwritten of howe be it diuers others both olde and newe wryters haue not without some diligence written of this part but yet by snatches as it were and not throughly whose opinions ioyned with myne owne experience it seemeth good to me in this booke to declare And since the vse of Orchardes and Gardens is great and auncient and that Homer wryteth howe Laertes the olde man was woont with his trauayle in his Orchardes to driue from his minde the sorowe he tooke for the absence of his sonne And Xenophon reporteth that king Cyrus as great a prince as he was woulde plant with his owne handes and sette Trees in his Orchardes in suche order as it seemed an earthly paradise Qu. Curtius writeth of Abdolominus that for his great vertue of a poore Gardner came to be king of the Sidonians And surely not vnwoorthyly is this part of husbandry esteemed seeing it doth not alonely bring great pleasure but also is greatly profitable for the maintenaunce of household and the sparing of charges ministring to the husband dayly foode and sufficient sustenaunce without cost For when as Columella sayth in the olde time the people liued more temperately and the poore at more libertie fedde of fleshe and milke and suche thinges as the ground and foldes yeelded but in the latter age when ryotte and daintinesse began to come in and the wealthyer sort to esteeme no fare but costly and farre fetched not content with meane dyet but coueting such thinges as were of greatest price the