Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	east_n	north_n	sail_v	1,645	5	10.3744	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20047	O per se O. Or A new cryer of Lanthorne and candle-light Being an addition, or lengthening, of the Bell-mans second night-walke. In which, are discouered those villanies, which the bell-man (because hee went i'th darke) could not see: now laid open to the world. Together with the shooting through the arme, vsed by counterfeit souldiers: the making of the great soare, (commonly called the great cleyme:) the mad-mens markes: their phrase of begging: the articles and oathes giuen to the fraternitie of roagues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggers at their meetings. And last of all, a new canting-song.; Lanthorne and candle-light	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1616 (1616)	STC 6487; ESTC S109511	68,042	112

vpon greene stalkes Then came forth certaine infamous earthy minded Creatures in the shapes of Snailes who all the day time hiding their heads in their shells least boies should with two fingers point at them for liuing basely vpon the prostitution of their wiues bodies cared not now before candle-light to shoote out their largest Hornes A number of other monsters like These were séene as the sunne went downe to venture from their dennes onely to ingender with Darknesse but candle-lights eye-sight growing dimmer and dimmer and he at last falling starke blind Lucifers Watch-man went stumbling vp and downe in the darke How to weane Horses EVery dore on a sudden was shut not a candle stood péeping through any window not a Vintner was to be séene brewing in his Cellor not a drunkerd to be met reeling not a Mouse to be heard stiring al the citie shewed like one Bed and al in that Bed were soundly cast into a sléepe Noyse made no noise for euery one that wrought with the hammer was put to silence Yet notwithstanding when euen the Diuel himselfe could haue béene contented to take a nap there were few Inkeepers about the towne but had their spirits walking To watch which spirits what they doe our Spy that came lately out of the Lowercountries stole into one of their Circles where lurking very closely he perceiued that when all the guests were profoundly sléeping when Carriers were soundly snorting and not so much as the chamberlaine of the house but was layd vp suddenly out of his bed started an hostler who hauing no apparrell on but his shirt a paire of slip-shooes on his féete a Candle burning in his hand like olde Ieronimo step'd into the stable amongst a number of poore hungry Iades as if that night he had béene to ride poast to the Diuell But his iorney not lying that way till some other time he neither bridled nor sadled any of his foure-footed guests that stood there at racke and manger but séeing them so late at supper and knowing that to ouer-eate them-selues would fill them full of diseases they being subiect to aboue a hundred thirty already hée first without a voyder after a most vnmanerly fashion tooke away not onely all the Prouander that was set before them but also all the hay at which before they were glad to licke their lippes The poore Horse looked very rufully vpon him for this but hée rubbing their téeth onely with the end of a Candle in stéed of a Corrall tolde them that for their Iadish trickes it was now time to weane them And so wishing them not to be angry if they lay vpon the hard boards considering all the beddes in the house were full backe againe hée stole to his Couch till breake of day yet fearing least the sunne should rise to discouer his knauery vp hée started and into the stable hée stumbled scarce halfe awake giuing to euery Iade a bottle of hay for his breake-fast but all of them being troubled with the greazy tooth-ach could eare none which their maisters in the morning espying swore they were either sullen or els that prouender pricked them This Hostler for this péece of seruice was afterwards preferred to be one of the Groomes in Belzebubs stable Another Night-peece drawne in sundry collours SHall I shew you what other bottomes of mischiefe Plutos Beadle saw wound vpon the blacke spindels of the Night in this his priuy search In some stréetes hée met Mid-wiues running till they sweat following them close at héeles hée spied them to be let in at the backe dores of houses seated either in blind lanes or in by-gardens which houses had roomes builded for the purpose where young Maides being bigge with child by vnlawfull Fathers or young wiues in their husbands abscence at sea or in the warres hauing wrastled with batchilers or married men till they caught falls lay safely till they were deliuered of them And for reasonable summes of mony the bastards that at these windows crept into the world were as closely now and then sent presently out of the world or else were so vnmannerly brought vp that they neuer spake to their owne parents that begot them In some stréetes he met seruants in whose brest albeit the arrowes of the plague stucke halfe way yet by cruelll maisters were they driued out of dores at mid-night and conuaid to Garden-houses where they either died before next morning or else were carried thither dead in their coffins as tho they had lien sicke there before and there had dyed Now and then at the corner of a turning hée spied seruants purloying fardels of their maisters goods deliuering them to the hands of common strumpets This dore opened and Lust with Prodigality were heard to stand closely kissing and wringing one another by the hand softly to whisper out foure or fiue goodnights till they met abroad the next morning A thousand of these comedies were acted in dumbe shew and onely in the priuate houses at which the Diuells messenger laught so loude that Hell heard him and for ioy rang foorth loud and lustie Plaudities But being driuen into wonder why the night would fall in labour and bring foorth so many Villanies whose births she practised to couer as shée had reason because so many watchmen were continually called and charged to haue an eye to her dooings at length hée perceiued that Bats more vgly and more in number then these might flye vp and downe in darkenesse for tho with their Letherne Wings they should strike the very billes out of those Watchmens handes such leaden plummets were commonly hung by sléepe at all their eyelids that hardly they could be awakned to strike them agen On therefore hée walkes with intent to hasten home as hauing fil'd his Table-Bookes with sufficient notes of intelligence But at the last méeting with the Bel-man and not knowing what hée was because hée went without his Lanthorne and some other implements for the man in the Moone was vp the most part of the night and lighted him which way soeuer hée turned hée tooke him for some churlish Hobgoblin séeing a long staffe on his necke and therefore to be one of his owne fellowes The Bel-ringer Smelling what strong scent hée had in his nose soothed him vp and questioning with him how hée had spent his time in the citie and what discouery of Land-villanies hée had made in this Iland voiage tho Mariner of hell opened his chart which he had lined with all abuses lying either East West North or South hée shewed how hée had pricked it vpon what points hée had saild where hée put in vnder what height hée kept him-selfe where hée went a shore what strange people he met what land hée had discouered and what commodities hée was laden with from thence Of all which the Bel-man drawing forth a perfect Map they parted which Map hée hath set out in such collors as you sée tho not