Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	father_n	son_n	tenant_n	1,509	5	10.0474	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68982	Choice, chance, and change: or, Conceites in their colours	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1606 (1606)	STC 3636; ESTC S104711	44,432	94

vnto a market towne which solemnity was kept at the house of one sir Slapsawce a slouenly knight that by an vnhappy chaunce came by a title more then hee was worthy of for hee had nothing in him of a knighte more then his title excepte it were that hee wore spurres and a sworde for hee was vsed to ride very often to the faires and to the Market and they were both guilte and dammasked for feare of wearing out too soone A satten Ierkin he wore which was his greate grandfathers it was his pride to speak of it in honor of the Antiquitie beside a brooch in his hat which was the Bosse of some horse bridle that hauing beene some pawne to his ancetors was left to him for a legasie which beeing set in his hat would make him shake the head with no small pride but not to stand too long vpon an idle description Let it suffice that he was fat both in belly and purse dwelte in a faire house and kept good victuals for his friends which were not many nor often but at feasts hee would be lusty brewe good beare down with a bullock and make no spare as long as it woulde last So now at this time betwixt Maister Ienkin his eldest sonne and mistris Parnel his neighbours daughter whose fathers purse made a match with his land there I say at his house at this bridale feast was a great meeting of all the gallants of both genders in the Country I omit to tel what charge he saued by the world of Capons Chickins Geese Lambes pigs yea and some Bullocks brought in by the tennants with malt and meale beside Apples plummes and plumm cakes that there wāted nothing that might be had so good cheap but all this is nothing to the purpose of that I meane to speak of for during this time of feasting being in the Summer time ther wanted no variety of sports as hunting hawking Musicke and dauncing courting and kissing and what not that was necessary and yet for my self being brought thither by a friend I left my selfe I know not how and not being out of a chamber was as it were in a wood sawe many waies and knewe not which to take for when I had taken a superficiall view of them all olde and young faire and foule men and woemen I was in such a case that I knew not which waie to turne mee for first touching the men one hee was so fine at kissing of his hand as if he did wipe his mouth at euery worde an other would congey so low that his points had much adoe to holde so that those were too full of compliments for my conference an other hee was so neate fine and all so fine that for fear of tutching his ruffes displacing his sword pointe or some such nice kinde of Anoyance I durst not come too neer him An other he was so rude so buisie with euery bodie that I was loath to be troubled with him An other was so eloquent that I knew not how to talk with him An other was so dull of vnderstanding that I had no edge to deale with him Another so bashfull that I was loath to make him blush and another so sawcy that I was glad to shunne him and other was so old that I should haue had a Chronicle to answer him and an other so young that it was pitty to trouble him thus among men I could single out no mate And for the woemen if one had a good wit then was her face nothing answerable so that I coulde rather desire to hear her then see her and if an other were faire then her wit was oute of the waie so that I mighte rather please mine eie then trouble my tong with her another if shee were rich then was she so olde that shee was out of date with mee an other was so younge that I was affraid to venter on her So that in some I knewe not how to bestirre mee either to stand like a spie to heer and see and saie nothing and to loose time in talking to idlenes but to tell you of the graces and countenances of them all as well men as woemen it were a prety Iest to thinke on if I could remember them all in the right for the men one would stand snuffing and spitting as if he had bin new come from Tabacco An other would sit shaking of his legs as though hee were kicking of a dull horse an other would stand with his armes astrut like a Scarcrow in a peas-garden another wold set out his foot to look vpon his new shoostrings another would frown as though he were too good for the company and another bite the lippe as though he had som pain in his middle finger one did look as if he woulde whine for an ill looke of his Mistrisse another stand like a Godson that should be conning of his lesson by heart one like a foole that was ashamed of good company and another like a knaue that was a Setter for fooles so that afrayd to touche one come neere an other trouble one or bee troubled with another I left my old Masters to their ha now ha and the Madcapps to their heidegies and for a while rather stood to the blame of silence then would flie the shame of folly and so leauing euery one to his humor fell to note the variety of countenances among the woemen one would sit mumping as though teeth would haue much pleasured her Another nod the head as though she hadd bin nurtering of youth another lere on either side as a Cat at a mousehole another swell with pride as if she were Mistris of the Haruest cart another make so many faces that shee had nere a good one among them one would be stretching of her bodies as if her waste were too streight another bee putting off and on hir gloues to shew the rings on her fingers another stand and sigh as if her heart would haue burst for loue Ar. Yea marry that was the wenche I looked for all this while did not her colour come and go often and did she not vse little speech and change the coppy of her countenance and fiddle much with her fingers and wag the forepart of her soot and withdraw her selfe from much company Tid She did all this and much more as somtime laying her hand on her heart another while stretching her fingers to heare them cracke as if euery ierke of a ioynt were a husband and by and by look in her hand as though she had been tolde of her fortune vnder her middle finger and then a little shake the head as if it wer not fully to her mind this wēch did I fall aboord withall and for lack of better busines fell to court her with a few good words Ar. As how I pray thee Tid In this manner fayr virgin if it be no trouble to your patience to put you out of your passion let me intreat