Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	hold_v	homage_n	tenant_n	1,328	5	10.3816	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07554	The misterie of iniquitie Plainely layd open by a lay-Christian, no profest diuine, out of truth in humanity, and rules of naturall reason. Whereby the world may see, read and vnderstand, the proud and vaine comparison of a cardinalles red-hat, and a kings golden crowne. Alwayes prouided, in reading, read all, or read nothing at all.	Milles, Tho. (Thomas), 1550?-1627?	1611 (1611)	STC 17934; ESTC S114600	61,425	60

such as tumultuous warres haue made our next Neighbors The Netherlands the Seat of Excises and Traffickes Purgatory impose vpon themselues for defence of their Consciences their Liues and Liberties But such Customes as Mildnesse Mercy England the Seat of Marchandice and Traffickes Paradice to relieue our neighbors our Allies and our Friends the Wisedome of our State hath inuested our Kinges to maintaine the Soueraigntie of our Kingdome by Such Customes as demonstratiuely shewing the real possession and actuall protection our Soueraignes haue and hold of euery mans wealth leaue notwithstanding to each of their Subiectes his Meum and Tuum and full vse of his owne Lastly such Customes as like Tythes of a Church or Quitrents of a Mannor shew the power of the Lorde and Greatnesse of the Owner the defrauding whereof doth worthily forfet both protection and possession of the immediate Free-holder For Customes of themselues Customes deseribed and properly taken are those Leniore● Tribut● easie sums and payments of ready currant money to Customers at their Portes by Marchants allyed to the State for such Staple-Commodities as being orderly bought sold and for Number Weight and Measure sufficiently censured before they crosse the Seas for our Soueraigns Honor and Countreyes Credit by indented Certificate and Staple-Seale come warranted thither But as the Stuard of a Mannor that sits to hold a Court for want of the Rowles and Authenticke Records of his Lords Reuenewes can neither know the Tenants demaund their Quit-rents nor vnderstand their homage how each man bounds his Fee or holds his own So fares it at this day with the Customes and the Customers in the Out-Ports of this Lande For though their Temples stand vpright and Churches may be seen yet their Staples being dissolued transported out of sight from whence their worke should come though Religion haue her Altars for Vnity and Truth yet Traficke being distracted the King wants his owne and wee like to Pipers that want their vpper lippes would gladly call for Customes but knowe not where to finde them For as no Church can haue no Tithes and no Courts no Quitrents so no Staples no Customes By meanes whereof Necessity ouertaken makes bold with Free-will and to ayde Prcheminence transcending to Prorogatiue turnes Customes into Subsidies of Tonnage and Pondage As i● Preheminence and Prerogatiue were meerely Synonimas and ment but one thing and bounding Iustice that layes out all our Rightes were that boundlesse Mercy which makes vs al to liue and Mercy it selfe but a word of profanesse or some ordinary thing Thus whilst our Graue Maisters and Moderators of our Schooles haue beene busied and distracted with higher pointes f Learning out Staples turnd to Mart-Townes in other Forrain Landes our Customes are confounded and wee like Beares at Stakes seeme fit for nothing but bayting and beating But that which grieues vs most and of all seemes most vnkinde our PATRON hereby wants his Bounty * No maruell if Customers liue still disgraced for holding Honestum so before Vtile as both might go together since Bounty it selfe in Kinges becomes hindered and distasted without which in Soueraignes no Subiects can bee happy Shall Piety tremble to say God may be too Good And shall Loyalty limit or tax Bounty in Kinges If omne Bonum be sui diffu siuum quantò communius eò semper meliut As God is most Good Infusiuely being Goodnessent selfe so help Kings to fixed Goodnesse Bullion for that is their Essence but keepe Subiects from coyning though the Bullion be their Owne is vndermined without which in Soueraignes no Subiects can be happy For his Loadestones beeing transported and his Golden Mines of store hys Coyne begins to faile and his Mints doe stamp no more His Ports run all to London where his Treatise keepe men vnder his Megazines in Holland makes all the world to wonder The onely Shipping of Helland compatable with all Christēdome Whose Shippes and strength at Sea so great so huge so strange showes how Trafick furthers Shipping how Vsury checks Exchange and all because Subiects are suffered to be Coyners O Vsury and Ambition how far are you to blame And Auarice with Pride goe hide your selues for shame Till our Staples bee foūd For if alery out on Couetise that with great Reasō since God hath pronounc't it the root of all Euill and the secret loue of Money to be flat Idolatry which being still bad in Subiects must needes bee woorst in Kings Howe great then might out happines appeare to haue BOVNTY himselfe now li●e and dwel among vs had his Traficke but her Staples as his Iustice hath her Courts and Religion her Temples And what harty remorse ought it to moue to see both Him and His abridged and depriued of the principall meanes to practise their vertues Great there fore Greater and Greatest of all must their accounts be both to God and Nature that preposlerously peruerting their proper Materialles turne their best helpes for Bullion to their priuate aduantage to the intollerable dislurbance both of Court and Countrey and almost vnrecouerable wrong to the King and his Crowne whereof Customers wanting words haue made signes with their Pennes and yet are still apt to groane in this manner O that our T●ngue● or Pennes were able to expresse Or had t●e Golden guift to make men vnderstand Tho●e great and stroog Effects of Heauenly happines Exchange at Staples would worke by Boun●●●● hand Our Traficke th●n a home would quickly blisse our Land For Instice and Religion should sit so neare together That Righteousnes and Pea●e might kindly kisse each other And Kings elsewhere might learne by this Idea made What Heauen it selfe dothboad by this our Kingly Trade Yet MAIESTY must be seene still for all this Disorder at one hand or other and SOVERAIGNTY by all meanes made able to subsist if SVBIECTS will be happy and Customers are sworne to do their best Endeuors ¶ Ther 's a Place in this Land Transiti● from Customes to Subsidie by a Simile where a Great-Man doth dwell in whose beautifull Garden a stately Fountaine standes at the raysing whereof Art seemd to striue with Nature and both excell themselues the Spring and Streame still plentifull fill all the empty Cisternes of the Tenants adioyning with a Cocke in pryuate to stop or let out at pleasure By tract of Time corruption abroad or neglect at home the Spring becomes peruerted the Streame runs wast or the Fountayn's out of frame that the Lord of the Soyle who should relieue others by the Bounty of his owne wants water himselfe and crauesayd of his Tenants whose Cisterns conteyne no more of themselues then his Currant afforded and Conduct controld His wants at the first are gladly supplyde but the ofter the woorse for in these Elements of Life and vitall subsistence Religion still bids Reason prouide first for Nature and be next her selfe Distresses being daungerous if not deadly when the bloud is retracted