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	king_n	tenant_n	4,936	5	10.1458	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19036	Mundanum speculum, or, The worldlings looking glasse Wherein hee may clearly see what a woefull bargaine he makes if he lose his soule for the game of the vvorld. A worke needfull and necessarie for this carelesse age, wherein many neglect the meanes of their saluation. Preached and now published by Edmund Cobbes, master of the Word of God.	Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3.	1630 (1630)	STC 5453; ESTC S117518	113,560	456

thereby may shew their inferioritie and humblenesse of minde in submitting themselues vnto the Will of God whose pleasure it is that some should rule and some obey As Inferiors offend in going costly in their apparell and wearing such as is fit for men of high place and calling so those which are in high places offend in wearing meane and contemtible apparell and so weaken the authoritie GOD hath put into their hands Vnlesse it be in some particular cases as in the time of fasting and humiliation and when God by sensible iudgements shewes that hee hath a controuersie with the land Ruth 1. 20. for the sinnes of the people In such cases costly apparell must bee laid aside and beautifull Ioel 2. 16. names of honour denied But I may spare my labour to say much in this licentious age of this point because men and women are fallen into such an excesse of brauery whereby all respect of order and degree is neglected for whereas Christ restrained gorgious apparell to Kings Pallaces now it is grown so common that we may see it in euery house almost which comes to passe because euerie one is so farre fallen in loue with himselfe either for his person qualities or apparell which are so excellent in their owne eyes that a poore mans wife will bee as fine as a gentlemans and in all places wee shall see pride ruffle in Rustickes for euery one will be in the fashion how euer they come by it the seruant can hardly bee knowne from the Master and the maide from the Mistris nor scarce any mans estate can bee distinguished by his apparell but plaine Coridon that hath no more wit then to know the price of Satten and Silkes and Taffeties and other toyes to make him foole-fine cannot longer be content to hold the Plough and to be one of those good Common-wealths-men which keepe good hopitality and spend their wealth moderately doing good in the places where they dwell but being aduanced in wealth by the death of his miserable father must instantly bee dubbed a gentleman and purchase Armes though it be at a deare rate and be a smoaky gallant in his youth though hee begge his bread in his age and thinke hee is no-body vnlesse he bee out of the fashion and can swagger and braue it out sweare himselfe into smoake with pure refined oathes and fustian protestations and take Tobacco with a whiffe and so lash out that riotously which his father got miserly but hee is now a gentleman therefore hee will not take it as he hath done nor will hee bee clad any longer in good cloath but will creepe into acquaintance with Sattens Veluets and Plush too high and costly for his meane conditions And country maides that haue but thirty or forty shillings a yeare and a few base shifts must be trick't and trim'd vp like a Maid-Mayrian in a Morris dance sometime her Ruffes are pinned vp to her eares and sometime they hang ouer her shoulders like a wind-mill sayle fluttering about her eares Therefore seeing this contagious Leprosie h●th spred it selfe ouer this glorious Commonwealth wherein Gentlemen in their attire goe like Nobles and Yeomen like Gentlemen and Milke-maides like Gentlewomen as if their eyes were so dazelled with pride that they mistooke one anothers apparell for their owne It were to be wished that our ancient lawes made against this excesse were put in execution against our pride which testifies against our faces and yet for all this we are not ashamed but alas as if we had cast off the feare of the Lord from before our eyes we deck our carkasses with such costly vnbeseeming apparell which is light for the fashion wanton and immodest called by the Wife-man the attire of an Pro. 7. 16. Harlot by the Prophet strange Zeph. 1. 8. raiment which shewes very vain and inconstant mindes our Fathers kept sheepe now we Gen. 43. 3. their Children scorne to were the wooll but must ruffle it out in Silkes and Veluets and Taffeties euery one adorning himselfe in brauery although their manners be quite out of order The good chines of Porke and large peeces of Beefe which was wont to bee in great mens houses to releeue the poore are turned now to buy chaines of Gold and the almes that were wont to releeue them is husbanded now to buy guegawes the Elephant is admired for carrying a Castle on his backe but now we may see many faire Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to weare whole Lordships and Mannor-houses on their backs without sweating Vestium luxus saith Tully arguit animum parum sobrium Alas Sobriety where shalt thou be found where al men affect pompe the Plough-man which in times past was content to be clad in russet must now a dayes haue his doublet of the fashion with wide cuts and his silke Garters to meet his Sib on Sunday What would these persons doe if their wealth and birth did answere the pride of their hearts surely they would out-strip Nebuchadnezzar the the King of pride they would be as daintie in their diet and costly in their apparell as euer Diues was how may we lament their folly that to maintaine their pride turne their lands into laces and their patrimonies into gay Coates holding it belike a point of policy to put their Lands into two or three Trunkes of cloathes that wearing their lands on their backs they may see their Tenants doe them no waste but alas when they would turne backe their clothes into lands againe they are so thred-bare and out at the W B. on Math. 6. Elbowes that they will not come neare the former value so that at lēgth for want of better consideration they must march vnder Sir Iohn Hadlands colours among the poore gentlemen of pennilesse bench and so are forced at last to act the Est quodam prodie tenus si non datur vltra Hor. King and beggars part at one time the King abroad and the beggar at home Here I might enter into a large field of matter but by this which hath beene said we may imagine that all is out of frame But vaine man and proud woman know that by thy pride and excesse in apparell thou offendest God and makest him at variance with the workes of his hands for the Wise-man telleth vs that euery one that is proud in Pro. 16. 5. heart is abomination to the Lord. Therefore the Lord by the Prophet denounceth a woe to the Isay 28. 1. crowne of pride It must needs be a miserable thing for the Creature to be abhorred of the Creator Pride is and hath beene alwayes the forerunner of destruction the consideration hereof should strike amazement into euery one of our hearts when we consider what thunder-bolts God hath shot out against this sinne yet what little amendment is to be found amōg vs what losse of precious time is there among vs yea among the Children of God in decking and adorning