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	lord_n	rent_n	2,560	5	9.6389	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50091	The excellent comedy called, The old law, or, A new way to please you by Phil. Massinger, Tho. Middleton, William Rowley ... ; together with an exact and perfect catalogue of all the playes, with the authors names, and what are comedies, tragedies, histories, pastoralls, masks, interludes, more exactly printed than ever before.; Old law	Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.; Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.; Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?	1656 (1656)	Wing M1048; ESTC R12634	55,222	95

my business And prick the man down I ha six months to do ot But could dispatch him in one were I put too t Exit Finis Actus Secundi Act. III. Scen. I. Enter the Clown and Clark Clo. YOu have searcht ore the Parish Chronicles sir Clar. Yes sir I have found out the true age and date of the party you wot on Clo. Pray you be covered sir Clar. When you have shewd me the way sir Clo. Oh sir remember your selfe you are a Clark Clar. A small Clark sir Clo. Likely to be the wiser man sir for your greatest Clarks are not alwayes so as t is reported Clar. You are a great man in the Parish sir Clo. I understand my self so much the better sir for all the best in the Parish pay duties to the Clark and I would ow you none sir Clar. Since you l have it so I 'le be the first to hide my head Clo. Mine is a capcass now to our busines in your hand good luck I hope I long to be resolv'd Clar. Look you sir this is that cannot deceive you This is the Diall that goes ever true You may say Ipse dixit upon this witnes And t is good in Law too Clo. Pray you le ts bear what it speaks Clar. Mark sir Agatha the daughter of Pollux this is your Wives name and the name of her father born Clo. Whose daughter say you Clar. The daughter of Pollux Clo. I take it his name was Bollux Clar. Pollux the Orthography I assure you sir the word is corrupted else Clo. Well on sir of Pollux now come on Castor Clar. Born in an 1540. and now t is 99. by this infallible record sir let me see she is now just 59. and wants but one Clo. I am sorry she wants so much Clar. Why sir alas t is nothing t is but so many months so many weeks so many Clo. Do not deduct it to dayes t will be the more tedious and to measure it by houre glasses were intollerable Clar. Doe not think on it sir halfe the time goes away in sleep t is halfe the yeare in nights Clo. Oh you mistake me neighbour I am loath to leave the good old woman if shee were gone now it would not grieve mee for what is a yeare alasse but a lingring torment and were it not better she were out of her paine t' must needs bee a griefe to us both Clar. I would I knew how to ease you neighbour Clo. You speake kindly truly and if you say but Amen to it which is a word that I know you are perfect in it might be don Clarks are the most indifferent honest men for to the marriage of your enemy or the buriall of your friend the Curses or the Blessings to you are all one you say Amen to all Clar. With a better will to the one then the other neighbour but I shall be glad to say Amen to any thing might doe you a pleasure Clo. There is first somthing above your duty now I would have you set forward the Clock a little in to helpe the old woman out of her paine Clar. I will speake to the Sexton for that but the day will go nere the faster for that Clo. Oh neighbour you doe not conceit mee not the Jack of the Clock-house the hand of the Diall I meane come I know you being a great Clark cannot chuse but have the art to cast a figure Clar. Never indeed neighbour I never had the judgement to cast a figure Clo. I 'le show you on the back side of your booke looke you what figures this Clar. Four with a Cipher that 's forty Clo. So forty what 's this now Clar. The Cipher is turn'd into 9. by adding the taile which makes forty nine Clo. Very well understood what i' st now Clar. The 4. is turnd into 3. t is now thirty nine Clo. Very well understood and can you do this agen Clar. Oh easily sir Clo. A wager of that let me see the place of my wives age agen Clar. Looke you sir t is heere 1540 Clo. Forty drachmaes you doe not turne that forty into thirty nine Clar. A match with you Clo. Done and you shall keepe stakes your selfe there they are Clar. A firme match but stay sir now I consider it I shall add a yeare to your wives age let mee see Scirophon the 17. and now t is Hecatomcaon the 11. if I alter this your wife will have but a month to live by the Law Clo. That 's all one sir either doe it or pay me my wager Clar. Will you lose your wife before you lose your wager Clo. A man may get two wives before halfe so much money by em will you do ot Clar. I hope you will conceale me for t is flat corruption Clo. Nay sir I would have you keepe counsell for I lose my money by 't and should be laught at for my labour if it should bee known Clar. Well sir there t is done is perfect 39. as can be found in black and white but mum sir ther 's danger in this figure casting Clo. I sir I know that better men then you have beene throwne over the barr for as little the best is you can be but throwne out of the Belfrie Enter the Cook the Taylor Bayliffe and Butler Clar. Lock close heere comes company Asses have eares as well as Pitchers Cook Oh Gnothos how i' st heer 's a trick of discarded Cards of us wee were ranked with Coats as long as our old master lived Clo. And is this then the end of Serving men Cooke Yes faith this is the end of serving men a wise man were better serve one God then all the men in the world Clo. T was wel spak of a Cook and are all faln into fasting daies and ember weeks that Cooks are out of use Tay. And all Taylors will bee cut into Lists and Shreds if this world hold we shall grow both out of request But. And why not Butlers aswell as Taylors if they can goe naked let em neither eat nor drink Cla. That 's strange mee thinks a Lord should turne away his Taylor of all men and how dost thou Taylor Tay. I do so so but indeed all our wants are long of this Publican my Lords Bayliff for had he been rent gatherer still our places had held together still that are now seame rent nay crack'd in the whole peece Bal. Sir if my Lord had not sold his Lands that claime his Rents I should still have beene the rent gatherer Cook The truth is except the Coachman and the Footman all serving men are out of request Clo. Nay say not so for you were never in more request then now for requesting is but a kind of a begging for when you say I beseech your Worships Charity t is all one if you say I request i●● and in that kind of requesting I am sure serving men were never in more request Cook Troath hee sayes true well let that passe