Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	island_n	lie_v	mile_n	8,075	5	9.6938	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06607	Euphues and his England Containing his voyage and his aduentures, myxed with sundrie pretie discourses of honest loue, the discription of the countrey, the court, and the manners of that isle. Delightful to be read, and nothing hurtfull to be regarded: wherein there is small offence by lightnesse giuen to the wise, and lesse occasion of looseness proffered to the wanton. By Iohn Lyly, Maister of Arte. Commend it, or amend it.	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1580 (1580)	STC 17070; ESTC S106953	185,944	280

to spende their golden time without either praise or profite pretending a desire of learning when they only follow loytering But I hope our trauaile shall bée better employed séeing vertue is the white we shoote at not vanitie neither the English tongue which as I haue heard is almost barbarous but the English manners which as I thinke are most precise And to thée Philautus I begin to addresse my speach hauing made an ende of my hermits tale if these few precepts I giue thée be obserued then doubt not but we both shal learne that we best lyke And these they are AT thy comming into England be not too inquisitiue of newes neither curious in matters of State in assemblyes aske no questions either cōcerning māners or mē Be not lauish of thy tongue either in causes of weight least thou shew thy selfe an espyall or in wanton talke least thou proue thy selfe a foole It is the Nature of that countrey to sift straungers euery one that shaketh thée by the hande is not ioyned to thée in hart They think Italians wanton Grecians subtill they will trust neither they are so incredulous but vndermine both they are so wise Be not quartellous for euery lyght occasion they are impatient in their anger of any equal ready to reuenge an iniury but neuer wont to proffer any they neuer fight without prouoking and once prouoked they neuer cease Beware thou fal not into the snares of loue the women there are wise the men craftie they will gather loue by thy lookes and pick thy minde out of thy hands It shal be ther better to heare what they say then to speake what thou thinkest They haue long eares and short tongues quicke to heare and slow to btter broad eyes and lyght fingers ready to espy and apte to strike Euerye straunger is a marke for them to shoote at yet this must I say which in no coūtrey I can tell the lyke y t it is as seldome to sée a straunger abused ther as it is rare to sée any wel vsed els wher yet presume not too much of y e courtesies of those for they differ in natures some are hot some colde one simple an other wily yet if thou vse few words faire speches thou shalt commaund any thing thou standest in néede off Touching the situation of the soile I haue read in my studie which I partly belieue hauing no worse Author then Caesar yet at my comming when I shall conferre the things I sée with those I haue read I will iudge accordingly And this haue I heard that the inner part of Brittaine is inhabited by such as wer borne bred in the Isle and the Sea-coast by such as haue passed thether out of Belgicke to search booties and to make warre The countrey is meruaylously replenished with people and there be many buildings almost like in fashion to y e buildings of Gallia there is great store of Cattell the coyne they vse is either of Brasse or els rings of Iron used at a certeine waight in stéede of money In the inner parts of the Realme groweth Tinne and in the Sea Coaste groweth yron The Brasse that they occupye is brought in from beyond-sea The aire is more temperate in those places than in Fraunce and the colde lesser The Iland is in fashion three cornered where-off one side is toward Fraunce the one corner of this side which is Kent wher for the most part Ships ariue out of Fraunce is in the Gast and the other nethermore is towards the South This side containeth about fiue hundred miles an other side lyeth toward Spayne and the Sunne going downe on the which side is Ireland lesse then Britaine as is supposed by the one halfe but the cut betwéen them is like the distaunce that is betwéene Fraunce and Britaine In the middest of this course is an Ilande called Man the length of this side is according to y e opinion of the Inhabiters seuc̄ hundred miles The third side is Northward and against it lyeth no lande but the poynt of that side butteth most vppon Germany This they estéeme to bée eight hundred miles long so y e ciruit of y e whole Iland is two thousand miles Of all the Inhabitaunts of this Isse the Kentishmen are most ciuilest the which country marcheth altogether vpon the Sea differeth not greatly from the manner of Fraunce They that dwell more in the hart of the Realme saw corne but liue by milke flesh and cloath themselues in leather All the Britaines doe dye themselues with woad which setteth a blewishe coulour vppon them it maketh them more terrible to beholde in battaile They weare their haire long shaue all parts of their bodies sauing the head and the vpper lyppe Diuers other vses and customes among them as I haue read Philautus But whether these be true or no I will not say for me thinketh an Iland so well gouerned in peace then and so famous in victoryes so fertile in all respects so wholsome and populous must néedes in the tearme of a thousand yeares be much better and I beléeue we shall finde it such as we neuer read the like of any vntill we ariue there we will suspend our iudgements yet do I meane at my returne from thence to drawe the whole discription of the Land the customes the nature of the people the state the gouernement and whatsoeuer deserueth either meruaile or commendation Philautus not accustomed to those narrow Seas was more readie to tell what wood the ship was made of then to aunsivere to Euphues discourse yet betwéene waking and winking as one halfe sicke and somwhat sléepy it came in his braines aunswered thus In faith Euphues thou hast told a long tale the beginning I haue forgotten the middle I vnderstand not and the end hangeth not together therefore I can-not repeate it as I woulde nor delight in it as I ought yet if at our ariuall thou wilt renew thy tale I will rubbe my memorie in the meane season would I were either againe in Italy or now in England I cannot brook these Seas which prouoke my stomacke sore I haue an appetite it were best for me to take a nap for euery word is brought forth with a nod Euphues replied I cannot tell Philautus whether the SEa make thée sicke or she that was borne of the Sea if the first thou hast a quesic stomacke if the leatter a wanton desire I well beléeue thou remembrest nothing that may doe thée good nor forgettest any thing which can do thée harme making more of a sore then a plaister and wishing rather to be curssed then cured where-in thou agréest with those which hauing taken a surfet séeke the meanes rather to sléepe then purge or those that hauing the gréen sicknes and are brought to deaths dore follow their owne humour and refuse the Phisitions remedie And such Philautus is thy disease who pining in thine one follies chusest rather to perishe