Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	lord_n	pay_v	tenant_n	1,537	5	9.6349	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05456	Cyuile and vncyuile life a discourse very profitable, pleasant, and fit to bee read of all nobilitie and gentlemen : where, in forme of a dialoge is disputed, what order of lyfe best beseemeth a gentleman in all ages and times ...		1579 (1579)	STC 15589.5; ESTC S106722	50,662	109

Vallentine Then must you imagine that you haue ten loads of Haye in your Stable and ten horses which of force you must keepe In my Stable I haue but one load and one horse now will I aske you whither your proportion bee larger for your cattell or mine for mee Vincent They seeme all one sauinge that hee that hath the greatest prouisiō hath also the greater trouble Vallentine Then I am glad you vnderstande For such is the difference betwix● the Countrey and towne dweller the one hath much prouision and many to spend it the other hath litle and few to consume it So as I gesse all comes to one reckoninge saue that the greatest hauer hath the lesse quiet Vincent But yet by your leaue Maister Vallentine you gay beseen Courtiers albeit you want prouision and haue litle yet will you also spend much And how then Vallentine Mary then I say so many of vs as indeede such is the honour of the most bee plaine banckeroutes and beggers as you call vs but in whom is the fault not in the Court nor yet in the towne But in our owne selues and our owne folly But such as liue in Court or in towne orderly spende within their proportion may bee equall with you in thrifte and in quietnes far before you Vincent Yet haue you not fully answered mee for sith besides my yearly rentes I haue three or foure hundreth Acres of demeane landes wherupon my prouision groweth I accompt my house costeth me nothing when you that haue none but liue on the penny must needes spend without measure Vallentine Why syr if you lust let out your demeanes were it worth no rente Vincent Yes that it were for there is no Acre of it but would yeeld mee yearely a crowne Vallentine Then may you accompt your prouision cost you yearly foure hundreth crownes Vincent By my say you say troth for if I did not eate it I perceaue I should haue it But then how should my house bee kept and my neighbours loue mee Vallentine A great deale better now for you other Gentlemen disposing your selues as ful yll it becommeth you to bee Ploughmen you haue learned what euery soyle is worth and so after that rate set out your land wherby the poore Husbandman or Farmer payeth so deare for your comming and neighborhood as hee had rather you liued further off like a Gentleman though for very flattery or feare when hee diueth at your Boarde hee saith hee is sory your worship should dwell away when God wotteth the poore man meaneth nothinge lesse For I haue learned that those Tennauntes haue best peny worthes of their Farmes whose Landlordes do least know the Lande or dwell furthest from it Wherfore you deceaue your selfe to thinke that your continuall dwelling in the Country doth ease the poore Ploughman so long as you play the Ploughman your selfe or let your lande at great rente For shall you not finde a number of poore Husbandmen that almost starue for want of lande to mannure wherof I iudge nothinge a greater cause then that Gentlemen bee become Ploughmen and are not contente to let the poore hier it and liue of the rente as their calling is which couetous and clownishe honour they cloake vnder pretence of hospitallitie Vincent But if I should not occupy my lande how should I know what it were worth for this I found by experience calling home into my handes certayne coppy houldes let out by mine Auncestors that euery Acre was twise so much worth as the rente I receiued for it Vallentine Loe now in ernest you speake like a worshipfull Ploughman not like a worthy Gentleman for this experience wherof you speake were better vnknowen then vsed Therfore some Doctors doo thinke it better not to know all thinges then to know them meaning as I iudge that euery man should not bee to deepe a searcher in an others profession or mistery least led on with priuate profit he hindereth the common commoditie Vincent By this reason wherin I confesse is good sence the Gentlemen of the Country that occupieth much lande with his owne Plough and feedeth many other letting also his lande wel and roundly were aswell spared as present among his Tennauntes Notwithstanding hee keepeth good hospitallitie Vallentine Yea certainly for they giue the poore men their Tennants a meales meat twise a weeke worth a groate and force him to pay a shillinge more then hee was wonte before his lorde became so skilfull a husband Yea by your leaue also if your poore Tennant presentes you with a couple of Capons or a Pigge it is many times welcome all the meat hee eateth at you Table is not so much worth Vincent I partly conceaue now the substance of al this discourse vpon profit finde in deede that comparing the number which wee keepe in the countrey with those that you do in the Cittie the cost of householdinge commeth all to one accompt and to confesse troth I suppose there is more certenty in the proportion of your charges then in ours And as I graunted before not halfe the trouble And sith I am led thus far from mine olde foolish minde and common loue to our countrey custome to inhabite there I will tell you of great and excessiue priuie charges which wee be at in our houses I meane in our household stuffe and cheefely linnen for if a Gentleman haue in his house twenty beads as manye haue and some a greater number wee haue them full often occupied with straungers and their seruaunts who for the most parte bee so careles or slouenly as they will make quicke speede to weare out not only our linnen but also our hanginges Curtaines and Canopies of silke So as within a litle time wee spoyle a great deale of good stuffe and then forced to buy new For as you see Gentlemen daily resorte vnto common Innes so do they daily resort to Gentlemens houses with man and horse hauke and dog till the poore Marster of the house hath al his linnen foule al his prouision eaten his household stuffe made vnsauery oft times torne and spoiled But al this notwithstanding I acknowledge to be true yet it greeueth mee to dwel from my owne house where my neighbors loue me my tenants do feare me yet would I faine do as you aduise me were not the fashion and the custome to the contrary Vallentine By so saying you renue an olde verse that beeinge a Schoole boy I oftentimes red Video meliora proboque deteriora scquor But I praye you let nothinge that is euil vnfit or vnprofitable entice you to continue if because the same hath beene an auncient custome for I dare warrant you that Vice is as olde as any vertue and yet I hope you are not so simple as for the age against all reason you will allow it for good Vincent In very deede you discourse so well as I must needes confesse my selfe driuen to the wall with playne reason yet while it