Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	earl_n	knight_n	10,768	5	7.7193	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81443	A dialogue, or, Rather a parley betweene Prince Ruperts dogge whose name is Puddle, and Tobies dog whose name is Pepper, &c. VVhereunto is added the challeng which Prince Griffins dogg called Towzer, hath sent to Prince Ruperts dogg Puddle, in the behalfe of honest Pepper Tobies dog. Moreover the said Prince Griffin is newly gone to Oxford to lay the wager, and to make up the match.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653,	1643 (1643)	Wing D1369; Thomason E246_23; ESTC R19016	6,594	8

my knowledg three yeares since no above 5. l. if all their debts were paid that now have 3. l. a day others 40. s. a day others 20. s. and some 15. s. a day how many of them before this businesse broke in a morning and compounded within a month for a noble in the pound and dost thou poor silly Dog thinke that these noble Princes wil once hearken or conclude to a peace if they can have such pay and such gaines for nothing many of them not worth a dog and now who but they and their wives that appeare in their severall and changeable suites of apparrell and shine like Iove and Juno Tob. Dog Sirrah let my brave Masters alone tell me not what they were but what they are They are now brave Gentlemen leave your rayling or else I will send but a word of my mouth and I will have a Regiment of Red-coats and a Troop of horse that shall quallifie your dogged humour and make you speake better words of them Pr. Rob. Dog I care not for your leather troops of horse nor for your red-cotten fouldiers I can match your best Troops when you dare and where you dare I would have thee know that I serve and attend upon a noble King four Princes three Dukes two Marquesses fifty Earles 200. Lords and Vicounts 300. Barons 700. Knights and 1100 Esquires and Gentlemen besides common Soul●iers These are no broken Lords nor crackt Citizens they serve in person and without pay nay they beare their own charges all out of love and loyalty to their K. and Country But few of your Masters durst ever shew their faces till this reformed time but held down their heads like bul-rushes and walked up and down by night how many hundred do you thinke Mr. dog that his Majesty hath now in a list or a catalogue of their names of such stout Finsbury field souldiers and weak conditioned men in estates above 300 of them I will assure you whom his Majesty wil one day remember Toby Dog Good Puddle be not so envious and so malicious thus to r●ile of them you do not know be not still of that dogged mungrell disposition good Puddle Pr. Rob Dog Thou hast a good memory though thou hast but short haire to remember my name yet some call me Boy but my name is Puddle And I can do strange things and change my selfe into many shapes I come into your City divers times and heare the common votes of the vulgar then I go to the Ordinaries and take notice what newes passes there for current any one may almost discover me if they doe but touch me I do to grumble and am of the dogged disposition and if any one observe or hear a Gentleman call for a dish of broth and his Ordinary of Rumps and Kidneyes they may be assured it is I The other night for giving of two pence to a red bearded fellow one Mr. P●a●es who was made Corporal for that night who then stood neer the Exchang I had the word given mee by him and I past freely Another time I past by the watch like a Fidler and was never examined and so likewise for a small matter at your Court of Guards for all your vigilant Sentinells Toby Dog O intollerable if the City be not looked too better wee shall be all betrayed Pr. Rup Dog Nay more then this can I doe and have done at the Iast generall meeting at Guild-Hall I hired Arthur Shuttle a Procters Clerk to go into Long-lane and procure an Aldermans gowne and come to Guild-Hall though it was so narrowly looked to to get in and there by his meanes to beget a faction and so a tumult and at length to have faln to blows amongst your selves that our Army in the meane time might have come in and plaid their part to the purpose It was I that caused that mercinary fellow Robert Blague to write letters of intelligence between both Armies and for his reward he had 50. pound a moneth from each Army I perswaded Blague to give intelligence to the Earle of Essex in what part of the army the Kings best Regiment was placed and in what place the Lord Generall would bee at the fight and where the Kings Standard would be placed Then on the other side I put it into the heart of the Kings souldiers after the first fireing to fall to pillaging and plundering the Earl of Essex his Coach and Waggons where all his treasure was to pay his souldiers which the did and in plundering the Coach there was the miscreant Blagues letter found with his name at it of the former intelligence which was taken and carried to the King which the King saw and read for which Blague had his just reward even a rope with chains to boot I advised Mr. Maston who is the Earl of Carnarvans Chaplain to make that book which our army do so hug and laugh at called the Complaint to the House of Commons I put it into some of the malignant Citizens heads as your Masters call them to surprize the Tower and to get al the Ordnance into their possession but that failing I have shewed them another stratagem how to be revenged on the City for their Robellion you may see Pepper what power and skill I have in magicke Spells Nay though the Gentleman did preach not above a week before the House of Commons but his Sermon being not liked and he little or no thanks bestowed on him I wished him to write that invective book I have done divers of these exploits and have many more plots yet undiscovered Toby Dog Learned Mr. Puddle do but reveal some of these plots to me and I will ever be your creature Pr. Rup Dog Pepper take but your oath that you will not discover it till such a time and I will Toby Dog I will swear any thing you will have me to do Pr. Rup Dog You shall take the new oath which our Cavalliers do give to all the prisoners which they took at Cicester before they go away from Oxford which if you doe I will then reveal the plot Toby Dog I have taken i● and sworn to the oath Pr. Rup Dog Then this is the plot The next high or spring tide when the moon is at the full wil your City be drowned and I will tel you how vand which way The City malignants do intend to under-mine the Rider of Thames and it is to be begun on Seuthwark side and when it is undermined to lay in 1000. barrells of Gun-powder 500. barres of Iron and 600. tun of Stones and when the tyde or water is at the highest then to set fire on the Gun-powder and blow up the River and so drown the City and all the Round-heads and for the Malignants they shal have all notice of it before and shall be known by their white tybonds about their rists only I have given Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet notice of it to save himselfe by his boate