Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	beauty_n	young_a	youth_n	56	3	7.5888	4	false

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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

comely gesture all vayne delights of a right courteous courtesie And yet are they not in England precise but warye not disdainefull to conferre but fearefull to offende not with-out remorce where they perceiue truth but without replying where they suspecte treacherye when as among other Nations there is no tale so loathsome to chast eares but it is heard with great sport and aunswered with great spéede Is it not then a shame Ladies that that lyttle Iland should be a mirrour to you to Europe to the whole world Where is the temperaunce you professe when wine is more common than water where the chastitic when lust is thought lawfull where the modestie when your mirth tourneth to vncleannesse vncleannesse to shamelesnesse shamelesnesse to all sinfulnesse Learne Ladies though late yet at length that the chiefest title of honour in earth is to giue all honour to him that is in Heauen that the greatest brauerye in this world is to be burning Lampes in the world to come that the clearest beautie in this lyfe is to be amiable to him that shall giue lyfe eternall Looke in the Glasse of Englande too bright I feare mée for your eyes What is there in your sexe that they haue not and what that you should not haue They are in prayer deuout in brauerie humble in beautie chast in feasting temperate in affection wise in mirth modest in all their actions though courtly bicause women yet Aungells bicause vertuous Ah good Ladyes good I saye for that I loue you I would you could a little abate that pride of your stomackes that loosenesse of minde that lycentious behauiour which I haue séene in you with no small sorrow cannot remedy with continuall sighes They in England pray when you play sow when you sléepe fast when you feast and wéepe for their sins when you laugh at your sensualytie They frequent the church to serue God you to sée gallants they deck themselues for cleanlines you for pride they mainteine their beautie for their owne lyking you for others luste they refraine Wine bicause they feare to take too much you bicause you can take no more Come Ladyes with teares I cal you looke in this glasse repent your sinnes past refraine your present vices abhorre vanities to come say this w t one voyce We can see our faults only in the English Glasse a Glasse of grace to them of griefe to you to them in stéede of righteousnes to you in place of repentaunce The Lords and Gentlemen in that court are also an example for all others to follow true tipes of Nobilitie the onely stay and staffe of honour braue courtiers stout souldiours apt to reuell in peace and ride in ware In fight fierce not dreading death in friendshippe firme not breaking promise courteous to all that deserue wel cruell to none that deserue ill Their aduersaries they trust not that she weth their wisdome their enimies they feare not that argueth their courage They are not apt to profer iniuries nor fit to take any loth to picke quarrells but longing to reuenge them Actiue they are in all things whether it be to wrastle in the games of Olympia or to fight at Barriers in Palestra able to cary as great burthens as Milo of strength to throwe as bigge stones as Turnus and what not that either man hath done or may doe worthye of such Ladyes and none but they and Ladies willing to haue such Lords and none but such This is a Glasse for our youth in Greece for your young ones in Italy the English glasse behold it Ladies and Lordes all that either meane to haue pietie vse braueric encrease beautie or that desire temperancie chastitie wit wisedome valure or any thing that may delyght your selues or deserue praise of others But an other sight there is in my Glasse which maketh me sigh for griefe I cannot shew it and yet had I rather offend in derogating from my Glasse than my good will Blessed is that Lande that hath all commodities to encrease the common wealth happie is that Islande that hath wise counsailours to maintaine it vertuous courtiers to beautifie it noble Gentlemen to aduaunce it but to haue such a Prince to gouerne it as is their Soueraigne Quéene I knowe not whether I should thinke the people to be more fortunate or the Prince famous whether their felicitie be more to be had in admiration that haue such a ruler or hir vertues to bée honoured that hath such royaltie for such is their estate there that I am enforced to thinke that euery day is as luckie to the Englishmen as the sixt day of Februarie hath béene to the Grecians But I sée you gase vntill I shewe this Glasse which you hauing once séene will make you giddy Oh Ladies I knowe not when to beginne nor where to ende for the more I go about to expresse the brightnesse the more I finde mine eyes bleared the néerer I desire to come to it the farther I séeme from it not vnlike vnto Simonides who being curious to set downe what God was the more leysure he tooke the more loth hée was to meddle saying that in things aboue reach it was easie to catch a straine but impossible to touch a Star and therefore scarce tollerable to poynt at that which one can neuer pull at When Alexander had commaunded that none shoulde paint him but Appelles none carue him but Lysippus none engraue him but Pirgoteles Parrhasius framed a Table squared euery way two hundreth foote which in the borders he trimmed with fresh coulours and limmed with fine golde leauing all the other roume without knotte or lyne which table he presented to Alexander who no lesse merueiling at the bignes then at the barenesse demaunded to what end he gaue him a frame without face being so naked and with-out fashion being so great Parrhasius aunswered him let it bée lawefull for Parrhasius O Alexander to shewe a Table where-in he woulde paint Alexander if it were not vnlawfull and for others to square Timber though Lysippus carue it and for all to cast brasse though Pirgoteles ingraue it Alexander perceiuing the good minde of Parrhasius pardoned his boldenesse and preferred his arte yet enquiring why he framed the table so bigge he aunswered that hée thought that frame to bée but little enough for his picture when the whole worlde was to little for his person saying that Alexander must as well be praysed as painted and that all his victoryes and vertues were not for to be drawen in the compasse of a Signet but in a fielde This aunswere Alexander both liked and rewarded insomuch that it was lawfull euer after for Parrhasius both to praise that noble king and to paint him In the like manner I hope that though it bée not requisite that any should paint their Prince in England that cannot sufficiently perfect hir yet it shall not bée thought rashnesse or rudenesse for Euphues to frame a table for Elizabeth though hée presume not to paint