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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	black_a	county_n	king_n	30	3	2.1252	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08015	The vnfortunate traueller. Or, The life of Iacke Wilton. Tho. Nashe	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1594 (1594)	STC 18380; ESTC S110123	82,351	108

or sitting in a porch your parlament house may better consider of than I can deliuer onely let this suffice for a tast to the text a bit to pull on a good wit with as a rasher on the coales is to pull on a cup of wine Heigh passe come aloft euery man of you take your places and heare Iacke Wilton tell his owne tale THE VNFORTVNATE TRAVELLER ABout that time that the terror of the world and feauer quartan of the French Henrie the eight the onely true subiect of Chronicles aduanced his standard against the two hundred and fiftie towers of Turney and Turwin and had the Emperour and all the nobility of Flanders Holland and Brabant as mercenarie attendants on his ful-saild fortune I Iacke Wilton a Gentleman at lest was a certaine kinde of an appendix or page belonging or appertaining in or vnto the confines of the English court where wrat my credit was a number of my creditors that I coosned can testifie Caelum petimus stultitia which of vs all is not a sinner Be it knowen to as many as will paie monie inough to peru●● my storie that I followed the campe or the court or the court the camp when Turwin lost her maidenhead opened her gat●● to more than Iane Trosse did There did I soft let me drinke before I goe anie further raigne sole king of the cans and black iackes prince of the pigmeis countie pallaine of cleane strawe and prouant and to conclude Lord high regent of rashers of the coles and red herring cobs Paulô maiora canamus well to the purpose What stratagemicall actes and monuments do you thinke an ingenious infant of my age might enact you will saie it were sufficient if he slurre a die pawne his master to the vtmost pennie minister the oath on the pantoffle arteficially These are signes of good education I must confesse and arguments of In grace and veriue to procéed Oh but Aliquid later quod non patet theres a farther path I must trace examples confirme list Lordings to my procéedinges Whosoeuer is acquainted with the state of a campe vnderstands that in it be many quarters yet not so many as on London bridge In those quarters are many companies Much companie much knauerie as true as that olde adage Much curtesie much subtiltie Those companies like a great deale of corne doe yéeld some chaffe the corne are cormorants the chaffe are good fellowes which are quickly blowen to nothing with bearing a light hart in a light purse Amongst this chaffe was I winnowing my wits to liue merily and by my troth so I did the prince could but command men spend theyr bloud in his seruice I coulde make them spend all the monie they had for my pleasure But pouerty in the end parts frends though I was prince of their purses and exacted of my vnthrift subiects as much liquid allegeance as anie keisar in the world could do yet where it is not to be had the king must loose his right want cannot be withstood men can doe no more than they can doe what remained then but the foxes case must help when the lions skin is out at the elbowes There was a Lord in the campe let him be a Lord of misrule if you wil for he kept a plaine alehouse without welt or gard of anie Iuibush and solde syder and chéese by pint and by pound to all that came at that verie name of syder I can but sigh there is so much of it in renish wine now a dayes Wel Tendit ad sydera virtus thers great vertue belongs I can tell you to a cup of syder and verie good men haue solde it and at sea it is Aqua coelestis but thats neither heere nor there if it had no other patrons but this péere of quart pots to authorize it it were sufficient This great Lorde this worthie Lord this noble Lord thought no scorne Lord haue mercy vpon vs to haue his great veluet bréeches larded with the droppings of this daintie liquor yet he was an olde seruitor a cauelier of an ancient house as it might appeare by the armes of his ancestrie drawen very amiably in chalke on the in side of his tent doore He and no other was the man I chose out to damne with a lewd monylesse deuice for comming to him on a daie as he was counting his barrels setting the price in chalke on the head of euerie one of them I did my dutie verie deuoutly and tolde his alie honor I had matters of some secrecie to impart vnto him if it pleased him to grant me priuate audience With me young Wilton quoth he marie and shalt bring vs a pint of syder of a fresh tap into the thrée cups here wash the pot so into a backe roome he lead mee where after hee had spit on his finger and pickt off two or thrée moats of his olde moth eaten veluet cap and spunged and wrong all the rumatike driuell from his ill fauoured Goates beard he badde me declare my minde and there vpon he dranke to me on the same I vp with a long circumstance alias a cunning shift of the seuentéenes discourt vnto him what entire affection I had borne him time out of mind partly for the high discent and linage from whence he sprung partly for the tender care and prouident respect he had of poore soldiers that whereas the vastitie of that place which afforded them no indifferent supplie of drinke or of victuals might humble them to some extremity and so weaken their hands he vouchsafed in his own person to be a victualer to the campe a rare example of magnificence honorable curtesie and diligently prouided that without farre trauel euery man might for his money haue syde and chéese his bellyfull nor did he sell his chéese by the way onely or his syder by the great but abast himselfe with his owne hands to take a shoomakers knife a homely instrument for such a high personage to touch and cut it out equally like a true iusticiarie in little penny worthes that it woulde doo a man good for to looke vpon So likewise of his syder the pore man might haue his moderate draught of it as there is a moderation in all things as well for his doit or his dandiprat as the rich man for his halfe soule or his ●enier Not so much quoth I but this tapsters linnen apron which you weare before you to protect your apparell from the im●●●fections of the spi●ot most amply 〈◊〉 is your lowly minde I speake it with teares too fewe such humble spirited noble men haue we that will draw drinke in linen aprons Why you are euerie childs felow any man that comes vnder the name of a souldier and a good fellowe you will sitte and beare companie to the last pot yea and you take in as good part the homely phrase of mine host heeres to you as if one saluted you by all the

greatest pleasure and contentment vnder heauen to heare them speak Latine and as long as they talkt nothing but Tully he was bound to attend them A most vaine thing it is in many vniuersities at this daye that they count him excellent eloquent who stealeth not whole phrases but whole pages out of Tully If of a number of shreds of his sentences he can shape an oration from all the world hee carries it awaie although in truth it be no more than a fooles coat of many coulours No inuention or matter haue they of theyr owne but tacke vp a stile of his stale galimafries The leaden headed Germanes first began this and we Englishmen haue surfetted of their absurd imitation I pittie Nizolius that had nothing to doe but picke thrids ends out of an olde ouerworne garment This is but by the waie we must looke backe to our disp●●a●ts One amongst the rest thinking to be more conceited 〈◊〉 ●is fellowes séeing the Duke haue a dog hee loued well 〈◊〉 sa●● by him on the tarras conuerted all his oration to him 〈◊〉 not a haire of his taile but he kembd out with comparisons 〈◊〉 ●o haue courted him if he were a hitch had bin verie suspitious Another commented descanted on the Dukes staffe new tipping it with many queint epishites Some cast his natiuitie and promised him he should not die till the daie of iudgement Omitting further superfluities of this stamp● in this general assembly we found intermixed that abundant scholler Cornelius Agrippa At that time he bare the fame to be the greatest coniurer in Christendome Scoto that did the iugling trickes here before the Quéene neuer came néere him one quarter in magicke reputation The Doctors of Wittenberg doting on the rumour that went of him desired him before the Duke and them to doe something extraordinarie memorable One requested to sée pleasant Plautus that he would shew them in what habite hee went and with what countenaunce he lookt when he ground corne in the mill Another had halfe a moneths minde to Ouid and his hooke nose Erasmus who was not wanting to that honourable méeting requested to see Tully in that same grace and maiestie he pleaded his Oration pro Roscio Amerino Affirming that til in rerson he beheld his importunitie of pleading he woulde not be perswaded anie man coulde carrie awaie a manifest case with rethorike so straungely To Erasmus petition he easily condiscended and willing the Doctours at such an houre to holde theyr conuocation and euerie one to kéepe him in his place without mouing at the time prefixed in entered Tully ascended his pleading place and declaimed verbatim the fornamed Oration but with such astonishing amazement with such feruent exaltation of spirite with such soule-stirring iestures that all his auditours were readie to install his guiltie client for a God Greate was the concourse of glorie Agrippa drewe to him with this one feate And in déede hée was so cloyed with men which came to beholde him that hée was fayne sooner than hée woulde to returne to the Emperours court from whence hée came and leaue Wittenberg before hee woulde With him we trauelled along hauing purchast his acquaintance a little before By the waie as wée went my master and I agréed to change names It was concluded betwixte vs that I shoulde bée the Earle of Surrie and hée my man onely because in his owne person which hée woulde not haue reproched he meant to take more libertie of behauiour As for my carryage hee knew hee was to tune it at a key eyther high or low or as hée list To the Emperours Court wée came where our entertainment was euerie waie plentifull carouses wee had in whole galons in stead of quart pots Not a health was giuen vs but contayned well neere a hogshead The customes of the Countrie we were eager to be instructed in but nothing we coulde learne but this that euer at the Emperours coronation there is an Oxe roasted with a stagge in the belly and that stagge in his belly hath a kidde and that kidde is stuf●e full of birdes Some courtiers to wearie out time woulde tell vs further tales of Cornelius Agrippa and how when sir Thomas Moore our countrie man was there hee shewed him the whole destruction of Troy in a dreame How the Lorde Cromwell being the kings Embassadour there in lyke case in a perspectiue glasse he set before his eyes King Henrie the eight with all his Lordes hunting in his forrest at Windsore and when he came into his studie and was verie vrgent to be partaker of some rare experiment that he might report when he came into England he wilde him amongst two thousande great bookes to take downe which he list and begin to reade one line in anie place and without booke he woulde rehearse twentie leaues following Cromwell dyd so and in manye bookes tride him when in euerie thing hee exceeded his promise and conquered his expectation To Charles the fifte then Emperour they reported how he shewed the nine worthies Dauid Salomon Gedeon and the rest in that similitude and lykenesse that they liued vpon earth My master and I hauing by the high waie side gotten some reasonable familiaritie with him vpon this accesse of myracles imputed to him resolued to request him something in our owne behalfes I because I was his suborned Lorde and master desired him to see the liuely image of Geraldine his loue in the glasse and what at that instant she did and with whome shee was talking Hee shewed her vs without more adoe sicke weeping on her bedde and resolued all into deuoute religion for the absence of her Lorde At the sight thereof hee coulde in no wise ●efrayne though hee had tooke vppon him the condition of a seruant but hee must forthwith frame this extemporall Dittie ALL soule no earthly flesh why dost thou fade All gold no worthlesse drosse why lookst thou pale Sicknesse how darst thou one so faire inuade Too base infirmitie to worke her bale Heauen be distemperd since she grieued pines Neuer be drie these my sad plaintiue lines Pearch thou my spirit on her siluer breasts And with their paine redoubled musike beatings Let them tosse thee to world where all toile rests Where blisse is subiect to no feares defeatings Her praise I tune whose tongue doth tune the sphears And gets new muses in her hearers eares Starres fall to fetch fresh light from her rich eyes Her bright brow driues the Sunne to clouds beneath Her haires reflexe with red strakes paints the skies Sweet morne and euening deaw flowes from her breath Phoebe rules tides she my teares tides forth drawes In her sicke bed loue sits and maketh lawes Her daintie limbes tinsell her silke soft sheets Her rose-crownd cheekes eclipse my dazeled sight O glasse with too much ioy my thoughts thou greets And yet thou shewst me day but by twie-light Ile kisse thee for the kindnesse I haue felt Her lips one kisse would vnto Nectar melt