Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	call_v	great_a	king_n	18,708	5	3.7396	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30070	A bvll from Rome, consisting of 15 pardons for delinquents in these kingdomes vvith a declaration of the Popes election in the chaire at Rome where the cardinalls, with their stript-up armes, doe use to feele, before his consecration, whether he bee a man or woman : whereunto is occasionally related by them the orginall cause of womens vailes and of their wicked tongues.		1641 (1641)	Wing B5421; ESTC R10875	4,382	11

because saith he they were all womanly and divellish 7. Panlickers are those who are Flatterers of Kings Princes and other great Personages and Pen-lickers are those whom we call Scribes forsooth and notorious both these shall be pardoned 8. It is reported unto me that a certaine Lords bastard sonne begot a bastard with another Ladies bastard daughter surely this must needs in time bring forth a bastardly Generation Not the lesse I pardon them all for money beseech them not onely to read but also earnestly to weigh these few words of the spirit those children which are begotten in whoredome shall be the very witnesses of the wickednesse of their parents The 4. Chap. of the Books of Wisdome ver. 6. 9. The Corn-mongers and Fore-stallers of the Markets must not here be neglected but yet I bid them take heed that they follow not the example of their Fore-fathers too much whereof some have hanged themselves some drowned themselves other some cut their owne throats Amongst whom I must needs here tell you of one who having abundance of Corne and Meale even in the time of extreame Dearth yea and of Famine saith mine Author yet still and still kept up his victuals in hope that the prices would grow higher and higher yet But as God would the prices came downe and the Corn grew so cheap that this jolly Marchant went to buy a roap to hang himfelfe but comming to the Roapers shop his greedy stomack would but serve him to give a groat for a Roape whereas the Roaper would not sell it under 6 pence so that he thought in himselfe that in a short time the prices of roaps would come downe as the corne had done so that he hoped to buy a sixpeny rope for two-pence and then to hang himselfe good cheape 10 Let the point-makers and Button-makers then draw neare and receive their conjunct pardon not each for two pence but the one for as many points as will goe round about the knees of my breeches in pompe and the other as many buttons for though I need them not now yet J know not how soone 11. And of force I must also pardon the pretty Pin-maker that for a paper of pins to my wife alwayes I pray thee beware that they be good indeed with faire heads and fast set on or else I assure thee she will not sticke to curse both thee who made them and mee who brought her them 12. The Needle-makers may boldly come for their pardons because they are not onely profitable for our wellbeloved Taylors but also for good huswifes at home souldiers abroad and Beggars every where 13. Bu● with the best will of all I freely allow my best Pardons upon those of the Gentle Craft and all others also who are any wayes appendicles or subordinaries to that Calling to wit all those that make Awles Pantoffle-heeles threed of Hempe pegs of Wood Lasts for shooes and bootes and all other such ingenious instruments for so high a Science And therefore I charge and command even in the name and full authority of the Pope himselfe that under the paine of his Holinesse high displeasure and to be holden as an heretieke and sent to purgatory for five thousand yeares that neither Printer nor Poet after the date hereof dare to take in hand to speake any wayes inv●ctively against them either in their Bookes Ball●ts or other Libels no not so much as once to name them by the name of Souter nor yet to dare rehearse those fearefull Battels fought in Hell betwixt the Taylors and them striving who should be greatest there except indeed the Printer or Poet first bring the Divels hand-writing in true Tes●●fication that the Souters have the victory then let them procced in their due praise to the name of all Romish Taylors 14. Here now I grant a pardon to a loving woman who gave a discreet answer when she was asked if her husband was hang'd saying He was hang'd once but now he is not In spite of his Foes his Friends did ease that For my dearest Love had not hung houres twaine But I got his pardon and cut him downe againe 15. Now at the last I must also give a pardon to an holy Priest who was clowting of his shooes when his Neighbors called upon him to goe quickly before another came and win money to bring a dead Corps to the grave and he being in such haste could not find his knife to cut away the Lingell but let it traile after him to the church and sung this holy Quire-song the space of a mile betwixt the house and the grave with many repetitions as followeth Yee that follow mee behind Tread not on my Lingels end A Tale of the Popes Consecration MOST of all to be accounted is that holy and miraculous Stoole at Rome saith one wherewith they chuse the Pope and prove him to be a Man not a Woman for he that is chosen to be Pope on the day of election is set in this stoole and a Cardinall standing on either side they strip up their sleeves and with their naked hands and armes feele from under the stoole whether it be a Man or a Woman and so give Declaration unto the whole rabble there conveened And this hath bin their Custome ever since the English-woman beguiled them who was their Pope about the space of 3 yeares even Successor to Leo the 4. Anno 852. FINIS