Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	daughter_n	heir_n	son_n	21,397	5	5.3163	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55758	Angliae speculum morale The moral state of England, with the several aspects it beareth to virtue and vice : with The life of Theodatus, and three novels, viz. The land-mariners, Friendship sublimed, The friendly rivals.	Preston, Richard Graham, Viscount, 1648-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing P3310; ESTC R5728	46,008	222

be praised by us his mean subjects here yet the Angels whom he honoureth with a nearer converse with more close approaches to his radiant Majesty give him more magnifying praises more elevated Halleluiahs He who truly intends to make a Court the Scene of his life ought above all to practice sincerity and to value his faith for the addresses of the people to their Sovereign of all kinds being convey'd through him as a conduct it should be his care that they arrive at the Royal Ear without addition or diminution lest he wrong them in their affairs and so alienate their affections from him to whom they are due and purchase to himselfe in the end shame if not death He ought to appear in a garb not above his place for so he may procure envy to himself nor below the dignity of his Master lest he wrong him He ought to use all means to advance him in the affections of the people to indear his interest to them to exercise an obliging mien to all but especially to forreigners under what Character soever they remain here to shew himself in all splendor due to the Office he holdeth to them that he may create a Reverence in them for the Author of it He must be seen in the intrigues and interests of transmarine states and know their benigne and malevolent Aspects one to the other to be ready upon all emergencies to meet the maladies of the body politick by his Head or Arm to espouse its fortune onely and to do his devoir to it by freely sacrificing his life and posterity and by returning without regret his goods to that service from whence he received them imitating in that his Master who though he hath large incomes from the people yet restoreth them by expending them upon all exigencies for their good as the Sun draweth off exhalations and vapors from the Earth but sendeth them into her Lap again in gentle and fruitful showrs which assist her nature and make her bring forth in larger proportions But 't is wonderful to see how farr men are from what they really ought to be his moral parts seem to be subject to the same vicissitudes with the state he feareth for now you shall behold him like the lazy Leviathan taking his sport in the deepest Abysses of pleasure preying upon those smaller Fish whose strength cannot resist his power he is drowsie and backwards to the advantages of his Prince but always vigilant for his own he runneth in ways excentrique to all Vertue and knoweth no Friend or Divinity but Venus Bacchus and his Mammon his motion is perpetually in bowing and cringing but he is as constant in directing his Eye to the pole of his interests as the magnetick Needle is to the North he is that true Chymist who extracts by the calcining fire of his feigned-ardent affections gold out of the bleeding estates of unhappy delinquents and of those whom the Law adjudgeth to punishment and sometimes of innocent offenders and pretended Criminals But though these may be the principles of some yet there are many whose integrity and fidelity to their Prince renders them worthy of those advantages they enjoy yet their carriage cannot excuse others There is an impertinent thing called a young Courtier whom I shall draw as near the life as I can His discourse is that which profaneth the ears of the Good and the wise and proveth troublesome even to the most impertinent his remarques are of the most inconsiderable encounters of the day in which himself is always a principal Actor either how many Women by his false vows he hath overcome or where he hath made the greatest debauches in Burgundy or Campaigne at Jero's Shattelin's or Lafroons or if his happy invention doth supply him with a distorted Rebus or an ugly dismembred Anagram an unnatural Antithesis a forced quibble or an uncivil repartie that bites ones reputation which all are the dry scabs of a corrupted wit he must be admir'd for being Master of a greater ingenuity than Ben Johnson He is sure to have three or four verses of Love and Honour ready out of the latest Play and the last new Song in his pocket which he hath coppied in false English 'T is fit his dress should be gay because Embroideries are for the Palaces of Kings but it is not fit that many poor families to supply his extravagancies should want bread 't is miserable to think that a thousand curses should attend his steps and not one good wish should be sent up for him but why should prayers be offered for him who never prays who contemneth Religion as a vile thing who never nameth God but in his Oaths or Burlesque The Gentleman IN the frame of the State is like the Tuscan Pillar in Architecture which though it be not so Polite as the other Orders nor can boast a well proportion'd neatness like the Ionick nor an handsomely adorn'd head like the Corinthian Column yet it is in building the foundation of all their Beauties so though he be inferiour in Title yet in Power and interest he is equal if not superior to the Nobleman for in all Records we find the House of Commons to have been very considerable in the Government though the Lords make a Court of Judicature it is his Duty to serve his Countrey by his Presence there to preserve her Peace and to defend her Priviledges and Immunities to be hospitable to his indigent neighbours to receive the stranger and way-faring-man with Chearfulness and Civility In fine to open his Napkin to all and not to employ it in wrapping up his Talent But alas is it not miserable that Vanity like Romes Eagles at the Meridian of her power should carry Conquest on her Wings to all places where she is pleas'd to flee who of the wisest nay what Diviner if any such there be could have foreseen that vice should have found out the once Sacred Groves the quiet and innocent recesses of a Countrey the Gentleman now hath chang'd the Plow and Cart which did feed his Grandsire and a brave Train of stout attendants in his great Hall whose Labour well deserv'd their Hire for a Gilded Coach and a numerous Train of debauch'd and insignisicant Lacqueys and now by an unhappy Thrift hath converted his long Table well covered and well filled into a little round one which holds one Dish and three People and hath turn'd his great Hall into a little Parlour He once in a year arriveth at London with his Lady a rich or handsome Daughter or a Neice with whom they fail not daily to visit the Theatre giving to her the accomplishments of the Town who ought rather to be seen in the misteries of a Countrey life If her fortune be great 't is unfortunately ship-wrack'd upon some Lord who after the enjoyment of her revenue loaths her person He places his Son perhaps at the Inns of Court who knoweth he is to heir an Estate and thinketh it but washing