Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	great_a	king_n	22,528	5	3.6077	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01224	A ballad intituled, Prepare ye to the plowe, to the tune, of Pepper is blacke. The Queene holdes the plow, to continew good seede. Trustie subiectes be readie to helpe if she neede.	Elderton, William, d. 1592?	1570 (1570)	STC 7555; Interim Tract Supplement Guide Huth 50[25]	1,394	1

A ballad intituled Prepare ye to the Plowe To the Tune of Pepper is blacke ¶ The Queene holdes the Plow to continew good seede Trustie Subiectes be readie to helpe if she neede LOoke vp my Lordes and marke my wordes and heare what I shall sing ye And Subiects all both great and small Now marke what word I bring ye Parnaso Hill nor all the skill Of Nimphs or Muses fayned Can bring about that I finde out By Christ hin selfe ordayned Let wisdom be as it is I see A gift most worth the telling Which neuer was so brought to passe Where Pagans haue ben dwelling Is now in fine by power deuine Among vs English planted Which many a day was kept away And many a one it wanted And by that wisdom haue we had Such proofe as yet was neuer To Iudge and deeme both good and bad To our great comfort euer Which sithes we haue now let vs hold This Tutchstone is the triall To beate the baggage from the Gold and truth from false deniall And by this knowledge we do know That euery thing is vaine Beneath the Sonn which heare below We couet to attaine Let not the spright geue vs delight To labour and attend vs To seke to haue before our Graue The ioy that Christe may send vs. In seking that then must we nat Build on the Sandy Surges Now sow our Seede where euery Weede His grace and bounty vrges Nor put our hope in Preeste or Pope In Masse or other matters Or by our Dole to saue our Soule With filling empty Platters Or by a Pardon to appease The Surfits of our sinning Although our fathers had all thease By wicked mens beginning Nor let vs make our stock and store A burden to accuse vs For doing so so much the more We tempt God to refuse vs. Neither let vs once presume so far Of mercy or of meekenes To counterfait to make or mar This Image or this likenesse That our forefathers did beleue Were Gods to geue and guide them Such follies did the Christians greeue and Pagans now deride them Remember once the latter law Left yet in Moyses Table That Neighbourly to liue in awe It is most commendable Then shouldst thou not desire to craue Thy Neigbours losse or lacke Neither excesse desire to haue That puts thy soule to wracke Neither Vsery nor vse at all Of women wealth or Wine Neither of aboundance great or small Ill gotten should be thine Neither should contencion craft increase Nor swearing beare the sway Nor God vnserued men as beasts Would break the Sabboth day Then would the honour duly hit To Parents Lord or King Then would ther be no doubt a whit To haue store of euery thing All this the new Law with the old Doth Nip vs to remember Euen as the frost that waxeth cold Doth Nip vs in December And as vpon a sodain heat We soone forget that freesing When God doth of his mercy great Spare vs for lack of leesing So let vs think as Sommer shows Grene Grasse to our deliting We se that all the Grasse that growes Goth down with litle smiting And when the Mowyer coms to Mowe T is sone both Ripe and Rotten This tale I trust of hye and low Will neuer be forgotten On Gods good Booke then let vs loke For that which neuer faileth Without which boke by Hooke or crooke No worldly wit preuaileth God saue her grace that holds the Plow To sowe this trusty treasure Though many a one be stubborn now And Harrow it but at leasure God graunt that he that Harrowed Hell In guardon still may haue her And send you grace that thinke not well Of God that so doth saue hir VV. Elderton ¶ Imprinted at London in Fléetestréete by William How for Richard Iohnes and are to be solds at his Shop ioyning to the Southwest doore of Paules Church