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	keep_v	week_n	11,303	5	10.2397	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10279	Visions, or Hels kingdome, and the worlds follies and abuses, strangely displaied by R.C. of the Inner Temple Gent. Being the first fruits of a reformed life; Sueños. English	Quevedo, Francisco de, 1580-1645.; Croshawe, Richard.	1640 (1640)	STC 20561; ESTC S101544	51,980	226

read the inditement Doe you demand composition Then 't is a signe your game is naught This they understanding and that no offers would be accepted tooke the way of the Fencer because they had beene as good men of their hands as hee and better They being gone Loe an unfortunate pastry Cooke whose adverse party beganne to accuse him which hee seeing and finding by proofe that hee had put more kindes of meate into his pies and pasties than there were beasts in Noahs Arke there being neither Rats Mice nor Flies turned his backe and leaving the word in the Devils mouth went to see if the place were hot Then came Philosophers who made syllogismes against their salvation And Poets who would have perswaded the omnipotent that hee was that Iupiter whom they had so often nominated in their workes Virgil alleaged his Sicelides Musae saying that it was the figure of the Nativity and Orpheus as the most ancient Poet stood up to speake for all but a Divell accusing him for having instructed the way of making love to mankinde hee was commanded to enter once more into Hell to try if hee could get out againe and obeying served as a Guide to his Companions A rich Usurer knocked and being asked what hee would have was told that the ten Commandements kept the Doore and that hee had never kept them In that which concernes keeping said hee it is impossible I have swerved the first Commandement saith Thou shalt have none other gods but me and I think I have observed it for I have kept Gold the worldlings god so secret that neither others nor my selfe might make it the object of their veneration The second Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any graven Image and I have kept ingots and wedges these many yeares that there might neither stampe nor image come upon them The third Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vaine and I have never sworne in vaine but alwayes for some great interest The fourth Remember that thou keepe holy the Sabbath day and I have all the weeke long provided hiding places for my treasure that on that day it might not molest my rest Honour thy Father and thy Mother I have alwayes greatly reverenced them in that I have given them the preheminence especially in all bad actions Thou shalt doe no murder and I did never scarce eate because that to feed is to kill hunger Thou shalt not commit adultery I never did it for women in that way are not tractable without money but if you will let mee come in said he who beganne to be weary with so many interrogatories let us not loose time for hee was so great an enemy to losse that hee would husband time it selfe but saying this he was led where he deserved Divers Theeves followed some of them so active that they saved themselves in leaping from the ladder Lawyers coveted the like good fortune but they were set to goe through the eye of a needle Scriveners denied their name saying they were Secretaries but Proctours stood to it saying they were the procurers of others good but there was no defence for either of them One Devill seeing a Physician an Apothecary a Surgeon and a Barber comming gave them thankes for most of the Company sen● thither by their meanes and commanded some of his vassals to usher them downe that they might assay if they could cure the burning Feaver Another perceiving one to peere out of an hole where hee had hid himselfe asked what hee was who replied an Empericke What! Saltinbanke Mountebanke and my Friend said the Devill It were better for thee to bee upon some scaffold at some corner of a Street to passe away the time with idler persons but since thou art come thou shalt not want preferment goe thy wayes into that quarter and see if thy balsame bee efficacious against scalding so he went on his Friends word The plea of Taverne-keepers was that they had quenched the thirst of many poore persons and of Tailours that they had cloathed many but this hindred their dispatch Then Bankers demanded treaty but their Sentence was pronounced and bils of exchange were given them to bee paid out of Pluto's Coffers where there is no bottome And afterwards place was given to Women who approached with pleasing and smiling countenances endeavouring by those meanes to prevaile but as soone as they saw the horrid aspects of Divels they beganne to shrike out and antedate their condemnation Bailiffes Sergeants Marshals and many more were yet to bee judged who being called said they would willingly suffer without any further triall The last was an Astrologer crying out that they were mistaken in the calculation of yeares and that it yet could not bee the Day of Iudgement because the Heaven of Saturne and the moving Heaven had not finished their course but the Devill rebuking him said I wonder that among so many Heavens which you have made in your life-time you were never so provident as to erect one for your selfe for which default you must now bee transported into Hell which was accordingly executed Upon this the Iudgement ended the Throne was taken up the shadowes fled to their place the Aire was filled with milde Zephirs the Earth was enamelled with flowers and the Heavens were cleare and translucent and I was in my bed more joyfull than sorrowfull that I was not yet dead therefore that I might make use of my Dreame I undertooke a constant resolve to keepe a strict watch over my Conscience that I may have a defensive armour when there are no more delayes to hope for and the soveraigne Judge shall call me before himselfe VISIONS The fourth Vision OR The Foole Amorous VPon a Winter-January morning about fo● a clocke when cold and sloth kept mee buried under my rugge better at ease than on a biere consulting with my pillow upon an amorous fancy that came in my minde I found my selfe quite strayed from my former meditations beheld the spirit of Fallacy which presented to my imagination Loves inconstancy verily thinking I heard this Verse Ala● Coridon what folly possesses thee Afterward not knowing which way I was led I came into a meddow a thousand times more pleasant than those which are ordinarily mentioned in the inventions of Poets where looking about I espied two delightfull Rivers that in their labyrinthian Meanders water'd it The waters of the one were bitter of the other sweet yet they mingled together with so peaceable a purling murmur that they charmed the eares of those that heard them and qualified affections anxiety These in their sportive motion directed mee to a goodly faire Palace of admirable structure seated in the midst of the Field The portals were of Dorian worke richly inlaid and on the pedestall bases pillars cornishes chapters architraves frizes and other adjuncts there were engraved all the trophies and triumphs of that great yet little God which with many other devices added radiancy of