Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	die_v	john_n	sir_n	12,112	5	5.7810	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43746	Institutions, or, Advice to his grandson in three parts / by William Higford ...	Higford, William, 1581?-1657.	1658 (1658)	Wing H1947; ESTC R34464	23,330	114

bonos in bonis All compacts with wicked men or in wicked things are male icta foedera A Friend is tried in Adversity Si possides amicum saith Syracides 〈◊〉 tentationibus posside eum 〈◊〉 facile credas ei A good close not to be too credulous but to try before you trust true friends being very rare among so many Professors of friendship Tuta frequensque via est per amici fallere nomen The Italians have a proverb God shield me from my friends I will look to my Enemies my self It may be an advantage to have an Enemy he will make you stand the surer upon your guard you eye his motions and avenues but a friend which bosometh with you who can prevent He is like a subterraneous engine which wil blow you up before you hear the report And therefore Seneca well adviseth Sic am a tanquam osurus c. Never love so much but reserve your self that if your friend shall become your enemy he shall not have power to do you hurt and yet withall never hate so much but leave an open gap or overture to let in love Your hatred must be mortall your love immortall Love abideth for ever The next in order are your Neighbours a good Neighbour near is better than a brother afar off with whom in respect of nearnesse you are to converse There are two Honorable Neighbours that in effect encircle your Estate 1 The Right Honorable Viscount Tracy w●o hath the preheminence of all the Families in these parts for Antiquity Your Ancestors have from them received much honour by divers Trusts and Services recommended and reposed in them Their lands at Alderton lye promiscuously with yours and many differences have arisen between the respective Lords Tenants which have been alwaies composed in an amicable way Many graces and favours I have received in my Country have proceeded from this Honorable Lord and his Son Sir Robert Tracy the true Inheritor of his Honours Vertues And though I might command you yet had I rather intreat you to assist me to pay that deep debt of duty and service which I ow to those of that Honorable Family The other is the Lord Chandos nay the Lord Butlers long before as I am very well able to set forth The Lord Edmund Chandos Knight of the Garter in much infirmity of body did adventure towards Glocester to do Sr. Iohn Higford honour when he was first High Sheriff but falling more sick in the Journey returned to his Castle and died before the Assizes were ended The Lord Giles Chandos employed Sr. Iohn Higford in the Government of his Estate and in the Lieutenancy of the County for his good service done therein promoved him to the Queens Majestie a great Housewife of her Honour who dignified him with the order of a Knight in those days communicable only to persons of worth and quality 14. Sept. 1591. At which time also her said Majestie created Sr Iohn Scudamore Knight the goodlyest Parsonage then in the Court of England and in high favour her Majestie using many gracious speches to them both The Lord Grey Chandos truely noble both in learning and Armes brought me first into the Commission of the Peace and did me many Graces both in Court and Country This noble Lord with whom you are almost coetaneous hath shewed many remarkable Indices of his Prowess and Honour Nec imbellem feroces Progenerant Aquilae columbam Follow the train of your Ancestors and so grow up in his favour Principibus placuisse viris haud ultima laus est You have also many other worthy Gentlemen your Neighbours and some of your Alliance too from whom your Ancestors have received many high favours Your Ancestors knew no other way to continue their good Affections but Affability Sweetness and mutuall Offices of love Morosity and strangeness will loose your friends and benefit you nothing at all Descendendo ascendes The next Companions in order are your servants and Domesticks but these are ill companions lest they prove insolent It is written of Nero the worst of Princes Non habuisse ingenium supra servos when the great affaires of State were in debate in the Senat house he was conversant with his Favourite Tigillinus and the rest of his servants And this hath also been a disparagement to many worthy Gentlemen who affecting to be the best of their company have negclected the converse of their superiors many times to their great disadvantage That you may be the better obeyed by your servants you must carefully govern your self that by your own example you may the better govern them Longum est iter per praecepta breve efficax per exempla In the choice of your servants you must take care that they be negotiis pares and then enjoyn them business enough and exact accounts from them lest by remissness they grow idle and unserviceable Pay them their due Salaries so will they be the more tyed and assured to you Non manebit apud te opus mercenarti usque mane Your Commands must be lawfull pious and religious tantum in Domino remembring that as they are your Servants so they are Gods Freemen Holy David will direct you in the choice of them He that leadeth a Godly life he shall be my servant Faithfull Abraham will inform you how to govern them I know saith God that Abraham will Command his Houshold that they keep the way of the Lord to do righteousness and judgment Abraham had a good servant whom he employed in the negotiation of his sons marriage if you finde such a servant let your soul love him and defraud him not of liberty neither leave him a poor man The next Companions will be your Tenants who are your Neighbours and will have recourse unto you in respect of their Estates which they hold of you Tillage is the preservation of a Commonwealth in providing bread which is called the Staff of man whereupon he leaneth which Staff if it fail Man falleth to the ground Terra dicitur a terendo and in a Fine Tillage-land is first set down because it is worthyer than any other land For as Cicero saith Omnium rerum ex quibus aliquid exprmiitur nihil est Agricultura melius nihil uberius nihil dulcius nihil homine libero dignius By this Kings have their Subsidies and the Bodies of men for supply of their Armies for as Tacitus saith Ex agro supplendum robur exercitus and Incumbents also recieve their full Tithes These Men live innocent lives without deceit they onely rely upon God who giveth the former and the later rain To inclose or not to suffer them to renue their Estates whereby desolation shall ensue draweth on a woe They hold of you by Fealty that is Fidelity to be faithfull unto you for the Lands they hold you must in Relation give them protection whereby they may follow their excessive labours Finiunt reaprantque labores Your Ancestors have been