Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	duke_n	earl_n	prince_n	13,152	5	5.9482	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20051	The blacke rod, and the vvhite rod (justice and mercie,) striking, and sparing, [brace] London.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1630 (1630)	STC 6492.5; ESTC S326	10,452	22

THE BLACKE ROD AND THE VVHITE ROD. Iustice and Mercie Striking and Sparing LONDON PSAL. 91. Surely hee will deliver thee from the snare of the Hunter And from the noisome Pestilence Hee will couer thee vnder his wings and thou shalt be sure vnder his Feathers Thou shalt not bee afraid of the Pestilence that walketh in the Darke nor of the Plague that Destroyeth at Noone-day Pugna suum Finem cum jacet Hostis habet LONDON Printed by B.A. and T.F. for IOHN COVVPER 1630. THE BLACKE AND WHITE ROD. THis World is a Royall Exchange where all sorts of Men are Merchants Kings hold Commerce with Kings and their Voyages are vpon high Negotiations As the deare buying of anothers Country with their owne Subiects Bloud The Purchasing of new Crownes and new Scepters not satisfied with the old And as Kings so Princes Dukes Earles Lords Clergy-men Iudges Souldiers haue their Trading in particular Marchandizes and walke euery day for that purpose vpon this Old Royall Exchange They talke in seuerall Languages And like the murmuring fall of Waters in the Hum of seuerall businesses insomuch that the place seemes Babell a Confusion of tongues The best yet most incertaine Commodity which all these Merchants striue for is Life if Health begot into the bargaine He is a Made man into whose hands it comes Yet when these two inestimable Treasures are shipped in one Bottome together There are Winds and Waues and Woes which still fill the Sayles and hang vpon the Tacklings What 's the end of this Voyage Currit Mercator ad Indos To heape vp Gold The Merchants Name i' th Indies is inroll'd Nay though he casts a Girdle about the World yet Anchor he must in one Harbour or another to come to shore and Proclaime his Lading on this Ryalta this Burse or this Royall Exchange And when the Exchange-Bell rings his passing-Bell tolles That 's the warning-Peece to tell him hee must goe off he must for that time talke there no more of his Transitorie Commodities the Exchange of this world with him is then done and Home does he hasten to dine with Wormes This Earthly spacious Building in which we Dwell as Tenants onely for life is likewise a glorious Theater full of admirable Conueyances and Curiosities The Frame or Module of it is round with a Siluer mouing Roofe call'd the Heauens to couer it by day and a Golden Canopy of Starres to Curtaine about it by Night In stead of Arras and Tapestrie which commonly doe now and euer haue adorned the old Amphitheaters this is richly hung round about with the Element of Ayre The beauties of the Earth are the Stage Furnished bounteously and set forth in all Brauery with Woods full of Trees Gardens full of Flowers Orchards full of Fruit Fields full of standing Corne like so many Speares ready for a Battaile Mountaines high in Pride Valleys sweet in Pleasure Our Mothers Wombe is the Tyring-house where we make vs ready And our Cradle the Musicke-Roome for there we are sweetly strung with Innocence Nothing then puts vs out of tune but a peale of crying And what 's that Onely a little Note a little too high which being mended the Melodie is Heauenly for there is no Concord without Discord Vpon this goodly Stage all sorts of People Men Women and Children are Actors Some play Emperours some Kings some Beggars some Wise-men some Fooles The hardest part to play is a good Man and 't is rare to see a long part giuen him to study On this stage are presented Tragedies and Comedies The terriblest Tragedie is that of the Soule fighting to get off well from the Body The best and most pleasing Comedie is that of a white Conscience and the Peace of Mind Some haue Plaudits Showts and Acclamations and those are such who haue play'd good parts and play'd them Brauely-well Some goe hissed off the Stage And that is for want of being perfect in those good parts which are put into them Some play very long Parts and they are old Men some haue done in the midst of the Play And they are young Men some being but in a Scaene before they speake are out and lost And they are Children Euery Actor hath his Entrance euery one his Exit As one comes out another goes off and sometimes meeting on the Stage together they leaue the Stage together But in the Conclusion He that can get Angels to sit in the Galleries of Heauen and clap his action with theyr Immortall hands he is the onely Roscius of the time and one of the best Actors that euer stept on stage The sum vpshot and cloze of all is this That as many Men as that walke on that Royall Exchange and seeme rich doe often breake and are lay'd in Prison So in this World when we appeare neuer so strong in Body neuer so stirring in minde yet if health turnes Banquerupt once and that the Sergeant with the Blacke Rod Sicknesse Arrests vs if eyther Casualties by Sea or Land if losses vexations misfortunes or miseries breake our hearts whether then are we carried To our euerlasting Prison the Graue And so when in this Magnificent Theater we haue Ietted long on the Stage And borne our Heads high yet our Parts being done we are inforced to put off our gay borrowed garments and wrapping our selues in poore winding-Sheets Hasten to our owne homes and still that 's the Graue The Graue then is the Rendez-vouz where we all meet The Market-place where the Drum of Death beates to haue vs come together The Towne-Hall where all our brablings are ended The Castle to appeare at which at the Assizes the Body is bound ouer and there it is Cast In the Feild of dead mens Sculs and fleshlesse bones must the great Army of all Mankind muster on Mount Caluary CHRIST lost his life And in Dust and Ashes must we leaue Ours We need not read any Bookes to proue this Euery man holds a Pen in his hand to write a story of it To passe ouer the Volumes of the Graue filled by Adam and his Children in the first World And clasping-vp those likewise which haue beene euer since after the Deluge in this second World Let vs cast our Eyes onely at that Blacke Rod and that white Rod which from time to time haue first smitten and then spared This Kingdome of Great Britaine In the Raignes of William the Conquerour Rufus and Hen 1. his Brother Death walked vp and downe this Land in strange shapes Men Women and Children fell by the Pestilence So great were the numbers of those who dyed that the numbers of the liuing could harldy bury them Cattell were stricken in the Feild Birds drop'd from the Ayre Fishes perish'd in the Waters Famine followed Tillage went to Ruine so that the Earth which wont to feed others had in the end no meate for her selfe Then for foure Kings together little mention is made of any deuouring mortality of people by the Pestilence yet were there blazing