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	william_n	29,675	5	8.0974	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06453	Luminalia, or The festivall of light Personated in a masque at court, by the Queenes Majestie, and her ladies. On Shrovetuesday night, 1637.	D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668.	1638 (1638)	STC 16923; ESTC S108941	7,342	24

So early in this Hemisphere 1 Vigill Where all to triumphs are addrest As they did need as little rest As wandring Planets have above Who ne're are tir'd yet ever move Oblivion As little wearie as are they As free from suffrings and decay Or feare of fleeting times expence Not tir'd with weight or vex'd with sense 1 Vigill Why would Oblivion mix with these that strive To raise new joyes and keep the old alive Vigill What is the use of silence here Thou see'st great Empresse ev'ry eie Doth watch for measures ev'ry eare Doth hearken after harmony Chorus of all Why are we come to give their labours ease That reckon sleepe a death rest a disease And all this Isle their triumphs now expresse Not to beget but shew their happinesse A precious signe they know their owne estate And that makes Nations chiefly fortunate For it alike should often valued be To know as to deserve felicitie The third song 1 You just and carefull Registers of houres And you whose sev'rall ever usefull powers Dispose and make me pleasing whilst I sway Produce fantasticke creatures of the night Though not t' advance yet vary their delight Perhaps these triumphs may defer the day 2 All that our striving mistery presents Will be but foiles to nobler ornaments Yet I so trust the causes of their joy And am so envious of those glistring showes The Sunne in pride not favour doth disclose That I would lengthen what I can't destroy Antimasques produced by the Attendants of Night 1 Entry 2 Theeves 2 Watchmen 1 Belman The two Theeves enter to share a booty the watchmen and Belman first affright them as they are dividing their booty but in the end they were contented to share with the Theeves and so they all joined in a dance 2 Entry 1 Wafer-man and 4 Lacquyes with torches 3 Entry Five Fayries of which Master Ieffery Hudson the Queenes Majesties dwarfe presented Piecrocall a principall Captaine under King Auberon 4 Entry Coyners Most of these Antimasques were presented by Gentlemen of Qualitie These Antimasques being past the scene of night vanished and a new and strange Prospect of Chimeras appea'rd with some trees of an unusuall forme Mountaines of gold Towers falling Windmils and other extravagant edifices and in the further part a great City sustain'd by a Rain-bow all which represented the City of Sleepe One of the Vigils in song called forth Sleepe who appeared comming out of a darke cave with three of his principall sonnes Morpheus the presenter of humane shapes Iceles of fearfull visions And Phantaste of any thing that may be imagined Sleepe a fat man in a blacke robe and over it a white mantle on his head a girland of Grapes with a Dormouse sitting before in his hand a golden wand Morpheus in a robe of cloth of gold his mantle Blue on his head a girland of Poppy Iceles in a brownish flesh colour close to him like the naked a red mantle great Bats wings on his shoulders on his head a bend set with flames Phantaste in a white robe of cloth of silver a greene mantle and on his head a dressing of severall coloured feathers The fourth Song 1. Vigill Why as if guilty dost thou hide thy head Dull sleepe in gloomy shades with Poppy spread If thou dost steale our houres is it a crime Thou dost but lay them by for mens releefe And art at worst a profitable theefe Pay'st Nature double what thou steal'st from Time Invoke thy chiefest sonnes and straight appeare To make these pleasures sit to last a yeare Sleepe I come I come and that I more may please My Morpheus I have brought and Iceles With wilde Phantaste each of them hath pow'r To raise Ideas from my shady Bow'r Those dreames of humane formes of worse estate That reason want and things inanimate Chorus How we shall fill each mortall with delight To shew the soules fond businesse ev'ry night When she doth inwardly contract her beames To figure out her influence in dreames How they will smile that mans immortall part Works things lesse perfect than if rul'd by Art The song ended the sonnes of Sleepe bring in these Antimasques of dreames 1 Entry An Ignis Fatuus leading 4. Clownes that seeme to walke in their sleepe 2. Entry 4. Witches 1. Devill in the shape of a Goat 3. Entry Robin-goodfellow 1. Dairy-maid 1. Kitchin-maid 4. Entry Of five feathered men inhabitants of the City of Sleepe Presented by Master Thomas Howard Master Henry Murrey Master Charles Murrey Master Charles Brunoe Here an Antique ship was seene farre within the Scene sailing in the aire 5. Entry From the Temple of the Cocke seated by the haven of the City of Sleepe the principall Mariners or Masters Mates in rich habits but proper to the subject come forth and make their entry Presented by The Duke of Lenox Earle of Carlile Lord William Hamilton Lord Russell 6. Entrie Five Sentinels guardians of the Ivorie gate of the Citie of Sleep Presented by Earle of Devonshire Lord Philip Herbert M. De la Vieuville Mr. Francis Russell Mr. Thomas Weston 7. Entrie A cavilier in a dreame being enamord of a beautifull Gentlewoman seeks by his Page to winne her to his love which she seemes to entertaine but hee comming neere to court her shee sodainly is turned into a furie which much affri'ghts them Represented by The Earle of Antrum and Mr. Bartholomew de Mountacut his Page These Antimasques being past the Heaven began to bee enlightned as before the Sunne rising and the Sceane was changed into a delicious prospect wherein were rowes of Trees Fountains Statues Arbors Grota's walkes and all such things of delight as might expresse the beautifull garden of the Britanides The morning Starre appeares in the Aire sitting on a bright Cloud in forme of a beautifull youth naked with a mantle of watchet Cipresse on his head a Star On the other side of the Heaven came forth Aurora in a Chariot touch'd with gold borne up by a rosie coloured cloud her garment white trim'd with gold loosely tuck'd about her and cut downe on the sides her armes bare with bracelets of gold with a vaile of Carnation flying as blowne up by the winde her wings white spotted with gold her faire haire disheveled and on her head a Girland of Roses Hesperus askes Aurora why the Sunne is so long in comming and whether being weary of his last journey he is gone to take his rest Aurora answers that her brother the Sunne hath for this time given up his charge of lightning this Hemisphere to a terrestriall Beautie in whom intellectuall and corporeall brightnesse are joyn'd and therefore bids him descend and summon the Arch-Flamines and Flamines to celebrate with divine hymnes this Goddesse of brightnesse with those faire Nymphs dependants on her splendor The fifth Song Hesperus Aurora Hesperus The bright perpetuall Traveller Doth now too long the day defer Can he grow old Or in his fierie chariot cold Or weary cause he still