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	king_n	thomas_n	10,318	5	7.4693	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06813	of delyces where a man shall fynde all maner of fruytes in all tymes . . .; Itinerarium. English	Mandeville, John, Sir.; Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-ca. 1399, attributed name.	1510 (1510)	STC 17249.5; ESTC S104359	30,584	65

And he hath also a fayre palays at the cyte of Nyse where he dwelleth whan he wyll but the ayer there is not soo well tempred as it is at the cyte of Suse And he hath euery daye in his courte more that .xxx. thousande men without comers goers / but .xxx. thousande there in the coūtree of the grete Chane spende not so moche as .xij. thousande in our countree / he hath euermore .vij. kynges in his court to serue hym / echone of theym serueth a moneth and with thyse kynges serue alwaye .lxxij. dukes CCC Erles / and euery daye ete in his courte .xij. archebysshops and .xx. bysshops The patryarke of saynt Thomas is as he were a pope / archebysshops bysshops abbottes all are kynges in that countree / some of the lordes is mayster of the halle some of the chambre / some stuarde / some marshall some other offycers therfore he is full rychely serued his londe lasteth in brede foure monethes Iourney / and it is of length without mesure ¶ Of a ryche man in prester Iohns londe named Catolonabes of his gardeyne ca. lxxxx IN an yle of prester Iohans londe that men calle Myscorach therin is grete plente of goodes moche ryches and many precyous stones In that londe was a ryche man not longe agone that men called there Catolonabes / he was full ryche he had a fayre castell on an hylle stronge / and he hadde made a walle all about the hylle ryght stronge fayre within that he had a fayre gardeyne wherin were many trees berynge all mane● of fruytes that he myght fynde / he dyde plante therin all maner of herbes of good smell that bare floures / there was many fayre welles and by theym was made many fayre halles chambres well dyght with golde asure / and he had made there dyuerse storyes beestes and byrdes that songe torned by engyne and orbage as they had be all quycke / he had in his gardayne that he myght fynde to make a man solace comfort / and he had also there in that gardeyne maydens within the age of .xv. yere the fayrest that he myght fynde men children of the same age / they were cladde with clothes of golde he sayd that the same were angels / he had do make thre hylles fayre and good all enclosed aboute with precyous stones of Iaspye and crystall well boūde with golde and perles other maner of stones / and he had made a conduyte vnder the erthe so that whan he wolde the walles ranne somtyme with mylke somtyme with wyne somtyme with hony / this place is called Paradyse And whan ony yonge bachelere of that countree knyght or squyer cometh to hym for solace dysporte / he ledeth hym in to his Paradyse sheweth vnto hym all thyse dyuerse thynges / dyuerse songes of byrdes and also of his damoysels and his welles / and he dyde stryke dyuerse Instrumentes of musyke in an hyghe toure that myght be seen sayd those were aungels of god / and that place was Paradyse that god hath graūted to those that byleued whan he sayd Dabo vobis terrā fluentē lac et mel That is to saye I shall gyue you londe flowynge mylke hony And than this ryche man dyde thyse men drynke a maner of drynke of whiche they were dronken he sayd to them yf they wolde deye for his sake that whan they were deed they sholde come in to his Paradyse / and they sholde be of the age of those maydens sholde dwelle alwaye with theym / and he sholde put theym in a fayre Paradyse where they sholde se god in his Ioye in his mageste / and than they graunted to do what he wolde / and he hadde them go slee suche a lorde or a man of the coūtre that he was wroth with / that they sholde haue no drede of no man / and yf they were slayne themselfe for his sake he sholde put theym in his Paradyse whan they were deed And so wente those bachelers to slee grete lordes of the countree / and were slayne themselfe in hope to haue that Paradyse / thus he was auenged of his enemyes thorugh his deserte And whan ryche men of the countree perceyued this malyce and cautele the wyll of this Catolonabes they gadred theym togyder assayled the castell and slewe hym and destroyed all his goodes and his fayre places rychesse that were in his Paradyse / the place of the walles is there yet and some other thȳges / but the rychesse is not there and it is not longe ago syth he was destroyed ¶ Of a meruaylous vale that is besyde the ryuer of Physon ca. lxxxxi ANd a lytell fro that place on the lyfte fyde besyde the Ryuer of Physon is a grete meruayle There is a vale bytwene two hylles that is foure myle longe / and some men calle it the valay enchaunted / some the valey of deuylles / some the valey peryllous / in that valey are many tempestes and a grete noyse and hydeous euery daye and nyght / and somtyme as it were a noyse of Taburynes of nakers and of trompettes as it were at a grete feest This valey is all full of deuylles hath ben alwaye / men saye there that it is an entre to helle In this valey is moche golde and syluer / wherfore many crysten men other go thy der for couetyse of that golde syluer / but fewe of theym come out agayne for they are anone strangled with deuylles / in myddes of that vale vpon a roche is a vysage the heed of a fende bodyly ryght hydeous dredefull to se / there is no thynge seen but the heed to the sholders / but there is no crysten man in the worlde ne other soo hardy that he ne sholde haue grete drede for to beholde it / for he beholdeth eche man so sharpely so felly / his eyen are so sterynge so sprenkelynge as fyre and he chaungeth so often his coūtenaūce that no man dare come nere for all the worlde / and out of his mouth his nose cometh grete plente of fyre of dyuerse colours / somtyme is the fyre so stynkynge that no man may suffre it / but alwaye a good crysten man that is stable in the fayth may go there in without harme yf they shryue theym well and blysse theym with the token of the crosse than shall the deuylles haue no power of theym And ye shall vnderstande the whan my felowes I were in that valey we had full grete thought yf we sholde put our bodyes in auenture to go thrugh it / some of my felowes accorded therto / some wolde not accorde therto / there was in our company two freres mynours of Lombardy they sayd yf ony of