Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	francis_n	sir_n	61,836	5	7.8482	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64185	Most curious Mercurius Brittanicus, alias Sathanicus, answer'd, cuff'd, cudgell'd, and clapper-claude ...	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1640 (1640)	Wing T483B; ESTC R37877	6,340	9

MOST CURIOUS MERCURIUS BRITTANICUS ALIAS SATHANICUS Answer'd Cuff'd Cudgell'd and Clapper-claude Han Gupak Navem Ercu Rius Quar Teratray Torb Ritan Nicus By Interpretation Hang up a Knave Mercurius Quarter a Traytor Britannicus BRittanicus have at thee look to thy selfe for good faith I am IOHN TAYLOR and let it not make thee proud that I am pleased to descend so low as to write either to thee or of thee Your Prophetick writings with Bookers conjunction and delicate foysted Declarations and Relations being all Nothings of their worthy Orders Acts and Votes with their Don Quixotticall Amadis de Galldicall Battles and Ayery Victories which being with judgement and discretion weighed and considered are Nothing nor ever will be any thing to any purpose And if the round Iobbernoll of Brittanicus were but capable of the capacity of Owley-glasse he might see that all the great Something 's which he so dignifies falsifies and magnifies are nothing have done Nothing but Mischiefe which is worse then Nothing You are merrily pleased to call Aulicus the Scripe or Register to the Junto whereby I perceive that you can breake Iests better then make them and that you have a Foolish Rogueish desire to jeere your betters but that your plentifull want of Wit is your great impediment Then you fall a Scoffing the Nobility here which is no newes as you promised a Relation of newes in your lying title but sure it is no new thing though worth nothing It is your weekly custome to promise the People newes and pay them with Nonsence your infamous works have titles of Relations and the froathy substance within is nothing but your own inventions fopperies and fictions for what knowledge of the Affaires of great Britaine can the people pick out of your Ignorant and Ridiculous Rayling and Revileing His Majesty His Royall Queen Honourable Counsellors and all our Nobility Gentry or others with the Reverend Clergy calling them Papists Iesuits Priests are these things new intelligences no all the World knowes those damnable designes to be no newes from you But it were newes worth the hearing to heare any truth at all from you and it is supposed that you writ purposely to make your selfe merry and for some other Trencher Respects to delight as wise men as your selfe in reading and laughing at your fooleries What knowledge of intelligence or what profit have the people for their money and time spent in buying and reading your scoffing scandalls calumnies you are pleased to bestow fine Epithites upon them as fantasticall Heads and Hydes and the grave and Reverend Iudges your wickednesse is pleas'd to trench upon Rastalls Abridgements and to call them Rascalls neither can the Serjeant at Lawes Quoyfe or Iudges Night-cap scape the flowt of your fooles cap the Quoyfes you say are Quoifes of injustice and the Night-caps of false Judgement Then you boast of your and none but yours Parliaments late successe and your Scottish brethrens advance It is well known that your Parliament hath the Art to Create make forme fashion and frame Successe into what shape they please and be it either good bad or indifferent they can metamorphose it into feares jealousies Publique thanksgivings and these ingredients being melted with zeale in the secret Chrusible of the Publique-Faith and so with hey passe and Repasse Legerdemaine it is Transformed into money and that money into Rebellion For your brethren the Scots advance I will give you leave to bragge of their successe Then you seem to be displeased at Aulicus for speaking truth when he called you Rebells I doe heartily wish that you might truly give him the Lye but if you be not Rebells I shall suppose Faux and Ravilltack to be Honest men and that Wat Tyler Iack Cade Hackett Penrye Iohn a Leiden and Knipperdolling dyed true Martyrs Britanicus saies the Ensigne is yet unhanged that said he would kill the King t is very likely for I am sure you have hang'd Imprisoned Murdred Plundred or Beggered as many as you could lay hold on of such as were either Ecclesiasticall or Temporall Protestants as would spend their livelihoods and deerest blood in defence of their true Religion and service of their Soveraigne But your evasion is that your Trayterous Ensigne did not meane King Charles But Generall King is the man he meant to kill in this you are a Iesuited Equivocater in Generall and a lying Knave in particular you bragge what a brave Cornelius Burgesse you have he is a very wholsome Purified and Repurified man for the Records of the Spirituall Court doth keep an account that he hath been twice purg'd in that court for two female servants of his who by his joyning of Jyblets were both great with child in his own house But these spirituall Court purgings was to weak Physick to work upon him so that he relapsing fell to the old trade againe for which he was to be let blood purg'd dieted and disciplin'd in the High-Commission But that he and his friends so labour'd the dissolution of that Court that it was Abollished and Cornelius by that means was left uncur'd and I doubt uncurable and I have heard of Cornelius his Tub which is the fittest Pulpit for him and his Rebellious doctrine he is no Cornelius Tacitus as you say but it were better for the peace of the Church and State if he were Tacitus with all the Rabble of his Tribe of Sectaries Tacitus was a Roman Historian and wrote the lives of some wicked Heathen Emperours but your Loquatious Burges whose discretion had more appeared had he bin Tacitus hath with the Vollubillity of his seditious verbosity omitted Suetonius and destroyed Tranquillius In a word he hath talk'd so much strife and mischiefe that thereby our former blessed Peace and Tranquillity is as rare to be found as Truth and Loyalty is either in him or in his Imposture Scribe Mercurius Britanicus Next he pursues the Bishops in the old Beaten way of Rayling which is as common as the barking of doggs and therefore I hold him not worthy of an Answer His Ridiculous scoffs of the Earle of Bristol the Lord Cottiugton and Sir Francis Windebank calling them Spanish Figgs and Reisins is such poor silly Rogish stuffe that the folly of Will Summers or Iohn Dorye were profound wisdome in respect of it Then Sir to shew your love to Learning like the rest of your sweet Maisters Magnificoes Clarissimoes Committee and Common-Councell men you jeere at the Schooles which is a place renowned for a famous Librarie through more Kingdoms Provinces and Nations then are in the Christian World and the ever renowned founder Sir Tho. Bodley will for ever stand in the Records of fame when the memory of the Calumniators of that Magnificent fabrick shall Rot Stink and be justly held odious to God and Man The Arch-bishop of Armaugh falls next into the Roleing streame or Railing straine of your Aspersions and indeed your commendations and approbation either of him or any other man