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	john_n	king_n	50,169	5	4.1692	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58161	A collection of English proverbs digested into a convenient method for the speedy finding any one upon occasion : with short annotations : whereunto are added local proverbs with their explications, old proverbial rhythmes, less known or exotick proverbial sentences, and Scottish proverbs / by J. Ray, M.A. and Fellow of the Royal Society.	Ray, John, 1627-1705.	1678 (1678)	Wing R387; ESTC R14323	169,995	424

Commoner one undignified with any title of Gentility a condition of people almost peculiar to England and which is in effect the basis of all the Nation Kentish long-tails Those are mistaken who found this Proverb on a miracle of Austin the Monk who preaching in an English village and being himself and his associates beat and abused by the Pagans there who opprobriously tied Fish-tails to their back-sides in revenge thereof such appendants grew to the hind-parts of all that generation For the scence of this lying wonder was not laid in any part of Kent but pretended many miles off nigh Cerne in Dorsetshire I conceive it first of outlandish extraction and cast by forreigners as a note of disgrace on all English men though it chanceth to stick onely on the Kentish at this day What the original or occasion of it at first was is hard to say whether from wearing a pouch or bag to carry their baggage in behind their backs whilst probably the proud Monsieurs had their Lacquies for that purpose or whether from the mention'd story of Austin I am sure there are some at this day in forreign parts who can hardly be perswaded but that English men have tails Why this nickname cut off from the rest of England continues still entail'd on Kent the reason may be as the Doctour conjectures because that County lies nearest to France and the French are beheld as the first founders of this aspersion Dover-court all speakers and no hearers The Doctour understands this Proverb of some tumultuous Court kept at Dover the confluence of many blustering sea-men who are not easily ordered into any awful attention It is appliable to such irregular conferences where the people are all tongue and no ears A jack of Dover I find the first mention of this Proverb in our English Ennius Chaucer in his Proeme to the Cook And many a jack of Dover he had sold Which had been two times hot and two times cold This he makes parallel to Crambe his cocta and appliable to such as grate the eares of their Auditours with ungrateful tautologies of what is worthless in it self tolerable as once uttered in the notion of novelty but abominable if repeated Some part of Kent hath health and no wealth viz. East Kent Some wealth and no health viz. The weald of Kent Some both health and wealth viz. the middle of the Countrey and parts near London Lancashire LAncashire fair women Whether the women of this County be indeed fairer then their neighbours I know not but that the inhabitants of some Countreys may be and are generally fairer then those of others is most certain The reason whereof is to be attributed partly to the temperature of the air partly to the condition of the soil and partly to their manner of food The hotter the climate generally the blacker the inhabitants and the colder the fairer the colder I say to a certain degree for in extreme cold countreys the inhabitants are of dusky complexions But in the same climate that in some places the inhabitants should be fairer then in others proceeds from the diversity of the situation either high or low maritime or far from sea or of the soil and manner of living which we see have so much influence upon beasts as to alter them in bigness shape and colour and why it may not have the like on men I see not It is written upon a wall in Rome Ribchester was as rich as any town in Christendome Some monumental wall whereon the names of principal places were inscribed then subject to the Roman Empire And probably this Ribchester was anciently some eminent colony as by pieces of coins and columns there daily dig'd out doth appear However at this day it is not so much as a market-town but whether decayed by age or destroyed by accident is uncertain It is called Ribchester because situate on the river Ribble As old as Pendle hill If Riving pike do wear a hood Be sure that day will ne're be good A mist on the top of that hill is a sign of foul weather He that would take a Lancashire man at any time or tide Must bait his hook with a good egge-pie or an apple with a red side Leicestershire BEan-belly Leicestershire So called from the great plenty of that grain growing therein Yea those of the neighbouring countreys use to say merrily Shake a Leicestershire man by the collar and you shall hear the beans rattle in his belly But those Yeomen smile at what is said to rattle in their bellies whilst they know good silver ringeth in their pockets If Bever hath a cap You churls of the vale look to that That is when the clouds hang over the towers of Bever-castle it is a prognostick of much rain and moisture to the much endamaging that fruitful vale lying in the three Counties of Leicester Lincoln and Notingham Bread for Borrough men At Great Gleu there are more great dogs then honest men Carleton wharlers I 'll throw you into Harborough field A threat for children Harborough having no field Put up your pipes and goe to Lockington wake The last man that he kill'd keeps hogs in Hinckley field Spoken of a coward that never durst fight He has gone over Asfordby bridge backwards Spoken of on that is past learning Like the Maior of Hartle pool you cannot doe that Then I 'll thatch Groby pool with pancakes For his death there is many a wet cye in Groby pool In and out like Billesdon I wote A Leicestershire plover i. e. a Bag-pudding Bedworth beggers The same again quoth Mark of Bellgrave What have I to doe with Bradshaws wind-mill i. e. What have I to doe with another mans business Lincolnshire LIncolnshire where hogs shite sope and cows shite fire The inhabitants of the poorer sort washing their clothes with hogs dung and burning dried cow-dung for want of better fuel Lincolnshire bagpipes Whether because the people here do more delight in the bagpipes then others or whether they are more cunning in playing upon them indeed the former of these will inferre the latter As loud as Tom of Lincoln This Tom of Lincoln is an extraordinary great bell hanging in one of the towers of Lincoln Minster how it got the name I know not unless it were imposed on it when baptized by the Papists Howbeit this present Tom was cast in King James his time Anno 1610. All the carts that come to Crowland are shod with silver Crowland is situate in so moorish rotten ground in the Fens that scarce a horse much less a cart can come to it Since the draining in summer time carts may go thither As mad as the baiting bull of Stamford Take the original hereof R. Butcher in his Survey of Stamford p. 40. William Earl Warren Lord of this Town in the time of King John standing upon the Castle walls of Stamford saw two bulls fighting for a cow in the meadow till all the butchers dogs great and