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	knight_n	sir_n	59,280	5	6.9270	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18752	A pleasant discourse of court and wars with a replication to them both, and a commendation of all those that truly serue prince and countrie. Written by Thomas Churchyard, and called his Cherrishing.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 5249; ESTC S105042	8,064	24

A pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars with a replication to them both and a commendation of all those that truly serue Prince and countrie Written by Thomas Churchyard and called his Cherrishing Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for William Holme 1596. To the Honorable sir George Cary Knight sonne and heire to my Lord Chamberlaine gouernour of the Ile of Wight and Knight Marshall of England Tho. Churchyard wisheth great worldly hap encrease of honor and heauenly blessednes IN remembring many curtesies good turnes rare fauor and friendship flowing from your Honorable disposition in this ebbing age I vowed being found in seruiceable maner to requite but sicke am forced to write the opinions of many Lords Knights and Gentlemen captaines and cheefetaines of great charge touching the court and the wars And for that I serued vnder them I set downe the words I heard many of them speake of those two honorable points and discourses First at Lawndersey sir Thomas Wyet Wallop Bellingam many more knights there Then at Bollain the Lord Poynings sir Rafe Elderkar sir Iames Crofts and other knights there The Lord Gray at Giens sir Harry Palmer sir Lewis Dyue sir Richard Bray many more there At Hams the Lord Dudley and many gentlemen there At Callis the Lord Haward sir William Drury sir Anthony Ager sir Thomas Cornwallys and a number of knights and gentlemen there In Flaunders sir Anthony Sturley captaine Matson Sybyll Horssey Ieynks Plonket Hynde and many more captaines there At Metts in Lorraine captaine Farnam and in that towne the Lord Admirall that now is I being without with sundry English Gentlemen there In France captaine Krayar Sutton Twytty Blunt Dryuar and numbers of captaines there In Scotland where I was taken prisoner sir William Winter sir William Woodhouse and many knights and captaines there the Lord Clynton our Admirall then At Burty Cragge sir Iohn Luttrell At Dondee captaine Marry Church and sundry gentlemen there In Haddington sir Iames Wilford sir Arthur Manering and many other knights and captaines there In Lawtherfort sir Hue Wyllowby captaine Colby captaine Hales and many more there In Ireland sir William Bellingam sir Anthony Sellenger sir Henry Sydney sir Iames Crofts all these then deputies and many knights and captaines there at their commaundment In Anwerpe after these things my selfe the chiefe captaine there then In Brabant Zeland and Holland vnder sir Thomas Morgan sir Humfrey Gylbart and sundry knights there seruing a great season In Scotland before vnder the Lord Gray at the siege of Leeth where sir William Pellam sir George Haward sir Andrew Corbet and a number of knights were besides many captaines and gentlemen of good woorth In Gyens when it was lost a captaine my selfe and taken prisoner vnder the old Lord Gray sir Harry Palmar master Cripps and other captaines there In Ireland againe vnder sir Harry Sydney where sir Harry Harrington sir Edward Moore sir Nicholas Bagnall and a great company of knights and captaines were from whom I went to the noble Earle of Ormond In Garnzey with sir Thomas Leighton in good credit and charge a good while In Anwarpe againe when sir Iohn Norrice sir Thomas Morgan sir Edward Hobby and a number of honorable personages brought ouer Mounsior thither Thus making those seruices and many more a benefit to my knowledge gathering some od notes and sentences among those Honorable and marshall people I bethought me thereof now in my last sicknes peraduenture and willing not to smoother them vp in silence haue published as followes in verse what the opinion of many dead and aliue hath been both of honorable Court and Warres dedicating the whole iudgement thereof to your good consideration bicause you are Knight Marshall of England and knowes much of marshall causes After whose good liking I do commend the work to the whole world humbly desiring you to reade with good will iudge with milde discretion and rather commend than condemne not thereby crauing better credit than it may merit nor lesse thanks than an honest writer looketh for though not finely written yet faithfully meant in plainest termes bicause cunning phrases sauour of the schoole where seldome I haue stolen any great learning nor robbed good schollers of their bookes If God freely gaue I haue frankly bestowed it neither a niggard of my verses nor sparing of my words but spending my muse and matter as plentifully as though I had good store thereof take it in good part so the writer stands pleased God so knoweth who encrease you in honor and durable credit From my chamber in Richmond this new yeeres day 1596. Yours in all at commandement THOMAS CHVRCHYARD TEn thousand spend their time in vaine That haunteth either court or wars In both of them some hopes to gaine VVhen both God wot full few prefars Then bluntly said and truly told Long courting maketh yoong men old Not rich nor wise till wit be bought VVealth followes few that thither run Some trudge to court to bring home thought Or see abrode how shines the sun But leaues Gods blessing far behinde And liues vpon an aspiring minde The court is but a pleasant cage For birds to prune their feathers in A ioy to youth a paine to age VVhere many lose and few do win A step of state where honor stands To bring free harts in bondage bands A gladsome house of goodly gests That pay small seruice for their foode A body full of hollow brests VVhere hatreds egs brings foorth their broode A place of pompe and perill both VVhere finenes ioines with little troth A heaunly image heere on earth That lookes like saint without a shrine An outward signe and shew of mirth VVhere many smarts are cloked fine A glasse of steele in some od case VVhere each man may see his owne face A randevou where millions meet In one kings raigne or other sure A whetstone to a dulled spreet That many sweet conceits procure A pallace fraught with faire delite That prooues but blacke when it seemes white A drawing hope that hath no end In harts that labour still for fame A strong crossebowe that will not bend Till courtly archers wins the game A plot where cunning digs vp pence And yet a place of great expence Court is a maze of turnings strange A laborinth of working wits A princely seate subiect to change VVhere Goddesse like dame Pallas sits A fountaine frozen hard as ice VVhere cloked craft turnes oft the vice The well and spring that cooles the thirst And quencheth each consuming heat The cooling carde that harts doth birst The worme that life and lim doth eat The gladsome gazing mirror bright That showes brode day but brings darke night The field where fortune runs at bace And showes foule play where she doth please The parke the forrest and the chace VVhere Dians Deere lodge safe at ease The feasting house where surfets breed By tasting some things more than need The soile where Venus built hir bowre