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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	knight_n	viscount_n	13,366	5	11.8212	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13509	Taylor on Thame Isis: or The description of the tvvo famous riuers of Thame and Isis, who being conioyned or combined together, are called Thamisis, or Thames With all the flats, shoares, shelues, sands, weares, stops, riuers, brooks, bournes, streames, rills, riuolets, streamelets, creeks, and whatsoeuer helps the said riuers haue, from their springs or heads, to their falls into the ocean. As also a discouery of the hinderances which doe impeache the passage of boats and barges, betwixt the famous Vniuersity of Oxford, and the city of London.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1632 (1632)	STC 23803; ESTC S118291	9,347	30

TAYLOR on Thame Isis OR THE DESCRIPTION OF THE TWO FAmous Riuers of Thame and Isis who being conioyned or combined together are called Thamisis or Thames With all the Flats Shoares Shelues San●● Weares Stops Riuers Brooks ●ournes Streames Rills Riuolets Streamelets Cree●● and whatsoeuer helps the said Riuers haue from their springs or heads to their falls into the Ocean As also a discouery of the hinderances which 〈…〉 e impeach the passage of Boats and Barges betwixt the famous Vniversity of Oxford and City of London LONDON P 〈…〉 d by Iohn Haui 〈…〉 163● TO The Right Honourable Lords THOMAS Earle of Arundell and Surrey Earle Marshall of England EDWARD Lord Viscount Wimbleton Henry Lord Viscount Fawlkland and Sir Thomas Edmonds Knight Treasurer of the Kings Houshold Lords of his Maiesties most Honourable Priuy Councell and Commissioners for the Nauigation and fishing of the famous Riuers of Thames and Medway RIght Noble Lords with sorrow I beheld That which to write my duty hath compel'd And from my pen the Thames flow'd to the presse From thence it ebbes to you to finde redresse My Honourable Lord of Dorchester He truly noted in particular Dame Isis wrongs and Thames great injuries For they were sad perspectiues to his eyes And had his Lordship liu'd his meaning was To make the Riuer passable to passe For then with noble care and deligence He view'dthe helps and the impediments Which aid or hinder passage vp and downe Twixt Oxford City and braue Winds●…r towne Yet as I sometimes row'd and sometimes st●…r'd I view'd wh●…e well where ill the way appeard And here I haue des●…rib'd the way we went Commixing truth with honest merriment My th●…ed-bare wit a mad wooll gathering goes To shew the things in verse I saw in prose And Honourable Pe●…res I humbly craue My artless●… lines may your acceptance haue Wis●…ing each fault remou'd which st●…nds vnfi●… As soone as you can reade what I haue writ Desiring God to giue y●…u high content Here and here f●…er glory permanent Humbly deuoted with his best endeuouts to all your Honourable personag●…s IOHN TAYLOR TO The memory of the truly Noble deceased DVDLEY CARLETON Lord Viscount Dorchester principall Secretary of State to his Maiestie of GREAT BRITAINE IF He be blest that is of Noble bloud And being made great is both great and good Who is a Christian euery way compleat Who holds it better to be good than great Whose life was guided with good Conscience Whose end was sauing faith and penitence These blessings Noble Dorchester were thine And these haue made thee ' Immortall and diuine To any Body I That ne're tasted the Castalian fount Or came in ken of the Thessalian Mount I that could ne're attaine to wet my lips With Tempes liquour or sweet Aga●…pps Who neuer yet haue so much fauour won To purchase one carrowse from Helicon Who with good Poets dare compare no way But one which is in being poore as they And hauing neuer seene the Muses hill Am plentifully stor'd with want of skill Then Fount or Mount nor sacred trebl●… trine Are no assistants in this worke of mine But ancient Isis current chrystall spring Inspires my braine and I her praises sing And Tame with Isis joynes his pearely streames Whose combination are my ampletheames Though for the most part in the tracts I tread Of learned Camden Speed and Hollinshead And Draytons painfull Polyolbyon Whose fame shall liue despight obliuion These are the guides I follow with pretence T'abbreuiate and extract their Quint-essence Nor can it be to them disparagement That I come after in the wayes they went For they of former writers followers be I follow them and some may follow me And man to man a President is made In Art or Science mysterie or Trade As they before these Riuers bounds did show Here I come after with my Pen and row TAYLOR ON THAME ISIS OVr patron Phoebus whose sweet influence Doth quicken all our reason life and sense T is he makes grasse to grow Riuers sprin● He makes both my songs subiect and me sin● His beames the waters doe extenuate To vapours and those vapours eleuate Into the middle Region where they tumble And melt and then descend and are made humble Moystning the face of many a spacious hill Where soaking deepe the hollow vaults they fill Where into Riuers they againe breake out So nature in a circle runnes about Large Downes doe treasure vp great store of raine Whose bowels vent it in the vales againe No place in England could a treasure keepe Thames to maintaine but Coteswould queene of sheepe In Glostershire my dearest motherearth From whose faire City I deriue my birth Are Coteswould hills and in the farthest cliffe Of all those hils of Isis head is chiefe Schollers from Gloster that to Oxford ride The truth of my assertion oft haue tride On their right hand neare Cubberley they passe Two Wells as sweet as milke as cleare as glasse Whence Isis first doth pedegree deriue Those two are able there two mills to driue At Burton on the water south from Stow Vpon the Would great vaines of waters flow To Burford and to Witney and along Till they make meadowes large and Isis strong The famous Riuer Isis hath her spring Neare Tetbury and downe along doth bring As hand-maids to attend her progresse Churne Colne Windrush Yenload Leech whose windings turne And Meads and Pastures trims bedecks and dresses Like an vnvaluable chaine of ESSES After releefe of many a Ducke and Goose At Saint Iohns bridge they make their rendeuous And there like robbers crossing London way Bid many a bare-foot Welshman wade or stay Close vnder Oxford one of Englands eyes Chiefe of the chiefest Vniuersities From Banbury desirous to adde knowledge To zeale and to be taught in Magdalen College The Riuer Charwell doth to Isis runne And beares her company to Abington Whil'st very neare that towne on Barkshire side The Riuer Ock doth into Isis glide These fountaines and fish-breeding Riuolets The Countries nurses nourishers and teats Attend Dame Isis downe to Dorchester Neare which her louely Tame doth meet with her There Tame his Isis doth embrace and kisse Both joyn'd in one cal'd Tame or Tame Isis Isis like Salmacis becomes with Tame Hermaphrodite in nature and in name Tame doth deriue his Spring or Pedegree Neare Mesworth in the vale of Aylsbury From whence he many miles with strange meanders To finde his lovely Isis slowly wanders Through fertile lands a quiet course he keepes Till Southward vnder Whately bridge he creepes And like a Pilgrim trauels all alone No Brooke or Riuer waiting him vpon Onely three namelesse Riuolets and two springs Which very priuately their tribute brings Bewailing Isis absence and his fate Poore Tame all heauie and disconsolate ●…nnauigable scorn'd despis'd disgrac'd ●…auing in vaine so many paces pac'd ●…espairing and quite desperate with these harmes ●…e hurles himselfe vnwares in Isis armes ●…or closer can the barke be