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	lady_n	son_n	12,518	5	5.5571	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09201	A merry discourse of Meum, and Tuum, or, Mine and Thine tvvo crosse brothers, that make strife and debate wheresoever they come; vvith their descent, parentage, and late progresse in divers parts of England. By H.P.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1639 (1639)	STC 19510; ESTC S114329	20,111	44

laugh at or pity him away then goes Tuum to the water side and taking a Boate leaves Meum to follow at his leasure The same night both meeting with either at Westminster they related their hard fortune professing never to come any more among Dogges and Beares but the Terme being at hand to keepe company with Lawyers and their Clients onely The Terme being come they now thought it best to acquaint themselves with some understanding Attorneys and Clerks of the Innes of Chancery who might aswell set them in a way to practise as to get them acquaintance and first they enquired for Lions Inne a Country Careier directed them to the Tower where the Lions were which when they had found they grew acquainted with many Students who were Cornish and Devonshire Gentlemen who when Meum and Tuum had related unto them their names whence they came and those various accidents that had befell them in their journey ever since they came from Wrangle made very much of them imagining they had beene great Students and very expert in the Lawes but being examined and throughly tried by a very honest Attorney of that house who wanted his sight he found them to be nothing else then incendiaries and make-bates in the Common wealth and wished them to live in the country and rather go make peace among their neighbours then set them at variance for we quoth he who are Attorneys if men would be quiet and agree among themselves would never intreate or sue for imployment from them but when as sutes by delay or neglect as wounds beginne to fester and gangrene then indeed we ought as Surgeons to doe our best to make an easie and speedy cure with many other good Adviso's which they little regarded but taking their leaves went to some houses I will not name where they found good respect and entertainment And finding some encouragement to Westminster they goe where looking about them they admired the largenes statelinesse of the Hall and above that the timber of the roofe having been there so long should be without Cobwebs perhaps quoth Tuum they are swept downe against the Terme quoth Meum thou art a foole all Kentstreete cannot afford a beesome so long a country man over hearing them answered the roofe was made of Irish timber which no Spider durst touch if there were any Cobwebs they were beneath about the Clarks and Notaries Seates which are seldome or never swept When they had sufficiently gazed about and observed as much as they could comming out with the Country man they viewed well the great dore of the Hall where they espied two Stags Couchand with Crownes about their necks and chaines thwart their backs they asked the reason of their being there the Country man said doubtlesse it was because so much Venison had beene eaten in that Hall when the Kings of England held their great feasts there Tuum thought rather they were some tame Deere because of their chaines but the truth is the Hall of Westminster was built anew by K. Richard the second and they were his Badges for the Kings Mother whom the blacke Prince married was widdow to Lord Holland Earle of Kent and being one of the most beautifullest Ladies of England and called the faire Mayd of Kent before her marriage She gave for her Devise or Crest the white Hind which her Sonne the King altered into a Stagge But to returne to our new Termers Meum and Tuum within a day or two they ordered the matter so that they gat acquaintance in all the Courts of Westminster and in no long time by observation and practise they grew so expert that they were still at one end of every Cause that was pleaded not a Counsellor nor Attorney belonging either to the Kings Bench Commonpleas or any other Court but grew acquainted with them and many times in friendly manner would salute them w th Good morrow Mr. Meum Save you Mr. Tuum I pray let me see you at my Chamber I have beene and so have we all much beholding unto you for your acquaintance and furtherance wee many times fare the better for you yet Meum and Tuum they were like the Whetstone that could sharpen every thing yet it selfe was blunt they could enrich others yet were ever in want for indeed men ever by sutes and contention begger themselves as we see by daily experience howbeit they gat sufficient to maintaine them hand somly and now and then to go to the Dogge Taverne at Westminster who I remember the last day of the Terme bit Meum fearefully to bid a friend to Supper and the like and whereas before they were called by their bare names only they were called now Mr. Meum and Mr. Tuum Now having beene throughly acquainted with Westminster but Westminster better with them and some three or foure Termes past and the long Vacation comming on they heard there was a controversie between certaine Gentlemen Projectors and of the Country where they were borne about the vast and spatious Fennes thereabout whereupon imagining there might bee good fishing in those troubled waters they resolved to goe downe thither to make a division among them if they could not agree among themselves So putting money convenient in their purse away for their Country they go playing many merry trickes by the way which would fill three such bookes as this if I should recount them in order Now by the way if they should happen to want money Meum resolved to take upon him the name and profession of a Physitian and to cure all manner of diseases and griefes by stroking the part pained and uttering some few words by way of charme as you shall heare anon Tuum would like a Gypsey be a teller of Fortunes especially to widdowes and young wenches and indeed they got hereby much money and grew famous One thing I must not forget by the way as they went three or fourescore miles from London as they walked downe a Lane a great shower of raine fell which constrained them to goe through a Gentlemans yard who had beene a Iustice of the Peace and was sitting in a wicker chaire and the Constable of that Parish a little distance off upon an Hogstrough to see his Swine ringed the Iustice was clad in cloth spunne in his owne house seldome came he up to London but ever staid at home keeping a good house among his neighbours Meum and Tuum passing by saluted him with all due respect my friends quoth he you are welcome where is your dwelling quoth Meum An 't please your worship in Westminster in a place called Theeving Lane and my Brother about or neare to Hell by my honesty quoth he both bad and naughty places I wonder my fellow Iustices thereabouts will take no order with that Lane either to place honest men in it or to remoove it further off from his Majesties Court I have heard that in Queen Elizabeth's time much Pla●e Hangings and other things

hundred pounds thicke and his Creditors taking the opportunity of his fortunes would beare with him no longer but lay out to arrest and every way to vexe him old Lime underhand would furnish the young Gentleman with money to satisfie them all but before take a Morgage of all his land happily might bee worth an hundred or sixscore pounds per Annum which hee being unable to redeeme at the appointed day taking up a second summe sells it all unto him out right then calls his Creditors together and maketh him and them friends and undertaking the debt himselfe hee there tenders them downe the one halfe of their money the rest he paies by parcell and petty sums at his leasure Sometimes hee is trusted with money gathered in the Country for charitable uses as Building or repairing of Bridges in regard of the great credit hee hath in the Country and his acquaintance with the better sort reparation of Sea-banks High wayes and the like but he keepes it close till extremity and the feare of a Pursevant wrings it out of his fist But Meum and Tuum not knowing any way in the world to come by money in case Master Lime should be from home and the humour take him to lend them none considering he had beene so much beholding unto them or their kindred Meum as I said began to practise in the Towne taking upon him to cure all Aches Tumours Wounds Dislocations Distemperatures and in generall all manner of Diseases by stroking with the hand and uttering certaine words by way of a charme Tuum tooke upon him to bee his man and was to make good whatsoever hee spake of himselfe and his depth of skill in that manner of cure Beside Meum had in a readinesse a Catalogue and a counterfeit Testimoniall of Lords Ladyes Gentlewomen and Merchants Wives Mayds and of all sorts whom hee had cured after that way some of Dropsies the Chollicke Agues and the like Tuum was to affirme he was the seventh son of a seventh son but this one thing troubled Meum much that was if any patient should demand of him the name and quality of his disease and what were the Symptomes of the same hee could not tell wherefore he held it the best course of professing to cure all at once neither durst hee goe any Empyricall way to worke in giving this or that to his Patient for he had no more skill in a Drug then my Dog knowing no more what to give then they knew what to take and stroking was a thing of neither labour or cost which a little Loveret or the veriest Asse in England might doe yet to let the world know hee was not ignorant in the knowledge of Simples by the way he would dig up some rootes with his knife no matter what which cut in peeces and cleane scrap'd he would put into his handkercher these dried by the fire and beaten to powder he would give alike to all yea those that were most dangerously sicke either in Posset-ale or the pap of an Aple and if any such recovered by the strength and benefit of Nature as some doe then as he would often say his fame would fly farre and his name bee made knowne to all the Countrie The rootes he caried commonly about him were called Morsus Diaboli the devils bit which groweth in Corne fields and Meadowes the Fenne Parsnep which is sweet and hath the taste of our common Parsnep but present poyson as one Hamon Rainard in the Fenne prooved for bringing home many caused them to bee boyled and buttered but in the space of the burning of a Candle his Wife Children and himselfe died sometime hee would venture upon Sol●●am or nightshade one Dram whereof is able to kill a Cariers Horse Such a Doctor I remember I my selfe met withall at Vtrecht in the Low-countries who commonly was called Docter Iohn an English or a Welch man I known well whether this Doctor for so the people called every Mountebanke was much sought unto and was had in great admiration for his judgement in so much he could not eate or drinke in quiet for patients flocking unto him Scholler he was none for he could hardly read or write his owne name I having beene one day at dinner with that noble Gentleman the Grave or Earle of Culenberge by chance I there in a Garden met with Doctor Iohn having beene formerlie acquainted with him and demanded of him whence he had those rare drugs whereby he wrought such wonders in his profession Iohn having well tasted of the Earles wine as in vino veritas confesseth freelie unto me hee had nothing from either Indies Citie Druggist or Apothecarie saving some herbes and rootes which hee gathered in the Spring under a great quick-set hedge on my left hand in the way to Vtrecht which was three miles off and these were commonly the rootes of young Bri●rs Brionie Daisies Dandelion Crow-feete and the like which dried upon a Tilestone or Slate hee also as Meum did beate to powder and gave his Patients to drinke in posset drinke white wine and the like but if they were taken with pestilent or continuall burning Fevers then hee gave them the said powder in Canary-sack Anise-seed Worm-wood water or the like Meum being furnished as you have heard now verily beleeved that he was a good Physitian indeed and now having a mind as the Proverbe is to see the Towne served and to provide for a good lodging as well during the time of the Faire as after at the corner of a Lane they met with an old Woman carying a Pitcher of Buttermilke in one hand the other held up her apron wherein was a Cat blind folded of her they enquired of an honest Alehouse or private house where they might hire a couple of Chambers shee told them in a lane on their right hand was a very good and a quiet house at the signe of the two Beares and the Bee-hive herein they entred and found entertainement and having caused their apportements to bee laid up away they goe to Master Lime's house knocking at the doore out comes a spruce and a dapper youth surrounded at the knees with points russet Bootes and Spurres with a penne in his eare he asking our errand we told him wee came to speake with Master Lime and wee suppose you are his Clarke I am indeed and my name is Twig quoth he will you be pleased to enter my Master is not very busie in they came and found Master Lime in an upper Chamber sitting by a good fierin a Wickar Chaire with three or foure night Caps and an old greasie Hat on his head one foote upon the Tonges in the Chimney-corner and the other on a little buffet stoole upon a Cushion his legge many times bound about with a rouler of red cloth my friends quoth he you are welcome have you any Law businesse Sir quoth Meum you have heard of us heretofore though you never saw us till now our