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	robert_n	viscount_n	16,276	5	11.7158	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19462	Polimanteia, or, The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull, to iudge of the fall of a common-wealth, against the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added, a letter from England to her three daughters, Cambridge, Oxford, Innes of Court, and to all the rest of her inhabitants: perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are, for the defence of our dread soveraigne, and natiue cuntry: most requisite for this time wherein wee now live.	Covell, William, d. 1614?; Clerke, William, fl. 1595, attributed name.	1595 (1595)	STC 5883; ESTC S108887	87,044	236

POLIMANTEIA OR The meanes lawfull and vnlawfull to IVDGE OF THE FALL OF A COMMON-WEALTH AGAINST the friuolous and foolish coniectures of this age Whereunto is added A letter from England to her three daughters Cambridge Oxford Innes of Court and to all the rest of her inhabitants perswading them to a constant vnitie of what religion soever they are for the defence of our dread soveraigne and natiue cuntry most requisite for this time wherein wee now live Invide quod neque as imitari carpere noli Nil nisicum sumptu mentem oculosque iuvat Printed by Iohn Legate Printer to the Vniversitie of Cambridge 1595. And are to be sold at the signe of the Sunne in Pauls Church-yard in London TO THE RIGHT honourable Robert Devorax Earle of Essex and Ewe Vicount of Hereforde Lord Ferrer of Chartley Borcher and Lovaine Master of the Queenes Maiesties Horse Knight of the noble order of the Garter and one of her Maiesties most Honourable privie Councell IT is easie to gesse honourable Lorde why Schollars flocke under the patronage of men in your place their condition is so weake that unlesse men truly honourable doe defend them they are most of all in this age distressed And yet braue noble Lorde ingeniously to confesse my true meaning it is not that which mooued me at this time but it is the height of admiration which my thoughts conceiued of your honours worth that made me thinke all men bound to offer signes of loue and dutie where both are deserued in so high a measure I take vpon me Englands person and speake like a Common-wealth And therfore howsoeuer it were presumption in me to dedicate papers of so small moment to a personage of so rare worth yet honourable Lorde take them as your cuntries talke vouchsafe to reade them stamped with her name and so all shall be afraide to mislike them beeing graced with yours And yet I weigh not whether others mislike them or no let but your honour for learnings sake a thing which I know you doe say you are content to accept of the meanest trifle and grace it with a good looke and then I contemne what male-contented melancholy can speake against me Your honour be it spoken without envie like Englands Cedar is sprung up to preserue with your shadowe the humblest in all professions from hatreds malice The warlike and braue soldier thinkes him selfe and that in truth is graced to be tearmed but your follower The worthy and kinde passionate Courtier deemes and worthily this his honour to be your fauorite The sober and devout student that dispised doeth walke melancholy takes himselfe and not without cause fortunate to be tearmed your schollar Thus all relye noble Lord upon your favour And I who though I must needs honour yet usually with so deepe affection am not devoted without cause doe so in kindnesse and loue if that be not a word too presumptuous passe over the full interest of my selfe to your dispose as in what kinde soeuer a schollar may doe his dutie I am readie and desirous to be commanded by you then accept noble lorde the willing mind of him that hath nothing else and say that that alone is absolutely sufficient to content you Read it but or if that be to much doe but accept it and so rest where of not doubting in the middest of so many signes of a schollar-respecting honour in dutie I kisse my hand and humbly take my leaue Your honours in all duty most affectionate W C. The Preface to the Reader WEe are fallen into the barren age of the worlde courteous Reader wherein though some fewe trauaile to expell Barbarisme which fortunately they haue done in our English tongue yet a number of idle conceited-wise-foolish heades take vpon them peremptorily to censure other mens paines so that euery man is loath to enter into the viewe whilst Idlenes shall stand controlling and giue her sentence I know it could fit these to write but that magni laboris est quem plerique fugimus Homer wrote of the trauailes of the worthie Graecian Vlysses Curtius of Alexander and Darius Rome had neuer beene so renowmed but for Titus Livius Thucydides eternized Iason and Minotaure and sweet Salust Iugurth and Cateline nay this wise age long since had beene plaine foolish if our painefull forefathers had not trauailed for their good And if any man thinke this age is too wisely learned to read any thing which is but some fewe droppes of that mayne Ocean which ouerflowed in their daies let him knowe this that care added to their industrious trauailes is easily able to perform matters of great importance Learning was let loose ouer all Europe euer since Athens did first flourish excepting a fevve yeares when the Gothes and Vandalls compelled her to liue in exile who flying fast from their furie left Italie and those famous places and planted her selfe so firmely in these poore countreies that euer since amongst vs shee hath liued honourably Thus in the abundance of our knowledge he that hath taken pains stands at the courtesie of euery paltrie fellowe to be censured as it please him In consideration whereof wise men haue deemed it the safest secretly to smile and soberly to say nothing For my paines I much care not I esteeme thee Reader as thou dost me for degenerous minds intreated grow insolent the daies are euill and the argument is fit for these times I knowe diuers haue trauailed in the same kinde whome I but humble without wronging them to speake vnto thy capacitie Nobilitie fully learned made choice to handle the same argument and with such profounde deepe skill performde it as that truth taketh her selfe much bound vnto him who made her to speake eloquently that vseth to be plaine and false prophesies ashamed who so long haue vsurped truths titles From hence maist thou learne or at least remember that the greatest Monarches howsoeuer proud in their owne strength must either fall with an enemies stroake or as Rome did with her owne waight here maist thou see that nothing is so made but subiect to great change And yet least thou desire to knowe what thou oughtest not I haue laboured to make knowne what thou shouldest desire my leisure will not serue to detaine thee long and a short preface is beseeming so small paines I take my leaue and if thou hast deserued I giue thee thanks onely this I must adde further not to accuse others or make an Apologie for my selfe that I neuer yet in the least syllable of the so tearmed loosest line meant either to modestie pietie chastitie time the Muses or kindnes to doe wrong neither should the surmised obiect of my muses song or the dearest which that obiect hath suspect in me but the least shadow of supposed eniurie for I neither ment to make loose poetrie a true historie or thought that wise courtesie would be so suspicious to misdeeme him whose thoughts long since were deuoted to grauer