Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	francis_n	sir_n	walsingham_n	161,043	5	19.1498	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09312	A Spanish grammar, first collected and published by Richard Perciuale Gent. Now augmented and increased with the declining of all the irregular and hard verbes in that toong, with diuers other especiall rules and necessarie notes for all such as shall be desirous to attaine the perfection of the Spanish tongue. Done by Iohn Minsheu professor of languages in London. Hereunto for the yoong beginners learning and ease, are annexed speeches, phrases, and prouerbes, expounded out of diuers authors, setting downe the line and the leafe where in the same bookes they shall finde them, whereby they may not onely vnderstand them, but by them vnderstand others, and the rest as they shall meete with them	Perceval, Richard, 1550-1620.; Minsheu, John. aut	1599 (1599)	STC 19622; ESTC S115752	176,238	240

A SPANISH GRAMMAR first collected and published by Richard Perciuale Gent. Now augmented and increased with the declining of all the Irregular and hard verbes in that toong with diuers other especiall Rules and necessarie Notes for all such as shall be desirous to attaine the perfection of the Spanish tongue Done by IOHN MINSHEU Professor of Languages in London Hereunto for the yoong beginners learning and ease are annexed Speeches Phrases and Prouerbes expounded out of diuers Authors setting downe the line and the leafe where in the same bookes they shall finde them whereby they may not onely vnderstand them but by them vnderstand others and the rest as they shall meete with them Virescit vulnere Virtus Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollifant 1599 TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL GENTLEMEN STVDENTS OF Grayes Inne health and happines and to the affected to languages there daily encrease with perfect accomplishment of the most commendable qualities LVcius a famous Roman meeting on a time with the Emperor Marcus asked him whither he went who answered I am going to Sextus vt discam quod nondum scio that I may learne that which I doe not yet know Diogenes the philosopher went to Athens to Antisthenes to learne of him somewhat that he was ignorant of but Antisthenes not willing to impart at that time any of his doctrine repulsed him the other left not off his purpose but more and more importuned him in such sort that Antisthenes taking vp a staffe to driue him away Diogenes stretched out his necke willing him to strike on hardly for he should not finde a staffe so hard that could driue him from him so long as he might learne any matter by him woorthie the hearing I speake this Gentlemen meaning none of you to be bound by their example seeing one was an Emperor and might doe what he list and the other a Cinick philosopher that would doe that he ought therefore if a man haue any learning or qualitie let him bring it to you and if it be too tedious vnto you or hinder your sport rather then be troubled with him bob him or flout and scoffe him away Be not imitators of Demosthenes which spent more oyle in the lampe in studying to enrich his minde then wine to comfort his bodie but rather waste your wine and spare your candles neither be so foolish as Cleanthes the philosopher that drew water in the night that he might follow his studie in the day rather take your ease in the night and your pleasure in the day because Mutantur tempora nos mutamur in illis Yet Gentlemen if you doe but set before your eies these famous men which haue beene and are of the house you now remaine in the names of some few I can now recite as Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper Lord Burleigh Lord Treasurer Sir Walter Mildmay and Sir Francis Walsingham learned Fitzherbert Lord chiefe Iustice of the common pleas which abridged the law and Sir William Stanford which wrote the pleas of the crowne Sergeant Yeluerton Sergeant Daniell Sergeant Spurling Master Brograue Master Stanhop Master Hesquit Master Anthonie and Master Francis Bacon with diuers others might well mooue you to consider that Qui veult plus qu'vn autre valoir doibt plus qu'vn autre scavoir He that will be esteemed aboue another man must haue more knowledge then another man And Meglio esser mendicante che ignorante Better to bee a begger then barren of good letters But these letters are painefully purchased why Petit ardua virtus Difficilis virtutis via Difficilia quae pulchra Therefore Pythagoras counselled his familiar friendes that they should choose out the best kinde of life although the most difficult and Salust saith deckings pertaine to women and trauels belong to men and Seneca affirmeth that base is that honor which is gotten with idlenes which the Roman pollicie when it flourished confirmed by an auncient lawe duly kept that euery father that had children of the age of tenne yeeres should become suretie for them that they shoulde not liue idle or commit any excesse which was so neerely looked vnto that they publikely chastised Cato the Censors sonne for a saucines committed and banished a brother of good old Ciña for liuing idlie among them None durst presume to go into the streetes but hee carried some token in his hande what kinde of life or studie hee followed which if in these times it were in force how many streete walkers woulde retire themselues to some vertuous studies But me thinke I heare some saie Ars longa vita brevis I answere them with the Thebane Philosopher which in the 75. Olympiade came to the solemne sports kept about the citie Olympia in honor of Iupiter who had made all the apparell he ware with his owne hands his shooes he had sowed his shirt he had wouen c. being demanded where he had learned so manie mens arts answered In the beginning there was but one arte at all that the sloth of men had caused that one to be diuided into many and how euerie particular man with diligence and labour might obtaine to the knowledge of that that all men in generall had knowledge of Pythagoras To this purpose Pythagoras said He that knoweth not what he ought to know is a brute beast among men He that knoweth no more then he hath need of is a man among brute beasts He that knoweth al that may be knowen is a God among men So many examples present themselues that rather time would faile then matter herein for that my case standeth now rather to demand remedie and not giue counsell or to giue thankes for good turnes receiued and not prescribe precepts I thinke good briefely and plainely to shew vnto you how hauing founde my selfe beholding to some of you whom I had read vnto in the toongs I thought nothing could better agree with my profession as to shewe my gratefull minde towards you then by labouring for your ease in these instructions of the Spanish toong which if they be thankefully receiued I shall thinke my labour well imploied Yet before I coulde make an ende of this and the Dictionarie I did as Robertus Stephanus saith of himselfe in gathering togither his Dictionaries called Thesaurus linguae Graecae Latinae I haue made Thesaurum that is a Treasure for others but thereby haue made my selfe a bagger whereof some of the right vertuous and woorthie gentlemen of that your house to whom I am most beholding and therefore stande most in affection bounde vnderstanding wished me to goe forewarde in so good a woorke and not to giue ouer for some wants which then of themselues they supplied whose good kindnes if I forget I wish the law of Draco which was to punish with death if there were any found so vnthankfull as not to requite a good turne or at least to forbeare to acknowledge his benefactors for the same might be inflicted on me for there