Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	honourable_a	majesty_n	privy_a	10,396	5	9.6495	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04794	Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London	Kendall, Timothy, fl. 1577.	1577 (1577)	STC 14927; ESTC S107994	86,662	304

FLOVVERS OF EPIGRAMMES OVT OF sundrie the moste singular authours selected as well auncient as late writers Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie By Timothe Kendall late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford now student of Staple Inne in London Horatius Aut prodesse volunt aut delectare poetae Aut simul iucunda aut idonea dicere vitae IMPRINTED AT LONDON in Poules Churche-yarde at the signe of the Brasen Serpent by Ihon Shepperd 1577. ¶ The names of all suche Aucthors out of whom these Flowers are selected Names Folio ANgelus Politianus 38 Antonius Muretus 48 Ausonius 49 Andreas Dactius 54 Angerianus 57 Bruno 39 Buchananus Schotus 87 Cynthius Ioan. Baptista 40 Caelius Rhodiginus 55 Claudius Roselettus 85 Claudius Claudianus 86 Dardanius 35 Erasmus Roterodamus 47 Flowers out of certaine Greeke aucthours 60 Georgius Sabinus 55 Gasper Visinus 23 Gualterus Haddon 90 Hieronymus Balbus 46 Henricus Stephanus 87 Ioannes Baptista Pigna 94 Ioannes Secundus 58 Iouianus Pontanus 82 Iacobus Rogerius 86 Ioannes Parkhurst Norwicē 94 Martialis 2 ex eiusdem Xenijs 22 Nicolaus Bartholomeus 46 Pulix 1 Pictorius 26 Rogerus Ascham 111 Strosa 48 Textor 41 Theodorus Beza 70 Thomas Morus 76 T. Kendall 113 Vallambertus Aualon 59 FINIS To the right honourable the Lorde Robert Dudley Earle of Leycester Baron of Denbigh master of the Queenes Maiesties horse Knight of the noble order of the Garter ▪ cheefe Chaunceler of the Vniuersitie of Oxford and one of her highnes moste honourable priuie Counsell Timothe Kendall wisheth happy health with increase of honour THe honour of youre person Right honourable doth not so muche daunt mee vvith astonishment as the meruelous mildnesse of your courteous nature doeth minister incouragement to presume and perfourme the dedication of this my little labour to youre honours happie handes VVherein are to be seene the sundry deuises of diuers the best vvriters as vvell antique as neoterique of Epigrammes a proper kinde of studie doubtlesse as vvith pleasure so vvith profite in plentifull manner accompanied VVho knovveth not that youre honour is a speciall Patrone of learning and learned men accepting moste courteously their simple Poesies vvhose Garden plots are not so gaily garnished either vvith such plenty or such varietie as others be that haue more skill both to make choice of those flovvers that haue the svveeter and more fragrāt smell as also to pick out such as for their fairenes and comely chaūge of colour breede speciall loue liking in the eyes of the beholder This beeing vnto me an assured and also a sufficient incouragement I felt in my selfe the souden motions of mistrustfulnesse somevvhat appauled and the fier of confidence and hope kindlyng in mee in so muche that shaking off all manner cogitations of fond feare and bashfulnesse I yealded my vvill and my vvorke vvholy to bryng that to accomplishmēt vvhich I had purposed vppon a speciall opinion of your honours vvorthinesse conceiued trustyng that this my Manuell shall obteyne as good place in the dedication and as muche grace in the acceptation accordyng to the measure of the matter as the volumes of suche as haue discouered their skill in thinges of greater importaunce VVhich in hope it shall be as I vvish I ceasse any longer to molest youre Lordshippe vvith my vnpolished Epistle beseeching the almighty and the most highest to blesse you vvith health long life increase of honour and all flourishyng felicitie Your honours most humble alwayes to commaund Timothe Kendall To the courteous and frendly Reader Quo semel est imbuta recens seruabit odorem testa diu THE Verse of Horace the Poet right courteous reader which I my selfe by my selfe haue proued true for hauyng enured my selfe in my greene and growyng yeares to readyng of Poetrie an arte in my mynd and censure both princely and pleasant in riper yeares I could neither by faire meanes bee allured nor foule mines procured from embracyng thereof so greatly therewith was I linked in loue Wel might I beare and forbeare refraine and abstaine for a season but by and by in the turnyng of an hand with the tracyng ape should I breake the daunce and fall a scamblyng for Nuts Naturam expellas furca licet vsque recurrit And surely farre discrepant alwayes haue I beene from the opinion of those that deeme Poetrie to bryng nought else but onely a certaine naked and vaine delectation to the life of man whiche vnworthy and false accusation is well and wisely confuted of Strabo inueighyng against Eratosthenes who seemed to apply hymselfe to be a maintainer and defender of that false and impudent sclaunder wherefore of mee thereof needeth no refutation Now courteous reader if I should take in hand to pen and paynt foorth the praise of Poetrie and Poets inuentions I feare mee too long my labour would laste onely thus muche I dare boldly affirme that no where shalt thou finde profite and pleasure better linked together than in the worthy woorkes of prudent Poets For Flaccus sayeth Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit vtile dulci. The price and the praise he gaineth alone Who profit pleasure both knitteth in one Wherfore sundrie the most learned of all ages of all landes and languages haue bestowed no small labour in the moste laudable practise of Poetrie For example amonge the Italians Bembus Pontanus Flaminius Among the French men Borbonius Salmonius Muretus Among the Germans Eobānus Stigilius Sabinus Among the Scots Bucchananus whom Carolus Vtenhouius prettily praiseth in his distichon writyng thus in I Sanna H Francast A Flam. H Vid. A Nauger P Bemb Italos Mich Hosp. Adr Torneb Io Aurat Gallos Georg. Buchan Scotum Tres Italos Galli senos vicere sed vnum Vincere Scotigenam non valuere nouem Three Frenchmen did Italians six for learnyng great excell But from them all one Scot alone doth heare away the bell Now courteous reader of all sorts of Poems Poesies none mee thinketh are more pithie and pleasant than pretty shorte witty quicke and quippyng Epigrammes in the which kind of writyng Marcus Valerius Martialis is counted cheefly to excell Wherfore out of him as sundrie other most singular authors haue I translated and taken sundrie short propper pithie pleasant verses and Epigrammes for thy no little profite and great delectation marrie this I must let thee vnderstand that as well out of Martial as the rest I haue left the lewde I haue chosen the chaste I haue weeded away all wanton and woorthlesse woordes I haue pared away all pernicious patches I haue chipt chopt of all beastly boughes and brāches all filthy and fulsom phrases Which I thinke none will mutter at and mislike but suche as delight more to drawe of the dregs than drinke of the delicate liquour I do giue them vnto thee by the name of Flowers of Epigrāmes out of sundrie the most singular authours selected For the whiche if thou shalt thinke well of mee and thanke mee I shall God willyng