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
A07832	New English Canaan, or New Canaan containing an abstract of New England, composed in three bookes : the first booke setting forth the originall of the natives, their manners and customes, together with their tractable nature and love towards the English : the second booke setting forth the naturall indowments of the countrie, and what staple commodities it yeeldeth : the third booke setting forth what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their tenents, and practise of their church / written by Thomas Morton ...	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.	1637 (1637)	STC 18203; ESTC S455	99,493	200

NEW ENGLISH CANAAN OR NEW CANAAN Containing an Abstract of New England Composed in three Bookes The first Booke setting forth the originall of the Natives their Manners and Customes together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English The second Booke setting forth the naturall Indowments of the Countrie and what staple Commodities it yeeldeth The third Booke setting forth what people are planted there their prosperity what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it together with their Tenents and practise of their Church Written by THOMAS MORTON of Cliffords Inne Gent upon ten yeeres knowledge and experiment of the Countrie Printed for Charles Greene and are sold in Pauls Church-yard To the right honorable the Lords and others of his Majesties most honorable privy Councell Commissioners for the Government of all his Majesties forraigne Provinces Right honourable THe zeale which I beare to the advauncement of the glory of God the honor of his Majesty and the good of the weale publike hath incouraged mee to compose this abstract being the modell of a Rich hopefull and very beautifull Country worthy the Title of Natures Master-peece and may be lost by too much sufferance It is but a widowes mite yet all that wrong and rapine hath left mee to bring from thence where I have indevoured my best bound by my allegeance to doe his Majesty service This in all humility I present as an offering wherewith I prostrate my selfe at your honorable footstoole If you please to vouchsafe it may receave a blessing from the Luster of your gracious Beames you shall make your vassaile happy in that hee yet doth live to shew how ready hee is and alwayes hath bin to sacrifice his dearest blood as becometh a loyall subject for the honor of his native Country Being your honors humble vassaile THOMAS MORTON The Epistle to the Reader GENTLE READER I Present to the publike view an abstract of new England which I have undertaken to compose by the incouragment of such genious spirits as have been studious of the inlargment of his Majesties Territories being not formerly satisfied by the relations of such as through haste have taken but a superficiall survey thereof which thing time hath enabled mee to performe more punctually to the life and to give a more exact accompt of what hath been required I have therefore beene willing to doe my indevoure to communicat the knowledge which I have gained and collected together by mine owne observation in the time of my many yeares residence in those parts to my loving Country men For the better information of all such as are desirous to be made partakers of the blessings of God in that fertile Soyle as well as those that out of Curiosity onely have bin inquisitive after nouelties And the rather for that I have observed how divers persons not so well affected to the weale publike in mine opinion out of respect to their owne private ends have laboured to keepe both the practise of the people there and the Reall worth of that eminent Country concealed from publike knowledge both which I have abundantly in this discourse layd open yet if it be well accepted I shall esteeme my selfe sufficiently rewardded for my undertaking and rest Your Wellwisher THOMAS MORTON In laudem Authoris T ' Excuse the Author ere the worke be shewne Is accusation in it selfe alone And to commend him might seeme oversight So divers are th' opinions of this age So quick and apt to taxe the moderne stage That hard his taske is that must please in all Example have wee from great Caesars fall But is the sonne to be dislik'd and blam'd Because the mole is of his face asham'd The fault is in the beast not in the sonne Give sicke mouthes sweete meates fy they relish none But to the sound in censure he commends His love unto his Country his true ends To modell out a Land of so much worth As untill now noe traveller seth forth Faire Canaans second selfe second to none Natures rich Magazine till now unknowne Then here survay what nature hath in store And graunt him love for this he craves no more R. O. Gen. Sir Christoffer Gardiner Knight In laudem Authoris THis worke a matchles mirror is that shewes The Humors of the seperatiste and those So truely personated by thy pen I was amaz'd to see 't herein all men May plainely see as in an inter-lude Each actor figure and the scaene well view'd In Connick Tragick and in a pastorall stife For tyth of muit and Cummin shewes their life Nothing but opposition gainst the right Of sacred Majestie men full of spight Goodnes abuseing turning vertue out Of Dores to whipping stocking and full bent To plotting mischiefe gainst the innocent Burning their houses as if ordained by fate In spight of Lawe to be made ruinate This taske is well perform'd and patience be Thy present comfort and thy constancy Thine honor and this glasse where it shall come Shall sing thy praises till the day of doome Sir C. G. In laudem Authoris BVt that I rather pitty I confesse The practise of their Church I could expresse My selfe a Satyrist whose smarting fanges Should strike it with a palsy and the panges Beget a feare to tempt the Majesty Of those or mortall Gods will they defie The Thundering Jove like children they desire Such is their zeale to sport themselves with fire So have I seene an angry Fly presume To strike a burning taper and consume His feeble wings why in an aire so milde And they so monstrous growne up and so vilde That Salvages can of themselves espy Their errors brand their names with infamy What is their zeale for blood like Cyrus thirst Will they be over head and eares a curst A cruell way to found a Church on noe T' is not their zeale but fury blinds them soe And pricks their malice on like fier to joyne And offer up the sacrifice of Kain Jonas thou hast done well to call these men Home to repentance with thy painefull pen. F. C. Armiger NEW ENGLISH CANAAN OR NEW CANAAN The Authors Prologue IF art industry should doe as much As Nature hath for Canaan not such Another place for benefit and rest In all the universe can be possest The more we proove it by discovery The more delight each object to the eye Procures as if the elements had here Bin reconcil'd and pleas'd it should appeare Like a faire virgin longing to be sped And meete her lover in a Nuptiall bed Deck'd in rich ornaments t' advaunce he state And excellence being most fortunate When most enjoy'd so would our Canaan b● womb If well imploy'd by art industry Whose ofspring now shewes that her fruitfu● Not being enjoy'd is like a glorious tombe Admired things producing which there dy● And ly fast bound in darck obscurity The worth of which in each particuler Who lift to know this abstract will declare NEW ENGLISH CANAAN OR NEW CANAAN