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
A14779	Albions England Or historicall map of the same island: prosecuted from the liues, actes, and labors of Saturne, Iupiter, Hercules, and Æneas: originalles of the Brutons, and English-men, and occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion. Continuing the same historie vnto the tribute to the Romaines, entrie of the Saxones, inuasion by the Danes, and conquest by the Normaines. With historicall intermixtures, inuention, and varietie: proffitably, briefly, and pleasantly, performed in verse and prose by William Warner.; Albions England. Book 1-4	Warner, William, 1558?-1609.	1586 (1586)	STC 25079; ESTC S111586	85,079	130

ALBIONS England Or Historicall Map of the same Island prosecuted from the liues Actes and Labors of Saturne Iupiter Hercules and AEneas Originalles of the Brutons and English-men and Occasion of the Brutons their first aryuall in Albion Continuing the same Historie vnto the Tribute to the Romaines Entrie of the Saxones Inuasion by the Danes and Conquest by the Normaines With Historicall Intermixtures Inuention and Varietie proffitably briefly and pleasantly performed in Verse and Prose by William Warner Imprinted at London by George Robinson for Thomas Cadman dwelling at the great North-doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Byble To the right Honorable my very good Lord and Maister Henrie Carey Barron of Hunsdon Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter Lord Chamberlane of her Maiesties most Honorable Houshold Lord Gouernour of Barwicke Lord Warden of the East Marches for and anempst Scotland Lord Lieftennant of Suffolke and Norfolke Captaine of her Maiesties Gentlemen Pensioners and one of her Highnes most Honorable Priuie Councell THis our whole Iland aunchiantly called Brutaine but more anchiantly Albion presently contaynyng two Kingdomes ENGLAND and SCOTLAND is cause right Honorable that to distinguish the former whose only Occurrants J abridge from the other remote from our Historie I intitell this my Booke ALBIONS ENGLAND A Subiect in troth if self conceit worke not a partiall Iudge worthie your Honorable Patronage Howbeit basely passed vnder so badd an Aucthor But for great Parsonages gratfully to intertaine the good willes of bad workmen is answerable to themselues and animating to feeble Artistes I therefore secure of your Honors Clemencie and herein not vnlike to Phaoton who at the first did fearfully admier euen the Pallas of Phoebus but anon feareles aduenture euen the presence of Phoebus hauing dedicated a former Booke to him that from your Honor deriueth his Birth now secondly present the like to your Lordshippe with so much the lesse doubt and so much to more duetie by how much the more J esteeme this my latter labour of more valewe and omitting your high Tytelles J owe and your Lordship expecteth espetiall duetie at the hands of your Seruaunt And thus right Honorable hoping better then J can performe and yet fearing lesser then J may offend desirous to please despret of praise and destitute of a better Present J make tender only of good will more J haue not for your Honors good worde lesse J hope not Your Lordships most duetifull and humble Seruant W. Warner To the Reader WEll knowe I that Pearles low-prised in India are precious in England that euen Homer was slightly aucthorised in Greece but singularly admyred els-wheare and that for the most part the best Authors find at home their worst Auditors how beit whatsoeuer Writor is most famous the same is therefore indebted to his natiue Language Neither preferre I aboue three speeches before ours for more sententious Onely this error may be thought hatching in our English that to runne on the Letter we often runne from the Matter and being ouer prodigall in Similies wee become lesse profitable in Sentences and more prolixtious to Sence Written haue I alreadie in Prose allowed of some and now friendly Reader offer I Verse and Prose attending thine indifferent Censure In which if grosely I fayle as not greatly I so feare in Veritie Breuitie Inuention and Varietie profitable patheticall pithie and pleasant so farre of shall I be from being oppynionat of myne owne labours that my selfe will also subscribe to prescribe the same for obsurd and erronious But in vayne is it either to intreat or feare the curtious or captious the one will not cauell nor the other be reconscyled My labor is past and your liking to come and thinges hardly founded may easely be confounded Arrogancie is Lynx-eyed into aduantage Enuie capiable of the least error and inconsiderat and selfe conceipted Readers to detract from other mens Trauailes deale as did sacraligious Denys in the Heathen Temples who to stripp the Idolles of their golden Ornaments alledging the same for Sommer to hot and for Winter to colde so inriched himself and robbed the Sainct But such are good minds and the Contraries of these men in reading of Bookes as were the Paganes in reuerencing their Gods sacrafising as deuoutly to a woodden Jupiter as to a golden Jupiter to an Oxe a Cat or vnreuerent Pryapus as to the Sunne the Starres or amiable Venus deuotion and discretion being euermore senceles in ditraction Of the latter sorte therfore I craue pardon presupposing their patience to the former presupposing impatience I offer pardon resting to either and to you all in good will such as I should Yours W. W. ALBIONS ENGLAND ¶ The first Booke of ALBIONS England CHAP. I. I Tell of things done long agoe of manie thinges in few And chieflie of this Elyme of ours the Accidents pursue Thou high Director of the same assist my Artlesse pen To write the gests of Brutons stoute and acts of Englishmen When arked Noah and seuen with him the emptie worldes remain Had left the instrumentall meane that landed them againe And that both man and beast and all did multiplie with store To Asia Sem to Affricke Cham to Europe Iapheth bore Their Families Thus triple wise the worlde deuided was one language common vnto all vntill it came to passe That Nembroth sonne to Chus the sonne of Cham olde Noah his sonne In Chaldia neuer seene vefore an Empire had begunne· As hée and his audatious crewe the Tower of Babell reare Pretending it should checke the cloudes so to auoide the feare Of following flooddes the Creator of creatures beheld The climing tops of cloud-high Towers and more to bée fulfilde To cut of which ambitious plot and quash their proude intent Amongst a worlde of people there hee sundrie spéeches sent So that vnable to conferre about the worke they went The Tower was left vnfinished and euerie man withdrewe Himselfe apart to ioine with those whose language best hée knew And thus confused tongues at first to euerie nation grewe THE Babylonian Saturne though his buildings speede was bad Yet found the meanes that vnder him hée manie nations had Hée was the first that rul'd as king or forraine landes subdude Or went about into the right of others to intrude Ere this aspiring mindes did sléepe and wealth was not pursude His sonne Ioue Belus after him succeeded hée puruaide For dreadfull warres but aw●esse death his dreadfull purpose staide Then Ninus prosecutes the warres preuented Belus sought And filde the wronged world with armes and to subiection brought Much people yet not capable of such his nouile fight From Caldia to Assyrea he translates the Empier quite And caused fire on horses backs before him euer borne To be adorned for a God Thus out of vse was worne In Caldia and Assyria to the honour rightly due To high Iehoua God indéed Idolatrie thus grewe From Ninus first he first of al a Monarchie did frame And built in