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
A16963	Teares of ioy shed at the happy departure from Great Britaine, of the two paragons of the Christian world. Fredericke and Elizabeth, Prince, and Princesse Palatines of Rhine Duke and Dutches of Bauaria, &c. By R.A.	Allyne, Robert.	1613 (1613)	STC 385; ESTC S117998	4,125	12

TEARES OF IOY SHED At the happy departure from Great Britaine of the two Paragons of the Christian world FREDERICKE and ELIZABETH Prince and Princesse Palatines of Rhine Duke and Dutches of Bauaria c. By R. A. Iam redit virgo redeunt Saturnia regna LONDON Printed for Thomas Archer and are to be sold at his shop in the Popes-head-pallace neere the Royall Exchange 1613. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SIR THOMAS ERSKENE LORD VICOVNT FENTON Baron of Dirrilton Captaine of his Maiesties Guards Gentleman of his Highnesse Bed-chamber and one of his Maiesties most Honorable Priuie Councell c. MY heart abhorres vngratefulnesse as hell Yet how to cleere my selfe I cannot tell I do not plow the fertile plaines of Inde Whose fruitfull gifts may match the giuers mind I reape no haruest from rich Arabian fields Nor drinke the golden streames that Ganges yeelds My greatest gift hath nothing to commend it Except the giuers gratefull mind that send it The least in meanes but not the last in loue If equall power could poore goodwill approue Which if your honor do but rightly weigh A gratefull mind is more then gold can buy In signe whereof my simple Muse affoords A worthy subiect drawne in worthlesse words A base-borne sister to the sacred Nine Which neuer yet did taste Castalian wine Nor sund her selfe vpon Parnassus side But liu'd obscurely on the banke of Clide A flood beyond Permessis streames in pleasures But vnacquainted with the Muses measures The field from whence these fruitles gifts do flow But new broke vp in time may riper grow Which if it do if by excesse of toile This barren field may turne a fertile soile Vnto your Honor though their vse be small I le consecrate the field the fruit and all Which once I wish may yeeld some greater worth Or still be barren and bring nothing forth Meane time take this not as the totall sum But as the interest of the rest to come Your Honours Most obsequious seruant Robert Allyne Teares of loy SHall Brittaine then forgo her other eye And lend her rarest gemme t' enrich the Rhine This spatious Ile though all too straight for three Yet large enough wherein two lampes may shine Why then thogh heauens haue rob'd vs of the best Shall distant roomes diuide the two that rest If nearnesse of the one make both obscurer Can distance adde more brightnesse then before Is vertue by it selfe sequestred purer Then when obumbrate by anothers glore O sure it is Nor can this Northerne clime Sustaine two Sunnes together at one time This little world within it selfe confin'd Which Neptune from the greater world diuides Whose lampes gaue light beyond remotest Inde Must now diuide them with the world besides And that which late enioyd three lampes alone Now rob'd of two must be content of one Go then great Phebe one halfe of our hope And lend a new light to an antient land A light that neither raging seas can stop Nor Tagus quench nor Tibers streames withstand A light a starre a fire that shall consume And dim th' adulterate light of Spanish Rome Feare not worse fortune in a forren part Or losse of parents sight or lacke of friends With one that caries more then halfe thy heart Whose breath or death vpon thy loue depends And one that glories more in being thine Then being great commander of the Rhine Behold a mighty land a martiall soile Whom Caesar had so much ado to dant And to contain in duty of whose spoile Victorious Rome had little cause to vant To thee great Dame do greater homage yeeld Then Caesar could enforce in armed field The soile it selfe a fertile glebe of ground Where golden Zephire pleasant aire inspires Where grasse and graine and Bacchus gifts abound And all that nature needs or vse requires Where christal brooks mettall-sheering strands Infect their siluer streames with golden sands The fields no lesse delightfull there then here The plaines irriguat with another Thames A riuer no lesse delicate and cleere Deriuing from the steepie Alpes his streames Adorn'd with spatious parkes in pleasant rankes And many Londons built vpon his bankes A thousand tributary torrents falles And in his bossome buries all their state Who like a masse made vp of many smalles Obscures their memories that made him great By whose augmenting helpe growne monstrous huge He braues the Ocean with a fresh deluge Right ouer and against where stately Thames Disburdens in the maine his borrowed grouth There changing both their natures and their names Each hath a prospect to the others mouth That if a way lay through the boundlesse brine The English Thames shold touch the Germain Rhine And sure it seemes the gentle fauouring waues Haue yeelded passage to these friendly floods While winds retiring in their trembling caues Did leaue calme seas to welcome Neptunes broods And father Ocean himselfe consented To haue his mighty sonnes made more acquainted Where after some short parly past betweene They both did sweare a solemne league of loue A league that shall not end till Thames and Rhine Leaue off to run or heauenly orbes to moue And as they sware that so they meant to do The Water-nymphes were witnesses vnto But least succeeding ages might aledge Some friuole reasons to infringe their oath Each did confirme the friendship with a pledge Two rarest Iewels that adorn'd them both And for more surety 't was agreed vpon That both the Iewels were conioin'd in one In whom and in their sacred seed for euer That louing league shall vndissolued stand Which times nor fates nor death cannot disseuer Nor all the force of hels confederate band Whose date but new begun shall ne're expire Till first this three-fold frame dissolue in fire Let Tiber Iber Rodanus and Seine Let Tygris Tanais Euphrates and Nile Despise the heauen-bread-peace of Thames and Reine In whose proud eyes these precious gems seeme vile From these vnited flouds shall spring a flower To ruine Tibers pride and Ibers power Let Ganges glory in his golden sands Pactolus spread his streames in stately rankes Let Indus lend his name to neigbouring lands And throe despised pearles vpon his bankes In your vnequal'd worths O peerelesse paire The Thames and Rhine are rich aboue compare Nor thou O Forthe must be exempt in this Whose merite equals either of the two From thee proceeds the ground of both their blisse Thou bred these Gemmes that Thames enioyeth now These lights these stars that now adorne the earth To thee do owe their bloud their breath their birth Ioyne with the two and make the number three Three famous flouds as earth cannot yeeld such That so in number yee may equall be To those three Lampes that grac'd you once so much To whom since one hath changed earth for heauen One more succeeds to make the number euen Our Henry-Fredricke lies in timelesse toome Whose double name exprest not halfe his worth A Fredricke in his losse supplies his roome And