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
A18763	A sad and solemne funerall, of the right Honorable sir Francis Knowles knight, treasorer of the Queenes Maiesties houshold, one of hir priuie councell, and knight of the most honorable order of the Garter. VVritten by Thomas Churchyard Esquier	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1596 (1596)	STC 5254; ESTC S105059	3,029	10

A sad and solemne FVNERALL of the right Honorable sir FRANCIS KNOWLES knight treasorer of the Queenes Maiesties houshold one of hir priuie councell and knight of the most honorable order of the Garter Written by Thomas Churchyard Esquier Imprinted at London by Ar. Hatfield for William Holme 1596. To the right honorable my very good Lord the Lord DELAWARE Thomas Churchyard wisheth much worldly honor and happines with heauenly grace and great desired felicitie MY good Lord I looked for better motions to write off but mooued with worse causes than either I thought to treate on or see followes matter presently ministred of heauines sorrow mourning fit for my aged yeers to thinke on but vnapt for your honorable eares to heare of notwithstāding the strange euents that time produceth and all ages do offer with the woonderfull workes of the Lord my muse and pen is compelled to write that I wish not and follow the course of hard destinies that often comes without welcome and are to be obeyed because they bring no remedie with them The liues of good men are gladsome to heare of but the death of euery one in generall is heauy to behold first for the losse of friends for the affection we beare them for the want of those we can not call againe whatsoeuer neede requireth their presence nor beare eeuenly the losse of such as we are bounde to fauor when death takes them hence and life denies them any longer continuance on earth my good Lord your noble father who fauored me much and my Lord Chamberlaine that loued me not a little whose troth and woorthines I am too meane to write of sturs vp my spirits that in a maner drowpeth to honor the names of those that were woorthies in our age and shew in verse that men of value and laudation should be alwaies honored in the best sort we can deuise Thus waying the sudden departures of diuers woorthie men in their calling and vocation some famous and learned Bishops some renowmed Captaines and couragious Leaders and some most honorable Personages Gouernours of our state taken all away together in one yeere I not onely lament soe great a losse but in the number rehersed haue founde out one among the cheife an honorable Knight I knew for many parts well abled in goodnes to be written of to the vttermost of my inuentions and skill thinking my selfe fortunate to set foorth the vnstained life of so happie a Councellor but my great loue to him presumsion and forwardnes to enrowle his name among a multitude makes me passe the bonds of ordinary duty and freely vtter the opinion conceiued of his vertues which neither pen can amplely pronounce nor writer may easily set out God grant the curious wits of the world stand as well pleased with my pains as your L. I dout not is glad to heare your worthy father in law praised then I account my labor well bestowed and so take leaue wishing your Lordship long life and blessednes with double increase of vertue and honor COld grue the yeere dym waxt both clouds and Sun The somers pride shronke vp with showers of rain The birds flue home the sheepe to fold did run Men tooke the house and beasts forsooke the plain Ech thing fled fast from fearfull thunder crack Doems day was come yong baebs and maydens thoght Gods threatning wrath said all should go to wrack None should be sau'd saue those that Christ hath boght When I stept vp and peeping out apace Hard rufull newes and many a heauy cace In one yeers course died many men of marke Some of the Church both learned wise and graue Whose books may not be buryd in the darke Because their liues a crowne of glory craue Some MARS his sons whose saruice witnes beares Their minds were great and brought great things to pas For whose great want wise world may shed some teares When need coms on to trie good gold from glas Some sat to iudge like Senats in their seat Now lyes full lowe the losse of whom is great If one yeers wrack makes all these sorrowes ries As one sore plaeg makes thousands waile and weepe Then must we all stand pleasd with angry skies And kis the earth wherein our Fathers sleepe Three sorts of men are quickly crept away Like twinkling stars that shoot from clouds in haest Seemd fresh and faire like flowrs loe heer to day To morrow dead woorth noght like weeds lies waest Wisdom and woorth that wold aspire and clyme Are but a puffe and bubble for a time But yet good knight the lamp and torch of troeth Sir FRANCIS KNOWLES I can not so forget Thogh corse to church and soule to heauen goeth And body needs must pay the earth his det Good will of men shall wait vpon thy toem And Fame hir selfe thy funerall shall make And register thy name till day of doem In booke of life for thy great vertues sake Thy friends shall mourne not with long clokes of black But with sad looks of doell behinde thy back The Prince and court shall mys thee many wayes Thy honest life shall lead vs all the dance Thy faithfull men whose fortune thou didst rayes Shall daily bles thy bones for their good chance Thy sons shall learn the fathers steps to tread Thy kyn shall ioy that they are of thy blood The learned sort in Cronikels shall read Of thy great race great things shall do them good Thy neighbors now in court in feeld and towne VVith trumpet shrill shall sound thy true renowne The Lords and Knights that at thy table fed And all good ghests that thither did repaire Shall honor thee and thine thogh thou be dead Make of thy praise an ecco in the aire Yea drom and fyfe and all the marshall crue In warlyke gyes shall wait vpon thy hers Fine wryters too and lawreat poets nue On thy farewell shall pen out many a vers And garlands gaie shall vestall virgins fling On thy cold graue whiles clampring bels do ring Chaest life wins lawd clean thoghts throw clouds doth mount True hart gains friends and makes proud enimies blush Plain dealing still coms quickly to account In shocking world good minde abides the push VVho stands vpright feares neither foile nor fall VVho fears God well and Princes lawe obaies Is happy heer and hence most blest of all Liues like a saint and gains immortall praies These vertues rare did blaze like star in thee VVith greater gifts in best and highest degree The day of death shoes what the life hath byn As apples sweet tels what the tree is woorth The last adue doth greatest credit wyn If it be good and brings good matter foorth The knitting vp of all things prooueth best The date of man in ballance so is waid Life death and all on good report doth rest VVhere safely from all storms good name is staid Possesse with grace that place and ancker hold More woorth in price than precious pearle or gold Thus now I hope in blessed Abrams brest VVhere angels sing sweet hyms and neuer cease Before Gods throne sir FRANCIS KNOWLS doth rest From labors all and liues in endles peace And all the soules that heer before I name Both great deuines and captaines in this land And counsellors of highest place and fame In presence now of great IEHOVA stand My hope is such and so will follow fast The steps to death and path that they haue past FINIS ●n the com●asse of one ●eere there ●ied of the ●leargy of the ●ars and honorable councellers so many Byshops Captaines and Gouernours whose names follow heerafter Bishop of London D. Fletcher Bishop of Winchester Bishop of Chichester D. Bycklie Bishop of Chester D. Bylly● D. Whittakers Master of S. Iohns in Cambridge Captaines Sir Martyn Furbyshar Sir Roger Williams Sir T. M●rgan Sir Fr. Drake Sir I. Hawkins Sir N. Clifford The Earle Huntingto The Lord Delaware Honorable Councelle Sir T. Hennage Sir I. Woll● Sir I. Puckring L. Kee● Sir Francis Knowles The L. Ch●●berlaine