Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	knight_n	sir_n	viscount_n	16,070	5	12.0091	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20696	A musicall banquet Furnished with varietie of delicious ayres, collected out of the best authors in English, French, Spanish and Italian. By Robert Douland.	Dowland, Robert, ca. 1586-1641.	1610 (1610)	STC 7099; ESTC S121703	8,286	50

A MVSICALL BANQVET Furnished with varietie of delicious Ayres Collected out of the best Authors in English French Spanish and Italian By Robert Douland LONDON Printed for Thomas Adams 1610. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE SYR ROBERT SYDNEY KNIGHT Lord Gouernour of Vlissigen and the Castle of Ramekins Lord SYDNEY of Penshurst Viscount Lisle and Lord Chamberlaine to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie RIGHT Honourable Lord Since my best abilitie is not able in the least manner to counteruaile that dutie J owe vnto your Lordship for two great respects the one in regard your Lordship vndertaking for mee J was made a member of the Church of Christ and withall receiued from you my name the other the loue that you beare to all excellency and good learning which seemeth haereditarie aboue others to the Noble Familie of the Sydneys and especially to this excellent Science of Musicke a skill from all antiquity entertayned with the most Noble generous dispositions May it please your Honour therefore to accept these few and my first labours as a poore pledge of that zeale and dutie which J shall euer owe vnto your Honour vntill time shall enable me to effect something more worthy of your Lordships view hauing no other thing saue these few sheetes of Paper to present the same withall To your Honour in all dutie most deuoted Robert Douland TO THE READER GENTLEMEN Finding my selfe not deceiued in the hope I had of your kinde entertayning my collected Lute-lessons which I lately set foorth I am further encouraged to publish vnto your censures these AYRES being collected and gathered out of the labours of the rarest and most iudicious Maisters of Musick that either now are or haue lately liued in Christendome whereof some I haue purposely sorted to the capacitie of young practioners the rest by degrees are of greater depth and skill so that like a carefull Confectionary as neere as might be I haue fitted my Banquet for all tastes if happily I shall be distasted by any let them know what is brought vnto them is drest after the English French Spanish and Italian manner the assay is taken before they shall not need to feare poysoning You Gentlemen and friends that come in good-will and not as Promooters into a country Market to call our viands into question whatsoeuer here is much good may it doe you I would it were better for you for the rest I wish their lips such Lettuce as Silenus Asse or their owne harts would desire Thine Robert Douland Ad Robertum Doulandum Ioannis filium de Musico suo conuiuio ERgonè diuini genitoris plectra resumis Reddat vt attonitos iterum tua Musa Britannos Vt nimia totum rapias dulcedine mundum DOVLANDI resonet nomen nemus omne superbam Quà mundi dominam vaga TIBRIDIS alluit vnda Littora quà rutilis verrit Pactolus arenis Aut sese immiscet glaciali Vistula ponto Vincere quem nequeat LINVS nec Thracius ORPHEVS Credo equidem vt nostras demulceat Entheus aures Somnio Threicidum voces murmura coeli Antiquosque modos rediuiuaque Dorica castra Illius vt vario cantillet gutture Musa Macte animo ROBERTE tuo charique parentis Pergito candorem moresque imitarier artes Auspicijsque bonis celebret te fama per orbem Funera post Patris Phoenixque renascitor alter Henricus Peachamus The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Lisle Lord Chamberlaine to the Queenes most excellent Maiestie his Galliard I. The Right Honourable George Earle of Cumberland CANTVS MY heauie sprite opprest with sorrowes might Of wearied limbs the burthen soare su-staines With silent grones With silent grones and harts teares still complaines Yet I breath still and liue in lifes des-pight Haue I lost thee All fortunes I ac curse bids thee fare-well with thee all ioyes fare-well And for thy sake this world be-comes my hell And for thy sake this world be comes my hell I. BASSVS Anthony Holborne MY heauie sprite c. II. CANTVS The Right Honourable Robert Earle of Essex Earle Marshall of England CHange thy minde since she doth change Let not Fancy Thy vn truth can not seeme strange When her falshood still abuse thee Loue is dead and thou art free She doth liue but dead to thee doth excuse thee 2 Whilst she lou'd thee best a while See how she hath still delaid thee Vsing shewes for to beguile Those vaine hopes that haue deceiu'd thee Now thou seest although too late Loue loues truth which women hate 3 Loue no more since she is gone Shee is gone and loues another Being once deceiu'd by one Leaue her loue but loue none other She was false bid her adew She was best but yet vntrue 4 Loue farewell more deere to mee Then my life which thou preseruest Life all ioyes are gone from thee Others haue what thou deseruest Oh my death doth spring from hence I must dye for her offence 5 Dye but yet before thou dye Make her know what she hath gotten She in whom my hopes did lye Now is chang'd I quite forgotten She is chang'd but changed base Baser in so vilde a place II. BASSVS Richard Martin CHange thy minde since she doth change Let not Fancie still abuse thee Thy vn truth cannot sceme strange When her falsehood doth excuse thee Loue is dead and thou art free Shee doth liue but dead to thee III. CANTVS O Eyes leaue off your weeping Loue hath the thoughts in keeping That may con tent you Let not this miscon ceiuing Where comforts are receiuing Causles tor ment you Let c. 2 Cloudes threaten but a shower Hope hath his happy houre Though long in lasting Time needs must be attended Loue must not be offended With too much hasting 3 But O the painfull pleasure Where Loue attends the leasure Of liues wretchednesse Where Hope is but illusion And Feare is but confusion Of Loues happinesse 4 But happy Hope that seeth How Hope and Hap agreeth Of life depriue me Or let me be assured When life hath death endured Loue will reuiue me III. BASSVS Robert Hales Groome of her Maiesties Priuie Chamber O Eyes leaue off your weeping Loue hath the thoughts in keeping That may content you Let not this misconceiuing Where comforts are receiuing Causelesse torment you Let c. IIII. CANTVS Sir Phillip Sidney GOE my Flocke goe get you hence Seeke some other place of feeding Where you may haue some defence Fro the stormes in my breast breeding And showers from mine eyes proceeding 2 Leaue a wretch in whom all woe Can abide to keepe no measure Merry flocke such one forgoe Vnto whom Myrth is displeasure Onely rich in measures treasure 3 Yet alas before you goe Heare your wofull Maisters story Which to stones I else would shew Sorrow onely then hath glory When t is excellently sorry 4 Stella fayrest Shepherdesse Fayrest but yet cruelst euer Stella whom the heau'ns still blesse Though against me she perseuer Though I blisse inherit neuer 5