Selected quad for the lemma: master_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
master_n	duke_n	earl_n	lord_n	7,136	5	5.1513	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13439	Divers crabtree lectures Expressing the severall languages that shrews read to their husbands, either at morning, noone, or night. With a pleasant relation of a shrewes Munday, and shrewes Tuesday, and why they were so called. Also a lecture betweene a pedler and his wife in the canting language. With a new tricke to tame a shrew.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1639 (1639)	STC 23747; ESTC S113015	41,576	242

presently shew him a new tricke for his Learning The simple Novice desirous of novelty beganne more calmly to listen to her and asked her what it was who readily answered againe Sweete Husband you see this Pancake I am now turning marke it well now take this platter in your hand and goe into the yard bending with your Backe against the doore looking straight forward not stirring from where I shall place you and when it is ready I will tosse it from the fire out of the toppe of the Chimney it shall fall directly into your dish and bee ready at the watch-word when I shall say Now. The silly man thinking shee had spoke seriously was soone perswaded and kept his place with his face from the doore stil● looking upwards towards the toppe of the Chimney when it would first flye out and after fall when she having given the watch-word came suddenly behinde him with the pan and all clapt the Pancake upon his head with a blow which had almost strooke him downe and to excuse her selfe said thus O Husband if your blocke head had not beene in the way the Pan-cake that light upon your pate had falne into the dish and I fearing what is now falne out thought to have catcht it in the panne if you had faild in the platter At which words the husband rubbing his Browes well basted with the fat of the Panne said unto her Now a mischiefe take thee for an arrant Shrew this wil make me think on this Shrewes Munday for thy sake whilst I live and from thence it is thought the day had its first denomination And without question upon the like accident done by some curst Shrew or other came the next day following to bee cald Shrewes Tuesday so weeping Wednesday terrible Thursday frowning Friday and sullen Saturday especially when her husband denyes her to goe amongst her Gossips on Sunday Hence comes it also that if any one hath crost another in a businesse or done him a bad Office which mny prove to his dammage or hinderance the phrase that is still most in custome is to say that such or such a man did purpose or hath done me a shrewd turne And now followes severall Shrewes Lectures to their Husbands and in their severall professions First of an Apothecaries wife to her Husband because he deales in Simples and hath taken upon him the Office of a Scavenger A Lecture of an Apothecacaries wife to her Husband who is chosen a Scavenger in his Parish NOW Good-man Simpleton we shall have you grow so proud now you have got an office that you thinke none is good enough to bee your fellow I had thought your owne imployment in your profession had beene trouble enough to you and not to have sought for an Office and made friends for it likewise Now I see you are troubled with the Simples you had not need to goe a simpling every yeare as you doe God knowes you have so little wit already I would you would goe the next time get some Compounds to furnish your seife with to concoct your Brains for you have now but a shallow wit and are glad to weare a Sattin Cappe to keepe that in too you had need keepe home and learn to know something more in your profession than what is already printed in bookes When any one of your acquaintance is not well and desires your advice then you can prescribe them nothing but a little Stybium then when another comes Stybium this is all you can doe onely a little Stybium Goe thou art a stupified Asse and knowes better how to purge thy Patients money out of his pocket than to remove any disease from his body you wil come to them and aske them how they doe this is all and bid them be of comfort when there is a great deale of danger and pretend to feele their pulse when your minde is to filtch their purse I would there were a meanes how to have your Braines taken out and braid in a Morter that they may bee a little better compounded for as they be thou wilt never be able to discharge thy brave Office asse thou calst it of a Scavenger for thou canst not cast up any accompt nor reckon up any summe above twenty shillings I hope thou wilt lose by it and ever after be jeered for thy folly you imagine your selfe a brave fellow doe you not because you are met by some who knowes you with a money bagge in the one hand and a Rowle of the parishioners names in the other you thinke your selfe not a little graced to bee called to this preferment because you would be taken notice of in the Parish and now you have got a great many of Titles by your Office the better to honour your person withall and these are some of them which your memory cannot beare first you are Duke of the Dung-Cart then Earle of the Channell Lord of the Soyle Vicount Rubbish Commander of the Sea-coale Ashes and Master of the Dung-hill a goodly company are they not It is no marvaile indeede you must make you a new suite of Apparrell to performe this Office in and to goe up and downe the street and from doore to doore to gather your money in as if you were to beg an Almes and goe twice or thrice before you can be paid your due you had better never had served this base stinking office and have given so much money out of your purse because you loose so much time and likewise is in danger of every raskally knave or promouters complaint to one Justice or other if a little durt bee left unlesse you give them a Fee as you often have done to hold their tongues or else you will bee clapped by the heeles a day and a night and this is all the good you will get by your great Office Husb. I prethee good wife have patience it is but a little while longer I have served it hitherto with commendations I hope I shal come off with credit though it be a little time lost and money spent I will get it up againe for that is the first Office that every man must serve and so by degrees come higher and higher and at length to be Church-warden and then let me alone to helpe my selfe for all my losse of time and expence of money I will then beg hard for the poore but charitie begins at home it is but when I receive money from the others that collect it be a little close fisted or hold it betweene my fingers with the palme of my hand down-wards and make as though I had a louse in my necke and shrug a little of one side and then of the other and so thrust it downe into my necke where I have a list of cloath about my waste that it cannot fall downe or drop out let me alone I will be cunning enough for them I will warrant you and though thou count me but a shallow