Selected quad for the lemma: order_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	face_n	file_n	midst_n	2,791	5	10.5663	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06473	London and the countrey carbonadoed and quartred into seuerall characters. By D. Lupton	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1632 (1632)	STC 16944; ESTC S108946	28,518	158

one anothers ground but as they are com manders so they must keep distance they seeme not affect Confusions for they all striue to keepe order ●is no maruell why Souldiers desire so to fight for they are alwayes in Diuisions You may know by their Marchinge where euer either the best Gentleman or the ancienest Souldier is plac'd for hee is euer in the Right before or Left behinde They are strange men for in tenne yards space of ground they can all turne their faces about there 's thought to bee no steadinesse in them for like Fortunes wheele they many times suddenly alter turne they are generally men of good Order and Ranke they then are at compleatest view when their length and breadth agree ten euery way They are most dislik'd when they are either out or off their Files They vse to put their worst Peices in the middest They seeme to bee suddenly angry for one word moues them all Obedience and Silence they must practise to doe as they are commanded and to harken vnto their charge A good Souldier must be like a true Maide seene but not heard Hee 's more for actions then words The City did well to prouide Mars a Garden as well as Venus an House No question but when these meete they will be at push of Pike and often discharge Before I leaue this honourable place I may speake this of it that 's excellent the oftner vs'd the best when 't is fullest and most Eminent Wisedome Courage Experience Policy bee the foure Coronels and the foure Regiments consist of Patience Obedience Valour and Constancy and their Colours Deo Regi Gregi Legi for God their King Law and Countrey flourishing all in the field of Honor and Victory 19. Bedlam HEere liue many that are cal'd men but seldome at home for they are gone out of themselues Nature hath bin a Steppemother to some and misery and crosses haue caused this strange change in others they seeme to liue here eyther to rectifie Nature or forget Miseries they are put to Learne that Lesson which many nay all that will be happy must learne to know and be acquainted with themselues this House would bee too little if all that are beside themselues should be put in here it seemes strange that any one shold recouer here the cryings screechings roarings brawlings shaking of chaines swearings frettings chaffings are so many so hideous so great that they are more able to driue a man that hath his witts rather out of them then to helpe one that neuer had them or hath lost them to finde them againe A Drunkard is madde for the present but a Madde man is drunke alwayes You shall scarce finde a place that hath so many men woemen so strangely altered either from what they once were or should haue beene The men are al like a Shippe that either wants a Sterne or a Steresman or Ballast they are all Heteroclites from Nature either hauing too much Wildnesse or being defectiue in Iudgment Here Art striues to mend or cure Natures imperfections and defects Certainely hee that keepes the House may be sayd to liue among wilde Creatures It 's thought many are kept here not so much in hope of recouery as to keepe them from further and more desperate Inconueniences Their Faculties and Powers of their Soules and Bodies being by an ill cause vitiated and depraued or defectiue The men may be said to be faire Instruments of Musicke but either they want strings or else though beeing strung are out of tune or otherwise want an expert Artist to order them Many liue here that know not where they are or how they got in neuer thinke of getting out there 's many that are so well or ill in their wits that they can say they haue bin out of them gaine much by dissembling in this kind desperate 〈◊〉 that dare make a mocke of iudgment well if the Diuell was not so strong to delude men so easily to be drawne this house would stand empty and for my part I am sorry it hath any in it 20. Play-houses TIme Place Subiect Actors and Cloathes either make or marr a play the Prologue and Epilogue are like to an Host and Hostesse one bidding their Guests welcome the other bidding them farwell the Actors are like Seruingmen that bring in the Sceanes and Acts as their Meate which are lik'd or dislik'd according to euery mans iudgment the neatest drest and fairest deliuered doth please most They are as crafty with an old play as Bauds with olde faces the one puts one a new fresh colour the other a new face and Name they practise a strange Order for most commonly the wisest man is the Foole They are much beholden to Schollers that are out of meanes for they sell them ware the cheapest they haue no great reason to loue Puritans for they hold their Calling vnlawfull New Playes and new Cloathes many times help bad actions they pray the Company that 's in to heare them patiently yet they would not suffer them to come in without payment they say as Schollers now vse to say there are so many that one Fox could find in his heart to eate his fellow A player often changes now he acts a Monarch tomorrow a Beggar now a Souldier next a Taylor their speech is loud but neuer extempore he seldome speaks his own minde or in his own name when men are heere and when at Church they are of contrary mindes there they thinke the time too long but heere too short most commonly when the play is done you shal haue a ligge or dance of al trads they mean to put their legs to it as well as their tongs they make men wonder when they haue done for they all clappe their hands Sometimes they flye into the Countrey but t is a suspicion that they are either poore or want cloaths or else Company or a new Play Or do as some wandring Sermonists make one Sermon trauaile and serue twenty Churches All their care is to be like Apes to immitate and expresse other mens actions in their own persons they loue not the company of Geese or Serpents because of their hissing they are many times lowzy it 's strange and yet shift so often As an Ale-house in the Country is beholden to a wilde Schoolemaster so an whoore-house to some of these for they both spend all they get Well I like them well if when they Act vice they will leaue it and when vertue they will follow I speake no more of them but when I please I will come and see them 21. Fencing-Schooles HEere 's many a man comes hither which had rather work then play though very few can hit these men yet any one may know where to haue them vpon his guard his Schollers seeme to bee strangely taught for they do nothing but play his care seemes to be good for he learnes men to keepe their bodies in safety Vsually they that set vp this Science