Selected quad for the lemma: prince_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
prince_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	3,048	5	12.2365	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80038	The card of courtship or the language of love; fitted to the humours of all degrees, sexes, and conditions. Made up of all sorts of curious and ingenious dialogues, pithy and pleasant discourses, eloquent and winning letters, delicious songs and sonnets, fine fancies, harmonious odes, sweet rhapsodies.	Musophilus.	1653 (1653)	Wing C489; Thomason E1308_2; ESTC R13318	76,907	193

then ingratitude Hoping therefore you will not so much look at the stile as the hand and pardon the failings because your friend's I remain c. A Letter of Thanks THough at the present through Fortunes unconstancy and the contrariety of the times I finde my self unable to make a return sufficient for your deserts yet I trust that you will so accept of my good will as to esteem me thereby to have satisfied for every default of my unfortunate Fortune taking the will for the deed But if ever Fortune who is changeable do again lay aside her cruelty and smile upon me blowing with the winde of Prosperity upon the sayls of mine honest intent there is not a man in the whole world that more largely shall dispose of me and all my possibilities then shall your goodness c. Another IF God had so enriched me with his favour that I had been as able to have made a retaliation for so many your benefits as I finde my self not onely able and willing but even desirous to render you infinite thanks assure your self I would have been as ready to the satisfaction of the deed as the good will Therefore as far as extendeth at this present my weak ability I minde not to be ungrateful to you I give you therefore most hearty thanks for your courtesies to your undeserving servant and offer my self always unto you in all that shall be possible for me c. A Letter of News Sir I Hope you will pardon my silence hitherto seeing these times befit none but Satyrists to write who in their railing terms can best paint out mens actions and give your ears better satisfaction then our thred-bare Rhetorick which becomes nothing so ill as News especially if bad therefore I could wish that Feet as well as Hands might guide my Pen that so I might become Satyrist and better acquaint you with that of which I shall speak a little in brief We are here in a halting condition by the loss of those members which were lately cut off and expect every day a final ruine unless like the snake after dissection we can assume our own genuine parts and so again become whole c. No more at present but that I am SIR Your assured friend A Letter to a friend Sir THough I love to be free with a friend yet am I ever loth to over-burden a free friend and making Friendship my rule I hope I shall not transgress though I make bold to put you in minde of me and seriously had I not a present occasion I should neither be so importunate nor troublesome The performance of this will adde a stronger tye to our friendship And as I rejoyce in the happiness of my enjoying such a friend so I will be bold to say You shall never have cause to repent or be ashamed of the friendship of SIR Yours assuredly to serve you A Letter of excuse for not writing IF in times past I have not written unto you as my duty was it hath been for the urgent business and great affairs that hindred me and not but that my whole trust and confidence hath always remained in you And chiefly when I record with my self the singular love which you have always with great reality expressed towards me And because it is better to express some part of my duty late then never I am moved to write unto you these presents that you may participate with me of my profit and prosperity as you have formerly of my adversity aiding counselling and favouring me more then I could think to deserve of you c. A Letter of Thanks ALthough I have no business whereof I may write unto you yet nevertheless the great love equal betwixt us will not suffer me to let slip any messenger that goes towards you whereby I may testifie my thankfulness to you for the pains you have taken in my business and know that I confide so much in you that I intrust and trouble you still further desiring your assistance and if you have any occasion to use me I shall serve you most willingly and if you will visit these parts you cannot be more welcome to any friend then you shall be to him who rejoyces in the happiness of your acquaintance the continuance whereof he as much desires Yours c. A short Letter to all his friends YOu are many which at once demand Letter from me and behold I send unto you that are many but one onely Letter for it be hoveth to send one onely Epistle to many whom onely love the which shall be as good as many when many of you shall read it Divers Forms of Subscribing and Superscribing Letters Subscriptions YOur most obedient son Yours affectionately Yours in a perpetual friendship Yours to serve you in all things to his power Your most humble most obedient and most affectionate servant Yours living and dying Yours in an unalterable affection Yours inseparably Your real and ready friend Yours to be commanded By yours assured Your faithful friend for ever Your loving father Your very dutiful daughter Your obliged kinsman Your friend and master Your trusty servant to do your commands Your Lordships humble honourer Yours to my latest gasp The humble admirer of your incomparable beauty Yours faithfully though neglected Yours eternally even in death Yours sans complement Superscriptions TO the high and mighty Lords the States General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands For the Right Honorable my very good Lord R. Earl of Essex For the high and mighty Prince Lewis 12. King of France and Navar. For the Right Honorable the Lord Viscount Say and Seal c. To the Right Worshipful Sir P. R. Knight of Eaton in Bedford-shire For the Worshipful Master A. Merchant and Citizen of London For his assured and trusty friend Mr M. P. For his approved friend T. M. Esquire For his most loving father Mr E. C. To his loving son C. L. at his chamber in Grays-Inne these For his trusty and faithful servant D. E. For his desired friend M. T. aboard the Antilope i● the Downs For my very dutiful daughter E. M. To his loving Master Mr. E. P. For the dearest to me of all earthly creatures Mistress M. K. these with my love and service To my best beloved choice Mistress A. C. For my dear uncle G. M. Esquire For his hopeful kinsman H. L. 〈◊〉 FINIS