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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	court_n	lady_n	queen_n	1,212	5	8.9992	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42641	Subsidium peregrinantibus, or, An assistance to a traveller in his convers with 1. Hollanders, 2. Germans, 3. Venetians, 4. Italians, 5. Spaniards, 6. French : directing him after the latest mode, to the greatest honour, pleasure, security, and advantage in his travells : written to a princely traveller for a vade mecum / by Balthazar Gerbier.	Gerbier, Balthazar, Sir, 1592?-1667.	1665 (1665)	Wing G572; ESTC R25458	45,784	144

of Gold and Copper to hold 24 Wax lights on the gate two great figures in the shape of Angells of copper and Gold holding two Scroules wherein is carved the words Natura me Occidit Spes me Elevat There is a vaulted place in the coming forth of this Pantheon wherein are the Tombes of the Princes and Princesses of Spaine covered with red Velvet richly embroydered with gold and Silver There are 36 Altars in the Church to which appertains all the Ornaments of change for every day in the yeare There are many pictures of an inestimable value a true originall of King David There are 36 crosses of Gold set with precious stones and an infinite number of Silver Lamps and Candlesticks there are in the main body of the Escuriall twelve thousand Windows and Dores the least of the Dores having cost one hundred pound sterling There are 17 Cloisters and 17 Courts and 85 Fountains there are 300 Religious men of the Order of St Jerome all Gentlemen the Annuall Revenue is foure hundred thousand Crownes There is in the Escuriall one of the Earthen vessels wherein as the Spaniards say was the miraculous Wine of the Wedding in Cana. As for Madrid it hath ever since the Court of the former Kings was kept at Valledolit bin the place of the King of Spaine his constant aboade The great Feast and Sport of the Torros is that which the Spaniard affects so much as he cannot leave it for the Popes Excommunication against such as may come to a fatall end in that sport The Pompe of the Roman Catholick Church sheweth it selfe very much in that of la Madona de la Totche wherein the Dominicans have an Altar of Massie Silver of an extraordinary bignes with a Madona of Silver fix foot high with a Sun of Massie Gold about the head set with precious stones the Railes about the Chappell of Massie Silver there are one hundred Silver Lamps the least whereof cost 400 Crowns some cost 12 thousand Crowns That of Toledo is of the forme of St Peter in Rome the Bishop hath 400 thousand Crownes revenue per annum the Treasure of that Church is of an unestimable value At the Pardo some miles distant from Madrid there is in a massy Silver Tombe a Figure representing Christ for the which King Philip the 2d did pay one hundred thousand Crownes it is of wood but so rarely carved as never Eyes beheld the like I have begun with Sepulchers proceeded with Churches Monasteries and described their riches more facil to the King of Spaine to compasse since he possesseth the Gold and silver Mynes and hath in his Dominions all the most pretious productions of Nature As for Madrid it is situated under a most pure Clime The greatest Palace would not yeeld so much Chimney mony as a little House of ten pound per annum in England since by the number of seaven Chimneys the greatest Palace of Madrid is wont to be described they use Silver Brazeros in all their romes of State and Bedchambers That which is remarkable in the King of Spaines Court is the attendance to his prime Minister of State now the Duke Medina de las Torros successor to Don Louis d' Arro who succeeded the Conde Duca d' Olivares prime Minister of State when Charles Prince of Great Britain was in that Court Anno 1625. The Nobles affect no other clothes then Black Freize all Winter long plain Taffaty in the Summer time The Ladies at Court admit Audiences when demanded it is in the presence of the King and Queene The Ladies stand on a row if the Cavalleros who have demanded Audience of them are Grandees they cover themselves The late Duke of Buckingham the Match les of all the Subjects in the World and who attended the Prince of Great Pritain had particular Audiences with the Conde Duca d' Olivares his Lady on the score of his being Embassador Extraordinary the Plenipotentiary for the Treaty of the Match and her being Camarera-Major with whom it was necessary to confer during the Treaty of an intended Match by King James of Blessed memory and the Prince with the Infanta Maria sister to King Philip the 4th But very loose impertinent and ill grounded discourses have been made in England concerning the Duke of Buckinghams correspondency with the said Countes as if she had been a strumpet of Greece and of those young silly Court sooles who are charmed by kind words who see Babies in all mens Eyes that look on them and perswade themselves that they must not resist those first glowings of Cypres coles except they would smother those Babies in their temporary Lovers eyes and loose their Maiden head in a dreame for nothing when as they pretend by answering their palpable Narcissus to have something more then imagination in the Bargain The Duke of Buckingham had other Fish to Frie then to make Love to himselfe with an old Woman the good successe of a Treatie for an intended Match by which Gondomar had promised the re-restitution of a Palatinate was the golden fleece for which this Matchlesse Jason exposed himselfe I do not say among Monsters of Africa but among Juglers Interlopers and no lesse then such Embassadors who with the Character of honest men do but too often Lye abroad to make good State Policy exposed himselfe into the attendance of that Matchlesse Prince in whose preservation three Great Nations besides all his friends abroad were interessed And when the Duke of Buckingham did find where the Remora was fixt partly in the calot humour of the Sexe which is the most tardy to admit reason because the Sex is the most passionate and that after long parleys with the slow resolving Spanish Councils of State the Match was still in statu quo it was then time as the French say either Faire bonne mine en manvais jeu put a good Face on an ill businesse or to try the uttermost a Camarero Major could or would do laying aside words Bull-begger like damned Hereticks whereby the zelot Romans do distinguish the true Christian Catholicks others in the Match of Matchlesse most precious Infanta Maria who certainly was a Princesse fit to be an Empresse of all the World as Shee afterwards became the Empresse of Germany As for visits to the Spanish it is not their custome to exchange words or complements before parties are set in Chaires with Armes They leave the visitor in possession of their House when the conversation is ended and for that go before attending him in his Coach they are succinct and grave in their Complements use to speak Proverbs if to passe Complements on great Holy-dayes as Christmas and Easter they only say three words Las buenas Pasquas they are very carefull to send complements to those of their friends and acquaintances who have been let blood and ever accompany their complement with a present which they call la Sangria They endeavour as much as they can to send their present