Selected quad for the lemma: state_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
state_n	great_a	king_n	monarch_n	1,055	5	9.5526	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44736	A new English grammar prescribing as certain rules as the languages will bear, for forreners to learn English : ther is also another grammar of the Spanish or Castilian toung, with some special remarks upon	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1662 (1662)	Wing H3095; ESTC R23452	103,282	288

besides me thinks it is a fained thing Charles I have heard say that there were at one time fifteen thousand Scholars in Salamanca which me thinks is strange Spain being so thin peepled and there being 16 Vniversities more Philip. It may well be so because Salamanca is situated almost in the center of Spain whither they have easie recourse from all parts But the major part of the Scholars are Oppidanes who lodge out of the Colledges Charles I have read a Proverb A Farthing in Salamanca is better then a fair Face but you may please to proceed Philip. From Salamanca I took the Road of Segovia a famous place for many things which are there remarkable The first is the Monastery of Parral which is without the City Then the M●nt-house Then the renowned Alc●sar and Segovia Bridge which indeed is but an Aqueduct made of marvellous big stones but above all the fine Woollen Cloths that are made there From Segovia I pass'd the Port of Guadarrama having in the way seen a great Edifice call'd La casa del Campo built among Woods and having pass'd Guadarrama I came to the Escurial the eighth wonder of the World But because there would need a whole Volume to describe as well the Church the Librarie the Quadrangles the Kings Quarter as also the delicate Waters Orchards and Fountains which are found there therfore I referre it to the diltgence and curiosity of such who desire to know things exactly and at large Charles Well I hope to see it one day if God give me the grace but what a glorious thing it is that one House should be a Monastery a Royal Palace and an Vniversity Philip. Being departed from the Escurial I went to Madrid passing in the way by La casa del prado where the King useth to reside often Charles Since we are now come to Madrid I pray what do you think of the Catholic Court. Philip. I will tell you no more but that it may be call'd a thin Court in comparison of others Charles How can that be the Spanish King being so great a Monarch and hath he not a Court correspondent to his greatnes Philip. You must know that there is a great deal of gravity and state in the Catholic Court but little noise and few people so that it may be call'd a Monastery rather then a Royal Court Charles By this means the King of Spain spends not much Philip. So little that I dare wager the French King spends more in Pages and Laquays then he of Spain among all his Court-Attendants Charles Is it possible Yet when I think well of it I find that he is more in the right in regard that much trouble and confusion is avoided which the French Court is subject unto Moreover the wast which is made in that Court is more then what is necessarily expended Philip. You have reason on your side besides ther are not so many insolencies committed in that Court which are done in farr lesser but he who will behold the greatnes of the King of Spain let him go to Naples or Sicilia to Mexico or Peru c. where the Spanish Vice-roys live in greater lustre and magnificence then the King himself doth in his Palace for so they call the Court in Madrid Charles Well let us give over speaking further of these Courts for a whole day would not suffice to discourse of this subject and pursue if you please your journey Philip. From Madrid I took the Road of Alcala de Henares a famous Vniversity and passing thence to Aranjuez which is another of the Kings Houses but excessive hot by its situation being as they say with the circumjacent Countrey of an African temper There are many curiosities to be seen there but I stayed as little as I could and went the way of Toledo the chief City of Old Castile and an Archbishopric the richest for Revenues except the Popedom of any in Christendom There is there a sumptuous Cathedral with a rich Tresury belonging thereunto Charles Did you see the Enchanted Tower As also the great Artifi●e whereby the Water ascends from the River to the upper part of the City which is so curious and so much spoken of Philip. Concerning the Tower I informed my self as much as I could but I could find nothing to any purpose so that I take it for a Fable But touching the Artifices of making the River-water to mount up I have seen better in Italy and Germany The peeple of Toledo is grave and subtil which was the cause of the Proverb From a Toledan take heed night and day The purest Castilian Dialect is spoken there so that there is a law in Spain if there be any ambiguity or that there happen any difference about the sense of a word a Toledan is to be Iudge Toledo also is renowned for some Ecumenical and General Councels which have been held there Charles I humbly thank you for these remarkable observations and may you please to go on in your journey Philip. From Toledo I passed by many places but I did not stay any time in them The most remarkab●e places were Talavera Truxilla Merida and Bada●●z the Confines of Castile where Goods and Money are to be registred And three Leagues thence I was forced to register them again paying a certain Toll going out of Castile and entring into Portugal Charles What an odd importunity 〈◊〉 that to register so often and withall to pay something out of that small parcel of Money which one carries about him to put bread in his mouth Philip. There is no appeal but to the Purse and this may be the cause why so few Passengers are found in those Countreys and truly you may believe me I think I 〈◊〉 more Passengers 'twixt Paris and Orleans then I found well neer in all this journey through Spain Charles I am easily induced to believe that because the peeple that pass that way are so thick that it may be called a Procession Philip. 'T is very tru insomuch that I think ther 's more peeple in France 'twixt the Seine and the Loire taking them from their source till they disgorge into the Sea th●n there is in all Spain Charles I pray proceed still in the account of your journey if you please to favour mee so much Philip. Having entred Portugal I passed to Yelvas a pretty place and so to Villa viciosa then to Evora a City of account thence to Estremoso so to Monte Mayor and so by degrees to Lisbon a great City which may be compared to the best and biggest Cities of Europe having seven miles compass Charles Lisbon being so renowned a City because there is a Proverb Who hath not seen Lisbon hath not seen a good thing I pray Sir make som relation of it Philip. The City of Lisbon must needs be very ancient for her old name is Olisippo of Ulisses who passed that way she is situated upon the River Tagus and she hath traffic and