Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	drink_v	white_a	wine_n	11,023	5	8.8154	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02159	A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute betvveen veluet breeches and clothbreeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12300; ESTC S105869	42,418	58

men but were extremity vsed and the statute put in the highest degrée in practise you would haue as few eares on your heads as the collier Last to you Tom tapster that tap your small cannes of beare to the poore and yet fill them halfe full of froth that card your beare if you see your guests begin to be drunke halfe small and halfe strong you cannot bee content to pinch with your small pottes and your Ostrie faggots but you haue your trugges to draw men on to villanie and to bring customers to your house where you sell a ioint of meat for xii pence that cost you scarse six and if any chaunce to go on the skore you skore him when he is a sléepe and set vp a grote a daye more than he hath to find you drinking pots with your companions to be short thou art a knaue and I like not of any of the rest the way lies before you and therefore you maye be gone for you shall be none of the quest I smilde to see Clothbreeches so peremptory when I saw fiue fat fellowes all in damaske cotes and gowns welted with Veluet very braue and in great consultation as if they were to determine of some waighty matter drawing neere I sawe they were welthy citizens so I went reuerently saluted them and told them how we needed their aid about the appeasing of a controuersie shewing them where the knighte esquier and other staid til we might find men to fil vp the iury they were contented but veluetbreeches excepted againste foure of them and sayd they wer none of his friends that was the marchant goldsmith mercer and draper his allegations were these that they were al feathered of one wing to fetch in yong gentlemen by commodities vnder the colour of lending of monie for the merchant he deliuered the yron tin lead hops sugars spices oiles browne paper or whatsoeuer else from six months to six mōths which when the pore gentleman came to sell againe he could not make thréescore and ten in the hundred beside the vsurie The mercer he followeth the yoong vpstart gentleman that hath no gouernement of himselfe and he feedeth his humor to go braue hée shall not want silkes sattins veluets to prank● abroade in his pomp but with this prouiso that he must bind ouer his land in a statute marchant or staple and so at last forfeit al vnto the mercilesse mercer and leaue himselfe neuer a foot of ground in England which is the reason that for a fewe remnaunts of veluets and silkes the Mercer créepeth into whole lordships The Goldsmith is not behinde for most of them deale with Vsurie and let yoong gentlemen haue commodities of plate for ten in the hundred but they must loose the fasion in selling it agayne which cuts them sore beside they are most of them skild in alcumie and can temper mettals shrewdly with no little profite to themselues and disaduauntage to the buier beside puffe ringes and quaint conceits which I omit And so for you Draper hée fetcheth them off for liuery cloth and cloth for six months and six and yet hath he more knacks in his budget for hee hath so darke a shop that no man can well choose a peece of cloth it so shadowes the die and the thread a man shall bee deceiued in the wooll and the nappe they cause the Clothworker so to presse them besides he imposeth this charge to the Clothworker that he draw his cloth and pull it passing hard when he sets it vpon the tenters that he maye haue it full breadth and length till thread and all teare and rent a péeces what care they for that haue they not a drawer to serue their turne to drawe and seame vp the holes so cunningly that it shall neuer be espied my selfe haue seene in one broad cloth eightéene score holes torne rackt and pulde by the Clothworker only to please the draper and deceyue the commonwealth To be short the Clothworker what with rowing and setting in a fine nap with powdering it pressing it with shering the wooll to the proofe of the thread deale so cunningly that they proue themselues the drapers minister to execute his subtilties therefore if he chaunce to come let him be remembred Now sir for the vintner hée is an honest substantiall man a friend to al good fellowes and truly my friend for my mony and worthy to be of the iurie Why no qd clothbreeches I am of another mind for I hold him as deceitfull as any of the rest what the vintner why he is a kind of Negromancer for at midnight when al men are in bed then he forsooth fals to his charmes and spels so that he tumbles one hogshead into another and can make a cup of claret that hath lost his colour looke high with a dash of red wine at his pleasure if hee hath a strong Gascoigne wine for feare it should make his guests to soone drunke hee can allaye it with a small Rochell wine hee can cherish vp white wine with sacke and perhaps if you bidde him wash the pot cleane when he goes to draw you a quart of wine he will leaue a litle water in the bottome and then draw it vp full of wine and what and if he do t is no harm wine and water is good against the heate of the liuer It were infinite to rehearse the iugling of Vintners the disorder of their houses espetially of the persons that frequent them and therefore sith Veluetbreeches hath put by the merchant goldsmith mercer draper the vintner shal goe with thē for company As these were going away in a snuff for being thus plainly taunted wee might see a mad merrie crue come leping ouer the field as frolikly as if they ought not all the world two pence and drawing nearer we might perceiue that either bottle-ale or béere had made a fraye with them for the lifting of their féet shewed the lightnesse of their heads the formost was a plaine country sir Iohn or vickar that proclaimed by the rednes of his nose he did oftner go into the alehouse than the pulpit him I asked what they were and whether they were going what are you qd the priest that stand by the high way to examin me and my friends here 's none in my company but are able to answer for thēselues I séeing they were al set on a merry pin tolde him the cause how the controuersie grew betwixt Clothbréeches veluetbreeches that we needed them to be of the quest Mary qd sir Iohn a good motion know the sealare my parishioners and we haue bin drinking with a poore man and spending our monie with him a neighbor of ours that hath lost a cow now for our names our trades this is a smith the second a weauer the third a millar the fourth a cooke the fift a carpentar the sixt a glouer the vij a pedlar the eight a tinkar the ix a waterbearer the

how you earn your mony painfully with the sweat of your browes all this is true but let mee whisper one thing in your eare you will play the goodfellow too much if you be well greased in the fist for if a yoong Gentleman and a pretie wench come to you and saye Waterman my friend and I mean to go by water and to be merry a night or two I care not which way nor whether wée go and therefore where thou thinkest wee maye haue best lodging thither carrie vs then off goes your cap and away they goe to Brainfoord or some other place and then you say Hostesse I pray you vse this Gentleman and his wyfe wel they are come out of London to take the aire and mean to be merrie here a night or two and to spend their monye frankly when God wot they are neither man nor wife nor perhaps of any acquaintance before their matche made in some bawdie tauerne but you know no such matter and therefore waterman I pardon you And for you plaisterer and bellowsmender I passe you ouer and so do I the Printer to only this I must néedes say to him that some of his trade will print lewd books and bawdy pamphlets by M. R.G. but Auri sacra fauores quid non and therefore I am content they shall be all of the iurie I was glad there were so many accepted of at once hoped that now quickly the iurie would be ful looking about me straight I might see one alone come running as fast as he could I woondred what he should be that he made such hast and the Skinner told me he was an honest man and one of their companye by his occupation a bricklaier Oh qd veluetbréeches a good honest simple man hee hath bin long in my worke in building me a sumptuous house But I challenge him qd clothbréeches for he is a iugler How qd I can it be sée he goeth very homely in leather and hath his ruler in his hande and his trowel at his side and he séemeth not as one that were giuen to such qualities Yes quoth clothbréeches hee hath this policie when he maketh a stately place all glorious to the eye and ful of faire chambers and goodly roomes and about the house perhaps some thréescore chimnies yet he can so cunningly cast by his arte that three of them shall not smoke in the tweluemonth and so spoiles hee much good morter bricke Why qd I the fault is not in the workman but the housekeeper for now adaies men builde for to please the eye not to profit the poore they vse no rost but for themselues and their houshold nor no fire but in a little court chunnie in their owne chamber howe can the poore bricklaier then be blamed when the niggardnesse of the Lord or maister is the cause no more chimnies doe smoke for would they vse auntient hospitality as their forefathers did and value as lightly of pride as their greate graundfathers then should you see euery chimny in the house smoke and prooue that the poore Artificer had doone his part Why then qd Clothbreeches as you please admit him on the quest But what be these qd Clothbreeches that come here so soberly I hope they be honest men for they looke very demure I will inquire sayd I and with that stepping to them I demaunded their names and very courtiouslye the one sayd he was a brewer the other a butcher the thirde a baker and the fourth a vitler Hearing what they were I was glad ghessing sith they were so honest substantial men that they would helpe to make vp the iurie when Veluetbréeches with a grim and sower countenaunce gaue them this challenge I hold it not necessarie quoth hee that these haue any thing to deale in my cause sith I am at oddes with them al at least in fortie pounds a péece for this seuen yeares I haue bene indebted vnto them for bread beefe beare and other victuals then sith they haue credited mée long and I haue had so little care to paye them I doubte now they will reuenge themselues and passe against me in the verdicte Nay quoth I the rather wil they hold on your part for if they bee honest wise men as they séeme to bee they will bee carefull of your prefermente seeing the more highly they are aduaunst the more like are they to come by their owne If therefore you can obiect no other points of dishonesty against them I sée no reason why they should be put by If you doe not qd clothbréeches then here me and I will prooue them vnfit to haue any dealings here and first for the Butcher I praye you goodman kilcalfe what hauocke play you with puffing vp of meat and blowing with your prickar as you flea it haue you not your artificiall knaueries to set out your meate with prickes and then sweare he hath more for monie than euer you bought to sell a péece of an olde Cow for a chop of a yoong Oxe to wash your old meat that hath hung weltring in the shoppe with new blood to trusse away an olde eaw in stead of a yoong weather and although you knowe it is hurtfull and forbidden by statutes to flea your hides skins and backes with cuts and slashes to the impouerishing of the pore shoomaker when he buies it yet I pray you how many flaughters doe you make in a poore Calues skinne Oh Butcher a long lent be your punishment for you make no conscience in deceiuing the poore And you mast Brewer that grow to be woorth forty thousand pounds by selling of sodden water what subtiltie haue you in making your beare to spare the malt and put in the more of the hoppe to make your drink be barly neuer so cheap not a whit the strōger and yet neuer sell a whit the more measure for monie you can when you haue taken all the harte of the malt awaye then clap on store of water t is cheape ynough and mashe out a tunning of small beare so thin that it scoures a mans maw like rennish wine in your conscience how many barrels draw you out of a quarter of malt fie fie I conceale your falshood least I should bee too broad in setting downe your faults And as for you goodman Baker that delight to be séen where most people resort euen on the pillory in the chéefe market place the world cries out of your wilinesse you craue but one dere yere to make your daughter a gentlewoman you buy your corne at the best hande and yet will not be content to make your bread weight you put in yeast and salt to make it heauie and yet all your policie can not make it but you fine for the Pillorie the poore crie out the rich find fault and the Lord Maior of London and the Shirifs like honourable and worshipful maiestrates euery day walke abroad and weigh your bread and yet all will not serue to make you honest