Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	charles_n	crown_n	king_n	3,586	5	3.9738	3	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04408	A most excellent ballad of Ioseph the carpenter, and the sacred Virgin Mary, who was the mother of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the ever blessed redeemer [of] man-kind.		1663-1674? (1674)	Wing M2880; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.8[232]	1,063	1

A most Excellent Ballad of Joseph Carpenter and the sacred Virgin Mary who was the Mother of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ the ever blessed Redeemer Man-kind IOseph an aged man truly Did marry a Virgin fair and frée a purer Virgin did no man sée then he chose for his dear his dear This Virgin was pure there was no nay The Angel Gabriel to her did say Thou shalt conceive a boy this day the which shall be our dear our dear No sooner the Angel his message had said But all in her she was afraid Now may this be and I a pure maid say unto me my dear my dear The holy Ghost Mary shall come in thée The power of Heaven shall shadow thee And thou shalt hear a Son truly the which shall be our dear our dear Then Joseph being a perfect man Perceiving that Mary with Child was gone Said tell me Mary now and anon who hath done this my dear my dear Then answered Mary néek and mild I know no Father to my Child But God alone and I undefil'd he hath done this my dear my dear Yet thinking ●e had been unjust Yielding her body to lawless lust Out if his house he thought to thrust his only love and Lady dear And so pu● her from him quite Who was his joy and hearts delight That blessed Virgin fair and bright whom he did love so dear so dear And while in heart he thought the same To him the Angel Gabriel came As he lay sleeping on a Frame and coming to his dear his dear Who s● fear not to take to thee Thy true and faithful wife Mary Most true and constant sure is she turn not off thy dear thy dear When Joseph rose from his sleep so sound His love to Mary did more abound He would not for a thousand pound forsake his Love and Lady dear They lives both in joy and bliss But then a straight Commandment is Through Judea land no man should is to go with h●s Love and Lady dear Vnto the Temple where they were born And to the Emperor to be sworn To pay a tribute duely known both for himself and Lady dear Then Joseph and his Mary free Who lookt each hour delivered to be To Bethelem came that sweet City with his true Love and Lady dear But when to Bethelem they were come The Inns were filled all and some When Joseph intreating every groom could get no bed for his dear his dear Then was he constrained presently Within the Stable all night to lye Wherein they did Oxen and Asses tye with his true love and Lady dear The Virgin fair thought it no scorn To lye in such a place forlorn Which night she had a young-son born even Iesus Christ our dear our dear Thou King of Peace in Bethelem born That wore for our sake a crown of thorn Preserve King Charles evening and morn whom England Loves so dear so dear