Selected quad for the lemma: england_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	earl_n	king_n	noble_a	2,879	5	7.7060	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03230	Londini speculum: or, Londons mirror exprest in sundry triumphs, pageants, and showes, at the initiation of the right Honorable Richard Fenn, into the Mairolty [sic] of the famous and farre renowned city London. All the charge and expence of these laborious projects both by water and land, being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipful Company of the Habberdashers. Written by Tho. Heywood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1637 (1637)	STC 13349; ESTC S106211	8,168	22

Londini Speculum or Londons Mirror Exprest in sundry Triumphs Pageants and Showes at the Initiation of the right Honorable Richard Fenn into the Mairolty of the Famous and farre renowned City LONDON All the Charge and Expence of these laborious projects both by Water and Land being the sole undertaking of the Right Worshipful Company of the Habberdashers Written by Tho. Heywood Imprinted at London by I. Okes dwelling in little St. Bartholmews 1637. To the Right Honourable Richard Fenn Lord Maior of this Renowned Metropolis LONDON Right Honourable EXcuse I intreate this my boldnesse which proceedeth rather from Custome in others then Curiosity in my Selfe in presuming to prompt your Memory in some things tending to the greatnes of your high place and Calling You are now entred into one of the most famous Mairolties of the Christian World You are also cald Fathers Patrons of the Afflicted and Procurators of the Publicke good And whatsoever hath reference to the true consideration of Iustice and Mercy may be Analogically conferd upon pyous and iust Magistrates And for the Antiquity of your yearely Government I read that the Athenians elected theirs Annually and for no longer continuance And so of the Carthagians the Thebans c. And the Roman Senate held that continued Magistracy was in some respects unprofitable to the Weale-publicke against which there was an Act in the Lawes of the twelve Tables And it is thus concluded by the Learned that the Dominion of the greatest Magistrates which are Kings and Princes ought to be perpetuall but of the lesse which be Prators Censors and the like only Ambulatory and Annuall I conclude with that saying of a wise man Prime Officers ought to Rule by Good Lawes and commendable Example Iudge by Providence Wisdome and Iustice and Defend by Prowes Care and Vigilancy These things I can but Dictate of which your Lordship knoweth best how to Dispose ever as now remayning your Honors Humble servant Thomas Heywood Londini Speculum OR Londons Mirrour ALL Triumphes have their Titles and so this according to the nature thereof beareth a name It is called Londini 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is Speculum more plainly Londons Mirrour neither altogether unproperly so termed since she in her selfe may not onely perspicuously behold her owne vertues but all forraigne Cities by her how to correct their vices Her Antiquity she deriveth from Brute lineally discended from Aeneas the sonne of Anchises and Venus and by him erected about the yeare of the world two thousand eight hundred fifty five before the Nativity of our blessed Saviour one thousand one hundred and eight first cald by him Trinovantum or Troy-novant New Troy to continue the remembrance of the old and after in the processe of time Caier Lud that is Luds Towne of King Lud who not onely greatly repaired the City but increased it with goodly and gorgeous buildings in the West part whereof he built a strong gate which hee called after his owne name Lud gate and so from Luds Towne by contraction of the word and dialect used in those times it came since to be called London I will not insist to speake of the name of Maior which implyeth as much as the greater or more prime person such were the Praetors or Proefecti in Rome neither were the Dictators any more till Iulius Caesar aiming at the Imperiall Purple was not content with that annuall honour which was to passe successively from one to another but he caused himselfe to be Elected Perpetuus Dictator which was in effect no lesse than Emperor And for the name of Elder-man or Alder-man it is so ancient that learned Master Cambden in in his Britan. remembreth unto us that in the daies of Royal King Edgar a noble Earle and of the Royall blood whose name was Alwin was in such favour with the King that be was stiled Healf Kunning or halfe King and had the stile of Alderman of all England This man was the first founder of a famous Monastery in the Isle of Ely where his body lies interred upon whose Tombe was an inscription in Latin which I have verbatim thus turned into English Here resteth Alwin couzen to King Edgar Alderman of all England and of this Holy Abbey the miraculous founder And so much being tide to a briefe discourse may serve for the Antiquity of London and the Titles for Maior or Alderman I come now to the Speculum or Mirrour Plutarch tels us That a glasse in which a man or woman behold their faces is of no estimation or value though the frame thereof be never so richly deckt with gold gemmes unlesse it represent unto us the true figure and obiect Moreover that such are foolish and flattering glasses which make a sad face to looke pleasant or a merry countenance melancholy but a perfect and a true Christall without any falsity or flattery rendreth every obiect its true forme and proper figure distinguishing a smile from a wrincle and such are the meanes many times to bridle our refractory affections for who being in a violent rage would be pleased that his servant should bring him a glasse wherein hee might behold the ●●rvity and strange alteration of his countenance Minerva playing upon a Pipe was mockt by a Satyre in these words Non te decet forma istaec pone fistulas Et Arma capesse componens recte genus That visage mis-becomes thy Pipe Cast from thee Warlike dame Take unto thee thy wonted Armes And keepe thy Cheekes in frame But though she despised his Councell for the present when after playing upon the same Pipe in which she so much delighted shee beheld in a river such a change in her face shee cast it from her and broke it asunder as knowing that the sweetnes of her musick could not countervaile or recompence that deformity which it put upon her countenance and therefore I have purposed so true and exact a Mirrour that in it may be discovered as well that which beautifies the governour as deformes the government One thing more is necessitously to be added and then I fall upon the showes in present agitation namely that the fellowship of the Merchant Adventurers of England were first trusted with the sole venting of the manufacture of Cloth out of this kingdome have for above this 4 hundred years traded in a priviledged wel governed course in Germany the Low Countries c. and have beene the chiefe meanes to raise the manufacture of all wollen commodities to that height in which it now existeth which is the most famous staple of the Land and whereby the poore in all Countries are plentifully maintained and of this Company his Lordship is free as also of the Levant or Turkey and of the East India Company whose trading hath beene and is in these forraine adventures also who spent many yeares and a great part of his youth abroad in other Countries N●● the first show by water is presented by St. Katherine of whom