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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	keeper_n	lord_n	seal_n	5,051	5	8.9948	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17373	Dyets dry dinner consisting of eight seuerall courses: 1. Fruites 2. Hearbes. 3. Flesh. 4. Fish. 5. whitmeats. 6. Spice. 7. Sauce. 8. Tabacco. All serued in after the order of time vniuersall. By Henry Buttes, Maister of Artes, and fellowe of C.C.C. in C.	Butts, Henry, d. 1632.	1599 (1599)	STC 4207; ESTC S104849	43,897	252

DYETS DRY DINNER Consisting of eight seuerall Courses 1. Fruites 2. Hearbes 3. Flesh 4. Fish 5. whitmeats 6. Spice 7. Sauce 8. Tabacco All serued in after the order of Time vniuersall By Henry Buttes Maister of Artes and Fellowe of C. C. C. in C. Qui miscuit vtile Dulci Cicero Non nobis solùm nati sumus sed Ortus nostri sibi vendicant Printed in London by Tho. Creede for William Wood and are to be sold at the West end of Powles at the signe of Tyme 1599. Partem Parentes TO THE RIGHT Worshipfull and vertuous Lady the Lady Anne Bacon sole heire to the Worship Edward Buttes Esquire her Father as also to her Vncles the right worthie Syr William Buttes Knight and Thomas Buttes Esquire deceased The Name of this Booke A Painter Right worshipfull fain woulde make a speech to great Alexander and for that being a meane man and vnknowne to the King small notice and lesse respect would bee had of him he procured Alexanders owne cloake or princely robe and therein presented himselfe before the King The same deuise my selfe am forced to put in practise for being vnworthie or at least not knowne worthie to be knowne vnto your Ladiship I do partly cloake me with the large Mantle of common Homage partly cloath me with the proper coate of my Ancestors who as they were a litle nearer then my self vnto your blood so were they much nearer to your thoughts and better knowne vnto you Thus hauing put on my cloake with the Painter I begin my speech Madame as the admired perfection of all excellent indowments wherewith God hath inriched you necessarily plucketh from the hearts of all that know you due reuerence so the naturall league of mutual loue and friudship betweene your and my Ancestors while they all liued togither in Norffolke more neerly vrgeth mee particularly to deuote my selfe vnto you And yet not only your Ladiships proper name now cancelled and concealed in you by participation of another is thus powerfull to commaund my thoughts but infinit cause me thinkes I haue highly to respect and honour you euen in by that name which but for my fathers progeny stil continuing in Norffolk had put our name to silence Yea who most gladly honoureth not the glorious name of that thrise worthie and renowmed wight of famous memory Syr Nicholas Bacon Lord Keeper of the great seale of England while he liued whose magnificent bountie to our Vniuersitie and especially to Corpus Christi Colledge whereof himself sometime was as I am now hath purchased him a perpetuitie of glory to be celebrated for euer a principall Benefactor The chiefe Ofspring from this so excellent a roote into whom the whole acoomplishment of all that worth is transfused and deriued is your Ladiships rightly right Worshipfull Knight of the same name now liuing Who is wel knowne to be the vndoubted heire not only of his fathers wealth but of his vertues and glory also All these premised words excellent Lady inferre thus much I most willingly acknowledge either of you both may iustly claime interest in the Fee-simple or rather simple fee of my best indeuours studies and praiers for the preseruation of your health and continuance of your life The which least I should seeme only idlely to wish I haue not onely bene Votary to Aesculapius Phisickes great Grand-father but Seruant also to Dyet healths kindest Nourse To whose frugall Table I inuite your Ladiship But afore you come I think it my best course to tell you what kind a feast you shall finde In three words I describe it thus Dyets dry Dinner That is varietie of Fare prouided prepared and ordered at Dyets own prescription whose seruant and Attendant at this feast I professe my selfe Thus far perhaps not disliked of any A Dry Dinner not only Camnum Prandium without Wine but Accipitrinum without all drinke except Tabacco which also is but Dry Drinke herein not like to be liked of many What ere it be as he saith in the Comedie Habeas vt Nacta take it as you finde it and welcome More then which I cannot perform And therefore most humbly I kisse your hand Your Ladiships most deuoted Henry Buttes Partem Amici TO MY WORSHIPfull and especiall friends Richard Thekeston Esquire and Elynor his Wife The cotall Mehod IT is a dignitie in actiue Nature Right worshipfull that Agens agit vt assimulet sibi Patiēs that is to make the passiue likewise actiue It were an easie though a tedious taske to note in euery one of Natures actions Re-action But that great labour may be greatly lessened by arguing A Minoie by instance of the lesse actiue Eliments For who seeth not but he that doth not see that he seeth his own face in the water no otherwise then by reference of the offered shape or species of his obiect countenance Nay the most if not meerely passiue Earth returneth notwithstanding euen to the middle ayre those splendent beames which formerly the Sunne conferred on it If the sencelesse and lifelesse Eliments can thus react it then reasonable man hath much more reason to be conformable vnto those that worke his good We to whom your Worships exhibite your bountie are those same waters on which the wise Salomon biddeth you cast your bread in whom you see your faces the shape and Image of your selues for we are also men as yee be Then according to your worships wonted affabilitie graciously embrace that conformable reaction which your owne most hounteous fauours haue begotten in me I haue bene passing desirous some way to intimate vnto your worships that I am not senseles or vnmindfull though vnworthy of your kindnesses And therfore finding my selfe vnable to requite your greater fauours Quod quimui quando quod volumus non In Item of that great good cheare I haue often bad with you both at London and in Yorke-shire I do semblably inuite you both to a Schollers Dinner But where or whither I may not for I cannot tell you Your Worship Sir well remembreth that solemne inuitation at Cambridge in Vesperijs Comitiorum and therefore will easily let passe this fallacian without Elench or reprehension Neither can I hope for at either of your hands any vngentle or discourteous censure It is an other kind of guest an vnkinde guest vnbiaden and as bold as welcome whom my minde presageth some Gentleman Sewer to some certaine Gentlewoman Semster who more nice then wise picketh a quarell with the order or disorder rather as he weeneth of my Dinner stoutly auerring him that scrued in the courses to be both ignorant of fashions and void of all good customes What quoth he Fruite in the first course Then Flesh Fish White-meates and at last come in salt and spoones spice and sauce when all the meate is eaten Nay more Tabacco after all vpon a full stomack Fie fie Dyets Dinner a most grosse absurd and preposterous banquet May it please your Worships this challenge must of force be answered