Selected quad for the lemma: friend_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	faith_n	quoth_v	robin_n	20	3	16.1845	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37513	The honour of the gentle craft a discourse of mirth and wit to the renown of those two princes Crispine and Crispianus, and all the true lovers thereof : the last and best part being a most merry and pleasant history not altogether unprofitable, nor any way hurtful : and for the glory of the gentle craft, let all men say that a shoemakers son is a prince born / by T.D. ; with a new merry song in the praise of the gentle craft, and to be sung by them every morning on the 25th day of October.	Deloney, Thomas, 1543?-1600.	1660 (1660)	Wing D954A; ESTC R30293	44,173	70

ruddocks chinking in a bag and yet he were better to have one with lesse money and more huswifery for my one part I would not come to learn of never a Woman in Westminster how to deal in such affairs I think no lesse quoth Richard and therefore I pray God send you a good Husband and one well deserving so good a wife with that Gillian fetcht a great sigh saying Amen I pray God Why then marry me qd Robin and thereby prevent the perish of bad thoughts hark in thy ear Robin quoth she I would thy Master would say so much and then he should soon know my mind Ha ha quoth Robin I faith you drab And would you have him to stamp the crab Why what is the matter quoth Richard nay nothing quoth Gillian but that I was bold to jest with your man and I hope you will not be offended if he and I talk a word or two There is no reason I should quoth Richard therefore confer at your pleasure and the whilst I will be busie with the Lamb-pye then Gillian whispering Robin in the ear spoke in this sort unto him I perceive you can spy day at a little hole Robin I am of opinion that affection groweth as strong in a woman as a man they to have equall priviledge as well as men to speak their minds In truth Robin to be plain I love thy Master with all my heart and if thou wouldst be so much my friend to break the matter unto him and therewithall to procure his good likeing unto me I would bestow on thée as good a sute of apparrell as ever thou wast Master of in thy life whereunto Robin answered saying Here 's my hand Gillian at thy request I le make a vow I le do my best But for my apparell grant me this In earnest first to give me a kisse There it is qd Gillian and I do protest that upon that blessed day when he gives his happy consent to be my husband at the delivery of thy apparell I will make that one kisse twenty and they came to the table and set them down again Richard marking all said nothing but at her approach to the board tooke the glasse and drunk to her giving her thanks for her cost and kindnesse she gladly accepting the same bending her body instead of cursie took it at his hands and drunk unto Robin and so taking her leave of them both shh● ran spéedily home So soon as she was gone Robin told his Master it was the pleasentest life in the world to live a Batchelor for he would never want good chéer and company I marry quoth Richard but what I get one way I spend another you sée quoth he here is a foreneoon spent to no purpose I tell thée Robin I account their inticoments dangerous therefore a man must not be won with fair words as a fish with a bait Well quoth Robin all is one to me whether you love or loath them but let not the posset be forgot soon at night Quoth Richard if I rest in the mind I am in now I mean not to be there at all then you will lose her love quoth Robin that said his Master is that I desire for the love of a Shroe is like the shadow of a cloud that soon consumeth and such love is better lost then found Quoth Robin this once follow my mind Though by her love you set but light Let us eat the posser soon at night And afterward I will so deale If you will not my ●ricks reveale That they shall trouble you no more Though by your love they set great store For one another they shall beguile Yet think themselves well pleas'd the while Verily quoth his Master if thou wilt do so I will be Megs guest this once and think my self happy to be so rid of them Hereupon Richard having his Shop windows shut in and his doors made fast He with his man Robin took their direct way to the Spread Eagle where they no sooner knockt at the doore but Margaret came down and let them in and bid them heartily welcome Now Richard quoth she you are a man of your word I pray you come néere for to have you in my Office is my desire quoth Robin was your Office never a fire you see the Kitchin is large and the chimney wide quoth Robin how many Rooks hath your Kitchin tride I know not quoth Meg quoth Robin I think even so Go to quoth Meg but I le let it passe Then taking Richard by the hand she bad him sit down saying good Richard you are welcome I have never a friend in the World that can be better welcome I thank you good Margaret quoth he I thank her still qd Robin in every degree For you that have all the welcome shall give thanks for me Why Robin qd Meg be not offended thou art welcome to me I faith quoth he you bid me welcome when you have nothing else to doe Herewithall Margaret very neatly laid the cloth set a dainty minst Pye on the boord and other good chéere and sent the other maid of the house for a pottle of wine and so fell to their meat merrily when they had eaten and drunk Margaret stept to reach the posset but while she had it in her hand she heard one comming down the stairs Gods precious quoth she my Master comes where shall we hide the posset if he sée it we shall have more anger then ten possets are worth with that she whipt it into the seat of the p●ivy house thinking it there safest out of sight her Master being an old crabbed fellow would often steale down to sée what his Maids were a deing the old man being raised by a loosenesse of his body came to pay tribute to Aiax where he clapt his buttocks into the posset wherewith being scalded he cryed out saying help maids or I am spoiled for ever for some Divel hath thrown scalding lead upon my buttocks and in this case he stampt up down the yard holding his hips in his hands Meg. that knew better what the matter was then her Master ran into the house of Office with a spit as if she purposed to broach the Divell casting the posset into the puddle said how now Master what is the matter are you hurt hurt quoth her Master I tell thée Meg never was man thus hurt and yet I am ashamed to shew my hurt bring me a candle quoth Meg I tell you Master it is better all should be shewn then all spoiled and casting up his shirt spied both his great chéeks full of blisters whereupon she was faine to make a medicine with sallet oyle and houseléek to asswage this unséen fire and by this means Richard with his man was fain to slip away which was to Robin no small grief and yet laughing to think how odly this jest fell out I am quoth Robin forty years old and more Yet did I never know posset

so tasted before I think his eyes in his elbowes he had To thrust his a●se in the posset or else he was mad His Master answering said Robin I will never go there to eat posset more Margaret coming thither told them she was sorry they were so suddainly broke from their banquet but Y faith Richard quoth she another time shall make amends for all CHAP. 3. How Richard the Cock of Westminster was married to a Dutch Maiden for which cause long Meg and Gillian of the George wore willow Garlands RIchard Castler living a long time a Batchelor in Westminster at last linked his love to a Dutch Maiden dwelling in London To this pretty soule went Richard secretly a wooing who for halfe a year set as light by him as he did by the Maidens of Westminster and the more he was denyed the more he sought her good will But while he was thus busied to make himself blessed by matching with a Maiden in London round Robin cast his wits to set the Maidens of Westminster against him which he effected in this sort Margaret and Gillian coming often by the Shop cast many a Shéeps eye to spy out their beloved friend and finding him not at his Shop they judged that it was not Idlenesse that drew him away but rather that he was gone a wooing to some pretty Wench whereupon Margaret entred into these spéeches with round Robin I wonder quoth Meg where your Master layes his knife aboord now a dayes tell me Robin said she where the Cock doth crow now Not so quoth Robin my Master doth not that allow I must not shew his secrets to one or other Therefore you shal not know it though you were my mother Yet thus much by thy speech I plainly do see Thou thinkst not so well of him as he thinks on thee Margaret hearing round Robin rime to so good a purpose asked if he knew his Masters mind so much therefore swéet Robin let me know whereupon thou speakest Hereupon Robin said that his Master was very well affected towards her and that if it were not for Gillian of the George he would long ere this have uttered his mind to you but quoth Robin he is se haunted by that female spirit that he can rest in no place for her These Words uttered by Robin made Margarets heart leap in her belly wherefore taking gentlely her leave of him she thus began to meditate on the matter Now do I well sée that the tongue of a wise man is in his heart but the heart of a foole is in his tongue and Richard quoth she hast thou born me such secret good will and would never let me know it Thus in a jolly humor Margaret jotted home flatterring her self in her happy fortune in which delight we will leave her and make some rehearseall of Gillians joy who coming in the like manner to Robin asking for his Master was certified by him that for her sake only he lived in such sorrow that he could not stay in his shop and therefore was faine to drive away melancholly by marching abroad O Gillian quoth he had it not béen for two causes he would long ere this have uttered his mind to thée quoth Gillian is it true Robin that thou dost tell me doubt not of that do you think I will tell you a lye Nay good Robin be not angry blame me not to aske a question ask what you will quoth Robin and I may chuse whether I will answer you or no now I have opened my Master secret you were best to blab it through all the town Nay good Robin that is not my mind quoth Gillian but I beséech thée let me know those two causes that kéeps thy Master from uttering his mind Nay soft there lay a staw for fear of stumbling quoth Robin let it suffice you that you know what you know Nay good swéet Robin I pray thée make it not dainty now to tell me all séeing you have begun the day may come that I may requite thy courtesie say you so Gillian now by good Crispianus were it not that I am in hope you would prove kind to my Master and be a good Mistris to us I would not utter one word more Well Robin if ever I come to command thy Masters house and kéep the keys thou shalt sée I will kéep no ●iggards table but you shall have meat and drink in a plentifull manner Robin hearing this told her this tale that his Master loved her intirely and would long since have uttered his mind but for two reasons the first was that he could never find a fit opportunity because of long Meg whose love to him was more then he could wish for if he do but speak and look upon any she presently pouts and lowers which is such a grief to my Master that he is faine to kéep silent The second reason is that he is not wealthy as he could wish himself you would disdain his suit Who I quoth Gillian I tell thée Robin I do more respect his kindnesse then his goods Why then good Gillian quoth Robin hearken hither thrée dayes hence and you shall hear more I warrant thée Robin quoth she and so away she went being as glad of this tidings as her Master was of a good Term Now when his Master came home Robin asked him how he sped in his suit even as Cooks do in baking their Pyes sometimes wel sometimes ill London Wenches are wily Lasses Now she is in one mind by and by in another and to be brief never stedfast in any thing Tush Master quoth Robin stoop not to a Thistle take this comfort what one will not another will I tell you Master these nice Minions are so full of curiosit that they are cleane without courtesie Yet well fare the gallant girls of Westminster that will do more for a man then he will do for himself What is that said his Master mary quoth he to give two kisses before he calls for one That indéed is extraordinary kindnesse quoth Richard but their loves is like braided Wares that is often séen but hardly sold Well Master quoth Robin you know your two old friends Meg and Gillian I what of them quoth Richard I have made them both beléeve that you love them out of all cry And I beshrow thy heart for that qd Richard for therein thou dost both deceive them and discredit me I assure thée I like not such jesting Now gip quoth Robin are you griev'd at my talk And if you be angry I pray go walk Thus do you never esteem of a man Let him do for you the best that he can Richard hearing his man so hot pacified him with many cold and gentle speeches wishing if he had begun any jest that he should finish it with such discretion that no reproach might grow upon him whereupon Robin proceeded in this sort Vpon a time Margaret according to her wonted manner came thither whom Robin peswaded that his