Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	earl_n	honourable_a	right_n	13,405	5	6.9102	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06860	A greene forest, or A naturall historie vvherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne vertues in all the whole kinde of stones & mettals: next of plants, as of herbes, trees, [and] shrubs, lastly of brute beastes, foules, fishes, creeping wormes [and] serpents, and that alphabetically: so that a table shall not neede. Compiled by Iohn Maplet, M. of Arte, and student in Cambridge: entending hereby yt God might especially be glorified: and the people furdered. Anno 1567.	Maplet, John, d. 1592.	1567 (1567)	STC 17296; ESTC S109788	96,800	244

A greene Forest or a naturall Historie Wherein may bee seene first the most sufferaigne Vertues in all the whole kinde of Stones Mettals next of Plants as of Herbes Trees Shrubs Lastly of Brute Beastes Foules Fishes creeping wormes Serpents and that Alphabetically so that a Table shall not neede Compiled by Iohn Maplet M. of Arte and student in Cambridge entending hereby that God might especially be glorified and the people furdered Anno. 1567. Imprinted at London by Henry Denham To the Right Honourable Lord Lord Thomas Earle of Sussex Viscont Fitzwalter Lorde of Egremont and of Burnell Knight of the most Noble order of the Garter Iustice of the Forrestes Chases from Trent Southward and Captaine of the Gentlemen Pensioners of the house of the Queene our Soueraigne Ladie BAthyllus he of Samos moste honorable Lord was one whiche the Poet Anacreon sang alwayes of minding him in euery song for a certaine conceipt of worthinesse which he thought was in him Likewise Ligurinus was alwayes one at the ende of Horace his pen and mouth And as a report goeth and many Romaine Histories shew the same Numa Seruius are by Poets commended vp to the Orbes of the Firmament or Skie where they saye they liue as they list whose bread is Nectar and drink Ambrosia a sugred and confect kinde of Wine which is serued oute in a faire Goblet or Cuppe by a faire waiting Boy named Ganimedes These Poets figured hereby most Honorable Lord that any of the nine Muses whatsoeuer kinde of Harpe they vsed it should be strung and tuned so that it mought reach to Diatesseron the onely note of Noble mens commendation And so doe I gather it is best vsed I herevpon nowe wishe that although Anacreon be gone I had yet his Harpe for then would I now set and tune it many Notes higher than euer could he in the prayse of Bathyllus or Horace in the testimonie of Ligurius For I would vse it to recognize and regester the memoriall of Yours such absolute Vertues But sith this Harpe is denied me and the verie Instrument which I nowe sound of is not as I would it were my intent notwithstanding and not my possibilitie is to be considered Yet rather then I should haue shewed nothing at al of better testomonie of my good will towards your Honor this shall suffise me vntill hereafter I may do better to vse so simple a sound And if so be I could worthilye cōmende you as those Poets did Numa and Seruius to highe Olympus you should surely by such our meanes come by some of their Iuncketts that they haue But this would I rather be done by message had to and fro from these which way Hercules vsed with Hyla Thiodamant his Sonne Apollo with Hyacinth Diana with Hyppolitus then that you enioying the presence of those our Countrie should lacke you such hir ornament and beautifying Therfore for their better remembrance of you I will do so much at the least as to signifie vnto them your cognisance the faire bright Starre which besides that hath his hid signification But to leaue these and although Typhis and Iason be bolde yet I hope moste Honourable Lorde I haue not theirs but Vatienus his face Whose simple Treatise of mine when I was excited to bestow it of your Lordship I straight wayes gathered with my selfe that you were not Licinius the Emperour which was malicious toward the learned neither yet Britannion an vtter enimie to the mother Science and hir daughter Discipline neyther yet Valentinian but rather contrariwise Iulius Caesar excelling both in Martiall prowesse and also serious after the inquisition of good Discipline or else Iulianus or Marcus Aurelius Which small gift of mine if your Lordshippe take in good worth I shall be encouraged after a while to enrich these and to attempt muche greater and better hereafter so soone as I shall attain to a little more ripenesse And thus ceasing to trouble your Lordshippe any more I make an end desiring GOD to blesse you in all his giftes both ghostly and bodilye and to continue you in long life and true Honour to his glory the helpe and assistance of others and your owne and endlesse comfort Amen Your Honors humble Orator Iohn Maplet The Preface to the Reader WHatsoeuer things sayth Cardane are of Natures tempering and dighting either in the earth his closet or entrayles or within the water being all voide of f●ling and mouing may well bee deuided and sorted into these foure kinds Earthes Liquors or Iuices Stones Mettalles Earthes saith Diascorides in his fift booke as also the same Author abouesaide haue their difference eyther in colour in smell in sauour or else otherwise in other their vse purposes Proper or pertinent to earths are many sundrie kindes and sorts as those which either are in house with them and fare as they fare as Sande which Isidore nameth the lightest carth as others or those which are neuer absent from the earth but are intermedled with the water as Alume which of some is called the ●arth his salt as salt it selfe and such like In earthes are diuers dispositions and farre diuers effects which thing Diascorides pursueth aboundantly there are also reckned diuers names of diuers kindes as that of Eretria a famous Citie in the I le of Eubea hath his sett and disposition of colour and shew ashie like and is in his kinde in operation a sore binder besides this marueilously colde And that that is plentifull in Chium in Eubea also for there is of this name besides this two more one a Citie of Caria and another in Rhodes by Triopia in effect and working is farre otherwise which being aplied or vsed in medicine drieth vp and burneth The like dissent is in porcions of ground with diuers Inhabitants of opposite quarters Climates which by commō name they cal earthes as in Samia is a most tough earth like to that natural Lime which is called Bitumen But let vs come to Brimstone which is the father of Mettals as Mercurie or Quicksiluer their Mother Brimstone saith Harmolaus in Greeke is called Theion Isidore will haue it called Sulphur for that it soone renneth on fire It groweth as they both agree in the y●es of Aeolia betweene Sicilie Italie that is best that groweth in Melus a towne of Thessalie which Nicius the Althenien captaine wanne by famishing the inhabitaunts Further it groweth within the Hilles of Neopolitane companions of those which be called Leucogei Harmolous saith that there be foure kindes heareof The first which is called Apuron liue Alume this is solide and most massey almost on clottes which kind onely Phisicions vse The second which is called Bolus a lumpe like mettall The third is called Egula vsed commonly of Fullers to make their wull and yarne whight The fourth which is called Cauton which they vse in the wicke of Lampes of Oyle Candels Thus much of this Quicksiluer in Greeke is called ydrargyros it is as