Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	house_n	king_n	time_n	12,858	5	3.5925	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61490	The twelve moneths, or, A pleasant and profitable discourse of every action, whether of labour or recreation, proper to each particular moneth branched into directions relating to husbandry, as plowing, sowing, gardening, planting, transplanting ... as also, of recreations as hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, coursing, cockfighting : to which likewise is added a necessary advice touching physick ... : lastly, every moneth is shut up with an epigrame : with the fairs of every month / by M. Stevenson.	Stevenson, Matthew, d. 1684.	1661 (1661)	Wing S5510; ESTC R24625	35,911	65

plant or transplant all manner of fruit-trees as Apples Peares Plums Cherries Filbert Walnut The fittest time of setting all manner of Plants or Quicksets the weather open and the ground easie is from the change to the first Quarter You may now geld such Cattle as ye intend the state of the Moon alwayes considered and such as are sick or weak ye may drench Kine with Verjuice and London-Triacle and Horses with your common Mashes of water and ground Malt and a little Bran. The time is good to reare Calves and remove Bees Now for the recreations of this Month they are within or without doores within as it relates to Christmasse it shares the chearfull carrolls of the wassell cup Beasts Fowls and Fish come to a generall Execution and Hecatombs are sacrificed to cold weather and Cards and Dice purge many a purse and the ventrous youth shew their agility in shooing the Wild-Mare The Lord of misrule is no meane man for his time a good fire heats all the house and a full Alms-basket sets the beggar to his prayers Masking and Mumming and choosing King and Queen the meeting of the friendly and the mirth of the honest For out door Recreations Now does the early Hunts-man prevent the Sun-rise and watches the Stag to his Leire which this month he expects in the Corne fields of wheat and Rye and having lodg'd him home he comes for his Horne and his deep mouth'd Quire now are the pampered Pransers trampling the Plaines as greedy of sport as their Masters Now are the finders cast off and after a ring or two about in goe the full mouth'd chorus and now the Hunts-man comforts the Hounds with his Horn and the sight of the Stagg Now the Horses try their heels and the Riders their throats whilst the empty Woods Eccho the thunder with a double resound The horses sweat the Hunts-man frets and the Stag is imbost the next and last refuge is a sett or a Soyle then comes the death of the Deere and the Talbot supples his Tongue and his Master his hands with the reeking blood Now the Woodcock and the Pheasant pay their lives for their feed and the Hare after a Course makes his Hearse in a Pye The Oxe and the fat Weather now furnish the Market and the poor Coney is so ferrited that she cannot keep in her Burrough The Curryer and the Lime-Rod are the death of the Fowle and a long Peece and a good water Spaniel are no bad company The Faulcons Bells ring the Mallards knell and the Hare and the Hound put the Huntsman to the horne The barren Doe subscribes to the dish and the smallest seed makes sawce for the greatest flesh but the shoulder of an hog is a shooing horne for good drink The Maid is stirring betimes and slipping on her shooes and her Petticoat groaps for the tinder box where after a conflict between the steele and the stone she begets a spark at last the Candle lights on his March then upon an old rotten foundation of broaken boards she erects an artificiall fabrick of the black Bowels of New-Castle soyle to which she sets fire with as much confidence as the Romans to their Funerall Pyles the comfortable light whereof is the good fellows Cynosure and becomes more magnetick then the Loadstone for there he stayes till like the fly he scorches himself in the flame which like that strange Lightning melts the Blade in the Scabberd I mean the plate in his Pocket whilst he is making his offering to Ceres and Bacchus To conclude this Month is the rich mans charge and the poor mans misery The Names of the principall Fairs in England and Wales observed in the Month of Ianuary The 3 day at Llanibither the 5 at Hicketford in Lancashire the 6 being Twelf day at Salisbury at Bristow the 7 day at Llanginny the 25. day at Bristol at Churchingford at Gravesend the 31. at Llandyssel Reader I have describ'd this Month to you And what you ought and what you ought not doe If you my counsell follow much good doe ye If you neglect it I say nothing to ye I tell you what this or that writer saith Yet on their sleeves I will not pin your faith I write of work and recreation too Which you will follow that I leave to you Thus not to flatter I have taken paines That if you will not I may have the gaines Februarius 28 days FEBRUARY NOw is the aspiring Sun got a Cock-stride of his climbing and the humble Valleyes are covered with a Rug of snow whilst the lofty Mountaines obvious to every blast are nipt to the heart with a cold Neptune hath glazed his wavy Court and left not ●o much as a Casement for his scaly subjects and finny friends to look out at who are therefore gone downe to his Cellars to carouze it to the Sun that Ambassadour of Heaven that ere long will dissolve their icy fetters and pay his golden beames for their ransome The Frog goes to seek out the Paddock and the Crow and the Rook mislike their old Mates The Usurer now is lapt in his furres and the poor makes his breath a fire to his fingers ends Beauty is maskt for feare of the Aire and the flea hath his subterfuge in the wool of a blanket Cards and Dice have scarce yet got their Harvest in and Sack and good Ale are the cause of civill Warres Muscovia Commodities are now in much request and down beds and quilted Caps are in the pride of their service whilst the Cook and 〈◊〉 Pantler are men of no meane office An apple and a nutmeg make a merry Gossips feast and the Ale and the Faggot are the Victuallers merchandise The delay of Law-suits is the death of hope and a cold almes mak●s the beggar shrug The terme travellers makes the Shoo-makers Harvest and the Chaundle●s Cheese makes the Chalk walk apace The Fishmonger sorts his water-work for Lent and beats the poor Stock-fish for his stubbo●nness whilst the Herring domineers as a Lord of great Service and though but yestarday a sorry Jack-sprat he calls himself King of Fishes The fruit of the Dairy makes a hungry Feast whilst fasting and mourning is the Life of the poor and the Dogs are grown leane fo● want of bones and make good Album Graecum a sca●ce Commodity The Beasts of the forrest have a bare feed and the hard Crufts try the beggars teeth The barefooted Colt hath a ragged coat and the half mewed h●ad ●isgraceth the Deere The Shepheard hath but little pleasure in hi● pipe and the Souldier finds cold comfort in the sconce Penury pinches the Prisoners heart and the deep fallowes weary the Hunts-man The Fisherman is now the Raker of the Sea and every day sacrifices to his ow● Net The Aire is sharp and piercing and the winds blow cold the Tavernes and the Inns seldome lack guests and the Ostler knowes how to make p●ofit of his hay The hunting Horse is at the heels of