Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	air_n	element_n	fire_n	13,062	5	7.1789	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07802	A piece of the world, painted in proper colours. Presented to the illusterous [sic] Majesty of our most gracious Queene Mary. / By Francis Lenton gent. Her Majesties poet..	Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640.; Raworth, John, d. 1645, printer.	1640 (1640)	STC 15464.5; ESTC S126745	28,071	164

A PIECE OF THE WORLD Painted in proper Colours Presented to the Illusterous Majesty of our most gracious Queene Mary By FRANCIS LENTON gent Her Majesties Poet. Dum vivio video Dum video rideo LONDON Printed by John Raworth 1640. To his most lov'd friend Mr. FRANCIS LENTON IF love not Learning May my lines prefer To front not grace thy well writ Character Or if a willing minde May plead th' excuse Of my unable More unworthy Muse Then take me with thee Frank I meane as well As he whose lines but few can parallell And tho my approbation Cannot adde Least lustre to thy booke Or mak 't be had In more esteeme Or free it from the mew of Simon Simple Or the senselesse Crew Who finding more New Characters will aske What 's he dares undertake So blunt a taske Then Master Criticke Comes and seemes to snarle Saying this worke Onely becomes an Earle Yet this I know Thine are so witty merry As Would have bin Allow'd by Overberry Had he e're seene ' em Boldly then goe on Well to enlarge what Thou hast well begun For in despight of Black-mouth'd Calumny Thy lines shall live Vnto posterity And after-times may With delightfull pleasures Find sportive mirth In reading Lentons leisures Thine ever JOHN COYSE The Contents A State Politician 1 A gallant Courtier 2 A young Barrister 3 A Commissary 4 A Parasite or Flatterer 5 An Vnorious man 6. A Countrey Widdow 7 A Chambermaid 8 A Broken Citizen 9 A Bawd 10 A Pander 11 A Darling 12 A Lawyers Clarke 13 A Farmer Tenant 14 A Double benefic't Parson 15 A Schoole-master 16 A Countrey Alewife 17 An Aldermans daughter 18 A Prodigall 19 An Vusurer 20 A Broker 21 A Bragadotio 22 A Sempster 23 A Prostitute or Whore 24 A Gamester 25 An Host 26 A Common Drunkard 27 An Elder Brother 28 An Innes a Court Gentleman 29 A Low Country Souldier 30 A Gentleman Vsher 31 A Cuckold 32 An Informer 33 A Bachelour 34 An Vndersheriffe 35 A Drawer 36 A good Husband 37 A constant man 38 A jealous man 39 A desparate man 40 A True friend 41 TO The Illustrious Majesty OF Great Brittaines Monarchesse Our most Gratious Queen MARIE MADAM MInerva now hath lent a Birth In waggish Prose to give your Grace some Mirth In which both Iuvenall and Martiall Meet and doe mixe their honey with their gall Here I adventured to cut a Sluce Into the Times enormious abuse I point at no Man single but Truth knowes That horse is gall'd that winches as he goes Laugh then blest Lady and amongst the rest Protect this Pamphlet peeping out in jest Your Graces servant Fran Lenton Characters 1. A State Polititian IS a great man deepely read in the mysteries of iniquity who being well grounded in the Theoricke assumes the Practique is an Effect of the Cause One whose much study hath cald him to more Care than Conscience that whatsoever by Power and Project he atchieves and accumulates to himselfe his pretence is still for the good of the Common-weale For the safety wherof he watcheth as a Foxe for his prey Forraigne estates are as familier with him as his owne for the knowledge whereof he spends much and gets more The vulgar honour him more for fear than love and either bark or are silent as his distance is from them Their popular applause hee esteemes not but laughes at their Envy in his higher Spheare soaring above their Capacities by the sides of Princes and seriously contemplating how to carry himselfe in the next Charge being never troubled with any alteration having his severall Postures for all for his Gravity his lookes and his language are neere allide this austere that severe for his Habit hee is all over furr'd but seldome or never foxt except at a Coronation In a word he climes up with much cost staggers there with many cares and commonly falls with more feares And those that never durst libell him living dare cowardly throw one of Iuvenals stones at his Grave 2. A Gallant Courtier IS the out side of a Statesman a little more gayly trimd up and as he is repleat with internall endowments so this is compleat with externall Complement He is a man so covetous that hee cannot deny you any thing and so carelesse after his grant that he will performe nothing One whom your Taylor is much bound to for his new fashion which is his p●ime study and he reciprocally for his Taylors faith which never goes without works both which concurre together till the day of account and then he is deferr'd till doomes day or else presently paid with Priviledge He hath more devices upon a new Doublet than Ovid had verses and those as Geometricall as his naturall He spares for no cost whilest he may be credited and when that failes he fals upon some full-mouth'd Lady whose marke hath beene long out where he stil prays but seld or never praies for ought but her death He is composed only of two Elements Ayre and Fire Levity and Choler having the predominance wanting water and earth humidity and solidity and holds nothing more ignoble than the defect of formality His Barber and his beard do hold a faire and even Correspondency and agree aswell as his head with its Perriwig of which how carefull he is the doffing his Beaver will discover even from Ludgate Hill if he dares come so nye it to Chairing Crosse his more secure walke His Congees are so common that few care for them and his bodye's most lowly when his mind 's most lofty Cupid is his key Venus his devotion and Mercury his messenger whilst he cornutes lame Vulcan You may smell him before you see him and see him long enough before you know him Hee is oftentimes his owne admirer and thinkes himselfe the onely object of others whilst they thinke him their abject In briefe his tongue and his heart are most commonly as great strangers as his hands and his actions or his large promises lame performances 3. A young Barrester IS one call'd too 't by Reading though he never read for 't and hath tane his leave of Littleton before he was wel acquainted with him At his first entrance he hath a very good Conscience and therefore loves the Chancery better than the Common-Law aswell for the effect of the one as the defect of the other where he lives by perpetuall motion as not yet ripened for those more harsh and ambiguous Demurres and arguments and subsists by the same till by stratagem in Law he hath surprised some Aldermans daughter by putting the Case rightly who through the greennesse of her youth and face is horne mad for a man of his profession His very calling writes him Esquire though his Scutchion sometimes cānot speak him Gentleman except by way of admittance He is very open-handed till his fee hath clutcht it and then he 's open mouth'd and will be sure to speak more than to th' purpose whilest his silly