Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00364	A letter sent by I.B. Gentleman vnto his very frende Maystet [sic] R.C. Esquire vvherin is conteined a large discourse of the peopling & inhabiting the cuntrie called the Ardes, and other adiacent in the north of Ireland, and taken in hand by Sir Thomas Smith one of the Queenes Maiesties priuie Counsel, and Thomas Smith Esquire, his sonne.	I. B., gentleman.; Smith, Thomas, Sir, 1513-1577. Offer and order given forth by sir Thomas Smyth knight, and Thomas Smyth hys sonne.	1572 (1572)	STC 1048; ESTC S100377	22,087	62

surer way thā to couet héerein at the firste getting the Princes aide which if you shal haue done it were reason we should both pay bigger rente haue worse estates as they haue alreadie in other places of Irelande on that sorte lately wonne Nowe you sée I haue not only answered you to your questiō and resolued you of your dout but haue opened to you a secrete of mine enterprise which maketh many that know not so much condemne me for taking it in hande There resteth yet master Smith said I one poynt to be alleaged héerein which is this that there are not many can beare this first charge and be willing to doe it also With that he paused a while and there replied again as foloweth If there be any thing that may hinder in dede this enterprise or make it vaine it is that that you haue nowe spoken of namely good councel slowly folowed but you shal heare what likelihoodes and hope I haue to the contrarie I am sure you are persuaded that all enterprises are very much either furthered or hindered by the times in which they are taken in hand For if Amintas grandfather to the great Alexander the estate of the Macedonians being then small and weake had taken in hande the ouerthrowing of the Persian Empire he had neuer done it nor Philip which prepared the Macedonians to such an enterprise whome by sundry conquestes vppon his neighbors he had fleshed to the warre and by continual exercise had made them almost perfect souldiours for now desired they nothing but worke and the spoile of some riche kingdome Which when Alexander perceiued he toke the aduauntage of the time and had good successe so you may sée the time and inclination of the Macedonians was in déede of more effect to bring the enterprise to passe than Alexanders onely disposition coulde haue bene who was but a yong man and not much experienced at that time More examples I will not vse but declare vnto you that my greatest hope is in the time wherein I am which I consider on this sorte England was neuer that can be heard of fuller of people than it is at this day and the dissolution of Abbayes hath done two things of importance heerin It hath doubled the number of gentlemen and mariages whereby commeth daily more increase of people and suche yonger brothers as were wonte to be thruste into Abbayes there to liue an idle life sith that is taken from them must nowe séeke some other place to liue in By thys meanes there are many lacke abode and fewe dwellings emptie With that our lawe which giueth all to the elder brother furthereth much my purpose And the excessiue expence bothe in diet and apparell maketh that men which haue but small portions can not maintaine them selues in the emulation of this world with like countenance as the grounded riche can do thus stand we at home Then went I to examine the estate of Countreis abrode and found that all the Countreis adiacent round aboute were as wel peopled or better than we be or else more barren so that except we might master and expel the inhabitants it wold not auaile But therfore or for any other cause to fall in variance with Fraunce or Spaine were but as the rubbing of one boughe against an other with the winde where bothe fret neither increaseth Scotland besides that is barren is ruled by a frend king and peopled sufficiently freland is the Quéenes inheritaunce many countreis there as that which I demaūd giuen to hir by acte of Parliament of the same realme others hirs by dissents the which lye almoste desolate To inhabite reforme so barbarous a nation as that is and to bring them to the knoweledge and lawe were bothe a godly and commendable déede and a sufficiēt worke for our age All these things happening togither in my time when I had cōsidered I iudged surely that God did make apte and prepare this nation for such a purpose There resteth only to persuade the multitude alreadie destined therto with will and desire to take the matter in hande Let vs therefore vse the persuasions which Moses vsed to Israel they will serue fitly in this place tell them that they shall goe to possesse a lande that floweth with milke and hony a fertile soile truly if there be any in Europe whether it be manured to corne or left to grasse There is Timber stone plaister state commodious for building euery where aboundant a countrey full of springs riuers and lakes bothe small and greate full of excellent fishe and foule no parte of the countrey distant aboue viij miles from a moste plentifull sea or land water able to beare lode You say wel sayd I then But men are more moued by peculiar gaine than of respecte they haue to common profite Mary answereth he they shal haue their peculiar portions in that frutefull soile being but as a vootie to be deuided amongs them And this shall be the quantitie which a foote man shall haue videlicet a plowe lande which containeth a C. and. xx Acres Jrishe but you will vnderstande it better by English measure A plowland shall containe CC. lv acres of earable grounde Then can there not lie in any country almost especially so full of bottomes as that soile is so muche earable lande together but there will lie also entermingled therewith sloppes slips and bottomes fitte for pasture and meading and commodious to be annexed to the same plowlande so that the whole may amount to CCC acres at the leaste I pray you tell me if you had so much good grounde in Essex would you not take it for a pretie farme and yet a horsse man shall haue double videlicet sixe C. Acres of ground one with an other at the least wherof there is v. CCCCCx acres earable the rest medow pasture I beléeue you would call that in Essex a good manor and yet these are the least deuisions I purpose to make sauing a ploweland or two in euery parish that I thinke good to deuide to laborers and artificers but I am not of the manner thereof yet fully resolued This is good sayde I if a man mighte haue it as easely rented Judge you I pray you saith he They shall pay for euery Acre of eareable lande one penie starling as for the pasture and medowe they shal haue it as reasonable as the eareable in some places better cheape according to the goodnesse of the ground But this is the greatest rent I must haue vpon euery such plowland one able English footeman or vppon his two plowlandes one horsse man maintained to be ready at all times for the defence of the whole coūtry abiding eyther vpon the same plowland or else vppon the frontier which may be peraduēture x. or xy miles distant at the vttermosts moste commonly nearer I intend not that this lying in the frontier shall be continuall but one shall relieue an other by quarters some in