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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	place_n	see_v	1,885	5	3.3195	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95554	The liar. Or, A contradiction to those who in the titles of their bookes affirmed them to be true, when they were false : although mine are all true, yet I terme them lyes. Veritas veritatis.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1641 (1641)	Wing T475; Thomason E169_8	2,247	8

THE LIAR OR A contradiction to those who in the titles of their Bookes affirmed them to be true when they were false although mine are all true yet I terme them lyes Veritas veritatis The Liar rackt Printed in the yeare 1641. A Booke of Lyes THere was an Englishman which travelled to the Swedish army and began to relate very strange passages which he had seene here in England thinking that travellers mightlye by authority for said he in the County of Berke at a place called Abingdon when the Earle of Strafford lost his head was such thundring and lightning and earthquakes that it is almost incredible Surely I thinke it is incredible indeed for I know 't is no such matter He told too that the very same day that my L. Archbishop of Canterbury was committed to the Tower there was a child born in the County of Somerset with a Miter on its head a marke on his breast like a Crucifix and many other strange things which were there seene Another time said he I saw a Lady goe over Thames at London starke naked without swimming for she cannot be drowned ergo shee is a witch Item he related unto them that the Bishop of Canterbury was little better then a Papist and that he was committed for that occasion to the Tower and that he was not like to be freed from thence till he came with his heeles forward Item he reported that Q. M. was to leave the fragrant soile of England and go into Italy Item he related that Sucklin Davenant and Pearcy were accused as traytors and fearing to be hanged fled for it beyond the Seas because they would not be chid Item he told them that Wrens nest was defiled and that the Jesuits and Friers had almost wept their eyes out for his fall Item all the Brownists and Anabaptists and the like of what age soever that shall come to be baptized may have a twenty shilling piece laid on his forehead as soone as the Minister shall have figned him with the signe of the Crosse Item There is a booke come out of the Kings entertainment in Scotland some certaine dayes before he came there Item he swore that he never did tell a lye in all his life Item hee vowed most deeply that the Scots were as many in number as the stars in the sky Item he told that the Turk and the Jew were as good friends as ever was friend to friend Item he most falsly protested that he suffered as much in Hungary of famine as ever did Germany in all its warres Item he vowed that our Bishops did bend like greene sticks and therefore he thought that they would never break and that they were all bowers to the Altar and Papists for they loved Images extraordinarily Item he told a most notable lye that Lawyers in England did scorne to take any fees for pleading any cause then said one How doe they live he answered like Camelions they feed upon the ayre and cloath themselves with honesty which is the warmest weed they can weare in these times Item he swore that any man might steale any thing now in England and never be shent for it for all the Iudges are hanged because they have taken bribes Item he protested that Gregory the Hangman is growne very rich because none are hanged Item he vowed he saw St. Pauls steeple stand in its owne place where it was built and Charing crosse quite ruinated Item hee told that there were a great many Puritans in England and that they did now so disturbe the quietnesse of the Commonwealth that it was now almost turned topsie turvy Item hee protested that all the women in England were growne precise and turned Preachers Item hee told them that it was as common a thing for Sow-gelders Tinkers Felt-makers Buttonmakers Weavers and Coblers to preach in a tub a joyn'd stoole or such like thing as for a man to drinke when he is thirsty They heard him with patience till hee had made an end of his lying and then they asked him whether yea or nay hee saw these things he spake of he presently swore all the oathts of God that he saw these things with his owne naturall eies which he had reported and he would maintaine it though he spent his dearest blood in the doeing of it well they heard his protestations and made a full account that they would prove his constancie whether he would be a Martyr yea or nay in the meane time they horsed him and this was the manner of it There was a great high thing raised to the hight of twelue of fourteene yards made of Iron whereon he was seated with two great weights on his toes and the like on his hands where he sate in great paine if he should chance to case himselfe upwards there were sharpe nailes over his head which would prick him thus he sate and thus he suffered till they had sufficiently made a laughing stock of him well when hee had suffered enough they let him downe and incontinently he came backe againe into this country where he related as followeth The Emperour saith he hath given such an overthow to the Sweeds that I thought not one would have returned againe the Canons roared the skies were dimmed with smoke and the earth shooke with an earthquake another time the Swedes gave the Emperour such an overthrow that I dare say he will never rise againe which made the Pope proclaime a fast for six and thenty weeks but a pox choak them they cate fish a little too much A little after there was a commet seene in the ayre forth the space of two moneths with great thundering and lightnings and such like which made all the whole Country amazed These and such like things he related till hee made the wearie eares of honest men glow and if they had served him as he was served before he had had his desert and hang him that would pittie him for me but in conceit either in the stocks cage counter or Bridewell I leave him Gentle reader I have heerre related under the name of lies nothing but trut tales for if a man doth now speake truth he shall be sure to smart for it now a daies either heere or in other places read gentlie and buy willingly FINIS