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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	conscience_n	life_n	write_v	2,698	5	5.9690	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20072	Nevves from hell brought by the Diuells carrier. Tho: Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1606 (1606)	STC 6514; ESTC S105254	31,406	64

but assuring him he would enforme his Mr. the King of Erebus of al that was spoken he payd the boat hyre fitting his Knighthood leapt ashore and so parted The wayes are so playne our trauayler on foot so familyar with them that hee came sooner to the court gates of Auernus then his fellow the Wherry-man could fasten his hooke on the other side of Acheron The porter though he knew him wel inough and fawnd vpon him would not let him passe till he had his due for euery officer there is as greedy of his Fees as they are heere You mistake if you imagine that Plutoes porter is like one of those big fellows that stand like Cyants at Lords gates hauing bellies bumbasted with ale in Lambs-wool and with Sacks and cheeks strutting out like two footebals being blowen vp with powder beefe brewis yet hee 's as surly as those Key-turners are but lookes as little more scuruily No no this doorekeeper wayts not to take money of those that passe in to behold the Infernall Tragedyes neyther has hee a lodge to dyne sup in but only a kennell and executes his bawling office meerely for victuals his name is Cerberus but the howsehold call him more properly The Black dog of Hell Hee has three heads but no hayre vpon them the place is too hot to keep hayre on for in stead of hayr they are al curl'd ouerwith snakes which reach frō the crowns of his 3. heads alongst the ridge of his back to his very taile that 's wreathed like a dragōs twenty couple of hounds make not such a damnable noyse when they howle as he does whē he barks his property is to wag his tayle when any comes for entrance to the gate to lick their hands but vpon the least offer to scape out he leaps at their throats sure hee 's a mad dog for wheresoeuer he bites it rankles to the death His eyes are euer watching his eares euer listning his pawes euer catching his mouths are gaping Insomuch that day night he lyes howling to bee sent to Paris Garden rather then to bee vs'de so like a curre as he is The Post to stop his throat threw him a Sop and whyl'st hee was deuouring of that he passed through the gates No sooner was he entred but hee met with thousands of miserable soules pyneond and dragd in chaines to the Barre where they were to receiue their triall with bitter lamentations bewayling al the way as they went and with lowd execratiōs cursing the bodyes with whom they somtimes frollickly kept company for leading them to those impietyes for which they must now euen to their vtter vndoing deerely answere it was quarter Sessions in Hell and though the Post-master had bin at many of their Arraignments knew the horror of the Executions yet the very sight of the prisoners struck him now into an astonishable amazement On not withstanding hee goes with intent to deliuer the Supplication but so busy was the Behomoth the prince of the Deuils and such a presse was within the Court and about the Barre that by no thrusting or shouldring could hee get accesse the best time for him must be to watch his rising at the adiourning of the Sessions and therefore he skrews himselfe by all the insynuating Arte he can into the thickest of the crow'd within reach of the clarke of the Peaces voyce to heare all their Inditements The Iudges are set beeing three in number seuere in looke sharp in Iustice shrill in voyce vnsubiect passion the prisoners are soules that haue cōmitted Treason against their Creation they are cald to the Barre their number infinit their crimes numberlesse The Iury that must passe vpon them are their sins who are impanel'd out of the seueral countryes and are sworne to finde whose Conscience is the witnes who vpon the booke of their liues where all their deeds are written giues in dangerous euidence against them the Furies who stand at the elbowe of their Conscience are there readie with stripes to make them confesse for either they are the Beadels of Hell that whip soules in Lucifers Bridewell or else his Executioners to put them to worse Torments The Inditements are of seueral qualities according to the seuerall offences Some are arraigned for ambition in the Court Some for corruptiō in the Church Some for crueltie in the camp Some for hollow-hartednes in the Citie Some for eating men aliue in the Country euery particular soule has a particular sinne at his heeles to condemne him so that to pleade not guiltie were folly to begge for mercy madnesse for if any should do the one he can put himselfe vpon none but the diuel his angels and they to make quicke worke giue him his pasport If do the other the hands of ten Kings vnder their great Seales wil not be taken for his pardō For though Conscience comes to this Court poore in attire diseased in his flesh wretched in his face heauy in his gate and hoarse in his voice yet carries he such stings within him to torture himselfe if hee speak not truth that euery word is a Iudges sentēce and when he has spoken the accused is suffred neyther to pleade for him selfe nor to fee any Lawier to argue for him In what a lamentable condition therefore stands the vnhappie prisoner his Inditement is Impleadable his euidence irrefutable the fact impardonable the Iudge impenitrable the Iudgment formidable the tortures insufferable the manner of them invtterable he must endure a death without dying torments ending with worse beginnings by his shrikes others shall be affrighted himself afflicted by thousands pointed at by not one amongst millions pittied hee shall see no good that may helpe him what he most does loue shal be taken from him and what he most doth loathe shal be powred into his bosom Adde herevnto the saide cogitation of that dismall place to which he is condemned the remembrance of which is almost as dolorous as the punishments there to be endured In what colours shall I laie downe the true shape of it Assist me Inuention Suppose that being gloriously attired deliciously feasted attended on maiestically Musicke charming thine eare beauty thine eye that in the very height of all worldly pompe that thought can aspire to thou shouldest be tombled downe from some high goodly pinnacle builded for thy pleasure into the bottome of a Lake whose depth is immeasurable and circuit incomprehensible And that being there thou shouldest in a moment be ringed about with all the murtherers that euer haue beene since the first foundation of the world with all the Atheists all the Church-robbers all the Incestuous Rauishers and all the polluted villaines that euer suckt damnation from the brests of black Impietie that the place it selfe is gloomie hideous and in accessible pestilent by damps and rotten vapors haunted with spirits and pitcht all ouer with cloudes of darknesse so clammy and palpable that the eye of the Moone is