Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	know_v	name_n	write_v	5,306	5	5.6704	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91426	The poet's blind mans bough, or have among you my blind harpers : being a pretty medicine to cure the dimme, double, envious, partiall, and diabolicall eyesight and iudgement of those dogmaticall, schismaticall, aenigmaticall, and nou [sic] gramaticall authors who lycentiously, without eyther name, lycence, wit or charity, have raylingly, falsely, and foolishly written a numerous rable of pesteferous pamphelets in this present (and the precedent yeare, / justly observed and charitably censured, by Martine Parker.	M. P. (Martin Parker), d. 1656?	1641 (1641)	Wing P443; Thomason E172_6; ESTC R212687	6,603	16

curish writers they may domineere The Presse is overprest and justly grones Vnder the burthen of those heavie tones Of Scritch-oule musick threatning death and hell One striving all in malice to excell And he who can best rayle scoffe and invent The greatest lyes shall give the most content Is this the age that doth most truth professe Are these the dayes of zeale and righteousnesse Are these the times that hath more light discover'd Revealing secrets that in darknes er'd Why then O why are lyes and falshhoods spread Shall men by lying earne their daily bread Shall truth thus suffer paper persecution Shall things well ordred hazard a confusion By those unsanctified pens which write Nothing but what to mischiefe may incite Inventing still the theory of plots Which none to practise ever thought these sots Bewray their folly for they want both wit And judgement for their fables doe not fit The last of probability which should Produce such reasons for the tale that 's told That they who heare it may conjecture that It may be true but these men care not what They write be 't contradictory or not So they can get the silver by the plot But as friends I friendly them advise That if hereafter they write any lyes Let them mote likely be then that which was Composed by some short hayr'd long ear'd Ass Of a strange plot beyond immagination To give the Arch-Bishop his free relaxation Out of the Tower by Necromantick spells Themselves did only know it but none els Note how that ancient lyer most accurst A lyer even from the very first Beginning of the world by 's instruments With subtilty mens judgements circumvents Making the fabrick of his building all Of lyes which fooles esteeme Authenticall Yet power divine so boundeth him and his That of there envious aimes they often mis Shaming themselves by over reaching so That even to fooles their shame they freely sho As well appeares in this immagin'd plot Making the world beleeve that which was not Had such a thing being 't was knowne a fiction And might at hom expect a contradiction Bin fain'd to be in Cornwall or in Wales Cumberland or Yorkeshire then such tales Perhaps might win beleefe but heere i' the city Where every child of eight yeares old that 's witty Knowes there was no such thing oh what disgrace Is this toth ' Author durst he show his face Or set his name toth ' fable stay there sir Wee 'll not be knowne so palpably to er The aime the Authour shot at is to bring Papists in hatred 't is a pious thing But tell me brother how orby what chance Cam'st thou to play on peoples ignorance Think'st thou the worlds all wild and all men mad That they 'll condeme those whom thou countest bad Hath not the Honorable Parliament That hopefull Senate wisedome to prevent Such machinations if there any were But who must dictate to them do'st not feare Future examinations for such crimes Or dost thou meane ever to trust these times What is th'archbishop to the Papists that They should adventure life and frrtune at So deare a rate he never was their friend Arminians never did on Roome depend T is knowne apparently what sad report Papists may give the High commission Court 'T was high indeede for them two high a rate Poore men did pay which might exact a hate Rather then love but charity sayes no Let law take place 't is fit it should be so Heaven grant his Grace from the well spring of grace And that he may returne while hee hath space Vnto the throwne of grace by penetence Let us not agravate what 's his offence Nor whiles I 'm speaking of th'Archbishops case Let me examine that malicious base And sencelesse Libell Mercuries Message nam'd Whom the Authour to recognize was asham'd And well he might for amongst his lyes unholy One thing ath ' first doth most bewray his folly And that 's the Cronagram which he to make Upon th' Arch-bishops name doth undertake And by the numegall letters there expresse He would denote the number of the beast Mention'd in the Apocalips which is Six hundred sixtie six now censure his Deduction and doubt not but you 'll finde As I have done the beast lay's beastly minde How like a monstrous beast 'twixt dogge and asse He enviously and simply doth passe His verdiction the man for thus writes he 'T is WILL LAWD Two V's he numbers ten J one three L's Seven score and ten thus he his lesson speles V for five more D for five hundred thus He makes sixe hundred sixtie sixt let us Confesse 't is true so farre but to condem The Prisoner he omits both I and M Which is the name and makes the number even One thovsand sixe hundred sixty seven See now this envious Cynick how to win Credit ' mongst fooles commits a deadly sin For surely malice was predominant Nor can I think the foole so Ignorant As that he would or could assume to frame A Chronagram and knew not the right name Or else his spight was so toth ' Bishops that He would deprive him o th' most part of what His God-father did give him at the Font. Is this your calculation out upon 't But should this envious Authour undertake A Chronagram or Anagram to make For any one of whom he is a lover Wer 't an unlern'd Translator or a Glover A Currier or a Weaver then no doubt Rather then hee would leave leter out Hee 'd venture to exchange or else to adde So he could make a good sence of a bad He would perhaps But M. In the N's place To make it answer to the yeare of grace But the Arch-Bishop whom few now applaud Must be contented to be called Will Laud. But one thing I much marvell at which is That he who answerd it with th' cimphasis Of wit and sence who stoutly did defend the arch-Bishop as his Champion and true friend Exacting praise from some from others blame Yet never censur'd this false chronagram Which negligence and monsterous over-fight Extenuats his credit who did write That Vindication passed as the rest Without the Authors name though it is guest That Thomas Herbert wrote it but that fame Rose from th'Acrostick known to be his name Written by him ath ' end o th' booke that 's all The reason which indeed 's irationall For no man that 's the authour of a booke But sets his name whereon all easly looke Upon the frontispeece or title page Vnlesse he be proposterous like the age But let that passe for I must passe from this To other things wherein are more amis More malice more absurdity and more Nonsence then any mentioned before A plot discover'd of an army good Secretly lurking in a private wood If any such be in Northhamptonshire Where Souldiers all unknowne to th' neighbours neere Could lie in ambush such a multitude And be maintain'd with quotidian-food With other necessaries fit for men Let any