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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	teach_v	young_a	youth_n	48	3	7.5271	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36570	Academia, or, The humours of the University of Oxford in burlesque verse / by Mrs. Alicia D'Anvers.	D'Anvers, Alicia.	1691 (1691)	Wing D220; ESTC R22808	21,345	78

good a staid at home and thresh John And so have ever been a Freshman And vvhere vvas this cryes Bess at Queens There Mr. William vvent it seems Queens ay says John as neat a place As could be made to hold her Grace O ay cryes Tom I think I 've heard so The Queen was once a Schollar there too Cries John 't is true from thence it came That ever since it has her Name Tom asks what fine things to be seen Beside the Colledge of the Queen Cries John a many in the Town First there 's a houge'ous masty * A Tree cut into the shape of a Giant the Face Alablaster Clown As you go into th' Physick Garden Master ne're shew'd me but I star'd in The Yat's all hung about with whimwhoms As Fishes Bones and other thingums This Giant stands as you come first in For I took heart at last to thrust in His Head has got an Iron Cap on To keep of Showers or what might happen His Face is like a Man's to see to And yet his Bodies but a Tree too Strutting 'a holds a Club on 's Shoulder Which makes him look more fierce and bolder And I was told there was another Which now is * There was two of these the great Frost destroyed one dead and was his Brother I went on th' other side to eye'n Not careing much to come to nye'n Least with his Club he should be doing But the Folks said one might go to him But for my part I did not care To look in 's Face he did so stare There lyes a * A great Whale-bone Tooth I tell a Fib too Some call 't a Tooth but most a Rib do A vast thing 't is what e're it be And put there for a Rarity When you are gone a little further You happen just on such another * A Tree cut in the shape of a Crane A Crane it is as People tell ye Grow'ing from a Tree Stalk by the Belly Whether alive or no's no knowing Her Bill touts up just as if crowing Well! they all bless'd themselves that heard it How John beheld it and ne're fear'd it But what they stood the most upon Sir Was how he slip't by the Man Monster Which made his Fellow Servants say John had more mind to Sights then they But as for Elsabeth she cry'd If I had seen it I had dy'd John being wiser term'd them Fools Well thence I hobl'd to the Schools Listning cryes John to hear a Noise there But then belike there were no Boys there For if there had there'd been a lurry Such as Dogs make that Cattle worry Look ye the Housen all are Tyl'd The Door way's Pitch'd I was so foil'd With the damn'd Stones where one goes They do so knock and bump ones Toes The Schools de' e mark 's a very fair place With Rooms built round it but a square place The Doors all something writ upon By which there 's something may be known I ask'd a Scollard that stood leaning What that was writ for and the meaning Hoa told me that they was a Tu d Now I 've forgot it ev'ry word No matter so much I can tell ye One may be taught there all things well'y That * Astronomy School Schools to learn ye conjuring * Musick School 'Tother to Whistle and to Sing And how to play upon the Fiddle To keep the Lads from being idle But what to greater good amounts A * Aritbmetick School School they have to teach Accounts By which each one may cast up nearly How many Farthings he spends yearly A Door I spy'd was open standing I budg'd no farther then my Band in But by a Scollard I was holp in A civil Youth and a well spoken We went together up the Stair Case Going till coming to a * Library rare place As thick of Books as one could thatch 'um And Ladders stood about to reach ' um On each side were two * Two Globes round things standing Made so to turn about with handing By * Coelestial one they knew as I am told When Weather would be whot or cold What time for setting and for sowing When to prune Trees the best for growing By this they make the Almanacks And twenty other harder knacks And 't is by this they conjure too Man Knowing a Thief from any true Man So that you 'd think ths Devil 's in 'um Goods lost or stole again to bring 'um And tho' a good while I have seen it I ne're can count you half that 's in it The * Terrestrial other thing when round it 's whurld Shews all the Roads about the World May find if well you look about There all the Ponds and Rivers out But that the Schollard was in haste so Hoa wou'd have shewn our House at last too So I went all about the Meeting Some People in their Pews were * Schollars at Study sitting Tho' but a few here and there one The Minister not being come I 'le say 't I long'd to hear the Preaching I warran't'ee ay 't was dainty Teaching I ask'd a young Youth what it mean'd That all them Conjuring Books are chain'd Hoa said they being full of Cunning It seems would else have * Or Stolen been for running Before they had them Chains they say A number of them run away There 's such an Oceant still I wonder'd How they could miss a thousand hunder'd But that indeed again is something They can know all things by the round thing As I went on the * students disturbed Folk that reads Would many times pop up their Heads And douck 'um down may hap again And these are call'd the Learned Men. And look for all the World as frighted But were I to be hang'd or knighted I can't imagine what mought ail'd 'um For could they think one wou'd a steal'd 'um Well by and by there 's one comes to me I thought the Fellow might have knew me Hoa said I must not make a stomping And that it was no place to jump in Whop Sir thought I and what ado's here About the Nails that in ones Shoes are Hoa told me that the Men were earning A world of something by their Learning And that a Noise might put them out So that they ne're could bring 't about Well cause hoa made a din about ' um I daff'd my Shoes and went without ' um The Fellow ‖ or smil'd gern'd and cry'd what 's that for I said and what would you be at Sir My Shoes I take under my Arm Rather than do their Worships harm Because I would not leave the room Before the Minister be come At that hoa laugh'd so for my part I thought the Fool would break his Heart I vvas so mad to see ' n flout ma I long'd almost to lay about ma But thinking that might there be Evil I thought ' t vvere better to be civil Tying my Shoes upon my