Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	word_n	worth_n	write_v	60	3	4.7520	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13462	A kicksey winsey: or a lerry come-twang: wherein Iohn Taylor hath satyrically suited 800. of his bad debters, that will not pay him for his returne of his iourney from Scotland	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1619 (1619)	STC 23767; ESTC S103249	10,348	42

they could no satisfaction make And honesty this document doth teach That man shall neuer striue aboue his reach Yet haue they reacht and ouerreacht me still To do themselues no good and me much ill But farewell friends if you againe do come And pay me either all or none or some I looke for none and therefore still delay me You onely do deceiue me if you pay me Yet that deceit from you were but my due But I looke ne're to be deceiu'd by you Your stockes are poore your Creditors are store Which God increase and decrease I implore 7. Those that are as farre from honesty as a Turke is from true Religion SEuenthly and last's a worthy worthlesse crew Such as heau'n hates hell on earth doth spew And God renounce dam them are their praiers Yet some of these sweete youths are good mens heires But vp most tēderly they haue bin brought And all their breeding better fed then taught And now their liues floate in damnations streame To Stab drab kil swil tear swear stare blaspheme In imitation worse then diuels apes Or Incubusses thrust in humane shapes As bladders full of others wind is blowne So selfe conceit doth puffe them them of their owne They deeme their wit all other men surpasses And other men esteem them witlesse asses These puckfoyst Cockbrain'd coxcōbs shallow pated Are things that by their taylors are created For they before were simple shapelesse wormes Vntill their makers lick'd them into formes T' is ignorant Idolatry most base To worship Sattin Sathan or gold lace T' adore a veluet varlet whose repute Stinkes odious but for his perfumed suite If one of these to serue some Lord doth get His first taske is to sweare himselfe in debt And hauing pawn'd his soule to Hell for oathes He pawnes those othes for newfoūd fashiō clothes His carcasse cased in this borrowed case Imagines he doth me exceeding grace If when I meete him he bestowes a nod Then must I thinke me highly blest of God And though no wiser then a foole he be A good luck on him hee 's too wise for me He with a courtly trick or a flim flam Doth nod at me whilst I the noddy am One part of Gentry he will ne're forget And that is that he ne're will pay his dett To take and to receiue they hold it fit But to requite or to restore's no wit Then let them take and keepe but knocks and pox And all diseases from Pandora's box And which of them sayes that I raue or raile Let him but pay and bid me kisse his T. But sure the Diuell hath taught them many a trick Beyond the numbring of Arithmetick I meete one thinking for my due to speake He with cuasions doth my purpose breake And askes what news I heare from France or Spaine Or where I was in the last shower of raine Or when the Court remooues or what 's a clock Or where 's the wind or some such windy mock With such fine scimble seemble spitter spatter As puts me cleane besides the mony matter Thus with poore mungrell shifts with what where when I am abused by these things like men And some of them do glory in my want They being Romists I a Protestant Their Apostaticall Iniunctions saith To keepe their faith with me is breach of faith For 't is a Maximm of such Catholicks T is Meritorious to plague Hereticks Since it is so pray pay me but my due And I will loue the Crosse as well as you And this much further I would haue you know My shame is more to aske then yours to owe I begge of no man 't is mine owne I craue Nor do I seeke it but of them that haue There 's no man was inforc'd against his will To giue his word or signe vnto my bill And i' st not shame nay more then shame to heare That I should be return'd aboue a yeare And many Rich men words and bills haue past And tooke of me both bookes both first and last Whilst twice or thrice a weeke in euery streete I meete those men and not my mony meete Were they not able me amends to make My conscience then would sooner giue then take But most of those I meane are full purs'd hindes Being beggerly in nothing but their minds Yet sure me thinkes if they would do me right Their minds should be as free to pay as write Neer threescore poūds the books I 'm sure did cost Which they haue had from me and I thinke lost And had not these mens tongues so forward bin Ere I my painfull iourney did beginne I could haue had good men in meaner Rayment That long ere this had made me better payment I made my iourney for no other ends But to get mony and to try my friends And not a friend I had for worth or wit Did take my booke or past his word or writ But I with thankefulnesse still vnderstood They tooke in hope to giue and do me good They took a book worth 12. pence were bound To giue a Crowne an Angell or a pound A Noble peice or halfe peice what they list They past their words or freely set their fist Thus got I sixteene hundred hands and fifty Which summe I did suppose was somewhat thristy And now my youths with shifts tricks cauils Aboue eight hundred playes the sharking Iauils I haue performed what I vndertooke And that they should keepe touch with me I looke Foure thousand and fiue hundred bookes I gaue To many an honest man and many a knaue Which bookes and my expence to giue them out A long yeere seeking this confused rout I'm sure it cost me seuenscore pounds and more With some suspition that I went on score Besides aboue a thousand miles I went And though no mony yet much time I spent Taking excessiue labour and great paines In heat cold wet and drie with feete and braines With tedious toyle making my heart strings ake In hope I should content both giue and take And in requitall now for all my paine I giue content still and get none againe None did I say I 'le call that word agen I meete with some that pay me now and then But such a toyle I haue those men to seeke And finde perhaps 2 3 or 4 a weeke That too too oft my losing gettings be To spend 5. crownes in gathering in of three And thus much to the world I dare auow That my oft walkes to get my mony now With my expences seeking of the same Returning many a night home tir'd and lame Meeting some thirty forty in a day That sees mee knowes me owes me yet none pay Vs'd and abus'd thus both in towne and Court It makes me thinke my Scottish walke a sport I muse of what stuffe these men framed be Most of them seeme Muckado vnto me Some are Standfurther off for they endeauer Neuer to see me or to pay me neuer When first I saw them they