Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	write_n	write_v	writing_n	326	4	8.8356	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68419	Siuqila too good, to be true : omen : though so at a vewe yet all I tolde you is true, I vpholde you, now cease to aske why? for I can not lye : herein is shewed by way of dialogue, the wonderful maners of the people of Mauqsun, with other talke not friuolous.	Lupton, Thomas.	1580 (1580)	STC 16951.5; ESTC S1352	138,381	186

be kepte or performed as thoughe the partie that promised it were bounde in a thousand pound SIVQILA Perhaps the party that promised the thing was able at that time of the promise and yet vnable at the day of performance OMEN Then he must go before his day to the partie to whome he promised the thing shewing him his misfortune or losse who doubtlesse will be so charitable and pitiful and be so sorie for his neyghbours mishap or losse that he wyll graunt him whatsoeuer he wil reasonably require For wée haue a charitable loue one to another that we counte oure brothers or neighbours losse to be our losse SIVQILA What if he shoulde be so hard harted that he would not graunt him his reasonable request OMEN Then the partie that promised muste bring sufficient witnesses to the Iudge of his losse or hinderaunce or of his disabilitie to performe his promise since he promised it wherevppon the Iudge will take order therein as hée shall thinke good And the Iudge shall committe the or●ell and harde harted man to prison for thrée moneths to whom none shall graunte anye requeste or petuton all that while SIVQILA Truelye I woulde all suche stonye hearted wretches were so serudd But what if the partie that promiseth be able to performe it and yet breakes his promise OMEN Euerye suche promise breaker shal be compelled to performe it by the award of the Iudge whether he wyll or no and all the promises that haue bin made to hym a yeré before shall not be performed nor kept to him and that they be to any commoditie thereof one halfe thereof shall be employed to the vse of the King and the other halfe thereof shall be bestowed on the relieuing of his nexte poorest neyghbours and he shall weare on his sléeue a twelue month after these wordes following a promise breaker giuing men warning thereby not to deale with such a discrodible person SIVQILA But what if one promise more than he is able and take money for that he is not able to performe OMEN Then he shall be whipte thrée seuerall tymes and shall paye to the partie deceyued thrée times as muche money as he receyued and he shall weare on bys breaste a twelue monthe after in Parchment these words this is a deceyuer And euerye one that is a deceyuer or coosiner shall be thus serued SIVQILA But what if he haue consumed and spent the money and be not able to pay the same forfeyture OMEN Then he shall serue eyther the partye deceyued or some other vntil the said money be runne out or dyscharged SIVQILA If deceiuers coosiners were so vsed with vs we should not haue halfe so many w tin a while as we haue There are a great sort with vs y ● care no more for coosining and deceyuing of their very friendes muche lesse their enemies than a horsse cares to runne from his maister and let him come after on foote OMEN If they care no more then they care not verye muche Surely there is such credite and trust betwéene one and another with vs that there is almoste neuer anye wryting made betwéene partie and partie SIVQILA And truely there is such euill meaning and false dealing with vs and so little credite and trust betwéen one and another yea though the matter be neuer so small that there must be writings bonds and all little ynoughe For let the writings be neuer so firmely framed so aduisedly drawne nor so perfectly pende yet some more curious to do harme than carefull to doe good will prie in the same so narrowly that will finde suche a hoale that the parties if they be not the wiser shall poure throughe the same more money than they shall euer be able againe to putte in their pouch Truely men are maruellouslye altered for in olde time when they knewe lesse truth than we do they vsed lesse falshoode than we doe And why truely tenne lines then was sufficient for a thousande pound a yeare but a thousand lynes now is scant sufficient for tenne pounde a yere Wel I am enforced to say that trueth and simplicitie dyd dwell then togither but curiositie and falschoode are nowe ioyned in felowship But I pray you sir tell me will any wyth you sell their lands or let their lands twice or not OMEN What meane you by that how can one sell or let his landes more than once SIVQILA An honest man can not but a crastie Harlot maye Belyke it is little vsed in youre Countrey bycause you make suche a maruayle There are manye wyth vs more false than faithfull more craftie than credible and more shamelesse than shamefast that woulde if they coulde sell or lette their lands to tenne seuerall persons one after another so that they might haue money for it so manye times OMEN I muse what suche mischeuous men do meane They little remember the worthy sentence of Christ which is Whatsoeuer you woulde that men shoulde do to you euen so do yee to them I am sure they would be loath that other should handle them in that order SIVQILA Be bolde of that for though they are content to sel so yet they are not content to buy so They shewe themselues of whom they are the godly and charitable doe liue faithfully and fearefully héere and referre al to God at the last ende But the wicked craftie and deceitfull care not how they liue héere and referre all to the Diuel at the laste ende who will shewe them such friendly fauour in Hell fire that they shall be alwayes in torments and neuer in ease euer a broyling and neuer burned and alwayes a dying neuer dead and then they wil wish but to late rather to haue giuen their landes once to the reléeuing of the poore for nothing than to haue solde the same so oft for much money or for some thing OMEN Truely we haue such excellent orders with vs that none except they list néede buy or hire any entangled lands then you may be sure none though they were so minded can sel or let more than once SIVQILA That is a very good way how is that OMEN For sooth all déedes and writings of any landes tenements houses woods or such like that are solde giuen or mortgaged vpō what estate soeuer it be and also al coppie holdes and leases of any manner of grounde house tenement or any thing whatsoeuer and all other writings of any importance are truely examined registred or recorded in the Citie or Market towne next to the lande ground or houses or any thing sold giuen mortguaged let or demised which is not only a great ease to euery one to haue quickly and with smal charge the coppie of any writing they desire but also a maruellous commodity if any déede euidence or writing be loste burned defaced conueyed or stolne for that they may haue the same writing there registred and recorded written fayre sealed with the Seale of the Office whiche

sealed writing shall bée then of as greate force as the writing was that was loste burned defaced conueyed or stolne And there the Recorder doth keep a true and briefe note in a Booke appointed for euery suche déede writing coppy holde or lease whereby any may perfectlye learne whether anye landes tenementes houses or anye other thing is solde giuen let by coppy or leased and by whome and to whome and at what time which if he perceyue to stand frée then he may buy it or take it by copy or lease if not then he may refuse the same SIVQILA But what if the parties do not or will not register the same OMEN Then euery such déede of gifte writing coppye lease and the thing teherein solde giuen occupied leased or otherwise conueyed is vtterly voyd and of none effecte in the lawe vntill the same bée perfectly examined and registred or recorded in the place therefore appoynted SIVQILQ. Yet the coosiner may deceyue the true meaning man héerein for if the Register be of a corrupt conscience and take a bribe of the coosiner he may lye to the party that commeth to enquire or search and say there is no such things sold giuē or otherwise conueyed by any such party as the enquirer did moue OMEN Yea but we haue a salue wil heale that sore for the Register then presently muste deliuer to him that commeth to enquire a briefe note written in Parchemente of the thing searched for the name of the thing where yt lyeth the name of hym or hyr that the enquirer desireth to knowe whether hée or shée hathe solde gyuen or otherwayes conueyed the same thing searched for the name of the enquirer and the name of hym or hyr for whome it is searched and besides this the examiner shall write vnder all the same that no such thing searched for is registred of that tyme in his booke with the yeare moneth and daye of the same searche and further shall subscribe hys owne name wyth his owne hande whiche writing shall after witnesse againste the examiner if néede be if anye suche thing searched for shoulde after befounde to bée registred SIVQILA This is such a hedge that a Théese cannot well leape ouer Truely this generall registring or recording of writings is both a common commoditie to youre Countrey and a greate ouerthrowe of a number of mischiefes it cleane cutteth of deceyuers or coosiners from selling or letting their landes twice muche lesse thrice It fullye as it were with one stroke suppresseth all forgerye of euidences and writing For who wyil forge anye wrytings vnlesse they maye sucke some gaine thereby what doe wrytings preuayle if they be not lawefull they maye counterfayte them if they liste but they cannot confirme them if they woulde For no writings as I perceyue can be registred or recorded with you vnlesse the seller and the buyer the giuer and he to whome the thing is gyuen and the letter of the lease and the taker of the lease do bothe consente before the Register or Recorder and seale the wrytings as theyr déedes and no writings are of anye force vntill they be perfectly examined and registred And you maye be sure that no rounterfaite or forged wryting wyll be perfectlye examined and registred though the deceyuer and coosiner coulde be contente therewith vnlesse the partie that shoulde be deceyued and coosined doe graunt vnto the same before the Register why●he I thinke ne●ther the coosiner will goe aboute to procure nor hée that is to be deceyued wyll affyrme or allow And thoughe manye Babes haue bene beguyled Wydowes wronged fatherlesse defrauded the poore preuented the guiltlesse beguilded and the simple deceiued right ouerthrowen and Trueth trode vnder foote by filching purloyning stealing burning spoyling tearing and other craftie conuaying of writings to theyr vtter vndooyng to the displeasing of God to the maintenance of mischief Now all this your worthy ordering of registring of Writings hath pluckt vp by the rootes For if your people were as wicked as they are godly yet which of them would goe about to filtch purloyne burne spoyle or conuey any writing from any body if it woulde do them no good and the other no harme or if they were sure that the party frō whom they tooke it should haue the same again Who would steale a horse from any if he wist he should haue no good of him or if he knew certainly that the owner of the horse should haue his horse againe whether he would or not OMEN None I thinke Wel what with the godly disposition of your people and what with this good order of registring of writings there is not one in all our Countrey that doth take away filche spoyle or conuey anye writing from anye neyther doeth forge or counterfayte anye déede or writing SIVQILA No more there woulde or coulde be with vs as wicked as they be if we had your order and so executed for the registring of writings as you haue We haue lawes for the punishing of suche offendors but howe many fewer there are therby I know not But how many I wold there were I know OMEN Whether were it better if it were possible to haue your goods safe from stealing or to haue them stolne and to haue the théeues hanged for the same SIVQILA In my conceite it were much better that no goodes shoulde be stolne nor no théeues to be hanged therefore whiche is a double commoditie but in the other men loose their goodes and théeues loose their liues whiche is a double mischiefe OMEN You haue sayde very truly SIVQILA Euen so it were a great deale better to haue neuer a cōueyer purloyner spoyler nor forger of wrytings as you haue and neuer one therefore to be punished than to haue writings stolne spoyled defaced and forged to the hurte of many and to haue the offend●● a punissjed ther ●●●●● which so●e being thought vncurable your souer aigne falue in registring would quickly heale OMEN I haue tolde you what it hath done with vs. SIVQILA Yea and I woulde it mighte do so with vs. Surely thoughe we haue mercifull Magistrates godlye Gouernours sage Superiours politique Ru●ev● and wyttie Counsailours yet we haue a great sort that are so guée●y of gaine as madde of money and so mindfull of mischief that they are so much ashamed to committe these offences as a horsse is loath to eate his meat when be commeth newly from labour OMEN Then I date boldelye saye a little small sinne will not make them to shrinke This one thing doeth make me muse we that are more godlye and charitable haue more straighter and seuere lawes than you and you that are more wicked and enuious haue more milder laws than wée SIVQILA It is so but I coulde be content that it were not so Sir I beléeue you haue neuer an Usurer in all your Countrey OMEN The name is so strange vnto me that I know not what you meane thereby SIVQILA You are the more happy that