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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	according_a	good_a	pleasure_n	1,473	5	6.8396	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57017	Pantagruel's prognostication certain, true, and infallible for the year everlasting / newly composed ... by Mr. Alcofribas, sewer in chief to Pantagruel ; set forth long since by that famous well-wisher to the mathematicks and doctor in physick, Francis Rabelais ; done in the way and by the tables of that astrologer of the first magnitude, in the Brittish hemisphere, Anglicus ; and now of late translated out of French by Democritus Pseudomantis.; Pantagruéline prognostication. English	Rabelais, François, ca. 1490-1553?; Anglicus.; Democritus Pseudomantis.	1660 (1660)	Wing R106; ESTC R4645	10,753	44

you 'l now read That which shall be said over and above shall in Grosse passe the strainer pesle mesle And peradventure it shall come to passe and peradventure never Of one thing I give you notice that if you do not believe all you 'l do me a very great shrowd turn for which either here or else where you shall be most grievously punished and the Bulls Pisle shall not be spared upon your shoulders And suck in the aire as long as you will like Oysters for certainly There shall be some of you well warm'd if the Rakefire doth not fall asleep Well wipe your noses little ones and you old dotards mount your Spectacles and weigh these words in the ballance of the Sanctuary Of the Golden Number Non Dicitur I find none this yeare for all the Calculation I have made Le ts go forward verte Folium Pantagruel's Prognostication Certain true and infallible for the year Everlasting CHAP. I. Of the Government and Soveraignty of this Year WHat ever those foolish Astrologers of Louvain Norremberg 〈◊〉 and Lions tell you believe That there will be no other Governour of the universall world this yeare but God the Creator who by his Divine word governs and orders every thing by whom all things are maintained in their nature propriety and Condition and without whose Government and power all things would in a Moment be reduced to nothing as out of nothing they were by him made and brought to what they now are for from him commeth in him is and by him is perfected all beings and all good all life and Motions as saith the Evangelicall Trumpet My Lord Saint Paul Rom. the 11. The Governour then of this yeare and all others according to our true opinion will be the most powerfull God and Saturne Mars Jupiter nor other Planet no not the Angells Saints nor Men nor Divells shall have any power energy or influence whatsoever if God of his good pleasure doth not bestow it upon them As A●●cen saies The second causes have not influence in any action unlesse they receive it from the first cause Doth not the good little man speak truth CHAP. II. Of the Eclipses this year THere shall be so many Eclipses of the Sun and Moon this year that I am afraid not without reason that our purses will suffer Emptiness and our senses Perturbation Saturne shall be Retrograde Venus Direct Mercury Inconstant and a number of other Planets shall not go as you would have them For this reason therefore Crabs shall go sidewayes and Rope-makers backwards the Joyn-stools shall get up upon the formes The Spits upon the Andirons And Capps upon Hatts Many Mens bollocks will hang down for want of a pouch Fleas for the most part will be black The Bacon in Lent shall runne away from the Pease The Belly shall go formost the briech shall sit down first The Beane shall not be found in the Cake on twelfth Night The Ace will not be seen at flush The Dice shall not please although they be flatter'd And the Chance one wishes for shall seldome come in many places the beasts shall speak Shrovetide shall get his Proces One part of the World shall disguise themselves to cozen the other and runne about the Streets like fools and mad Men Never was there such disorder seen in Nature and above twentyseaven Verbs shall be made irregular if Priscian keep them not short If God doth not help us we shall have a great deal of businesse but against the haire If he be for us nothing can do us hurt as sayes the Divine Astrologer that was ravisht into Heaven Rom. 8. 31. Si Deus pro Nobis quis contra Nos Nemo Domine for He is too good and too powerfull Let us here blesse his Holy Name for it CHAP. III. Of Diseases this year THis year the Blind shall see but very little the Deafe shall hear but ill the Dumb shall not speak much the Rich shall be a little better then the poor and those that are wel better then those that are sicke Many Sheep Beevs Hoggs Geese Hens and Ducks shall dye And there shall not be so cruel a Mortality among the Monkeys and Dromedaries Old Age shall be this year incurable by reason of the years past Those that have a Pleurisy shall be troubled with great pain in their sides They that are troubled with a loosenesse shall goe often to the Close-stool The Catharrs this year shal fall from the brain into the lower parts Sore eyes shal be very hurtfull to the sight Eares shall be short and more rare in Gascony then usual and a very horrible Maligne troublesome and scurvey disease shal raigne this year almost universally which shall make the World very much wonder and many shall not know which way to turne themselves And oftentimes they shall raveningly compose and Syllogise upon the Philosophers Stone and of Midas his Eares I tremble for fear when I think on 't for 't will I say be Epidemical and Averoes calls it VII Colligent want of Money And by reason of the Comet last year and the Retrogradation of Saturn a great-Rogue shal dye in the Hospital all pocky and scabby at whose Death there shal be a horrible sedition between the Cats and the Rats between the Hounds and the Hares betweene the Hauks and the Partridges between the Monks and the Eggs CHAP. IV. Of Fruits and the Riches that we receive from the Earth I Find by Albumazars computation in the book of the great Conjunction and elsewhere that this year shal be very fertile and there shal be plenty of all things with those that have wherewithall but the Hops of Picardie will be somewhat afraid of the Cold Oats shall doe Horses a great deal of good there shall not be much more bacon then there are hoggs by Reason of prices Ascendant it shal be a great year of Snailes Mercury doth a little threaten the Parsely but it shall be notvvithstanding at reasonable rates Marigolds and Honey-suckles shall grovv more then usually and there vvill be abundance of Choakey pears Corne Grapes all sorts of fruits Pease Beanes and all manner of Rootes vvas never seene in such abundance if poor peoples prayers are heard CHAP. V. Of the conditions of some People T is the greatest folly in the world to thinke there are starres for Kings Popes and great Persons more then for poor and ordinary people As if new starrs had been created since the Deluge or of Romulus or Pharamon at the new creation of Kings 'T is that which Triboulet nor Catlette will not say who were neverthelesse Persons of High knowledge and great Renown and perhaps in Noah's Ark this Triboulet was of the Race of the Kings of Castile and Caillete of the blood of Priam But this error proceeds onely from the vvant of the true Catholicke faith Granting it then for certaine that the Starres care as little for Kings as for Beggars for Rich folkes as for Poor I