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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	body_n	humour_n	2,342	5	7.9583	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41077	Batavia, or, The Hollander displayed in brief characters & observations of the people & country, the government of their state & private families, their virtues and vices : also, A perfect description of the people & country of Scotland.; Brief character of the Low-Countries under the states	Felltham, Owen, 1602?-1668.; Weldon, Anthony, Sir, d. 1649? Perfect description of the people and countrey of Scotland.	1672 (1672)	Wing F647; ESTC R13602	23,207	94

bowels of the Spanish Crocodile to which they got when he gap'd to swallow them They are a serpent wreathed about the legs of that Elephant They are the little sword-fish pricking the belly of the Whale They are the wane of that Empire which increas'd in Isabella and in Charles the fifth was at full They are a glass wherein Kings may see that though they be Soveraigns over lives and goods yet when they usurp upon Gods part and will be Kings over conscience too they are sometimes punisht with losse of that which lawfully is their own That Religion too fiercely urg'd is to stretch a string till it not onely jars but cracks in the breaking whips perhaps the streiners eye out That an extreme taxation is to take away the hony while the Bees keep the Hive whereas he that would Inke that should first either burn them or drive them out That Tyrants in their Government are he greatest Traitors to their own States That a desire of being too absolute is to walk upon Pinacles and the tops of Pyramides where not only the footing is ful of hazard but even the sharpness of that they tread on may run into their foot and wound them That too much to regrate on the patience of but tickle Subjects is to press a thom till it prick your finger That nothing makes a more desperate Rebell than a Prerogative inforced too far That liberty in man is as the skin to the body not to be put off but together with life That they which will command more than they ought shall not at last command so much as is fit That moderate Princes sit faster in their Regalities than such as being but men would yet have their power over their Subjects as the Gods unlimited That oppression is an iron heat till it burns the hand That to debar some States of antient Priviledges is for a Falcon to undertake to beat a flock of Wild-geese out of the Fens That to go about to compell a sullen reason to submit to a wilfull peremptoriness is so long to beat a chain'd mastiffinto his kennell till at last he turns and flies at your throat That unjust policy is to shoot as they did at Ostend into the mouth of a charged Canon to have two Bullets returned for one That he doth but indanger himself that riding with too weak a Bit provokes a head-strong horse with a spur That t is safer to meet a valiant man weaponless then almost a coward in Armor That even a weak cause with a strong Castle wili boil salt blood to a rebellious Itch. That 't is better keeping a Crazy body in an equal temper than to anger humors by too sharp a Physick That Admonitions from a dying man are too serious to be neglected That there is nothing certain that is not impossible That a Cobler of Vlushing was one of the greatest enemies that the King of Spain ever had To conclude the Country it self is a Moted Castle keeping a Garnish of the richest Jewels of the world in 't The Queen of Bohemia and her Princely Children The people in it are Jews of the New Testament that have exchanged nothing but the Law for the Gospel and this they rather prosess then practice Together a Man of War riding at Anchor in the Downs of Germany For forein Princes to help them is wise self-policy When they have made them able to defend themselves against Spain they are at the Pale if they enable them to offend others they go beyond it For questionless were this thorn out of the Spaniards side he might be feared too soon to grasp his long intended Monarchy And were the Spaniard but possessed Lord of the Low Countreys or had the States but the wealth and power of Spain the rest of Europe might be like people at Sea in a Ship on fire that could only chuse wherther they would drown or burn Now their war is the peace of their neighbours So Rome when busied in her civil broils the Parthians lived at rest but those concluded once by Caesar next are they designed for Conquest If any man wonder at these contraries let him look in his own body for as many several humors In his own brain for as many different Fancies In his own heart for as various passions and from all these he may learn That there is not in all the World such another Beast as Man FINIS A PERFECT DESCRIPTION OF THE PEOPLE AND COUNTREY OF Scotland LONDON Printed for Rich. Lownds 1670. A Perfect DESCRIPTION of Scotland FIrst for the Countrey I must confess it is good for those that possess it and too bad for others to be at the charge to conquer it The Air might be wholsom but for the stinking people that inhabit it The ground might be fruitful had they wit to manure it Their Beasts be generally small women only excepted of which sort there are none greater in the whole world There is great store of Fowl too as foul houses foul sheets foul linen foul dishes and pots foul trenchers and napkins with which sort we have been forced to say as the children did with their fowl in the wilderness They have good store of fish too and good for these that can eat it raw but if it come once into their hands it is worse than if it were three days old For their Butter and Cheese I will not meddle with I at this time nor no man else at any time that loves his life They have great store of Deer but they are so far from the place where I have been that I had rather believe than go to disprove it I confess all the Deer I met withal was dear Lodgings dear Horse-meat and dear Tobaco and English Beer As sor fruit for their Grand fire Adams sake they never planted any and for other Trees had Christ been betrayed in this Country as doubtless he should had he come as a stranger Judas had sooner found the Grace of Repentance than a Tree to hang himself on They have many hills wherein they say is much treasure but they shew none of it Nature bath only discovered to them some Mines of Coal to shew to what end he created them I saw little grass but in their Potrage The Thistle is not given of nought for it is the fairest flower in their Garden The word Hay is Heathen Greek unto them neither man nor beast knows what it means Corn is reasonable plenty at this time for since they heard of the Kings comming it hath been as unlawful for the common people to eat Wheat as it was in the old time for any but the Priests to eat shew-bread They prayed much for his coming and long fasted for his welfare but in the more plain sense that he might fare the better all his followers were welcom but his guard for those they say are like Pharaoh's lean Kine and threaten death wheresoever they come They could perswade the Footmen that oaten