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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	great_a	vein_n	1,434	5	9.4641	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40678	Mixt contemplations in better times by Thomas Fuller ...	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.	1660 (1660)	Wing F2451; ESTC R7395	42,203	158

of a PEAR TREE growing hard by his House valuing the same at twenty years purchase and the Pears at twenty shillings per annum presuming every one would be a Bearing year and by such windy particulars did blow up his losses to the summe by him nominated Some pretend in these wars to have lost more thousands then ever they were possessed of hundreds These reckon in not only what they had but what they might yea would have had They compute not onely their possessions but reversions yea their probabilities possibilities and impossibilities also which they might desire but could never hope to obtain The worst is I might term many of these men ANTI-MEPHIBOSHETS who out of his loyalty to David 2 Sam. 19.30 Let them take all said he forasmuch as my Lord the King is come home again in peace unto his own house But these except they may have all and more then all they ever possessed care not a whit whether or no the King ever return So unconcerned are they in his condition XIII No tittle of Title TWo young Gentlemen were comparing their revenues together vying which of them were the best My Demeans saith the one is worth two but mine saith the other is worth four hundred pounds a year My Farms saith the one are worth four but mine saith the other are worth eight hundred pounds a year My Estate saith the one is my own to which the other returned no answer as conscious to himself that he kept what lawfully belongeth to another I care not how small my means be so they be my means I mean my own without any injury to others What is truly gotten may be comfortably kept What is otherwise may be possessed but not enjoyed Upon the Question what is the worst bread which is eaten One answered in respect of the coursenesse thereof Bread made of Beans Another said Bread of Acorns But the third hit the truth who said Bread taken out of other mens mouths who are the true proprietaries thereof Such Bread may be sweet in the mouth to taste but is not wholesome in the stomack to digest XIV Freely freely A Grave Divine in the VVest-Countrey familiarly known unto me conceiving himself over-taxed repaired to one of the Governours of the Kings Guarrisons for to move for some mitigation The Governour perceiving the fatten cap of this Divine to be torne Fie fie said he that a man of your quality should wear such a cap The RATS have gnawed it Oh no Sir answered he The RATES have gnawed it The print or impression of the teeth of Taxes is visible in the clothes of many men yea it hath corroded holes in many mens Estates Yea as Hatto Arch Bishop of Mentz is reported to have been eaten up by * Rats so the vermine of Taxes if continuing is likely to devour our Nation However let us not in the least degree now grudge the payment thereof Let us now pay Taxes that we may never pay Taxes for as matters now stand our Freenesse at the present may cause our Freedome at the future if once the Arrears of the Army and Navy were discharged I care not how much I am let blood so it be not by the Adventure of an Emperick but Advice of a Physician who I am sure will take no more Onces from me then may consist with my safety and need doth require Such the Piety and Policy of the present Parliament they will impose no more Payments then the necessity of the Estate doth extort The rather because they are Persons Blessed be God of the Primest Quality in the Nation and let us bloud through their own veins the greatest part of the Payments they impose lighting first on their own Estates XV Cry without cause and be whipt I Have known the City of London almost fourty years their shops did ever sing the same tune that TRADING WAS DEAD Even in the Raign of King Iames when they wanted nothing but thankfulnesse this was their complaint It is just with God that they who complained without cause should have just cause to complain Trading which then was quick and in health hath since been sick yea in a swound yea dead yea buried There is a Vacation in the shops in the midst of high-Tearm And if shops be in a Consumption ships will not be long in good health Yet I know not whether to call this decay of Trade in London a Mishap or a Happy-misse Probably the City if not pinched with poverty had never regained her wealth XVI Spring began I Meet with two Etymologies of BONE-FIRES Some deduce it from fires made of bones relating it to the burning of Martyrs first fashionable in England in the Raign of King Henry the fourth But others derive the word more truly in my mind from BOON that is Good and Fires Whether Good be taken here for Great or for Merry and Chearfull such Fires being alwayes made on welcome occasions Such an occasion happened at London last February 1659. I confesse the 11. of March is generally beheld as the first day of the Spring but hereafter London and in it all England may date its vernal heat after a long winter of woes and war from the 11. of February On which day so many Boon-fires the best NEW-LIGHTS I ever saw in that City were made although I believe the faggots themselves knew as much as some who laid them on for what purpose those Fires were made The best is such fires were rather Propheticall then Historicall not so much telling as foretelling the condition of that City and our Nation which by Gods gracious goodnesse is daily bettered and improved But oh the excellent Boon-fire which the converted Ephesians made Acts 19.19 Many also of them which used curious arts brought their books together and burned them before all men and they counted the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver What was a pint of ashes worth according to that proportion But oh in the imitation of the Ephesians let us English men labour to find out our bosom-sin and burn it how dear soever unto us in the flames of holy anger and indignation Such Boon-fires would be most profitable to us and acceptable to God inviting him to perfect and compleat the good which he had begun to our Nation XVII The Hand is All A Gentlewoman some sixty years since came to VVinchester-schoole where she had a son where Dr. Love one eminent in his profession was then Schoole-master This tender mother seeing the terrible rods the properties of that Schoole began with tears to bemoan the condition of her son subject to so cruell correction To whom the Schoole-master replied Mistris content your self it matters not how big the rod be so it be in the hand of Love to manage it Alas he was only Love in his Sirname but what saith the Apostle 1 Iohn 4.6 God is Love even in his own Essence and nature What then though the wicked be