Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	disease_n	humour_n	3,248	5	8.1860	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84021	The English mountebank casting the sickly vvater of the state. Opening the severall causes of her desperate disease, and prescribing certaine soveraigne antidotes for the speedy cure of all her maladies. Dedicated to all true hearts that heartily desire Great Brittaines perfect cure.		1647 (1647)	Wing E3106; Thomason E384_6; ESTC R201445	5,456	9

THE English Mountebank CASTING The Sickly Water OF THE STATE Opening the severall causes of her desperate Disease and prescribing certaine Soveraigne Antidotes for the speedy Cure of all her Maladies Dedicated to all true hearts that heartily desire Great Brittaines perfect Cure Printed in the Yeare 1647. The English Mountebanke c. ROmes poison Spaines complots the French designes My skill foresees discovers undermines And Scotlands too that for our guodes or Gold Kings States Lawes Religion's bought and sold Why Saint-like Sacriledge doth impropriate And calme Oppression swallowes Church and State Why close Hypocrisie bends his Courtly knee Though wanting all faith would have all faiths free I cure blind Eyes Eares deafe Tongues dumb and tell What duller Spirits in the flack Nerves dwell And by my Learning and deep skill can show How humerous and irregular vices flow And why the liver boyles with lust still bloud What makes the Stomack brooke no meate that 's good Why the loose Palsie makes the Hands to tremble Whether for love they spake or they dissemble Why that the gouty Knees so stifly bend And Feet are swift for bloud but no good end I cure all these and more and seldome faile To draw all Humours through the guts or taile My Antidote TAke in the declining of the Sun of the precious Herbe called Christian Obedience a good quantity Of Uniformity in Religion as much Of Allegiance to Sovereignity with a little of an herb called Supremacy picke them 〈◊〉 then put them into the Chafer of a good Conscience cleane scour'd from the Rust of Ambition Rebellion Sacriledge Perjurie Hypocrisie and Coveteousnesse c. Then put into them some few drops sliding from the Chrystal fountaine of and obedient and 〈…〉 the cleere fire of fervent love keepe them stirring and in perpetuall motion till they become a Soveraigne Salve then take it off and coole it with the breath of a sanctified Spirit then treasure it up carefully in a vessell made of the pure clay of English Honour apply it every Morning to your queasie stomacks it undoubtedly cures you of the bloudy issue the Kings Evill the frenzie in your Heads the aking of your hearts and the Consumptions of your lately lost Liberties and Estates and make you as healthfull as ever you were in all your lives and your Land once more happier then ever by dispelling all the Contagious vapours and misty fogges that have so infected you with a deep Lethargie and robe you of the sense of all your former happinesse Apply this Antidote it will cost you little considering the preciousnesse thereof This passeth our Elixar or the Stone Sought for by many but obtained by none Th' obstruction of the Liver or the Spleene This opens mollifies and purges cleane A secret 't is assur'd for madnesse folly Wilde jealousie or cloudy Melancholly It cures the Gout it qualifies the Cause Supplies the Commons Purse like th' oyle o' th' Lawes This dries up Humours Humours that abound And our weake bodies this makes safe and sound Buy then this Antidote at any Rate It cures the sad disease of your sicke State Next deare Countrie-men my man Jack Pudding shall shew you a new fashioned Looking-glasse which once belonged to one Janus wherein you may see backward at your former happinesse and forward to your ensuing miserie I am faine to shew it you first in the darke because you may see how each Meteor or Ignis fatuus seemes a Sunne but in the day comming neare the Sunne they cannot be seen Next in one of the new Lights called Reformation wherein you may perceive that some aspiring too high have presumed too far All persons are not fit for all places Fooles mistake and overdoe wise men warme themselves at the fire where children burne their fingers Our Age sees many of these Babels whose Ruines will seeme greater a far off then at hand But to the matter First without the helpe of State-Spectacles behold a King selected whose Royall and Christian Reputation Envie it self could not nor dared to sully enthroned in the hearts of a numerous and Loyall People thrice happy in his Royall Consort and 〈◊〉 pledges of their mutuall loves and our succeeding peace in their assured Succession stor'd with crowded Magazines of Military provisions at Sea powerfull above his Ancestors by a formidable Navie governing his people in peace and prosperity a King altogether worthy of such a Kingdom Next cast your eye upon a Church so full of Lustre Order and Discipline so garnished and enriched with Learning and Piety so pure a forme as any Story or observation can attribute to any since Christianity became a profession Next looke upon a lustrious Nobility a flourishing Gentrie plentifully sharing dignities and trusts in the Military and Civill Magistracy an obedient peacefull and contented Commonalty The few opposers or interrupters of the peace of both Governments being so few that they scarce justified the name of a number our Cities envied by our neighbours for their Government opulency in present enjoyments and assured growth of an encreasing Trade a Land populous plenteous and at unity with it selfe admitting of no meanes or diminution but Miracle or War to bring it to miserie and confusion and the meanes how to beget such a War so soone to ruine all this happinesse being of no lesse extent then a Miracle Now how unhappy we are look backward at so much blessing and to say it was let the Ingenious Reader judge But now let us looke forward to our own present Reformed condition of all this happinesse See a King rejected in his good name of King and Christian blasphemed made poore by the losse of the poore deceived and seduced hearts of an abused and seduced people divorced from his Royall Consort a crime cursed upon Record kept from the sight of his deare and Princely Issue dispersed like a scatter'd Couvie His succession become disputable and though a King yet truckt for bought and sold and now reduced to far lesse power then the Master of a private Family A new Modelled Court having not so much as the footsteps left of its former Beauty and Civility A Church shuffled to indistinction degrees unadmitted Sects Schismes and Blasphemies in this time and Kingdome vying with all those of past Ages and Forraigne Nations Behold a Nobility clouded by the promilenous foggs arising from their inferiours their Honours made Arbitrary and no longer to continue then the Common Rout shall think convenient A Gentry discountenanced by an introduced Party awed by Tenants and Servants impoverished by long Sequestrations and second purchases of their owne lawfull Inheritance A giddy Communalty tumultuous desiring something but as yet they know not what nor bound to discover till they know themselves Their freedoms liberty of person property of Estates given away and become meere Notions and not vindicable nor preservable by Law Cities dispeopled untraded and impoverished by reason of extorting Committees and Excises c. and as much confusion