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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	death_n	great_a	1,642	5	3.2072	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18595	Kind-harts dreame Conteining fiue apparitions, vvith their inuectiues against abuses raigning. Deliuered by seuerall ghosts vnto him to be publisht, after Piers Penilesse post had refused the carriage. Inuita inuidiæ. by H.C.	Chettle, Henry, d. 1607?	1593 (1593)	STC 5123; ESTC S116845	28,224	58

thy fire And albeit I would disswade thee from more inuectiues against 〈◊〉 thy aduersaries for peace is nowe all my plea yet I know thou wilt returne answere that since thou receiuedst the first wrong thou wilt not endure the last My quiet Ghost vnquietly disturbed had once intended thus to haue exclaimd Pierce more witlesse than pennilesse more idle than thine aduersaries ill imployde what foolish innocence hath made thee infant like resistlesse to beare what euer iniurie Enuie can impose O●ce thou commendedst immediate conceit and gauest no great praise to excellent works of twelue yeres labour now in the blooming of thy hopes thou sufferest slaunder to nippe them ere they can bud thereby approuing thy selfe to be of all other most slacke beeing in thine owne cause so remisse Colour can there be none found to shadowe thy fainting but the longer thou deferst the more greefe thou bringst to thy frends and giuest the greater head to thy enemies What canst thou tell if as my selfe thou shalt bee with death preuented and then how can it be but thou diest disgrac'd seeing thou hast made no reply to their twofold Edition of Inuectiues It may bee thou thinkst they will deale well with thee in death and so thy shame in tollerating them will be short forge not to thy self one such conceit but make me thy president and remember this olde adage Leonem mortuum mordent Catuli Awake secure boy reuenge thy wrongs remember mine thy aduersaries began the abuse they continue it if thou suffer it let thy life be short in silence and obscuritie and thy death hastie hated and miserable All this had I intended to write but now I wil not giue way to wrath but returne it vnto the earth from whence I tooke it for with happie soules it hath no harbour Robert Greene. Had not my name beene Kind-hart I would haue sworne this had beene sent to my selfe for in my life I was not more pennilesse than at that instant But remembring the Author of the Supplication I laid it aside till I had leysure to seeke him and taking vp the next I found written To all maligners of honest mirth Tarleton wisheth continuall melancholy NOw Maisters what say you to a merrie knaue that for this two years day hath not beene talkt of Wil you giue him leaue if he can to make ye laugh What all a mort No merry countenance Nay then I see hypocrisie hath the vpper hand and her spirit raignes in this profitable generation Sith it is thus Ile be a time-pleaser Fie vppon following plaies the expence is wondrous vpon players speeches their wordes are full of wyles vppon their gestures that are altogether wanton Is it not lamentable that a man should spende his two pence on them in an after-noone heare couetousnes amongst them daily quipt at being one of the commonest occupations in the countrey and in liuely gesture see trecherie set out with which euery man now adaies vseth to intrap his brother Byr lady this would be lookt into if these be the fruites of playing tis time the practisers were expeld Expeld quoth you that hath been pretily performd to the no smal profit of the Bouling-allyes in Bedlam and other places that were wont in the after-noones to be left empty by the recourse of good fellows vnto that vnprofitable recreation of Stage-playing And it were 〈◊〉 much amisse would they ioine with the Dicing houses to make sute againe for their longer restraint though the sicknesse cease Is not this well saide my maisters of an olde buttond cappe that hath most part of his life liu'd vppon that against which hee inueighs Yes and worthily But I haue more to say than this Is it not greate shame that the houses of retaylers neare the Townes end should be by their continuance impouerished Alas good hearts they pay great rentes and pittie it is but they be prouided for While Playes are vsde halfe the day is by most youthes that haue libertie spent vppon them or at least the greatest company drawne to the places where they frequent If they were supprest the flocke of yoong people would bee equally parted But now the greatest trade is brought into one street Is it not as faire a way to Myle-end by White-chappell as by Shorditch to Hackney the Sunne shineth as clearly in the one place as in the other the shades are of a like pleasure onely this is the fault that by ouermuch heat sometime they are in both places infectious As well in this as other things there is great abuse for in euery house where the venerian virgins are resident hospitalitie is quite exiled such fines such taxes such tribute such customs as poore soules after seuen yeares seruice in that vnhallowed order they are faine to leaue their sutes for offerings to the olde Lenos that are shrine-keepers and themselues when they begin to break are faine to seeke harbour in an Hospitall which chaunceth not as sometime is thought to one amongst twentie but hardly one amongst a hundred haue better ending And therefore seeing they liue so hardly its pitie Players should hinder their takings a peny I marry saies Baudeamus my quondam Host well faire olde Dicke that worde was well plac'd for thou knowst our rentes are so vnreasonable that except wee cut and shaue and poule and prig we must return Non est inuentus at the quarter day For is not this pittifull I am a man now as other men be and haue li●'d in some shire of England till all the Country was wearie of mee I come vp to London and fall to be some Capster Hostler or Chamberlaine in an Inne Well I get mee a wife with her a little money when we are married seeke a house we must no other occupation haue I but to be an Ale-●raper the Landlord wil haue fortie pound fine and twenty marke a yeare I and mine must not lie in the street he knows by honest courses I can neuer paye the Rent What should I say somwhat must be done rent must be paid duties dischargd or we vndone To bee short what must be shall be indeede sometimes I haue my Landlordes countenance before a Justice to cast a cloa●e ●uer illrule or els hee might seeke such another tenant to pay his rent so truly Quaintly concluded Peter Pandar somewhat yee must bee and a bawd ye will bee I by my troth sir why not I as well as my neighbors since theres no remedy And you sir find fault with plaies Out vpon them they spoile our t●ade as you your selfe haue proued Beside they open our crosse-biting our co●y-catching our traines our traps our gins our snares our subtilties for no sooner haue we a tricke of deceipt but they make it common singing Iigs and making ●easts of vs that euerie boy can point out our houses as they passe by Whither now Tarlton this is extempore out of time tune and temper It may be well said to me Stulte quid haec