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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	good_a	know_v	2,039	5	3.4458	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78181	No-body his complaint a dialogue between Master No Body, and Doctour Some-Body. A delightfull discourse. By George Baron. No-Body. Why do'st thou father all they lies on me? heaping indignities on one that never injur'd thee? Som-Body. My words and acts hurt no-body. No-Body. Som-Body hath belied me much, no-body sure hath cause to grutch.	Baron, George, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing B877; Thomason E1351_5; ESTC R209399	10,368	25

me No. No Sir know that none in the world ever told any tale to me but what I know my self Som. I desire then you would tell me what you know your self of me No. Know of thee I shall tell presently thy self is one that hath almost brought me into despair Som. Oh woe is me am I one that hath almost brought you into dispair the heavens forbid it I should think I were the most unfortunates wretch in the world should I be guilty of so heinous a crime No. Now I perceive thine ignorance thou little thinkst wherein thou hast almost brought me in to despair and for all thou sayest thou wouldest not for a world be guilty of so heinous a crime yet I tell thée that thou art but more I must tell thée that there are thousands in the world that are more guilty then thou art Som. You talk that I am guilty and thousands which are more guilty but all this time I know not of what I am guilty off I would I were so wise to know and then I doubt not but I shall sufficiently satisfie you No. Satisfie me I know thou canst not satisfie me that thou art clear for I am sure of the contrarie and I tell thee again that thou and more then thousands yea the whole world hath abused and wronged me Som. Is that it that troubles you so much me thinks this is the strangest thing that ever I heard of that all the world should abuse one man I desire you would tell me how they have abused you and then I will beleeve it No. I can easily make it appear unto you in what the world have abused me but what néed I I know thou canst not help it one thing I tell thee more that these dayes of late I am more scandalized and wronged then ever I was heretofore that I think the Divel is in them all Som. Sir pray be not so passionate I think you will be frantick as you have said I desire you would tell me how I have abused and belied you and after you have told me I desire you would procéed to tell me how all the world have scandalized you No. Well séeing you are so earnest to know I will tell you but first thou must tell me whether in all thy life thou hast committed any faults Som. Alas Sir there is none in the world but commits faults either one time or another I think I am sure for my part I have No. Thou hast resolved me in this now resolve me in one more I know thou canst do it hast thou denied thy faults when thou hast done them or no Som. Truly Sir I must confesse unto you that I love quietnesse very well and when I have committed a fault I do the best I can to excuse my self No. That is not the thing I desired thee to tell me I requested of thée when thou hast done a fault whether thou didst deny it or no Som. Then truly Sir to tell you the truth when I have committed a fault I denied that ever I did it No. Who hast thou laied the fault on or who hast thou said did it Som. When I was asked who did it I made answer that No-body did it which I knew No. Now have I found out by thy own words how thou hast abused and belied me oh dissembling wretch thou didst alwaies pretend that thou desirest to know what it was that had almost brought me in despair for my good but now have I found out to the contrary thou wouldst not for a world be the cause of any ones falling into dispair and thou hast been one cause of mine I perceive thy dissimulation I charged thee with it before but thou didst deny it now therefore tell me why thou castest such aspersions upon me and so bely me that when thou hadst done faults to lay it upon me Som. Sir you have put me in a maze I know not as yet what to say but I desire you that you would give me a little time that I may answer you No. Thou mayest well be in a maze for I know thou canst not answer for thy self thine own conscience is as a thousand witnesses against thee thou didst think certainly that I would not have thought that thou hadst abused me but I know thou hast put many abuses on me Now therefore confesss thy wickednesse unto me and that thou hast belied me and I will forgive thée provided that thou will never do so again Som. Truly Sir I must confesse that many thousand faults which I have done I have denied and when another hath béen asked he hath denied it and another he denies it and so all denies it and at last it is concluded that No body did it I confesse I was ignorant of this that I abused you No. Ignorant of it I cannot beleeve thee thou art a dissembler and J took thee alwaies to be my friend but J perceive now thou art mine enemy or else thou wouldest never have cast such scandals on me behind my back Som. Mr. No-body as long as I live I shall be ever bound to pray for you for I protest I have learned more wit of you then ever I had in my life before and now I beseech you sweet Sir to pardon me for the abuses J have done you and I shall ever hereafter be carefull that I tell no more lies on you and once again sweet Mr. No-body forgive me No. Well seeing thou hast so earnestlie desired me to forgive thee I will but be sure thou never tell more lies on me as thou hast formerly So. I never thought thou had so much wit in you as now I see you have and me thinks you having so much wit might free your self from the aspersions of the world No. That I can never do for I am not able to bind peoples tongues and so long as they have them at liberty so long shall I be abused Som. You speak very true Sir and now I pray shew me how many things the world lay to your charge No. That I will though to my grief shew thee and first I wil begin with the high crimes murther shall be the first when any murther is done I am accused for it when inquiry is mode after it none will own it so it falleth on me poor Nobody but I would have the world know I am not guilty of such heinous crimes and therefore when murthers are done again I would desire all people not to charge me with it Som. All that you have said now is true for I have been where men have been murthered and when search and inquiry have been made for them that did it they could not be found so then the searchers have said surely this is strange Nobody hath done it And now Mr. Nobody I tell you if I am in place where murthers are found out again I will do my best indeavour to clear you and not suffer such things to be laid to your

consider the world of pains we endure rising out of our beds all hours of the night and walking about all the day long to visit our patients so that we have scarce time to eat either dinners or suppers I protest it is enough to bring diseases upon our selves and what would the people do then for Physitians You say I need not wonder at what you said that you have been troubled in mind but three Moneths and have been past cure thousands of years you shew me indeed a reason why I should not wonder at it because that I never heard any of your name besides your self and as you have a name by your self so you say you are troubled about that which none other is But I pray you once again to tell me what it is I am the more earnest because none else hath been troubled with it Nob. Surely you are long winded and love to prittle prattle but Physitians are so for the most part they can tel a tale two or three hours together but I do not say you can therfore excuse me you know I love to be merry sometimes Som. Hah do you love to be merry and said but now that you were almost in despair these three moneths together I perceive you can lie as well as others surely what you have said is not true but onelie to see what I would say to it Nob. What I have told you is true and if I should tel you my grief it would but grieve you Som. Why do you tell me so I should rejoice rather for the assured hope and confidence I have to cure you would make me rejoice Nob. Cure me me thinks thou speakest like a very fool thou talkest of curing me if I would tell thee my grief I have told thee already and that is not enough but thou must know the cause of it Physitians desire no more but to know the disease But surelie thou art no Physitian but some Farrier fitter to cure a horse thā a man and now thou professest thy self a Doctor Som. Sir me thinks you speak more like a fool then J for though Physitians desire but to know the disease that avails not you for you have confessed that yours was no disease but perplexity of mind if J knew what did perplex thee J might perswade you out of it it is good counsel if any thing that must do you good and this is the reason why J am so importunate if this desire be simple J have no wisdome in me J beseech you let me make one more acquainted with the condition you are in and J will be judged by him whether or no that which J have spoken is simple but why should J be so desirous to get means to cure you seeing you so abuse me to my face in calling me Farrier and more fitter to cure a horse then to undertake to cure a man J took you alwaies to be my friend but J perceive now that you are so far from it that you are my absolute enemie or else you would never have cast such aspersions upon me what J have desired all this time that J have been present with you hath been for your good and not for mine if you were so deep in despair and it were impossible to cure you you know it will be nothing to me J should never be the better or the worse but being one of my old acquaintance therefore J should be sorry to see you grow in despair and for all you have abused me so to my face yet J will never abuse you so but esteem of you as my friend J can forget injuries presently you see how soon anger slies out of my breast J cannot retain it a moment within me and now Sir J would desire you to be wise as you esteem your own good and be not so self-willed in your ways No. What doest thou think I am a fool and have lived so long in the world I am as old almost as Adam and wilt thou teach me to be wise no know that I have wit enough and I pray thee be not so angry because I said thou art fitter to cure a horse then to undertake to cure a man for I protest I am sorry for it and furthermore I tell thee it proceeded more out of my passion then any ill will I have towards thee and therefore pardon me for it I know thou hast performed great cures which I have heard divers men report and I assure my self it is true but me thinks thou didst ask me one simple question even now which was that thou desirest to acquaint another in what a condition I am in but I must tell thee that I am so far from yeelding to thy desire that hadst thou not been one whom I thought I might put confidence in thy self should never have known it furthermore know that I am past all cure and none can do no good Som. Sir me thinks I am not simple because I desired you to permit me that I might make another acquainted with your distressed estate for thinking my self almost out of hope to prevail with you therefore I desired to acquaint another with it to see whether he could prevail with you and also to judge whether that I spoke before was simple and seeing you will not permit me to do this I tell you plainly I am out of hope that ever you will tell me what it is that troubles your mind No. Me thinkes that in all this time thou hast béen discoursing with me thou mightest have found out thy self what is it that hath almost brought me into dispair D. Som. Alas sir I think it is impossible for me to dive into your thoughts and by your discourse I cannot tell what it is M. No. Impossible that is not true for I verily beléeve had you as much wit as you professe you have you must needs know Som. Sir I am no Divel nor Witch though I am a Doctour to tell such strange things you told me I might have found it out having so long discourse with you but truly I think should I discourse ten times as long again with you I should not know No. No Divell nor Witch I beléeve you are not but I cannot beleeve but that you know already what it is that troubles my mind so much Som. I must thank you for the good opinion you have of me but truly I must tell you again I know not neither do I think without you tell me I ever shall No. Mr. Doctor you néed not be so desirous to know but I think your Conscience accuseth you Som. Accuse me I desire you would tell me for what for truly I know not No. I must tell you plain if your conscience do not accuse you it may do justly Som. I desire to know again what my conscience should accuse me of you have put me in great admiration I know not what it should be unlesse some busie body hath told some false-tales on