Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	let_v	see_v	1,452	5	2.8237	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77223	A dialogue between the Devil & Prince Rupert, written at the Leaguer before Chester upon Ruperts coming to relieve the said city. Published, that those that now are, or hereafter shall engage, as caterers, for the same master, might by this general debenter be the better assured to receive all their arrears both old and new. Written by E. B.	Bradshaw, Ellis.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4142; Thomason E561_8; ESTC R206013	4,277	8

Hell Where thou for doing so must ever dwell And yet thou canst rejoyce that thou and we Must there for evermore tormented be What good can that do thee to see us broyl In hellish flames who knows it was thy guile That brought us thither and for which thou must Be more tormented and more deeply curst Yea thou that knows this to be just and true And that it is no more but what is due That thou and we look how much more we sin So much more torment we augment and win And heap on faggots to increase our flame Else they that writ the Scripture are to blame And yet thou still canst instigate to sin And put us on vain-glory but to win And make us toyl and moyl yea sweat and chafe To heap up wrath against the day of wrath Thou damned Devil thou art worse then I I never could have dealt so ill with thee Though yet it may be thou herein but lyes There 's no such matters Heaven and Hell are toys I never yet regarded such reports But chose to follow honor wealth and sports Whiles this life lasts and then let come what will God hath they say decreed both good and ill Whatever hath been is or shall be done Against both God the Father and the Son Why then should I relinquish all my pleasure My way to honor yea to wealth and treasure And go about to serve and worship God Which never yet methinks with honor stood In sight of men to humble so my self They would but think me some base-minded elf Besides I should but play the Hypocrite If I should seem therein to take delight By making shew of holiness within When well I know my heart is fraught with sin Yea God and man would call me hypocrite Unless my heart therein did take delight For that which is within would sometimes out I should appear so devilish proud and stout That all would know I were not so indeed Nor would such shews stand me in any steed Unless I first of all could cleanse my heart And from my sins and wickedness depart God would not hear my prayer nor accord To what I do in act or speak in word And this I know I cannot frame to do It s therefore vain to set my self thereto For love of sin hath so possest my heart That I can never freely with it part Then come what will I must seclude all care It spoyls my honor pleasure dainty fair And all my worldly hopes it swallows up When I but think of drinking such a cup As thou hast told me of thou damned Devil Come le ts to th' wine I le drink no cup so evil Do thou thy worst I le scape thy gaping mouth I can retire East West yea North and South I shall make sure before I battel give To pass and repass ' cause I mean to live Gape therefore hell and let me see thy mouth I know not where to finde it North or South But gape I come I le bring them up amain And drive them headlong to eternal pain For what care I the blame shall light on thee And on themselves because they cannot see But flunder down and fall into thy mouth Because they will not part from sins of youth But are grown desp'rate in God-damning ways And neither care what God nor Scripture says And as for me I cannot blame them much Lest of my own sins they give me some touch And how should I find fault and blame them for What I in heart do love or not abhor For they and I and I and they together Are ripe for ruine reap when God sends weather And spare not me so thou mayst reap us all Gape wide enough for horse and man and all I le troop them up with full carrier together I le either choke thee or thy breath I le smother The Answer of the Devil and the insatiable gulph Well desperate wicked RUPERT spare not me I much rejoyce thy desperate minde to see For thou and I and many thousand others Were long since desperate therein we are brothers However yet I am your proper father You are my sons and heirs come all together You shall be welcom come on when you please Throng in amain you shall not me displease I much rejoyce in hopes of such a supper Yet if the Roundheads do I le spare Prince RUPERT For were it not for thee as I am told I could not get my mouth full scarce for gold But desperate RUPERT thou dost threat to choke me I would I had my mouth full Rupert look thee It s two miles wide as 't was at York i th' battail Fill it and take 't thee thou proves desperate mettal FINIS April 1. 1645. Upon the Princes coming down for Cheshire Discovered over-heard disclosd by me Whose name and sirname 'gins with E and B But cause some think my name I dare not show It s Ellis Bradshaw tell Prince RUPERT so