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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	good_a	law_n	1,457	5	4.4596	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14659	A manifest detection of the moste vyle and detestable vse of diceplay, and other practises lyke the same a myrrour very necessary for all yonge gentilmen [and] others sodenly enabled by worldly abu[n]dace [sic], to loke in. Newly set forth for their behoufe.	Walker, Gilbert, attributed name.	1555 (1555)	STC 24961; ESTC S121809	23,976	66

speake all at once lyke as all good and lyberall scyences had a rude beginninge and by the industrye of good men beeinge augmented by lytle and by litell at laste grewe to a iuste perfectiō so this detestable priuy robery from a few and deceytful rules is in few yeres grown to the body of an arte and hath his perculiar termes and therof as great a multitude applied to it as hathe Gramer or Lodgicke or any other of the approued sciensis neyther let this seeme straunge vnto you ▪ bycause the thinge is not commonly knowen for this facultie hath one condition of iugling that yf the sleght be once discouered marde is al the market The firste precepte thereof is to be as secret in working as he that keepeth a man company frō London too Maydenhead makes good chere by y● way to the ende in the thycket to turne his pricke vpward and cast a weauers knot on both his thumbs behind him they to th entent that euer in al companyes they may talk familierly in all apperance yet so couertly in dede that their purpose may not bee espied They call theyr worthy arte by a newe found name callinge them selues Chetors and the di●e chet●rs borowing the terme frō among our lawers with whom all such casuals as fall vnto the Lord at the holding his lets as waifs straies such like bee called chetes are accustomably said to bee escheted to the lords vse R. Trow ye thē that they haue any affinity with our men of Law M. Neuer with those that he honest mary with suche as bee ambydexters vse to play on both the hands they haue a great League so haue they also with all kynde of People that from a good order of ciuilitie are fallen and resolued as it were from the hardnesse of vertuous liuing to the delycasy and soft nesse of vncareful ydelnesse and gainfull deceyte For gayne and ●ase be the only prickes that they shote at But what righte or honest meanes they myght acquire it that parte neuer commeth in question among them And hereof it riseth that lyke as lawe When y● terme is trewly cōsidered signifieth an ordinaunce of good men established ●or the cōmon wealth to represse all vic●us lyuing so these Chetors turned y● cat in y● pan geuing to diuerse vile patching shyftes an honest and godly titell calling it by the name of a law ●ycause by a multitude of hateful rules a multytude of dregges and draffe as it were all good lerning gouerne and rule their ydel bodies to the destruction of the good laboring people And this is the cause that dyu●se crafty sleyghts deuised only for guyle hold vp the name of a Lawe ordayned ye wote to mayntayne playne dealing Thus giue they their owne con uer auce the name of cheting law so doo they other termes as sacking law high law Fygging law and such lyke R. what meane ye herby haue ●e spoken brod English al this while now begin to choke me with misteries and queiut termes M No not for that but always ye must consider y● a carpēter hath many termes familier inough to his pretensis that other folke vnderstand not at al so haue the chetors not without greate nede for a falsehod once detected can neuer compasse the desired effect neither is it possible to make you grope the bottome of their arte onles I acquaint you with some of their termes Therefore note this at the first that S●ckynge Lawe signifieth horedome Hyghe law robbery Figginge law picke purse crafte R. But what is this to the purpose or what hane chetors a do with hores or theues M. As moch as with their very entere frende that hold all of one corporation For the first origynall ground of Chetinge is a coūterfea●e coūtenaūce in all things a studdy to seme to be not to be in deede And bycause no great dysceyte can be wrought but where speciall trust goeth before therfore the chetor whē he pitcheth his haye to purchace his profit en●orceth all his wittes to win credite opinion of honesty and vprightnes Who hath a great outward shew of sim plicity thē the pick purse or what woman wil seeme so seruent in loue as wil the cō mon h●rlot so as I told you before the foūdation of all those sortes of people is nothing els but mere simulation b●g in hand And like as they spring all from one rote so tend they al to one end idely to lyue by rape and rauin deuouring the frute of othermens labors al the ods be twene thē be in the meane actions y● leade towards the end final purpose R. I am almost wery of my trade alredy to heare y● out gay gainsters are so strōgly allied with theues and pickpurses But I pray you procede let me heare what sundry shyftes of disceyt they haue to meete all wel togither at y● close M. That is more then I promised you at the beginning more then I intended to perform at this time for euery of thē kepeth as gret scoles in their own faculty as y● chetors do And if I should make an open discourse of euery wrynkel they haue to couer and worke disceit with al I should speake of mo sundry queint conueiances then bee rockes in Milfourd hauen to defend the ships frō the boisterus rage of weather But I wil first go forward with that I haue in hand by y● way as occasiō shall serue so touch the rest that ye may see their workmanship as it were a farre of more then halfe a kenning The chetor for the most part neuer receyueth his scholler to whom he wil discouer the secrets of hys arte but such one as before he had from some welth and plenty of things made so bare and brought to such misery that he wil re●use no labor ▪ nor leane no stone vnturned to pick vp a penny vnderneth And this he doth not but vpon a great skyll For like as it is an old Prouerbe and a trew that hee must n●edes goe whome the Dyuell dryueth so is there not such a Dyuell to force a man to an extreme refuge as is necessity and want specially wher it hath proceded of abundance Therfore the chetor vsing necessitie for great part of perswasion when he hath sucked this nedy companion so dry that there remayneth no hope too presse any drop of further gayne from him taketh some occasion to shew him a glinse of his faculty and if happely he fynd him egle eyed diligent to marke auone shapith him in such a fashiō as that he wil raise a new gayne by him and with all somewhat releue his vrgent pouerty Then walking asyde intoo some solitary place he maketh the first waye to his purpose after this or the like maner I am sure it is not yet oute of youre remembraunce how late it is since yee firste fell into my company how great losse ye had at play