Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	great_a	woman_n	1,867	5	6.2906	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02401	A doleful discourse and ruthfull reporte of the greate spoyle and lamentable losse, by fire, in the towne of East Dearham, in the countie of Norfolke vpon Tuesday the. 18. of Iulie, this present yere .1581.	Gurney, Arthur.	1581 (1581)	STC 12531.3; ESTC S105908	12,269	18

Pallas had set ouer all her skill Or were my tongues more then were Argus eyes Or had I got the trade of Tullies Quill These often tould could me not halfe suffice To paint and portray out in worthy wise The sore the sinne the shamefull partes of man Whose mind and moode no meane but madnes can ¶ For though the Lorde imprints in clowde and skie Right strange Edictes to call vs home from sinne And so by signes of Iudgementes dayly trie The canckred case that we lie tumbling in Yet nothing wyll our wandring sences winne We straight in nature can discerne the cause And so ascribe eche thing vnto her lawes ¶ We diuersie can descant of the Earth And dull vs in ou● déepe deuices so And showe the cause of plentie and of dearth And what doth shake the grounde and manie moe We are so farre betwitcht and gone in woe That whē the Lord doth plead our plagues by word We shift it off as though he did but bourd ¶ Doubtlesse I déeme or rather sée right well That if from Heauen we heard his voice and crie Or if he sent the séelie soules from Hell To warne vs by t●eir wofull miserie We would accompt all this but fablerie So that alas I can not iudge ne thinke VVhat may vs saue that haue such mindes to sincke ¶ If fearefull Comete glide ouer our head Or blasing Starres shine in our shameles eyes If Sickenesse haue our sore both brought and bred Or els the losse of landes caused our cries Of these I say we dasell and deuise 〈…〉 Nature as our God 〈…〉 and dayly nod ¶ Fewe prooffes herein may séeme sufficient For out alas how many way the trueth Myne eyes myne eyes want no experiment That maye me driue to dole and double ruthe For of my heauy harmefull hap ensuthe Nought els with most but discord and disdaine And of my losse haue many made their gaine ¶ But if they feare the iudgements of the Lord Or knewe from whence this passing plague did springe Or would not wrongly still my case recorde Ne shrowd my shame vnder their fortunes winge They would be carefull of this cruell thinge And rather learne to leaue for feare of paine Then loue so long to liue by trayters traine ¶ But all in vaine I séeme thus to inuey Their frozen heartes I feare not soone can thowe They haue ben taught and truely told the waye How they might gaine and in Gods fauour growe But they are deafe they loue to heare of snowe Therefore I leaue them that will filthy bée And so againe vnto my tale do flée ¶ When as I sawe I was so sore beset On cry side that now no hope I had And that my meanes did fall into the net And all was fishe that came bothe good and bad Right hastily and all in care yclad I muckehild vp my mooueables and stuffe And shortely saued myckle mangled shruffe ¶ Alas the while what sight was this to sée I got a bed the fier gainde a house I chopt a chip it tooke away the tree It caught the head and I reacht backe a louse For euery plume I parted with a geese And yet alas it rag'de and ran so fast That lo this lucke it suffered not to last ¶ For after it had once begonne to fume Against the winde and with the winde it went It leaft no side bue eftsoones did assume All that it toutcht and no way would be pent Till my long stréetes on both sides it had brent And made them lowe and leauell with the grounde And of my coyne had molten many a pownde ¶ The Houses Mansion which it brought downe Were fiftie two euen there aboutes I gesse And all the rest that burnt were in the Towne Thrée hundred and fiftie not many moe ne lesse So that the totall nomber I confesse Is foure hundred and twaine which I clearely lost And now do lacke to my great griefe and cost ¶ The Fish and flesh that I forehande preparde The Drinke the drugges the bread butter and chéese The Hay the strawe the wood for whiche I carde All at a clappe I must forgoe dnd léese The Catchpole caught them as his lawfull fées Which laide me supperlesse vpon my Bed When I scarce fownde a Cowch to calme my head ¶ The Fruict that late I looued to pare and prune I nowe could reache well roasted from the trées Hunger with care had harpt so swéete a tune That Bisket Boxes Carawayes and these I leaft at large for daintie waspes and Bées And now could leape alofte to catche a crust And snap it vp with Appetite and lust ¶ And doubtlesse who had heard the Infantes moane For lacke of lodging and accustomed fare Or of the brusde and burnt the grieuous groane Or séene the shift that poore estate and bare Of women that full bigge with children weare Would neare forget the Pageants nor the plight So long as he could knowe a wofull wight Least they be reserued for as great or greater Iudgement A Towne of meane report Cōmodyties Eastdearham Meaning all other townes and warnyng them Drunckennes goeth not alone Cause Effects Without recouery Drought This spoken tantum secundum quid Mans helpe vaine IVLY A comparisō borrowed of the Moone ●●tring into the line of 〈◊〉 He alludeth stil vnto an eclipps The cituation of the towne The wynde Where the fire beganne 1. Pet. 4.17 No helpe can intercept the work of God Meanes ●●d Ladders burnt The ●●nifite of w●●● lost pylf●●●s Th●●●●ckednes 〈◊〉 Natu●●uses Diue● Lazaru● Note this wel The prechers after the fyer in fearfull maner charged to restore all the stoln stuf No mercy in fyer The summe of houses Hauocke Hunger is good ●●use The moane of infants women with children