Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	court_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	3,417	5	10.5128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14019	Epitaphes, epigrams, songs and sonets with a discourse of the friendly affections of Tymetes to Pyndara his ladie. Newly corrected with additions, and set out by George Turbervile Gentleman.	Turberville, George, 1540?-1610?	1567 (1567)	STC 24326; ESTC S111456	102,071	323

this wo For Arma I Virumque read in Vergill long ago Yet could not sée to scape the plague whereof the Poet spake No doubt that Noble Poet for a Prophet I will take For Arma now Virumque I both day and night sustaine At home I néede not runne to Schoole to reade the Verse againe Would Virum were away and then let Arma doe their wurst But when I matcht with such a shrew I think I was accurst To a yong Gentleman of taking a Wyfe LOng you with greedie minde to leade a lyfe That pleasaunt is in déede and voyde of care ▪ I neuer wishe you then to take a Wyfe Nor set your foote in craftie Cupids snare A filthie Trull is yrkesome too the eie A gallant girle allures the lookers minde A wanton wench will haue the head too die An aged Trot to lyke is hard to finde A bearing Wyfe with brats will cloy thée sore A greater carcke than childrens care is none A barraine beast will greeue thée ten times more No ioy remaines when hope of fruite is gone Wherefore let wyuing go lyue single aye Apply the Booke and bande the Ball among A shrew we sée is wedded in a day But ere a man can shift his handes tys long The Aunswere for taking a Wyfe LOng you with gréedie minde to bleare mine eie And make mée thinke of marige thus amisse I cannot déeme so yll of wyuing I To loue and wed for loue is perfite blisse A filthy Trull you say is lothsome sight Put case she be not passing faire to vewe If she with vertue doe the want requight Of comely shape thou hast no cause to rue A gallant girle allures the lookers minde What shall we say the womans is the shame Bicause the cléerest eies by course of kinde Can not abide the Sunne is hee to blame A wanton wench to die will haue the hed Canst thou not sée before thou wade so farre His be the hurt that lookes not ere he wed The Husband may the woman make or ma●●e Put case an aged Trot be somewhat tough If coyne shée bring the care will be the lesse If shée haue store of muck and goods ynough Thou néedste not force so much of handsomnesse A bearing Wyfe doth make the husband glad A greater ioye than Childrens may not bée A barraine wench sometime must néedes be had There doth not fruite spring out of euery trée So that I finde no reason none at all In that thou wilst a man to single lyfe And quite to shun the comfort that may fall And daylie doth to him that hath a Wyfe For sure though some be shrewes as some there be As of the shéepe are some that beare no wull Yet must we praise the match whereby we sée The earth maintainde with men and stored full But if you thinke so yll to take a Wyfe Let others wed leade you the single lyfe ꝙ G. T. Of a deafe Plaintife a deafe Defendant and a deafe Iudge BY hap a man that could not heare but borne deafe by kinde Another cited to the Court much like himselfe to finde Whose bearing Sense was quight bereft the Iudge that of the Case Should giue his verdit was as deafe as deafest in the place To Court they came the Plaintife praide to haue the vnpaid rent Defendant saide in grinding I this wearie night haue spent The Iudge behelde them both a while is this at last quoth hée Of all your stirred strife the cause You both hir children bée Then Reason willes and Law allowes your Mother should haue aide At both your handes that are hir Sonnes When thus the Iudge had saide The People laught a good to heare this well discussed case Twixt two deafe men and thought him fit to sit in Iudges place Vpon so blinde a matter that was deafe as any rock And thus the simple men were shamde the Iustice had a mock A promise of olde good will to an olde friend at the beginning of New yere THe Chuffes for gréedie gaine and lucers looue expende Their New yeares gifts vpon their Lords as crie yeare hath ende But I in token that the yeare his course hath roon And proufe that ioyfull Ianus hath a nouell yeare begoon As Loue and Dutie willes the Herauld of my hart Here send to you to make a shew that Friendship shall not start Though yeares doe chaunge by course and alter by their kinde My olde good will and faith to slip I trust you shall not finde Timetes will be true his loue shall neuer blin But gather strength and grow to more than when it did begin A Vow to serue faithfully JN gréene and growing age in luftie yéeres In latter dayes when siluer bush appeeres In good and gladsome hap when Fortune serues In lowring luck when good auenture swerues By day when Phoebus shewes his princely pride By night when golden Starres in Skies do glide In Winter when the groues haue lost their gréene In Sommer when the longest dayes are séene In happie helth when sicklesse limmes haue lyfe In griefull state amids my dolors ryfe In pleasant peace when Trumpets are away In wreakfull warre when Mars doth beare y e sway In perillous goulfe amid the sinking sande In safer soyle and in the stable lande When so you laugh or else with grimmer grace You beare your faithfull Friend vnfriendly face In good report and time of woorser fame I will be yours yea though I loose the game Funerall Verse vpon the death of Sir Iohn Horsey Knight THat welth assigned is to waste away And stately pompe to vanish and decrease That worship weares and worldly wights decay And Fortunes gifts though nere so braue do cease May well appéere by Horseys hatefull Hierce Whose Corse alas vntimely Death did pierce Who thought thereby as Nature to subdue By reauing breath and rowne in worldly stage So blasted brute to blot and Fame that flue Of him that well deserude in all his age For worship and renowne to haue his share Among the reast that prayse for Vertue bare But séeking waies to wrong this worthy wight Shée fowly myst hir purpose in the fine For Horsey gaines by deaths outragious spight And endlesse fame whereat his Foes repine But eche man else laments and cries alowde That Horsey was to soone ywrapt in shrowde The rich report that ruth in him did raigne And pittie lodgde within his loouing breast The simple say that for no maner gaine He hath at any time the poore oppreast Thus both estates his worthy life commende And both lament his ouerhasting ende Then cease I say such flushing teares to shed Doo way thy doole represse thy ruthfull mone For Horsey liues his soule to Skies is fled The onely Corse is closde in Marble stone So that thou hast no cause to waile his chaunce Whome spitefull death by hatred did aduaunce To his Friend T hauing bene long studied and well experienced and now at length louing a Gentlewoman that forced him naught at all J