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
A20073	The Owles almanacke prognosticating many strange accidents which shall happen to this kingdome of Great Britaine this yeere, 1618 : calculated as well for the meridian mirth of London, as any other part of Great Britaine : found in an Iuy-bush written in old characters / and now published in English by the painefull labours of Mr. Iocundary Merry-braines.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.; L. L.; Merry-braines, Jocundary.	1618 (1618)	STC 6515.5; ESTC S1881	45,434	66

to the Lawyer to haue good doings and ends in despaire to the Client that he shal not be dispatched this Terme It hath 4 Returnes The first Returne the Lawyer comes vp with an empty Capcase The second Returne the Client comes vp with a full Capcase The third Returne all the Clients money is in the Lawyers Capcase The fourth Returne nothing but Lawyers papers stuffe the Clients Capcase EAster Terme comes in all in greene with the Spring like a puny Clarke waiting vpon him and would be as merry as Hillary but that Puritans plucke downe prophane and highpearching May-poles It begins with Pox vobis and ends with Pox vobis It hath 5 Returnes The first Returne the Client hopes well The second Returne the Atturney heartens him well The third Returne the Client laies it on well The fourth Returne he praies and paies well The fift Returne the Atturney laughes well TRinitie Terme is a very hot fellow yet in regard he is but short liu'd for he is borne the ninth of Iune and departs the twenty eight of Iuly he doth no great good to the Lawyer nor great hurt to the Client It begins in one of the Kings Courts at Westminster Hall and ends in one of the prisons about London It hath 4 Returnes And those Returnes are like the 4 quarters of a decreasing or wayning Moone The first Returne the rich Plaintiffe with corpulent bacon-fed guts rides puffing vp to London with a purse warmely linde and that 's the full moone during which fulnes he far out-shines the Defendant and giues great light to the Lawyers though in the end they light him when his owne torch burnes no longer The second Returne the lamentably-complaining Defendant comes vp too being more in the wayne than the other nay parhaps altogether out both of the Wayne horses and oxen and yet his purse not three quarters full neither The third Returne what with Councellors Attournies Clarkes and other ministers of iustice the Plaintiffes purse is scarse halfe full which he empties euery day as he melts his grease with trudging from Court to Court onely to vndoe his poore Aduersary The fourth Returne there is a iudgement gotten against the Defendant and now his heart cause being both ouerthrowne together his spirits are so darkned with black clouds of sorrow that he seemes vtterly ecclipsed vntill the first quarter of a new Moone which will not shew her hornes vntill next Terme MIchaelmas Terme comes in with his nose dropping and a pipe of lighted Tobacco puffing out of his mouth to dry vp the rhewme for he 's but a sniueling companion You shall seldome see him but dawbd vp to the hams with durt and raine and commonly to make amends for that a pynte of mulld sack is his mornings draught It begins with a shiuering to 500 that are Termers but ends in a burning Feuer for Westminster and London are too hot for 400 of these 500 to tarry by it It hath 8 Returnes The first Returne an Essex Yeoman hath a Goose goes gagling into his neighbours barne The second Returne he that owes that barne wrings off the neck of this Goose. The third Returne the Gooses master ambles vp to the Terme to a man of Law drawing out his purse as he driuells out his speech and scrapes with his hobnailes for counsell how to sue in the Gooses name The fourth Returne he that assaulted and battred the Goose gallops vp too and thrashes out his siluer about that Goose too The fifth Returne the matter comes to tryall So that The Goose is pluckd there 's the Iury. The Goose is rosted with delicate sawce there 's the Verdict The Lawyer eats the Goose there 's a Iudgment entred And giues the feathers to sticke the other two coxcombes Execution vpon that iudgement The sixth Retourne the Lawyer perswades his clyent it was no Goose but a Gander too 't againe they goe The seuenth Returne the two Essex Calues haue suckd each other dry and haue neither Goose nor Gander The eight Returne they goe home like a couple of tame Geese when their feathers are pluck'd and are passing good friends There are Star-chamber daies in all these 4 Termes for the Councell of Heauen with the King in all his glory sits to censure the Riots of the mighty on earth oppressing the poore the fatherles and widow and by the royall authoritie of that most honorable Court to guard innocence and weaknes from the malice and tyrannie of bloudy-minded Creditors whose pleas are neuer heard before so high an assembly of Iudges A memoriall of the time sithence some strange and remarkeable Accidents vntill this yeere 1617. SInce the first lye was told is as I remember 5565 yeeres and that was by all computation in Adams time but now in these daies men and women lye downe-right 5565 Since the burning of Pauls steeple many fiery faces haue heated the Citie but especially some Catchpolls red noses haue set 500 a sweating comming by the Counter gates But since the burning at Winchester at which time no small number of Geese were both pluckd and powdred many heads ake to this day to remember it albeit it be now about 12 or 13 yeeres past 12 Since the first making of noses chimneyes with smoaking mens faces as if they were bacon and baking dryed Neats tongues in their mouthes 32 Some Almanacks talke that Printing hath bin in England not aboue 156 yeeres but I finde in an old worme-eaten Cabalisticall Author that sheets haue bin printed in this Kingdom aboue a 1000 yeeres before that time 1000 Taylors haue bin troubled with stitches euer since yards came vp to measure womens petticotes and that is at least agoe yeeres 5000 Oranges came from Siuill into England aboue an 100 yeeres past but we had great store of Lemmons long before 100 Since hot waters caused bad liuers in London and her Suburbes is not much aboue 15 or 16 yeeres but they neuer burnt out the bottoms of mens purses so much vntill Ra Sauage gaue them Phlegetonticall brewings and horrible Necromanticall names 16 Dancing was in England long before the Conquest but pumpes haue bin vsed in London within 60 yeeres or thereabouts 60 Since bottle Ale came puffing into England and thereby troubled the countrey with terrible windes all the Putt-gallies seruing Brew-houses neere the Thames are weeping witnesses but whether Puffing and Roaring Boyes were before that time looke into the Calendar of Newgate and there t is Re-corded Since the horrible dance to Norwich 14 Since the arriuall of Monsieur No body 11 Since that old and loyall souldier George Stone of the Beare-garden died 8 Since the dancing horse stood on the top of Powles whilst a number of Asses stood braying below 17 The generall Earth-quake in rich mens consciences hath no certaine time when it shall be but the earth-quake and cold shiuering in poore mens bodies is now euery day and