Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	death_n	great_a	weep_v	1,440	5	10.0569	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02977	The ouerthrovv of the gout written in Latin verse, by Doctor Christopher Balista; In podagram concertatio. English	Ballista, Christopher.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594, attributed name.	1577 (1577)	STC 1312.7; ESTC S117081	10,403	35

light Lye not vpon the back for this is for the body nought But very seldome vse to ride take neuer any thought Somtime it shall be good awhile to passe the time away To hear the pleasant instrument of such as wel can play Nothing then Musick more our gréef and sorowes banish can It glads the minde and mery minde dooth make a helthy man. Far from thée look thou euer haue ▪ all grim and sollemne Syers All louring lumpish lookes that lothe bequeath them to the Fryers Make choyse of such companions as be wise and swéet withall Whose talke delightful is to hear and voide of any gall Whose grauitie is poudred with an honest pleasant minde Not tedious to the hearer nor vain waster of his winde Take such into thy company eschue the fléering mate The flatterer and such as where they come doo so we debate Use alwaes holsome exercise thy féet to walke assay This exercise consumes and wastes the humors il away For long and slothful Idlenes decayes the members all And dooth disgrace the body quite And causeth it to fall And like as Iron rusteth straight with lothsome Canker vile If that you suffer it to rest and vse it not a while So are our bodyes straight defilde and vnto mischéef fall If that we let them idle be and woork them not at all Beside a pitious sight it is a lamentabie case In sée the King of Creatures all lye lame and not haue grace Nor wil to exercise him self but Idle stil to bée And through his owne great fault blame to want his libertie By little and little try thy strength with certain rule and rate Which force with labour wil increase so it be moderate Auoid the aire that flameth stil with ouerscorching heat And that which ouercolde the members all dooth il intreat If these my rules you doo obserue I trust you soon shall sée This cruel raging Gout as she deserues destroyd to bée Inough now haue we tryed the féelde the Trumpet bids retire Héer stands the bownds of mine exployt and end of my desire ❧ Soli Deo honor et Gloria FINIS A Dialogue betwixt the Gout and Cri. Balista Gout ALas poor wretch alas which way now shall I turn my sight whil as so great a storme of darts doo ful vpon me light O haplesse wretch whome lews aspects of hateful starres haue torne Accursed be the lothsome day that euer I was borne All pearst with darts I am and knowe not how my self to saue My ioynts are all benummed so and neuer a foot I haue What fauour more hath nature showed to beasts then vnto me That hath ordained them a meane to kéep their libertie Oft times the Stag dooth laugh to scorne the Hunter and his Hound The Bore dooth laugh and euery beast that in the woods are found And why for trusting to their féet they scape the dangers all Good féet dooth many times preuent great mischéefs that would fall But I alas more slowly mooue then any Tortoise great And lame and feeble as Ilye the darts vpon me beat What now remaines but that to hel pale death me down dooth cast And make an end of this my life that may no longer last Alas and shall I dye B. Thou shalt G. Whōe doo I hear B. Me. G. Whom B. Thy greatest fo G. What is thy name what Region camst thou from B. My name Balista is G. Why doost thou shoot thy shaftꝭ at me B. To make thée dye G. I not deserue so great extremitie B. A thousand Gallowses thou dost a thousand Fires with all A thusand racks a thousand whéeles and after death dooth fall A thousand Helles thon doost deserue I haue not long to tel The sundry sortes of torments that thou hast deserued wel G. Tel me the cause B. The cause is this that men of worthy fame Thou with thy mischéeuous disease hast plagued and stricken lame G. Whō haue I plagued B. Whōe it were to much for me to tel Alas I am not able for to stay from wéeping wel Besides a number that thou wretched beast bast lamed quite While in tormenting of their ioynts thou shewds thy cruel spite The good Sedunian Bishop thou haste caused down to fall And ouercome doost kéep him yet in prison as thy thrall Whose worthy life dooth glister like the Sun with blasing beames Him hast thou in thy shackles shut and tyed vp in thy teames And therfore dye thou shalt G. For pittie yet showe fauour vnto me B. That can I not G. Thou art no stéele B. I wil be vnto thée G. O spare me yet I thée beséeche thy Philip shall be frée And wel shall haue his helth again and walke at libertie B. I more deman̄d G. What 's that B. That thou foule beast doo neuer tuch The limmes of any vertuous man nor trouble any such G. To this I graunt B. I warne thée look thou kéepe thy promesse wel Thy members els asunder wil I teare and send to hel G. Whome wilt thou licence me with shackels sharp to take and binde B. For that these words that I shall say to thée lay vp in minde First set thy shackels vpon such as alwaies fight and brall And murther on an other stil for euery trifle small Whose féet are euer forward for to rome vnto the swoord Contrary to the swéet decrée of Christe our sauiours woord G. But may I be so bolde to touch the féet of mightie Kings B. Yea hardly for thence the roof of all this mischéef springs what Region can you finde where Mars his Banner hath not spred What Cuntrie now that is not with the blood of Christians red For what so euer the ambitious mindes of Princes foorth dooth bring Lis we poore soules that féele the smart t is we that only wring Go fetter thou their féet with bolts that neuer wil away Except they ceasse their madnesse soone and from their follyes stay G. And whome besides shall I attempt B. The burston bellyed lout To him that scarce for fat can beare his lothsome guts about G. I neuer medle with the paunch B. The paunches such I call As féed them selues vntil they be as fat as Oxe in stall And nether feed with word nor life the shéep they ought to serue But slothful beasts doo leaue their flock for hunger like to sterue G. And shall I touch no more but these B. Yes such as vse to sweare Whorehunters théeues and surfetters their ioynts in sunder teare And for auoyding many woords I thus conclude with thée For beare the vertuous and the good plague those that wicked be FINIS Not our common Toutsane but Dioscorides his Panacaea reed Mathiolus Mary Goldes The leaf the seede with Beres Greace * Pap made with Barly Phicus marina Sea weed Sextus Pompeius Houseleek or Singre The wylde Cocumber Sea Colwort it groweth vnder the Clyfts besydes Seaforde in Sussex A Bag of Salt beatē smal wet in boyling wine and layd to the feet Or salt very fine beaten with Oyl of Camomil made in an Ointment Opium the Juyce or Gum of black Poppey Gotes dūg mingled with Barly flower and Uinagre a good Pultis So is the root of marsh malowes mingled with Ducks greace for olde swelling goutes A For fleaed cut in small Gobbits destilled with Oile of Camomil Oile of Rew oile of wormes of eche 〈◊〉 ounces a quantitie of Aqua vite A good water to noint the ioynts