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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
A08006	Pierce Penilesse his supplication to the diuell. Written by Tho. Nash, Gent	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1592 (1592)	STC 18373; ESTC S110095	63,854	78

will say Avostre seruice commandemente Mounseur to the meanest vassaile he meets Hee thinkes he doth a great fauour to that gentleman or follower of his to whom he talks sitting on his close stoole and with that ●auour I haue heard the queene mother wonted to grace the Noble men of France and a great man of their Nation comming in time past ouer into England and beeing heere very honourably receiued he in requital of his admirable entertainment on an euening going to the priuie as it were to houour extraordinaryly our english Lords appointed to attend him gaue one the candle another his girdle another the paper but they not acquainted with this newe kinde of gracing accompanying bim●●●he priuy dore set down the trash so left him which ●e considering what k●●dnes he extended to thē thei in more than vsual took 〈◊〉 The most grosse and sencelesse proud dolts in a different kind from all these are the Danes who stand so much vpon their vnw●ldy burlibo and souldiery that they account of no man that hath not a battle Axe at his girdle to hough dogs with or weares not a cockes feather in a redde thrumd hat like a cau●lier briefly he is the best foole bragart vnder heauen For besides nature hath left him a flaberkin face like one of the foure winds and cheekes that sag like a womans dogs ouer his chin-bone his apparel is so puft vp with bladders of Taffarie and his back like biefe stuft with Partly so drawne out with Ribands and deuises and blisterd with light sarcenet bastings that you would thinke him nothing but a ●warme of Butterflies if you saw him a farre off * Thus walkes he vp and downe in his Maiestie taking a yard of ground at euery step and stamps on the earth so terrible as if he ment to knocke vppe a'spirite when foule drunken bezzle if an Englishman set his little finger to him he falles like a hogs-trough that is set on one end Therfore I am the more ●ehement against them because they are an arrogant Asse-headed people that naturally hate learning and all them that loue it yea and for they would vtterly roote it out from among them they ●aue withdrawen alrewards from the Professors therof Not Barbary it selfe is halfe so barbarous as they are First whereas the hope of honor maketh a Souldior in England By shopricks Deanries Prebendaries and other priuate dignities animate our Diuines to such excelence The ciuil Lawyers haue their degrees consistories of honour by themselues equal in place with Knights and Esquiers the common Lawyers suppose in the beginning they are but husband-mens sons come in time to be chiefe Fathers of the land and manie of them not the meanest of the Priuie Counsell There the souldiour may fight himselfe out of his skinne and do more exploites than he hath doytes in his purse before from a common mercenary he come to be Corporal of the mould cheese or the Lieutenant get a Captainship None but the son of a Corporall must be a Corporall nor any be Captaine but the lawfull begotten of a C●ptaines body Bishopricks Deancies Prebendaries why they know no such functi●ns a sort of ragged Ministers they haue of whom they count as basely as water-bearers If any of their Noblemen refraine three howers in his life time from drinking to study the Lawes hee may peth●ps heue a little more gouernment put into his hands than another but ●th●rwise Burgomasters and Gentlemen beare all the swaye of both swords spirituall and temporall It is death there for anie but a husbandman to marry a husbandmans daughter or a Gentlemans childe to ioyne with any but the sonne of a Gentleman marry this the King may well banish but hee cannot put a Ge●tleman vnto death in any cause whatsoeuer which makes them stand vppon it so proudly as they doe For fashion sake some will put their children to schoole but they set them not to it till they are foureteene yeere olde so that you shall see a great boy with a beard learne his ABC and sit weeping vnder the rod when he is thirtie yeeres old I will not stande to inferre what a preiudice it is to the thrist of a florishing State to poyson the growth of glory by giuing it nought but the puddle water of penury to drinke to clippe the winges of a high towring Faulcon who wher as she wont in her feathered youthfulnesse to looke with an amiable eye vppon her gray breast and her speckled side sayles all sinnowed with siluer quilles and to dryue whole Armies of fearefull fowle before her to her maisters Table now she sits sadly on the ground picking of wormes mourning the crueltie of those vngentleman-like idle hands that dismembred the beauty of her t●ayne You all knowe that man insomuch as hee is the Image of God delighteth in honour and worship and all holy Writ warrantes that delight so it bee not derogatory to any part of Gods owne worship now take away that delight abiscontented idlenesse ouertakes him For his hire any handycraft man be he Carpenter Ioyner or Painter wil ploddingly do his day labor but to adde credit and fame to his workmanship or to winne a maistery to himselfe aboue all other hee will make a further assay in his trade than euer hitherto he did hee will haue a thousand florishes which before he neuer thought vpon and in one day ridde more out of hand than earst hee did in ten So in Armes so in Artes if titles of fame and glory be proposed to forward minds or that soueraigntie whose sweetnes they haue not yet felt be set in likely view for them to sore too they will make a ladder of cord of the links of of their braines but they will fasten their handes as well as their eies on the imaginatiue blisse which they already enioy by admiration Experience reproues me for a foole for dilating on so manifest a case The Da●es are bursten-bellied sots that are to bee confuted with nothing but Tankards or quart pots and Ouid might as well haue read his verses to the Getes that vnderstood him not as a man talk reason to them that haue no eares but their mouths nor sense but of that which they swallowe downe their throates God so loue me as I loue the quicke-witted Italians and therefore loue them the more because they mortally detest this surley swinish Generation I need not fetch colours from other countries to paint the vglie visage of Pride since herpicture is set forth in so many painted faces here at home What drugs what sorceries what oiles what waters what oyntments doe our curious Dames vse to inlarge their withered beauties Their lips are as lauishly red as if they vsed to kisse an ●okerman euery morning and their cheeks sugercandied and cherry blusht so sweetly after the colour of a newe Lord Mayors postes as if the pageant of their wedlocke holiday were harde at the doore so