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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	king_n	5,512	5	3.6764	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12774	Complaints Containing sundrie small poemes of the worlds vanitie. VVhereof the next page maketh mention. By Ed. Sp.	Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599.	1591 (1591)	STC 23078; ESTC S111266	76,727	184

Sheepe to whom of yore The Foxe had promised of friendship store What time the Ape the kingdome first did gaine Came to the Court her case there to complaine How that the Wolfe her mortall enemie Had sithence slaine her Lambe most cruellie And therefore crau'd to come vnto the King To let him knowe the order of the thing Soft Gooddie Sheepe then said the Foxe not soe Vnto the King so rash ye may not goe He is with greater matter busied Than a Lambe or the Lambes owne mothers hed Ne certes may I take it well in part That ye my cousin Wolfe so fowly thwart And seeke with slaunder his good name to blot For there was cause els doo it he would not Therefore surcease good Dame and hence depart So went the Sheepe away with heauie hart So manie moe so euerie one was vsed That to giue largely to the boxe refused Now when high Ioue in whose almightie hand The care of Kings and power of Empires stand Sitting one day within his turret hye From whence he vewes with his blacklidded eye Whatso the heauen in his wide vawte containes And all that in the deepest earth remaines And troubled kingdome of wilde beasts behelde Whom not their kindly Souereigne did welde But an vsurping Ape with guile suborn'd Had all subuerst he sdeignfully it scorn'd In his great heart and hardly did refraine But that with thunder bolts he had him slaine And driuen downe to hell his dewest meed But him auizing he that dreadfull deed Forbore and rather chose with scornfull shame Him to auenge and blot his brutish name Vnto the world that neuer after anie Should of his race be voyd of infamie And his false counsellor the cause of all To damne to death or dole perpetuall From whence he neuer should be quit nor stal'd Forthwith he Mercurie vnto him cal'd And bad him flie with neuer resting speed Vnto the forrest where wilde beasts doo breed And there enquiring priuily to learne What did of late chaunce to the Lyon stearne That he rul'd not the Empire as he ought And whence were all those plaints vnto him brought Of wrongs and spoyles by saluage beasts committed Which done he bad the Lyon be remitted Into his seate and those same treachours vile Be punished for their presumptuous guile The Sonne of Maia soone as he receiu'd That word streight with his azure wings he cleau'd The liquid clowdes and lucid firmament Ne staid till that he came with steep descent Vnto the place where his prescript did showe There stouping like an arrowe from a bowe He soft arriued on the grassie plaine And fairly paced forth with easie paine Till that vnto the Pallace nigh he came Then gan he to himselfe new shape to frame And that faire face and that Ambrosiall hew Which wonts to decke the Gods immortall crew And beautefie the shinie firmament He dost vnfit for that rude rabblement So standing by the gates in strange disguize He gan enquire of some in secret wize Both of the King and of his gouernment And of the Foxe and his false blandishment And euermore he heard each one complaine Of foule abuses both in realme and raine Which yet to proue more true he meant to see And an ey-witnes of each thing to bee Tho on his head his dreadfull hat he dight Which maketh him inuisible in sight And mocketh th' eyes of all the lookers on Making them thinke it but a vision Through power of that he runnes through enemies swerds Through power of that he passeth through the herds Of rauenous wilde beasts and doth beguile Their greedie mouthes of the expected spoyle Through power of that his cunning theeueries He wonts to worke that none the same espies And through the power of that he putteth on What shape he list in apparition That on his head he wore and in his hand He tooke Caduceus his snakie wand With which the damned ghosts he gouerneth And furies rules and Tartare tempereth With that he causeth sleep to seize the eyes And feare the harts of all his enemyes And when him list an vniuersall night Throughout the world he makes on euerie wigh● As when his Syre with Alcumena lay Thus dight into the Court he tooke his way Both through the gard which neuer him descride And through the watchmen who him neuer spide Thenceforth he past into each secrete part Whereas he saw that sorely grieu'd his hart Each place abounding with fowle iniuries And fild with treasure rackt with robberies Each place defilde with blood of guiltles beasts Which had been slaine to serue the Apes beheasts Gluttonie malice pride and couetize And lawlesnes raigning with riotize Besides the infinite exto●tions Done through the Foxes great oppressions That the complaints thereof could not be tolde Which when he did with lothfull eyes beholde He would no more endure but came his way And cast to seeke the Lion where he may That he might worke the auengement for this shame On those two caytiues which had bred him blame And seeking all the forrest busily● At last he found where sleeping he did ly The wicked weed which there the Foxe did lay From vnderneath his head he tooke away And then him waking forced vp to rize The Lion looking vp gan him auize As one late in a traunce what had of long Become of him for fantasie is strong Arise said Mercurie thou sluggish beast That here liest senseles like the corpse deceast The whilste thy kingdome from thy head is rent And thy throne royall with dishonour blent Arise and doo thy selfe redeeme from shame And be aueng'd on those that breed thy blame Thereat enraged soone he gan vpstart Grinding his teeth● and grating his great ●art And rouzing vp himselfe for his rough hide He gan to reach but no where it espide Therewith he gan full terribly to rore And chafte at that indignitie right sore But when his Crowne and scepter both he wanted● Lord how he fum'd and sweld and ●ag'd and panted● And th●eatned death thousand deadly dolours To them that had purloyn'd his Princely honours With that in hast disroabed as he was He toward his owne Pallace forth did pas And all the way he roared as he wen● That all the forrest with astonishment Thereof did tremble and the beasts therein Fled fast away from that so dreadfull din. At last he came vnto his mansion Where all the gates he found fast lockt anon And manie warders round about them stood With that he roar'd alowd as he were wood That all the Pallace quaked at the stound As if it quite were riuen from the ground And all within were dead and hartles le●t And th'Ape himselfe as one whose wits were re●t Fled here and there and euerie corner sought To hide himselfe from his owne feared thought But the false Foxe when he the Lion heard Fled closely forth streightway of death a●eard And to the Lion came ●ull lowly creeping With fained face and watrie eyne halfe weeping T'