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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	see_v	6,417	5	3.2494	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20095	VVorke for armorours: or, The peace is broken Open warres likely to happin this yeare 1609: Written by Thomas Dekker.	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1609 (1609)	STC 6536; ESTC S105259	34,752	54

yet the wiser sort thought that they did much mischéefe to the State Despaire was not beloued by reason of his crueltie for if hee got any man into his hands hee hung him vp presentlie Hunger was one of the best commanders for warre that was in all the Land a man of almost an inuincible stomack hée had ouerthrowne many armies sped most fortunately at the besieging of a Towne or Cittie where continually he vseth to behaue himselfe so valiantly that no stone wall of what height or strength whatsoeuer is able to hold him out yet is hee not accounted so sound a common wealths man as some of the rest for that it is imagined hee loues the enemy better then his owne country if occasion were offered would rather fly to Money then serue Pouerty his Soueraigne A great transporter of corne he hath béene from time to time for which cause the people hate him in their hearts and doe now and then openly cry out against him with such clamors that he hath béene glad to stop their mouthes The onely good that he doth and indéede the only cause for which the kingdome loues him is that when hee leads men on in any hot péece of seruice they get such stomacks by séeing how brauely he laies about him that they neuer come off till they be satisfied victory béeing as good to them as meate and drinke Sloth by reason that he is troubled with the gout busies himselfe little with State matters he hath lyen bed-rid for many yéeres and gréeues that any stir should be made in the common wealth he was neuer either tilter or trauellor his body being weake and subiect to diseases which made him vnapt for both Repining was the onely man that whetted on both his Prince and her subiects to go forward in these warres for he could by no means abide either Money or her followers it fretted him more to sée any of them prosper then if himselfe had fallen into the lowest misfortune He dealt altogether in Monopolies for which the people gaue him many bitter curses and those I thinke kéepe his body so leane Industry was a goodly personage a faithfull friend to his Prince and a father to his country a great Lawyer a déepe scholler stout in warre and prouident in peace Pouerty whom he serued did often say that two such councellors as Industry were able vpon their shoulders onely to support any State in the world In deare yeeres when the Land had béene ready to sterue hath he reléeued it and turned dearth into plenty his head is euer full of cares not for himselfe so much as for the people whom hee loues and tenders as déerely as if they were his kindred yet stand they not so well affected to him because he compelles them to take paines when t is their naturall inclination like Drones to liue basely and to féede vpon the bread that the sweat of other mens browes doe earne A good States man he is and a louer of peace séeking rather to draw Money to be stil in league with Pouerty then to haue them thus at defiance one against another Beggery and Miserie are so well knowne to vs I shall not néede to draw their faces These councellors after many arguments weighed out to prooue the necessity either of warre or peace at the last concluded vpon the former The drumme was therefore struck vp to try what voluntaries would offer themselues but few voluntaries or none at all came in Then went forth a very streight command to presse not onely all masterlesse men but all others of what condition or profession soeuer that liued vnder the subiection of Pouerty The Captaines Lieftenants Corporals Serieants and the companies that were casheard and cast vpon concluding of the late league in the low Countries hearing of these new warres threw vp their old weather-beaten hattes w e torne sethers in them fetcht capers aboue ground danced swore drunke tobacko and Dutch béere and after they had fallen on their knées cursing for halfe a●… howre together all truces leagues confederacies combinations of peace they bitterly cryed out vpon the proud and tyranous gouernement of Money some of them damning themselues to the pit of hell if euer they could but finger her they would sée an vtter confusion and end of her because for her sake and vpon her golden promises they had ventured their liues spent their blood lost legs and armes had béene pinched w e cold parched with heate fed vpon cabbage vpon rootes vpon Christmas day in stead of minched pyes had no better chéere then prouant mouldy Holland chéese and course browne bread not a rag to their backes yes rags more thē they cared for but not thrée stiuers among fiue of them They therefore vowed to serue Pouerty to liue and dye w e her and with all their forces to set vpon Money who had made them slaues to the world not rewarding thē to their merit and thereupon striking vp their drum and sprea ding their tottered cullors which hung full of honour because it was full of holes an●… was indéede no bigger nay scarce so big as the flagge of a Play-house away they came troopewise with bag and baggage marching and were receiued as old soldiers should be at the hands of Pouerty she sweating by her birth and the fame of her Ancestors who were well knowne farre and néere that she would neuer forsake their company but sticke to them euen to the death The businesse thus successefully thriuing at the first gaue encouragement to all to haue it set forward so that precepts were forthwith directed to the Hals of euery Company who albeit they had furnished the Queene of siluer and gold Mony with certaine voluntary bands of sound approued souldiers Yet because they themselues that were old growne okes cared not how many paltry low bushes that nestled vnder their shadowes were cut downe they prest ten times more of euery trade to fight vnder the banner of Pouerty than those were that went to serue her enemy Yet was it a long time ere the Handicrafts men could be mustred together for Carelessenes one of the former councellours whose ambition consisted in popular greatnessé and had stolne the hearts of the common people gaue them a priuy inckling of the presse before it came forth and wished them to shift for themselues by being dispersed for a time abroad whose counsel they following threw by their tooles neglected their trades fled from their shops and spent both their gettings and their goods in common bowling-allies dicing houses and alehouses But proclamation being made That vpon paine of death they should all by such an howre be ready to come into the field and fight for Pouerty their soueraigne Lady and mistres It is incredible to be spoken what infinite multitudes of all occupations some yong some old were in a short time assembled together 〈◊〉 Schollers