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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	true_a	2,848	5	3.8360	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13768	A maruelous tydynges both wonders old and new The Deuyll is endited yf many mens wordes be tru.		1570 (1570)	STC 24066; ESTC S101988	2,595	1

¶ A Maruelous tydynges both Wonders Old and New The Deuyll is endited yf many mens wordes be tru IN all Christendom Christes Godspell now is rad Of man womā and chyld it maketh their harts glad Whiche with shamefull syns before were full sad O wounders good tydynges yf all sayinges be tru ¶ It is rad so oft and with soch diligence That no text is wrested thorow raische negligence Playn declaracions help moche to the true sense We all haue cause to reioyse yf these tydyngs be tru ❧ Now after Christes rule all folk do lead theyr lyfe They abhor all chydyng braulyng fyghtyng and stryfe Grete feruent charytie is betwyne man and wyfe No worse wordes then hony comb sweet hart of gold most tru ¶ One neybur resorteth fryndly to an other As though all were kynsfolk lyke brother and brother Greter loue was neuer betwyne chyld and mother This world is no world yf all tydynges be tru ❧ It is rather lyke Heuyn or pleasaunt Paradyse The folk be lyke Angels discrete sober and wyse If one fall through fraylty he repentyng more then twyse Ryseth styll a new man a good Christian and tru ¶ Folk fast pray and serue God not Hipocritically Only to be seen of men for folysh vayn glory But from the very hart the Lord God to gloryfy Despysyng fond fantasyes as false thynges and not tru ¶ Euery body now in somtrade of lyuyng Doth labour for his foode with trauell or swetyng Som dyggyng som spynuyng som wrytyng som redyng Som geuyng good counsell lyke honest folk and tru ☞ They knowe that they must make a rekenyng to God Of theyr dispensacion they feere gretely Gods rod The ryche do helpe the poore with rost meat or with sod None lye staruyng in Streets yf all mens tonges be tr●… ¶ Great ryche men be afrayd least they dye sodaynly Least they re goods after them be spent in foolery Least God wyll call them fooles therfore liberally They spend moche in theyr lyfe vpon poore folk and tru ❧ They be redy also somwhat to prysons to send If any through frayltie chaunse folyshly to offend But now Prisons be empty the world doth so amende There be but .iiii. score and ten in kynges benche it was tru ▪ ¶ Of them that be in pryson som be tyed with clogges Som gnaw broun crustes of bred sō burnish boones lyke doggs Som wysh to fyll theyr gut●s with catts ratts myse or froggs Specyally this deere yere Now they say they wyll be tru ☞ How many be in Ludgate and Neugate I can not tel But they that be abrode be afrayd I trust well And fall to wourk lustely thorow theyr exampell They abhorre Clinkerum They say they wyll be tru ¶ A man may goo now ouer fyns bery fy●…de Without sweard and buckler without speare or shylde With an houndred poundes as safe as with a nylde In a mysty mornyng and by nyght yf tales be tru ✚ All England and Spayn all Scotland and Germany All Fraunce and Ireland all Denmark and Hungary Be purged so I trust from vice and Idolatry That the Turk doth beghyn to thynk the Godspele tru ❧ The Saracens and Iewes I trust do now conuert Moued with Godlynes that is in Christians harte They fere least Chrysts scourge wyll make theyr bones to smart I trust they receyue baptyme and belyue the Godspell is tru ¶ They hire it so discussed by calculacyon That Doomes day is at hand yf mens speculacion In Astronomye be tru the worldes transformacyon Wylbe within .x. yeres straunge newes yf it be tru ❧ I one of .xl. yeres thought to prouyde for age House for one and twenty yere or som fat personage Som prebend deanery or som vicarage But now I pas not moche yf Astronomers be tru ¶ Yea whither Astronomers be true eyther no Or that generall iugement be commyng to or fro This one thyng I kno sure that I shall hence go I kno nor day nor ooure Nothyng is more tru ❧ And douteles yf all men wolde be of my mynde We wold som better way for to lyue here out fynde Men shulde be set awurk onlesse they were stark blynd Yea blynde shuld do somwhat to kepe themselfe tru ¶ Helthy folke lackyng wourk shuld resorte to a place With theyr tooles and instrumētes as som vse to shew their face Then set awourk or fed of mens fauour and grace With som comon purse to kepe themselfs tru ❧ So that it shuld be a straunge thyng for to see Any theft or murder euer committed to be As thankes be to God folk burne so in charytie That no knauery raigneth yf all mens wordes be tru ¶ The Deuyll hath ben a knaue and hath kylde many men Yea both soule and body moe perchaunse then ten Now he is endyted as witnesseth my pen His Quest is empayneld he is founde false not tru ☞ Here folowe the names of the .xii. men that goo vpon the Deuyll ¶ Gen. iii. i. Paralip xxi Iob. i. ii Sapien. ii Christ in Math. xiii and in Luke viii Math. iiii Mar. i. Luke xxii Ioan. xiii and. i. Ioan. iii. Paull to the Ephesians vi i. Pet. v. Iacob iiii ❧ It wylbe hard to kyll suche an immortall knaue He recoueryth so oft though a stronge hooste we haue Call in Turkes and Saracens that they also may be saue● Through Gods help we may breke Satans hed It is tru ▪ ¶ To breke Satans hed of all wayes this is one With the buckler of fayth to resyst suggestion And strongly to belyue that Christes passion Christes wordes and myrakels all be most surely tru ▪ ❧ All Christian Kyngs do now theyr wittes bende Theyr letters in print to the Turkes for to sende With many new testamentes theyr blynd lyfe to am●n●… For fere of hell fyre I trust it wylbe tru ¶ When Satan the Deuyll seeth such a great hoost Suche a sort of christians to dimtnish his boost He must nedes be compelld to graunt his great strenght ●o●… When his pate is broken God graunte this may be tru ❧ Then the golden world I trust wyll com agayn That folk may lyue easyly without any great payn Many egges for a peny at London I wolde se fayn Flesche and fische better chepe I trust it wylbe tru ¶ All other thynges good chepe I trust to se er I dye Coynes measures and weyghtes in good vniformiti● Thorow all the world I trust to se schortely Onles that diuersitie doth more good it be tru ❧ Ientyll reder farewell Thou knoest part of my mynd There lye in my harte many such thynges behynde Whiche towards the brekyng of Satans hed I fynde That all may be mery and wyse in Christ It is tru ¶ Io. x. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 habeo que non sunt ex hoc on●● ●las quoq oportet 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vocem 〈◊〉 audient et fiet 〈◊〉 o●ile et vnus pastoe ¶ Io xii ●unc 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 est mundi huios Nunc princeps mundi huius ●●icietu● for●● Et ego 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…etra 〈◊〉 trah●●●… ad 〈◊〉 Hoc autem dicebat significans que 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ¶ Printed by Cornel●s Woltrop dwellyng at saynt Antonies