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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	know_v	see_v	4,988	5	3.1452	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00646	The compters common-wealth, or A voiage made to an infernall iland long since discouered by many captaines, seafaring-men, gentlemen, marchants, and other tradesmen but the conditions, natures, and qualities of the people there inhabiting, and of those that trafficke with them, were neuer so truly expressed or liuely set foorth as by William Fennor His Maiesties servant.	Fennor, William.	1617 (1617)	STC 10781; ESTC S102012	60,732	92

and come to some reasonable composition for what should they doe with them when they haue no more cash dealing with them as some dainty Lady will with a Woodcocke cares not what becomes of the body when shee hath eaten vp his braines or as Huntsmen doe with foxes fling the carkasse into some ditch or on some dunghill after they hane stript his skin ouer his eares Besides these trickes I haue heard that when a young Gentle-man is arrested and hath competent allowance from his friends as weekely his diet and his lodging discharged they continually will certifie his friends or his father of the least misdemeanour he shall commit nay rather then faile to relate all will adde more to it to make it more hainous so that hee might bee incensed against his childe and still keepe him in prison which policy is onely for this cause that they might still haue so good a guest as hee is knowing his friends will see such things hee cals for truely discharged These things say they are common with them and when a Tradesman is arrested vpon seuerall actions they will giue being feed well intelligence to their Aduersaries whether they meane to put in baile or no to them or what they determine to get their release by caring not what becoms of the poore man wife and children so they themselues gaine but twelue-pence Some say they will not sticke to take fees of dead men and scarce let the coffin goe out of their gates before his friends hath payd his fees therefore if these reports bee true it is first most abhominable for them to act and most lamentable to heare Therefore good Sir let me haue your aduise and opinion in this matter and truly without any fallacie or equiuocation whether these things I lately was certified of are true or no after a little pausing he began to resolue me in this manner Indeede Sir some of these deuises I haue found practised vpon my selfe but for some others that you haue made mention of I will not boldly warrant to bee true but you haue heard no more reported then I haue heard spoken but this I can iustifie to be true as a true token and signe of their wooluish disposition and ingluvious appetites there cannot a dish of meat come into the gates but they must and will haue a share of it nay and thinke that the poore prisoners are much beholding to them that they are so much graced or haue so much fauour as to haue them partake with them but if any man hating their society will neither giue them entertainment or inuite them to any peece of meate hee shall bee sure to bee lockt vp all that weeke that Keeper waits and doe him some villanous mischiefe whensoeuer he conueniently can contriue it Or on the contrary if any young nouice that hath no execution against him bee pliant to their humour they will vse him with as great a respect as any Noble-mans heire if they see him profuse and riotous they will not leaue vrging him to go abroad with them to take some composition with his creditors when Heauen knowes it is not for any good they purpose to him but themselues For they vse him as Anglers doe the fish giue him a bait but it is for his bane so these are kinde but it is for some benefit they expect from him for they will neuer goe abroad with any of these vnder two shillings or halfe a crowne if they stay but an hower with them besides in what company soeuer they come in and stay at dinner supper either at an Ordinary or Tauerne or any friends house they pay not a penny thus doe they perswade many abroad with them that else would stay at home I meane in Prison first that they might furnish their purses with money and their bellies with good cheere and bring them home at night as bare of money as a sheepe is of wooll that all day long hath beene feeding among bushes and briers But suppose this man from whom they haue receiued so much kindnesse as good diet money and other fauours fall into want and distresse doe you thinke they will releeue him no they will let him lie and break his heart with his owne sighes wash his couch with his owne teares grinde his teeth into powder and make himselfe bread of it to eat before they will releeue or helpe him or if by chance they doe releeue any poore man as it is very seldome they will in a Pharesaicall ostentation report it to any friend that comes to visit him I haue seene an Embleme where the picture of Charity held in one hand loaues of bread distributing it to the poore standing round about her and in the other a Trumpet to report to the world her beneuolence Such are these Iaylours that vpon the least taste of friendship or kindnesse shewed to a man will bee sure to haue all the people in the house know of it yet these curtesies come as seldome from them as virgins out of Pickt-hatch or sound horses out of Smith-field But for one good qualitie they haue ten badde and what iniury or wrong soeuer they doe a man hee must not complaine a rugged behauiour towards them preuailes not If a man rush through a quicke-set hedge in hast he cannot chuse but haue his face scratcht wheras if hee temperately did diuide the bushes with his hands he might go through without any hurt when a poore man comes nigh a churlish mastiffe he must not spurne at him if he meane to goe quietly by him but flatter and stroake him on the backe and spit in his mouth So must Prisoners if they meane not to bee prickt with a Iaylors thorny disposition must vse him gently or if he will not bee bitten with his currish and dogged vsage let him giue faire words and sometimes if he be able flinge a soppe or two into his gaping and all-deuouring iawes They doe as all the world else more for money then merit for I haue seene a fellow come in with scarce a ragge on his backe being some Cheate or Decoy that hath beene preferred to the Masterside because the Keepers knew they of his trade would fetch him out speedily and pay all the fees when on the contrary I haue knowne a Gentleman of good reputation whose behauiour and outward habiliments shewed his desert clapt vp into a darke roome without any light among halfe a score men and if there were no spare bedde for him to lie on let him take vp his lodging on the bourds which he must pay for before he and they part Other mens miseries makes them merry and the more Prisoners they haue committed the more is their gaine for I haue often heard them when my Lord Maiors officers haue brought in Bakers for making their bread an ounce or two too heauy whisper in their eares telling them they haue had but a fewe Prisoners that weeke which is an instigation to them