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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	think_v	3,328	5	3.8263	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B04990	A copy of verses presented by Isaac Ragg, bell-man, to his masters and mistresses of Holbourn division, in the parish of St. Giles's in the Fields. to his masters and mistresses of Holbourn division, in the parish of St. Giles's in the Fields.	Ragg, Isaac.	1684 (1684)	Wing R133; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[50]	1,815	1

A COPY of VERSES PRESENTED BY Isaac Ragg Bell-man To his MASTERS and MISTRESSES of Holbourn Division In the Parish of St. Giles's in the Field PROLOGUE Time Master calls your Bell man to his Task To see your Doors and Windows are all Fast And that no Villany or Foul Crime are done To you nor yours in absence of the Sun If any base Lurker I do meet In private Alley or in open Street You shall have warning by my timely Call And so God Bless you and give Rest to all St. Andrew ST ANDREW Suffered on the Cross And did not think his Life a loss To gain Eternal Life thereby Knowing that Christ upon the Cross did Dye To save both him and you and me For which good Cause let 's Thankful be King CHARLES the First 's Brith-Day This Day was Born a Prince of High Renown No less then Heir unto Great Britains Crown Whose Pious Actions through Europe Rings And was a Pattern to all Christian Kings His Youth and Age were prone to things Divine Of ●ods great Grace a most apparent Sign But God was pleased for to Eclipse his Rays and Crown his Head with an Immortal Bays St. Thomas's day To Unbelieving Thomas Christ did say O! Be not Faithless but believe this day That I am he that late was Crucifi'd And Rose again that thou might'st be Justifi'd And not only thou but all that do believe That I am he doubtless shall now receive A full Remission for the Sins which they Have ever done Amen Lord I obey Christmas-day This Morning Issued forth of Maries Womb The Infant Jesus Gods Eternal Son That Priest that Prophet and that King anointed Whom God for our Redemption had appointed So Infinite was Adams Debt before That only God himself must pay the Score For his sake then observe this Day whose Brith Has prov'd our only Soveraign cause of Mirth St. John St. John that Holy Evangelist Divine Whose Gospel over all the World doth shine Converted Heathens was Christ Bosome Friend And Preached Pardon to all that did offend Gists of the Spirit God to him had given And now remains a Blessed Saint in Heaven Childermas-day By this days Memory is understood The Vintage that was made of Infants Blood Hered was up in Arms through all the Coast Of Bethlehem against the Lord of Host And Infants in Pursuit of the Virgins Son Did suffer the Glorious Acts of Martyrdome New-Years day Now Winters Aged Face is Withering The New-Year's come to usher in the Spring The Earth prepares to put on fresh attires To moove affections and Inflame desires And to set forth the Beauty of this New-Year A new change will in every thing appear T were good too in bad Lives a change to see He that is good let him no Changling be King Charles the Second What more to Loyalty may Subjects win Then the attribute of goodness in a King The which in ours what Heart but may discern What King so good that from him might not Learn His Mercy Love and Clemency to all Exceedeth and is more then Natural And as in Vertues great he doth excell May he convince all Hearts to wish him well For a Frost But first when Winters keenest breath began To Christalize the Baltick Ocean To stop the Lakes and Bridle up the Floods And perriwigg the Bark of the Ball-pate Woods Our Grandsier then began to Shiver His Teech did Chatter and his Beard did Quiver Saying I could wish there were Handsome Women too But I am Old and Cold and cannor do Any Day Give me Transcending all the Pious Heart That firmly standeth for Religious Art Gods Honour Holy Conversation For Faith and Vertues Propagation For Justice Charity and Chast desire And all such like that unto Heaven aspire And Loyalty not the least among them Crown'd Who serves God right is to his Soveraign sound On the Thirtieth of January What Fatal Comet did this day portend The Death of Charles our Royal King and Friend What Actors Vile contriv'd for to betray His Crown and Scepter which they should Obey And must he be brought to his Pallace Gate There for to Suffer a Prodigious Fate Must nothing but his Sacred Blood Suffice To quench the Fury of their Villanies Then let us go on to Exercise The Laws on them that Government despise Toth ' Holy Temple of your Hearts repair There never was more need to joyn in Prayer The Bore and Woolf are Whispering with the Fox Against the Royal and the Orthodox Past Whispering in their Hearts they call a loud Rebellion her old Way through her Blew Cloud To bring the old mischief on us and Renew That which the Child Unborn may already Rue Most Gracious Lord may so thy Mercy be That all may in thy real Truth agree That there may be no difference nor division Neither in State nor matters of Religion And as there 's but one God one Faith one Baptism What ever be the Dreams of Sects and Schism So Frame us as our Ancestors have been To one Church Government And God Save the KING FINIS LONDON Printed by William Downing in Bartholomew-Close 1683 4