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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	reason_n	see_v	3,316	5	3.1434	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20448	Moriomachia	Anton, Robert, b. 1584 or 5.	1613 (1613)	STC 685; ESTC S104411	22,577	44

both so farre spent and tir'de as euer was Hackney horse vnder prodigall Citizen and the pride of their eager swords now hauing their bellyes full were so rebated that neyther of them would bite And therefore like old ouerworne Seruingmen whose prime of youth was spent in their masters seruice had at last both their coates pul'd ouer their eares dismissed their masters seruice without wages The Knights of the Sunne and Moone now being both on foote made a pawse to breathe themselues staring in opposition one against the other with full bigge faces swolne with anger foming or slauering at the mouth like two sucking sauage Bores whetting their tushes against a dugge And on a sudden they closde together and so fell to wrastling to trye their strength of armes but the Knight of the Moone being the elder Courtyer was too cunning for him in the Gripe and threw him downe but so as both were downe together and the Knight of the Sunne vndermost which seemed ominous portending strange things to come Why is it so darke that I can tell soone The Knight of the Sun is the Man in the Moone The Knight of the Sunne and the Knight of the Moone continuing thus in coniunction caused such an Eclipse as hath seldome béene mentioned in any hystories of your greatest Almanacke writers for the interposition of the body of the Knight of the Moone did so darken and obscure the light of the Knight of the Sun that it made a pitch-blacke darke day and wrought such confusions and mistakings on earth by reason of the darkenes that in Moropolis where the houses stood thicke one honest Citizen could very hardly sée another without the helpe of Lanthorne light He was a happy man that could kéepe his wife to himselfe for feare of losing her for many wiues tooke other men in their husbands stead for want of light It was so extreame darke that Collectors for the poore could not see to distribute the monyes gathered to charitable vses but were glad to put it vp in their owne purses and imploy it to their owne vses till this Eclipse was past The poore Constables were glad to take money of Malefactors to buy them fire-light to sée the peace kept whereas oftentimes before many of them were forsworne by reason they could not sée to bring in true Presentments The Lawyers could not sée their briefes not to make so much as one motion for his rich oppressing Clyent without three double fees for his motion Torch-light but for his poore Client if his cause were good his charge of torch-light was saued by the presence of Angels And although Attournyes swarm'd like the Grashoppers in Egypt yet they kept so close and were so hard to be seene by reason of this darknes that a man could very hardly haue any one appeare not scarce for ten groats The fogging Solliciter could not see to follow a cause as in honesty he ought but neglected the busines of him that first retayn'd him for want of Candle-light tooke fées of the contrary party which after the Eclipse was past came to light and he called coozening Knaue for his labour though sore against his will In this darke Eclipse the Bankrupt could not sée to pay his debts but his creditors were glad to grope out halfe a crowne in the pound and thanke him for it The miserable Iewish Vsurer would not be at charge for so much light as would search the odde corners of his Counting-house to find out and deliuer vp Morgages of Land and old bonds that were formerly payd but put off the debtors with releases and acquittances with hope that time might neglect them or cast them aside to be los● then would he but forsweare the payment and all is his owne The extorting Broker that suckes the very marrow from the bones worse then the fowle disease for want of candle-light could not sée the Deuill at his elbow with one pawe on his shoulder ready to teare in in a thousand péeces for oppressing the poore pawning borrower with threescore in the hundred and in missing but one houre of his pay-day he should be sure to lose more then thrice the value he borrowed Some wicked Mothers after they came home from their Reuelling cheere and Musike for want of Candle-light became Bawdes euen to their owne Daughters In this darke Eclipse the Peaking Pandar sneakt out with his bundle of rotten commodity which by candle-light made such a fayre shew that he held it at a Pockey deare rate but the world was growne so cunning that none but young Heyres and Fooles would deale with him in Hole-sayle and yet hee made shift to retayle it out to many Gallants by the yard because they were his common Customers The Tapster could not sée to doe any man right it was so excéeding darke in his Celler that he thought the Deuill had bin there so that he came running vp affrighted before his Pot was halfe full By reason of this Eclipse the Oftler could not giue the horse hay nor sée the age in his mouth without a greazy candle in his hand O 't was a lamentable time with Dyers Picture-drawers for the one could not sée by candle-light to put in those true ingrediences that would hold colour and kéepe from stayning Nor the other by candle-light could not take the true picture of Man or Woman without great faults This darke Eclipse was more beneficiall to Tallow-Chaundlers then thrée darke Winters before wherein Prentices to the trade tooke such paynes and withall were so carefull that many of them were made frée which before were but Screalings and euer crawling in the Tallow with their blacke flat Caps like Maggots And this Eclipse did not much hinder Haberdashers of small wares by reason they kept so many lights for by so much light a man might well discerne small wares in many Shops It was a merry time with Carrmen Watermen Porters for in this Eclipse many of them did nothing but drinke domineere and swagger in Alehouses but the often going to and fro of the Pot made them talke of that which they had nothing to doe withall and many times their obtuse apprehensions would be medling with the warres betwixt the great Turke and Prester Iohn how it was likely to end because they heard 〈◊〉 neighbour goodman Iobson say they were now growne friends and had put the matter to a bickerment So that State businesses which nothing concern'd them and the pot together so stupified their braynes that many of them went raling out of doores But if money began to fail out somewhat short before they came to the heyght of their State matters then many of them like a company of fowle-mouth'd fellowes would sweare curse and rayle euen against those men that set them on worke from whom they had their chiefest meanes of liuing This darke Eclipse was almost the vndoing of many Bayliffes and Sargeants and the impouerishing of Marshals-men