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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	see_v	think_v	3,716	5	3.8256	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14249	The run-awyaes [sic] answer to a booke called, A rodde for runne-awayes. In vvhich are set downe a defense for their running, with some reasons perswading some of them neuer to come backe. The vsage of Londoners by the countrey people; drawne in a picture, artificially looking two waies, (foorth-right, and a-squint:) with an other picture done in lant-skipp, in which the Londoners and countrey-men dance a morris together. Lastly, a runne-awaies speech to his fellow run-awaies, arming them to meete death within the listes, and not to shunne him.	B. V., fl. 1625.	1625 (1625)	STC 24562; ESTC S104644	16,364	24

iust cause therefore giuen vs to flye Be not you then good Maister Runne-away-Beater so sharpe spare your Rodde a little and whippe vs not for going to see our Freinds in the Countrey we doe not thinke but You yourselfe could you haue gotte a Horse would haue bin one of the Tribe of Gad with one of your Comerades for ther 's no Dancing now to your Theatrian Poeticall Piping Neither your Frierians nor Cock pitterians can for loue or money helpe you to a Plaudity we wish for their owne sakes and yours they could But many of them that could get Winges haue kept company with vs in our flight neyther are Wee or They to be condemned Flesh and Bloud naturally abhorres dissolution All desire to begett Children but none loue to see them buried so mortally doe we hate the name of Death that though we lye in our last Sheete saue one which must winde vs we hardly endure the Name of Dying The very Scriuener who makes our Willes as he is cunning in other thinges so is he crafty in that Conueyance and knowing what Word will fright vs he goes about the Bush and Writes thus When it shall please God to call Vs out of this transitory Life We must heere the string twang out Life still albeit Deaths cold fingers pull vs by the Noses Agen to adde one handfull more of Corne to this Sheafe of Defence made vp by the Run-awayes Know that many of vs that haue shut vp Shoppes are gon are yonger-Brothers and are assur'de that euen owne Fathers Knightes by Degrees and great Men in Possessions haue for sixe or seuen yeares together suffred nay at this very hower doe suffer their owne Sonnes yea their only and Eldest Sonnes miserably to languish in Coumpters and other Prisons vpon two shillings a weeke maintenance This is good pollicy to tame an Vnthrift but little charity to murder a Man 's owne Childe It 's a safe Locke to tye to a Runne-awayes Legge but ther 's too much Iron in 't At this Ward wee haue no great stomacks to lye wee find our Fathers hard enough here and are loath to tempt their affections whether they will come to London and cry to a Iaylor Fellow turne the Key let me see in what nasty Chamber lyes my Sonne Wee are better as we are and therfore fling away your Rodde and doe not whippe vs for flying Besides had we all tarried at home that are fledde in what miserable cases according to humane reason not diuing into the deepe and insearchable Iudgements of God had we all bin If the Country loues vs not now that are amongst them in perfect health how would they haue hated the City in her populous Thronges when perhaps foure times the number now departed had then bin smitten downe by the Contagion What Markets would you haue had then Where had Meate bin found to fill so many millions of mouthes The casting out sometimes of Merchandize into the Sea in a Storme saues the rich Venture and Our being driuen from the Fleete in so hideous a tempest hath we hope giuen the rest of the Wether-beaten Nauy more sea-roome and so aduantage to meete lesse danger Was it not hie time to take our heeles and be gon when the Doctors themselues playd the Runne-awayes Doctors for the Soule and Doctors for the Body they both fledde Many of them that stood the Battaile and being worthy Commanders fought brauely we heare are falne and in their places who were to looke to the Sicke and Wounded Souldier are crept into your City a crew of prating Emperickes cogging Mowntibanckes and cheating Quacksaluers who if they cure one kill twenty it being more danger for an infected Man to fall into their handes then for a sound Person to liue two dayes fasting in an infected House But what talke we of the flight of these for Phisick and Chirurgery those two diuine Sisters sent from Heauen are both of them puzzelld in their Readings and driuen a to stand in their owne Practise This Sicknes turnes Knowledge into Ignorance for experimented Salues and Medicines forfet their wonted Vertues to astonishment and admiration Our Flight then you see is Warranted by Ecclesiasticall Martiall Polyticall and Phisicall Authority Let vs not therefore here-after be termed Runne-awayes for though many of our Fellow Londoners are in our absence turned into Pine-trees our hopes are at our Comming home to begett a new and prosperous Plantation Well did the Rodde-maker indeed condemne vs for not leauing our Armor behind vs when we ran from the Army some peeces of Siluer to mainteyne the Poore But whole Troupes of Vs haue bin so beaten in this Country-Leaguer that we haue Siluer little enough to mainteyne our selues Beside Numbers we are in feare will be so blind with the Country dust flying vp into their eyes they will hardly finde the right Key-hole whilst they liue as they should doe to open Shoppes agen the Wardes of the Lockes if not well Oyld before will by that time t' is thought grow rusty Let the Rich miserly Runne-awaies who fl●do● to saue their Liues for their Moneys sake and to saue their Golden Idolls for their owne sake let them in Gods name pay soundly for their Horse race who haue too much Iuice may endure a squesing If we left our Houses and No body to keepe them t' is but the fashion of Great-men who reare vp Huge Buildings in which well Rattes and Spiders more often then Hospitable Tennants Now whereas your Qui mihi Discipulus with his Birchen Septer in his hand ●hreatens to fetch Blood from vs by telling what terrible Frightes we are like to be put into at our comming back Alas He drawes a Bowe too big for his strength and shootes that Arrow without any ayme What did Iob who had seuen Sonnes and three Daughters 7000. Sheepe and 3000. Camells 500. yoke of Oxen and 500 shee Asses to him one Messenger came and told him the Sabaeans had tooke away his Oxen from the Plough and the Asses killing his Seruants An other came and sayd that Fire from Heauen had burned vp his Sheepe and Shepheards An other that the Caldeans had seizd vpon his Cammells and slew the Men An other that all his Children were slayne by the fall of the House as they were Banqueting at their eldest Brothers But what sayd Job Naked I came and Naked I must hence The Lord hath Giuen and the Lord hath Taken Doe you thinke we are Cast-awaies because counted Run-awaies What should we feare Say at our Returne to London our Friends be departed our Kindred lost or Seruants dead and our Goods spent vpon Whores in Tauernes Or say that comming out of the fresh Ayre and falling sicke none of you will come neere vs because we Fled from you Nay say that Ludgate or the Compters must be our Innes where if Infection setts her Markes vpon vs neither