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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	know_v	see_v	5,670	5	3.0830	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07525	A courtly masque: the deuice called the vvorld tost at tennis As it hath beene diuers times presented to the contentment of many noble and worthy spectators, by the prince his seruants. Inuented, and set downe, by Tho: Middleton & William Rowley gent.	Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.; Rowley, William, 1585?-1642? aut	1620 (1620)	STC 17909; ESTC S106479	18,936	46

can it be but they haue both abus'd And would for their ills make our Iustice guiltie Shew them their shames Minerua what the yong world In her vnstable youth did then produce She should grow grauer now more sage more wise Know Concord and the harmony of goodnesse But if her old age strike with harsher notes We may then thinke she is too old and dotes Strike by white Art a Theomanticke power Magick Diuine not the Diuels horror But the delicious Musique of the Spheares The thrice three Worthies summon back to life There let vm see what artes and Armes commixt For they had both did in the worlds broad face Those that did propagate and beget their fames And for posteritie left lasting names Pall. I shall great Iupiter Musique and this Song as an Inuocation to the nine Muses who in the time are discouer'd on the vpper Stage plac'd by the nine Worthies and toward the conclusion descend each one led by a Muse the most proper and pertinent to the person of the Worthy as Therpsichore with Dauid Vrania with Ioshua c. After the Song Pallas describes them Then daunce and Exeunt The first SONG MVSES Vsher in those states And amongst 'vm choose your mates There wants not one nor one to spare For thrice three both your numbers are Learnings Mistris faire Caliope Loude Euterpe sweet Therpsichore Soft Thalia sad Melpomine Pleasant Clio large Eratho High aspiring eyde Vrania Hony-lingued Polihymnia Leaue awhile your Thespian Springs And vsher in those more then Kings We call them Worthies 't is their due Though long time dead still liue by you Enter at the three seuerall doores the nine Worthies three after three whom as they enter PALLAS describes Pall. These three were Hebrewes This Noble Duke was he at whose command Hiperion rein'd his fierie Coursers in And fixed stood ouer Mount Gilboa This Mattathias sonne the Macchabee Vnder whose arme no lesse then Worthies fell This the most sweet and sacred Psalmograph These of another sort of much lesse knowledge Little lesse valour a Macedonian borne Whom afterwards the world could scarcely beare For his great weight in Conquest this Troy's best souldiour This Romes first Caesar these three of latter times And to the present more familiar Great Charles of France and the braue Bulloine Duke And this is Brittaines glory King'd thirteene times Ye 'aue faire aspects more to expresse Ioues power Shew you haue motion for a Iouiall houre The Worthies Daunce and Exeunt Iup. Were not these presidents for all future ages Schol. But none attaines their glories King of Starres These are the fames are follow'd and pursu'd But neuer ouertaken Iup. The Fates below The gods armes are not shorten'd nor doe we shine With fainter influence who conquers now Makes it his Tyrants Prize and not his Honors Abusing all the blessings of the gods Learnings and Arts are Theories no practiques To vnderstand is all they studie too Men striue to know too much too little doe Enter Time Sould. Plaints are not ours alone great Iupiter See Time himselfe comes weeping Time Who ha's more cause Who more wrong'd then Time Time passes all men With a regardlesse eye at best the worst Expect him with a greedy appetite The landed Lord lookes for his Quarter day The big-bellied Vsurer for his teeming gold That brings him forth the child of Interest He that beyond the bounds of heauens large blessing Hath made a fruitlesse creature to increase Dull earthen Minerals to propagate These onely doe expect and entertaine me But being come they bend their plodding heads And while they count their baggs they let me passe Yet instant wish me come about agen Would Time deserue their thankes or Ioue their praise He must turne Time onely to Quarter dayes Oh but my wrongs they are innumerable The Lawyer driues me off from Terme to Terme Bids me and I doo 't bring forth my Alathae My poore child Truth he sees and will not see her What I could manifest in one cleere day He still delayes a cloudy Iubile The Prodigall wastes and makes me sick with surfets The Drunkard strong in Wine trips vp my heeles And sets me topsie-turuy on my head Waking my silent passage in the night With Reuels noise and Thunder-clapping oathes And snorting on my bright Meridian And when they thinke I passe too slowly by They haue a new-found vapour to expell me They smoke me out aske vm but why they doo 't And he that worst can speake yet this can say I take this whiffe to driue the Time away Oh but the worst of all women doe hate me I cannot set impression on their checkes With all my circular houres dayes months and yeeres But 't is wip'd off with glosse and pensilrie Nothing so hatefull as gray haires and Time Rather no haire at all 't is sinnes Autumne now For those faire Trees that were more fairer cropt Or they fall of themselues or will be lopt Euen Time it selfe to number all his griefes Would waste himselfe vnto his ending date How many would eternitie wish heere And that the Sunne and Time and Age might stand And leaue their Annuall distinction That nature were bed-rid all motion sleepe Time hauing then such foes ha's cause to weepe Redresse it Iupiter Exit Time Iup. I tell thee glorious Daughter and you things Shut vp in wretchednesse the world knew once His age of happinesse blessed times ownde him Till those two vgly ills Deceit and Pride Made it a perisht substance Pride brought in Forgetfulnesse of goodnesse Merit Vertue And plac'd ridiculous Officers in life Vaine-glory Fashion Humour and such toyes That shame to be produc'd The phrenzie of Apparell that 's runne mad And knowes not where to settle Masculine painting And the fiue Starches mocking the fiue Sences All in their diff'rent and ridiculous colours Which for their apish and fantastique follies I summon to make odious and will fit vm With flames of their owne colours Musicke striking vp a light fantasticke Ayre those 5. Starches afore summon'd come dancing in and after a ridiculous Straine White-Starch challenging precedency standing vpon her right by Antiquity out of her iust anger presents their pride to vm These 5. Starches White Blue Yellow Greene and Red all properly habited to expresse their affected colours Enter the fiue Starches White-Starch What no respect amongst you must I wake you In your forgetfull duties iet before me Take place of me you rude presumptuous gossip 'Pray who am I not I the primitiue Starch You blew-eyde Frokin lookes like fire and brimstone You Cawdle-colour much of the complexion Of high Shroue-Tuesday Batter yallow-hammer And you my tanzy face that shewes like Pride Seru'd vp in Sorrill sops greene Sicknesse baggage And last thou Red Starch that wear'st all thy blushes Vnder thy cheekes looks like a strangled Moone calfe With all thy bloud settled about thy necke The Ensigne of thy shame if thou hadst any Know I 'me Starch Protestant thou Starch Puritane