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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	let_v	see_v	3,024	5	2.9158	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16799	Strange nevves out of diuers countries neuer discouered till of late, by a strange pilgrime in those parts.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1622 (1622)	STC 3702.5; ESTC S104700	16,963	28

a little Ducke into a brooke let loose Who in his pride did offer to swim wagers with a Goose The match was made the Gander keakt to see the Ducke so catcht And thought her but a simple thing to be so ouermatcht And on they went but in their way the Ducke with diuing skill When that then Goose did looke for her would be afore her still The Goose was strong the Ducke was quicke and nimble in her art So much that many a Foule did feare to take the Gooses part But ere they came vnto the place to win or lose the match For feare the Ducke with some odde craft the Goose might ouercatch The Gander ran vnto the Cranes and Cormorants and praid Before the match was won and lost the wager might be staid Who being sent for quickly came before the greater birds Who bad them on their loues and liues to listen to their word And that all quarels might haue end that had bin brought in thither It was agreed the Ducke and Goose should kindly swim together With that the Gander keckt for ioy the Ducke as fast did quacke And I with laughing at the sport out of my dreame did wake A Dreame of a Swan and a Goose. ME thought I saw a faire cock Swan that had a hen Swan such As if a Swan knew how to loue he could not loue too much For she was faire and smoothe and white and to her cocke as true As any creature of her kinde or any bird that flue He trod her oft and had by her a faire and kindly breed And in the streame they kindly did together swim and feed But in a mistie day by chance a Goose came swimming by And at the Swan did seeme to cast full many a wanton eye He trod her and along the streame away with her went he And left his Hen a thousand times a goodlier bird then she But when the owners of the Swans did come their birds to marke And like good birders kindly knew a Bunting from a Larke Seeing the Goose swim with the Swan they tooke her by the necke And gaue her such a twinge that she scarce able was to kecke They pluckt her bare and cut her wings and after let her go And let her Gander aske the cause why she was handled so But as she swam a buzzard kite did beate at her so sore That with her keaking I awakt and saw the Goose no more A Dreame of a Bucke casting of his hornes ME thought I saw a gallant Bucke had newly cast a horne Which made him seeme a goodly beast when it was brauely borne And rubbing of the other horne which did disgrace him so That of a faire and goodly beast he did ilfauourd grow He lost the beautie of his head and his defensiue armes Which both did grace him and oft times preserue him from great harms Now as I will beh●ld the Beast me thought a Keeper came And said My friend now may you see how nature hath her shame Of beautie and of armes at once to leaue him naked so That now among his gallant mates he hath no heart to go But if it be such valour be and beautie in a horne Why should they blush that beare the horne and haue it so in scorne When smiling at the sudden ierke and closing of the iest I wakt and 〈◊〉 it but to be a vision of a Beast A Dreame of a Peacocke and an Asse ME thought I saw within a field where I along did passe Two creatures that each other fac't a Peacocke and an Asse The Peacocke spred abroad his taile the Asse set vp his eares The Peacocke leerd vpon his traine the Asse did licke his heares But at they thus each other brau'd the Asse began to bray Wherewith the Peacocke sore afright did take her flight away Wherewith the Asse did smile that he his valour did so trie That with a word but of his mouth he made the Peacocke flie But when the Peacocke sang his song he scared so the Asse That he to go as all amaz'd he knew not where he was But what with tone and tothers noise they did such musicke make That I awakt out of my dreame and glad I was awake A Dreame of a wilde Boare and a Huntsman ME thought within a Forrest wide I saw a great wilde Bore Who as the common people said annoid the country sore He brake into their fields of corne and spoild their Wheate and Rie And rooted vp their pasture grounds and on their Pease would lie Tore vp their hedges rend their pales and spoild their gard●●s grounds And when they set their dogs at him would kill their little hounds When from a high wood issued out both men and dogs apace And with a crie of mastiffe curres did take the Bore in chase Who scouling set his bristles vp and champed with his chaps And with his tusks vpon the ribs full many a curre he claps And ouer hedge and ditch he goes and all the chase withstood And fumes and fomes and suuffes as he were master of the wood But close behind a tree there stood a Huntsman with a dart Who twixt the shoulders and the rib did strike him to the heart When vp the Bore turnd both his heeles the Huntsman all came in And all the mastiues and the curres did such a crie begin And such a shout the people made as if the aire had rent Wherewith I wakt and marueld what this kind of hunting meant FINIS

Labour in vaine which were not many but as they came to my hands I haue set them downe which were as followeth 1. In time out of minde when Beasts and Birds could speake and windes could whisle wondrous things there was in a strange country a great bird like an Eagle that flying vp and downe in diuers places of the world espied by chance a far off a faire bird like a Phenix vpon a high rocks sitting among a number of faire Foules and sweete singing birds round about her but she sat in a great maiestie aboue them all now this other great bird in his pride scorning all birds but himselfe and enuying the greatnesse of this faire blessed bird called a councell of his kites together to find out some deuice or other wherby to seeke the death and ouerthrow not onely of her but of all the goodly Foules and sweete birds about her Much talke there was how to bring this matter to effect and the better to set it on work before the enterprize was attempted the great Bird sent out certaine Buzzards as spies to flicker about the coast of the country where the faire bird kept her high flight who being returned with matter of such maiestie as bred increase of malice in the heart of the proud bird he standing so much vpon his strength that he thought no bird should be able to beare a fether in his frowne commanded forthwith a number of cages to be made in which he put a number of Peacocks woodcocks Dawes Rauens and Crowes Guls and Kites to make warre with this faire Bird and her Fowles which were no sooner put to sea but a chattering Pie in all places where she flew cried Victorie victorie but hauing passed along the Seas neare the coast they were encountred with such a flight of braue birds as put the cages with all their forces to such a flight as so draue them vpon the rocks and sands that few of them were able to get home with the hard newes of their heauie fortune but when the great Birde beheld the wofull spectacle of his drouping flight hee fell into such an agonie through a passion in his disgraced pride finding his labor all in vain stoupt his traine hung downe his head and shortly after turned vp his heeles And thus ended his discourse of Labour in vaine a tale of a tub without head or foote and therefore like a Fable of the Foxe and the Goose I leaue it to the Gander with whom I found it 2. In the Iland of Terra Lorida a place of great merchandize of small wares neare the chiefe Citie of Nullibi in an vniuersalitie in stead of an Vntuersitie where Schollers were as ill read as taught there was a deepe studient in the secrets of Nature which labouring much to bring all to nothing wrought day and night for the Moone-shine in the water when hauing spent both time and meanes to worke wonders out of imaginations finding Nature not so subiect to Art but to keep her owne power in all properties when his fire lacked fuell his eyes were ouermatched and a long hope of great substance went away all in smoke and while he laboured to marry the Sunne and the Moone together there was such a cloud betweene his wit and the light of wisedome that he could effect nothing to his purpose and that with the stone of Philosophie many braines had bin beaten long and the head nere the better with a great deale of griefe and little hope of amends walking one day to the Sea side and studying how to find out the cause of the ebbing and flowing of the sea but neuer able to finde it out saw as it were a vision or rather some conceited apparition of a man lading of water into a pot which though it was full and ranne ouer yet he still laded in water when this little well learned Scholler wondring at his worke asked him what he meant to do quoth he As you doe Labour in vaine and so vpon the sudden vanished out of his sight and left him so perplexed that with very pittie to see the passion of the poore man I awaked 3. In the old time when Hobgoblin and Robin good Fellow made country wenches keepe their houses cleane ouernight for feare of walking spirits should get into their chambers and ere they were aware slip into their beds and get them with child before morning In a country village called Lobkin the large there dwelt a plaine dealing man who with his wife a good breeding creature with eating of Mummada pudding and the inward of a beast with the helpe of a pot of Ale and Ginger found the means to fill the world with beggers the poore man hauing passed many dayes in no small purgatorie with her intollerable tongue which would call him by many more names then belonged to a Christian sought all the meanes to bring that vnquiet creature into some more peaceable course pleasd her humor in all he could but all would not suffice but an Eios hawke would euer be prating but when she was either at iacke or at feeding so this tatling gossip that tooke a continuall pleasure to heare her selfe speake though seldome to any good purpose the poore man so tired out with trying all meanes he could to stay the ringing of this house bell and finding his labour all in vaine resolued to put on such a patience as was past all vnderstanding and to let her talke till she was weary which could be neuer while she had breath and letting her haue her swinge till he could no longer suffer it knowing a day appointed when they should ride to a Wake or a wassell a merry meeting of gossips and their Assebands her Mare that she vsde to ride to market on being then in the stable and fed with the best hey and oates to please his Dame but little to her knowledge kept her from water a day and a night before she was to ride but when the day came and she was mounted and vpon her way it fell out that they were to go through a deepe riuer where the Mare greedy of water to quench her thirst as almost or rather stronger headed then her Dame ranne into the deepe and stumbling in a hole floundring out with much ado threw her into the poole and with much ado saued her selfe When the poore man looking backe and not hearing her speake who all the way before neuer held her peace but was euer finding fault with the ill setting of her pannell or the raines of her bridle or the shooing of her neere foote because she would now and then trip somewhat low and so with one thing or other be euer finding fault to keepe her tongue wagging but when he could not heare her speake and seeing onely her clothes appeare a little in the water after he had got out his Mare called for helpe to get out his Dame in a maner dead which being layed on the bank and the water