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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	woman_n	word_n	work_v	37	3	6.0204	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11019	A record of auncient histories, entituled in Latin: Gesta Romanorum Discoursing vpon sundry examples for the aduancement of vertue, and the abandoning of vice. No lesse pleasant in reading, then profitable in practise.; Gesta Romanorum. English.	Robinson, Richard, citizen of London.	1595 (1595)	STC 21288; ESTC S112281	113,518	322

Unto the which bring vs our Lord Jesus Amen The Argument The soule of manne espoused to Christ in baptisme yet dyeth by meanes of sinne leauing behinde hir sonne called reason or rather the word of God which healeth the disease of man hir sinfull father and beeing sent for to cure the maladie of hir stepmother will refuseth to administrate ghostly comfort vnto hir The 24. History SOmetime in Rome bare sway a mightie Emperour named Gorgonie which had married a courteous Lady and a fayre to his wife This yong Lady in due processe of time conceiued and bare a sonne a fayre child an amiable When this child was ten yéere old his mother the Empresse died And anon after the Emperour maried an other wife The second wife loued in no wise the Emperours sonne but dyd him all the shame and reproch that she might When the Emperour perceiur● this willing to please his wife exiled his sonne out of his Empier And when this child was exiled he went and studyed Phisicke so that within short time h●● when he heard that h●●●●●●●●●● such a Phisition he sent for ●●Spand●● letters praying him that he would c●●●●● him without any delay And then the sonne willing to obey and sulsill h●s ●●thers commaundement in all hast came vnto him And when he had s●ene his father and felt his ul●●s and his veines all the i●knesse he had was soone healed with his medicines from all manner of dangers Soone after that the empresse his stepmother began to ware sicke and many phisitions said that she would dye And when the emperour heard this he praied his sonne to helpe hir of hir sicknesse Then said his sonne certainely father I will lay no ●and on hir Than the Emperour began to ware wroth saide If thou wilt not obay my commandement thou shalt h●refoorth depart m● empyre His sonne answered and saide If ●●e d●e so dee●e father ye do vnrightfully for well you kn●w that you ●x●l●d ●●ée out of your Empyre through hir suggestion and mine absence was cause of your sorrow and sicknesse in likewise my presence is cause of hir sicknesse and therefore I will not meddle with hir also I w●ll ●s● no mor● medicines for of●entimes phisitions are deceiued and therefore I dare not ●●ye hand on hir lease m●n would say if it fortuned hir to dye that I w●re the cause thereof Then sayde the Emperour She hath the same sicknesse that I had His sonne aunsshered sayd though shée hath the same sicknesse neuerthelesse y●● bee not both of on● complection For whatsoeuer I did to you yée helde you content and when yée sawe mée come within the Pallace yée reioyced of my comming and greatly were ca●ed to sée him that yee b●●gat But when my stepmother saw mée shée sw●il●d for anger and toke cor●ie at hir heart and therfore if I should speake to hir hir sorrow should increase and if I should touch hir shee would bée from hir selfe And also a Phisition pro●iteth naught but whereas the sicke patient delighteth in him And when the Emperours sonne had sayd his mind hée escaped and went his way The Morali This Emperour béetokeneth euerie christiā man which is wedded to Christ in the baptisme of regeneration For then the soule is made the spouse of Christ on whome man getteth a sonne that is reason But this wife that is to say Christendome dieth whensoeuer a man lyeth in deadly sinne and after hir a man matcheth himselfe with a bitter woman a stepdame that is to say wickednesse as oftentimes as hée is ruled by will and not by reason wherefore a man that liueth by fleshly lust oftentimes exileth reason then anone the soule waxeth sicke for the absence of reason is that cause of the sicknesse of the soule For when Gods word is working in the reasonable soule as a good ghostly Phisition shée recouereth health vnto the sicke soule But when the stepmother waxeth sick that is to say when froward will waxeth sick then is the flesh kept in awe by repentance And therfore studie wée to keepe in awe our fleshe so by repentance that we may come to euerlasting ioye Amen The Argument ¶ Iesus Christ the sonne of God ought to bee cherished and fostered in our harts by faith and fruitfull good lyfe Which is taken from vs when we are vnthankfull vnto him in gods graces Wherfore the prechers of gods word as good Phisitians are comfortably sent vnto vs for the admonishment of vs in perseuerance to amendement of lyfe and constancie in Christes merits so to harbour him in our harts as he may therby bestow on vs the promotion of heauenly blisse euerlasting The 25. History SOmetim● dwelt in Rome a mightie Emperour named Folenus who had taken to wife the Kings daughter of Germany ●●●re lady a courteous which w 〈…〉 short time conceiued and bare a sonne 〈…〉 th●s childe was borne the states of the Empyre come to the Emperour and euery one of them beesought the Emperour to nourish his sonne The Emperour answered and said To morow shall be a to 〈…〉 y and there shall ye all be which of you doth best obtaineth the victory shall haue the keeping of my sonne And if ●ee traine him vp well I shall promote him to great dignitie honour And if he doe the contrary he shall d●e the foulest death that can bée thought Then sayd they Deere Lord all this pleaseth vs well On the morow when euery man was come to the tourney the states lusted held tourney with great valiance a long time till at the last there same a worthie knight named ●osias that so couragiously bare himselfe among thē that he obtained the victory And immediatly after the tourney was all done this ●osias toke the childe and led him forth with him And béecause this Emperours sonne should be receiued in his coūtry he sent before to his Castle commaunded his officers that it should bee royally prouided for and prepared both without and within that the childs lodging should be in the middest of the Castle and also that the seuen Sciences should bee pourtrayed about the childs bed that when the Childe waked out of his sleepe hée might lye in his bedde and beehold the same This knight had a fruitfull and a wholesome well by the childes beddes side wherein bée vsed to bath himselfe the knights wife bare the keye of this well and there was a window where at the Sunne might comfortably shine vpon him It fortuned vpon a daye the Lady that kept the keye left the window open through negligence Which beeinge so done there came a Beare and sawe the Window open and went to the well and bathed him therein of whose bathing the well sau●u●ed after for the great h●a●e which was the 〈◊〉 in the chafed beare wherefore who so euer dranke thereof waxed leperous with in short time And so it fortuned within a little space that by meanes of vsing

armour of our humanitie till he went to the graue that is to say to the wombe of the glorious virgin Mary by the annunciation of the Angel saying The holy Ghost shall light in thee c. Lo thou shalt conceiue and beare a sonne And thus in the wombe of the virgin he toke the armour of the dead knight that is to say hée toke the manhood of Adam our forefather and saued the Citie that is the world with mankinde from perill by his blessed passion that he uffered on the crosse and that he put the armour againe into the graue when his blessed body was buried but the citizens ●n●ied him that is to saye the Jewes of Iury accused him to Pilate and laid the law against him saying If thou suffer him thus thou arte not the Emperour Caesars freinde we haue a law and after the law hee ought to dye And thus our Lord Jesu Christ of his enimies was condempned to the death of the crosse and after ascended vp to heauen where our Lord Jesu bring vs all Amen The Argument ¶ The fornication of wicked worldly men is here detected by the prouidence of God and by his gratious fauour deliuered out of the thraldom of sinne vnto the libertie of life euerlasting The History THere raigned sometime in Rome a mightie Emperour a wyse named Betolde which ordained a law that what woman were taken in aduoutry hir husband beeing a liue shée should bee cast into perpetuall prison There was that time a knight that had a fayre lady to his wife which committed aduoutry hir husband being a liue and was with childe therefore by the law shee was put in prison wher within short tyme after shee was deliuered of a fayre sonne This childe grew vp till hée was seuen yeeres old his mother dayly wept hartely And when the child ha●d this hee said to his mother O mother why wéepe yée thus and for what cause are you thus perplexed Then saide his mother O my swéete sonne I haue great cause to mourne and thou also for aboue our heads is people walking and the sunne shineth in cléerenes and great solace haue all men that are aboue vs and wee bée héere continually in such darknes that I may not sée thée ne thou me alas that euer I conceiued thee Then sayd the sonne such ioye ne such light as yée spake of sawe I neuer for I was borne here in this darknes therfore if I had meate and drink ynough heere would I liue all the dayes of my life therefore mother weepe yée not but show mee solace This lamentation that was betwéene the mother the sonne heard the Emperours Stewarde that stoode aboue their heads wherof he had great compassion and wept vnto the Emperour and kneeling beesought him of his grace that the mother the sonne might bee deliuered out of prison The Emperour as a mercifull Lord graunted that they should bee deliuered Neuerthelesse if they trespassed so in time to come they should bée punished with double paine and after that they were deliuered this woman ended hir life in that Citie The Morall Déere friends this Emperour is the Father of heauen that made this law that what wedded woman that is to saye what soule that is wedded to our Lord doth commit aduoutry that is to say doth worship strange gods should be cast in the prison of hell therefore a sinfull soule hath great cause to wéepe for shee is departed from light that is to sa●e from the ioys of heauen Hir sonne that desired meate and drinck are the wea●thie wicked worldlings of this worlde that say to the prelates of the Church and to the preachers that preach vnto them the ioyes of Heauen that while wee may liue and haue all the solace of the world wee desire none other heauen The Steward that heard their lamentation is our Lord Jesu that knoweth all the priuities of our sorowful and repentant harts for our sinnes b● sought the Father of heauen for vs that wée might bee deliuered from the prison of sinne and that wee might come to euerlasting life to that which bring vs all our Lord Jesus Amen The Argument ¶ Christ proclaimeth the ioyfull feast of heauen wherin the Lambe to say the poore Preachers of the Gospell hauing their sight or knowledge i● gods word are suppo●ed of the blind lay●● and ech doe mutu●lly comfort other till they approch vnto the proclaymed feast of perpetual felicitie The Morall SOmetime in Rome dwelt an Emperour named Pompe● which aboue all other things was mercifull This Emrerour procliamed throughout all his Empire a great feast and that poore and rich should come to this feast And whosoeuer came to that feast should not onely bee well fed but also hee should haue great giftes When the herawld had warned all maner of men to come to this feast at that time there ware two poore men lying by the way the one was lame and the other was blinde This blinde man sayde to the lame man Alas and wo to vs both how shall wée doe for themperour hath proclaimed a feast and who so euer commeth there shall not onely bée well fedde but also hee shall haue great guifts and I am blinde and thou arts lame how shall wee doe Then sayde the lame man to the blinde man I shall tell thée counsell if thou wilt doe after mée thou shalt let for nothing I am lame and feeble may not goe neuerthelesse I may see thou art blinde and strong and maist not see take thou mée vpon thy beack and beare mee and I shall leade thee the right way thus shall wée both come to the Emperours feast Then sayde the blind after thy counsell let vs doe come on my back I shall beare thee and thou shalt lead● mee the right way and so they did that they came both to the feast recuied great rewards and giftes among other men And thus ended their liues in peace The Morall Déere friends this Emperour is our sauiour Jesu Christ that proclaymeth a feast that is to say the ioyes of heauen vnto the which ioyes he called all mankinde and forsakeht no man that will come vnto h●m This lame man betokeneth the poore mini sters of the gospel which wanting worldly pleasures liue by the prouidēce of God And this blinde man béetokeneth the lay men which konw not the right way to heauen It bée loueth the the blind man to wit the late m●n to beare the lame man that is to saie the ministers of the gospell sustaining feeding thē with the duties of the church then the ministers for gods cause are bound to teach to enforme vs the way to heauē wher as we shall not onely haue a feast but also great rewarde ioy vnto that which god bring vs all Amen The Argument Heauen hell are heere ●ōpared to two cities to the●e two cities are two contrary waies To heauen which is the city of all heauenly