Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	day_n	jew_n	sabbath_n	7,683	5	10.0435	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70737	The frog, or, The Low-Countrey nightingale, sweet singer of Amsterdam The Old Exchange to the New Stat-House hoping fair acceptance, a speedy and handsome return, this true fable dedicates.; Holland nightingale.	Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Aesop.	1675 (1675)	Wing O172B; ESTC R213927	1,998	11

D D D THE FROG OR The Low-Countrey NIGHTINGALE Sweet Singer of AMSTERDAM THE OLD EXCHANGE TO THE NEW STAT-HOUSE Hoping fair Acceptance a Speedy and handsome Return This true FABLE DEDICATES AESOP FAB LXXXII OF THE FROGS Fearing the SVN should Marry LOw-Countrey Provinces United Bogs Once distrest States now Hogen Mogen Frogs Royal and Noble Interest gone Command Grown formidable both at Sea and Land Who but a Century of years before Dabbled in Fishing despicably Poor In seamless Vessels Troughs cut out of Logs Catch'd Whiting-Mops now Gogs and Gogmagogs In stately Pines new Constellations raise Ploughing up Billows two and thirty ways Through boyling Brine through Cakes of crusted Ice For Gold and Silver Ivory Oyl and Spice What Straights Gulphs trending Bays spare they to pierce By Water to take in the Universe Are they with Force not able to invade No matter They 'l undo the World by Trade Four Frogs two Tod-pols and one greasy Toad Deep freighted Bottoms bear from Road to Road. Whom now a consternating Panick Fear Dejected much The Sun will wed they hear The News from India worse than Plague or War Brought and attested by the Blazing Star To Pigmy Inches these Gygantick Frogs Pale Terror shrunk Summon'd from all the Bogs Hopping or crawling they in Clusters came Up to their Prime Morrass their greatest Damm There the new State-house stands built fair and large For their own Profit but the Peoples Charge Where they on all Emergencies of State Or Private business in Convention sate No Portico this Modern Building fac'd Within no antient Princes figures grac'd Nor Grandsires with their Nets such were too Poor To stand with Besoms there behind the Door Who for their own Good-Old-Cause Martyrs dy'd By Hemp or by more zealous Fagots try'd But Gods and Goddesses in Marble Carv'd Or finely Painted which the Heathen serv'd In all the Nieches each convenient Place In Stone or Tables the fair Structure grace But yet for all their Skill these Belgick Toads Made Vpsie-Dutch Heroes and Grecian Gods Early this day assembled Old and Young The Damm they cover and the State-house throng Silence commanded not one whispering Croak An old Sag-bellied Toad rising thus spoke Grave Hogen Mogens High and Mighty Frogs Whose Care and Prudence fertiliz'd these Bogs And so improv'd these your United States Princes to Beard and be with Kings Cope-Mates Though we from Mushroms sprung and Spawn of Toads Like Palaces are now our fair Aboads When through brack Waters and a salt Morrass We in cut Trenches safe at pleasure pass From Damm to Damm and time with Talk beguile Our selves and goods landing ' thout Care or Toyl From which new Water-works more Rent you raise Than from rank Acres where fat Oxen grase But what of these Improvements will become The Sun will Wed and Nuptials keep at Home Whom Laws of Gods and Men allow a year From War or Travel with his fair Compeer His Absence will our Marshes in a trice To Crystal turn a never-thawing Ice Or should we scape such a continued Frost As guirdles up nine Months the Artick Coast His teeming Spouse may yet produce a Son Shall quite out of the beaten Zodiack run So un-experienc'd drive his Father's Chair That soon to Fire he 'll rarefie the Air Water and Earth to Dust and Ashes turn And all in one new Conflagration burn They tell how Phaeton our ample Bogs To Jelly boyl'd stew'd Tod-pols Toads and Frogs In one Potage and Pluto gave who swore He never tasted Broth so Rich before Many such Yonkers may spring from his Loyns And share his Houses twelve Celestial Signs And they may Wed have Sons and Daughters too What in this Imminent Danger shall we do To what Protector shall we make address All know that Neptune this concerns no less Such drinking Suns may at one meeting Quaff If he had twenty Plumbless Oceans off Him to implore lay by next Sabbath day We 're no such Jews nor Christians but we may He heard us lately when a swelling Tide Imbodied threaten'd o'r our Tow'rs to ride And soon as mov'd with his great Trident came Beats off green Reg'ments storm'd our yielding Dam Which had they batter'd but nine Inches higher We had not liv'd ruin to fear by Fire This said Oh wondrous the Foundations quake And the stiff Idols fixt in Marble shake When Neptune where he did in Triumph ride On a rich Shell his Cheeks fresh Sanguine dy'd His Trident waving then with Arms displai'd Thus to the great Convention wondring said Batavian Frogs advanc'd by my sole Power Whom Jove first planted from a Thunder shower Fear not the Sun nor at his Of-spring shake To the last drop I 'll drain my ample Lake My watery Kingdoms Laver into Suds To quench their Torches to the Stygian Floods I 'll Titan send and all his fiery Tits To light their Lamps and to regain their Wits Lay idle Fears aside he 'll never Wed Nor plant a Female in a flaming Bed Suspect no Conflagrations from the East But a new Sun now rising in the West His Flames beware make Peace or Arm with speed You more then all the Elements will need Call our Supernal Call th' Infernal List Both Gods and Fiends too weak are to resist He threatens my large Arms to bind in Chains And now at Home a second Neptune reigns Who three great Nations swaies and two fair Isles His People Ruler of the Ocean stiles This said their God grows pale Limbs stiff and cold Trembling with Fear shrunk in their Marble Mold MORAL Princes beware to aid a growing State Lest they be first that give you the Check-Mate Wealth and Success turns Humbleness to Pride Beggars on Hors-back to the Devil ride FINIS