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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	law_n	young_a	youth_n	22	3	7.6812	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06473	London and the countrey carbonadoed and quartred into seuerall characters. By D. Lupton	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1632 (1632)	STC 16944; ESTC S108946	28,518	158

best that oftnest cast their Feathers to conclude he is no Tradsman if the whole bunch of them be weighed you shal not scarse finde a dramme of honesty for a pound of craft 15. Charter-house THis place is wel described by three thinges Magnificence Munificence and Religious gouernment Magnificence is the ●erminus a quo good Orders the Terminus mediari Munificence and Charity the Terminus ad quem the first showes the wealth of both Founder and Establisher the second showes the ●eanes to make the good thing done durable the third demonstrates his in●ent that thus Establisht it had it beene great without good gouernment it had long ere this time come to ruine or had it bin great yet deuoyd of Charity it would haue bin laught at derided but now Charity showes it is well gouerned and the good Gouernment keeps it firme and make● it famous Souldiers and Schollers I thinke beginne their loue here that they continue hereafter firme solide by liuing together callings both honorable here bountifully maintayned It is a Reliefe for decaied Gentlemen old Souldiers and auncient Seruingmen t is to bee pittied that such Religious Charitable houses increase not in number this one place hath sent many a famous member to the Vniuersities and not a few to the Warres I wil not censure as some do that many places are heere sold for monies nay the reuersions also I le rather ex●ort the Gouernors to discharge a good conscience and not to suffer their men or any other whom they affect to get thirty or forty pounds for the promise of the next vacant place for a youth to come in and to obserue their first Institutions and those that so suppose I wish them that they speake not that with their mouthes which they know not in their hearts The deede of this man that so ordered this House is much spoken of and commended but there 's none except onely one that as yet hath eyther striuen to equall or imitate that and I feare neuer will there 's many that will not doe any such good Workes and giue out that they smell something of Popery and therfore not to be imitated well I durst warrant thus much let the Ouer-seers liue Religiously gouerne Ciuily auoid Bribery keep their Cannons directly and this House shall stand to vpbraid this Iron Age and see many brought to beggery for prodigality when they shall be satisfied and haue enough Well this is my opinion of it that the Founder is happy and so are all his Children that liue here if they degenerate not and ●rne from fearing God obeying their Prince and from liuing in loue amongst themselues 16. Christs-hospitall THe former place and this are much of one nature yet some difference there is Charter-house is the younger for time but exceedes for reuenews It was erected by one this by many Citizens Christs-hospitall is principally for Childrens education that are fatherlesse and motherlesse the other for Mens and Childrens too The former is for any as well as Citizens the latter not that onely it is for Children seemes to be conformable to Christs will Suffer little Children to come vnto mee None that are in this place can be sayd to bee without portions for they haue Education the Cities Charity is the lesse for shee Relicues but her owne It 's a good means to empty their streetes of young beggars and fatherlesse Children She doth no more then the Lawes of the Land seeme to enioyne to keepe those that were borne within her it 's a good policy to p● them young to this place because they may learne Vertue before Vice And ordinarily if youth be wel seasoned it is the more hopefull to be good in age The City doth deserue very great commendation for this action because it 's rare to see so great a Company ioyne together for the good of the poore and last out You may easily know the Children that belong vnto this place by their Azure liueries and their Sable head-peeces This House may be termed the Childrens Common-wealth and to speak truth it 's well gouerned by good Lawes I wish the City not to be proud for her Charity nor to be weary of wel doing and the Hospitall to remember their Benefactors and the Children to liue and learne well for feare of Correction 17. Paris-Garden THis may better bee termed a foule Denne then a faire Garden It 's pitty so good a piece of ground is no better imploied Heere are cruell Beasts in it and as badly vs'd heere are foule beasts come to it and as bad or worse keepe it they are fitter for a Wildernesse then a City idle base persons most commonly that want imployment or else will not be otherwise imploy'd frequent this place and that money which was got basely here to maintaine as bad as themselues or spent lewdly here come few that either regard their credit or losse of time the swaggering Roarer the cunning Cheater the rotten Bawd the swearing Drunkard and the bloudy Butcher haue their Rendeuouz here and are of chiefe place and respect There are as many ciuil religious men here as thei 're Saints in Hell Here these are made to fight by Art which would agree by Nature They thriue most when the poore beasts fight oftenest their imployment is all vpon quarrels as vnlawfull as vnseemely they cause the Beasts first to fight and then they put in first to part them It 's pitty such beastly Fellowes should bee so well maintain'd they torment poore creatures make a gaines and game of it The Beasts come forth with as ill a will as Beares to the stake A Beare-ward and an Atturney are not much vnlike the Atturney seemes the more cruell for these baite but Beasts but these men their Clients The Beareward striues to recouer the hurts of his Beasts but the Atturney regards not the dammages of any and they both follow the Trade for profit Well I leaue the place and when I intend to spend an houre or two to see an Asse and an Ape to losse and charges I may perhaps come hither But as long as I can haue any imployment elsewhere I will not come to see such a great Company so ill occupied in so bad a place 18. Artillery THis place is the Cities Campe and Mars his Schoole Here are foure braue Flowers in this Garden Manhood Courage Actiuity Armes The vse and expert skill of Warre may be seene here in peace Decency Nimblenesse Skill Vniforme order and Experience the fiue qualifications gracing Military Discipline are vsually here to be view'd In their exercising how many little bodies may you see that by their proportionable motion make a great body and that suddenly alterede into any Forme Here are braue Martiall Blades that at three words and three motions will giue fire here are more armes then heads or feete Yet when one moues like Wheeles in a Iacke they all moue They are men that must not encroach into