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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	age_n	life_n	old_a	5,148	5	5.6715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35867	A dialogue between an East-Indian brackmanny or heathen-philosopher, and a French gentleman concerning the present affairs of Europe	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1683 (1683)	Wing D1301; ESTC R32400	10,968	26

of men as much as in them lies And so through the whole course of our Lives abstaining from all that tendeth to Evil and promoting what we can the good of the whole Creation we endeavour to imitate the adorable Maker and Conserver of the Universe whose Off-spring we are and in whom we live and move and have our Beeing French-man You have not only gratified my Curiosity but in several things informed my Vnderstanding And I heartily wish that your Virtue and Morality were crowned with true Christianity and our Christianity embellisht with the real practice of your Virtue Temperance and Moderation And so bid you Farewell To shew that the recommending Abstinence from Flesh is no new upstart Conceit I shall here add those notable Verses of the ingenious Poet Ovid written above 1600 Years ago in his Metamorphosis as I find them translated by Sandys where he brings in the famous Philosopher Pythagoras from whom the Indian Bannians derive their Doctrine thus discoursing FOrbear your selves O Mortals to Pollute With wicked Food Corn is the generous Fruit. Apples oppress their Boughs plump Grapes the Vine Thousand sweet Herbs and savoury Roots combine With beautious Flowers of most fragrant scent Your nice and liquorish Pallates to content The prodigal Earth abounds with genele Food Affording Conquests without Death or Blood But Beasts with Flesh their ravenous Hunger cloy And yet not all Horses in Pastures joy So Flocks and Herds But those whom Nature hath Endu'd with Cruelty and savage Wrath Wolves Bears Armenian Tygers Lyons in Hot Blood delight How horrible a sin That Intrails bleeding Intrails should Entomb That greedy flesh with Flesh should fat become Whilst by the Livers Death the living lives Of all which Earth our bounteous Mother gives Can nothing please except they Teeth in Blood And Wounds and stygian Fury be imbrew'd Naught satiate the wild variety Of thy rude Paunch unless another dye That good old Age that innocent Estate Which we the Golden call was fortunate In Herbs and Fruits her Lips with Blood undy'd Then Fowls through th' Air their Wings in safety ply'd The Hare then fearless wandred o're the plain Nor Fish by their Credulety were slain Not taught was Man that fawning Treachery All hv'd secure till he that did envy What Daemon e'er it was those harmless Cates And cramb'd his Guts with Flesh set ope the Gates To cruel Crimes But first these slaughtering harms A fire of zeal at holy Altars warms Enjoyning Sacrifices with the Blood Of Savage Beasts which made our lives their food Thus the wild Boar for rooting up the Corn And leaving painful Plow-mens hopes forlorn Was thought to merit Death Vine-brouzing Goats Do next to angry Bacchus yield their Throats What harm have poor Sheep done whose Udders swell And yield of Nectar a perpetual Well Supplying man with their soft Wool and are Alive than Dead more profitable far Or what the Ox a Creature without Guile Inur'd to Patience and continual Toil He most ungrateful is deserving ill The gift of Corn that can unyoke then kill The Husband-man that Neck with Ax to wound Is too severe that plow'd his stubborn Ground So oft Till'd so many Crops brought in Yet not content therewith ascribes the Sin To guiltless Godds as if the Powers on high In Death of labouring Innocence could joy Whence springs so dire an Appetite in man To interdicted Food O Mortals can Or dare you feed on Flesh Henceforth forbear I you intreat and to my words give ear When Limbs of slaughtered Beasts become your Meat Then think and know that you your Servants Eat FINIS