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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	time_n	world_n	4,888	5	4.4662	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03233	Londini status pacatus: or, Londons peaceable estate Exprest in sundry triumphs, pageants, and shewes, at the innitiation of the right Honourable Henry Garvvay, into the Majoralty of the famous and farre renowned city London. All the charge and expence, of the laborious projects both by water and land, being the sole undertakings of the Right Worshipfull Society of Drapers. Written by Thomas Heyvvood.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1639 (1639)	STC 13350; ESTC S104064	10,272	24

a slime or moist Clay which serveth for a male or manuring to make the soyle more fertill The originall head from which it flowes is uncertaine which Claudian thus expresseth Et Arcanos Nili deprendite fontes The Ecclesiasticall Writers hold it for one of the foure rivers that floweth from the earthly Paradise in divers places it changeth name according to the scituation of the shores through which it runnes it brings forth Reedes whose filmes or inward rinds are much like our Paper and for a need may be writ upon and therefore by the Poets cald Nilus papyrifer of all other rivers it onely breedeth Crocadiles and Hippotami Aequi fluviales Sea Horses The Crocadile is a Serpent that from a small Egge growes in short time to a mighty length and bignesse for some of them have bin 22 Cubits long it hath ●our feet with which he runnes as swiftly on land as hee swims by water he is bold over those that fly him but fearefull of those that pursue him the foure winter moneths November December Ianuary and February he eats not at all hee hath no tongue but teeth sharpe and long neither in feeding doth he move his lower jaw briefly hee is terrible to man and beast and preyes on both but I leave them and come to the speaker Nilus NIlus an ancient River knowne to excell Amongst those foure which before Adam fell Watred the earthly Paradise now claimes A new alliance with his brother Thames Martia so cald of Marsius who to win The praise from great Apollo lost his skin Amphrisus who his name shall ever keepe Since there Apollo kept Admetus Sheepe Nor yet Cremera by whose firtile side Three hundred and sixe Fabij at once dide Xantus and Simois those too famous floods So often stain'd in Greeke and Trojan bloods Nor let Pharsalian Enepeus boast In Caesars triumph o're great Pompies hoast Deucalion bragge not of Cephisus for'd Because neere it lost man-kind he restor'd Caister of her Swans Permessus cleere Proud that the Muses were delighted there Pactolus nor Idaspes fam'd of old For glittering Channells pav'd with pearle and gold Let none of these compare with aged Nile Who onely breeds the weeping Crocodile Who drew we hither to the Celebration Of this your great loud voyc'd inauguration Grave and judicious Praetor O make me Your happy Embleame since as I foresee By reason that in Aegypt falls no raine There needs must be a dearth of grasse and graine Therefore by frequent Inundations I In my great care that needfull want supply So Magistrates of which you prime and best We must acknowledge ought to the distrest In your known gravity and goodnesse cast The future to provide for salve what 's past My seven-fold Scepters Hierogliphick tels Seven heads from which my mighty river swels Seven liberall arts by you maintaind expresse Your Cities magnitude and worthinesse And as you see my Crocodiles I sway Monsters which both by land and water prey If any such here breed as some no doubt In place and Office may be search them out And then what greater honour can you claime Then such rude beasts like me to curbe and tame But y' are too long detain'd I next commend you Vnto those Triumphs that on Land attend you The second Shew but the first by Land IS Ianus plac'd upon an Artificiall Structure built in a square modell at the foure corners whereofsit foure Persons representing the foure seasons Spring Summer Autume Winter every one habited agreeable to his propriety and condition The name Ianus is borrowed from the Hebrew word Iain which implyeth Vinum wine being held to bee the first that planted the Vine Some report him to have bin an ancient King of Italy amongst the Aborigines An. mun 2629. before Christ 1319. who received Saturne flying from his Son Iupiter taught him the use of Agriculture and Tillage Historians report him to have bin the wisest King in his dayes remembring things past and predicting what was futurely to come therefore they figured him with two faces he was Deified after his death to whom Numa dedicated a Temple shut in the time of peace open in the time of warre from which he had the denomination of Ianus Patuleius and Clausius some thinke him to have bin Ogyges others Noah with one face looking backward upon the world before the Flood the other forward on that since the Flood they also called the one the face of Government the other of Labour His standing upon such fixt bases admonisheth all Magistrates and men of Honour to be constant in all their courses but especially in the establishing and maintenance of true Religion He holdeth in his right hand a golden Key to shut up the yeare past as never more to come and open to the yeare future it may also be an Embleme of noble policy to unbosome and bring to light their trecherous devises and stratagems who seeke to undermine and supplant the prosperity of a faire flourishing Common-weale Upon the Key are two Greeke letters ingraven ξ and ε and on a bar in his left hand the letter τ all being numerall and make up 365 the number of the dayes in our solary yeare of which by some hee is stil'd the Father the bar in his left hand implyeth the Fortitude required in every good Magistrate in the incouragement of vertue and suppressing of vice c. Ianus the speaker His speech as followeth I Janus the yeares Father in my prime Almost as soone as either light or time Hither my servants the foure Seasons bring Cold Winter Autumne Summer and the Spring Eleven Moneths are my Sonnes my Daughter May Makes up the twelft her Sisters Night and Day Acknowledge me their Father Girles of spleene So oppos'd they never will at once bee seene The Houres my Hand-maids are which imploy'd well Shall make you in your Praetor-ship excell As all the rest fore-nam'd Behold this Key With which I o'pe the gates of Land and Sea To the time future being made by me To all your Trade commerce and Trafficke free Proceede and prosper whilst the yeare fore-past As never more to come I shut up fast One face still looking backe least good Acts done Might be obscur'd in darke oblivion As th' other forward to see what 's to doe Both for Gods Honour and your Countryes to From Janus this use may it please you gather You for one yeare are made the Cities Father These foure succeeding Seasons I resigne Vnto your charge which I before cald mine To the twelue Moneths most aptly may comply Your twelue chiefe Companies who can deny My Daughter Day for your imployment prest The blacke-brow'd Night sequestred for your rest So spend the Houres to inrich future story Both for your owne grace and the Cities glory My golden Key make use off to set wide Those Prison gates where many a soule hath dide Starv'd by th'Oppressors cruelty those Gaild For Capitall crimes unpittied and unbaild Reserve for