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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	know_v	life_n	5,867	5	4.6294	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39301	Deceit discovered and malice manifested in L. Key's late paper from Reading the third of the fourth month 1693. By Thomas Elwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing E617; ESTC R213542	7,470	1

out of the Toyl he had run himself to before plunged on Headlong into this Brake without fear or wit Consideration or common Sense This one would think were enough to have drawn blushes into the Cheeks of any one that deserved the name of Man But so stupid was he that thinking he had gained some Advantage by the Project he falls to improving it saying of me thus so he was right in saying it was before any Marriage had gone to the Womens Meetings This he infers from his notable Discovery that 81. was 4. years before 77. but not to let his folly excuse his falshood it I was right in saying as I did let him and all that abet him consider how wrong he was in altering those Words of mine and instead thereof affirming I said It was before the Womens Meetings were set up A sort of Forgery the guilt whereof I still charge upon him Notwithstanding this ridiculous blunder that he has made so void of sense he is that as if he had exposed some weakness on my part he scornfully reflects this sentence on me Great men are not always wise Not understanding the Proverb that says Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sa●it No man is always wise But 〈◊〉 there is a sort of Great men that are never wise never were nor ever are like to be and they that know L. Key know he is none of the least men either in Person or Conceit He reflects on the Approvers of my Work but I think the Approvers of his will get little Credit by it unless he mend his hand at it And indeed it is an Argument of judicial blindness and great Infatuation of mind in him and them that promote his Paper that they should spread it about as they do without seeing the shameful blunder he 〈◊〉 made in it He adds another Text out of Job which begins thus Vpright men shall be astonished 〈◊〉 this and ends thus I cannot find one wise man among you Job 17.8 10. But surely if he and his 〈◊〉 do but once as clearly prove as he has confidently asserted that 81. was 4. years before 〈◊〉 men that hear it will be astonished at that and I shall be forced to acknowledge there are many wise men among them such as they be Three great Instances he has already given on● of his Dishonesty in altering my Words another of his Hypocrisy in spreading a Paper of Prop●sals for Reconciliation and Peace and at the same time printing another Paper to renew Contention and War A third of his Folly in computing the times Now to manifest that his Malice is equal to the rest he here repeats his former Slander about my having suffered my Father to want● Which having in his former Sheet delivered upon an it hath been said I returned upon himself shewing how basely I had been abused in that case by C. Harris and another before who when publickly called to Account for it slunk back and durst not undertake to make good their Charge 〈◊〉 Whereupon I laid it upon L. Key to name whom he had heard say it to free himself from being ●eputed the Author as well as Publisher of that envious slander Which as it behoved him to have done ●o I conclude he would have done it had he been able to have named any But though he 〈…〉 renews his slander yet he names no Author of it but says it hath been so said by those th● 〈…〉 c. 〈…〉 his Proof that it hath been so said is saying again that it hath been so said 〈◊〉 depends only on his credit who in this case deserves none He cavils also at my Fathers being buried in that part of the ground where he says they did use to Bury Strangers and Vagabounds Had not he and his imployers been Strangers to Christianity and Civil●y they might have imployed themselves better than to ride so many miles as some of them have done perhaps 20. or more to see if they could pick up● Stone at my Fathers Grave to throw at me I confess I am not so well acquainted with the Grave Yard as to understand the difference of Places in it or whether some parts of it be more consecrated than others Yet methinks had he and his Informers remembred their former Principles they should not have quarrelled with me for that However the Place for the Grave was not of my appointing for being prevented from being at the Burial by a Message my Father received in his Sickness that my Sister lay then sick in London near un●o death after I had waited upon my Father until he had finished his life and given direction for his In●erment I hasted up to my Sister at London as thinking I might be more serviceable to the Living than to the Dead and knew not in what part of the Ground the Grave was made till at my return from London I went thither to discharge the Charge of his Sickness and Funeral This some of these men knew long since which had they been men of common Ingenuity might have pre●ted as it may now Answer that other idle cavil about my not being present when my Father was laid in the Ground To conclude as I neither need nor desire favour nor expect Justice from men so filled with Envy and devouted to Mischief So I am glad that after all the pains they have taken their running and riding traversing the Countries from Wickham Reading and other parts viewing the place visiting my Fathers Grave above seven years after his death not in love to him but hatred to me even J. R. himself going to the Grave who is old enough one would think to have been wiser and has known that which would have made him better examining Persons Sifting matters asking many cunning and tempting Questions of the people of the World to draw forth if they could some matter of complaint against me yea provoking not to say suborning some to pretend they had shewed kindness to my Father that they might thereby either oblige me to reward ●ch for nothing or upbraide me with ungratitude if I did not while I not suspecting such ●ly baseness among them sat innocent● still they have not been able to pick or rais● up any thing that might answer their Pains or gratify their envy but instead of defaming me which they designed they have sufficiently defamed themselves in discovering so ill a mind To whom yet for all their evil Will and evil Acting towards me I wish nothing but Good And though I cannot ●y of some of them as our Lord said of others of old Father forgive them they I now n●t what they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perswaded that most of them that have a hand in this Work do sin against knowledges as 〈◊〉 they do evil yet in pity to ●hem I can and do 〈◊〉 say Fath● if their day 〈…〉 give them Repentance and forgive them 〈…〉 LONDON Printed and sold by T. Soule at the Crooked-Billet in 〈…〉