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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	life_n	see_v	16,095	5	3.5035	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81693	The Downe-fall of Dagon, or, the taking downe of Cheap-side crosse this second of May, 1643. wherein is contained these principalls following, viz. First, Cheapside crosse sick at the heart. Secondly, his death and funerall. Thirdly, his will, legacies, inventory and epitaph. Fourthly, the reason why it was taken downe, and the authority for it. Fiftly, the benefit and profit that is made of the materialls of it, and the severall summes of mony which is offered for it; likewise the satisfaction it will give to thousands of people. Sixtly notes worthy of the readers observation, that the crosse should just happen to bee taken downe on that day which crosses were first invented and set up.		1642 (1642)	Wing D2084; Thomason E100_21	4,446	7

The Downe-fall of Dagon or the taking downe of Cheap-side Crosse this second of May 1643. wherein is contained these principalls following viz. First Cheapeside Crosse sick at the heart Secondly his Death and Funerall Thirdly his Will Legacies Inventory and Epitaph Fourthly the Reason why it was taken downe and the authority for it Fiftly the benefit and profit that is made of the materialls of it and the severall summes of mony which is offered for it likewise the satisfaction it will give to thousands of people Sixtly notes worthy of the Readers observation that the Crosse should just happen to bee taken downe on that day which Crosses were first invented and set up Printed for Thomas Wilson 1643. May .3 The Downe-fall of Dagon or the taking downe of Cheap-side Crosse c. IT is an e●sier taske to reckon up all the species and severall kinds of nature than to describe all the Sects Divisions and opinions in Religion that is now in and about this Kingdome and City of London so that whereas there is but one Truth and one way guiding thereunto the people of our Land cannot agree about this one way but Errour and Scisme being multiplyed manifold they can all finde out those waies to a hai●e so that the times remaine still as corrupt in manners as ever any age heretofore ever did I will leave all particuler vices which are too common and frequent amongst us in these our dayes and come to the su●ject in hand namely the complaint of Cheape-side Crosse wh●ch it makes in his own defence before it suffers its d●cay or ruin● hea●ing that it must be pulled down And now to see the misery of a high fortune I that was so stout and glorious and did not look● fo● a fall am now become the hatefull Idoll of the City I cannot speake much being of Stone but I wil give you a briefe expression of my antiquity King Edward was the first that built me and many more Crosses in severall Towne at the death of good Queene Elenor and in Anno 1441. I was repaired in beautifull manner then sixe thousand pound was given to my new erecting and have beene so often guelded at many times that I am sorry to thinke that all my glory should now be laid in the dust but I am not the greatest that have fallen but now it is no time for me to bable out my griefes Time with all his houres and yeares shall lament me and my violent undoing But give me leave in my anger to expresse my mind 'T is some body was my enemy and I cannot tell who it was but I can gesse well down I must and go even flat the Earth and then I am sure they will not remember me I was glorious in many Kings reigns and esteemed well in Queene Elizabeths dayes beautified at King Iames his comming into England and againe at King Charles ●is comming to the Crowne And I am now accounted for a Papist all my antiquity is lost from time to time which if I should m●ntion would w●ary you wi●h the relation I am esteemed and held not fit to have my abidi●g in the Citie I am called by the name of the Citie Idoll the Brownists spit at me and throw stones at mee as they come along the street the Famalists hide their eyes with their fingers the Annabaptists wish me to be knockt in pieces as I am like to be this day the sisters of the Fraternity wil not come near me but go about by Watling street and come in againe by Soaper-lane to buy their p●ovisions of the Market-folkes Oh these and the like occasions have grieved and tormented my whole Fabricke I ghesse the cause that I am now to be ruin●ted and quite pulld down It is the Crosse that stands upon my head which is a moate in their eyes Nay they doe not onely say that I am an Idoll but that I am a supporter of Idols bec●use divers Images are placed about me but I feel my selfe now sicke nay sick at heart and I groane under the burthen of my owne fabrick for I hear and am certainly told that I am to be pulled downe and defaced this morning Oh I feele the pangs of death come upon me I shall never see the end of the merry month of May my breath is at a period my life is gone for I feel my selfe dying downwards my head being the first part that doth loose the sence my tongue rattles in my throat and just as the Crosse had so said he presently dyed wherupon his Executors hearing of it came in and would have him embalmed and they first strook off his head and so by degrees descended to other parts of the body and left him like a Sceleton or an Anatomy of his body or corpes by ten or eleven a clock at noone with that his Executors looking about found his Will which he had got being written in this manner Iespar Crosse his last Will. IN primis I desire to be taken downe in a decent round manner and that no spoile be made of my fabricke for some parts of mee worth mony Item I pray my Executors to be civill and that they have a care that no hurt be done at my demolishing Item The Gold which I am gilded withall I appoint to be ●●●ed and taken off by those persons which will give most mony for me Item I give to the Red-coate Souldiers all the Lead which is about me to make bullets if occasion be if not I give it to the company of Plummers to make Cesternes and Pumps with or else jacke weiAhts Item I give my Iron-worke to those people which make good Swords at Hou●st●w for I am all Sp●nish Iron and Steele to the backe Item I give my Body and Stones to those Masons and Workemen that cannot tell how to frame the like againe to keep by them for a patterne for in time there will bee more Crosses in London then ever there was yet c. Item I give my ground whereon I stood to be a free Market-place hoping that no more people will goe round as they have used to do about me but will be content to speake well of me hereafter because I suffer so roundly and so patiently for my errours Vera copia tesamenta Iasperi Crosseribus Cheap side Crosse his Epitaph I Looke for no praise when I am dead For going the right way I never did tread I was as hard as an Aldermans doore That 's shut and stony hearted to the poore I never gave Almes nor did any thing Was good nor e're said God save the King I stood like a stock that was made of wood And yet the people would not say I was good And if I tell them plaine they are like to me Like stone to all goodnesse but now Reader see Me in the dust for Crosses must not stand There is too much Crosse-tricks within the Land And having so done never any good I leave my prayse for