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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	serpent_n	sin_n	sting_n	4,692	5	12.2188	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70365	Two broad-sides against tobacco the first given by King James of famous memory, his Counterblast to tobacco : the second transcribed out of that learned physician Dr. Everard Maynwaringe, his Treatise of the scurvy : to which is added, serious cautions against excess in drinking, taken out of another work of the same author, his Preservation of health and prolongation of life : with a short collection, out of Dr. George Thompson's treatise of Bloud, against smoking tobacco : also many examples of God's severe judgments upon notorious drunkards, who have died suddenly, in a sermon preached by Mr. Samuel Ward : concluding with two poems against tobacco and coffee / corrected and published, as very proper for this age, by J.H.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Counterblaste to tobacco.; Maynwaringe, Everard, 1628-1699? Treatise of the scurvy.; Thomson, George, 17th cent.; Ward, Samuel, 1577-1640. Woe to drunkards.; Sylvester, Josuah, 1563-1618. Tobacco battered.	1672 (1672)	Wing J147; ESTC R19830	56,525	81

taste of the Cup but you shall drink off the dregs of God's Wrath and Displeasure To whom is Strife You talk of good fellowship and friendship but Wine is a rager and tumultuous make-bate and sets you a quarreling and medling When wit 's out of the head and strength out of the body it thrusts even Cowards and Dastards unfenced and unarmed into needless Frayes and Combats And then to whom are Wounds broken Heads blue Eyes maimed Limbs You have a drunken by-word Drunkards take no harm but how many are the mishaps and untimely misfortunes that betide such which though they feel not in drink they carry as marks and brands to their Grave You pretend you drink Healths and for Health but to whom are all kind of Diseases Infirmities Deformities pearled Faces Palsies Dropsies Head-aches If not to Drunkards Upon these premises he forcibly infers his sober and serious advise Look upon these woful effects and evils of Drunkenness and look not upon the Wine look upon the blue Wounds upon the red Eyes it causeth and look not on the red colour when it sparkleth in the Cup. If there were no worse then these yet would no wise man be overtaken with Wine As if he should say What see you in the Cup or Drink that countervaileth these dreggs that lie in the bottom Behold this is the Sugar you are to look for and the tang it leaves behind Woe and alas sorrow and strife shame poverty and diseases these are enough to make it odious but that which followeth withall will make it hideous and fearful For Solomon duely considering that he speaks to men past shame and grace senseless of blowes and therefore much more of reasons and words insisteth not upon these petty woes which they bewitched and besotted with the love of Wine will easily over-see and over-leap but sets before their Eyes the direful end and fruit the black and poysonful tail of this sin In the end it stingeth like the Serpent it biteth like the Cockatrice or Adder saith our new Translation All Interpreters agree That he means some most virulent Serpent whose Poyson is present and deadly All the woes he hath mentioned before were but as the sting of some Emmet Waspe or Nettle in comparison of this Cockatrice which is even unto death death speedy death painful and woful death and that as naturally and inevitably as Opium procureth sleep as Hellebore purgeth or any Poyson killeth Three forked is this sting and three-fold is the death it procureth to all that are strung therewith The first is the death of Grace The second is of the Body The third is of Soul and Body eternal All sin is the poyson wherewithall the old Serpent and red Dragon envenomes the soul óf Man but no sin except it be that which is unto death so mortal as this which though not ever unpardonably yet for the most part is also irrecoverably and inevitably unto death Seest thou one bitten with any other Snake there is hope and help as the Father said of his Son when he had information of his Gaming of his Prodigality yea of his Whoring But when he heard that he was poysoned with Drunkenness he gave him for dead his case for desperate and forlorn Age and experience often cures the other but this encreaseth with years and parteth not till death Whoring is a deep Ditch yet some few shall a man see return and lay hold on the wayes of life one of a thousand but scarce one Drunkard of ten-thousand One Ambrose mentions and one have I known and but one of all that ever I knew or heard of Often have I been asked and often have I enquired but never could meet with an instance save one or two at the most I speak of Drunkards not of one drunken of such who rarely and casually have Noah-like been surprised over-taken at unawares But if once a Custome ever Necessity Wine takes away the Heart and spoils the Brain overthrows the Faculties and Organs of Repentance and Resolution And is it not just with God that he who will put out his natural light should have his spiritual extinguished He that will deprive himself of Reason should lose also the Guide and Pilot of Reason God's Spirit and Grace He that will wittingly and willingly make himself an Habitation of Unclean Spirits should not dispossess them at his own pleasure Most aptly therefore is it translated by Tremelius Haemorrhois which Gesner confounds with the Dipsas or thirsty Serpent whose poyson breedeth such thirst drought and inflamation like that of Ratsbane that they never leave drinking till they burst and die withall Would it not grieve and pitty any Christian-soul to see a towardly hopeful young man well natured well nurtured stung with this Cockatrice bewailing his own case crying out against the baseness of the sin inveighing against Company melting under the perswasions of Friends yea protesting against all enticements vow covenant and seriously indent with himself and his Friends for the relinquishing of it And yet if he meet with a Companion that holds but up his Finger he follows him as a Fool to the Stocks and as an Oxe to the Slaughter-house having no Power to withstand the Temptation but in he goes with him to the Tipling-house not considering that the Chambers are the Chambers of Death and the Guests the Guests of Death and there he continues as one bewitched or conjured in a Spell out of which he returns not till he hath emptied his Purse of Money his Head of Reason and his Heart of all his former seeming Grace There his Eyes behold the strange Woman his Heart speaketh perverse things becoming heartless as one saith Solomon in the heart of the Sea resolving to continue and return to his Vomit whatsoever it cost him to make it his daily work I was sick and knew it not I was struck and felt it not when I awake I will seek it still And why indeed without a Miracle should any expect that one stung with this Viper should shake it off and ever recover of it again Yea so far are they from recovering themselves that they infect and become contagious and pestilent to all they come near The Dragon infusing his Venome and assimulating his Elfes to himself in no sin so much as in this that it becomes as good as Meat and Drink to them to spend their Wit and Money to compass Ale-house after Ale-house yea Town after Town to transform others with their Circean-Cups till they have made them Bruits and Swine worse then themselves The Adulterer and Usurer desire to enjoy their Sin alone but the chiefest pastime of a Drunkard is to heat and overcome others with Wine that he may discover their nakedness and glory in their foyl and folly In a word excess of Wine and the spirit of Grace are opposites the former expels the latter out of the Heart as smoke doth Bees out of the Hive and makes the man a