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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	able_a	great_a	king_n	1,544	5	3.5126	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07947	Certaine characters and essayes of prison and prisoners. Compiled by Nouus Homo a prisoner in the kings bench	G. M. (Geffray Minshull), 1594?-1668.	1618 (1618)	STC 18318; ESTC S101447	18,869	56

axe she must pick out a hang-man to strike the mace this doeth but onely put thee in remembrance of that arrest which shal Summon thee to appeare at the Imperiall Court of heauen Thy accounts are many and great which are against thee yea some of you come to a tormenting execution greeue not at this it doth but teach thee that thy accounts must be brought against thee to draw thee to a reckoning to make thee to knowe that thou owest a reckoning to heauen as well as man and Iustice will execute her power not to driue thee to despaire but to a mendment Further I perswade my selfe their are many prisoners whose resolution are so noble and resolute that before they would yeeld to the threats of an insulting creditour they would cherefully thrust their nekes into the yoake of aduerfity if no more veines herein were cut but their owne but here is none so poore which dyes in prison but the last gap doth cracke the heart-strings of a wife children father mother friends or allies therefore art thou bound to take pitty of thy selfe and to hang out the flag of truce to thy bloudy-minded Creditor and seeke or ransome to pay all so that thou maist escape with life though it be vpon some ignoble tearmes and much losse to thee if none of these respects yet for thy Countries sake to whom thou art a Traytor if thou giue thy selfe to thine enimies hand when vpon parley thy peace may be made Come forth of Prison and dye not there that thou maiest honour thy King and do seruice to thy countrey and pay thy dets so farre as thou art able decause the greatest debt that euer thou didst owe was paid for thee Prisoners of another nature SOme there be which haue gotten other mens goods and soe lye here to defraud them these of all men deserue no pitty or compassion which tie their owne hands and make themselues gally slaues onely to weare golden setters how canst thou say thy prayers and expect a blessing should be poured on thee that so willingly errest from the type of a iust mā which is Suum cuique attribuere I will not speake much of thee because it must be all gall In a word the gallowes on which the poore theefe hangeth is most fit for thee he robbeth one man thou whole families he is a felon to man onely thou art a felon to God and man if he kill he doth it sodainly and but one when thou with a lingring ●eath destroyest father mother children and peraduenture many Orphants left to their charge But looke to it that although thou compound for two shillings or three shillings in the pound the ouerplus which thou so ill hast got will bring thy soule into such debt that the remainder will not pay the interest to saue the forfaiture of thy soule to the Diuell which will damne thee and thy angells with him and his angells and thy issue or allies which shall inioy them shall neuer prosper with them The Character of a Prisoner A Prisoner is an impatient patient lingrin● vnder the rough hands of a cruell physition his creditour hauing cast his water knowes his disease and hath power to cure him but takes more pleasure to kill him He is like Tantalus who hath freedome running by his dore yet cannot enioy the least benefit thereof his greatest griefe is that his credit was so good and now no better his land is drawne within the compasse of a sheepes skin and his owne hand the fortification that bars him of entrance he is fortunes tossing-ball an obiect that would make mirth melancholly to his friends an abiect and a subiect of nine dayes wonder in euery Barbers shoppe and a mouth-full of pitty that he had no better fortune to Midwiues and talkeatiue gossips and all the content that this transitory life can giue him seemes but to flout him in respect the restraint of liberty barres the true vse To his familiars he is like a plague whom they dare scarse come nigh for feare of infection he is a monument ruined by those which raised him he speads the day with a hei mihi vae miserum the night with a Nulla dolor estmedicabilis herbâ to conclud A Prisoner is a woefull man Opprest with griefe of mind And tell his miseries no man can Which he is sure to finde Of Creditors A Creditor hath two payre of hands on of flesh and blood that nature gaue him another of Iron that the law giues him but the one is more predominant then the other for mercy guids the one māmon the other But if he once consider what he goeth about to doe and that it is the image of God whō he goeth about to deface and oppresse with miseries calamities then the softnes of the one doth so operate that it meets with the hardnes of the other which neuer cōes to passe but when grace mercy kiles Law Iustice but such dayes are seldome set downe in our Calenders neither will it serue this Iland but perswade my selfe that for a strange meridian is that Almanack calculated in which they are found I by mine owne experience though little yet too much to learne it heere haue knowne of my owne knowledg a hundred creditors which haue laid their debtors in irons as relentles as themselues and of those hundred if I should add a hundred more I thinke I should nominate but one onely and only on of a mercifull breast who did not onely greiue to see his debtor opprest with misery but also layd money out of his purse to free him he shot a second arrow to finde the first and suppose he shot both away doe you thinke his quiuer was the emptier No he scattered a handfull of corne reaped a bushell he receiued treble interest he gained by this new securitie such as would not faile him at the day God became his debtor and paid him more then his accompt came to Thou that art a Creditor wilt not beleeue this doe not But in stead of this mans weeping make thy debtor melt into teares and in stead of his lamentation reioyce hee is in thy hands to vse him cruelly and flatter thy selfe in saying thou hast no reason to loose so much by him and I will haue his body or in perswading thy selfe that his friends will not let him lye for such a debt and that thou wilt not forgiue him but nolens volens will be satisfied or else he shall starue and rot o thou wicked man thou neuer dost consider what teares thy Sauiour shed to free thee and when thou wast giuen vp to the prison of hell by the hands of thy cruell creditour the Divel to be cruelly tormented yet Christ paid all thy scoares with his pretious bloud and how canst thou lye downe on thy pillow to pray to God to forgiue thee a million of debts nay they