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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	arm_n	good_a	great_a	1,047	5	2.4349	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05781	Sir Philip Sydneys ouránia that is, Endimions song and tragedie, containing all philosophie. Written by N.B.	Baxter, Nathaniel, fl. 1606.; Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1606 (1606)	STC 1598; ESTC S101090	56,727	105

Tushes of Yuorie long Sharpe solide and of mightie quantitie Wherewith he macerates his enemie With these the haughtie Porus of India Fronted Alexander of Macedonia These breaken rankes of the great Battalia These feare not the Cannons of Romania These carrie mightie Castles of lightest wood Vpon their backes to make their parties good Wherein some twelue or thirteene armed men May vse their Armes and one too good for ten One may rule him with a twisted thread So wise is he and hath his lesson read I say one man this mightie beast may guide Being the King of all the Babes of pride The fierce and warlike horse which Chiron bred And princely Hector often nourished Whose fierie eyes done threaten blood and death Whose furious Nosethrils smoken flaming breath Whose crest is Proude loftie thinne halfe circled Whose Mane with siluer lockes his necke doth spred Whose eares beene short and pricked neere do stand As if some mightie battaile were in hand Little and short and thinne is his visage His nosethrils wide his teeth in equipage Whose foaming mouth bends to his stately brest Scorning the foe-mans Lance in armed rest Champing the Bit and trampling with his feete Crushing the fierie stones amid the streete Broad breast straite backe large and spacious Couragious nymble soone check and gracious Broad-buttocks long-taile cleane-legs Pastorns-shor● Like great Bucephalus in Greekish Fort. Round-bellied not grosse nor gaunt footlocks hairi● Proude in his trot not cutting faint or wearie Barbed in steele with rich caparison Fit for the God of warre to mount vpon O how he glorieth in the bloodie fight At Trumpetters dreadfull sound to shew his might Looke how he bites and strikes on ●●erie side To shew the glorie of th' Hipp●●an pride But when great Caesar's mounted on his backe He breakes the squadrons like 〈◊〉 thunder-cracke Disordereth rankes Launces knapping in sonder Witnesse Sidneyan-Knight Alba●i●● wonder High Ioue bestowed him for an ornament To make a mortall ma● more excellent He knowes he lou's He markes his masters voice A stranger cannot make him to reioyce But you shall heare him laugh after his kinde If he but chaunce his masters person winde The stately Camell swift Dromedarie That Merchants goods done speedily carrie The Spanish Iennet glorious in his pace Th'Irish Hobbie of a stately grace The Scottish Nagge of ancient Galloway That nimbly knowes to runne and pace his way Englands Paulfrey our English La●ies please To go their iournyes and returne a●●ase The Turkish horse of Pegasus discended Charlemaine hath mightily commended The Mule the Asse the Lawyers doe maintaine Their Clients cause softly to entertaine For coursing Nagges are not for m●n of state To mount and mannage causes intricate The Oxe the Cowe the Sheepe the Goat the Cat That murders in the night the Mouse and Rat. The fawning Dog full of saga●i●i● Excelling in sense and capacitie The hardie Mastife and nimble Greyhound The ornament of Floras blessed round Whose vse we know the Hare doth ●eare his might The squatting Hare doth ●remble at his ●ight The noble chaunting Hound with pleasing throat With bace and treble m●ane and 〈◊〉 n●at Warbling his voice making the horne to sound Orderly tunes t' immortilize the Hound Quicke ●enting Spannell sit for Princelie game To pearch the Pheasant and rare Birds of name To set the Heath-cocke Partrich and the Quaile The Snype the VVoodcocke and the dainty Raile To serue the Spar-hawke Faulcon and Laneret The Gosse-hawke Ger-faulcon and young Eglet The Marlyon Hobby Hawkes of swiftest wing VVhich many pleasures vnto Ladies bring Deserueth praise of the best fluent Pen That euer wrote the benefits of men The Spannell for the water and the land That all their Maisters rules doon vnderstand To couch to retriue and to range the field Of purpose game to spring and sporte to yeilde And of their Masters seeke none other gaines But comfortable words for wearie paines How may 〈◊〉 pen these Spanniels commend Whose qualities are such as haue no end If thou wilt seeke a constant faithfull friend In life and death thy bodie to defend Walking and running by thy Horses side Scorning all dangers that may thee betide Being a faithfull and true Companion In ioy and wofull desolation Whome neither change or sad calamitie Nor raging famine or aduersitie Nor naked state or pyning pouertie Can make to shunne or leaue thy company Then take thy Dogge or finde thou such another Let him be thy nearest kins-man or Brother Or conuerse with thee all daies of thy life Except thy dearest Mother or thy wife And take for thy paines if I be contrould The fattest Lambe conteyned in my fould The Tumbler a Dogge of rare quallitie To furnish the Kitchin abundantly VVith Connyes in a Warren suddainly Surprising with Arte so cunningly The silly Connyes before they be aware That the beholders thinke it wondrous rare This Dogge deserueth commendation As a wonder of Pans creation The little Spannell in the Ladies lappe Is blest with extraordinarie happe Feeding and lodging in that Princely place That whilom did renowmed Hector grace Young louing Lords doe wish it were their Doome A little while to take their Spannels ●oome Now must Endimion make the world acquainted With Serpents and wormes which Flora painted Vpon the face of Tellus Mansion Where nature shewes her deepe inuention The fearefull Crocadil and Scorpion The flying Dragon from the Dungeon Of Nessus springing the poyzoned viper The Snake the Slowe-worme and the Adder The monstrous Cerberus and Hydra venemous The Cocatrice of sight so perrilous The creeping Dragon and the swelling Toade The Neught the Swift lurking in the Roade The Aspe couering herselfe in high-way dust Whome carefull passengers will hardly trust These Serpents been of great defor●●tie Yet excell all other in Subtilty Of great force and incredible furie Of great fore-sight to preuentiniurie Capitall enemies to Mortall man And he to them by all the meanes he can Except the Lizzard a Serpent admirable Of colour greene to man Amiable Before him running on a little space Delighting herselfe to beholde his f●●e VVell watching the place where a man doth sleepe Guarding his bodie doth him safely keepe From other Serpents which would him deuoure As he carelesse sleepeth in Floras bower The Salamander liuing in the fire The greatest Phylosopher may admire For seely wormes and other creeping things Which of corrupt putryfaction springs By these doth Phisi● shew her Deitie In framing them with such varietie In Number infinite and in qualitie Surpassing the Serpents excellency The Oyle of Earth-wormes mightily preuailes Against the Gowte that humane ioynts assailes The shelled Dodman and white and blacke Snaile Ioynt-eating Fellon cureth without fayle The Glowe-worme shining in a frosty night Is an admirable thing in Shepheards sight Twentie of these wormes put in a small Glasse Stopped so close that no issue doe