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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	day_n	night_n	shoot_v	1,094	5	9.3173	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08186	The lamentations of Germany. Wherein, as in a glasse, we may behold her miserable condition, and reade the woefull effects of sinne. / Composed by an eye-witnesse thereof: and illustrated by pictures, the more to affect the reader. By Dr. Vincent. Theol..	Vincent, Philip, b. 1600.; Weckherlin, Georg Rodolf, 1584-1653.	1638 (1638)	STC 24760.5; ESTC S95680	21,484	88

army burned above 2000 Villages in Bavaria in revenge of the Palatine cause But their enemies spare neither foes nor friends What goodly houses of the Nobility and Gentry shall you there see fallen downe or so defaced as is scarce reparable without building new From what quarter soever the army riseth they will be sure to leave some dwellings in the ashes some in the smoake To that passe it is now come that every one that is a man betaketh himselfe to armes There is now no other aboad but some campe no other plow to follow no other imployment but the warre for hee that is not an actor with the rest must needs be a sufferer among the miserable patients No tilling of the land no breeding of cattell for if they should the next yeere the souldiers devoure it Better to sit still than to labour and ler others reape the profits Hence an universall desolation Part of the people swarme as banished in strange Countries as I have observed in Suisse at Lausan Berne Basil c. in France in Italy especially the Venetian Territories From Basil to Strasburg from Strasburg to Heydleberg from thence to Marpurg I scarce saw a man in the fields or Villages Little better shall a man finde it that travelleth from the Kingdome of France to the middle of Bohemia from the Alpes above Auspurg to the Baltique Sea a square of land little lesse than thrice all Great Britaine Onely here and there as the land hath rest the dwellers returne But alas the farre greater part are extinguished by warre misery or length of time Eateing dead horses Fowles eate the dead CHAP. VIII Of Famine FAmine commeth next in place a thing so grievous that David preferred the pestilence in his choice To see men slaine by the sword or die of contagious diseases is not yet so grievous as to see them die of famine or kill to eate one another In Samaria besieged by Benhadad K. of Syria the famine was so great that an Asses head was sold for 80. pieces of silver and the fourth part of a cab of Doves dung forfifty pieces of silver Two women covenanted to eate their children successively and when they had boyled and eaten the one the other woman hid hers In the siege of Ierusalem mice ratts and hides were good meate and women did dresse and eate their owne children the smell whereof drew others that were hunger-starved to come to share with them But that Cities not besieged and a Countrey naturally fertile should bee so ruined as not to bee able for so long a time to afford bread to a poore remnant of people but that they must be faine to eate carian yea dead men yea one another living this is pityfull this is unheard of Had I not beene provided of Viaticum at my comming out of Suisse famine had arrested mee in Germany for there was not any where meate for money The Italians and Spaniards which had been at the skirmish at Nortlingen and without armes wandred among the Duke of Lorraines troupes at Nyburg and Brisac were so black and feeble through hunger that had I not given them part of my provision I thinke they had rent mee in pieces and eaten mee Travelling from Nieustadt toward Frankendale in a snowie day I met unexpected the army of Duke Bernard whose stragling fore-runners came riding vp to me by couples and when I looked for a worse errand asked only for bread which my guide gave them so long as wee had any From thence to Manheime and Heydleberg many dead men lay strewed on the way especially on the fire places which perished through cold and want Before wee were besieged last time in Heydleberg Castle some of my patients almost recovered of their diseases sent mee word they were dying of famine as indeed they did except our canon helped to shorten their miseries For being immediately shut up we shot into the towne night and day almost uncessantly Our souldiers at the first killed more horses on a day than they could eate lest they should famish for want of hay and those they threw out of the Castle downe the rocke which the enemy in the night drew into the towne though some in so doing were slaine by our shot and so they ate our horse flesh also our Serieant Maior sallied with fifty men upon the enemy being 300. entrenched on the hill on the East side of the Castle and beate them out of their workes Many were slaine some broke their necks downe the rocks but which equallized the victory the valiant Maior was shot dead Our souldiers being masters of the trench fell to ransacke the enemies knapsackes which they had left behind them But there was nothing in them save our horse flesh which every day grew scarser with us so that now we killed the horses which stood fasting and sleeping on the dung-hill not out of compassion but necessity Another Serieant Maior had two very faire horses shut up our souldiers tooke the one and ate him hee thinking to make sure the other stapled him to the wall with a strong chain and a padlock but they espying their opportunity cut off the horses necke left the head in the chaine and carried away the body and ate it At length dogs and carian came into request wee could smell our meat afarre off and on the table it was yet more loathsome the taste did answer the smell yet we ate it savourly but our bread at last failing we yeelded to necessity Carion Sould in the Market As Dogges Rattes Tyteinge for Carion CHAP. IX Of Famine THe armies now every where over-ranne the Countrey devoured both Corne and Cattell so they that had goods left offered to give all for a little belly-timber But not so obtaining it they were faine to lie upon the streets and high waies a thing not usuall with them and to crave for Gods sake wherewith to refresh their dying soules But no sooner had they swallowed what was given them but they fell downe and died Memorable is that story which Reinmannus recordeth of the Famine in Alsatia the last yeere which is at this present yet worse Valentine of Engelin a Citizen of Rufack with the dead-burier delivered unto the Magistrate upon their oathes that Anne the daughter of Iohn Ehstein confessed unto them that she came from Colmar where shee had waited many daies before the hangmans doore in hope to get a piece of hors-flesh to satisfie her hunger But not prevailing she was now come to Rufack entreating them that if there was the body of any young man or woman unburied that they would give it her to eate to preserve her life And that two women a boy did after the same manner speake unto them telling them that they had for a long time lived of dead mens flesh which being published the Cloyster of the Church-yard of St. Nicholas where the dead bodies were kept was locked up Lastly that foure young maides had cut