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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	sleep_v	sow_v	tare_n	1,022	5	12.2153	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07227	A handful of essaies. Or Imperfect offers: by W: Mason Master of Arts	Mason, William, M.A.	1621 (1621)	STC 17624; ESTC S112442	21,733	138

in the watring troughes 14. Of Idlenesse THat Prouerbe is as olde in truth as it is in time Otia dant vitia Idlenesse bringeth much euill This is the Mother of Adultery If you would knowe why Aegisthus was an adulterer In promptu causa est desidiosus erat When Dauid speakes of sensuall men he saith Non sunt in laboribus what was the issue This was the cause They be so holden with pride Psalm 73. 6. Wee know that Idlenesse was one of the sinnes of Sodome this with others did help to lay her in the dust whilst the Romanes had warres with Carthage and enemies in Affricke they knewe not what vices ment in Rome The time when the enuious man did sowe his tares was whilst men slept The Crab-fishe whenas the Oyster doth open her selfe casteth a stone into her shell and so not being able to shut her selfe againe becomes a prey vnto the Crab. The Fathers apply this vnto the Deuill when hee findeth men gaping and idle hee casteth into them some stone of temptation whereby hee works their ouerthrowe The slothfull man is the Deuils shop there hee workes euer busie when men are lazie A wise and auncient Counsellor sometimes of this Kingdome saw asmuch when he wittily rebuked the manners and customes of a strange Countrey not much differing from his own but in the little for that they first made thieues and taught them to steale and after hanged them vp They made thieues saith hee in that they suffered such a multitude of Seruingmen to be trained vp in ydlenes and pride who afterwards being thrust out of seruice must needes bee driuen vnto thieuery for then like their fellowe in the Gospell to digge they cannot and to begg they are ashamed many ruo into this vice out of wealth and abundance these with the Nightingale hauing feathered their neasts sing no more as vnprofitable are they vnto the world as Margites of whom it is said that he neuer plowed nor digged nor did any thing all his life-long that might tend vnto any goodnes Their care is to seeke out merry company and ydle pastimes to spend away time If otherwise then with Domitian they fall to catch flyes hauing wearied themselues in this spider busines they get them out towards the euening vnto the fieldes not to pray like Isaack but to prouide them a stomacke which as they get vppon other mens grounds So they study where they may allay it at other mens tables and there they lay about them like the Priests of Bell of whom it is said they did eate and drinke vp all For howsoeuer they are lesse then women at their worke yet at their meate they are more then men Other ydle bodies there are who blame neede when but for sloth they might worke and haue enough These Caterpillers deuoure the sweete which others haue swett for If God would deale with these iustly and men strictly obserue the Apostles rule That he which would not worke should not eate 2. Thes 3. 10. I thinke as many would die of Idlenesse as of sicknesse Pitty it is that like Droan bees they should eate of the honny or liue in the hyue much lesse swarme and muster like the flies and frogges in Pharaohs Kingdome For these men God hath no blessing it was not said call the loyterers or ydle bodies but Call the labourers and giue them their hire Mat 20. 8. And none but labourers had the penny euery man must haue either a sweating browe or a working braine It was not Adams case alone but it is the case of euery one in his calling In sudore vultus tui those who were found ydle were rebuked with a Quid statis God who hath made nothing to be ydle can endure no ciphers in his Arethmetick no slothfull persons in his Vineyard Adam was put into the Garden to till and dresse it no sooner created but by and by he is set to labour Paradise which was the store-house was also his work-house it serued not onely to feed his senses but to exercise his hands All his delight could not make him happy in an idle life therefore no sooner made but by and by he is set to worke Hee must labour because hee was happy much more must wee that hereafter we may be As for idle bodies whenas like drunken seruingmen they haue spent the allowance of their lights in ryot they shall at last goe to bed darkeling And then shall they weepe and howle because they did not those things in time which belonged to their peace 15. Of Cosenage THis Sinne like the Sunshine day which deluded Esops Dogge beguileth men of that they haue with a vaine hope of that they neuer shall haue And although euery day some buy repētance too deare yet one young Master or other is perswaded to pay aforehand for the Pigge in the poake for when the simple goe to Market thē the Crafty get mony and had I wist comming alwaies at the last commeth euer to late as Esau was sorry when hee had sold his Birth-right Great is the number of these subtle Foxes who like the Deuill are alwaies compassing the earth and dayly goe vp and downe seeking whō they may deuoure These are sonnes of those Locusts which haue faces like the faces of men but killing stings in their tailes like Gnatts after they haue made a sweet kinde of Musicke with their entising wordes they euermore sting before they depart Not vnlike the Herbe Sardonia of which Solinus reports that it maketh the eaters thereof to looke as if they laughed but in laughing dye Though many bee skilfull in this guilefull practise yet Achans wedge of Gold Babylonish garment in the end shall worke his confusion These Men with Perillus perish in their owne inuentions their cunning at the last fayleth and leaueth them as Absoloms Mule left his rebellious Master betweene Heauen and Earth 16. Of Swearing and Forswearing THere are many liuing that cannot tell how to begin to Pray and know not when to make an end of Swearing oaths striue for number with words and no wonder Impunitas transgressionum nutrix est He is seldome corrected who blasphemeth the dreadfull God Some are of opinion that the sinne of that Israelite who was stoned for Blasphemy was only this that he durst name that ineffable name Iehouah there feare could keepe them from mentioning the dreadfull name of God our feare cannot bridle vs from abusing it a sinne detested euen by the very Heathens Among the Egiptians the common Swearer was to be beheaded The Grecians punished it with losse of Eares But our righteousnes should exceed the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharisies that so we may escape the iudgement denounced by the Prophet Ieremy The Land is full of Adulteries and because of Swearing the Land mourneth 23. 10. The Light not being a bare brightnes but a cleere discerner of things vnseene doth well expresse and declare the nature and vse of an oath which the Grecians