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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	wonder_n	world_n	worthy_a	16	3	6.1638	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16813	VVits trenchmour in a conference had betwixt a scholler and an angler. Written by Nich Breton, Gentleman.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1597 (1597)	STC 3713; ESTC S104689	30,274	46

for clipping of money Some misers growe mad to part with their money and poore beggers starue and die with lacke of meate and drinke and money Why let mée tell thée if thou doost continue at thy learning it will paint thy studie and fornish thee with bookes it will clothe thy back and féede thy belly it will guilde thy spéech and giue fame to thy wit make roome for thy presence and kéepe a cushion in thy seate thou shalt sit vppermost at the Table feede on the best dish and not be contradicted in thy spéech but welcome with a world of kindnesse where wanting that Earths chiefe ornament thou shalt haue a sachell full of holes a studie without glasse-windowes bookes without couers and a thred-bare Ierken without a cloake thy belly pincht with lacke of victualls thy head ake with fruitlesse studie and thy hart sick with griefe of minde thy welcome cold in most companies thy place belowe thy inferiours in worth shouldered of euery Iack and sometime stand with out a stoole and therefore if thou be a Diuine get a Benefice if a Phisition get a sute if a Geometritian gette an office of surueying if whatsoeuer get mony and then serue God and followe what study thou wilt So the time calling to bed the old woman loth to wast fire and candle bad shut vp doores away when the good man with a browne loafe gape and a hey ho at the end of it betaking me to my chamber got himselfe to his Goose-rest Where leauing him to short with his sow I heard no more of his good mastership but in the morning hauing hast of my way taking order for my charges gaue a farewell to the flying Ostrich which was the Armes of his Inkéeping faire painted vppon the signe-post Now trulie Sir quoth the Angler I thanke you for your merry tale I thinke hee was some kinsman or of his race that you told me you had red of who at his death left his sonne such a lesson to looke to his money I thinke Sir quoth the Scholler they were birds of one feather though they liued not at one time but it is strange to sée somtime what sharpnes of wit a man shall méete with in such a bald noddle You say true Sir quoth the Angler but it is pittie that euer good Wine should come into a fustie vessell but might I intreate you for one discourse more of some accident that you met with in your trauaile and so with the setting of the sunne I will take vp mine angle and intreate your company to my poore house where hauing béen a scholler a trauailer I hope you will take your welcome with a few dishes Sir quoth the scholler for one discourse more I will not denie you but for my trouble at your house I must intreate your pardon for this night to morrow it may be I will waite on you as I come by you for this night I am inuited at the Kéepers of the great Parks where hauing past my word I would keepe my promise Sir quoth the Angler vse your discretion now to morrow or at an other time your welcome is set downe and your company desired and therefore I beseech you while I shall enioy the benefite of your good companie let me be beholding to you for your discourse Then Sir you shall vnderstand quoth the Scholler that in the time of my trauaile comming by occasions as well into the Pallaces of Princes as the cottages of poore people it was my hap yea I may well say that vnder heauen it was my greatest happines that of this worlde I euer founde to light into the courtlike house of a right worthy honourable Lady the desert of whose commendations far exceeding the stile of my study I must leaue to better wits to dilate of while I poorelie speake of the little world of my wonder For in her eye was the seate of pittie in her hart the honour of vertue and in her hand the bounty of discretion to see her countenance the comfortlesse argued a diuine spirit to heare her speak which was neuer idle prooued an oracle of wit to beholde her presence might speake of a miracle in nature to bee short except Plato I knew no such philosopher except the excepted I meane the Lady of Ladies in this world the honour of women and wonder of men the teacher of witt and the amazer of the wise the terrifier of the proude and the comforter of the oppressed the beautie of Nature the wonder of Reason and the ioy of honour the hand-maid of God the heauenly creature of the Earth and the most worthie Queene in the world the princely Goddesse or diuine Princesse the gracious soueraigne of the blessed Iland of England except I say this sun of the earths skie I knowe not a starre of that state that can compare light with thys Lady while her thoughts keepe the square of such discretion that no idle humour dare enter the list of her conceit What praise can be giuen to that spirit that hath so ordered the carefull course of her sences she doth all things as shee did them not and vseth the world as shee esteemed it not Honour is her seruaunt Uertue is her loue Truth is her studie and Meditation is her exercise yet is shée affable with such curtesie as winnes honor in humilitie to make an abridgement of her prayses in a few words of her woorthines let this suffice that Nature and Wit Uertue and Honour Pitty and Bounty Care and Kindnesse haue so wrought together in the perfecting of a peerelesse creature that I may bite my tongue and burne my penne lay vp my little wits and wish for a more diuine spirit to enter into the conceit of her desert ere I further shew my weaknesse to speake of the wonder of her commendation But among many good parts whereof her praise is top ful I wil tell you one action and not the least that fell out in my time of attendance on her fauour Her house beeing in a maner a kind of little Court her Lorde in place of no meane commaund her person no lesse then worthily and honourablie attended as well with Gentlewomen of excellent spirits as diuers Gentlemen of fine cariage besides all other seruants each of such respect in his place as well might giue praise to the Gouernours where honor setteth rules of such discretion It might perhaps seeme teadious to set downe the truth of such perticulers as deserued a generall cōmendation where first God daily serued religion trulie preached all quarrels auoyded peace carefully preserued swearing not heard of where truth was easilie beléeued a table fully furnished a house richly garnished honor kindly entertained vertue highly estéemed seruice well rewarded and the poore blessedly relieued might make much for the truth of my discourse while Enuie can but fret at her confession but least in blowing at a coale I doo but put out the fire and obscure her praise that