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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	answer_v	good_a	great_a	1,118	5	2.5597	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00001	[The passoinate [sic] morrice]	A., fl. 1593.	1593 (1593)	STC 1; ESTC S115782	48,724	70

he makes the mis-rule and kéeps the open Christmas he desires the sporte and main●●ines the pastime so that though he be long in comming and staies but little in his Lordship yet the remembrance of his iolitie is not forgotten a long time after He kéepes his custome euery yéere and a yéere with him is but a short space so that after he comes to his full age he makes many Christmasses for Desire is not short liued It is therefore this lingring loue that dooth all the harme because by him Desire is onely begotten He that beating the market is willing to buye will not stand long a bargaining when he hath met with his liking for feare a francker customer steppe betwéene him and his longing but if he be careles he will not deale without a good penniworth Very easily then is the mischéefe of repentance taken from women séeing a true-meaning sutor may be as quickly discerned as a careles chapman may be perceiued And how fondly doo they entrude themselues into the néedles hazard of great discontent that will let their loue runne so farre without reason as it cannot be called backe without great gréefe at the least Though a buyer be not able to giue the seller his asking yet will he be earnest to haue it at such a price as he doth offer and although this louing customer be not of abilitie to answere thy fréends expectation yet shall he not be forward to be possessed of thée he is but a watcher for aduantages So that if either his abilitie be such as of himselfe he can maintaine thée or be thy possibilitie so great as by his good endeuour he may winne a liuing thy fréends good will by the possession of thée thy affection is too too colde if thou kéepes him lingring without his longing and his deuotion is small if he be not an vnceasing sutor for it And truely in Honesties minde and pardon me I pray you with whose conceipts it iumpes not those matches shall prosper best where lone is rather respected then wealth prouided there be a care had of the likelyhoode of possibilitie which must come with one of them But shall one that hath nothing ioyne louing issue with an other that hath or is like to haue as little he hauing no meanes to make a liuing he shewes himself to be afoolish follower of repentance and an vncharitable procurer of an others wretchednes There are many good wits that wanting matter to worke on wade into the triall of dangerous conclusions which otherwise being imployed would become profitable members of a common wealth All cannot be heires and many yonger brothers children are but barely left though they haue had good bringing vp which nothing hinders their gentrie onely now a daies it is a barre to their preferment For men wil sooner match their daughters with my yong maister arich Coblers Sonne though they be their heires then with a Gentleman of a good house being a yonger Brother Héerby comes the decay of a ancient gentilitie and this y● making of vpstart houses héerby those that haue had good bringing vp must either goe to plough and carte being drudges to such drones or their natures disdaining that and more abhorring to begge leade them to lewde practises to maintaine the state of their birth And did you Fathers which are to match your Children know the hart-breakings many parents which haue béene of your mindes haue found by triall then would the feare of vnciuill behauiour which springeth by succession from their carterly progenitors turne your gréedie desire of golden gaine to a ioyfull gaining of your posterities happines But fie of couetousnes that is the roote of all mischiefe for men that haue enough to make their Daughters Gentlewomen by matching them with houses of no small antiquitie will with the desire they haue therevnto wooe men of great liuing with large offers to match their sons and heires with them Who being drawen therunto will vse them their wiues mée●●ly well during the life time of their owne and wiues Fathers for that their estates are by their great portions better maintained and their best fréends thereby well pleased But let your Daughters beware after your and their Fathers death when all hope is taken away of a further gaine and a search made of their auncestors alliance for then seeing the basenes of your pettigrée and y● noble descents of their predecessors that corruption of blood which you with your corruption of money hath made and their Fathers couetousnes hath purchased to their succession will as for the most parte it doth in the like cases moue such hartbreakinges as either quarrelles of diuorcement or sutes of separation will surely followe When on the contrary parte if respecting gentrie thereby to aduaunce your houses you would match thē with Gent. yonger brothers of whom there ought to be lesse regarde the chiefe house being maintained your Daughters portions being the onely maintenance of their estates would be so strong a helpe to encrease their affection towards your children with purchased happines to their posterities as knowing no housholde quarrelles can be without charges they will be glad to studie to encrease the swéetenes of vnitie thereby to continue euerlasting prosperitie to their following ages Honestie knowes what the fairing-monger will saye when he shall heare of one so flat against his opinion touching mariages not letting to affirme that it is most necessarie that the consent of parents should be last sued for and little regarded in respect of loue especiallye séeing his Pamphlet buildes so diuinelye on farre-fetcht arguments to proue the contrarie Therfore to preuent him and to prouide against the great danger their matches-making procure Honestie must tell him and assure all those that are of his minde that were the worlde like vnto that wherein Abraham liued or were Fathers of these daies of his disposition his argument drawen from the gift of Euah to Adam by God and such like might séeme to proue some thing But séeing these times in effect are quite contrary to those and the dispositions of men in our daies altogether disagréeing to theirs of that age his time had béene better spent in a worke to some other purpose For a little to séeme to flie from my matter and to haue a fling at him how many Fathers now a daies are there so carefull of prouiding conuenient mates for their children at a seasonable time as our great Grandfather Abraham was Againe how manye haue children that are so obedient to bend their loue to their Parents liking as was Isaac Oh Sir you are deceaued our yong ones are of riper wits and far forwarder then Children were in those daies and our olde ones are of more couetous mindes and far forwarder to be drawen to their childrens good for what greater good then to enioye them they loue and what will offend our parents more then to entreat that he sent his seruant to search forth one of his next kinne

not to enquire after one that had most wealth and should some children entertaine no loue in our time vntill their parents procured it nor sue for a match before their fréends made it it were requisite their honestie should be great or I knowe what will follow Yet againe Fathers liue not now adaies ordinarily aboue a hundred yéeres whereby they haue a long lasting gouernement ouer their Children but beholde it is far contrary and therefore it requires contrary procéedings And lastly for that I will not be long at this time in this matter the holy writ beares not such sway in our consciences as it workt wonders in theirs of those daies and therefore to helpe our weaknes in the want of that warrant we must vse the meanes loue to drawe vs to that euerlasting happines But once more to my courting companions to make as spéedie an end with them whose haire-braine fancying and fickle affection is no small hindrance to loues procéedings Honestie hauing set downe the meanes to finde out their knauerie hath also prouided a batte to beate downe such flatterie the instrument to finde out their dissimulation being a search into their lingring and the clubbe to match their clubbe féete a loathing of their company But to come to the punishment I would haue such to be plagued with in my opinion and by Honesties doome they are worthie to be set for scarre-crowes in newe sowen fieldes and the rather thus goes my iudgement for that séeing they are so skilfull to doo harme in townes and cities if that bad-used wit were forst to be imployed about that commodious doo-good they would inuent excellent meanes to preuent the spoyle the rauenous birds commit Their pregnant wits and cunning deuices to catch womens affections that farre excéede crowes in reason and discretion confirme they would be strange and therefore profitable yet because it is somewhat too bace though their practises are as beastly I will ende with them with this resolution That they are as worthie to stand in white-shéetes in Churches for leauing women in desperate cases hauing drawen them into that fooles paradice of ouer-passionate affection as they that poyson strangers bellies This would make faithfull sutors happie constant louers ioyfull and conrting dissemblers feareful Honestie hauing noted these enormities harbored in lewde dispositions shuffled into this Morrice at last lent his eares and bestowed his eyes ioyning with him his best vnderstanding to search into the natures of y● remnant to see whether y● multitud were mixed with these in bad conceits But behold so contrarie practizes were performed by them as those procéedings are disagréeing to the furtherance of perfect vnitie Amongst these did I beholde Loue dandled with swéete musick and constant affection vphol●●n with modest demeanour The soueraignes of Virginitie displayed their heauenly dignitie by the imperiall colours of matchles beautie grounde with the Ambrosian oyle of celestiall courtesie and the matronly deities proued their ethereall discréetnes in following the heauens prescriptiō for Loues true imitation I saw Kindenes matched with Goodwill Affection lin●ed vnto Liking Loue embraced with Loyaltie Vertue leading thē to eternall happines They liked not for a moment loued not vpon aduantage nor wooed but with a good intention These shaked not hands with hatefull hearts nor vsed smoothe tongues with dissembling thoughts They courted not kindely to corrupt shamefully ne protested with vowes to wound with wordes and kill with déeds but hand and heart went together and the tongue vttered their passionate conceites their heart louing them as faithfully as their tongue labored to winne their courtesie And you no earthly creatures though ioyned with men for their eternall good you heauenly saints I meane masking in the shadowes of terrestriall shapes you beautifie this crue with your deuine motions whose mindes ar● onely inritched with the true wisdome that vpholdes Loues welfare Your sacred actions ayde his simple followers naught but your carefull kindnes binds mens weake affections from vnconstancie You make their praiers effectuall their request gayning through you the safetie of their longing Your pittie brings them to pietie and your almes relieues them from the captiuitie of Despaire Destressed Honestie is soly harbored within your milke-white bosomes and were it not for your bountifull charitie his end would be tormenting beggerie Your allablaster pappes do wholy minister moisture to my consuming welfare and from their sugered teates doe I onely drawe my liquor of life so that by your motherly kindnes to decaying Honestie they reape likewise their blisse that would giue mée my baine recouering contrarie to their wils the remaynder of their weale For how marcheth the passionate souldier without you sound the alarome of his good-spéede or how fareth the amorous gallant except you play the galliard of acceptance Vnfortunate eyes your pearcing fightes shal be cruelly curst and vnnaturall vsage shall be offered to your obedient hearts for séeing and adoring celestiall obiects vnles their relenting pittie take mercie on your destressed abiects And blaspheming tongue thy vnbridled impudencie shall heape vpon thy owne back a bundle of vntollerable miseries by being forced to vtter execrable slaunders against them for their hard hearts that were purchased to worke your hard happe through your owne iniurious follie Passions of discontent must please your fancies and sorrowfull poems must grace your musick déep sighes must straine your heart-strings and direfull sorrowe lull you a sléepe when visions of new destresses must disquiet your greatest happines and dreames of fresh vexations forbid you the least ease You shall suc in vaine because you haue delighted in vanitie and hope without obtaining for that your heart haue harbored dissembling except these goddesses whose goodnes is vnspeakable vouchsafe to minister a plaster of pitty to your louing pietie It is their courtesie that must make you chereful and their good conceits must cherish your dying mirth their liking must honour your affection and their gratefull kindnes must aduance the zeale of your protested loyaltie It is in their choyse to change your chance and in their power to bridle Fortune for that the Fates being their sisters are at their calles to set downe your destinies If they say they doe hate you beware for they can hurt you but if they affirme they loue you striue to continue your present happines and feare to lose the proffered blessednes Why are women accounted weake but because their nature is pure Or wherefore are they necessarie but that men cannot liue without their companie When we are succorles they comfort vs being melancholy they chéere vs and they are the meanes to redéeme vs from the gates of hell Being mad their musicall tongues chase away the euill spirits being bewitched their loue charmes the tormenting diuels and being swallowed vp by the gulfe licentiousnes the heauens haue created thē the helpe to redéeme vs from that hellish furnace Thus much for their power now a little of their properties O sacred mercie neuer more