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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	body_n	eye_n	foot_n	6,516	5	6.8863	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06473	London and the countrey carbonadoed and quartred into seuerall characters. By D. Lupton	Lupton, Donald, d. 1676.	1632 (1632)	STC 16944; ESTC S108946	28,518	158

haue bin some Low-countrey Souldier who to keep himselfe honest from further inconueniences as also to maintayne himselfe thought vp on this course and practise it the worst part of his Science is hee learnes men to falsifie hee is glad to see any Nouice that reads his Orders with his hat on for then he hopes for a forfeiture there are many blows giuen and taken yet little or no blood spilt the more he beates the better man he is held to be he will make many daunce about his Schoole as a Beare about a stake A little touch vpon your elbow is commonly his first acquaintance and salutation he hath his Discourse ordinarily of single Combates and then will show you his Wounds and cause you to heare his oaths which are his familiar Retoricke He is for the most part a potter and piper and if he be well in age or not you may know by the sanguine complexion of his nose and the number of pearles that are vsually about it accompanied with Rubies and Saphires show that hee is some Ieweller His Schoole is an introduction to blowes and hee makes many mans head to ●ee the pillow of his Cudgell one must not trust to his lookes for he lookes at one place and strikes at another you must bee sure to keepe him off for hee is most dangerous when neerest to you hee seldome strikes downe right but either back● wards or forwards He that loues fighting in earnest let him goe to the Wars he that loues to fight in iest let him come hither 22. Dancing-schooles THey seeme to be places Consecrated for they that vse to practise heere put off their shoes dance single-sol'd they are not exceeding men for they teach and delight in Measures they seeme to be men of spare dyet for they liue vpon Capers their trade is not chargeable to beginne withal for one treble violl sets it vp they should bee good players at Cards for for they teach men to Cut and shuffle wel their schollers armes are like pinion'd Prisoners not to reach too or aboue their heads their heeles seem to hinder their preferment that makes them to rise vppon their roes whatsoeuer their actions bee they must carry their bodies vpright The Schollers are like Courtiers full of Cringes And their Master seemes to bee a man of great Respect for they all salute him with hat in hand and knees to the ground the number of fiue is the dauncing A B C both Maister and Schollers seeme to loue Newes for they both consist much of Currantoes their eyes must not see what their feet do they must when they Daunce be like men that haue the French disease stiffe in the Hammes they are guided by the Musicke and therefore should be merry men What they may seeme to intend is that they hope to dance before Gentlewomen But in the next Iigge you shall bee sure to haue them turne like Globes all round They like a Fiddle better then a Drumme and hold Venus to bee a more auspicious Planet then Mars When they are in the Schooles they are Antickes when they are out I thinke you will iudge as I doe they loue the Faeminine gender more then the Masculine Generally these Schooles learne men to begin merrily leaue off sighing and therefore they are players of Tragedies not Comedies I thinke hee that seldome dances liues well but he that neuer liues best When I intend to shew my bodies strength and my mindes weakenesse I will bee one of their Proficients I had rather haue my body not dance here for feare my Soule should not like the Musicke Giue me that place whereall is Musicke but no Dancing 23. Fisher-woemen THese Crying Wandring and Trauailing Creatures carry their shops on their heads and their Store-house is ordinarily Bilings gate or the Bridge-foote and their habitation Turnagaine-lane they set vp euery morning their Trade afresh They are easily set vp and furnish't get something and spend it Iouially and merrily Fiue shillings a Basket and a good cry is a large stocke for one of them They are merriest when all their Ware is gone in the morning they delight to haue their shop ful at Euen they desire to haue it empty their Shoppe's but little some two yards compasse yet it holds all sorts of Fish or Hearbs or Roots Strawberries Apples or Plums Cowcumbers and such like ware Nay it is not destitute some times of Nutts and Orenges a●d Lemmons They are fre● in all places and pay nothing for shop-rent but onely finde repaires to it If they drinke ou● their whole Stocke it 's but pawning a Petticoate in Long 〈◊〉 or themselues in Turnebull-streete for to set vp againe They change euery day almost for Shee that was this day for Fish may bee to morrow for Fruit next day for Hearbs another for Roots so that you must heare them cry before you know what they are furnisht withall when they hau● done their Faire they meet in mirth singing dancing in the middle as a Parenthesis they vse scolding but they doe vse to take put vp words end not till either their money or wit or credit bee cleane spent out Well when in an euening they are not merry in an drinking-house it is suspected they haue had bad returne or else haue payd some old score or else they are banke-rupts they are creatures soone vp soone downe 24. Scauengers and Goldfinders THese two keep al clean the one the streetes the other the backe-sides but they are seldom clean them selues the one like the hang man doth his worke all by day the other like a theife doeth their's in the night the Gold-finders hold the sense of smelling the least of vse and do not much care for touching the businesse they haue in hand they both carry their burdens out into the ●ieldes yet sometimes the Tha●es carries away their loads they are something like the Trade of the Barbars for both doe rid away superfluous excrements The Barbers profession is held chiefe because that deales with the head and face but these with the excrements of the posteriorums The Barbers trade these haue both very strong smels but the Gold-finders is the greatest for strength the others is safest sweetest the Barber vseth washing when hee hath done to cleanse all and so do these the Barber vseth a looking glass that men may see how he hath done his work and these vse a candle they are all necessary in the City as our faces would bee foule without the Barber so our streets without the Scauenger and our back-sides with out the Gold-finder The Scauenger seemes not to be so great an Officer as the Gold-finder for he deales with the excrements chiefly of Beasts but this latter of his owne Species well had they beene sweeter fellowes I would haue stood longer on them but they may answer they keepe all cleane and do that worke which scarse any one but themselues would meddle withall The Country