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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	bring_v	lord_n	right_a	5,328	5	6.9323	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19663	One and thyrtye epigrammes wherein are brieflye touched so manye abuses, that maye and ought to be put away / compiled and imprinted by Robert Crowley, dwellinge in Elye rentes in Holburne.	Crowley, Robert, 1518?-1588.	1550 (1550)	STC 6088.3; ESTC S311	15,404	73

sweare by the deuell suche is their blindenes Not knowynge that they cal these thynges to wytnes Of their Consciences in that they affirme or denye So boeth sortes commit moste abhominable blasphemie Of the colier of Croydon IT is sayde that in Croydon there dyd sometyme dwell A Colier that did all other Coliers excell For his riches thys Colier myghte haue bene a knight But in the order of knighthode he hadde no delyght Woulde god all our knightes did minde colinge no more Than this Colier did knyghtyng as is sayde before For whan none but pore coliars dyd wyth coales mell At a reasonable pryce They dyd theyr coales sell But sence oure knighte Coliars haue hadde the firste sale We haue payde muche money and had fewe sackes to tale A lode that of late yeres for a royall was solde Wyll coste nowe xvi.s of syluer or golde God graunte these men grace their pollynge to refrayne Or els brynge them backe to theyr olde state agayne And especiallye the Colier that at Croydon doth sell For men thynke he is cosen to the Coliar of hel Of Commotioners WHen the bodye is vexed through humors corrupted To restore it to helth those humours muste be purged For if they remayne they wyll styl encrease Euerye daye more and more and augment the disease So that in shorte tyme the bodye muste decaye Excepte God gyue health by some other waye Euen so doeth it fare by the weale publike Whyche chaunceth to be often diseased and sycke Throughe the mischeuous malyce of suche menne as be Desierous to breake the publyke vnitie Eche publike bodye muste be purged therfore Of these rotten humours as is sayde before Else wyll it decaye as do the bodies naturall When rotten humours haue infected them ouer all But if the publyke bodie can not be purged well By force of purgacion as phicisins do tell When bodies be weake and so lowe brought That by purgacion no health can be wrought Then must there be sought some easyer waye To kil the strength of those humors as phiasians saye When the swerde wyll not helpe in the commune wealth To purge it of Commotioners and brynge it to health Than muste discrete counsel fynde wayes to kyll The power of those rebels and lette them of their wyll And that muste be by cherishynge the humours naturall And by quyckenynge agayne of the spirites vytall Whyche in the commune wealthe are the subiectes true That do alwaye studye Sedition to eschewe When these mē through cherishing do growe and be stronge Than can not Commocioners continue longe For as whan the strength of yll humours is kylled In a naturall bodye they be sone comsumed Or made of euill good as it is playne to se So wyll it betyde of suche menne as be In the commune wealth geuen vnto sedision When they se they cannot finyshe their intention And what is their power but the people ignoraunte Whom thei do abuse by their councelles malignaunt When the hertes of the people be wonne to their prince Than can no commotioners do hurte in hys prouince If thys will not helpe than God wyll take cure And destroy these Commosioners we maye be right sure Excepte the tyme be come that the bodye muste dye For than there canne be found no maner remedy God graunte that oure synne haue not broughte vs so lowe That we be passe cure god onelye doeth thys knowe And I truste to se healthe agayne if the finall ende Be not nowe nere at hande whyche the Lorde shortelye sende Of commen drunkardes ESaye lamenteth and sayeth oute alas Muche wo shall betide you that do youre tyme passe Esaye v. In eatinge and drinckynge frome morninge to nighte Till none of your membres canne do his office righte Woe be to you sayeth he that do so earlye rise To fyll your selues with drincke in suche beastelye wise But if he were nowe liuynge and sawe this worldes state He wold say this of our drunkards that sitte vp so late For fewe of oure drunckardes do vse to rise earelye But muche of the nighte they wyll drincke lustelye Well i. Cor. i. sainte Paule doeth warne all that be of pure mynde To auoide drunckardes companye where so euer they do them finde Se ye neyther eate nor drincke wyth suche menne sayeth he That be geuen to drinkinge what so euer they be But alas manye curates that shoulde vs thys tell Do all their parishioners in drynckynge excell Of commune Liars Sapi. i. SOlomon the sage in Sapience doeth saye That the mouthe that lyeth doeth the verye soule sleye If the murderer of bodies be worthye to dye The murderer of soules shoulde not escape trowe I. For as the Soule doeth the bodye excell So is his treaspace greater that doeth the soule quell But Lyars alas are nowe muche set by And thought to be menne in a maner necessarie To be entertayned of eche noble manne Who are muche delighted wyth lyes nowe and than But thys delite will be sorowe I feare me at the laste Whan the liar for hys liynge into paines shall be caste Of Dicears EMonge wyttye saiynges this precept I finde Cato To auoid and fle dice my son haue euer in mynde For diceynge hath brought many wealthye menne to care And manye ryche heyre it hath made full bare Some menne it hath sette vp I will not denye And brought to more worship than they be worthye God knoweth to what ende he suffereth this thyng Perchaunce to rewarde them wyth hel at their endynge For doubtlesse those goodes are gotten amisse That are goten from him that prodigall is And especially at the dyce where boeth do intende To get the others goodis or else his owne to spende Nowe if prodigalitye or couetise be vyce He can not but offend that playeth at the dyce For be they two or mo thys thyng is certayne Prodigalytie and couetise do in them all raygne Besyde the wycked othes and the tyme myspent Wherof they thyncke they nede not them selues to repent But thys I dare saye that though dyrynge were no sin Nor the goodis mysgoten that men do therat wynne Yet the othes that they swere and the tyme myspent Shall be theyr damnacion vnlesse they repent Leaue of your vayne dyceyng ye dycers therefore For vnlesse ye repent god hath vengeaunce in store And when ye thynke least then wyl he pour it oute And make you to stoupe be ye neuer so stoute Of double benificed men THe kynge of that realme where iustice doeth reygne Perused olde statutis that in bokis remayne And as he turned the boke him chaunced to se That suche as haue benifices shoulde residente be And haue their abidynge whiles their lyfe shold endure Emonge them ouer whom god hath geuen them cure Than sayde he to him selfe I thynke well there is No lawe in thys realme worse obserued than this Yet canne there nothynge my flocke more decaye Than whan hirelynges suffer my shepe to go astraye Then called he hys counsell and