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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	arm_n	belly_n	leg_n	2,979	5	10.3355	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01518	The droomme of Doomes day VVherin the frailties and miseries of mans lyfe, are lyuely portrayed, and learnedly set forth. Deuided, as appeareth in the page next following. Translated and collected by George Gascoigne Esquyer.	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.; Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216. De contemptu mundi. English.	1576 (1576)	STC 11641; ESTC S102877	200,832	291

rather hauinge lesse perfect●…ō in many things then they haue for they goe as soone as they be borne but we can neither goe straight vpon our féete no nor crepe vpon our hands if nede were We are all borne crying that we may thereby expresse our misery for a male childe lately borne pronounceth A. and a woman childe pronounceth E So that they saye eyther E. or A as many as discend from Eua. And what is Eua but Heu Ha eche of these soundes is the voyce of a sorowful creature expressing the greatnesse of his grefe here vpon before Eua sinned she was called Virago and after she sinned she deserued to be called Eua when she hard sayed vnto hir Thou shalt bring forth in sorrow and payne for ther is no payne to be compared to that which a woman abydeth in hir labor Wherevpon Rachel with ouer great grefe of laboring dyed and at hir death shee called the name of hir sonne Benony which betokeneth the sonne of sorrow or payn The wife of Phinees faling sodeynly in labor brought forth a childe dyed withall euen at the instant of death she called hir sonne Icabod But a woman licke vnto one that hath escaped shipwrack is sorowfull sad whiles shee laboreth but when she hath brought forth a childe then remembereth she not hir paynes for ioye bicause a man child is borne into the world Then she conceiueth with filth and vncleannesse she bringeth forth is deliuered with paine and heauinesse bringeth it vp and nowresheth it with toyle and carefulnesse and kepeth and preserueth it with dread fearefulnesse Man commeth forth naked and shall retorne naked he commeth poore and he goeth poore Naked sayeth Iob I came out of my mothers wombe and naked shall I returne thether we brought nothing into this world and doubtless●… we can carry away nothing But if any man depart out of this world clothed let him marke well what kinde of clothing he bringeth filthy to be spokē more filthy to be heard and most filthie to be sene O vile vnworthinesse of mans estate and condicion O vnworthy estate of mans vilenesse Search the trees the herbes of the Earth they bringe forthe boughes leaues flowers fruits A man bringeth forth nitts lyse worms They distill powre out Oyle Wyne and Balmes and a man maketh excrements of spettle pisse and ordure They smell breathe all swetenesse of smell and pleasauntnesse whereas man belcheth breaketh wynde and stincketh for such as the tree is such fruites it bringeth forth and an euil tree can not bring out good fruit Then what is man according to his shape and proporcion but a tree turned topsie turuey whose rootes are his heares the stub of the roote is his head and his neck the body of the tree is his breast belly and bulke the boughes are his armes legges and the little braunches and leaues are his fingers and toes This is the leafe which is tossed with the wynde and the stuble which is dryed vp with the Sunne In the first age of Man it is read that he lyued nyne hundreth yeares and more but when mans lyfe began by lyttle and lyttle to declyne then our Lorde GOD sayd to Noe My Spirit shall not remayne with man for euer because he is fleshe and his dayes shall be one hundreth and twenty yeares the which may be vnderstoode aswell by the tearme of mans lyfe as by the space to repēt him for from that tyme forthwardes fewe are read of which lyued any longer But when mans lyfe was dayly more and more shortned then was it sayde by the Psalmest The dayes of his tyme are seauentie yeares or if it be a stronge body●… foure skore yeares and then theyr payne and sorrow increaseth For shall not the small number of my dayes be finished in smal tyme Our dayes doe passe away more swiftly then the webbe is cut from the weyuers hand A man borne of a woman lyuinge short tyme replenished with many miseries commeth forth lyke a flower and is plucked vp and flyeth away lyke a shadowe and neuer contineweth in one estate For now a dayes men doe lyue forty yeares and very fewe doe reache sixtie yeares But if man doe attayne vnto age immediately his hart is afflicted his head is troubled his spirites languishe his breath stincketh his face is wrinckled his body is bowed his eyes are daseled his féelinge faylleth and his quickenesse quayleth his teeth become rotten and his eares are closed vp An olde man is soone prouoked but hardly reuoked beleauing quickly and mistrustinge laysurely co●…etous and greédy heauy and needy Swyft to speake and s●…owe to heare praysing thinges of antiquitie and dispysinge what is vsed presently blaminge the tyme present and allowing the tyme past he sigheth and is vexed he waxeth weake and is aston●…ed as Horace sayth Multa senem circum 〈◊〉 in comod●… To conclude neyther let olde men glory against yonge men nor yet let younge men waxe insolent and disdayne olde men for they haue béen as we are and we shall one daye be as they now are The Byrde is created to flye a lofte and Man is borne to be weryed with toyle and labour All his dayes are full of labours and paynes neyther can his mynde be quiet in the scilent night and what is this but vanitie there is no man without labour vnder the Sunne nor without defectes and imperfections vnder the Moone nor without vanitie vnder tyme Tyme is the delay of thinges subiect vnto change the vanitie of vanities as the Preacher sayth and all is vanitie O how variable are mens studies and how diuers be theyr exercises and yet they haue all o●…e ende and one selfe same effect euen labour payne and vexacion of the mynde There is much businesse created for all men and a great yoke is layd vpon the sonnes of Adam from the day that they come forth of their mothers wombe vntil the day of their Sepulture in the earth which is mother to all lyuing creatures Let wyse men search narrowly let them héedely consider the height of the heauens the breadth of the yearth and the depth of the Sea let them argue and dispute euery one of this let them hādle them all ouer and let them alwayes eyther learne or teach and in so doing what shall they fynde out of this busie toyle of our lyfe but traueyle and payne that knewe he by experience which sayed I inclyned my hart to know lear●…nge prud●…ce error and folishnesse and I perceyued that all was labor affliction of the spyrite For asmuch as in great wisedome and knowledge there is great disdayne and be which increaseth knowledge increaseth also payne trauayle for although whilest that he sercheth it out he must sweat many tymes and watch many nightes with sweat and labor yet is there scarcely any thing so vyle or any thing so easy that