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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
head_n	world_n	year_n	young_a	137	3	5.8959	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60752	Solon secundus: or, Some defects in the English laws with their proper remedies. By a hearty lover of his country.	Hearty lover of his country.	1695 (1695)	Wing S4463; ESTC R221573	20,620	36

were us'd besides there are more Debts lost by these cruel foolish and barbarous Customs than any other way more Men undone by this means than by all other Accidents whatever and 't is from the Melancholick Prospect of a Prison to avoid which and extreme Poverty the usual Company in those Places puts Men upon flying into Alsatia and the Mint many time before they are driven to it by absolute Necessity where they defraud all their Creditors and live upon their Money and at last starve pine away and die In time past Witches and Wizards us'd to encrease the Dead-List their Executions were numerous and very common but have declin'd ever since the People in general the Judges and Juries in particular grew wiser the youthful which if any have are the likeliest to understand and use Charms Inchatments and Spells and the aged went together the Ignorance and Malice of that Age spar'd neither made no distinction of Sex but were afraid of being smutted with the Black-Art although there be no such thing most weak and idle People being scar'd with Names and Notions the common People even to this Day call Astronomers Astrologers Chiromancers and Physiognomists all Conjurers and Cunning Men when alas there 's not one Drachm of Conjuration in the Matter no Body wonders that the Mobile Vulgus should be thus tainted and affected but t is a little odd to find Multitudes of both Sexes of good Education and Conversation of the same Opinion still and to think nay and sometimes to call him an Atheist that will not believe the Existence of Witches Conjurers Necromancers and such like Stuff Subjects fit for a Romance and would go down very well in those Wind-Mill Days those Times of Chivalry and Knight-Errantry which were the drowsiest dullest and most insipid Stories in the World unhappy in being instill'd into Peoples Heads while young which renders it difficult to exterminate them if in their Years of Maturity Discretion I can't call it for some nay many never arrive at that The Wizard and Witch-finders had formerly a mighty Trade of it it was some Interest surely they had as well as the Command Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live in the Land that made them so diligent and zealous in their Discoveries I have been told of a Parson that of late Years seldom failed of providing half a Dozen of Witches or Wizards to welcome the Judges and employ the Court till his Tricks were discovered and he as he deserv'd expos'd with shame to the Publick Hatred 'T is unhappy to have an ill Tongue much Mischief is done thereby which often returns upon themselves Some fansie the Clergy keep up the Opinion of Witches to amuse the People and to retain them in the Dark the better to put of their bad Wares Some say 't is their Interest to do thus But be it so or not I shall not enter into the Controversie at this time but I am very glad we have not so many of that sort of poor Witches as formerly or at least that we don't hang them up so fast as we us'd to do and make Witches where we found none which destroy'd abundance of People which was very detrimental to the Commonwealth who suffer'd very much in the loss of the young tho' not of the old Men and Women especially of the last who are then very little regarded by being thought useless and unprofitable tho' the Men are not who if they had Employment might have Issue even in the last Stage of their Lives especially if the youthful slew not so fast from their cold Embraces too near an approach to and resemblance of Death the thought of whom chills the warmest Blood and baulks for a short season the choicest Pleasures of the most Gay and Airy Sodomy is seldom talk'd of and I hope not practis'd in our chaste Northern-Clime 't is abominable almost to name it so we shall dwell no longer upon the Subject but banish it to Italy Turkey and those Sun-burnt Regions This Crime fills not the Black-Warrant and that which follows not much more Rapes are rare and seldom affect the Life of the prosecuted because for the most part 't is Trick and Management design to get a small Spill out of the timerous and easie besides the Courts of Judicature are very tender on that side it being by most Men thought difficult to execute if the Party be obstinate and if not 't is no Rape besides the Sex are more melting and obliging than formerly are easier won and prevail'd upon to receive the Attack and seldom venture so far or hold out so long to hazard a Storm Bastards and their unhappy Parents come in too often for a share in this Mortal Bill of Fare which might be easily prevented by appointing an Hospital at the Publick Charge as in Foreign Parts to receive the poor innocent Babes and to make good Provision for them who will soon pay the Expense of their Education by their Services being in Value far above the Charge and of great Advantage to the Commonwealth an Army of such would beat the whole World especially if it be true That they are made with more Heat and Vigour with more Life and Fire and of better Metal than the lawful as they call 'm for distinction tho' Nature knows no such difference Issue Besides Monsieur the present French King takes mighty Care of that whole Race and does 'em the Honour and the Grace to call them the Children of France and sometimes the King's Children By this Means they have no Murders nor Executions of this kind no Embryo's destroy'd to save the Reputation of the Liquorish Common Harlotry is as I touch'd before very injurious to the State Bigamy Polygamy or Any Gamy is better than that but we are so Nice and Puritanical in some things and so Large and Latitudinarian in others that such Doctrine must be damn'd to Eternal Shades Oh! ' twon't go down with tender Consciences tho' I am of Opinion they have neither tender nor tough I am sure in other things they have not but I am loth to make old Wounds bleed a-new And so much for that Paragraph which is shortn'd to prevent Offence so loth I am to disoblige any Party that as I told you in my Preface I would have no Party at all but all pure Love and Friendship And for the Clippers Coiners Counterfeiters False-Money Makers Stampers Melters Exchangers of Broad for Narrow of Good for Bad Wholesale Men and Retaylers with the whole Nest nay rather Army of Rogues and Jades that have spoil'd almost all our Money and render'd it uncurrent difficult and very troublesome to lay out or pay away single or in Summs that indeed 't is so great an Unhappiness and ill Accident in our State and at this very Juncture and Crisis I mean the War that even the Taxes themselves are not so Burdensome And all this is occasion'd by an universal Defect and Negligence in permitting Crop'd