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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
judgement_n	court_n	execution_n	writ_n	2,905	5	9.7607	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20047	O per se O. Or A new cryer of Lanthorne and candle-light Being an addition, or lengthening, of the Bell-mans second night-walke. In which, are discouered those villanies, which the bell-man (because hee went i'th darke) could not see: now laid open to the world. Together with the shooting through the arme, vsed by counterfeit souldiers: the making of the great soare, (commonly called the great cleyme:) the mad-mens markes: their phrase of begging: the articles and oathes giuen to the fraternitie of roagues, vagabonds, and sturdy beggers at their meetings. And last of all, a new canting-song.; Lanthorne and candle-light	Dekker, Thomas, ca. 1572-1632.	1616 (1616)	STC 6487; ESTC S109511	68,042	112

hanging To twore to sée Wyn a penny Yarum milke And thus haue I builded vp a little Mint where you may coyne wordes for your pleasure The payment of this was a debt for the Belman at his farewell in his first Round which hée walk'd promised so much If hée kéepe not touch by tendring the due Summe he desires forbearance and if any that is more rich in this Canting commodity will lend him any more or any better hée will pay his loue double In the meane time receiue this and to giue it a little more weight you shall haue a Canting song wherein you may learne how This cursed Generation pray or to speake truth curse such Officers as punish them A Canting song THe Ruffin cly the nab of the Harman beck If we mawnd Pannam lap or Ruff pecke Or poplars of yarum he cuts bing to the Ruffmans Or els he sweares by the light-mans To put our stamps in the Harmans The ruffian cly the ghost of the Harmanbeck If we heaue a booth we cly the Ierke If we niggle or mill a bowsing Ken Or nip a boung that has but a win Or dup the giger of a Gentry cofes ken To the quier cuffing we bing And then to the quier Ken to scowre the Cramp-ring And then to the Trin'de on the chutes in the lightmans The Bube Ruffian cly the Harman beck harmans Thus Englished THe Diuell take the Constables head If we beg Bacon Butter-milke or bread Or Pottage to the hedge he bids vs hie Or sweares by this light i th stocks we shall lie The Deuill haunt the Constables ghoast If we rob but a Booth we are whipt at a poast If an Ale-house we rob or be tane with a Whore Or cut a purse that has iust a penny and no more Or come but stealing in at a Gentlemans dore To the Iustice straight we goe And then to the Iayle to be shackled And so To be hangd on the gallowes i th day time the pox And the Deuill take the Constable and his stocks We haue Canted I feare too much let vs now giue eare to the Bel-man and heare what he speaks in english THE BEL-MANS SECOND Nights walke CHAP. II. IT was Terme time in hell for you must vnderstand a Lawyer liues there aswell as héere by which meanes don Lucifer being the iustice for that Countie where the Brimstone mines are had better dooings and more rapping at his gates then all the Doctors and unpericall Quack-saluers of ten Cities haue at theirs in a great plague time The hall where these Termers were to try their causes was very large and strongly built but it had one fault it was so hot that people could not indure to walk there Yet to walke there they were compelled by reason they were drawne thither vpon orcasions and such iustling there was of one another that it would haue grieued any man to be in the thronges amongst me Nothing could be heard but noise and nothing of that noise be vnderstood but that it was a sound as of men in a kingdome when on a sodaine it is in an vprore Euery one brabled with him that he walked with or if hée did but tell his tale to his Councell heè was so eager in the very deliuery of that tale that you would haue sworne hée did brabble and such gnashing of téeth there was when aduersaries met together that the fyling of ten thousand Sawes cannot yéeld a sound more horrible The Iudge of the Court had a diuelish countenance and as cruell he was in punishingthose that were condemned by Lawe as he was crabbed in his lookes whilst he sat to heare their tryals But albeit there was no pittie to be expected at his hands yet was hée so vpright in iustice that none could euer fasten bribe vpon him for hée was ready and willing to heare the cryes of all commers Neither durst any Pleader at the infernall Barre or any officer of the Court exact any Fée of Plaintiffes and such as complained of wrongs and were opprest but onely they paide that were the wrong dooers those would they sée dambd ere they should get out of their fingers such fellowes they were appointed to vexe at the very soule The matters that here were put in sute were more then could be bred in twentie Vacations yet should a man be dispached out of hand In one Terme hée had his Iudgement for heare they neuer stand vpon Returnes but presently come to Triall The causes decided here are many the Clients that complaine many the Counsellors that plead till they be hoarse many the Attornies that runne vp and downe infinite the Clarkes of the Court not to be numbred All these haue their hands full day and night are they so plagued with the bawling of Clients that they neuer can rest The Inck where-with they write is the blood of Coniurers they haue no Paper but all things are engrossed in Parchment and that Parchment is made of Scriueners skinnes flead off after they haue béene punished for Forgerie their Standishes are the Seuls of Vsurers their Pennes the bones of vnconscionable Brokers and hard-hearted Creditors that haue made dice of other mens bones or else of periured Excecutors and blind Ouer-séeers that haue eaten vp Widdowes and Orphanes to the bare bones and those Pennes are made of purpose without Nebs because they may cast Incke but slowly in mockery of those who in their life time were slowe in yéelding drops of pitty Would you know what actions are tried here I will but turne ouer the Recordes and read them vnto you as they hang vpon the Fyle The Courtier is sued héere and condemned for Ryots The Soldier is sued héere and condemned for murders The Scholler is sued héere condemned for Heresies The Citizen is sued héere and condemned for the Citie-sinnes The Farmer is suedchéere vpon Penal Statutes and condemned for spoyling the Markets Actions of batterie are brought against Swaggerers and héere they are bound to the peace Actions of Waste are brought against Drunkards and Epicures and héere they are condemned to begge at the Grate for one drop of colde water to coole their tongues or one crum of breade to stay their hunger yet are they denyed it Harlots haue processe sued vpon them héere and are condemned to Howling to Rottennesse and to Stench No Actes of Parliament that haue passed the Vpper-house can be broken but here the breach is punished and that seuerely and that suddenly For here they stand vpon no demurres no Audita Queraela can héere be gotten no writs of Errores to Reuerse Iudgement héere is no flying to a court of Chancery for reléef yet euerie one that comes hether is serued with a Sub-poena No they deale altogether in this Court vpon the Habeas Corpus vpon the Capias vpon the Ne exeat Regnum vpon Rebellion vpon heauie Fines but no Recoueries vpon writs of Out-lary

to attache the body for euer and last of all vpon Executions after Iudgement which being serued vpon a man is his euerlasting vndoing Such are the Customes and courses of procéedings in the Offices belonging to the Prince of Darknesse These hot dooings hath hée in his Terme-times But vpon a day when a great matter was to be tryed betwéene an Englishman and a Dutchman which of the two were the fowlest Drinkers and the case being a long time in arguing by reason that strong euidence came in réeling on both sides yet it was thought that the English-man would carry it away and cast the Dutchman on a sodaine all was staid by the sound of a horne that was heard at the lower end of the Hall And euery one looking back as wondring at the strangenes roome roome was cryed and made through the thickest of the crowde for a certain Spirit in the likenesse of a Post who made away on a little leane Nagge vp to the Bench where indge Radamanth with his two grime Brothers Minos and Aecus sat This Spirit was an intelligencer sent by Belzebub of Batharum into some Countries of christendome to lye there as a Spie and had brought with him a packet of letters from seuerall Leigiers that lay in those Countries for the seruice of the Tartarian their Lord and Maister Which packet being opened all the Letters because they concerned the generall good and state of those low Countries in Hell were publikely reade The contents of that Letter that stung most and put them all out of their law cases tended to this purpose That whereas she Lord of the Fiery Lakes had his Ministers in all kingdomes aboue the earth whose Offices were not onely to win the subiects of other Princes to his obadience but also to giue notice when any of his owne sworne houshold or any other that held league with him should reuolt or flie from their allegiance also discouer from time to time all plots conspiracies machinations or vnderminings that should be laid albeit they that durst lay them should digge déepe inough to blow vp his great Infernall Citie so that if his Horned Regiment were not sodainely mustred together and did not ●●stely bestirre their clouen stumps his territories would be shaken his dominions left in time vnpeopled his forces looked into and his authoritie which he held in the world contemned and laughed to scorne The reason was that a certaine fellow The Childe of Darkenesse a common Night-walker a man that had no man to waite vpon him but onely a Dogge one that was a disordered person and at midnight would beate at mens doores bidding them in meere mockerie to looke to their candles when they themselues were in their dead sleepes and albeit hee was an Officer yet hee was but of Light-carriage being knowne by the name of the Bel-man of London had of late not onely drawne a number of the Deuils owne kindred into question for their liues but had also onely by the help of the lanthorn candle lookt into the serrets of the best trades that are taught in hell laying them open to the broad eye of the world making them infamous odious and ridiculous yea and not satisfied with dooing this wrong to his diuelship very spitefullie hath hée set them out in print drawing their pictures so to the life that now a horse-stealer shall not shew his head but a hailter with the Hang-mans noose is ready to be fastned about it A Foyst nor a Nip shall not walke into a Fayre or a Play-house but euerie tracke will cry looke to your purses nor a poore common Rogue come to a mans doore but he shall be examined if hée can cant If this Baulling fellow therefore haue not his mouth stop'd she light Angels that are coynd below will neuer be able to passe as they haue done but be naild vp for counterfeits Hell will haue no dooings and the deuill be no body This was the lyking of the Letter and this Letter draue them all to a Non-plus because they knew not how to answere it But at last aduice was taken the Court brake vp the Tearme was adiournd by reason that the Hell houndes were thus Plagu'd a common counsell in hell was presently called how to redresse these abuses The Sathanicall Sinagogue being set vp startes the Father of Hell and damnation and looking verie terribly with apaire of eies that stared as wide as the mouth gapes at Bishops-gate fetching foure or fiue déep sighes which were nothing else but the Smoke of fire brimstone boyling in his stomacke and shewed as if hée were taking Tobacco which be oftentimes does tolde his children seruants and the rest of the citizens that dwelt within the freedome of Hell and sat there before him vpon narrow low formes that they neuer had more cause to lay their heads together and to grow politicians Hée and they all knew that from the corners of the earth some did euery houre in a day créepe forth to come and serue him yea that many thousands were so bewitched with his fauours and his rare parts that they would come running quick to him his dominions he said were great and ful of people Emperors and Kings in infinit number were his slaues his court was full of Princes if the world were denided as some report but into thrée parts two of those thrée were his or if as others affirme into foure parts almost thrée of that foure hée had firme footing in But if such a fellow as a treble voic'd Bel-man should be suffer to pry into the infernall Misteries into those blacke Acts which command the spirits of the Déepe and hauing sucked what knowledge he can from them to turn it all into poison and to spit it in the very faces of the professors with a malicious intent to make them appeare vgly and so to grow hatefull and out of fauour with the world if such a coniurer at midnight should dance in their circles and not be driuen out of them Hell in a few yéers would not be worth the dwelling in The great Lord of Limbo did therefore command all his blacke guard that stood about him to bestirre them in their places and to defend the court wherein they liued threatning besides that his curse and all the plagues of stincking Hell should fall vpon his officers seruants and subiects vnlesse they either aduiz'd him how or take some spéedie order themselues to punish that saucie intelligencer the Bel-man of London Thus hée spake and then sat downe At last a foolish Diuell rose vp and shot the bolt of his aduice which flew thus farre That the Black-dogge of New-gate should againe be let loose and a farre off follow the Bauling Bel-man to watch into what places hée went and what déedes of darkenesse euerie night hée did Hinc risus The whole Synodicall assembly fell a laughing at this Wise-acre so that neither he nor his blacke Dogge