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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	case_n	rent_n	tenant_n	2,193	5	9.8653	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53124	News from Bedlam, or, Tom of Bedlams obervations, upon every month and feastival time in this present year, 1674 VVith his general judgment of the state thereof, and what is like to happen in several parts of the vvorld, with the grand causes thereof. Calculated chiefly for the meridian of Great Bedlam, and the cross walks in Moor-fields, where the pole is elivated many miles above sense or apprehension. By Tom of Bedlam, Knight of the Frantic Horn, and student in mathematical gimcracks, whimsies, anticks, and others rare chymera's. With allowance.	Tom, of Bedlam.	1674 (1674)	Wing N948A; ESTC R218167	5,887	15

Landlords great joy and content When as kind Tenants pays to them their Rent March the Twenty Five I understand Is Quarter-day throughout this Famous Land The Twenty Five of June as I hear tell Is Quarter-day that pleaseth Landlords well This Year on September the Twenty Nine Landlords receive their Rents and drink good wine And upon December Twenty and One This last Quarter like the rest is gone Poor Tenants case much I do lament Which by no means great dangers can prevent I do bewail my own and others Crimes Not gaining Coyn in these sad Iron Times When greedy Lions come unto their Doors And gapes for Coyn and soundly at him Roars Come Fellow Now come pay to me my Rent Or else to Prison straight thou shalt be sent When as the tenant these proud words doth hear His very heart begins to quake with fear Then first of all his Goods are strain'd upon Not having left a Bed for to lie on His Wife and Children tender sick and poor Half naked strait are all turn'd our o th' door Her Husband then in a Prison is Confin'd To end his days to please the Landlords mind I Tom of Bedlam to such Landlords tell That their Reward shall be to Fry in Hell His Observations upon the first Week of Christmass UPon December dated the Twenty Five Who ever at that Day shall be Alive The Week before shall see much Cattle slain The Bodies upon Christmas to sustain I do Presage and eke Pronosticate There will be Feasting both Early and Late With Cards and Dice throughout this Land shall be In great esteem with High and Low degree Four Kings together to each House shall come And be esteemed both of all and some And shall be seen all in one Company And much admired of all the standers by Four Queens likewise with their best Habits on The more to please the Eyes o th' lookers on Then four brave Fellows deckt in Collors fine Wait them upon but yet they drink no Wine You may know them from amongst twenty score For by their carriage they are Knaves all four And every three of these ten Followers have All deckt with Collors very Fine and Brave I should first have begun with the New Year But I poor Tom was dreaming of good Chear How that Tenants send their Landlords Gifts That need them not both these and other shifts Each Messenger a Gift doth then receive Of Gloves and Ribonds which their Lord doth give They stay and Dine and Sup before they part God bless such Lords that wins the Tenants heart Tenants will Thrive under such Landlords when They rack not Rents but are kind loving men Of the four Quarters of the Year NOw if Diana certainly wear Garters This present Year will surely have 4 Quarters Winter Harvest Summer and Spring time Excuse poor Tom that knows not how to Rime In these Quarters such varieties there be Of Railers of each Sex and each Degree Which caus'd a Frenchman for to break his Nose Also the Tears to trickle down his Hoose In this Conflict brave Gallent men shall die When it come to pass you 'l know 't as well as I. Of the Twelve Months first of January I Have observed by great Care and Trust The days herein are One and Thirty just This Month begins the first day of the Year When men and women dance and make good chear Great Fires I 'me sure will be in great request Strong Ale and Beer will surely be opprest Warm Beds hot Broths good Chear is all in fashion Both in London and throughout this Nation Cooks shops and Ordinaries are now in motion The Gallants at the Wine shew great devotion Shop-keepers every one will wear his Gown Both in the City and in each Free Town And let me now to speak the truth be bold The Weather seems not hot but extream cold There 's one thing more the which I greatly fear Fagots and Coals will be exceeding dear Februaries Observation I Have observed by eating Pork and Pease This present Month hath Eight and Twenty days One thing remarkable I 'le not let pass The second day is called Candlemass The twenty four is Matthias This Month resembles the last Month before Trading begins for to Revive the Poor Shop-keepers now do gather by their Gain And to the Poor do then Return again They fill their Shops exspecting a rich Spring To vent their Wares great Profit home to bring One thing by th' way to note I 'le now be bold The Weather seems to be exceeding cold Methinks I see a strange Out-landish Fire That 's kindled betwixt a Nun and a Frier 'T is pleasant sport when Mars and Venus be United both by this Afinity Both Friers and Nuns they all creep close together To Fast and Loose or both or chose you whether The zealous Monks that seem to be most pure As I love Life do love a Lass I 'me sure His Observations for March. SEveral varieties of strange Alterations in this Month cometh to pass in divers places of the World either in Europe Asia Africa or America if it happen that Mars and Luna be in conjunction for some will be so déep in love with their Idols that they dote upon though they have Eyes they will not sée and Ears yet they will not hear having Noses but smell nothing Wit and perceive nothing having a Heart but can féel nothing which séemeth by my Astrological Rules gathered out of the Learned writings of those most Excellent and never to be forgotten Authors Jack Adams Hobbedibooby and Poor Robin That Old Men that have Young Wives will be made Cuckolds Youths be befool'd Beauty betraid Wealth will be wasted and Virtue will be dishonoured and that Lambs Pigs Calves Géese Ducks and Chickens shall either live till they be at their full Age or be kill'd to eat whilst they are young and also that a Horse is no Man or a Cock no Hen a Goose no Gander and a Bull no Cow and a Bear is no Sow The Weather oft will alter with the VVind And those can nothing see that are stark Blind Brave News ariveth ●rom beyond the Seas VVhich English Men and English hearts doth please The Dutch so stout before our Fleet doth bend They 'l have the Rout and thus this Month doth end Aprils Observations THis Month the Earth beginneth green to show Adorn'd with Grass Flowers that thereon grow Soft and sweet showres upon the Earth doth fall Rejoycing the hearts of Men and Beasts and all Sweet singing Birds do make such Harmony With most sweet Notes and warbling towards the Skie Pleasing to God and also to Mankind No Musick like to this to please the mind Part of this Month perhaps it may prove warm But a good Fire will do a man no harm By reason that March is not in April it produceth these and the like effects that some will dance the Trenchmore without a Piper and some can take no rest for sléeping nor eat a full meal after their Belltes be full nor run fast when they are not able for to stand nor a Scolding woman to be quiet for fourtéen hours in every day Nay more it teacheth a Fool to flattery a Knave to lye a Wench to dance it makes a Souldier valourous a Courtier wanton it will make a Wiseman a fool and a Fool quite out of his wits Young Lawyers now shall lay aside their Books And tempted be by some fair Venus Looks Mars will be angry and will draw his Sword Vulkin to him small sucker will afford Cupid from Venus shall the Trevant play And 's soundly whipt for shooting his Shafts away Mays Obseruations This Month begins jovially Old Men and Women rejoyce because they put their Cattel to Grass young Men imbrace their Swéet-hearts going a Maying the first day in the morning is so cold that the young men cover the Maids with several gréen Gowns and to secure their own hands from the cold thrust them into the Maids bosoms The first day is spent in Varieties of Sports as I told you before Some News more then ordinary this Month doth produce First there will be such a f●ll of 〈◊〉 that except they be young and fat very little money will be bidden for them Hackny Horses will hardly be worth their meat many houses hath such Dogs that no Beggar dare come near their doors no sooner is the Mouse at the Chéese but the Cat hath her by the back some Maidmarians will be gotten with Child in their sléep and the Hobby-horse will be mad that the fool must be the Father There is great talk of setting up several new Taverns but it is Tobacco that will vent the old Sack much Giberish is spoken so that our own Mother Tongue is quite forgotten Vsurers are half mad for lack of Vent for their Money Law was never more out of use nor men more out of Money Women put Men quite out of Countenance a Pot of Al● will be worth a Penny and the Knave of Clubs will still make one in the Stock This Month doth end when June it doth begin Of some one side the Knave o th' Clubs will win There is more Knaves by Sea and Land Then all the World beside can well withstand A due sweet May and eke fair Maids farewel Good Friers I pray let Nuns pass to their Cell Junes Observation THis Month produceth a most strange difference betwéen December January and this Month for those that used then to cry Sprats Oysters fresh Herrings and gray Pease do mou