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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	day_n	good_a	see_v	11,824	5	3.3378	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08014	The terrors of the night or, A discourse of apparitions. Tho: Nashe	Nash, Thomas, 1567-1601.	1594 (1594)	STC 18379; ESTC S110111	29,458	60

and then they folde their armes like Braggarts writhe their neckes alla Neapolitano and turne vp their eye-balls like men intraunced Come come I am entraunced from my Text I wote weil and talke idlely in my sleepe longer than I should those that will harken any more after Dreames I referre them to Artimidorus Synesurs Cardan with many others which onely I haue heard by their names but I thanke God had neuer the plodding patience to reade for if they bee no better than some of them I haue perused euery weatherwise old wise might write better what sense is there that the yoalke of an egge should signifie gold or dreaming of Beares or fire or water debate and anger that euery thing must bee interpreted backward as Witches say their Pater-noster good being the character of bad and bad of good As well we may calculate from euery accident in the day and not goe about any busines in the morning till we haue seene on which hand the Crow sits O Lord I haue heard many a wise Gentlewoman say I am so merry and haue laught so hartily that I am sure ere long to bee crost with some sad tydinges or other all one as if men comming from a Play should conclude Well we haue seene a Commedie to day and therefore there cannot choose but be a Tragedie to morrow I doo not deny but after extremity of myrth followe many sad accidents but yet those sad accidents in my opinion wee meerely plucke on with the feare of comming mischiefe and those meanes wee in pollicie most vse to preuent it soonest enwrappe vs in it and that was Sathans tricke in the old world of gentillisme to bring to passe all his blind Prophecies Could any man set downe certaine rules of expounding of Dreames and that their rules were generall holding in all as well as in some I would beginne a litle to list to them but commonly that which is portentiue in a King is but a friuolous fancie in a beggar and let him dreame of Angels Eagles Lyons Griffons Dragons neuer so all the augurie vnder heauen will not allot him so much as a good almes Some will obiect vnto mee for the certainety of Dreames the Dreames of Cyrus Cambyses Pompey Caesar Darius Alexander For those I answer that they were rather visions than Dreames extraordinarily sent from heauen to foreshew the translation of Monarchies The Greeke and Romane histories are full of them and such a stirre they keepe with their Augurers and Soothsayers how they foretold long before by Dreames and beasts and birds intrayles the losse of such a battaile the death of such a Captaine or Emperour when false knaues they were all as Prophet Calchas pernitious Traytors to their Country and them that put them in trust and were many times hyred by the aduerse part to disharten and discourage their Masters by such Conycatching Riddles as might in truth be turned any way An easie matter was it for them to prognosticate treasons and conspiracies in which they were vnderhand inlincked themselues how euer the world went it was a good pollicie for them to saue their heades by the shift for if the treasons chaunst afterwards to come to light it would not be suspected they were practisers in them insomuch as they reueald them or if they should by theyr confederates be appealed as practisers yet might they plead and pretend it was done but of spite and mallice to supplant them for so bewraying and laying open their intents This tricke they had with them besides that neuer till the verie instant that anie treason was to be put in execution and it was so neere at hand that the Prince had no time to preuent it would they speake one word of it or offer to disclose it yea and euen then such vnfit seasons for their colourable discouerie would they picke foorth as they would be sure he should haue no leasure to attend it But you will aske why at all as then they should step foorth to detect it Marry to cleare themselues to hys successors that there might bee no reuenge prosecuted on their liues So did Spurina the great Astrologer euen as Caesar in the midst of all his busines was going hastely to the Senate house he popt a bill in his hand of Brutus and Cassius conspiracie and all the names of those that were colleagued with them well he might haue thought that in such hast by the high way side he wold not stay to peruse any schedules and well he knew and was assertained that assoone as euer he came into the Capitoll the bloudie deed was to be accomplished Shall I impart vnto you a rare secrecy how these great famous Coniurers and cunning men ascend by degrees to foretell secrets as they doo First and formost they are men which haue had some little sprinkling of Grammer learning in their youth or at least I will allowe them to haue been Surgeons or Apothecaries prentises these I say hauing runne through their thrift at the elbowes and riotouslie amongst harlots and make-shifts spent the annuitie of halfpennie ale that was left them fall a beating their braynes how to botch vp an easie gainfull trade set a new nap on an old occupation Hereupon presently they rake some dunghil for a few durtie boxes and plaisters and of tosted cheese and candles endes temper vp a fewe oyntments and sirrups which hauing done farre North or into some such rude simple countrey they get them and set vp Scarce one month haue they staid there but what with their vaunting and prating and speaking fustian in steede of Greeke all the Shyres round about do ring with their fame and then they begin to get them a Library of three or foure old rustie manuscript books which they themselues nor anie els can read and furnish their shops with a thousand quid pro quos that would choake anie horse besides some wast trinkets in their chambers hung vp which maye make the world halfe in iealouzie they can coniure They will euermore talke doubtfully as if there were more in them than they meant to make publique or was appliable to euerie common mans capacitie when God bee their rightfull Iudges they vtter all that they know and a great deale more To knit vp their knaueries in short which in sooth is the hang-mans office nones els hauing pickt vp theyr crummes thus pretely well in the Countrey they drawe after a time a little neerer and neerer to London and at length into London they filtch themselues priuely but how Not in the hart of the Cittie will they presume at first dash to hang out their rat-banners but in the skirtes and out-shifts steale out a signe ouer a Coblers stall lyke Aqua vitae-sellers and stocking menders Manie pore people they win to beleeue in them who haue not a barreld Herring or a peece of poore Iohn that lookes ill on it but they will bring the water that he was steept in