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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	bitter_a	cause_n	great_a	120	3	2.1115	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66756	An improvement of imprisonment, disgrace, poverty, into real freedom, honest reputation, perdurable riches evidenced in a few crums & scraps lately found in a prisoners-basket at Newgate, and saved together, by a visitant of oppressed prisoners, for the refreshing of himself and those who are either in a worse prison or (who loathing the dainties of the flesh) hunger and thrist after righteousness / by George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3163; ESTC R14994	55,794	128

any other she doth seem So worthy as she is in my esteem The rough hard shells in which rich Pearls do lie Shew not their Beauty to a strangers eye And Vertues when that they most perfect are Sometimes like faulty Actions may appear To lookers on who have not means to know How done nor to what end nor whence they flow And then especially when their Spectators Are Envious or their Foes or Vertue 's haters The mildest Medicine sore eyes diseases A sickly Stomack wholsom'st meat displeases And so the best and noblest Dispositions Are most dislik'd by men of base Conditions Because their Vertues if they neighbours are Do make their Vices greater to appear Her precions Balms have sometimes made me smart But I confesse the cause was on my part If she administred a bitter pill In love to make me well when I was Ill. And well she might sometimes occasion find To give me wholsome Physick of that kind By cautions and remembrances apply'd In season when my wit was foolifi'd For nothing purposely from her I hid That in my life I said or thought or did And that she might at full be privy to My whole Affairs and all I had to do No Letter unto me in absence came But leave I gave her to break ope the same Which freedom with such mutually bestown Made me to her and her to me so known That what the outside of my Actions be My Conscience hardly better knowes then she Small use of an Affection can be there Or proofs of Friendship where no failings are There 's hardly possibility of living With any one who never needs forgiving For he who in his Consort finds no blame When he fails will confounded be with shame By these Expressions which have shown in part My Passions I have somewhat eas'd my heart And though impertinent they seem to be To others they are pertinent to me In shewing me my weakness and from whom My helps in all extremities must come My Passion is the same but this makes way For Reason to command which did obey And this Divertisment a stop brings in To that which else might have destructive been Yet Instrumental though my Reason was Herein th' Efficient is Preventing Grace And therefore Him from whom this Mercy came I thus Petition to compleat the same My God! my heart thou hast now touched nearly And dost in that which I affect most dearly Begin to try my Faith That Faith of mine Which if a true Faith was a gift of thine It was by thee upon my Soul begot Into Temptation therefore lead me not Beyond my strength But LORD deliver me From Evil that I may not foiled be Thy onely Son to thee taught me to pray In words to this effect when any way I was opprest Compassion therefore take On me though not for mine LORD for his sake And me dismisse not in this sad Condition Without a kind reply to my Petition For as Lot said of Zoar LORD the boone I new request is but a little one And peradventure should my foes perceive Thou dost of every comfort him bereave Who hath desir'd to magnifie thy Name It might occasion give them to blaspheme Or make thy servants to begin to Fear That thou regard'st not how opprest they are That Helper which thou didst on me bestow And Whose assistance is much needed now Thou seem'st to call upon me to resign As one who must no longer now be mine Be not displeased LORD if I shall say Thou tak'st the comfort of my life away And that I do expect thou shouldst not leave me Quite comfortless if thou of her bereave me Why dost thou Dictate to my heart this Prayer If thou intend'st to leave me in despaire It cannot be thou move me shouldst to crave That which thou dost not purpose I should have I do depend on thee and hazarded Both her and all that in this world I had For thy Cause if my heart be not untrue Though therefore nothing is by merit due Vouchsafe if with thy will accord it may Her life with health and for a longer day That we with thankfulness in praises giving May shew thy Mercies forth among the living With Tokens of thy favour make us glad According to the Troubles we have had And make thy other servants hopeful be Of that Salvation which thou shew'st to me Make it appear unto this Generation That we have the same GOD the same Salvation In these our dayes that was in former times Aswell as such like Tyrrannies and Crimes Make it appear that thou hast love for us Aswell as heretofore for Lazarus That thou who didst hear Hagar for a Son And Hannah's Prayer when she beg'd for one Dost not despise my Prayer for the life Of my beloved and Afflicted Wife Or hast less pitty now then heretofore Thou hadst of other some who did deplore Their dead or dying Friends and when they mourn'd Had them into their bosoms back return'd Let it be known to those who do begin To think thou art not that which thou hast been Because that this Age hath produc'd occasions To shew thy self in other dispensations Though to run back to Egypt we are ready As froward as Rebellious and as giddy As they whom thou broughtst thence though every way As false as faithless and as apt as they To set up golden Calves Though as were then There be among us here such wicked men As Jannes and as Jambres who resist Not Moses but a greater JESUS CHRIST And strive by their Inchantments how to bring Us back to bondage and seduce the King By cursed sorceries yet make it known That thou in Brittain dost a People own That as when Israel was from Pharoh saved That as thou wert with Moses and with David And with thy People who in thraldom were At Babel thou art present with us here LORD I beseech thee mind thou not the less My private suit although my zeal to this Diverts me from it for I le further yet Pursue that though thou me shouldst quite forget Apparant make it that some yet inherit A Portion of the self same pow'rful Spirit Which fill'd Elias and if need require That thou hast Prophets who can call down Fire Hail Thunder-bolts and other dreadful things Upon the Troops and Armies of those Kings Who Persecute thy Saints and Heaven constrain Either to let fall or withhold the Rain As to thy service it shall appertain For this though hardly yet believ'd of any Will shortly be made manifest to many And thy vouchsafeing this request of mine May make it to this Age perhaps a signe That thou as heretofore dost lend an ear At need to every private sufferer As well as unto Publick Grievances And that when ripen'd are Iniquities A greater Conquest will be got by Words Then ever was in any Age by Swords My Dear Redeemer if it may be thus Be pleas'd to Mediate this boon for us That suit for which this Prayer was

not how May honestly be prov'd but this I know The House of Commons may much honour get By well approving that which I have writ Considering I therein have appeal'd To GOD and men if it be not conceal'd From open view and mulcts upon me laid For mentioning in private what was said In publick by the People who thereby And therein are concern'd as much as I Because my purpose in that Poem tends To common good without sinister ends And if we to our selves may not relate Our thoughts in words and them Communicate To Peers intrusted by the Supream Power For Preservarion of their peace and our We are in danger shortly to become The veriest slaves throughout all Christendom But as I said in that which was surpriz'd The Prudent Commons will be so advis'd When they with seriousness have that perused Whereby they are suppos'd by me abused That finding none reproved save onely those Who them in their debatings did oppose And that they likewise after next October Who were half mad in June wise and grown sober Will mend their former manners and become As helpful as they have been troublesome Both Parties then will peradventure be Thenceforth as fully reconcil'd to me As I to all men am and what was not Ill-meant shall be well taken or forgot If it be so It will a Symptome prove Of an abatement if not of remove Of some oppressions to prepare the way For what 's reserv'd untill another day But to what end is this Apologie Not meerly from this place wherein I lie To free my Person or from that which may To me befall upon my Tryal-day No those effects must from an abler spirit Proceed All I can say or do or merit To add a contribution thereunto So little will to such a purpose do That rather provoke more my Foes I shall And deeper into their displeasure fall For 't is not pleading in the fittest Season A Righteous Cause with Arguments Reason Nor is it our well-doing or our saying The Truth nor Preaching nor unto them Praying Nor our long-suff'rings nor when past they are Good services to them how great so e're That so much moves as Flattery making Friends Large Gifts and serving of their present ends I therefore have but an occasion took Thereby to mention somewhat yet unspoke A Nobler Cause concerning then mine own And whereon Words will better be bestown Wholly to GOD committing the success Make that the chief aim of what I express For hearing what is done by common Fame And partly knowing that oblig'd I am Not by my Nat'ral faculties alone On me conferred for that end or none But also by my Christianity And not a little by a Moral-Tie To speak and write and do the best I may To bring them who are out into their way And I le express what e're to that effect I do believe may tend without respect To Persons of a high or low degree Or any Powers on Earth who e're they be Councills and Parliaments and Soveraign Kings I do acknowledge to be Sacred things Whose Reputation whilst at least they are In being ought with conscientious care To be preserv'd because on them depends That which to publick woe or welfare tends Yet He from whom all Powers their Being had And they for whose sakes onely they were made Ought so to be preferr'd that nought be wav'd Whereby their dues and honours may be sav'd We have oft seen and felt in our own times That they of such Confusions and such Crimes Hath been the cause at least in letting in Much more destructive Plagues then all the Sin Of Privare Persons and that which we know Was heretofore may be hereafter so Yea may and will in every Age grow worse Unless there be provision of some course To regulate them and a free consession To Persons qualified with discretion To mind them of their duties who have dar'd When they to Publick places were prefer'd Imploy those Priviledges as their own Which were for Publick services bestown And often do abuse them to the wrong Of them to whom of right they do belong 'T is now high time that Earthly Kings Judges Should wiser grow and use their Peiviledges To better purposes then heretofore For his great Kingdom now is at the door Which will destroy those Empires that begun In NIMROD and through various forms did run Until the Tyrannies beginning than Shall have an end in that Misterious-man Who by the Dragon Scarlet-Whore and BEAST Though mystically truly is exprest Then shall those Tyrannies and Usurpations Whereby he long time hath opprest the Nations And therewith every Branch that sprung therefrom Unto an everlasting Ruine come Though some of them are seemingly Besainted And with fair shewes of Holiness Bepainted For I believe although it doth appear To few men yet Divine Records declare Aswell the Term of NIMROD'S Emperies As of Mysterious Babels Tyrannies Whose time Six hundred sixty six is known To number out and which must be ov'rthrown With that from whence it sprung when ripe 't is grown That to be All in all GOD may be known grown And as I've oft inferr'd they who belong To that new Empire which will then grow strong Shall now way need their Persons to ingage By violent Actings but to bear the rage Of their opposers with a patient heart For suff'ring onely will be their chief part And he who in the Assyrian hoast did smite Fourscore five thousand Persons in one night Shall by the Pow'r and vertue of his Word Perform that work without their hand or sword The CUP of Fornication so bewitches With love of Pleasures Honours and of Riches The great men of the Earth that they think none Are sober men unless they dote upon Those Vanities and prosecute those Ends To which their Policy and Power tends Until they grow as mad or drunk as they And then perhaps for wise men pass they may As David sayes They will not Understand They will not heed what GOD hath now in hand But obstinately still adhere to those Who tempt them on unto their ov'rthrowes Till Ruine comes For they are not aware How cheated by those Mountebanks they are Nor how those Parasites increase their store Ev'n to excess by making of them poor Nor heed they how these cause them to destroy Those men by whom they safety might enjoy With Love and Honour if they did not lend Their Ears to those who no Good-men befren'd They shut their Eyes and therefore cannot see Into what dangers they approaching be And those as much they hate who cross their will To save them as if they did come to kill That which they call the Reason of the State Too far insisted on is often that Which proves the bane of Kingdoms yet still Either false Prophets Priests or their self-will Therewith besots them though they have bin told What thereon hath ensu'd in times of old When Princes GOD's directions had despis'd And acted