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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
order_n	age_n	charge_n	great_a	59	3	2.1184	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04569	The pilgrimage of man, vvandering in a vvildernesse of vvoe wherein is shewed the calamities belonging to man being borne in this world, and how all the principall estates thereof are crossed with misery.	Johnson, Richard.	1635 (1635)	STC 14691.7; ESTC S2158	18,352	32

swéet showers of Raine we shall find that there falleth much Haile But with reuerence now I craue pardon of all vertuous Women that with patience I may discouer my intent and that my presumption may not gaine the least frowne from their chast browes for to the vicious I speake and not to them whose breasts harbours the liberall Fountaine of vertue and wisdome The Athenians being a people much cōmended for their prudence and wisedome séeing that Husbands and Wiues could not agrée because of an infinite number of dissensions that chanced betweene them were constrained to ordaine certaine Magistrates in their Countrey whom they called Reconcilers of married ones the office of whom was to set agreement betweene the husband and the wife The Spartanes and Romanes had also such like Lawes and orders amongst them so great was the insolence and rashnes of some women towards their husbands In this age there are but few I thinke can beare patiently the charges of marriage or can endure the vnbridled rage of some women and to speake truth without flattery if thou takest her rich thou makest thy selfe a bondslaue for thinking to marry thine equall thou marriest a commanding Mistresse If thou takest her foule thou canst not loue her If thou takest her faire it is an Image at thy gate to bring thée company Beauty is a Tower that is assayled of all the world therefore it is a hard thing to kéep that where euery one séeketh to haue the key Then this is the conclusion Riches causes a woman to be proud Beauty maketh her suspected and hard fauour causeth her to be hated Therefore Hyponactes hauing tasted the martyrdomes of marriage sayed that there was but two good dayes in all the life of marriage Whereof the one was the wedding day vpon which is made good chéere the Bride fresh and faire and of all pleasures the beginning is most delectable The other good day is when the woman dieth for then the husband is out of bondage and thraldome Yet for all this a woman is to man a necessary euill and one whom he cannot well liue without Seeing that there is nothing more harder to find in this world than a good Woman a good Mule and a good Goate who are three vnhappy Beasts And to conclude there is nothing more lighter than a womans tongue vnbridled more piercing than her outragious words more to be feared than her boldnesse more cruell than her malice nor more dangerous than her fury Besides many other hurtfull discommodities of their huswiferie which for this time I passe ouer and so returne to our former discourse CHHP. VIIJ. Of the worlds generall misery and the vices of all sorts in the Communalty OF all the miseries that hapneth to man in this Pilgrimage of woe these hereafter following are the greatest Of which Nature her selfe hath complained vnto God who saith that man for euery Uice hath a cloake of Uertue to couer it as for example those that wound and kill one another we call them hardy and strong and we say that they haue a regard to honour and therefore deserue commendation They that violate Women and rauish Uirgins we call that bearing of loue Those that are proud and seeke by all vnlawfull meanes to climbe vp to high Dignities we call them honourable graue and men of ripe iudgement Those that are couetous and beguile their neighbours by crafty subtilties and inuentions and so in short time become rich those they call good husbands and men that will séeke to liue besides many other vices which are shadowed vnder the mantle of Uertue the which is one principall cause that so many miseries do fal vpon the world and to speake truth the whole earth is drowned in sinne that it séemeth to be the sinke wherein all the wickednesse of the former age hath béen emptied Who euer saw the sin of Couetousnesse more déeper rooted in the world than at this present day for all the Cities Prouinces and Kingdomes of the earth be very shops and storehouses of Couetousnesse and Auarice this is the world which the Prophets did foreshew that men ioyne house to house and land to land as though themselues would alone dwell vpon the earth Couetousnes is the wel spring of miseries for from thence procéedes warre and destruction and the great effusion of blood with the which the earth is ouerflowne from Couetousnes procéed Murders Treasons Thefts Usuries Forswearings the corruption of Witnesses and peruerting of Iudgements From Couetousnesse the tedious delayes in Law and lingering of sutes do procéed and to be short from thence commeth all wickednesse This grieuous sinne is growne so familiar amongst men that many liue without mercy in such sort that now we may see the stréetes full of poore Beggars naked and clad with pouerty with an infinite number of banished women driuen out of their Countries bearing their children in their armes wanting that which couetous men hoord vp with such cares that they make it their God and will rather let a poore body dye at their gates than refresh him with food Therefore let vs now leaue these wicked men Idolaters of their treasures with the couetous rich man mentioned in the holy Scripture and speake of an other vice which is called Enuy the malady wherewith many mindes in this new world is grieuously afflicted The time is now come that the whole earth is nothing but a very place of the Enuious a vice which is the oldest of all vices hath bin vsed in the worlds infancy the experience thereof was approued in the first age of Adam and the Serpent in Abel and Cain in Iacob and Esau in Ioseph and his brethren in Saul and Dauid in Hammon and Mardocheus the which pursued not one another for their riches but for the enuy that the one bore to the other But all this is nothing to the Enuy which is vsed amongst men at this day which wicked Uice not only reigneth amongst the common sort but also amongst the higher for when they are mounted to the top of Fortunes whéele and thinke peaceably to enioy the fauour of Princes behold sodainely the Enuy of some other conspires against them and causeth them to be disdained cast out of fauor Therefore I thinke there is no other meanes for to auoid Enuy but to auoid dignity and rule the reason is that we are the children of enuy and he that leaueth most goods leaueth most Enuy. For this cause the Elders counselled the Rich that they should not dwell neare the Poore nor the Poore neare the Rich for the one are enuied for their Wealth and the other for their Pouerty Here will we now leaue this grieuous sin of Enuy and a little glaunce at the ambitious Pride that reigneth amongst vs. Who euer saw such excessiue Pride in all estates as we sée at this present whereby we may well name this world a world of glistering Gold of Siluer and Ueluet of Purple of Silke with the