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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
rest_n	holy_a	keep_v	sabbath_n	4,666	5	9.3913	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10706	The Irish hubbub, or, The English hue and crie briefly pursuing the base conditions, and most notorious offences of the vile, vaine, and wicked age, no lesse smarting then tickling : a merriment whereby to make the wise to laugh, and fooles to be angry / by Barnaby Rich ...	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1618 (1618)	STC 20989.7; ESTC S123522	50,488	68

but that a phantasticall attire is a plaine confirmation of a phantasticke minde But if I had as many mouthes as Argus had eyes I should yet want words to expresse the foolerie of new fashions the onely cloke whereby to patronize the franticke humors of this madding age is the multitude of madde men that doth vse them which now by custome are growne so familiar being practised by the multitude that if they were acted but by a few in number I thinke that if they themselues did but stand by to behold them they would account them to bee worse then madde that did so much affect them but yet in this deformitie of fashions it is commonly seene that wise-men doe sometimes follow fooles But of all occupations I will blesse my selfe from being a Taylor especially to any of those of the decayed Order for when the Taylor hath spent his wits to fit him in the new fashion which he must fetch from France Flanders Italy Spaine and that he hath shewne his skill in cutting pressing printing racing garding and stitching yet he sweares he hath spoild his garment And I cannot chuse but laugh to thinke how the poore Taylor must indure to bee call'd Rogue Rascall Foole Asse Prick-louse Botcher Bungler and to suffer the worshipfull Knight Sir Giles Goosecap to rage to raile and to sweare that his garment is marred hee hath cut it too long too short too wide too streight and he must be contented to indure all and glad to get him home with his bill in his pocket not daring to aske his money for a twelue-moneth after For a womans Taylor the best way to please my Lady is to haue some interest in her Chamber-maide It would be tedious to set downe what meanes hath bin vsed to draw in money for the supply of wares what great summes of money haue bin raised from the pride and excesse that hath bin vsed as well by men as by women in their garded garments their coloured silkes their gold and siluer lace and their such other superfluities If these exactions were now looked after I thinke it would draw deepe when Cloth of Gold is thought too simple vnlesse it be ornified with some rich imbroydery either of Gold or Pearle for otherwise he that his fathers best coat was but of home-spunne cloth doth disdaine to weare it Pride is now become the mother of deuotion for it driueth a number to Church that goe thither more to shew their brauery and to seeke precedence then they do to serue God The Sabboth day which the Almighty himself hath commanded especially to be kept holy that day aboue all the rest is most prophaned and God is more dishonoured with this monstrous sinne of pride vpon the Sabboth day then he was when Lucifer was first depriued from the ioyes of heauen If we keepe our dores shut vp during the time of the Sermon we thinke we haue done enough And there is a prouident care had if it were as carefully obserued that no Victualler in the time of Diuine Seruice should retaine in his house any drinking or disordred company Doe but now finde me out the Tauerne the Inne or the Alehouse where God is more dishonoured on the Sabboth day then he is in the Church it selfe and then at that very time whilest the Preacher is in the Pulpit Looke but vpon the abhominable pride that is there to be seene and thou wilt say it is fitter to prophane the Temple then to doe God honour The pride of this Age is greater then euer it was both in Nobles Knights and Gentlemen and as well in those that should giue good example as teach precepts in high and low rich and poore all sorts all degrees are excessiuely proud and as it were in despight of Religion to attire and pranke vp our selues in that pompe and excessiue pride as were fitter for a Brothell-house then for the house of God I would not be thought to be too generall in my words for God defend but there should be many good and godly disposed persons that doe frequent the Church that are no lesse zealously inclined then godly deuoted yet hee that should duely consider of the excesse that is vsed in superfluous vanities would rather iudge them to be the marks and monuments of a people that neuer heard of God then to be in vse and custom amongst Christians when they be seruing of their God We goe to Church indeed vpon the Sabboth and we say it is to seeke Christ but it is to seeke precedence to dispute of dignities to striue for places to contend who shall goe before and who shall follow after and therefore to mocke Christ rather then to seeke him Christ is to be sought in lowlinesse of heart and humblenesse of minde we must seeke him in feare and trembling in mourning garments lamenting and bewayling our sins and therefore let those counterfet hypocrites chuse whether they will be angry or pleased for I will laugh at them and giue them the Hubbub too that will say they goe to seeke Christ in pride and presumption We read in the holy Scriptures of three wise-men that came to seeke Christ the Papists would haue them to bee three Kings but did they come in my pompe or pride to seeke him It is written they gaue him gifts Gold Frankincense and Myrrh and this in the opinion of most learned Diuines was preordained by God himselfe to releeue the necessitie of Ioseph and Mary who were then presently to flie into Aegypt for the safetie of the childe IESVS whom Herod did seeke to murder We doe read of Zaccheus that came to seeke Christ and he was driuen to climbe a Figge tree but to get a sight of him the text saith he was rich but his apparell could not be sumptuous that was fit to climbe a tree Wee read againe of the Virgin Mary her selfe that for three dayes together had sought Christ whom in the end shee found amongst the Doctors in the Temple but doe you thinke she rode all this while in a Coach that shee went thus to seeke him Christ himselfe came to seeke vs when we were lost nay when we had lost ourselues and were sold vnder sinne but when he came to seeke vs and to saue the world did he shine in silke or glister in gold How is this world changed We cannot now goe to seek Christ but we must be clad in silke in sattin in veluet in cloth of siluer in cloth of gold Euery vnworthy Madam that her mother hath trudged many a mile on foote to goe to market shee cannot now goe to Church but in a Coach if it be but the length of a Bowling Alley The six dayes that God hath left vnto vs to follow our worldly businesses wee mis-spend them with many foule abuses but the Sabboth day that we reserue onely to shew our pride Thus vnder pretence of going to Church to serue God we goe to Church to mocke God and our comming home