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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	affection_n	heart_n	love_n	6,065	5	5.2645	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18952	A recantation of an ill led life, or, A discouerie of the high-way law with vehement disswasions to all (in that kind) offenders : as also many cautelous admonitions and full instructions, how to know, shun, and apprehend a theefe : most necessarie for all honest trauellers to per'use, obserue and practise / written by Iohn Clauell ... ; approued by the Kings Most Excellent Maiestie, and published by his expresse commaund.	Clavell, John, 1601-1643.	1628 (1628)	STC 5369.2; ESTC S1866	32,753	84

community vnto his wife Who but in her has neither soule nor life And giue me reasons why his should transcend The debt I owe to mine vnequall friend Then will I yeeld my dotage his loue rare And thus our obligations I compare First vnto you whose marriages intent Haue to the fortune of your choice extent More then the person or those faire deserts Which make the blessedst contracts of the hearts And loue the purchase more of her estate Then her perfections you ne're leaueld at You who were neuer caught with darting eies Whose best affections in her treasure lies And neuer had your soules with loue refin'd Peruerting the true vse of either kind Can yet in this your portions dotage not Exceed the Income I by mine haue got For when I was adiudg'd and doom'd to die She onely by strange importunitie Melted the hearts of all resolu'd against mee Who pittying her set my lifes danger free In this my life my fortune and my all I may her portion and her blessing call And last for other tyes which doe obliege Such as to loues faire fortresses lay siege The simpathizing liking and those parts Of loues religion which locks louers hearts Was throwne on me and these who can disproue Must either haue no heart or know no loue In pitty then to Citharaea's Shrine All you that sacrifice your thoughts diuine Since we are pleas'd let none our peace molest Nor breake the Vnion of so sweet a rest With nice inquiry after things you must Confesse you haue no businesse with that 's iust And we shall be if you but leaue vs so More happy then 't is fit for you to know ☞ Yet for my selfe beleeue I haue the sence Of mine owne youth's abusing and offence Which I haue wrought against the Common-weale Whose wounds by this relation I may heale If my aduice be follow'd you will see The soule vnlac'd of high-way subtiltie That who shall suffer now in such offence Has none to blame but his owne negligence I doe besides my pretious youth lament My reput's forfeit honours lauishment The deare mispences of my fairest time Conuerting all my blessings into crime My wit my Iudgement strength courage and all Vnto my Countries mischiefe mine owne fall Nor doe I thinke it halfe enough that I Barely confesse mine owne impiety And talking onely to the people shew Those guilts perhaps before I speake they know Or with a superficiall glosse thus seene To flatter men into a faire esteeme Of my best promis'd actions whose euent Might proue the speakers of a worse intent No naked as first Adam's Innocence I strip the deform'd shape of mine offence Dislodging from my heart that banisht spirit That can no dwelling there againe inherit And on iust cause diuorc'd from such a bride Can hardly now it 's memory abide Me thinkes thus purg'd I hate the very roome Which that vild Inmates lodging was become And as the bodies glorified scorne The thoughts of ioyes wherewith their frailty's borne Despising as it were the fullest things Which the dull earth to our admiring brings So my refined soule and my cleare minde Can in these vild companions no peace finde But troubled at the old acquaintance grow Thught-sick that e're such practice they did know Or as the Epicure whose working wish Is dreaming still vponsome curious dish On which his waking thoughts and sleepe imploy'd Are busily vntill it be enioy'd Which purchac'd his discretion is farre lesse Then was his couetere he did possesse For gluttonizing his o're-charged chest He neither can vngorge nor yet digest Till surfeited to death he loaths it more Then ere he did embrace or loue before So I whose easie youth with fond admire Was drawne at first this ill course to desire Hug'd it in dreames and in my waking fits Doted vpon 't to my worse losse of wits Whil'st esteem'd none braue or good but this But now I know how farre I was amisse And surfeited as 't were to death indeed From which by rare ingredients I am freed I loath my stomacke-queller and abhorre What I in too much louing sufferd for Nor can profession free me from the doome Of cruel'st censure and opinion These actuall ills of mine freely confess'd Must be in act recouer'd or exprest My faire intentions cannot be nor I Sau'd from the taxe of my first infamie ☞ O may my fate so well prouide as now That power which knowes may helpe me in my vow And crowne my resolutions with some way Which of the world and heauen recouer may All my lost honour by some acts of mine That may proue farre more welcome to the time Then my disastrous courses and expresse I am much better then I dare professe And that great king whose mercy goodnesse grace Hath fixt my tottering life in a firme place Whose royall bounty do's I know expect From my so great enioying some effect Which may a thankfull tribute pay to him And speake the full redemption of my sinne You mightie Sir to whom my life I owe As debt to that great grace you did bestowe May now command it prostrate at your feet In any danger I shall haste to meet That so by seruing in your enterprise You may perceiue how true a sacrifice I le make againe of what you gaue so free And that 's the offering must accepted bee I hope great Sir it is not your intent That I shall spend my dayes in Banishment For happier farre is he condemn'd that dies Then him you saue t'exile from your faire eies For what auailes the blinded man to see If that a dungeon must his prison bee Where doubly curs'd to be debarr'd from light He dwells that knew 't not whil'st he wanted sight O let me liue where euery day I may My most religious offrings truely pay And that the life you gaue me be not made A trouble to me whil'st my thoughts inuade My discontented soule with torments strange Not that I must my aire and Country change Or bard inheriting thereby forgoe The temporall fortunes I am borne vnto But that the Shryne I worship should not see The constant sacrifice is made by mee Me thinkes could doe more then common men For no such obligation strengthens them That my Prince might his owne great power know In seruice I could doe vpon his foe So let me liue that vent'ring so to die I pay my debt and suffer happilie Viuit post funera virtus FINIS To the Kings most excellent Maiestie Iohn Clauell wisheth a long and prosperous reigne in this and in the world to come a plenteous share of those peculiar blessings which God himselfe out of his wonderfull and abundant goodnes hath prouided and set apart euen for the choisest of his elect which are farre beyond the imagniation of mortall men to conceiue much more impossible to be expressed IT grieues my soule and wounds my troubled minde That onely I alone must be confinde When others are let loose that they may gaine The honour they haue lost whil'st my foule staine Blurres both my birth and fortunes had I dide My ignominious death had satisfide But to liue still and still to liue in shame Within the summons of vpbraiding fame Is a worse plague then euer Egypt had It may be thought I that haue beene so bad Cannot recant but very likely may Fall to my old rebellion on the way First let this treaty plead then here I call My God aboue to witnesse who knowes all The secrets of my heart I doe intend Whilst these your warres endure euen there to spend My time in that braue seruice when that ends If ● chance to suruiue I haue then friends And a poore fortune of my owne that can Fairely maintaine me like an honest man If so your Highnesse please that I may haue My gratious pardon you so freely gaue What is required of me I cannot pay If that the meanes wherewith be kept away Confinde within these walls is it your will That I a prisoner here continue still When I was past the cure and helpe of men You that could onely shielded me iust then When death had taken leuell with his dart Was it that I might feele this greater s●art O no I neuer since haue beg'd that boone But you great Sir haue granted it right soone Yet notwithstanding your most royall pleasure I am enforc'd to tarry others leasure Like Tantalus in this my hell I see And know the grace you haue bestowd on me But may not touch it and enioy much lesse The more 's my griefe and my vnhappinesse O free me from this lingring lethergie Set me at liberty or let me die

horses be That stand beyond him what their Masters are What kind of men whither they ride how farre And when so by his answeres they surmize Which of them all will be their likeliest prize Next of their Cloak-bags let him notice take They onely carry them for fashion'd sake For they are empty ones in pollicie Because their horses should not laden be Your Chamberlaine shall finde when as they come Vsher'd vp by him to their Lodging roome He shall be sent away let him giue eare And not to faile he shall be sure to heare The gingling of their money Let him pry Behind some secret Cranies priuily And he shall see them share what they haue got And euery one to take what is his lot This they by no meanes will deferre for feare Who has the purse should cheat them in the share This done they hug each other next they call Their rauish'd sences home and then withall They knocke againe for him who shall be sheut For not attending though enioyn'd he went Now must he draw a cup of curious Sacke Then next mine Hoast your company they lacke With farre-fetcht complements they will salute And bid you welcome marke from their dispute What you can gather you may somewhat guesse By their mens sawcy peremptorinesse For seruants when their Masters ills they know Cease their obedience and presumptious grow Enquire a part each ones particular name And let your seuerall seruants doe the same And you shall finde them tripping they well may Forget the new names that they tooke that day At supper time let some one hastily Knocke at your gate as with authority You shall obserue a sudden fearefull start Marke then their lookes the Index of the heart And you shall finde them troubled looke you sad And aske if yonder Constable be mad Bid them say quickly what their danger is Then promise no authority of his Shall enter there if they command it so By this into their priuate thoughts you go They will confesse for succour needs no more 'T is euident what you but thought before But say hereafter they should carelesse grow Then are they taken with the lesse adoe Now say they come about the noone of day You shall well know them by their needlesse stay Their carelesnesse of time for they but bait That they may stand at gaze and fitly wait For honest passengers when they haue spide A likely-moneyd booty by them ride Then will they bussle and make hast away With farre more speed then tedious was their stay And cry yon rides their Vncle or their friend With whom some earnest businesse they pretend When in an Inne they must all-night abide They cunningly sometimes themselues diuide And come as seuerall companies thereby To crosse the number in the Hue and Cry Besides thus parted they are sure to know If otherwise then well the squares should goe They of each other will no notice take Of you mine Host they will enquirie make What their companions are what Countrimen Whether you know them yea or no and then If they can finde you haue a Ielousie Shrewdly suspecting either company Hauing discouered your opinion With all conuenient speed they will get gone But if you doe as well you may mistake them And that for honest trauellers you take them They as by chance will in your kitchen meet And as meere strangers one another greet There will they drinke together ere they goe From thence so louing and so kinde they grow That they willsup togeather marke them well And you their cunning knauery shall smell Still strangers to each other will they bee Whil'st any of your house are there to see But see and be not seene and you shall finde Them all familiar in another kinde They will Embrace reioyce laugh at their plot And at mine Host that he suspects it not The fairest Innes they vsually frequent Out of a wary-politicke intent Presuming for disparaging the man They will not search his howse and there they can Rest vnmolested but since this you know Let not the subtile theefe escape you so ☞ Loe here I haue vnclasp'd this obscure booke And full Quotations on those secrets tooke That the plaine eye of Iudging reason may Discouer such abuses of the way And as 't is said that true repenters must Their secret sinnes and all ills from them thrust Lest the vild tainture of one crime behinde Contaminate againe the sinfull minde Thus haue I left no nooke no cranny small Which men may cunning or pernicious call Vn-open'd here before the curious day As cleere and plaine as is the Champion way No act or vse which theeues discouer might No Art to make the honest know them right Lest by retaining ought it might be deem'd My true recanting is not what it seem'd But marke my cautions well and you will know That these way-riflers must some new way goe Imagination or their practice yet Could neuer reach to or before you set Preuention of their worst assaults their drifts In their attempt and their best scaping shifts Nor can I feare but since so freely I Haue here dissected such impietie Anatomizing euery hidden Nerue That for the strength of such occasions serue The charitable world will hence allow That I those men and actions disauow I make so plaine and hatefull nor againe Will I my honour in those puddles staine Nor can it be suppos'd by enuie that Any relap's of mine be aimed at For mine owne writ must then in Iudgement stand And signe me vnto death mine owne false hand The Iurie and the Iudge in Euidence Shall no enquiry need for mine offence This booke alone against all pittie 's plea Turnes all excuse into Apostrophe Whil'st dumbe as death with double shame I must ' Count both my ruine and my sentence iust Now let detracting censure pawse and stay And turne rank'rous spleenes another way And know that now in Censure they doe more Then I haue done in all the rest before When my determin'd Innocence shal bee A Iudge seuere against their cruelty ☞ And such whose most vnnecessary eye Into forbidden acts of others pry And when the man they curiously haue read Must then attempt the secrets of his bed To poyson all his blessings nicely draw The Curtaines whose concealings no man saw Without a rude intruding for the bed Of lawfull couples being iniured By base detractions leades that troubled sence Into the fullest foulnesse of offence And so my pillowes partner to whose truth I owe the best reforming of my youth As if she must be sharer of my wrongs Though ne're arraign'd was yet condemn'd by tongs As if of force because shee 's mine she must In spight of all her vertue be vniust But I imagine rather this surmize Doth from the common ground of ill arise Or from that Enuy Sathan left behind When he infected our first mothers mind Shew me the man whose tendrest dearest loue And whose affection in a straine doth moue Beyond