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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	life_n	power_n	6,331	5	4.8831	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05324	The young gallants whirligigg; or Youths reakes Demonstrating the inordinate affections, absurd actions, and profuse expences, of vnbridled and affectated youth: with their extravagant courses, and preposterous progressions, and aversions. Together with the too often deare bought experience, and the rare, or too late regression and reclamation of most of them from their habituall ill customes, and vnqualified manners. Compiled and written by F.L.	Lenton, Francis, fl. 1630-1640.	1629 (1629)	STC 15467; ESTC S109400	9,805	34

being aspired to his vtmost pride Each full must have a wane as ebb a tide For hauing by a thousand subtle hookes Squeezed for friends scribled in Mercers bookes Perceiuing his decay they summon straight Their wits together and doe lie in waite By the deuils engins to depriue him quite Both of his libertie and his delight And ere hee can behold his wofull case He is immured in some wretched place This Butterfly with all his garish tyre Now melteth like the snow against the fire This Grashopper that th' other day was seene Capring within his curious silken greene Singing shrill notes vnto the summers praise Neuer expected crabbed winter daies Till chilling Autumne with his falling leaues Shriuels his body and his hope deceiues His silken garments and his sattin robe That hath so often visited the Globe And all his spangled rare perfum'd attires VVhich once so glistred in the Torchy Fryers Must to the Broakers to compound his debt Or else be pawned to procure him meate Now debt on debt they doe accumulate Vpon his carefull body and estate Vowing reuenge vpon his carkasse there Sorrowing onely that they did forbeare So long a time but now the very stones VVill pitty him before they heare his moanes Nor are his Creditors alone obdure But euen his Copesmates whom he thought so sure Shall shrinke like slimy snailes into the shell Whilst he his plaints vnto the walls doth tell Whose friendship was ingendred by the Sun Reflecting on their base corruption Nay more his bosome friends whose neer relation Should ne'er admit of any separation Come slowly on as sorry for his griefe But haue not wherewithall to yeeld reliefe And as the nature of the world is such To giue the needlesse and the needy grutch So this deiected man borne to this fate As if thereto hee were predestinate Is now deny'd who in his prosperous dayes Did winter them that winke at his decayes For now the equall Iustice of the Time Requires each man to keepe within his clime For if hee straggle from his limits farre Except the guidance of some happy starre Doe rectifie his steps restore his losse He may perhaps come home by weeping crosse Now doth his soule begin to gather light Which makes his vnderstanding farre more bright Now doth the filme of his obscured soule Weare off and manly Reason doth controle The vagrant VVill and thirsting Appetite Yeelding vnto the Soule her due and right Now is his braine more solid and more dry By apprehension of his miserie And not so apt to fancies wandering That ne'er remaineth firme in any thing Now with his heart hee wisheth that hee had But two full yeares of those which were so bad But all too late for time doth alwayes passe But ne're imployes a retrograding glasse Now he commends the Bee though void Reason That hoards in summer for the winter season Admiring much the fabricke of their Cell And how they fortifie that Cittadell A wonder t is to see what they inuent Both for their lodging food and gouernment For as some graue Philosophers haue showne Each Bee eates nought but that which is her owne O! thinkes hee now had I but kept my store I needed not my carelesnesse deplore Or had my younger daies afforded wit To spend no more then what I now thinke fit Had no insinuating Droanes come neere My plentious hiue I neuer had come here Another while he lookes vpon the Ant Sees her great plenty feeles his greater want Admires her prouidence that laboured still Her winter barnes in summer time to fill Wonder of Nature hater of all sloath The most laborious though of smallest growth Lastly lookes backe with a deiected eye Vpon his pampred daies sports libertie His midnight reuels and abundant wine He sacrificed vnto Bacchus shrine His bowles of Nectar fill'd vp to the brim In which he to his Marmosite did swim His Oysters Lobstars Cauiare and Crabs With which he feasted his contagious drabs Oringoes Hartichoakes Potatoe pies Prouocatiues vnto their luxuries His Musickes Consort and a cursed crue That vs'd drinke vntill the ground look'd blew Mongst painted Sepulchers that loue excesse Who inwardly are full of rottennesse Thus when he viewes with a more perfect sight His shining morne turn'd to a gloomy night And all his glory pompe and vaine expence To haue their due reward and recompence Then bursting forth with acclamation He blames this wicked generation Cursing his follies and the subtle snares That in his darknes caught him vnawares Being forced now thorow his owne decay To wish the fragments erst he threw away To quench his thirst with that inebrious cup VVhich indigested hee had belched vp As if the heauenly power had thus ordain'd Profuse expence should be with want restrain'd And marke the vnresisted hand of heauen That whatsoever Talent it hath giuen Of wit or wealth it is to some good end To praise his God or to relieue his friend But he that still in idle waste is found Is worse then hee that hid it in the ground I that haue sense of blessings and of woe In my lifes compasse yet did neuer know An Epicurious and disordred minde VVant his affliction in the selfe-same kinde For drunkennesse they thirsting haue acquir'd And wanted meate when they haue much desir'd In stead of health by Feuers they shall melt For wandring want of liberty is felt Thus euery act hath its opposing ill Inflicted on it by the Highest will This Gallants circuit and Itineration Is almost finisht in a lower station VVhose meagre body pinde away with griefe For want of seasonable friends reliefe Howerly watcheth when the day shall come To lay his body in an earthly tombe Yet oftentimes hope doth awake his spirit And tells him one day yet hee shall inherit His freedome and release which being done Another course he doth intend to run So moderate and graue that by the power Of him that sits in the immortall tower His second life hatcht by supernall fire Cooperating with a true desire To rectifie his former follies past Shall make him shine a brighter star at last Epilogue YOu blyth yong Rufflers that do looke so big Laugh at the precepts of this Whirligigg Mock on with fasetie both your selues me Foster your pleasures whilst the golden tree Beares fruit enough glory in what you may Till lusty youth is vanished away Sport like the wanton Flie about the light Vntill your glorious wings be burned quite Dance like the fish vpon the gentle brooke Vntill you swallow both the baite and hooke Play with the Pitfall till you vnaware Are clapt vp fast or tangled in a snare Doe what you please no counsell I le bestow On those whose pregnant wits doe ouer-flow But leaue them to the mercie of their Fate To know themselues before it be too late For this by true experience I doe finde Misery the salue to cure a haughty minde This Epitaph if any doe deny May one day proue his weeping Elegie Desine plura puer quod nunc instat agamus Carmina tum melius cum venerit ipse canemus nam quis iniquae Tam patiens vrbis tam ferreus vt teneat se. 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