Selected quad for the lemma: spirit_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	body_n	sin_n	soul_n	13,963	5	5.3517	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02159	A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute betvveen veluet breeches and clothbreeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12300; ESTC S105869	42,418	58

sparing and humble by inferred pouerty and by this reason the Taylor plaies Gods part he exalteth the poore and pulleth downe the proud For of a wealthy Esquires sonne hee makes a thredbare beggar and of a scornefull Taylor he sets vp an vpstart scuruy Gentleman Yet seeiing you haue made a reasonable challenge to him the Taylor shall be none of the quest As I bad him stand by there was comming alongst the valley towards vs a square set fellowe well fedde and as briskly apparelled in a black taffata doublet and a spruce leather ierken with Christall buttons A cloake facst afore with veluet and a Couentry cap of the finest wooll his face something Ruby blush Cherry cheeked like a shredde of scarlet or a little darker like the lees of olde claret wine a nose autem nose purphled pretiously with pearle stone like a counterfait work and betweene the filthye reumy-cast of his bloudshotten snowt there appeared small holes whereat wormes heads peeped as if they meant by theyr appearance to preach and shew the antientie and antiquity of his house This fiery facst churle had vpon his fingers as many gol rings as would furnish a goldsmiths shop or beseem a pandor of long profession to were wondring what companion this would be I inquiret of what occupation hee was marry sir quoth hee a Broker why doo you aske haue you any pawnes at my house No quoth I nor by the help of God neuer wil haue but the reason is to haue you vpon a Iury. At this word before I could enter my discourse vnto him veluet bréeches start vp and swore he should be none of the quest he would challenge him and whye quoth I what know you by him This base churle is one of the moathes of the Common wealth he is the spoile of yong gentlemen a bloud sucker of the poore as thirsty as a horsse leach that will neuer leaue drinking while he burst a knaue that hath interest in the leases of forty bawdy houses a receiuer for lifts and a dishonourable supporter of cutpurses to conclude he was gotten by an Incubus a he Deuill brought forth by an ouer worne refuse that had spent hir youth vnder the raines of Bowbies Barne O monstrous inuectiue quoth I what reason haue you to be thus bitter against him Oh the villaine quoth he is the Deuils factor sent from hell to torment yong Gentlemen vpon earth he hath fetcht me ouer in his time onely in pawnes in ten thousand pounde in golde Suppose as Gentlemen through their liberall minds may want that I need money let me come to him with a pawne worth ten pound he wil not lend vpon it aboue thrée pounde and hee wil haue a bill of sale and twelue pence in the pound for euery month so that it comes to sixtéene pence sith the byll must monthly be renewed and if you breake but your day set downe in the bill of sale your pawne is loste as full bought and solde you turnd out of your goodes and hee an vnconscionable gainer Suppose the best you kéepe your day yet paying sixteen pence a month for twenty shillings you pay as good for the lone as foure score in the hundreth is not this monstrous exacting vpon Gentlemen Beside the knaue will be diligently attending and waiting at dicing houses where we be at play and there hee is readye to lend the looser money vpon rings and chaines apparell or any other good pawne but the poore gentleman paies so deere for the lauender it is layd vp in that if it lie long at a brokers house he seemes to buy his apparell twise nay this worme eaten wretch hath deeper pitfals yet to trap youth in for he being acquainted with a yoong gentleman of faire liuing in issue of good parents or assured possibilitie sooths him in his monstrous expenses saies he carries the mind of a gentleman promising if he want he shall not lack for a hundred pound or two if the gentleman néed then hath my broker an vsurer at hand as ill as himselfe and he bringes the monie but they tie the poore soule in suche Darbies bands what with receiuing ill commodities and forfeitures vpon the band that they dub him sir Iohn had-lande before they leaue him and share like wolues the pore nouices welth betwixt them as a pray he is sir to be bréefe a bowsie bawdie miser good for none but himselfe and his trugge a carle that hath a filthie carkasse without a conscience a body of a man wherein an infernall spirit in steed of a soule dooth inhabit the scum of the seuen deadly sinnes an enemie to all good minds a deuourer of yoong gentlemen and to conclude my mortall enimie and therefore admit of my challenge and let him be none of the iurie Truly qd Cloth bréeches and I am willing he should bee discarded too for were not bad brokers I will not condemne all there would be lesse filching and fewer theeues for they receiue all is brought them and buy that for a Crowne that is worth twentie shillings desire of game blinds their conscience and they care not how it be come by so they buy it cheape Beside they extorte vpon the poore that are inforced through extreame want to pawne their cloathes and houshold stuffe their pewter and brasse and if the poore soules that labour hard misse but a day the base minded broaker takes the forfeit without remorse or pitie it was not so in Diebus illis but thou proude vpstart Veluet breeches hast learnd all Englishmen their villanie and all to maintayne thy brauerie yea I haue knowne alate when a poore woman layd a siluer thimble that was sent hir frō hir friends for a token to pawne for six pence and the broker made hir pay a halfpeny a wéeke for it which comes to two shillings a yere for six pence sith then his conscience is so bad let him be shuffled out amongst the knaues for a discarding carde Content qd I and bad the broker stand backe when there were euen at my héeles thrée in a cluster pert youths al and neatly tired I questiond them what they were and the one sayd he was a barber the other a surgion the third an Apoticarie How like you of these qd I shal they be of your iurie Of the iurie qd Clothbreeches neuer a one by my consent for I challenge them all your reason qd I and then ye shal haue my verdict Mary qd Clothbreeches first to the barber he can not be but a partiall man on veluet bréeches side sith he gets more by one time dressing of him than by ten times dressing of me I come plain to be polde to haue my beard cut and pay him two penc veluet bréeches he sits down in the chaire wrapt in fine cloaths as though the barber were aboute to make him a foot-cloth for the vickar of saint fooles then begins he to take his sissars in his hand and his combe