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
A02160	A quip for an vpstart courtier: or, A quaint dispute betvveen veluet breeches and cloth-breeches Wherein is plainely set downe the disorders in all estates and trades.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 12301A.3; ESTC S105865	42,290	48

in his stomack a month after Beside sir veluet bréeches hath aduan●…t him for whereas in my time he was counted but goodman Taylor now hee is growne since veluet bréeches came in to bee called a marchant or Gentleman Marchant Taylor geuinge armes and the holy Lambe in his creast where before hee had no other cognisance but a plaine spanish néedle with a welsch cricket on the top ●…ith then his gaine is so greate and his honour so aduaunst by veluet bréeches I will not trust his conscience nor shall he come vppon my Iury. Indéed you haue some reason quoth I but perhaps the Tailor doth this vpon méer deuotion to punish pride and hauing no other authority nor meane thinkes it best to pinche them by the purse and make them pay well as to aske twise so much silke lace and other stuffe as would suffice and yet to ouer reach my yong ma●…ster with a bill of rekoning that will make him scratche where it itcheth not Heerein I hold the Taylor for a necessary member to teach yoonge nouices the way to wéeping crosse that when they haue wasted what their 〈◊〉 left thē by pride they may grow sparing humble by inferred pouertie by this reason the Tailor plaies Gods part ●…e ●…ralteth the poore and pulleth downe the proud For of a wealthy Esquiers sonne hée makes a thréedbare beggar and of a scornefull Tailor he sets by an vpstart scaruy Gentleman Yet seeing you haue made a reasonable challeng to him the Tailor shall be none of the quest As I bad him stand by there was comming alongst the valley towardes vs square set fellow well fed and as briskly apparelled in a blacke taffaty dublet and a spruce leather ierkin with Christall buttons A cloake facst afore with veluet and a couentry cap of the ●…nest wooll his face something Ru●…y blush Cherry cheeked like a shreed of scarlet or a little darker like the lées of old claret wine a nose autem nose purpled pretiously with pearle and stone like a counterseit worke and betwéene the filthy reumicast of his bludshot ten snowt there appeared smal holes whereat wormes heads peeped as if they meant by their appearance to preach and shewe the antientie and antiquity of his house This fiery facst churle had vpon his fingers as many goldrings as would furnish a gold smiths shop or beséeme a pandor of long profession to weare wondring what companion this should be I inquired of what occupation he was marry sir quoth hee a Broker why doo you aske haue you any pawnes at my house No quoth I nor by the helpe of God neuer wil haue but the reason is to haue you vppon a Iury. At this word before I could enter my discourse vnto him veluet bréeches start vp and swore hee should bee none of the quest he would challeng him and whye quoth I what knowe you by him This base churle is one of the moathes of the common wealth he is the spoile of yoong Gentlemen a bloud sucker of the poore as thirsty as a horsse leach that will neuer leaue drinking while hee burst a knaue that hath intrest in the leases of forty bawdy houses a receiuer for lifts and a dishonourable supportet of cutpurses to conclude hee was gotten by an Incubus a he Deuill brought forth by an ouerworne refuse that had spent her youth vnder the ruines of Bowbies Barne O monstrous inuectiue quoth I what reason haue you to be thus bitter against him Oh the villane quoth he is the Deuills factor sent from hell to torment yong Gentlemen vpon earth he hath fetcht me ouer in his time onely in pawnes in ten thousand pound in gold Suppose as Gentlemen through their liberall mindes may want that I néed money let me come to him with a pawne worth tenne pound he stil not lend vpon it aboue thrée pound and he will hane a bill of sale and twelue pence in the pound for euery month so that it comes to ●…ixteene pence sith the bill 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 sold you turnd out of your goods and hee an vnconscio●…able gainer Suppose the best you keepe your day yet paying sixtene pense a month for twēty shillings you pay as good for the lone as fower score in the hundred is not this monstrous exacting vpon Gentlemen Beside the knaue wil be diligently attending aud waiting at dicing houses where we be at plaie and there he is ready to lend the loaser money vppon rings and chaines apparell or any other good pawne but the poore Gentleman paies so deere for the lauender it is laid vp in that if it lie long at a brokers house he séemes to buy ●…is apparell twise nay this worme eaten wretch hath deeper pytfalls yet to intrap youth in for hee being acquainted with a yoong Gentleman of 〈◊〉 ●…uing in issue of good parents or assured possibillity sooths him in his monstrous expences sayes he carries the minde of a Gentleman promising if he want he shall not lacke for a hundred pound or two if the Gentleman need then hath my broker an vsurer at hand as it as himselfe and he brings the money but they tie the poore soule in such Darbies bandes what with receiuing il commodities and forfcitures vppon the bande that they dub him sir Iohn had lande before they leaue him and ●…are like wolues the poore nouices welth betwi●…t them as a pray he is sir to be breefs a bowsie bawdy miser good for none but himselfe and his trugge a carle that hath a filthy 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 enimie to all good mindes a deuourer of yoong Gentlemen and to conclude my mortall enimis and therefore admit of my chaleng and let him be none of the iurie Truly qd Cloth breeches and I am willing he should be discarded too for were not bad brokers I wil not condemn al 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 gaine blinds their conscience and they care not how it be come by so they buy it cheaps Beside they extorte vppon the poore that are inforced through extreame want to pawne their cloathes and housholde stuffs their pewter and brasse and if the poore soules that labour hard ●…isse but a day the base minded broker takes the forfeite without remorse or pitty it was not so in Diebus illis but thou proud vpstart Ueluet-bréeches hast learnd all Englishmen their villany and all to mainetaine thy brauery yea I haue knowne of late when a poore woman laid a siluer thimble that was sent her from her friends for a tokē to pawn for six pence the broker made her pay a halfpeny a