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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
B07677	The schoole of good manners. Or, A new schoole of vertue. Teaching children & youth how they ought to behaue themselues in all companies, times, and places. / Translated out of French. By W.F..; ABC ou instruction pour les petis enfans. English. 1595	Phiston, William.	1595 (1595)	STC 10922.5; ESTC S92539	28,539	81

and placed them in their beings and which gouernest all thy creatures according to thy good plesure Looke mercifully I beseech thee on mee that am the work of thine own hands And as it hath pleased thee of thy great louing kindnes to keepe saue and defend me from the manifold dangers of this night past for the which I yeeld vnto thine excellent Maiestie all due humble and heartie thankes so let it bee thy good pleasure to keepe and defend me this daye and euermore from all euils both of soule and bodie Be thou my protector my guide and my soueraigne Lord and Gouernor Graunt O Lord that as the night of darknes is now past and the cleare day-light doth appeare so I maie by thy gracious assistaunce learne to cast off all darknes of wickednes error and ignorance and haue my soule and vnderstanding more and more lightned with true faith wisedome godlie knowledge Let thy holie spirite bee my instructer and chiefe teacher which is able to lead me into all truth Make mee deere father apt to conceiue and diligent to practise whatsoeuer good and vertuous documents shall be taught me by my parents schoolmasters or wise elders Keepe stubbornnes and disobedience farre from me but make me delighted in that which is good that I maie with all patience and dutifulnes be readie to encline my heart to all wise and godlie precepts And forasmuch as both naturall dutie bindeth me to be mindfull of the weale and prosperitie of the Prince and Magistrates vnder whose protection I liue in safetie as also for my parents and frends whome thou hast giuen to be the authors of my life nourishment and maintenance and for that also Christian charitie bindeth me to be carefull of the good of all Christians in generall yea and to praie that still moe maie dailie be added to the Church I therfore for them all euen as for my selfe doo beseech thee to extend forth thine aboundant mercies to euerie one in his place that they maie liue die to thy glorie their owne saluation concluding with that holie and perfect praier which thine onelie sonne Christ Iesus hath taught vs saying Our Father c. A praier to be said of children at euening before they goe to bed O Lord God our most gracious heauenly Father I most humbly thanke thee for thine vnspeakable mercies bountie shewed me at al times hitherto and namely for keping me this daie past in thy fatherly protection defending me from all euills and bestowing on me cōforts necessarie both for my soule bodie O Lord now that the darke night is come which is a signe of horrour death and woe and that I am to lye sleepe on my bed which is an image of the graue wherein my bodie after thys life is like to rest let thy holye spirite so guard protect direct and comfort me that neither terrours of conscience assaults of Sathan suggestions to sin fleshly concupiscence idle sloathfulnes nor fearfull dreames may trouble me but that sleeping waking my soule minde and spirit may wholly be meditating on thy precepts and maye still awaite to attend to doo thy will that I may learne to die vnto sinne and liue vnto righteousnes my rising in the morning may put me in hope of the rising to euerlasting life Grant this to mee and to all thy Church for Christes sake In whose name c. Euerie creature of God is made holie vnto vs by his word and praier 1. Ti. 4.5 A Praier before meate WE humbly beséech thée O heauenlie Father to forgiue vs all our sinnes and to blesse vs and these thy good giftes which we receiue from thée through Iesus Christ VVhen thou hast eaten art full thou shalt blesse the Lord thy God A praier or a grace after meate O Lord we beséech thée to make vs thankfull for these and all other thy benefites bestowed vppon vs miserable sinners but specially for thy holy word and our redemption by Iesus Christ Amen Tvvo other praiers for morning and euening made by a zealous and learned minister of Gods word Morning praier VVatche and pray least yee enter into temptation Mat. 26.41 O Most mightie God our heauenly merciful father we most wretched sinners humbly confesse vnto thy Maiestie that all good things we haue do come from thy onely mercy that we are most vnworthy of them yet altogether vnable heartily to pray for the continuance thereof yet seeing thy deare sonne Iesus Christ hath commaunded vs in his name to pray and that with assurance to speede and to be heard we beseech thee for his sake to prepare our hearts by thy holy spirite to put out of our mindes all wordly things and vaine fansies and to stirre vs vp earnestly to consider what great neede we haue of thy continuall help both in our soules and bodies O Lorde we haue through our manifolde sinnes deserued thy wrath and eternall damnation of body and soule yet by the vertue of the great sufferings of Iesus Christ and the shedding of his precious bloud forgiue wash away al our offences we are vnworthy of thy fauour either in this life or in the life to come yet through his holinesse receiue vs vnto mercy and make vs heires of thy blessed kingdome and so increase in our hearts euery day vnfained repentance for our former wickednesse in that we haue neither worshipped thy Maiestie nor liued towards others according to thy worde Strengthen our faith O Lord in Iesus Christ for the forgiuenes of our sinnes and for thy tender mercy sake powre into our hearts the grace of thy holy spirite which may stir vp in vs a more hartie loue vnto thee and thy blessed word that by it we may learne to worship thee aright to liue faithfully and truly towards all men in our callings striuing continually against all sinne chiefly in our selues and then also in others so that whensoeuer it shall please thee to call any of vs out of this short and sinfull life we may willingly deliuer vp our soules into thy blessed kingdome and may come with ioy as louing children to thee our heauenly and mercifull father O Lord make vs thankefull for all thy corrections giuing vs grace by them to feare thee more carefully and to sorrow for our sinnes more hartily Make vs also thankefull for all thy benefits namely for the sweete sleepe and quiet rest whereby thou hast this night refreshed vs we beseech thee now in like maner O gracious God for Christes sake to receiue vs this day into thy blessed keeping preserue vs from all perils and dangers from sinne from the wicked cares of this life and the vaine desires of the flesh shining into our hearts by the grace of thy holy spirit and the true knowledge of Iesus Christ the true light of the world that we may guide all our thoughts words and deeds according to the same and walke painefully and truely in our callings to the

thée an apple or such like thou maist not stand eating the same before the table but bestow it till afterward neither mayst thou gaze stedfastly on such iunkets as thou séest and likest there much lesse mayst thou stare on those that sit and eate but be attentiue and readie to serue what shall bee called for When dinner is done and thou willed to take away first couer the salt if it bee not couered before then take away the frute dishes in order the last serued first and so on and lastly the chéese But beware of catching for figs comfets or such daintie things before the table bee voyded and grace said When chéese and all is voyded set on the table a faire voyding charger making therewith a legge then with thy trencher-knife take vp the trenchers putting them into the voyder one after another beginning at the vpper part of the messe first and with the same trencher-knife gather al the crummes and fragments into the voyder and still lay or deliuer away the table napkins as thou gettest them all saue one which thou shalt hang on thy left arme When thou hast thus gathered into the voyder all the crums and scraps bring downe the voider lower and with the table napkin that hanged on thine arme holding the one end thereof in thy right hand and the other in the left take with thy right hand the loues from the salt one by one put them in the voider but so as the end of the table napkin be betwéene the bread and thy hand lastly take the salt as thou diddest the loaues with thy right and holding the same on the right side of the voider with that end of thy table napkin and hauing before laide the voiding knife on the top of the voider draw ouer the other end of the napkin with thy left hand and so lifting vp the voider with both hands make obeisance and carry it away then returne and folde vp first both the sides of the table cloth then the ends and so turning it thrée or foure double drawing it towarde thée downeward take it of making a lowe leg looking toward the cheefe at the table In honorable and some worshipfull houses the salt and voiding knife is taken away solemnly alone after the voider But this shall suffice for the meaner sort After the table cloth is taken away attend till the companie be silent then with a sober countenance and iesture after thou hast made obeisance begin to say grace A grace or praier before meate O Lord God almightie and father most mercifull which giuest all good things and blessest all that is blessed blesse vs we beséech thée and all thy good benefits ordained by thée to our comfort Giue vs grace thankfully to receiue them moderately to vse them and to be bettered by inioying of them Vouchsafe also to saue prosper and preserue thy Church vniuersall our Quéene and this realme and send vs true peace both of conscience and of bodily state and a right vnity in religion thorough Iesus Christ our Lord and Sauiour Amen A grace or thankesgiuing after meate WE yéelde thée most humble and hearty thankes O God of all graces and father most fauourable for this our good refreshing and all other thy infinite bounties bestowed most mercifully on vs. Féed vs also we pray thée with the foode of thy holy spirite that we may dayly grow stronger and stronger in true faith godlinesse and vertue Vouchsafe also to saue prosper and preserue thy Church vniuersall our Quéene and this Realme and send vs true peace both of conscience and of bodily state and a right vnity in religion through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Of manners at play PLay is to be vsed for sport at some times and for to refresh the spirites and make the bodie more healthie and actiue it is not to be vsed as an occupation It is said that the naturall disposition of a childe is most easily to be séene in play whether he be giuen to pride lying anger strife selfe will deceipt or what other vertue or vice Be thou therefore in play gentle plesant iust and frendly remembring that thou playest to exercise thy bodie and delight thy minde and by contention and wrangling thou shouldest distemper thy bodie and disquiet thy minde Play not for great wagers but for frendly familiaritie Striue not so much for the wager as to win victorie yet rather than thou shouldest séeme contentious yéeld ouer the victorie to the vanquished and flie al falshood or fraud Of manners in the chamber WHen thou commest into thy chamber at euening remember that thou art now going to bed which is a figure of thy graue and that sléepe is an image of death Call to minde therefore how thou hast spent the day past examine thy conscience whether thou haue committed anie euil thing if thou haue crie God heartely mercie therefore praye him for Christes sake to forgiue thée That done look ouer héedfully once or twice that which thou hast to repeate next morning Afterward knéeling on thy knées deuoutly pray that God would lightē thine vnderstanding with his holy spirit which may lead thée into all truth that he would protect thée and kéepe thée from all euill both of soule and bodie Pray also for all in authoritie for thy frends and for al whom God wold haue prayed for and concluding with the Lordes prayer commit thy selfe into the handes of God almightie In putting off or putting on thy cloathes beware that thou vncouer not anie part of thée which Nature would haue hidden In lying with another touch him not nor be anie way troublesome vnto him Make no noyse shouting nor foolish laughter in the chamber but remember that euen there where thou thinkest thy selfe most priuate God almightie beholdeth all thy dooings to whom thou owest more dutie and reuerence than to all the men in the world Be cleanly and neate in thy chamber auoyding all sluttishnes In the morning when thou risest call to thy remembrance also how thou art to enter into the course of that day as into a long and dangerous iourney for the diuell wil be readie to assault thée diuers wayes the examples of the wicked to allure thée the lusts of the flesh to entice thée to euil and all these are enimies to the true happines of thy soul and bodie besides manie mischaunces that may befall thée Pray therefore earnestlye vnto God to safe-conduct guide and defend thée so shalt thou bee safe vnder his shield And remember in the day to vse as occasion shal serue the manners before in this Treatise spoken of Now the Lord of life and Author of all goodnes graunt thée grace to walke in true godlines and good manners that thou maist grow to be a perfect man in Christ Iesus Amen A praier for children to vse in the Morning O Lord God most holie most high mightie and glorious that by thine vnspeakable wisedome and omnipotencie hast made all things