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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16749	Grimellos fortunes, vvith his entertainment in his trauaile A discourse full of pleasure.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1604 (1604)	STC 3657; ESTC S104795	19,890	34

dispatch her quickly I warrant you quoth shee for sooth with a 〈◊〉 Thus was the Eeles death approching and the matter thoroughly enacted Now the Pye being made and baked and set on the Table and betwixt the maide and her Dame or mistresse brought to such a passe that there was very little left for her master The Magot-a-Pye like a vyle Bird that would kéepe no counsaile but duely would use her tongue to talke of all that she saw or heard no sooner saw the good-man come into the house but as shee was taught to speake began with welcome home maister and then more then she was taught she fell to pratle Noh maister my Dame hath eaten the Eele my Dame hath eaten the Eele my Dame hath eaten the great Eele The goodman remembring his fish began now to aske his wife Now doth mine Eele What meanes the Bird to talke thus of eating the great Eele Tush Husband quoth she warme you I pray you and goe to bed It is cold and late talke of your Eele to morrow No quoth he I will not goe to bed till I haue séene mine Eele and there within a bodily feare of that which was fallen out goes to the Cesterne and there finding his Eele gonne comes in againe as dead at hart as a Stocke-fish and yet resolued to brawle out of reason Comes out Why hoh the good-wife ready to burst with laughing and yet kéeping it in with a fayned sigh sits downe in a chaire and hangs the head as though she had had the mother The maid hauing wit enough to make a foole of a tame-goose méetes her maister and catching him in her armes cries out but softly maister be a man and mooue not all My dame you know loues you well and it may be she breedes and bring you a boye worth twenty bushels of Eeles saie she had a minde to it and hath eaten it if you should séeme to chide for it it may be a meane to cast her awaie and that she goes with And therfore saie nothing of it let it goe For indéed it is gone saist thou so my Girle quoth hee I thanke thee hold thée there is a Letter for thée for thy good counsaile I warrant thée all shall be well Then in a goes to his wife findes her in her chaire sitting as if were heauily comes to her and takes her by the hand with how now wife be of good chéere and take no thought much good doe thy hart with her take the rest that are left if thou haue a minde to them I pray thée With this she as it were awaked out of a trance said I thanke you good husband and so after a few home-complaints to bed they went where they agréed so well that the next morning hee had his part though it were the least of that was left and glad of it to and so without more adoe goes about his busines But no sooner was he out of doores but the mistresse and the maid went to the bird the Pye and taking her out of the Cage plucked all the feathers off from her head and left her as bare as a balde Coote which in the cold winter was very vncomfortable Which done she was put into the Cage againe with these wordes Tell tales againe of the Eele doe Now about dinner-time comes in againe the goodman and brings in with him a neighbour of his with a good face but a balde head that he had almost no haire on it Now the Pye being let out of the Cage no sooner sées this man put off his hat but she skips on his shoulder and sayes Oh your head hath bene puld aswell as mine for telling of tales You haue told my maister how my dame eate the great Eele and so she would do to any that shee saw bald that came into the house And was not this a merrie iest of the Pye and an Eele Ga. I thinke I haue heard it long agoe but not as thou hast told it and therefore as it is I thanke thée for it And now since it is not farre to the Towne I pray thée let me trie a litle of thy wit in the aunswers of a few questions that I will put vnto thée Gri. With all my heart Sir I am for you at this time Ga. I pray thée who was the happiest man that euer thou knewest Gri. My Lord Gouernours Foole. Ga. And why Gri. Because his maister fauours him and none dare hurt him hee fares well and sléepes well weares good cloathes and takes no paines Ga. Countest thou this a happines Gri. For a lazie spirit but not for my selfe Ga. Why how wouldest thou be happie Gri. In a feeling of Gods grace in sufficiency of abilitie to liue without borrowing in wit to discerne iustly in Conscience to deale truly in an honest kinde wife gratious children honest seruants faithfull friendes and quiet neighbours Neither disire of life nor feare of death but a scorne of the one and contented minde in the other Ga. Well said But all this while I heare thee speake of no maister Gri. Oh no Sir for to a frée spirit there is no greater miserie then bondage And yet a kinde maister is a kinde of father where loue breeding obedience maketh a seruant like a Sonne Ga. And what sayest thou of a kinde mistresse Gri. With a kinde maister they are the harts comforter and they are like vnto a paire of Gloues that fitte both hands Ga. But couldest thou please both Gri. If I know both Gan Then let me put thee in comfort of me thou shalt haue rather a father then a friend to nourish thy good spirite of my wife rather a sister then a mistresse to make much of thee for my sake Gr. I thanke you Sir and for the good I see in you and the good I hope of you I will trie my Fortune with you Ga. And do not thinke it shall be the worst Come on you shall goe to the towne and there dine with mee and so home Gri. I will attend you FINIS

honor or honesty my maister or mistres may be I will then tell you how I can fit my seruice to their contentment Ga. Well then saie he were a yong Lord and I would preferre you to attend him in his chamber Gri. I would neuer be without a brush for his apparrell I would sée his chamber neatly kept his bed soft and finely made his linnen cleane washed and his chestes fast locked I would be humble in my behauiour and ciuill in my demeanour go discréetly on a message bring him word of his mistresse health and his Cosins good rest and what time of the daie it is c. Ga. Well put off but saie it were a fine Gentlewoman that I would put you to Gri Oh I would be full of curtesse hold her Glasse stedie bring her painting vnséene and her Perriwig vncrushed Haue her taylour at a becke runne quickly for her errand now and then tel her a merrie tale and once in fauour neuer loose it againe I warrant you Ga. But will you not commend her fauorite Gri. No I hate that vile basenes or rather base villanie to make my tongue an enemie to my hart I would rather leaue her to séeke a seruant then I would be found in such a seruice Ga. Well said but saie that it were to a meaner person I should put thée I cannot saie prefer thée to as for example Let me saie it be some honest man of trade or traffique or so forth how could you behaue your selfe that I might hope of your credite Gri. Why Sir I would kéepe his booke of account cast vp by his reckoning● once in foure and twēty houres looke wel vnto his shoppe learne the price of his wares aske what lacke you of passers bye vse his Chap-men kindely and euery one with courtesie so that I would get more with good words then some other should do with good ware In briefe I would be an honest man and that is worth all Gan. Good all that I yet heare if there be no worse matter in you then I haue yet heard from you nor hope to finde in you I do not greatly care if your case be desperate that for lacke of entertainment to saue the charge of an empty purse you would venture vpon a bad maister rather then none I le trie a litle what you can doe about my house Base actions as filling the Dung-cart going to plough kéeping of hogs or washing of buckes swéeping the houses or making cleane shooes these offices I haue in my house Boyes and Girles enough fit for the purpose But to ouer-sée my family to instruct my children to be Steward of my courts kéeper of my Parke ranger of my Forrest and now and then to wait on my wife one of these offices if any be void I care not if I place thée in so that in thy good carriage thou doest not deceiue my expectation Gri. Sir not to trouble you with idle ceremonies trye me and trust me either you or your Ladie Ga. You saie well but by the waie because it is aboue thrée miles to my house and good talke passeth the time well away Let me entreat you to tell mee some-what of your Fortunes in your crosse courses if at least they be not such as you will in modestie conceale or are not willing to call in memorie Gri. No Sir I feare not to satisfie your desire either in respect of my follie or my fortune For the first is excusable in youth and the other is her selfe in all ages and therefore let me tell you thus it was In my young and litle better then childish yeares my father hauing put me to schoole to a more furious then wise Schoole-master who by the helpe of his Usher a better scholler then himself brought vp a fewe good wits to better vnderstanding then his owne I hauing learn'd to spell and put together to Construe and Parce to write my letters and to ioyne and to make my mistresse Pistles when my maister was from home It fell out I know not how that he being a man very vigilant in all his courses and séeing my mistresse beautie able to make a good Scholler forget his lesson imagining by his studie in Astronomie that the signe of his Fortune stood too straight vpon Capricorne meaning to crosse the fates in their powers founde a meanes to remooue all his Boorders from his house in regarde of a Meigrum in his head which was much troubled by the noise of our Pu-rulines Now I as litle guiltie as any of the cause of his follie was yet among my fellowes banished his house and shortly after sent home to our friendes Where hauing idled it so long that bookes were enemies to our delights I like a good wagge among other séeing one daie a gallant knight come home to my fathers house finding my spirite not so dull as to dwell alwaies in one place made all the meanes I could to preferre my selfe into his seruice Which with my mothers entreatie my father brought to passe Preferred I was to this Gallant and from a Scholler must turne Page when if I should tell you the tenth part of the waggeries that I passed thorough I should breake mine oathe on the Pantable call olde trickes in question and perhaps wrong some that were my fellowes then who would bee loath to heare of it nowe Yet will I not be so sparing of my spéech but that I dare tell you one merrie parte that I and my good fellowes plaide that perhaps is worth the laughing at Gan. I pray you do Gri. I will tell you thus it was I being in my youth reasonably well-fauoured of a pure complexion and of a reasonable good stature and hauing wit enough vpon a litle warning to plaie the wagge in the right vaine It was my happe among other my fellow-Pages to take knowledge of a certaine Gallant in our Court a man of no great worth any waie and yet a sufficient Blocke for Frogges to leape vppon His yeeres about some twentie two or there abouts his complexion Sea cole-sanguine a most wicked face and a wit correspondent to be short for that ill faces make no pleasant descriptions let it suffice that hee was euery waie a verie filthie fellow and yet hauing better clothes then he was worthy to weare and more money then he could wisely vse This Lob-lollie with slauering lips would be making loue and that not onely to one but euerie daie one though he were scarse welcome to any yet would be blush at no disgrace This yonker had we founde out and hearing of his disposition we fitted his humor one of vs would borrow a Ladies cōmendations to get an Angell withall for a message An other get a Nose-gaie or a Baie leafe and bring from his mistresse which came vp with fiue with a French Crowne An other or two of vs haunt him at dinner and with a song or a Galliard nibble on his Purse for a piece of