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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	poor_a	young_a	youth_n	22	3	7.5346	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01514	The poesies of George Gascoigne Esquire; Hundreth sundrie flowres bounde up in one small poesie	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1575 (1575)	STC 11636; ESTC S102875	302,986	538

from all filthie phrases corrected in all erronious places and beautified vvith addition of many moral examples To the seconde although I be sometimes constreyned for the cadence of rimes or per licentiam Poeticam to vse an ynkehorne terme or a straunge vvord Yet hope I that it shall be apparant I haue rather regarde to make our natiue language commendable in it selfe than gay vvith the feathers of straunge birdes To the thirde reason may be obiected that if I vvere so desirous to haue my capacitie knovvne I shoulde haue done much better to haue trauelled in some notorious peece of vvorke vvhich might generally haue spred my commendation The vvhich I confesse But yet is it true that I must take the Foord as I finde it Sometimes not as I vvoulde but as I may And since the ouersight of my youth had brought mee farre behinde hande and indebted vnto the vvorld I thought good in the meane time to pay as much as I had vntill it might please God better to inable me For commonly the greediest creditor is appeased if he see his debitor vvilling to pay vvhē he hath any thing And therefore being busied in martiall affayres vvhereby also I sought some aduauncement I thought good to notifie vnto the vvorlde before my returne that I coulde as vvell persuade vvith Penne as pearce vvith launce or vveapon So that yet some noble minde might be incouraged both to exercise me in time of peace and to emploie mee in time of seruice in vvarre To the fourth and last considerations I had alledged of late by a right reuerende father that although in deede out of euerie floure the industrious Bee may gather honie yet by proofe the Spider thereout also sucks mischeeuous poyson VVherevnto I can none othervvise ansvvere but that he vvho vvill throvv a stone at euerie Dogge vvhich barketh had neede of a great satchell or pocket And if the learned iudgements and honest mindes doe both construe my doings aright and take therein either councell or commoditie then care I the lesse vvhat the vvicked conceyue of my conceytes For I esteeme more the prayse of one learned Reader than I regard the curious carping of ten thousande vnlettered lettered tattlers To conclude right reuerend as these considerations did specially moue me at first to consent to the imprinting of these posies so novve haue I yet a further consideration vvhich moueth mee most earnestly to sue for this second edition or publishing of the same And that is this I vnderstande that sundrie vvell disposed mindes haue taken offence at certaine vvanton vvordes and sentences passed in the fable of Ferdinando Ieronimi and the Ladie Elinora de Valasco the vvhich in the first edition vvas termed The aduentures of master F. I. And that also thervvith some busie coniectures haue presumed to thinke that the same vvas indeed vvritten to the scandalizing of some vvorthie personages vvhom they vvoulde seeme therby to knovv Surely right reuerend I smile to see the simplicitie of such vvho being indeed starke staring blind vvould yet seeme to see farre into a milstone And the rather I scorne their rash iudgements for that in talking vvith .xx. of them one after another there haue not tvvo agreed in one coniecture Alas alas if I had bene so foolishe as to haue passed in recitall a thing so done in deede yet all the vvorld might thinke me verie simple if I vvoulde call Iohn Iohn or Mary Mary But for the better satisfying of all men vniuersally I doe here protest vnto you reuerend euen by the hope of my saluation that there is no liuing creature touched or to be noted therby And for the rest you shall find it novv in this second imprinting so turquened and turned so clensed from all vnclenly vvordes and so purged from the humor of inhumanitie as percase you vvoulde not iudge that it vvas the same tale For although I haue bin heretofore contented to suffer the publication thereof only to the ende men might see my Methode and maner of vvriting yet am I novve thus desirous to set it forth eftsoones to the ende all men might see the reformation of my minde And that all suspitions may be suppressed and throughly satisfied by this mine vnfeined protestation vvhich I make vnto you in that behalfe Finally vvere it not that the same is alreadie extant in such sort as hath moued offence I should rather be cōtent to cancel it vtterly to obliuion then thus to returne it in a nevv patched cote And for full proofe of mine earnest zeale in Gods seruice I require of you reuerende most instantly that if hereby my skill seeme sufficient to vvade in matters of greater importance you vvill then vouchsafe to employ mee accordingly Surely you shall finde me no lesse readie to vndertake a vvhole yeares trauaile in anie vvorke vvhich you shall thinke me able to ouercome than I haue beene vvilling heretofore to spende three houres in penning of an amorous Sonnet Euen so being desirous that all men generally and you especially should conceiue of me as I meane I haue thus farre troubled your lerned eies vvith this plaine Epistle vvritten for my purgation in matters vvhiche else might both haue offended you and giuen great batterie to the ramparts of my poore credite The God of peace vouchsafe to gouerne and product you and me and all his in quiet of conscience and strength of spirit Amen From my poore house at VValtamstovv in the Forest this last day of Ianuarie 1574. To al yong Gentlemen and generally to the youth of England George Gascoigne Esquire by birth and Souldiour by profession wisheth increase of knowledge in all vertuous exercises GAllant Gentlemen and lustie youthes of this my natiue Countrey I haue here as you see published in print suche Posies and rymes as I vsed in my youth the which for the barbarousnesse of the stile may seeme worthlesse and yet for the doubtfulnesse of some darke places they haue also seemed heretofore daūgerous So that men may iustly both condemne me of rashnesse and wonder at my simplicitie in suffering or procuring the same to be imprinted A yong man well borne tenderly fostered and delicately accompanied shall hardly passe ouer his youth without falling into some snares of the Diuell and temptations of the flesh But a man of middle yeares who hath to his cost experimented the vanities of youth and to his perill passed them who hath bought repentance deare and yet gone through vvith the bargaine who seeth before his face the tyme past lost and the rest passing away in post Such a man had more neede to be well aduised in his doings and resolute in his determinations For with more ease and greater fauour may we answere for tenne madde follies committed in grene youth than one sober ouersight escaped in yeares of discretion Lycurgus the good princely Philosopher ordeyned that if an olde man perceiuing a yong man to commit any dishonestie did not rebuke but suffer him the aged