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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	lie_n	speak_v	1,825	5	4.3434	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30948	A true copy of a letter, intercepted, going for Holland directed thus for his, and his wives, never failing friend Roger Le Strange at the Oranges Court with care and speed, hast, hast, post hast.	H. B.	1680 (1680)	Wing B80; ESTC R713	6,590	6

either Captain or Lieutenant or both how e're they flatter you can if once they get you at the Boarded Theatre at Westminster help you off with your Necks whole you see if the Fathers will give you leave to believe your own lyes I speak by experience as well as Ned Coleman and to say truth their 's no knowledg like it this Last Roger I am inform'd was agreed on as the Best because the Last Remedy upon which old Will took his leave paying as much respects to their Lordships as was possible for any one under his circumstances and took his way directly to Newgate to visit the dispairing Fathers his last Speech-makers where he found them in a most profound consult together with Lame Giles and Betty Cellier in St. Colemans Apartment how they shou'd also escape the approaching Nooses Belzebub be with ye says Will if he be not here already if he be not quoth Manson you Lop headed Dotard did his Devilship ever leave any of our Profession so long as we had a single minutes time left for Plotting but the question like you and your late Reading we heard on 't did ever Puppy Mumble over his Lesson at such a fate as you did the very Catholicks as Blind as they are as well as Hereticks swore they could see you Lye Oh unpardonable Mortal Sinner to be so discovered had you as many heads as Hydra you deserved to loose them all for that your Drunken Folly you should have Wish't Curs'd Swore invoked God Angels and Men to bear you Witness though in a Lye and Dared Heaven it self to contradict you this had been right Catholick indeed like our dear Brethren at Tybura and at worst but Piae Fraudes this sharp Greeting rais'd the Old Gentlemans Choler to the same height as when he Buggered the Boy in Hey-nauls and Swore by Hell and Rome he 'd tare them into Ato●●s and so save the Hangman the Labor at which menaces away Flies Giles for his Pillory Armor and Betty to Act the second part of the Bloody Bladder crying out good my Lord don't be worse than Savage to a Woman in Labor the Priest mean time on their Knees at Exorcisims Damming him by Bell-Book Salt Spittle and Candle with a whole Cart load of Church Curses to Pepper him But Will defy'd them all laying their Telping came to late like Colemans Pardon he was as bad as bad could be already tickling them the while with Langberns Whip 't is thought they will not live long after it and if not hang'd the sooner will petition the Hangman for Execution however the good man scap't not Scot-free for they had sore cut the late Stitches in his disjoynted Neck in the Rencounter so that he was forc't like St. Denis to carry it under his Arm down to his Holinesses Slaughter-house to have it have the Sommerset where the old Woman that happened to see Godfreys holy usage and began to Cackle of it not understanding it seems those Duke-all Directions of that Blest intreague 't was thought fit by the Fathers to send her privately on an Errand into Purgatory where it probable old Will came acquainted with her this very Woman I say getting loose and coming in the Dead of Night to pay her respects to her great Mistress attending her as formerly with a Chamber pot and fine Towel met old Will at the Door of the Bed chamber and seeing his Lordship in that pickle offered him very civilly the use of her Utensils which the good man accepted of very kindly and so fell to Dabling his separated Noddle in the Chamber-lye which I assure you Roger was afterwards put into a Bason Consecrated for that purpose and placed in the Wall of the Chappel next to the Shrine of our Lady by the little Door on the right hand of the Altar the very self-same Spot where you used to kneel Roger with a Red-cross over it and Roger believe me I speak not only the real sense of my own tryed experience but 't is also the Catholick Faith of all our Believing Romans its now the Best Holy Water that ever Catholick dipt in for notwithstanding its original was but from that Chip in Porridge 't is wonderful in its operation even to a Thousand Miracles and of Fifty times the value of George Wakemans Bottle As to the old Woman she continues very diligent in opening and shutting the Doors and Casements making the sign of the ★ In every Corner shewing the Pictures and Relicks to Friends giving some signs of her own and Godfrey's Exit pointing to the several places where they laid him But the Fathers are hard at it and if prayers fail they are resolv'd to Bribe never failing Betty to lay her But of this Roger not a word for fear the Hereticks Smoak it old Will I hear is for certain posted down into all Quarters with others our indefatigable Jesuitical Levitical Atheistical Pentionary Plotting Trumpetting Damning Betraying Abhorring Friends to Act their utmost in this new Bussle procured For and By us with Bills of Exchange for Thousands of French Lumber-street Dust may Bubbie the unthinking For trust me Roger what e're you design on t'other side the Herring-Brook now is the time or never to save our Bacon here 's an odd Story Roger runs about Town of a She Heretick But all of our Faith believe her mad who says and offers to Swear to something in White Appears to her often foretelling the removal of some Body to the Westward by Poyson into Limb●● Patrum much about Cuckow time Certainly Roger this can be no Angel of ours for they you know are all Black besides the Devil surely has more wit than to spoil a Design so much to his and our advantage by telling on 't that would be to much like the Hereticks who we hope will ruin themselves e're long by Dividing Hell be prais'd for 't yet Roger suppose for once it were an Angel of Light we have taken that care before hand he shall be Credited at Court just like the Plot in Utopis and signifie no more to them then the Comet which they Swear only foretold the Death of Nelles Lap Dog But Roger now I am here let me acquaint you with my Observations I know 't will please you nay there 's no true Catholick but si●g●te Deam Laudam●● for it all the World over those Boanerges who thundered so loud lately at Romes Doors his Holinesses could not sleep nay stir for them met with a Northern blast t'other day puft them out at pleasure to the West-ward had you been here hodge you had split your Guts with Laughing 2. To see them look when 't was too late like things that could or at least at present would not help it But above all to see our late sculking Friends so Strange-lee reviv'd upon 't Damming them as brisk as ever I have been told the Bible says somewhere for that 's a Book I seldom meddle with when their was no King in Israel