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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	believe_v	lie_v	speak_v	1,709	5	4.3933	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10285	True and wonderfull A discourse relating to a strange and monstrous serpent (or dragon) lately discouered, and yet liuing, to the great annoyance and diuers slaughters both of men and cattell, by his strong and violent poyson, in Sussex two miles from Horsam, in a woode called S. Leonards Forrest, and thirtie miles from London, this present month of August. 1614. With the true generation of serpents.	A. R., fl. 1614.	1614 (1614)	STC 20569; ESTC S104584	9,158	18

True and Wonderfull A Discourse relating a strange and monstrous Serpent or Dragon lately discouered and yet liuing to the great annoyance and diuers slaughters both of Men and Cattell by his strong and violent poyson In Sussex two miles from Horsam in a woode called S. Leonards Forrest and thirtie miles from London this present month of August 1614. With the true Generation of Serpents Printed at London by Iohn Trundle To the Reader THe iust Reward of him that is accustomed to lie is not to be belieu'd when he speaketh the truth So iust an occasion may somtime bee impos'd vppon the Pamphleting presse and therefore if we receiue the same rewards wee cannot much blame our accusers which often fals out either by our forward credulity to but seeming true reports or by false Coppies translated from other Languages which though we beget not wee foster and our shame little the lesse But passing by what 's past let not our present truth blush for any former falshood sake The Countrie is neere vs Sussex The Time present August The Subiect a Serpent strange yet now a neighbour to vs and it were more then impudence to forge a lie so neere home that euery man might turne in our throates belieue it or reade it not or reade it doubting for I belieue e're thou hast read this little All thou wilt not doubt of one but belieue there are many Serpents in England farewell By A. R. He that would send better newes if he had it True and Wonderfull A Discourse relating a strange monstrous Serpent or Dragon lately discouered and yet liuing to the great anoyance and diuers slaughters both of Men and Cattell by his strong violent Poyson THere is nothing more miraculous in nāture as the shalow search of humane apprehension then the workes of the diuinitie specified in the Creation being a worke beautified with distinction order and measure and sifted from all confusion yet if we more narrowly vnrip the natures and qualities of the creatures leauing the vnsearchable depth of Gods essence beyond the shoomakers last of capacitie to himselfe we shall finde that there is sufficient cause for our weake admirations And though all things were at the first created good and seruicable to man because God is not the author of any euill yet since euill sprung from the ill of Eue many miseries haue as his cursse falne to man euen by those creatures which were his companions in Paradice and made to his great blessing and benefit Insomuch that the Serpent which first was familiar with Eue seruiceable to mans vse is now turned a deadly and fatall enemy to all his posteritie frighting the earth with monstrous and prodigious shapes and no doubt in these new and presaging formes are sent to punish our new inuentions of sinne according to the saying of a reuerend Father Quia deliquimus in multis August punimur in multis Because we haue offended in many things we are punished in many But to omit the Sanctuary of vnfurnisht wits being a fugitiue and tedious circuler questions we will apply our briefe abstract to the causes and originall of these hideous Creatures for the vnderstanding and capacitie of the simple seeing that as a learned man saith that Scire est per causas scire Plato The best way of knowledge is to know by the causes And first of their originall First it is Oraculous and plaine in Genesis that God by his word created all things sensible and insensible Fishes Foules Beasts and creeping things and among them Serpents But since the great worke of the Creation they are ingendred either naturally or prodigiously Naturally as saith Macrobius Macrob. as in Egipt Frogs and Mice are ingendered by raine and shewres so also are Serpents But I am of Aristotles opinion which also Pliny confirmeth that Serpents arise not from putrifaction but by the naturall act of generation It is a generall rule that all Beasts wanting feet and hauing long bodies Elianus performe their carnall copulation by the mutuall imbracing of one another as Lampreies and Serpents And it is certaine that two Serpents in this action séeme to be one body and two heads for they are so indiuisibly vnited together and the frame of their body vnapt for any other manner of Copulation The generation of Serpents And although like to Fishes they want floure to elaborate the sperme yet haue they two open passages wherein lyeth their generatiue seed which being spread procureth their veneriall lusts which seed being ciaculated from the Male into Cels and receptacles of the Female it is framed into an Egge which she hydeth in the earth a hundreth in a cluster about the quantitie of a birds Egge And this is the naturall proceeding of all Serpents except Vipers who lay no Egges but hatch their young ones in their wombe but for their prodigious generation as it is rare A woman that brought forth a Serpent Prodigious dreames of Dragons so is it also horrible to our nature It is reported that when Lucius Scipio and Caius Norbanus were Consuls that the mother of Claudius in Hytruria brought forth a Serpent in steade of a Childe And Faustina the Empresse dreamed when she was with childe but very prodigiously that she brought forth two Serpents and one of them seemed to be more fiercer then the other which proued allegorically true for Comodus afterwards her youngest sonne was so tiranicall and barbarous that he seemed to be borne a prodigie to the destruction of mankinde and thus much for their originall naturall and prodigious The Irish ground is most happie The Irish ground happie and it séemeth lesse sinnefull that are frée from contagion of these venomous Creatures but as it is true that Non omnis fert omnia tellus Euery ground brings not forth all kind of fruites for this Land were happie if it were lesse fertile in these contagious kind of Serpents which I ascribe not to the nature of the earth but the sinfull nature of men In Phrigia and Ethiopia are many Dragons and Serpents and these were as Augustine affirmeth in the hollow places of the earth and not onely in forraine and farre remote-countries but also in neighboring and nere adioyning nations A Dragon brought to the French King Stiria a Towne in Germanie and first of all there was a Serpent or winged Dragon brought vnto Francis the French-King when he lay at Sancton Sancton by a country-man who had slaine the same Serpent with a spade Chisuen also saith that in the yeare of our Lord 1543 there came many Serpents with féete and winges neere Stiria who wounded the inhabitants incurably Paris a Cittie in France Stumphus Cardan writeth that at Paris in France hée himselfe saw certaine Serpents with winges when the riuer Tiber ouerflowed the banckes many Serpents were discouered As also in the time of Mauritius the Emperour at what time a Dragon came ouer the