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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15516	The pedlers prophecie	Wilson, Robert, d. 1600.	1595 (1595)	STC 25782; ESTC S111811	27,924	47

turned into Spaniels and some into Greyhounds These make not a litle ado vpon your grounds That you are a Landlord I do vnderstand Now to looke to this geare it stands you in hand Land Betweene game and earnest I desire thee Tell me the troth if any such things there be Arti. There is no such thing be your sure For all that he speaketh is vnder a figure Ped. Did you neuer heare of one called Acteon Land Yes indeed I heard of such a one Ped. You are like to plaie Acteons part For you shall be turned to a wilde hart And the dogs which to keep you were wont With most cruell death shall you hunt What will your raised rents helpe When you shall be torne of euery whelpe Your vnsatiable couetousnesse your shamefull simony Your sacriledge accursed by Gods owne testimony These and such other plagues on you shall light When Tyton like the Sun shall shine at midnight Watch for within these fewe it will bee They are aliue that these plagues shall see Arti. Hearest thou Pedler come away I pray thee hartily For things are wrought against thee secretly A heinous complaint of thee my Landlord haue made And with other things they purpose thee to lade They say that with Nigromansie thou art a medler Wherfore by my counsell thou shalt be no longer a Pedler Ped. Why then how shall I sell my ware Arti. Tush tush for that take thou no care Ped. Of points in my packe I haue an whole grosse Art A straw for points by them thou canst haue no losse Ped. But I suppose you cannot tell what points they bee Arti. When thou commest home to my house then I wil see Ped. I wil come anon but I am past care Sing and be mery hab or nab away the mare It beginneth it springeth it flourisheth Woe be vnto them that such plants nourisheth I dare laie as much as I am worth That straunge monsters they shall bring forth Did you neuer heare of an Iland called Thewle Neare to the Orcardes compassed with the sea Neare the same place there is a pleasant land Wherein is great wonders as I vnderstand This land was sometime full of men Such as one of them were as good as ten Now are they altered into beasts and fowles As into Lyons Beares Kytes Swine and Owles God is able to take from them their beastly heart And into the shape of men againe them conuert Seuen yeares to declare his pompe He punished the mightie king Nabuchodonozor If all men had seene these men as I haue seene And see them at these dayes it would make them weepe I weene Exit Here enters the Interpreter Inter. Saint Clement saith written vnto saint Iames That he is a right interpreter of holy writ Which standeth not vpon words Countries and names But such one as expoundeth the meaning of the spirit An Interpretor thereof I am called by name For of the tongues I am able to make translation My practise hath bene long time in the same And of Mysteries I am able to make declaration It greeueth me at the heart God I take to record To see the varietie and chiefly in religion That it may be soone amended I beseech Christ our Lord Or else let vs looke shortly for a greeuous destruction My comming hither truly at this season Is chiefly to heare the talke of a Pedler I will be glad by learning with him to reason For I heare say that in high matters he is a medler Here enters the Iustice Iust. Where is this Pedler where is this runnagate What sirra is he one of your schollers Interp. It is your pleasure all things well to interpret But they are not the best Iudges that were golden collers I heard of such a fellow indeed as you haue done And hither am I come with him to dispute And if he were here you should perceiue soone That by good learning I would his folly confute Iust. Dispute nay I would not stand to dispute I trow But I wot through the libertie of your preaching Much mischiefe among men beginneth to grow I tell you many men like not your teaching Inter. Truth indeed none that be of your condition To withstand Gods word you haue set your face So drowned ye are in rustie superstition That Gods word in your heart can the no place You are called in the Common-wealth to be a Iustice Therefore all your words and acts ought to be right You haue taken an oath iustly to do your office And to defend the truth with all your might But truly the veritie you do not defend But you persecute it with all your power The vpright and fatherlesse you do reprehend The malefactors you let passe both day and houre Iust. Talke your pleasure here are but we two Boast not too much of your innocencie What we know well inough what ye do All the world speaketh of your insolencie You may preach teach crie out and yell The hearing thereof many men do giue But whether you speake of heauen or hell Not one among a thousand do you belieue I will laie twentie pound I wil do more with one word Then you shall do with twentie Sermons truly For the people thinke you speake but in boord Because you lead your liues so vnruly Ped. No man will heare the Painter but a popish priest Inter. Truth for so saith God by the Prophet Esay All mischiefe shall happen vpon thee in one day For the multitude of thy Inchanters verely And for the hardnesse of hearts that will not obey Iust. And if you can tell vs where any such be Whether it be Nigromansor or sorcerer We shall do vnto them as it apperteineth ye shall see And they shal be handled like a theefe or a murtherer In. And it please you sir I am none of those that loue to be a medler But I speak a few words and only for this cause It was my chance of late to talke with a Pedler Whose words me thought agreed not with Gods lawes He taketh vpon him fondly to prophecie And saith that a dead man shall kill many aliue And the one vnborne as yet in his mothers belly They that be dead to life againe shall reuiue I wot not what he meant by this geare But he telleth many such things Such a fellow I suppose you did neuer heare He telleth wonders of Emperours and Kings Iust. You are an Interpreter of darke sentences What say you to the Pedlers high prophecie Inter. He that is ignorant of all honest science Vnto knowledge and vertue is an vtter enemy O most vnhappie Hamlet country shire Where such vniust Iustice haue the gouernance Neither for sinne nor discord you do enquire But vnto God and his word you are an hindrance An Interpreter I am called indeed But of Gods word and the tongues auncient Pedlers dreames are good old Papists to seed And such as despise the word of God omnipotent Iust. Talke your pleasure you are not like to

and tripping With all their pleasures which they now do deuise Their feasting disguising their kissing and clipping Rich showes strange funerals precious abilliments Golden collers spangs bracelets bonets and hoods Painted and laid out haire filides and nether ornaments Their chains sumptuous apparrell that cost great goods Earing iewels iemmes to set out their faces Chaunge of garments cassocks vales launes fine Needles glasses partlets fillets and bungraces With cullours curious to make the face shine After this your needle worke will be naught worth Therefore some other occupation you must learne You that intend to set your children forth Must teach them to labour their liuings to earne Hic intra Pater Father A couple of good huswifes the mother and the daughter To stand prating here all the day long What time of night shall we go to supper Euerie day I must be feine to sing one song Mo. By my troth husband you are like to haue no roast-meat to night For I haue had other busines to day in hand Here is come such another wight As the like was neuer heard of in this land Daugh. By by troth father he is but a pratling Pedler And to say the truth hath nothing to sell But in soothsaying he would appeare to be a medler But beleeue you nothing that he doth tell Fa. A Pedler marry the more naughtie pack thou Hast thou nothing else to do but with a Pedler to prate Get thee home thou ill fauoured Sow It were well done to beate thee about the pate D. I beshrew thy knaues hart thou hast angred my father If thou hast no needles thou mightest tell me so than Ped. And it had pleased you you might haue gone away rather But heare you declare what good you can Father why suffer you not your daughter to marry She is old inough to haue an husband Mo. Nay alasse poore wench a while she may tarry For in faith she hath neither house nor land Fa. Friend whereas you spake of my daughters mariage I am not of that mind that many an other man is Chastitie with Gods helpe is a light carriage And therefore in this I thinke I do not greatly amisse To marry my daughter I am halfe in doubt I will tell you other nations are so scattered about That marriages that I do not greatly allow I and mine auncestors were English men borne And though I be but a simple man To marry my daughter to an Alian I thinke soorne And therefore I keepe her from it so long as I can Mo. Yea either they be Alians or Aliant sonnes indeed Who through marriage of English women of late Hath altered the true English blood and seed And therewithall English plaine maners and good state All the naughtie fashions in the world at this day Are by some meanes brought into England If by some meanes they be not commanded away Within a while they will vs all withstand For here they do not only deuoure and spend As they be most deuourers truly But our commodities away they do send Rob and steale from English men daily Ped. Mother there is a storie of King Vertyger Whether it be true of say or no I am not able Eugustus plaid the part of a murtherer But some men taketh it but for a fable But this is true out of the South East Caine commeth before and shall come againe A straunge horrible and monsterous beast By whom all old women shal be deuoured plaine Daugh. Now mother so God helpe me They that will beleeue him is worse then mad Ped. The womanhead of your daughter here I do see I say no more of mine honestie it is too bad Ma. By your honestie a man may you assoone beleeue As I will do a dog when he sweareth by his christendome Ped. A stopping morsell anon to you I will giue I will be euen with you I sweare by my holy dome Mo. Is there such a beast as you speake off And will he deuoure none but women that be old Ped. I promise you mother I do not scoffe Dreadfull he is and horrible to be hold An huge beast and of a maruellous strength From Douer to Wayd head taile and mouth We esteeme him to be larger in length And in bredth from Donwish to Porchmouth He hath deuoured all the old women in Affricke And now he hasteth into Droppe with all speed Marchant men can tell you that vse there to trafficke To talke any more of the matter what shall it need Fa. A Pedler going about to sell lies I thinke of them you haue more plenty than you haue ware Such fellowes do nothing else but deuise Tales and Fables and such Lemers as these are Ped. Father be these lies that I speake He shall snatch vp the husband with the wife And because the old man Gods lawes do breake In a straunge nation he shall end his life But when this shall come to passe As it shall come to passe be sure of that Then fathers and mothers shall crie alasse For their own children shal be throwne down flat Mo. By Saint Anne but those words make me afraide The man knoweth more then we perchance Ma. Now surely mother as I am true maide He knoweth no more then the Faukener of France Ped. True maid fie for shame why do ye sweare I know more then the priest spake of on Sunday Remember you not what I said euen now to you in your eare The matter was broken the six day of May But when angrie Saturne shall haue the regiment And rule againe as he did first Then faire maides shall die through famishment And yoong springals shall perish for thirst Fa. I loue none of this bibble bable I by this light Pedler hast thou anie pure spectacles to sell I would haue a paire that were of an old sight For I am aboue threescore and ten to you I may tell Ma. He hath as manie spectacles needles and pinnes He goeth about the countrie vnder that pretence Mo. Much mony for wares you may take in Innes And besides the same your charges and expence Ped. Father I haue a paire of spectacles in my packe That will cause you to see as well behind as before For in your house is plaid manie a knacke Which of my mind you shall know more Though my spectacles you intend to buy You shall perceiue your owne negligence You suffer your children to sweare and lye And you laugh thereat and haue patience Fathers and mothers kinsfolkes and friends So inordinately do their children loue That they are parents of bodies but poysoners of mindes As my saying right well here shall proue But when Phaebus shall enter into the Lyon There shall be such a great burning heate That shall burne vp your children euery one And they that be left on liue strange gotches shall eate Parents and maisters in this most mirth truly Shall be cant vp with a sodaine rauishment Looke for this in the moneth of Iuly Ramnasia will not