Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

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
A16159	A free admonition without any fees, to warne the papistes to beware of three trees	Birch, William, fl. 1562-1571.	1571 (1571)	STC 3077; ESTC S121710	1,142	1

¶ A free admonition without any fees To warne the Papistes to beware of three trees IF that you be not past all grace O Papystes heare mee speake Let reason rule and truth take place Crase you from that you seeke Can you God or his woord deface Can you the truth wythstand Can you our noble Queene displace And yet lyue in England Take heede beware the Deuyll is a knaue He wyl you sure begile Incruelty he would you haue To scrue hym here awhile Wyth lying and hipocrisy His kyngdome to mayntayne Contemning truth and equity This is hys subtile trayne Let cursed Cain example be That slew Abel his brother Whom neither God with Maiesty Could moue to leaue his murder Nor yet the godly lyfe of hym That gaue hym none offence Tyll he had heaped vp hys synne In practesyng his pretence Let Core and Dathan come frō hell Where now they do remayne That they their minds at lēgth maitel Wherfore they ther remain Namely for that they did rebel And would not be perswaded But would be Lordes in Israel Tyll hel had them deuoured What could make Absalon meeke tame And to desist from rage His father Dauids worthy fame Or yet his counsel sage No no these things wil not preuail With hym that feares not God The force of doctrine ther doth fail Tyl God strike with his rod. And as the Deuil in these did rage To worke his wycked wyll That nothyng coulde theyr furye swage Tyl they did it fuifyl So that the law of God and Man They sought to ouerthrow Euen so of late I truly can The lyke vnto you show When Kyng Edward of worthy fame Had Antichrist put downe And to the glory of Gods name Had placed truth in her roome The denshire dolts like Rebels ranck In rusty armour ranged But hangd wer som their cariōs stāck The world was quickly changed And then dyd Ket the tanner stout In Norffolke play his part Assemblyng such his Rebels rout That Innocents might smart But hanged he was this was his end And so ende all the sort That Rebels are and wyll not mend A rope be their comfort Such blessings as the Nortons had And such as Felton found God send them all that are so bad Wyth heeles to blesse the ground If that you lyke not for to haue This blessyng in a rope Leaue of you Rebels for to raue And cursse your Dad the Pope Which makes you oft such Crowes to pul Then leaues you in the mire In sending you to such a Bull This is but symple hire Behold the end of thys attempt That last here was begun Loe God your doyng doth preuent The Rebels race to run Synce God by grace doth guyde hys flock That none can them anoy If you be grafted in this stocke He wyl you not destroy Feare God I lee syn the truth embrace And seeke your Prince to please Obey the lawes and call for grace So shall you lyue at peace God saue our Queene Elizabeth ꝙ G. B. EINIS ¶ Imprinted at Londō by Iohn Awdely for Henry Kirkham dwelling at the middle North doore of Paules at the signe of the blacke Boy The. xy of December 1571.