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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	know_v	speak_v	word_n	9,131	5	4.2861	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25443	Animadversions on Mr. Congreve's late answer to Mr. Collier in a dialogue between Mr. Smith and Mr. Johnson, with the characters of the present poets, and some offers towards new-modeling the stage.		1698 (1698)	Wing A3195; ESTC R202009	24,710	120

have it for a Witness well he 's a fiery Gentleman and would rather die a Martyr than disclaim his Passion Here again he 's put to 't to confess where he borrow'd the word Whoreson from Shakespear and Johnson Well but he has us'd it so lately that I shan't dispute his Title to 't by any means Hey day what have we got here Jeremy Congreve who 's that prithee dost know Johns No faith my Friend's Name is Will. Smith No no 't is Jeremy 't is certainly Jeremy I 'll call him so because there 's Wit in 't Oh 't is very Ingenious when I would rally a Man to say Ans Page 50. He can't call me Jeremy Congreve let him call me what he will he can't call me Jeremy Congreve I find he rallies more like a Waterman than a Gentleman and and argues more like a Pedant than a Scholar Here again he desires the Reader to look over his Plays to find Citations set the Impudence on 't aside 't is a very pretty way of Evasion when he 's caught in the Net if possible he gives a flounce out and the Standers by if they please may go seek for him in his own Mud but as the saying is I fancy most have other Fish to fry Here he talks of a Speech of Sir Sampson's in the Play 't is said The Sampsons were strong Dogs from the Beginning And so on with more such Prophane Stuff but let Mr. Congreve take notice how Sir Sampson is Auswer'd for 't is well if he does not pull an old House over his Head Here he 's a Star-gazing with as much care as Sir Sydrophel's Watchum himself Aus Pag. 52. to know whether Solomon had his Wisdom by Astrology or no or perhaps it may be to find out whether or not he was Wise for to banter the Scripture and ridicule the Knowledge of Solomon I remember where he says All that he knew was that he knew nothing and that Stol'n too from the last Lines of the Emperor of the Moon I wish Mr. Congreve knew as much of himself I am sure it were not amiss to tell him so for in spight of all his Astrology I fear in the end he may come to Curse his Stars Well here Valentine says I am Truth This is in all Mens Opinion whom I have hear'd speak of it horrid Prophanity and I think scarce any Body but a Wittol would have put such words in a Madman's Mouth Poorly to excuse it he says he had first written I am Tom-tell-troth Ans Pag. 56. I dare presume Mr. Congreve is not Truth when he says so nor will I allow him the Title which he himself as he owns has blotted out of Tom-tel-troth neither As Mr. Congreve allows Inspiration to be but Breathing into certainly I believe when he was Inspir'd to write this he was breath'd into by the Devil A pretty Humour this next of his viz. In the next Chapter he quotes me so little Ans Page 57. and has so little reason even for that little that 't is hardly worth Examining This is all very little I must confess but while Mr. Congreve seems to slight it and give no Answer he is rais'd so upon that little that he looks very big upon 't I find he grows a little weary of his Adversary tho' for he is not rather for playing at small Game than stand out Johns Sure you 'll be pleas'd at last come prithee read it out Smith Pleas'd no Faith but I 'm almost a-sleep prithee drink to me all this stuff is so plaguy dry and insipid I want something to put my mouth in Taste Here 's a long business all the way from pag. 60 to pag. 78. Whether or not Parsons should be Expos'd upon the Stage I shall leave that to Mr. Collier in the Answer I am told he designs to determine I shall only give my private Opinion that they should not for to bring a Minister to ridicule him upon the Stage must be meerly the effect of the Author's Contempt of the Clergy and desire that the Audience should despise them them too for what we have in Derision we Contemn there is certainly no necessity for making the Priest or the Chaplain appear on the Stage for the Ceremony for which they 're generally hook'd in that 's Marriage is never perform'd in the presence of the Audience and as to Exposing their Faults I take it to be the care and business of the Bishops set over them who can Punish them too for the Offence and not the business of the Theatre where Divines very rarely or never come of late But I had like to have forgot one of your dear Friend's Expressions Mr. Ans Pag. 38. Collier who is very Conversant in ill Plays A very fair Confession this that he makes now of his own four poor Plays his own as he is pleas'd to call them But because Mr. Collier is so conversant in his ill Plays he 's resolv'd to hew him down and place one part of him in the Pit and the other on the Stage he had divided him Potentia once before but now he divides him Actu He dares not engage him any longer entire but as the French serv'd us at Landen when our Army was separated he fights him by halves Well but while Mr. Collier is thus planted Piecemeal where do'st think Mr. Congreve will take his Post Why with his Dear Bracilla in the little Box over the Stage with his Hat held before his Face to shew his Modesty or his Hatstring But I shall pass his Conceited Stuff which he runs on with here as arrogantly as if he had Spatchcock'd Mr. Collier in good Earnest And take it from me tho' some of the Town be your Friend Will 's Bigots yet they will not continue so when He shall appear mounted upon a false Pegasus Ans Page 83. like a Lancashire Witch upon an imaginary Horse the Fantom shall be Vnbridled and the Broomstick made visible Well he continues his fine Division of Mr. Collier for some Pages I wonder what he makes of him at last he 'll rise in his Arithmetick to his own Golden Rule by and by perhaps and make him in the first ten Lines the chief of the Gyants that fought against the Gods and in the following Ten the Mars that overthrew the Gyants this he could do admirably well in a Poem on Namur and why not here Johns And yet you say he steals every thing now I dare swear he did not steal that Smith Yes doubtless he stole both the chief Gyant and Mars but for his own particular fancy he thought fit to make but One of those Two just as he thought fit here to make Two of Mr. Collier By this I am afraid that Mr. Collier appear'd more dreadful to him than both Mars and the Gyant together But Ans Page 85. pitiful and mean comparisons viz. Mars and the chief Gyant proceed from pitiful and mean Ideas