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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	speak_v	think_v	word_n	4,073	5	4.0677	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06880	The booke of marchauntes very profitable to all folkes to knowe of what wares they ought to be ware of, for the begilyng of them. Newly perused and augmented by the first authoure well practised in suche doynges. Reade and profite.; Livre des marchans. English	Marcourt, Antoine de, d. ca. 1560.; Farel, Guillaume, 1489-1565, attributed name.	1547 (1547)	STC 17313.7; ESTC S117723	19,535	96

¶ The booke of Marchauntes very profitable to all folkes to knowe of what wares they ought to be ware of for the begilyng of them ▪ Newly perused and augmented by the fyrst authoure well practised in suche doynge Reade and profite ¶ Ad libelli Repertorem ¶ 〈◊〉 sine mercatu Merces Mercator inen●●●●… ●olle tibi Merces has tibi sponte damno ☞ Anno. 1547. ¶ The prologue of the author THe purpose that we presently intende is as me morable worthi to be knowen as any other that may be spoken of and also y ● mater ther of is so euident cleare and ue rytable that all people may easyly vnderstand it yea truly small chyldren in all countreis and landes what soeuer they be for ther be many marchants and chapmen in euery place wherby the trade is the more euident to be knowē To be brief in all the sayeyng of thys boke is not one spytefull difficulte but onely some abuses ouer manyfest shewed and bryefly touched bycause that they may be eschewed in tyme comynge And therfore I praye al thē that shal haue this boke to rede it diligētly For of trouth if it be well vnderstanden there shall come inestimable profit to the poore worlde by the healp of god whiche eternally be praised and magnifyed Amen Here begineth the Marchants boke He estate of Marchandise for the time of thys mortall lyfe is so necessary that without it we can stant ly leue it is so alowable and profitable Prouided that it be faythfully maynteyned That it is necessari lyuely experyence sheweth it openly for of truth it is necessary that the haboundance of one countrey healp to satisfy that whych lacketh in an other And therby al labouryng persones by diligēt industry are requisit for the mainteinyng of the cōmōweale the whyche without fraude or gyle ought to distribute cōuey chaunge conserue and transporte all sortes of wares frō one place to an other accordinge to the exigence of the tyme and behouf of y ● people The whiche is behouffull to all faythfull marchants as good trusty seruants of the comen welth wyth moderate gaynes and profyte of theyr wares without dyssemlyng in maynteninge their estate of their persone housholde so that they occupy in all trouth without circumuention and domage of theyr neybour with out be gylynge or any deceyt For if fydelyte and enteyer veryte be not foūde in them they be not marchātes but rather wi ly theues and cautelous gallants By similitude of this estate Iesus Christe hath taught his children To multyply en crese and do profite with the talentes and gystes of God whyche are delt to euery one according to his good wyl sai yng thus ▪ Occupy vntyll I come And at hys comyng agayn punished the slouthful and yll seruant that dyd not his deuour to bringe y ● frute of the gyft that he had receiued doyeng vs to wite that wee shoulde not be ydle and not to receyue the gyftes of God in vayne or els we cannot escape y ● punyshment of God And it is to be thought that he spake these wordes of bodi marchādyse For of trueth as thys estate wherof I speake is honorable botth in temporall and ciuil thynges euen so is it cursed and detestable in spirituall thynges And therfor saynt Paule in the vertu of God forbiddeth euery man that wylbe a minister and seruant of spirituall thinges whiche is the administration of y ● holy worde of God and the ordinances of Iesus Christ that he appl● hym not to tēporal and seculer chafferinge and netheles God hath permitted in hys ●uror that in stead of good pasters and veritable ministers of the saide worde to chaunce in the church I say not alone li grosse chapmē but furious theues and insaciable rauenyng wolues Should not he be iuged a begyler and these whych selleth the thynge y t is not hys own or that by subtyll meanes in sted of gold and syluer selleth tyn bras And should not the byer bee begylled and deceiued Thus certainly long ago to the greate detriment of soules of bodyes goodes of the poore people is chaunced to vs that in stead of faithfull seruannts of God that should lede and teach y ● poore worlde to the waye of saluacion be entred not by y e dore which is Iesus Christ but by violence haue clymed in by another waye as false impostores and as S. Peter sayeth fals masters lyers teachyng sectes of perditiō forsakyng the Lorde that hath bought thē blaspheming the waye of trouth the whiche in auarice by feined wordes of our seyde marchants haue occupied for suche workers of iniquytie haue forgotten nor left nothing wher with by cautelus inuentions they 〈…〉 ht occupy at their pleasure ▪ ●nd will And to say the trueth they haue set all thynge to sale euē to crye Paradyse is to sel by Paradyse by There is no spirite that can comprise nor tong declare all the marketes of these chapmē and so great a swalow prodigious multitude Some poynts we must declare leauyng y e resydue to be thought of pepole of more subtyl vnderstandynge The marchants that wee speke of be maruelous wyly And haue encreased their wares so gratly with their workmanship that they haue not left towne nor vilage hil nor valey but thei haue filled thē with theyr shoppes There wer neuer slyer foxes for they haue ramped all vnder theyr pawes And the better to lede their trade thei cause y ● people to beleue that it is a greate welth and yet is it neither mornor lesse thā as the fals Iesabell paynted her eies ye all her face with ruddy colours other hewes for to seme fayre and esthew the fury of Iehu Thus likewise these coueytous of glori ●uaricians marchants paint their workes at trybuting it to them ●el●s that belongeth to God As rightuousnes vertu sapience pardane mercy re●i ion of syne haucuing euer in their month Lord God thankes to God in the named God of the authory of God of S. Peter of saint Paule c. beholde here the trompe the paynted glosse of theyr malycyousnes for they knowe well that other wyse they should not be set by and theyr trade soone be distroed In bieynge and selling must be good faceyng disguisyng among thē hauing their heades al most al plucked shorne or clipped therfore it is wrytten y ● none may do as they biey nge and sellynge but he haue the name or marke of the beast They chepen they chop changeand sell they bye and sell agayne they barginge to gyther on the best fas you for parsonages curats and do hoke benyfyces and the better to do they teache eche other theyr vacatiō and craft Theyr tyme of barganing is euer redi haue sōtim great fayres as tyme and season requireth and always on high feast dayes clene contrary to the other Marchants Whē Ester witsōtyde halowmas Christemas and such