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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	work_v	young_a	youth_n	13	3	7.8100	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16814	Wonders worth the hearing VVhich being read or heard in a winters euening, by a good fire, or a summers morning, in the greene fields: may serue both to purge melancholy from the minde, & grosse humours from the body. Pleasant for youth, recreatiue for age, profitable for all, and not hurtfull to any.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1602 (1602)	STC 3714; ESTC S115952	19,622	31

take it Sir quoth the young man I thanke you but patience rather then pitty hath béene euer the way to profit the small grasse of the field fils the barne full of hay and the poore mens money fils the rich mans purse he that will not kill a shéep because hee will not see his bloud may hap to be without meate for his dinner and why should I pitty him that hath no pitty of him selfe yet pe●hap● I may make that gaine of the wilfull that néede not come neere me y ● may make mee comfort them that cānot goe from me corruption you know hath a part in ●ur nature whose infection bréedeth diuers effectes of euill and who liueth without sin and therefore if rich men will be beggers and beggers make rich men giue me leaue to take my course I will leaue you to your good conscience Oh cousen bee not a bloud sucker there is other meate then Mutton and therfore pray not vpon Lambes if you can endure the cry of the miserable yet in what you can be comfortable and if the wilfull be wofull yet be not you ioyfull but to all distressed be pittifull and put away that corruption that may bréed an eternall confusion put not the poore to his Irons least they eate with sorrow into his soule nor detaine the wofull in misery leas● you be shutte out of the gates of mercy howsoeuer Iustice commaund execution vse you commiseration and so since I see your intent I will not put you from your purpose but to the last hundreth deale as plainely what will you doe with it In briefe Sir quoth the young man I will put it out vpon interest where by such plots as I can worke I will get foure score in the hundreth and perhaps my hundreth againe that were a wonder quoth the olde man but is not this intérest you speake of plaine vsury No sir quoth the youth not plaine but in plaine truth where there is no truth it is priuy Usury As how quoth the olde man Why sir quoth the youth when my petty Brokers séekers for young spend-thriftes heare of a youth new come to his land that is ready to sell it ere hee know the rent of it vpon him goe they to me they come for some commodity eyther an Artificiall stone that must passe for an Orientall Iewell a rare péece of Silke that will scarse holde the cutting out a lame horse though stand right for a little way and these with ●any other such trickes must be foysted into a little money to make vp a hundreth pounds for which he shall be surely lapt in bondes sufficient to hold him fast then ere hee come to haue his money my Broker must haue his share his Seller must haue his share and the S●riuenor must haue more then for his writings for his share out of al which shares I must haue a share besides the cōmodity of my money badware yet I must séeme an honest man of good cō●cience that wil not take aboue y ● Statute for any thing but thus wee share the Spend-thriftes money amōg vs if he breake his day as it is ●ddes he wil then new double bōdes and newe shares for the forbearaunce till thus with our sharing we leaue him but a little to share from vs Alas quoth the old man why you were as good take his purse by the high way oh no she quoth the youth it is ●arre better and easier thus to méete with his money by a by way wee that thus ●éede vpon the folly of youth are but ordained to bee tho scourges of Prodigality and when auerice hath once bewitched the minde with wealth it is but labour lost to perswade reason to leaue it and therefore Cousen though by your countenance it agrée not with your conscience beare with me to tel you truely my intent Oh cousen quoth the olde man truely this last part is the w●●st of all the play and therefore since I sée your intentin euery one of these courses rather to deceiue the simple then to make an honest gaine I had as lieue kéép my money in my purse as imploy it to such kindé of profit if I may sée a good bargaine wherein you may honestly benefit your selfe without cheating or wicke● cunning vpon your owne bon● without suerty I am for you for a hundreth poundes Sir quoth he I thanke you but if you be so scrupelous I meane not to ●roubl● you that is as you please cousen quoth the olde man so ca●●ing for a reckoning of a Pint of Muska●ine or such a matter out they goe together who no ●ooner w●re out of doores but they became both Gurne●ds and was not this a wonder Fran. Yes if t●●y had béen sowst but as they were it was no wonder 〈◊〉 ol●e William Gurnerd of Frinsly Borough and hi●●ousen Henry Gurnerd of Arnix with him the one as honest and kinde an olde Farmer and the other as fine ●nd wise a youth for his time as one shoul● méete w●●h among a thousand but since the Sunne growes ●ow I will quit you with one wonder of mine and so giue ouer till we méete againe Lor. Con●ent ●se your discretion as time and my memory serueth I will either giue ouer or requite you Fran. Well then you shall vnderstand that it was my ha● in a kinde of house betwixt a Tauerne and an ●lehouse where all sortes of people might haue ware for their money Lor. Oh by your leaue a little was it not a kinde of a Burdell a brothell or a baudy house Fran. Fie man you speake too broad for where a man may be merry for his money is there no meate thinke you but laced Mutton and if a kinde wench play the good fellow must Master Constable needes be angry it is a heauie hearing Lor. Yea when the belly growes so bigge that the burthen must lye vpon the parish Fra. Away man that is the w●rst but if men were not hard hearted women might be better dealt withal Lor. Come you will one day be catcht napping for your fine humour but I pray you on w t your wonder Fran. Why I will tell you sitting in this foresaid tipling tapling house gnawing vpon a crust longer then I had néed and making many sips o● a pot of Ale hauing a faggot before me which I meant to sit the burning out of I heard in the next roome somewhat closer then where I sat two or thrée laughing very hartely and as through a creuice in the boords I might espye them I saw a fat queane with a double chin set betwixt a couple of léering companions at the least crafty knaues where laying mine eare a little to the wall I heard all their chat which was as I will tell you Cousen quoth one of them to this Fubs by this drinke and then he fecht me off a whole Can that his eye● stared with his draft this money was well got why I got forty shillings