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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	world_n	year_n	young_a	110	3	5.5671	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08182	The cuckovv. Richardus Niccols, in Artibus Bac. Oxon	Niccols, Richard, 1584-1616.	1607 (1607)	STC 18517; ESTC S113202	26,286	56

Will shower downe gold on him if he but graunt In nights black vaile he need not hide his head If he intend to got ' Amphytrions bed For th' Alcumenaes here both day and night Will meet him any where for loues delight If Daphne heere do runne she slackes her pace Till Phoebus catch her whom she must embrace And heere if louely Syrinx do intend To runne from rugged Pan yet in the end She seeming faint her swifter course will stay That she may be the pipe when Pan doth play For neither Pans high hornes nor rugged beard Can make the Nymphes in this same place affeard Fie fie dame Progne quoth the little Wren In sooth 'gainst them thou hast too bitter been I do not thinke that such incontinence Can lurke beneath the glorious excellence Of such rare beautie which doth seeme t'exce●… In these faire dames that in this place do dwell Yet if in them such light demeanor be Doubtlesse they do not make it knowne to thee How then canst thou such things as these relate With their close deeds not being intimate Progne replied vnwisely haue you said Me with vntruth vngentlie to vpbraid For know dame Wren that what I late did show Is nothing in respect of that I know For in my neast built wondrous by my wit Beneath their chamber-windowes I do sit Where if your selfe were present but one day You would speake more then lately I did say For there oft times I do both see and heare Those things that shame to tell bids me forbeare This said the other birds all silent sate As modestly for bearing t' aske of that Which Prognes selfe did seeme halfe sham'd to tell Vntill at last spake gentle Philomel And said deare sister hide not what you know Because the thing breeds shame which thou shalt show For to the author of the sin be shame Not vnto him that 's guiltlesse in the same Nor should examples of immodestie Offend the modest eares of chastitie For vertues glorious shine then shines most bright When 't is oppos'd to vice her opposite As whitest things seeme fair●…st to the eye When they be match'd with blacke their contrarie Wherefore dearesister speake and boldly tell The shamelesse deeds of dames that heere do dwell So shall we sing about the world so wide That which their chamber wals now seeme to hide Of which perhaps when they hereafter heare To do the like hence forth they will forbeare She hauing said thus Progne made replie If that ye will yebirds that I descrie And draw the curtaines of the vnchaste bed Where Mars and Venus hornes old Vulcans head Come neare and listen lest the obscene sound Of my strange speech do in the ayre abound And in the same do breed corruption From whence may spring a foule infection Of those hot furious fierie lustfull beasts That toil'd with lust do loath loues vulgar feasts Whom nature cannot furnish with excesse In kind-like game but that some monstrous messe They do affect I will not heere speake much Lest I offend my meaning is of such As imitate Romes Semiramida Or that Italian Cortigiana And put in practise th' art of Aretine At which both heauen and nature doth repine And with that Lybian lustfull foule Syrena That woman monster Dodecamechana In Venus act deuise twelue sundrie measures With lustie lads at full to take their pleasures Nor will I tell though many be of these That with Athlanta and Hyppomenes Do Stalion-like run madding out of season To quench their lust 'gainst nature and 'gainst reason Nor here to shew to you is my intent That execrable squirtlike instrument Which lust burnt fierie female monsters vse In fruitlesse lust to natures vile abuse For these are things not fitting speech of birds But best befitting roughest Salyrs words I only here intend to make report Of that same common counted cuckow sport Which by our dames is deem'd a lawfull game Though impudence it selfe blush at the same I meane of th' old Malbeccoes of our age Who iustly beare Cornuted Vulcans badge In Trynobant as to and fro I flie It hath been oftentimes my chaunce t'espie An old cold Ianuarie iet before A fresh young May a spreetly Helinore Vnequall both in yeares and in affection And also far vnlike in their condition Yet to the blind-ey'd world it did appeare That May did loue her Ianuarie deare Which I scarse trusting with a curious eie Haue closely trackt their steps the truth to trie And loe while he hath set his thoughts vpon His horded heapes his May being left alone He being close at his accounts aboue While she beneath sits longing after loue In steps me March clad like a lustie Knight Or pleasant Aprill full of sweet delight Who in loues wanton art not wanting skill Hath slights enow t' assault fresh May at will But what needs long assault where none doth shield For gentle heart she is as prone to yeeld As he t' assault which well this younker knowes Though seeming strange a while with her he glose For by her touching stroking gentle pressing Her rubbing wringing wrestling wanton thrusting Coy looking culling and kind inte●…taine He finds enough and knowes he●… meaning plaine For gentle May no proffer'd time will lose When as from home old Ianuar●…e goes And then the vnchaste kisses common flies Which Hymens strongest nuptiall bands vnties Then beautie sets the e●…es of lust on fire And fancie breakes forth into strong desire And lastly lust doth in a moment space Make Ianuaries browes bud forth apace Which neither he nor any else do 〈◊〉 Though it be commonly well knowne to me For these be obiects common to my sight As in my bowers I sit both day and night Then say ye birds if in this place can dwell My sister Casta gentle Philomel Ay me quoth Philomel the more my griefe That I poore wretch can no where find reliefe For where alas shall Casta find a place Where proud Dan Cuckow sings not her disgrace Great Phoebes name is now extincted quite Whose fame whilom the golden starres did smite Where else are her faire Nymphes whose beauties blaze Did decke the world with like to Phoebus raies Who with the slower of heauenly chastitie Their beauties garland did so dignifie That Venus brat though deem'd a god of power With all his flames could neuer scorch their flower But now alas faire Phoebes daintie rose Which many Nymphes did in their brests inclose And with great care did tender it more deare Then dearest life doth no where now appeare Else why doth Casta suffer such disgrace While that the Cuckow sings in euery place As thus she spake not far they did espie How proud Dan Cuckow to and fro did flie Who vaunting in the ayre with outstretch'd wing His bastard note triumphantly did sing At whom the Swallow Robbin and the Wren And Titmouse as if they inrag'd had been With eager thoughts did flie whom they in chase A long time did pursue from place to place