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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
work_n	day_n	holy_a	sabbath_n	14,086	5	10.0894	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48905	Lamentatio civitatis, or, Londons complaint against her children in the countrey shewing her weaknesse, poverty, and desolatenesse ... : as also a brief account how many died in the years 1529 [i.e. 1592], 1603, 1625, 1630, 1636,1637, 1638, 1646,1647 1648, with this present year 1665 : likewise several preservatives against the infection.		1665 (1665)	Wing L277; ESTC R41449	25,022	49

have been the Companions of Princes but now are gone their place is scarce to be found How hath my back groaned with heavy burdens and now Issachar stands still for want of work One waine may carry all I sell in a day I have had such trading that I could scarce finde time to serve God but now every day is an Holy-day because I have prophaned his Holy day even his blessed Sabbath which have been dedicated to him as a remembrance of his glorious Resurrection But I have lyen dead in sinnes and trespasses I have given libertie to my servants to execute their wills in Sabbath-breaking and deceiving now God hath proclaimed libertie for them to the Pestilence to wandring to idlenesse My apprentices have been the children of Knights and Justices of the Countrey which they accepted at my hands joyfully but now my children are cast out by those swains like dung rated like beggars served like swine in hogstyes buried in the high way like Malefactors But whither doth my grief transport me This the Countrey shall hear of hereafter I have opened my Coffers to the Countries wants full often and have som of them in bonds still but now I want it for my poor Children and they neither look to discharge their debt nor in requital of my kindnesse will shew pity to my dispersed and despised Children I have had feasts admired at whose very sight hath cloy'd the appetite and my very Reason hath turned Ccok to cocker the p●late of my Wantons I would those feastings had stocked my poor kindred in my Suburbs and set them to work that there might be no complaining in my streets with which sacrifice God would be well-pleased The worst servant in my house hath had bread enough and now I starve for hanger for many of my children cry for bread and I feare me die of the Stomack Sicknesse as well as the Spotted Sicknesse if there were a Bill could be gotten of all diseases Davids tears are my repast his sighs my repose Jobs Message is the newes most rife on my Exchange One robs me of my Asses another of my Camels my Sheep are consumed my Children are bruised my self strucken with boiles and sores I see nothing but my nakedness Those great Gates which were wont to be furnished with spangled star-like beauties are now the lodging for poor Children or places for dung and draught My Chamber and Treasury which was wont to be my refuge can no more supply my wants it hath been so swept Beside the stock of my Corporations hath been broken to maintain my wants and yet my Children cry for bread and their brethren that remain are pressed with their maintenance and urged almost beyond their ability to finde them necessaries This misery makes me again remember my folly who have wished for some meanes that might consume some of my Children I being not able to maintain them and God hath now said Amen to my ungracious desires for he hath taken them away who might have served for my defence And now I see when God sends mouths he sends meat also for though I have buried so many thousand I have nothing more then I had in wealth or trading Nay there are many who would be glad their houses were visited that they might be kept by the parish because they have nothing to eat Yet I have some wicked wretches who have learned of some Countrey-farmers when they want to grumble against God for somthing and when they have Gods plenty to murmur for nothing For their eye is evil because Gods is good When they have Corne enough they say it is worth nothing and they can make no money of it but they can make themselves Curses with it for hording it up when they should make bread of it for the poor It they have bread for their Babes and food for their Hinds and provision for their Beasts and a reasonable price for the remainder have they not sufficient Yes more then they deserve Such as these have helped to hale a Curse from God and by their means it is I am so lean in looks so lank in purse so emptie in stomack But I have deserved my self more then all these punishments doubled yet shall they scape who help to encrease them No. That is my feare that God hath not yet done and my grief that mine own Children should farther provoke him and help to aggravate my sorrowes For I am not only weak by sicknesse poor being destitute of meanes but forsaken being desolate and forlorn of Company But here lies my Comfort The Poor shall not alwayes be forgotten the expectation of the needie shall not perish for ever And although it may be asked in respect of my Babylouish sinnes how is that golden Citie ceased Yet I have this hope in Gods mercy that the first borne of the poor shall feed and the needie lie down in safetie For as Saint Austin hath it Pauper est in animo Dei non in sacculo the poor is in Gods minde not in his purse so that his purse may be scattered upon the rich but his minde runs on the poor But yet who would think Children should be so unkinde to a Mother who hath educated them in the knowledge of God and in the experience of her bosome-love to let their Mother be forlorne of Company My company that I stand in need of but want● are Ministers Physicians Traders The one would help me being soule-sick the other being body-sick the third being belly-sick There are others whom I finde missing too as my Lawyers by whose Science it hath been spoken of me as it was of the City Abel They shall ask counsel at Abel and so they ended the matter But some of my sonnes have bereaved me of that good report and have almost made it If they ask counsel at London so they may begin the matter let it end when it will These men I misse but I do not want them except those who walks by the rule of a good Conscience those that do Jus dicere or Jus dare these I do esteem and respect And as for those that do Ius esse swallow the Law but not Jus edere bring little to light those that fill Westminster-Hall but to little purpose I blame not those Honourable and grave persons who are many of them employed by my Royal Soveraign and the Father of my Countrey And I know that their judicious Consultations may benefit me wheresoever they are for these I earnestly pray that God may keep them in all times of trouble There be others whose company I misse namely those whom God hath given in great abundance whose very House keeping might have relieved some refreshed others but their countenance and good example of fasting and praying would have encouraged all but they are gone and they neglect to employ that Talent which God hath given them in charge But some Charitable and sincere persons still remaineth with us He