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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
world_n	great_a	king_n	monarch_n	2,456	5	9.6433	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68961	The divels legend. or: a learned cachephochysme containing the confession of the leaguers fayth : wherein doctour Pantaloun, and Zanie his pupill, doo teach that all hope ought to be grounded on the puissant King Phillip of Spaine, and vpon all the happie apostles of the holy league, and that they ought not to doo as the Brytans, English-men, and Protestants doo; which beleeue in God onely, harkening rather to the voyce of Iesus Christ, than vnto their holy Father the Pope. Composed in Rome by the reuerend Father Iuuenall Borget, and sent vnto the gentlemen of England by Charles Cyprian. Translated according to the French coppie.	Borget, Juvenall.	1595 (1595)	STC 3388; ESTC S109380	5,598	21

THE DIVELS LEGEND OR A Learned Cachephochysme containing the Confession of the Leaguers Fayth Wherein Doctour Pantaloun and Zanie his Pupill doo teach that all hope ought to be grounded on the Puissant King Phillip of Spaine and vpon all the happie Apostles of the holy League and that they ought not to doo as the Brytans English-men and Protestants doo which beleeue in God onely harkening rather to the voyce of Iesus Christ than vnto their holy Father the Pope Composed in Rome by the reuerend Father Iuuenall Borget and sent vnto the Gentlemen of England by Charles Cyprian Translated according to the French Coppie Printed at London for Thomas Gosson and are to be sold at his shop by London Bridge gate 1595. The Diuels Legend Or A learned Cakephochysme containing the confession of the Leaguers faith handled betvveene Docter Pantaloun and Zanie his pupell Pantaloun ZAny finding in my selfe an immoderate care of thy poore soule which like a foolish birde couets to flye into Hell ere her pinnions haue strength to beare her from her necks breaking and seeing thou desistest from blessing thy forehead with thy right hands crossing as if the signe of the Crucifix were a bug-beare to scarre away thy blessings and that thou abiurest the touche of holy water forgetst thy praiers and hast lost the memorable vse of thy Beads which like the check of a clock kept time to thy tongues bable I would faine know since all the memorable seruice of thy auntient diuinitie is forgotten in what new diuell now of late thou reposest thy new beleeuings Zanie My good Maister my Tutor or the fountaine from whence I haue begotten mine instruction be not ignorant that earlie in the morning after I haue religiouslie cald vpon the great Creator of good cheere and with infinite Aues saluted the crimson virgin of the darke celler and with the helpe of their two dieties filled the emptinesse of my seldome satisfied belly I then repose all my faith build the groundworke of my hope and plant the mightie mountaine of my charitie in the holy O lie league conioyned with her happie Apostle scorning to imitate the king-counterfaiting Hugonites which beleeue onely in God and none other Pantaloun I pray thee my good disciple tell me what beast is that which thou callest the holy league and what creatures are those which thou baptisest her Apostels Zanie What beast in the Deuils name of my honesty Tutor I smile at the simplenesse of thy question why it is the beast of all beasts that which makes the best the most beastliest and the most beastliest best in a beastly censure it is the desire of lust idlenesse inuention and the best bloome in ambitious spring to wit she is a faire whore violated by adulterous princes confest absolued by false Priests and vncontionably bribde by ignorant people as for her Apostles they are as Pope Sextus a better spaniard than a Gospeller truer to the one than religious to the other though honest to neither the father and the Sonne without the Holy ghost for he like the vocatiue case is wanting in all their substantiues which is to be vnderstood the father of Spaine the sonne of Sauoy and insteed of the Holy-ghost the grand diuell of Loraine Pantaloun Recite to me then my good scholler all the articles of thy Creede grounded and made by those Apostles to the end that we may not onely heleeue but the world may be wise in assured knowledge that thou art become a great Doctor in the Spanish Macharon or the diuels golden Legend Zanie Tutor I will First I beleeue in the most great mightie and saint murthering king of Spaine the creator of the new land as much of the arche dominator or superintendant of the poore Hugonites asmuch of the Turkes great maister of France as much as of England Emperour or monarche not fully so much of the world as of the filthe and vncleannesse in the world I beleeue in his sonne and in his daughter his children and their children I beleeue in that great faire well cut and better combed beard the Duke of Tienops and of Sauoy who by his rare and vnsearcheable vertue is ascended vp into the signe Gemini together with the infant passing many times by the wanton horned signe Capricornus I beleeue in the great Messias or Saluator the Duke of Parma that he is dead buried and descended into hell I beleeue in the great grosse gray and goodly head of the Duke De Mains which stands in more need of philosophy than beggars of almes and to be briefe for tediousnesse is laborsome I beleeue in the holy church of Lorraine asmuch Apostolike as Christian and to neither of both any thing at all allyed Pantaloun Into how many articles is this Creede or symbole deuided and which be they Zanie Into twelue and these they are Ambition Enuy. Hypocrisie Tyrannie Slaunder Flatterie Treason Sedition Ignorance Malice Rashnesse and Rebellion and these my deare maister are the degrees or ladders steps whereby all true catholiques must be receiued into the church of the league or Spanish Synagogue Pantaloun But what is the intentiue meaning of these holy happy Apostles of the league and what is the end of their so much admired excellencies Zanie The intention is most good because in the seeming procreation of their acts they immitate God himselfe foreuen as he created all things for his owne glorie so bring they forth all their factions for their owne triumphes only this difference his is admired and reuerenced of all soules theirs wondered at and hated of all what euer hath feeling of christianitie Pantaloun But how gallop they or post they forwarde in this so meritorious or blessed worke or how sweat they in the ferueneie of this holy action Zanie Euen so and in such manner as the three Sages which Pilgrim-like trauaild from the Orient faining to worship Christ and plant him in too long forsaken France bringing with them three presents Warre Pestilence and Famine whilst the Loade-starre to their trauaile is hypocrisie and presumption Pantaloun But what fruite or profit shall redownd to this endlesse webbe of their continuall working Zanie If they sowe Iuorie they shall reape thornes if they beget a monster they shall bring forth a Chymera if by their factious troubles they confound sweetnesse in the beginning by the residence of their euill they shall finde bitternesse in the ending Pantaloun How shall then my gallant pupill this thy holy league finde an end from the eternitie of her labor Zanie O my good maister she must first charitablie visite her deare holy father Lucifer and her mother Proserpina and all her worme eaten progenitors of Lorraine for sooner shall she purchase a fee simple in any of their regions than haue an estate for terme of life in the consines of vnhappie France FINIS Composed by Charles Cyprian A nevv pleasant and delightfull Astrologie inuented by reuerend Maister Harlequin the royall Astrologer calculated for the