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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
country_n	call_v	king_n	river_n	3,031	5	7.1028	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13520	Wit and mirth chargeably collected out of tauernes, ordinaries, innes, bowling greenes, and allyes, alehouses, tobacco shops, highwaies, and water-passages : made vp, and fashioned into clinches, bulls, quirkes, yerkes, quips, and ierkes : apothegmatically bundled vp and garbled at the request of old Iohn Garrets ghost / by Iohn Taylor, water-poet.	Taylor, John, 1580-1653.	1628 (1628)	STC 23813.7; ESTC S3387	27,900	82

welcome saying that there was a surloine of beefe that the oxe it came from cost 20 pound and that there was a Capon that hee payd 2 〈◊〉 6 pence for in the market at which a country yeoman sitting against the Capon 〈◊〉 to and cut off a leg of it the 〈◊〉 of the guests being not yet past their roast beefe to whom the man of the house said My friend I pray thee eate some of this same surloyne 〈◊〉 sir God forbide quoth the fellow I am but a poore man an oxe of 20 pound price is too deare meat a Capon of halfe a crowne will serue my turne well enough I thanke you 92 A Rich man told his nephew that he had read a booke called Lucius Apuleius of the Golden 〈◊〉 and that hee found there how Apuleius after hee had beene an asse many yeares by eating of 〈◊〉 he did recouer his manly shape againe and was no more an asse the young man replyed to his vncle Sir if I were worthy to aduise you I would giue you counsell to eate a sallad of Roses once a weeke your selfe 93 A 〈◊〉 hauing beene maried but 〈◊〉 weekes perceiued his wife to bée great with childe wherefore shee 〈◊〉 him to 〈◊〉 a Cradle shortly after he went to a Faire and bought ten cradles and being demanded why hee bought so many hee answered that his wife would 〈◊〉 vse for them all in one yeare 94 A Gentleman vntrust and vnbuttoned in a cold winter morning a friend of his told him that it was not for his health to goe so open in the raw weather and that he mused it did not kill him to goe so oft vntrust to whom the other replyed Sir you are of the mind of my Silceman Mercer or Taylor for they find fault as you do because I goe so much on trust but it is a fault I haue naturally from my parents and kindred and my creditors tell me that I doe imitate my betters 95 A 〈◊〉 of the peace committed a fellow to prison and commanded him away three or foure times but still the fellow entreated him Sirrah 〈◊〉 the Iustice must I bid you bee gone 〈◊〉 many times and will you not goe The fellow answered Sir if your worship had 〈◊〉 me to dinner or supper I should in my poore manners not to haue taken your offer vnder two or thrée biddings therefore I pray you blame me not if I looke for foure biddings to prison 96 A Great man kept a miserable house so that his seruants did alwayes rise from the table with empty panches though cleane licked platters truly said one of his men I thinke my Lord will worke miracles shortly for though he practise not to raise the dead or dispossesse 〈◊〉 deuill yet he goes about to feed his great family with almost nothing 97 ONe said that Bias the Philosopher was the first Bowler and that euer since the most part of Bowles doe in memory of their orginall weare his badge of remambrance and very dutifull 〈◊〉 Bias. Now to tell you this Bias was one of the seuen Sages or wise men of Greece My authors to proue him the inuenter 〈◊〉 Bowling are Shamrooke a famous 〈◊〉 Gimnosophist in his 9 booke of 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 of which opinion Balductus the Theban 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to bee in his third treatise of court performances the likliest coniecture is that it was denised as an embleme to figure out the worlds folly and inconstancie for though a child will ride a 〈◊〉 or staffe with an imagination that he is on horsebacke or make pyes of dirt or 〈◊〉 of cards féed with 〈◊〉 spoones and cry for 〈◊〉 péeces of bread and 〈◊〉 which childish 〈◊〉 are ridiculous to a man yet this wise game of Bowling doth make the fathers surpasse their children in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and niost delicate dogtrickes As first for the postures 1 handle your Bowle 2 adnance your Bowle 3 charge your Bowle 4 ayme your Bowle 5 discharge your Bowle 6 plye your Bowle in which last posture of plying your 〈◊〉 you shall perceiue many varieties and diuisions as wringing of the necke lifting vp of the shoulder clapping of the hands lying downe on one side running after the Bowle making long 〈◊〉 scrapes and legs sometimes bare-headed entreating him to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with pox on 't when t is too short and though the bowler be a Gentleman 〈◊〉 there hee may méet with attendant 〈◊〉 that sometimes will be his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to foure by his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what house hée came 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because he being 〈◊〉 and gotten into some handsome shape forgets the house he came of suffering his betters to giue him the often salute whilest hee like 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neither 〈◊〉 himselfe nor will know his superiors But I hold a mistresse to be the fittest name for it for there are some that are commonly tearmed 〈◊〉 which are not much better then mine aunts and a 〈◊〉 is oftentimes a marke for euery knaue to haue a 〈◊〉 at euery one striues to come so néere her that he would kisse 〈◊〉 and yet some are short some wide and some ouer and who so doth kisse it may perhaps swéeten his lips but I assure him it shall neuer fill his belly but rather empty his purse So much for bowling that I feare me I haue bowled 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 98 A Minister riding into the west parts of England happened to stay at a village on a Sunday where hee offered kindly to bestow a sermon vpon them which the Constable hearing did aske the 〈◊〉 if he were licenced to preach yēs quoth he that I am and with that hée drew out of a box his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was in Latine truly said the Constable I vnderstand no Latine yet I pray you let me 〈◊〉 it I perhaps shall picke out here and there a word No good sir 〈◊〉 the Minister I will haue no words 〈◊〉 out of it for spoyling my Licence 99 A Clinch A Country man being demanded how such a Riuer was called that ranne through their Country he answered that they neuer had 〈◊〉 to call the Riuer for it alwayes came without calling 100 A Fellow hauing his booke at the Sessions was burnt in the hand and was commanded to say God saue the King the King said he God saue my Grandam that taught me to reade I am sure I had 〈◊〉 hanged else 101 A toy to mocke an Ape IN Quéene Elizabeths 〈◊〉 there 〈◊〉 a fellow that 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 in his hat like a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and two letters this 〈◊〉 had a 〈◊〉 from the Lord 〈◊〉 at that 〈◊〉 to trauell with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which he 〈◊〉 whereby hee 〈◊〉 his 〈◊〉 from time to time at markets and 〈◊〉 his Ape 〈◊〉 alwayes 〈◊〉 vpon a 〈◊〉 dog and a man with a 〈◊〉 to attend 〈◊〉 It happened that these foure 〈◊〉 came to a 〈◊〉 called Looe in Corwall where the 〈◊〉 being taken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 went about to 〈◊〉 to the people that at such an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Ape

Image the country man came to the Church againe and 〈◊〉 a 〈◊〉 off to the new Image saying Although thou smilest and lookest faire vpon me yet thy father plaid me such a knauish pranke lately that I le beware how I 〈◊〉 too neere thee lest thou shouldest haue any of thy Fathers vnhappy qualities 14 A 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ten 〈◊〉 in suit of Law had a triall at 〈◊〉 where the 〈◊〉 went on her side wherevpon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 presently 〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 some of her néerest tenants 〈◊〉 to supper amongst whom was a plaine downe right countrey 〈◊〉 to whom the Lady sayd 〈◊〉 I thinke I haue tickled my aduersary now though it were long first I trow hee will make no brags of his medling with me The honest 〈◊〉 replyed Truely Madam I did euer thinke what it would come to at last for I knew when he first medled with your 〈◊〉 that he had a wrong Sow by the 〈◊〉 15 ONe asked a 〈◊〉 what the Westminster Hall was like Marry quoth the other it is like a Butlers Box at Christmas amongst 〈◊〉 for whosoeuer loseth the Box will be sure to bee a winner 16 A Proper Gentlewoman went to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a rich 〈◊〉 that had more gowt then good manners at her taking leaue hee requested her to tast a cup of Canara She contrary to his expectation tooke him at his 〈◊〉 and thanked him Hee commanded Ieffrey Starueling his man to wash a glasse and fill it to the Gentlewoman Honest 〈◊〉 fild a great glasse about the bignesse of two Taylors thimbles and gaue it to his master who kist it to saue cost and gaue it to the Gentlewoman saying 〈◊〉 it was good Canara of sixe yeares old at the least to whom shee an swered séeing the quantitie so small sir as you requested me I haue tasted your wine but I wonder that it should be so little being of such a great age 17 A Souldier vpon his march found a horse-shooe and stucke it at his girdle where passing through a wood some of the enemy lay in 〈◊〉 and one of them discharged his musket and the shot by fortune light against the fellowes horse-shooe A ha 〈◊〉 he I perceiue that little armor will serue a mans turne if it bee put on in the right place 18 ONe being in a 〈◊〉 with his friend looking out at the window he saw one riding on a horse in the stréet said he do you sée that horse yea 〈◊〉 the other then said he you may sweare you haue séene the best hors in England how do you know that said the other I know it well said he for it is my horse and I am sure that he is the best and yet I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that I haue one in my stable worth ten of him 19 AN vnhappy boy that kept his fathers 〈◊〉 in the country did vse to cary a payre of Cards in his pocket and méeting with boyes as good as himselfe would fall to Cards at the Cambrian game of Whip-her-ginny or English one and thirtie at which sport he would some daies lose a shéepe or two for which if his father corrected him hee in reuenge would driue the shéepe home at night ouer a narrow bridge where some of them falling besides the bridge were drowned in the swift brooke The old man being wearied with his vngracious dealing complained to a Iustice thinking to afright him from doing any more the like In briefe before the 〈◊〉 the youth was brought where vsing small reuerence and lesse 〈◊〉 the Iustice said to him Sirrah you are a notable villaine you play at Cards and lose your fathers shéepe at one and thirty The boy replyed that it was a lye A lye quoth the Iustice you saucy knaue dost thou giue me the 〈◊〉 No qd the boy I gaue not you the lye but you told me the lye for I neuer lost Shéepe at one and thirty for when my game was one and thirty I allwayes wonne Indéede said the Iustice thou saist true but I haue another accusation 〈◊〉 thée which is that you driue 〈◊〉 fathers shéepe ouer a narrow bridge where some of them are oftentimes drowned That 's a lye too quoth the 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 that goe ouer the bridge are well enough it is onely those that fall beside which are drowned Whereto the Iustice said to the boyes father Old man thou 〈◊〉 brought in to false accusations against thy 〈◊〉 for he neuer lost shéepe at one and thirty nor were there euer any drowned that went ouer the bridge 20 A Quiblet A 〈◊〉 passing through a roome where a Woman was 〈◊〉 a buck of clothes but hee thinking shée had béene 〈◊〉 saw a dish and dipped some small 〈◊〉 of the Lye which he supposing to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dranke vp and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 spt 〈◊〉 and spaule the 〈◊〉 asked him 〈◊〉 hée 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 told her and called her some 〈◊〉 names saying he had swallowed Lye Nay then I cannot blame you to be angry for you being a Souldier and a Captaine it must 〈◊〉 trouble your stomake to swallow the Lye 21 A Country fellow that had not walked much in stréets that were paued came to London where a dog came 〈◊〉 out of a house and furiously ran 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stooped to take vp a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Dogge and finding them all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or paued in the ground 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 strange Country am I in 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 tye vp the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let the dogs loose 22 AN honest Mayor of a Towne being all Mercy and no Iustice louing ease and quietnesse and vnwilling to commit any offence or offender one said of him that hée was like the herbe Iohn in a pottag pot for that herbe did not giue any taste at all either good or bad but an excellent 〈◊〉 so the Mayor did neither good nor harme but as an image of a Mayors authority filled vp the roome 23 A Iustice of the Peace being angry with a pilfering Knaue said Sirrah if thou dost not mend thy manners thou wilt be shortly 〈◊〉 or else I will bee hauged for thée The bold knaue replyed I thanke your worship for that kind offer and I beséech your worship not to bee out of the way when I shall haue occasion so vse you 24 CErtaine Iustices of the Peace being informed of the odious abuses daily committed by drunkennesse in their Iurisdictions did according to their places and duties méet at a market towne and sate two dayes hearing informations and working reformations at last they concluded that the Ale and Béere were too strong and therefore commanded that from thence forth smaller drinke should bée brewed whereby these vnruly people might sometimes goe to bed sober But one mad tospot fellow being much grieued at this order hauing made himselie half pot-shaken without feare or wit came to the Iustices and asked them if they had sate two dayes about the brewing of small drink to whom one of the Iustices replyed yes Why then quoth the 〈◊〉 I