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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	great_a	see_v	6,824	5	3.2450	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14954	VVits A.B.C. or A centurie of epigrams	West, Richard, fl. 1606-1619, attributed name.; Willet, Roland, b. 1588 or 9, attributed name.	1608 (1608)	STC 25262; ESTC S111647	14,168	44

giue rather then want a shift Thus much still yearely for a new-yeares gift Or lay a hundred pounds in ieopardy With 's patron he shall neuer parson be Of such a place perhaps then vnsupplied Both stand to th'bargaine till the truth be tried But 's greedy patron straight on him bestowes The liuing so he doth his money lose Thus whilst Desert sits closely at his booke Immeritus takes all with golden hooke No more I le tell least that some learne of me Whilst that I carpe at such base knauery But such a patron such an vnletterd asse For fit companions thorugh the world may passe In Indoctum 49. WHat I haue bought 's mine owne none wil deny Indoctus then got 's liuing lawfully Though some say no for this I can be bold To say that it was truely bought and sold. Fortune fauors fooles 50. POets say Fortunes blind and cannot see And therefore to be borne withall if she Sometime drop gifts on vndeseruing wight But sure they are deceaue'd she hath her sight Else could it not at all times so fall out That fooles should haue when wise men goe without Ad Fortunam 51. VNconstant Fortune follies fauorite Worlds turning weather cocke true mirits spite Goddesse whome none but onely fooles adore Patronesse whose aide wisemen nere implore Fauor those worldlings that doe feare thy lookes He that is wise will nere come in thy bookes In Crispum 52. AMongst those Fortune fauors some excell And from their fellow fooles doe beare the bell Whilst some climbe vp by th'spoakes of Fortunes wheele Crispus did sodainly her fauour feele For onely by foode fauoring fortunes might Before hee 's Gentleman hee 's made a Knight A new art 53. THe fame were great of golden Alchymy Wert not it is the Actors beggery An Art found out by th'gallants of our dayes Wer 't honest did deserue far greater praise Who practise that thereon their substance spend Who practise this thereby their substance mend That is not strange cause 't is by learning wrought But this by such scarce er'e of learning thought For Ciuet gallants bearing Thrasoes lookes Can extract thousands out of Marchants bookes Is it not wondrous rare speake as you thinke To draw wealth out of Paper Pen and Inke Ad Lectorem 54. IF Seigneur Sattin chance on this to looke And fuming draw his poyniard stab the booke If finding's art reueald he curse and sweare What he would to th' author were he there Intreate him kindly and his patience craue Saying thereby he shall more Schollers haue In Theologum quendam 55. VAcuum and Infinitum are denied To haue a being in Philosophy One body cannot see it selfe deuide To haue at once moe places properly Although all this be true in generall Yet our Theulogus will all confute Not by learning or witt Sophisticall But by appearance though be quite mute All things consider'd if he come in view I know you 'le yeeld the subsequents are true His great great head a Vacuum doth containe Of wit I meane as by his talke appeares His belly Infinitum doth retaine For it vnmeasurable compasse beares His proper place his multiplicity Vnto his neighbours very well is knowne Him to haue many places who 'le deny That hath so many liuings of his owne Now I pray iudge whether this man be wise Being subiect to that Philosophy denies In Quosdam 56. MAny haue two liuings two places then The which is hated much of learned men And t is noe marle if schollers doe defie it Sith that Philosophie doth quite denie it In Proteum 57. PRoteus will now at length a surplice weare But yet with hood and cap he will not beare Some thinke it strange why he would that disgest Being all indiffrent and not like the rest But t' was in policie because he knew He should weare none had euery man his due In quendam 58. YOu doe him mighty wronge now by this light But Esquiere take the wall of him being knight Content your selfe I hope noe harme is done Though he be Knight hee s but a Yeomans sonne In Musicos 59. TIme is a iewell far exceeds all cost Yet stayes not long ere sodaynly t is lost T is time that brings both learning wealth and wit And euery one wants those that wanteth it What is there wisht for by the humane kind That not in time we easily may find How happy men were then if time would bide How happy men if t' would not from them slide Thrise happy they then who can it command With nod of head with stampe with stroake of hand And whilst some moaning their lost time doe weepe Can singinge merily it with them keepe So litle they not keeping time do feare That ouer it they prouly dominere Sometime they make it slow now faster runne Now triple that now as they first begunne Somtime they 'le haue it breefe now large now long Or what they please and all this for a song In Eosdem ad quendam 60. MOunseiur Crotchet me thought was very blith At this and mouing's lips did shew his teeth Smiling to heare himselfe and 's art in rime To be so much admir'd for keeping time But Crotchet d' yee heare though time a iewell is And though you seld in keeping time doe mis Yet such you are that when you keepe time least Then it is mainfest you keepe time best When you keepe time though strang then time you loose Time slides when you a time to keepe time choose Beside marke what vnto your fellow 's fald How time at length hath made his cockscomble bald In Grillum 61. CArdes Dice and Bowles and euery idle game Grillus doth vse and them his pastime name That he liues wondrous idely that doth show For time will passe not idely spent we know The Shepeards dog 62. THe Shepeards dogge should barke and bay That he may feare the coming wolfe away He should be watchfull and not giuen to sleepe And swift quickly to turne the straying sheepe But if the curre being dumme can no noyse make Then will the wolfe away the youngling take If he be growne so fat he cannot go Then in the sheepe-fold will there be great woe If he be sluggish and will doe no good Let him be hang'd let other haue his foode In Varum 63. VArus they say is a ranke Papist knowne How ere in workes in words it is not showne For if you marke his strange protesting vaine How deepely he protests in matters plaine And how he doth with pretestations mixe His common speech still I protest betwixt You 'le say how ere to others he do seeme That you him a great Protestant do deeme In Leucum 64. LEucus loues life yet liueth wickedly He hateth death yet wisheth he may die Honestly and well so what is naught he loues And what he would haue good he not approues Problema 65. SIth bed and sleepe do figure death and graue And of them both all men such practise haue And seeing that