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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
life_n	believe_v	know_v	word_n	4,525	5	4.2540	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20849	The second part, or a continuance of Poly-Olbion from the eighteenth song Containing all the tracts, riuers, mountaines, and forrests: intermixed with the most remarkable stories, antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures, and commodities of the east, and northerne parts of this isle, lying betwixt the two famous riuers of Thames, and Tweed. By Michael Drayton, Esq.; Poly-Olbion. Part 2	Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.	1622 (1622)	STC 7229; ESTC S121634	140,318	213

that height in zeale whereto he did attaine There by his fellow Monkes most cruelly was slaine So Cambria Beno bare and Gildas which doth grace Old Bangor and by whose learn'd writings we imbrace the knowledge of those times the fruits of whose iust pen Shall liue for euer fresh with all truth-searching men Then other which for hers old Cambria doth auerre Saint Senan and with him wee set Saint Deiferre Then Tather will we take and Chyned to the rest With Brauk who so much the I le of Bardsey blest By his most powerfull prayer to solitude that liu'd And of all worldly care his zealous Soule depriu'd Of these some liu'd not long some wondrous aged were But in the Mountaines liu'd all Hermits here and there O more then mortall men whose Faith and earnest prayers Not onely bare ye hence but were those mightie stayres By which you went to heauen and God so clearely saw As this vaine earthly pompe had not the power to draw Your eleuated soules but once to looke so low As those depressed paths wherein base worldlings goe What mind doth not admire the knowledge of these men But zealous Muse returne vnto thy taske agen These holy men at home as here they were bestow'd So Cambria had such too as famous were abroad Sophy King Gulicks sonne of Northwales who had seene The Sepulchre three times and more seuen times had beene On Pilgrimage at Rome of Beniuentum there The painfull Bishop made by him so place we here Saint Mackloue from Northwales to little Britaine sent That people to conuert who resolutely bent Of Athelney in time the Bishop there became Which her first title chang'd and tooke his proper name So she her Virgins had and vow'd as were the best Saint Keyne Prince Brechans child a man so highly blest That thirtie borne to him all Saints accounted were Saint Inthwar so apart shall with these other beare Who out of false suspect was by her brother slaine Then VVinifrid whose name yet famous doth remaine Whose Fountaine in Northwales intitled by her name For Mosse and for the Stones that be about the same Is sounded through this I le and to this latter age Is of our Romists held their latest Pilgrimage But when the Saxons here so strongly did reside And surely seated once as owners to abide When nothing in the world to their desire was wanting Except the Christian Faith for whose substantiall planting Saint Augustine from Rome was to this Iland sent And comming through large France ariuing first in Kent Conuerted to the faith King Ethelbert till then Vnchristened that had liu'd with all his Kentishmen And of their chiefest Towne now Canterbury cald The Bishop first was made and on that See instauld Foure other and with him for knowledge great in name That in this mighty worke of our conuersion came Lawrence Melitus then with Iustus and Honorius In this great Christian worke all which had beene laborious To venerable age each comming in degree Succeeded him againe in Canterbury See As Peter borne in France with these and made our owne And Pauline whose great zeale was by his Preaching showne The first to Abbots state wise Austen did preferre And to the latter gaue the See of Rochester All canoniz'd for Saints as worthy sure they were For establishing the Faith which was receiued here Few Countries where our Christ had ere been preached then But sent into this I le some of their godly men From Persia led by zeale so Iue this Iland sought And neere our Easterne Fennes a fit place finding taught The Faith which place from him the name alone deriues And of that sainted man since called is Saint-Iues Such reuerence to her selfe that time Deuotion wan So Sun-burnt Affrick sent vs holy Adrian Who preacht the Christian Faith here nine and thirtie yeere An Abbot in this Isle and to this Nation deare That in our Countrey two Prouinciall Synods cald T'reforme the Church that time with Heresies enthrald So Denmarke Henry sent t' encrease our holy store Who falling in from thence vpon our Northerne shore In th' Isle of * Cochet liu'd neere to the mouth of Tyne In Fasting as in Prayer a man so much diuine That onely thrice a weeke on homely cates he fed And three times in the weeke himselfe he silenced That in remembrance of this most abstenious man Vpon his blessed death the English men began By him to name their Babes which it so frequent brings Which name hath honoured been by many English Kings So Burgundy to vs three men most reuerent bare Amongst our other Saints that claime to haue their share Of which was Felix first who in th'East-Saxon raigne Conuerted to the faith King Sigbert him againe Ensueth Anselme whom Augusta sent vs in And Hugh whose holy life to Christ did many win By * Henry th' Empresse sonne holpe hither and to haue Him wholly to be ours the See of Lincolne gaue So Lumbardy to vs our reuerent Lanfranck lent For whom into this land King William Conqueror sent And Canterburies See to his wise charge assign'd Nor France to these for hers was any whit behind For Grimbald shee vs gaue as Peter long before Who with Saint Austen came to preach vpon this shore By Alsred hither cald who him an Abbot made Who by his godly life and preaching did perswade The Saxons to beleeue the true and quickning word So after long againe she likewise did afford Saint O smond whom the See of Salsbury doth owne A Bishop once of hers and in our conquest knowne When hither to that end their Norman William came Remigius then whose mind that worke of ours of fame Rich Lincolne Minster shewes where he a Bishop sat Which it should seeme he built for men to wonder at So potent were the powers of Church-men in those dayes Then Henry nam'd of Bloys from France who crost the Seas With Stephen Earle of Bloys his brother after King In VVinchesters rich See who him establishing He in those troublous times in preaching tooke such paine As he by them was not canonized in vaine As other Countries here their holy men bestow'd So Britaine likewise sent her Saints to them abroad And into neighbouring France our most religious went Saint Clare that natiue was of Rochester in Kent At Volcasyne came vow'd the French instructing there So early ere the truth amongst them did appeare That more then halfe a God they thought that reuerent man Our Iudock so in France such fame our Nation wan For holinesse where long an Abbots life he led At Pontoyse and so much was honoured that being dead And after threescore yeares their latest period dated His body taken vp was solemnly translated As Ceofrid that sometime of Wyremouth Abbot was In his returne from Rome as he through France did passe At Langres left his life whose holinesse euen yet Vpon his reuerent graue in memory doth sit Saint Alkwin so for ours we English boast