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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	heart_n	let_v	lord_n	11,278	5	4.0773	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06484	The second part and knitting vp of the boke entituled Too good to be true Wherin is continued the discourse of the wonderfull lawes, commendable customes, [and] strange manners of the people of Mauqsun. Newely penned and published by Thomas Lupton.; Too good to be true. Part 2	Lupton, Thomas.	1581 (1581)	STC 16954; ESTC S109660	170,117	212

that were any thing nie him other of his friends besids to request thē to help him with the cariage which to do some wer verie loth some promised with a faire outward shew though inwardly they were vnwilling but few or none durst denay for feare of his displeasure wherby at the day appointed he had a great cōpanie of Carts that brought the stones or timber for his saide building when they had al vnloded he called vnto him them that came with the Carts one by one saying vnto thē I thanke you my friends for the paines and trauel you haue taken wyth me this day And thē he said to one of thē now tel me truly I pray you whether did you help me with your Cart to day for loue or for monie forsooth my Lord said he I came to you for good will loue I thanke you said he carrie him in and let him dine ere he go for he had prepard a dinner for all thē that came to him for loue good wil then he said to another of thē I pray you flatter not with me but tel me truly whether you did come to help me this day for loue or for mony forsooth said he I came to help your Lordship only for loue and good wil I thanke you said he euen with al my heart carrie him in let him dine ere he goe Then he asked another whether he came to helpe him for loue or for mony my Lord said he I am a verie poore mā I might verie ill haue come this day but for pleasuring your Lordship therfore I came for mony monie shalt thou haue said he and god a mercie too then he gaue him mony for his labor carrie him in said the Lord let him drinke ere he go so he drunke ere he went So that they dined that came for loue they drunke had money that came for mony thus he went through asked a great sort and some said they came for loue some said they came for money At last he came to one of the Carters and said I pray thée good fellow tel me truely whether didst thou helpe me this day for loue or for mony shal I tel you truly my Lord said he yea I pray thée hartily said the Lorde truelye my Lorde saide he I came for neither loue nor money didst thou not saide the Lorde wherfore camest thou then forsooth my Lorde saide he I came for feare nowe god a mercie good fellowe saide the Lorde I thinke thou haste tolde me truer than all the rest I perceiue thou haste not fabled with me thoughe manie of them haue flattered with me carrie him in saide he for he shall haue both money and meate and sée in any wise that he sit at the vpper ende of the Table and so he had both meate and monie and greate thankes of the Lorde for his true saying Omen Nowe surelie he was a good fellowe I dare saie he spake as he thought wheras few of them thought as they said There are manie I think in your country that help their Lādlordes with their Waines and Cartes more for feare than for monie more for mony than loue but all the Tenants euerie one in our countrie none excepted doe helpe their Landlordes onlie for loue and neither for monie nor feare Siuqila Surelie it appeareth thereby if you had said nothing else that your Landlords are godlie and your Tenauntes are louing Now sir let me go further with you do your Gētlemē and rich men take and enclose their Commons from the pore Artificers Labourers or from them that dwell in smal Tenements and Cattages Omen I maruel why you doe aske me such a questiō I told you before that our Landlordes and al other did not only so remember the short sentence of Christ and follow it whiche is Do as you would be done vnto that they will doe nothing to their Tenaunts nor to any other but as they would that they should do to them and do you thinke that if they were Tenāts their Tenāts their Lādlords that they wold wish they shold enclose their Commons from them no I warrante you Naie our Gentlemen and Landlords do not enclose their Commons from their poore Tenantes The enclosing of the Cōmons in Mauqsun but enclose their Cōmons for their poore Tenants Siuqila That is very straunge I pray you let me heare your further meaning therein Omen The taking in and inclosing of the Commons with vs is such a commoditie to the pore Tenantes and Farmers that they are maruellous desirous to haue their 〈◊〉 enclosed Siuqila And contrary much inclosing of the Commons with vs is such an empouerishing of the pore Tenāts and many Farmers that nothing doeth vexe or gréeue them more than the taking in of the Commons Omen Yea but if your Gentlemen Landlords and your inclosers of Commons woulde doe as they doe with vs then your pore men commoners other Farmers would desyre to haue their Commons inclosed and taken in as well as we Siuqila I pray you tell me after what sorte therefore is your Commons taken in and made seuerall Omen I will tell you but firste by the way when politike heads and wise wittes had considered and found out that it woulde be maruelous profitable for oure countrey to haue their Commons inclosed they began to procure to bring it to passe but it séemed so hurtefull to dul heades for the poorer sorte and the Farmers that they in no wise woulde graunt vnto it for that they had all the commoditie thereby and the Lords of the soile and Gentlemen had little or none thinking they would haue al or the best part from them if they shoulde be enclosed But the Lords of the soile and the Gentlemen with the wiser heades persuaded them Good counsel saying You sée good fellowes and our louing Tenants we haue euer loued you and vsed you well and as we woulde do to you so we woulde haue you to doe to vs if we were in your case be not therfore wedded to your wil●es but rather regarde good counsell and reason We sée you haue among you much ground and little gaine much toile and small profite Sommer can scant gette you that which Winter consumes If eche of you had but the thirde part of your ground enclosed that you haue nowe in Common it woulde féede you moe cattel bring you more hay yéelde you more corne and laste you much longer whereby you shoulde haue more profite and lesse paine and more pleasure and lesse toile Some of you that haue store of fodder woulde staye from putting in youre cattel into the Commons vntill the grasse were well growne and fully sprung other of you that haue not to féede your cattel withall wil not consent to ●arry so long being driuen through necessitie to putte youre cattell on the Commons before it haue a head so that sodainely you shoue

medicine whome when he sawe he drew forth his Sword and without any further debating of the matter he fought with him and so at the length killed him Omen His wiues wise talk was manifested by this he had bene better to haue performed his promise that hée made to hir What a mischief therby wroght he to himself and what sorow brought he to his wise and louing wife It was maruell that it killed hir not as soone as she heard it Siuqila Truly when she heard that hir husbande was in prison and what was the cause she swouned presentely and they that were about hir had much a do to get any life in hir Was not here a goodlie gaine that he got by his fighting As she said neither pacience nor reason was with him when he gaue the other his Deathes wounde Here we may sée that all wisedom lies not in men and al folly and mischief is not in women But after like a wise woman she brydled hir sorrowe as wel as she could and went about to mend the mischief aswel as she might according to the lesson she gaue hir husbande before whiche is this Wisedome willeth vs to heare things aduisedly to take them paciently to mende mischiefs politikely A saying to be noted or if they be past helpe to a●oide the like wisely And so with as much conuenient spéed as she might she got hir to the saide yong Iudge before mentioned in whome for his wisedome godlinesse and pietie she had suche a good opinion that she thought through hir humble sute and pittiful mone he would finde some one meane or other to saue hir husbandes life And when she came before him she knéeled vnto him and with wéeping teares saide O worthie Iudge as you are counted a moste wise and mercifull Iudge now shew that in effect which is bruted of you in talke and saue an Innocents life that lieth in your hands to destroy To whom the Iudge said stand vp Gentlewomā it wil gréeue me to sée you stand much more to knéele therfore without any more bidding sit downe by me and I will not onely heare you but also helpe you if I be able so that equitie do allowe and iustice do bid hoping that your matter is such that both these wil agrée vnto it for that mée thought your request was to haue me to saue an Innocents life and to saue an Innocents life a smal sute shal serue And therewith he toke hir gently by the hande and caused hir to sit downe by him who said to the Iudge then In déed sir I saide so for I am that Innocent touching any law of Death that lieth in your handes to saue or to kill not that any matter is laid against me worthie of Death but my life being an Innocent in this case hangeth on another mannes life that is not innocent whose life to saue lieth only in your hands I pray you sayde the Iudge tell me your matter and cause as briefly and plainely as you can and what I may do lawfully I will perfourme it willingly The truth is so saide the Gentlewoman I am the wife of suche a Gentleman that killed a man of late whose cause I come not to defend but for whom I come to craue mercy I nowe knowe your matter sayd the Iudge I lament his missehap and I pittie your case You know Gentlewoman it hardly lies in me to saue whom the law doth condemne especially him whose facte is so manifest and which by no meanes can be denied O sir saide she it were very straite that you being a Iudge so well thought of and of such great authoritie that you can not shewe iustice with mercie and lawe with fauour You knowe sayde hée againe I am sworne to doe equitie and iustice according And you are not ignorante that both Gods law and our law willeth without any redemtion to kill him that killeth and to shead his bloude that shead it And should I doe iustice if I should saue your husband who willingly killed a Gentleman of late that was not determined to fight with him who vnwares set vpon him and so hée was slaine whom the law would haue fauoured in defending himselfe Therefore Gentlewoman cease your sute for it lieth not in my handes to helpe you but if I coulde I would not For if I shoulde saue your husbande in this case I shoulde gette more shame and slaunder by this one thing than I haue gotten good reporte by all the iustice and equitie that I haue done since I came in Office I blame not you for suing for your husbande in so euill a cause whiche you doe for loue but euery one would blame mée for graunting your request in so euill a cause A lamentable suter which they would say I did for monie O sir said the Gentlewoman and began againe to knéele but he woulde not suffer hir the Gentleman is deade and the death of my husbande will not make him liue againe which if it might doe so I woulde not be so importunate herein therefore I beseech you as euer you came of a woman or as you will haue Christ to be mercifull to you that was borne of a woman kill not two moe for one that is deade alreadie For I assure you I loue my husband so déerly that if he die I am most sure that I shall not long liue Oh I woulde to God that one frende might die for another as one man doth pay monie or is imprisoned for another then I that am most woefull would quickly be ioyfull For then he should not die but I would die for him But seing that can not bée O most worthy Iudge stretch out your power and finde out some way or meane to saue my husbands life What so euer you ask me you shall haue and what so euer you will haue mée to doe I will doe it Let my vehement wordes penetrate your mercifull hearte if there bée any sparke of pittie or any droppe of mercie in you shewe it nowe vpon mée your most humble seruaunte which am readie if herein you pleasure mée to runne at your horsse héeles or to doe the vilest drudgerie that you can set me too Surely Gentlewoman saide hée you are the most importunate suter that euer I knewe I perceiue where you may haue yea you will haue no nay If your husbande should escape hée is bounde to make muche of you I thinke if you were in his case hée neither woulde nor coulde sue so earnestly for you O yes saide the Gentlewoman it is his great loue hée doth beare mée that causeth me to sue for him so vehementlye You knowe sir what I haue saide from which I will not swarue therefore I beséeche you sende me not away without some comforte for if you doe I am most assured that vnlesse you make good haste I shal be deade before my husbande Then the Iudge took the Gentlewoman by the hand and said I will aduise my selfe this