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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	great_a	pass_v	river_n	3,950	5	7.4755	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01850	The Leuites reuenge containing poeticall meditations vpon the 19. and 20. chapters of Iudges. By R. Gomersall.	Gomersall, Robert, 1602-1646?; Cecil, Thomas, fl. 1630, engraver.	1628 (1628)	STC 11992; ESTC S103307	48,499	98

yet the Traitor shall not scape at last Whose execution is deferr'd not past T was neither peace nor warre now either side Hauing sufficiently their forces try'd Take breath a while O happy men if still This mind continue in them If they kill Their appetite of killing if this rest Can at the last informe them what is best To bury their slaine friends both sides agree Vnto a two dayes truce Stupiditie Nor to be borne with had they knowne the vse At first of that which they now call a truce This truce had beene vnnecessary then They might haue spar'd whilst now they bury men And that they now may bury they intreat Respite a while from warre thus all their heat Is buried for the time good heau'n to see Th' Omnipotency of Necessity Whom all the neerest ties of Neighbourhood Religion Language nay of the same Bloud Could not containe from fight but that they would To see if it were theirs shed their owne bloud These are intreated to a forme of peace Their fury for a day or two can cease Commanded by Necessity they feare Lest th' Ayre by so much carcasse poysoned were Lest to reuenge the bloud which they had shed They now might feele the valour of the dead Of strong corruption these thoughts hold their mind These thoughts a while inforce them to be kind On both sides for they doe not iarre in all Nature preuailes not but a Funerall Nor doth this long preuaile for when they had Interr'd some carcasses they yet are mad Till they haue made some more till they haue done A second fault as not content with one They see their Error and commit it thus Who are not eminently vertuous Are easily entrapp'd in vices snares And want the poore excuse that vnawares They were ingag'd we greedily runne on Offending with Deliberation And can you call this but Infirmity Nick-name a Vice O call it Prodigy Call it O what What name can well expresse The miracle of humane guiltinesse Could he pretend an ignorance at least And be in Nature as in Fact a beast He were not worse then they then he might be Both from the Vse and Fault of Reason free But what new horror ceizeth me what fire Raignes in my thoughts and prompts me to rise higher Hence you low soules who groueling on the Earth Basely deiect your selues below your birth Sold to your senses I intend to tell What none can know but in whose breasts doe dwell Coelestiall fires and vnto whom 't is giu'n To haue a neerer intercourse with Heau'n Yet pardon you pure soules whom no one dares Eas'd of our flesh to trouble with our cares Pardon I once more aske if my weake pen Fitting it selfe to ordinary men Attaine not to your height to vs vnknowne And giue you those words which you shame to owne The Lawgiuer who saw as in a glasse All in the Word what euer 't was did passe In these neer enmities as farre as Man Perfectly happy knowes a griefe began To feele Compassion Haue I then said he Deliuer'd Israel for this misery And did I free them from th' Aegyptian Onely to find them graues in Canaan I did foretell their Land should ouerflow But neuer thought to be expounded so Neuer with bloud I meant that they should haue More blessings then the couetous can craue The flowing Vdder and the vntyr'd Bee An happy Deluge of Fertility O how would now proud Pharaoh reioyce How would he haue a Ioy beyond a voyce Beyond his tyranny could he but know VVhat Israel does indure without a Foe VVas it for this I did so oft repeat VVonders before him wonders of so great Exuberance of powre so highly done That they contemne all admiration How wert thou Nilus bloudy'd into Red Thy waters as vnknowne as is thy Head VVhen all thy finny progeny did find That to destroy now which did breed their kind VVhen by a nimble death they vnderstand The Riuer as discourteous as the Land Can I forget that when I did bestow A liberty as heretofore to flow Vnto thy now pale waters there did passe An issue stranger then his Colour was From the too fertil riuer Frogges are found VVith such a multitude to hide the ground That ther 's no grasse appeares no corne is seen The spring does blush because he lookes not greene Their numbers and their noyse equally harsh Make Aegypt not a Region but a Marsh VVhat a small portion of my acts were these How scarcely to be counted passages In my large story Dust is chang'd to Lice And now beginnes to creepe which the most nice And curious eye before could neuer find To moue at all vnlesse 't were by the wind VVhich could not scatter those thicke clouds of Flyes That would not let them no not see the skyes VVhen I but threaten all the cattle dye And Aegypts Gods find a Mortality But lest the men should thinke that they were free From the fault too if the Calamity● I taught their bodies with blacke goare to runne And imitate their soules corruption What was a Face is now a Pimple growne And in each part is plentifully sowne A store of blaines so vgly that to me It was a kind of Iudgement but to see And if this were but little was 't not I That call'd those candy'd pellets from the sky Which in a moment ouerwhelming all Did badly change their colour in their fall And by the murthering euery one they found Within their reach came red vnto the ground When to repaire the numbers they had slaine Beasts of all sorts the land is fill'd againe But t is with Locusts such a swarme they see Made for the shame of all their Husbandry That they could wish so they were rid of these The former Murrein ere this new increase But who can tell the following Prodigy Last day the Earth was hid but now the sky Chaos returnes the Sunne hath lost his rayes And Nights obscurity is turn'd to Dayes Who could a greater miracle afford God made the Light I Darknesse by a Word Which had it lasted had it ne're been spent They would haue call'd it a kind punishment They had not seen then their first borne to dy To challenge death by their Natiuity All 〈…〉 but why was it to see 〈…〉 suffer fuller misery To gaine the Country which they could not hold From which their owne armes ignorantly bold Expell their owne selues O let no man tell That Israel did banish Israel My prayers forbid nor let it ere be said That Moses was vnkind since he was dead That in the graue I left my goodnesse too And could not pity when not feele a woe Hauing said this with all the speed he may He seekes out holy Abraham who that day By his deere Isaac seconded did sing The ancient mercies of their heauenly King One tells how hauing now worne out a life And so being fitter for his Graue then VVife Nay then when she had liu'd vnto those yeares To