item: #1 of 30
          id: A12245
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The Arcadian princesse; or, The triumph of iustice prescribing excellent rules of physicke, for a sicke iustice. Digested into fowre bookes, and faithfully rendered to the originall Italian copy, by Ri. Brathvvait Esq.
        date: 1635
       words: 51226
      flesch: 66
     summary: Albeit , o●…t of the freedome and largenesse of his mind , He would ever re●…urne this ans●…r ●…o such liberall b●…stowers : It will d●…raact from the Muses to bee Mercinari●…s : And , Liberall Art●… should have lib●…all Hearts ▪ and slow re●…eivers . Iustice ! a vertue styled properly By those which know the goodnesse of her n●…ture , Vertues choice Abstract or Epitome , Who lives above the reach of any Satyre , And scornes a name that 's got by infamie .
    keywords: aesculapius; argument; art; bee; body; care; cause; conceit; consuls; cure; day; directions; discourse; distemper; divine; doe; effects; euphorbus; eye; eyes; feare; gold; good; grace; griefe; hand; harmonius; hath; hee; himselfe; hold; honour; hope; humour; iustice; judgement; know; lesse; life; love; m ●; man; manner; mee; meilixos; memory; metoxos; minde; nature; o ●; opinion; owne; patient; place; poesy; prose; receits; recovery; s ●; selfe; shee; state; t ●; th ●; thee; themista; thine; thou; thy; time; way; wee; worke
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        item: #2 of 30
          id: A16647
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Anniversaries upon his Panarete
        date: 1634
       words: 6002
      flesch: 74
     summary: No painting , pu●…sting , poudring of the haire , No C●…russe cheeke , no azur'd brest laid bare , To take deluded eyes ; fantasticke toyes , Wherein corrupted fancy onely joyes , Ne're lur'd her love : Her Maxime us'd to bee , Shee weares best clothes , that weares to her degree , Yet was she neate ; atti●…d in such a manner , As she wo●…e nought but properly became her : Nor carelesse , neither curious would she seeme , But in her habit to retaine esteeme ; Whose gracefull pres●…nce did so well besit , I●… gave a grace to her , and she to it . Nor can I vye in my trueteares with these Who faigne an Idoll of Hyperboles : As to compare the tresses of her haire To purest Lydian threds , which subtile ayre Dishevels ; or her smooth-ascending Front Vnto a Beacon , or some rising Mount For prospect glorious ; nor those Lampes of light To burnish'd Diamonds , which beday the night With their diffused lustre ; nor her teeth To Orient pearles ; nor her roseat breath To Nectar or Ambrosian rivolets ; Nor Lips to Rubies dipt in Violets : Nor with description upon ev'ry part To make my griefe a curious Scene of Ar●… , To give a relish to a liq'rish tast , And so forget what dishes should be plac'd At this sad funerall feast :
    keywords: death; doe; earth; eyes; heav'n; life; love; shee; tcp; teares; text; thee; thou; thoughts; time
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        item: #3 of 30
          id: A16648
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Anniversaries upon his Panarete continued: With her contemplations, penned in the languishing time of her sicknesse. The second yeeres annivers.
        date: 1635
       words: 9524
      flesch: 77
     summary: For , without this , what hath the wise more than th● fool ? what hath the poore , that knoweth 〈◊〉 walke before the living ? Whatsoever 〈◊〉 by thee ( O my languishing heart ) abov● all others affected , is by thee adored Preferre nothing , in the true value o● love , before Him that made thee ; le●● thou make an Idoll of the Creature , an● so dishonour Him , who made all inf●riour things to serve thee . Ye● , I s●ould injure her , whose boundlesse blisse Is such , none can be happier then shee is .
    keywords: bee; doe; earth; eye; hath; heart; life; love; selfe; shee; soule; spouse; text; thee; thine; thou; thy; time
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        item: #4 of 30
          id: A16650
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Ar't asleepe husband? A boulster lecture; stored with all variety of witty jeasts, merry tales, and other pleasant passages; extracted, from the choicest flowers of philosophy, poesy, antient and moderne history. Illustrated with examples of incomparable constancy, in the excellent history of Philocles and Doriclea. By Philogenes Panedonius.
        date: 1640
       words: 72492
      flesch: 66
     summary: A●●aeus , &c. And intend●d by them to cast a glowing shame upon those times wherein they lived : and on those persons at whom they aymed . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: affection; answer; beauty; bed; bee; cause; choice; day; death; desire; discourse; doe; enjoy; eyes; fame; fancy; farre; friends; good; hand; hath; heart; himselfe; home; honour; hope; house; husband; ibid; ladies; lady; leave; lesse; liberty; life; light; like; love; man; manner; mee; modesty; nature; object; occasion; opinion; owne; passion; place; present; quality; quoth; reason; revenge; selfe; servant; shee; speech; spirit; state; stories; story; subject; tale; thee; thou; thought; time; wanton; way; wee; wife; women; world; ● ●
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        item: #5 of 30
          id: A16651
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Barnabees journall under the names of Mirtilus & Faustulus shadowed: for the travellers solace lately published, to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old tune of Barnabe commonly chanted. By Corymbœus.
        date: 1638
       words: 17115
      flesch: 75
     summary: Inde Godstow cum ●micis , Vidi Tumbam Meretricis ; ROSAMUNDAM tegit humus , Pulvis & umbra corpore sumus : Sic qui t●get , quae togetur , Ordine certo Veni Gottam , ubi multos Si non omnes vidi stultos , Nam scrutando reperi unam Salientem contra Lunam , Alteram ni●idam puellam Offerentem porco sellam .
    keywords: bacchus; barnabae; barnabees; bell; bibi; bush; care; cum; die; doe; donec; doth; ecco; eebo; english; eram; est; farewell; faustule; faustulus; finis; fit; good; hic; hill; hospitem; hostesse; house; ibi; itinerarium; latin; leave; liquor; love; man; mecum; mihi; mirtil; mirtilus; nam; neare; nec; new; night; nocte; non; nose; nought; nunc; oxford; page; pars; pastor; pot; quae; queis; qui; quid; quo; quod; quàm; seat; sed; sedes; sic; sine; sub; sum; sunt; tamen; tcp; temple; text; thee; thou; thy; time; title; tot; towne; ubi; vale; vbi; veni; venus; vidi; way; wine; world; ● e; ● n; ● s; ● ●
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        item: #6 of 30
          id: A16660
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Essaies vpon the fiue senses with a pithie one vpon detraction. Continued vvith sundry Christian resolues, full of passion and deuotion, purposely composed for the zealously-disposed. By Rich: Brathwayt Esquire.
        date: 1620
       words: 20865
      flesch: 53
     summary: SIR , I Haue long sought the expressiō of my thoughts , which haue euer with all sinceritie tendred them yours : but how infirme is conceit without further demonstration ? Loue is a deepe effect of the soule , which vndiscouer'd , struggles , yea strangles herselfe till shee be deliuer'd . True it is , that nothing is more swift than Calumnie , for shee is euer flying ; more eager , for she is euer assailing ; more cautelous , being euer prying ; more tyrannous , being euer raging , or more remorcelesse , being euer deuouring .
    keywords: bodie; delight; desire; eare; earth; end; euer; eye; eyes; glory; god; good; hath; haue; heauen; himselfe; life; like; liue; loue; man; minde; nature; owne; reason; selfe; sence; shee; smell; soule; subiect; taste; things; time; touch; vertue; vpon; vse; world; yea
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        item: #7 of 30
          id: A16662
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The golden fleece VVhereto bee annexed two elegies, entitled Narcissus change. And Æsons dotage. By Richard Brathvvayte Gentleman.
        date: 1611
       words: 19034
      flesch: 82
     summary: At the first I resolued to dedicate these fruits of my labours vnto him , from whom ● receiued the grouth , and quiet encrease of my studies : But it pleased God to alter my purpose , ●y preuenting him by death , who was the nourisher of my slender endeuours , and the protectour of mine orphane labours , which had no sooner hapned then in a distast of my studies , wanting him , whose relish sweetened my vnseasoned poemes , I was fully resolued to haue wrapped this tract vp in obliuion , and to haue depriued it of publike view . The vse , or morall implies : what felicity they shall obtaine that with resolution and long animitie sustaine the pe●illous gusts of afflictions , with a respect had to vertue , without which regard no happy or successiue euent can attend any intendment : This tract though compendious , may afford no small fruit to your conce●uing vnderstanding , shadowing vnder this title of Golden Fleece , the reward of a sincere and prouident pilgrim , who with Iason endureth patiently the surging Sea of persecution , the r●ging tempests of ●ffliction , not to be allured with the inchanting voice of the Syrens melodie , abstaining from Cyrces cup , say●ing by the perillous rockes of Scylla and Charybdis , and now at last arriuing at the port of a prosperous repose , crieth out ; hic ●edes fata quietas o●tendunt .
    keywords: art; chap; day; death; doe; doth; earth; ere; euer; face; faire; fleece; gods; golden; good; hath; haue; hauing; heart; iason; life; lord; loue; man; men; minde; nature; nought; obtaine; owne; praise; prize; quoth; rest; sinne; soule; state; teares; text; thee; thine; thou; thoughts; thy; time; vid; vnto; vpon; ● e; ● s; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #8 of 30
          id: A16663
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The last trumpet: or, a six-fold Christian dialogue Viz, 1 Betweene death, the flesh, and the soule. 2 Between the Divell, the flesh, and the world. ... 6 Betweene the soule and the city of God. Translated from the elegant Latine prose of Richard Brathvvait Esquire, into English verse, by Iohn Vicars.
        date: 1635
       words: 24920
      flesch: 86
     summary: De. True , I confesse it , yet I tell thee plaine , Nor thou nor any that alive remaine , Can me , when I am present , passe , excell , With fitter frame of joynts though ere so wel , With more just mixture of the Elements , With fairer structure of corps lineaments , Or stronger state of body ; but I say , ● being present , am more choyce than they . Soft , sister , soft : untoucht , I 'll touch & take thee ▪ Thou art deceiv'd , if thou think'st to forsake me Or scape my hands .
    keywords: art; blest; con; conscience; day; death; doe; dost; doth; ere; faire; finde; flesh; god; gods; good; grace; great; hast; heart; life; like; love; man; men; selfe; sin; sinne; soule; state; thee; things; thou; thy; world; yea
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        item: #9 of 30
          id: A16665
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Natures embassie, or, The wilde-mans measures danced naked by twelve satyres, with sundry others continued in the next section.
        date: 1621
       words: 57988
      flesch: 77
     summary: ●…estes 〈◊〉 . ●…upprest .
    keywords: a16665; argument; art; bed; bene; bloud; breath; canst; care; cause; come; content; cor; corydon; course; day; death; delight; die; div; doest; dor; doth; dym; earth; end; ere; est; euen; euer; eyes; face; faire; fall; feare; forme; gaue; giue; god; gods; gold; good; grace; griefe; hand; hast; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; heauen; himselfe; honour; hope; iustice; kind; leaue; lesse; life; light; like; lin; liue; looke; loue; man; mans; meanes; men; mind; moue; nature; nere; non; notes; nought; oft; owne; place; pleasure; power; prince; quoth; reason; rest; sap; satyre; seeme; selfe; shame; shepheards; shew; sinne; soule; state; subiect; swaine; teares; tech; tell; thee; thine; things; thou; thou art; thought; thy; time; vaine; vertue; vice; vid; vnto; vpon; vse; want; way; wilt
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        item: #10 of 30
          id: A16668
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: A new spring shadovved in sundry pithie poems. Musophilus
        date: 1619
       words: 7518
      flesch: 71
     summary: Since 't is so well aduis'd vs by the Poet : 'Mongst hopes , cares , feares , and all the griefes thou hast , Imagine euery day to bee thy last : So shall the sight of each approaching Day Summon thee hence that thou may hast away : Meane while contend in vertue and in grace , Hastning to th' end of this thy Pilgrims race , This Weauers Shuttle , Grasse , Post , Shadow , Span , So short's the course , so small 's the time of Man. Mans securitie , the Diuells opportunitie . If life indeed were such a Iubile , that euery houre , day , yeare , did promise vs Continuate health , and wealth , and liberty , then had we better reason to excuse The loue we haue to our mortality : but since wee see we cannot will nor choose , But must be rest of these , why should we grieue , To leaue as men what men are forc'd to leaue ? Nor skills it much where we be reft of these , whether in Thrall or Freedome , but of th'two I 'de rather lose my fortune where I cease , to make resort to any , and must know No more of th' World or the Worlds prease ; but am retired from the publike show Of this fraile Theatre ; and am confin'd In Flesh to tast true liberty of Minde .
    keywords: day; doe; doth; earth; haue; hee; know; loue; man; men; selfe; soule; spring; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; time
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        item: #11 of 30
          id: A16671
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The poets vvillow: or, The passionate shepheard with sundry delightfull, and no lesse passionate sonnets: describing the passions of a discontented and perplexed louer. Diuers compositions of verses concording as well with the lyricke, as the Anacreonticke measures; neuer before published ...
        date: 1614
       words: 20485
      flesch: 67
     summary: ●ere heire vnto a king , but there he sings A glorious p●ean to the king of kings . must your teares with his blest end Expire together ? why then I pray re●ire Let our sole notes sith that our notes be higher And far more shrill , supply your place : I le find Motiues of griefe vnto th'immotiu'sts mind .
    keywords: aboue; affection; beautie; beauty; daughter; day; delight; diuine; doe; dorinda; doth; earth; eliza; end; ere; euer; face; faire; god; good; graces; haue; heart; heauens; honour; lesse; loue; muses; nature; nere; night; owne; pan; passions; place; poets; rest; selfe; shepheard; shrine; solemne; state; sweete; tcp; teares; text; thee; thou; thy; time; vertue; vnto; vowes; vpon; ● ●
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        item: #12 of 30
          id: A16675
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The Psalmes of David the king and prophet and of other holy prophets, paraphas'd [sic] in English: conferred with the Hebrew veritie, set forth by B. Arias Montanus, together with the Latine, Greek Septuagint, and Chaldee paraphrase. By R.B.
        date: 1638
       words: 61146
      flesch: 88
     summary: 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5 The good man graciously proceeds , and bountifully lends : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In sound advisement weighs his deeds , his words with Judgement spends . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 9 Poore soules among his Almes are thrown , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such Justice daies and daies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Continue shall , by bounty growne , his Horne shall honour raise .
    keywords: age; blesse; cast; daies; davidis; day; death; doe; doth; downe; dwell; earth; evill; face; fall; feare; foes; forth; god; good; great; hand; hast; hath; head; heart; hie; hold; holy; hopes; house; israel; joy; justice; king; land; law; lay; let; life; like; lord; lord god; lord thy; man; mee; men; mercy; mouth; o lord; people; place; power; praestantem; praise; psal; psalmus; right; selah; set; sing; sons; soule; stand; strength; thee; thine; thou; thou lord; thy; thy god; tongue; trust; truth; voice; way; wicked; word
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        item: #13 of 30
          id: A16676
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The schollers medley, or, an intermixt discourse vpon historicall and poeticall relations A subiect of it selfe well meriting the approbation of the iudicious, who best know how to confirme their knowledge, by this briefe suruey, or generall table of mixed discourses. ... By Richard Brathvvayte Oxon.
        date: 1614
       words: 41586
      flesch: 52
     summary: Thus much I haue writ briefly ( by way of inference ) to caution such as by their labours ere●…t a Throne for impiety to sit in : these Humor-mongers , that can with Caesar the Dictator , Atros dies albos facere , make blacke white , and maske Vice with a vaile better suiting with Vertue : Now will I discend to their opposite , and that is , the Satyricall Writer , or Historiomastix . Of Mine●…als .
    keywords: acts; affaires; art; beasts; bee; body; causes; countrey; delight; discourse; diuine; end; est; euen; euents; euer; examples; eye; glory; god; good; hath; haue; hauing; hee; himselfe; historian; histories; history; honour; iudgement; iudicious; knowledge; labours; lesse; life; like; loue; man; meanes; men; minde; morall; nature; o ●; opinion; ouer; owne; p ●; place; power; princes; priuate; profite; r ●; reader; reading; reason; relations; s ●; seeme; state; subiect; t ●; thee; themselues; things; thou; thy; time; true; truth; v ●; vertue; vice; vnderstanding; vnto; vpon; vse; way; wee; workes; world
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        item: #14 of 30
          id: A16680
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: A spiritual spicerie containing sundrie sweet tractates of devotion and piety. By Ri. Brathwait, Esq.
        date: 1638
       words: 51471
      flesch: 77
     summary: Seeing thou hast all things from mee , exp●ct●● all things of mee , how can●● thou expect the one , and despaire of the other ? If thou wilt therefore ascend after me , and reigne in heaven with mee , thou must follow mee by the way of the * Crosse , by which I have entred into my glory .
    keywords: bee; body; christ; crosse; day; death; delight; desire; doe; earth; end; eyes; father; feare; flesh; god; good; hast; hath; heart; heaven; himselfe; holy; house; life; like; long; lord; love; maist; man; mee; mind; owne; passion; peace; pleasures; selfe; shee; sin; sinnes; soule; sweet; thee; thine; things; thou; thou maist; thy; time; way; wee; world; ● ●
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        item: #15 of 30
          id: A16682
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: A strappado for the Diuell Epigrams and satyres alluding to the time, with diuers measures of no lesse delight. By Misosukos, to his friend Philokrates.
        date: 1615
       words: 72672
      flesch: 77
     summary: It ' for these braue renowned Ca●al●res , That craue to see , and talke of what they see ; Nay talke of more then either eies or eares VVere witnesse of . So skilfull was this lad in M●nstrelsie , That when he plaid ( one st●oke ) which oft he would , No Lasse that heard him could her water hold .
    keywords: aboue; affection; age; appeare; art; bee; birth; canst; care; cause; come; comfort; conscience; day; death; delight; diuine; doe; dost; doth; earth; eies; end; ere; euen; euer; expresse; eyes; face; faire; fall; fame; feare; fit; friend; giue; god; gods; goe; good; graue; hand; hast; hath; haue; hauing; head; heart; heauens; heere; himselfe; honour; hope; ioue; know; leaue; lesse; life; like; little; liue; looke; lord; loue; louers; louing; man; meanes; men; minde; nature; nere; night; oft; ore; owne; parents; passe; passions; place; pleasure; power; pray; quoth; respect; rest; saint; saue; seeme; selfe; set; shame; shew; shrine; sinne; soule; speake; stand; state; stay; sweet; teares; tell; thee; themselues; thinke; thou; thou art; thy; thysbe; time; vaine; venus; vertues; vnto; vpon; vse; vvhich; way; wilt; wish; wit; worth; write; yea; youth; ● e; ● s; ● t; ● ●
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        item: #16 of 30
          id: A16683
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Times curtaine dravvne, or the anatomie of vanitie VVith other choice poems, entituled; health from Helicon. By Richard Bathvvayte Oxonian.
        date: 1621
       words: 37927
      flesch: 76
     summary: q The body ●ll chasti●d , the soule ●comes ●eared ; ●aking Af●ction her tercise to ●y her con●ancy , her ●trance to ●r Natiue Countrey , ●er assurace ●a the state of glory . He who is the King Of the whole Earth , and swayeth euery thing By lyne of his direction : He whose seate Is in the Clouds , and 's ea●ie to entreate , If he finde true contrition : He whose power Can crop our huma●e Glorie like a flower .
    keywords: art; care; cause; court; day; death; delight; doe; doth; earth; end; ere; euer; expresse; eye; eyes; faire; fate; finis; giue; glory; god; good; graue; great; happie; hast; hath; haue; heart; honour; ill; iustice; know; knowne; leaue; lesse; life; liue; loue; man; men; minde; nature; nere; nought; owne; place; rich; right; seeme; selfe; shame; shee; sinne; soule; speake; state; store; thee; thinke; thou; thy; time; vertue; vnto; vpon; way; wee; yea; ● ●
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        item: #17 of 30
          id: A16685
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The two Lancashire lovers: or the excellent history of Philocles and Doriclea Expressing the faithfull constancy and mutuall fidelity of two loyall lovers. Stored with no lesse variety of discourse to delight the generous, then of serious advice to instruct the amorous. By Musæus Palatinus.
        date: 1640
       words: 59246
      flesch: 66
     summary: I know 〈◊〉 well what to think on 't ; but if Mard●● be not a proper handsome man , I am 〈◊〉 deceived . And of th●se , in a vertuous , discreet and religious Daughter called Doriclea ; one , whose fame admitted no blemish ; whom as Nature had beautified with many extraordinary graces , so her carefull Parents were no lesse ready to adorne those native se●ds , with such Education as might accomplish those promising beginnings .
    keywords: affection; androgeus; care; choice; content; countrey; daughter; day; desires; discourse; doriclea; eyes; family; fancy; farre; father; fortunes; good; heart; himselfe; honour; hope; know; lesse; let; letter; life; long; love; lovers; manner; mardanes; meanes; mellida; minde; mistresse; mother; night; object; occasion; parents; philocles; place; presence; present; selfe; shee; thee; thou; thoughts; thy; time; way; world; ● e; ● s; ● ●
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        item: #18 of 30
          id: A16687
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Whimzies: or, a nevv cast of characters
        date: 1631
       words: 38173
      flesch: 76
     summary: Hee ha's a warren to turne Co●…e-catcher ; where he erects a place of Ex●…cution for his ver●…in . Being as you are ennobled by des●…ent , so enabled by desert ; a patron to the le●…rned professant , and in all le●…ing a ●…ich proficient .
    keywords: age; art; b ●; bee; c ●; characters; co ●; countrey; day; death; doe; e ●; earth; end; eye; feare; finde; g ●; good; h ●; hand; hath; hath hee; head; heart; hee; hee bee; hee ha; hi ●; himselfe; holds; hope; keeper; knowes; l ●; leave; lesse; life; like; long; looke; love; m ●; man; master; meanes; n ●; new; night; o ●; owne; p ●; place; play; purchase; rest; s ●; seldome; set; sh ●; shee; state; t ●; text; th ●; thou; time; time hee; use; want; way; world
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        item: #19 of 30
          id: A29223
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Astraea's tears an elegie vpon the death of that reverend, learned and honest judge, Sir Richard Hutton, Knight.
        date: 1641
       words: 12986
      flesch: 72
     summary: * Four wenches be there who my love would win , And stick as close as Ticks un●…o my skin ; The fi●…st a widdow worth * six thousand pound , But my Hopes say , more thousands may be sound ; The n●…xt as ●…mble as ●…he mountaine Ree , But all her fortun●…s are not worth a str●…e ; The third a w●…nton witty worldly Circket , But too too many Cubbs have sprung h●…r wicket ; The ●…urth of lov●…ly hue and liv●…ly qui●…knesse , For th'Tri●…kle-bed h●…s cu●…ed her green-sicknesse , A D●…msell fresh a●… is the slower in May , B●…t her pure zeale impurer acts display : Adv●…se me wh ●…h to chuse , and I 'le have at her , One must I have , mor●… is an hanging matter . ●…port for 〈◊〉 .
    keywords: age; death; doe; eye; good; grave; h ●; hand; hold; light; love; man; men; place; richard; seene; sir; state; tcp; teares; text; thou; time; true; zeale
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        item: #20 of 30
          id: A29224
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Capitall hereticks, or, The evill angels embattel'd against St. Michael being a collection according to the order of time ... of the chief of the antient hereticks, with their tenets, such as were condemned by general councels / by R.B.
        date: 1659
       words: 9740
      flesch: 88
     summary: in the Remish Testament , saith , that this N●chol●s was not onely thought to have taught community of wives , but also that it was lawfu●l to eat of meates offered to Idols . Their heresies began to spred first in the City of T●louse , in N●rbon , in France .
    keywords: aug; bee; cap; christ; evill; father; flesh; ghost; god; good; hee; heretikes; lib; man; men; nature; sin; son; time; world; ● ●
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        item: #21 of 30
          id: A29225
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The captive-captain, or, The restrain'd cavalier drawn to his full bodie in these characters ... presented and acted to life in a suit of durance, an habit suiting best with his place of residence.
        date: 1665
       words: 37617
      flesch: 66
     summary: Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).
    keywords: act; advantage; advice; affections; calanus; care; cause; choice; content; countrey; county; course; court; dis; enemy; eye; fall; family; friends; good; head; high; hold; honour; hope; house; humour; interest; late; leave; life; like; man; mean; men; nature; office; opinion; parts; person; place; publick; quality; self; spirit; state; thee; thou; thoughts; time; way; whereto; work; world
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        item: #22 of 30
          id: A29226
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The chimneys scuffle
        date: 1662
       words: 5517
      flesch: 72
     summary: DEar Mistress of the Muses , Polihym●y , Breath Spirit into th' Funnel of my Chimney , That old Mull'd-Sack , who to such fortunes crept ; And from a Chimney to a Mannor lept , May with our Steemy Consort joyn in One Throbbing our Suff rings in a Sooty room . Th' like Smoaking Age did never yet appear , 'T is thought we shall turn Aetna the next year : We 're all in Smoak and Powder : not a Stove But must our Synods grand Designe improve .
    keywords: act; chimneys; court; eebo; english; honour; smoak; state; suit; tcp; text; time; work; world
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        item: #23 of 30
          id: A29229
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: A comment upon the two tales of our ancient, renovvned, and ever-living poet Sr Jeffray Chaucer, Knight who for his rich fancy, pregnant invention and present composure deserved the countenance of a prince and his laureat honor : the Miller's tale and the Wife of Bath : addressed and published by special authority.
        date: 1665
       words: 35411
      flesch: 73
     summary: Again , like a Proverbial old Dottrel , you say , that not only for Oxen , Asses , Horses , and Hounds , but even Basons , Lavers , Spoons , Stools , Pots , & other Vessels , men use to try them , before they buy them ; whereas , Wives must not be tryed , till they cannot deny it ; being to be wedded before they be Bedded . Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.
    keywords: absolon; age; alyson; bath; carpenter; come; day; fear; god; good; hath; heart; honour; husband; jenkin; knight; let; life; live; love; man; means; men; nature; new; nicholas; old; place; poet; saith; self; sir; tale; tell; text; thou; thought; time; true; use; way; wife; wives; woll; woman; world; yea
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        item: #24 of 30
          id: A29232
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The history of moderation, or, The life, death and resurrection of moderation together with her nativity, country, pedigree, kinred [sic], character, friends and also her enemies / written by Hesychius Pamphilus ; and now faithfully translated out of the original.
        date: 1669
       words: 17955
      flesch: 52
     summary: An●… all these three went through much hardship ; you might , if you had looked wishly on them , have disc●…rned somewhat of Care in their very Co●…ntenances , for the Mother had been under several troubles all the while she went with them : And they had all of them a spice of Melanch●…ly , and were troubled with the Hypocondriack wind , which they after rubbed out , and then grew very healthful , and lived all of them comfortably . First , This is not to be concealed , that the Inhabitants of Felici●…na are a people above any in all the World beside , next to the Word of God , given much to the observation of Divine Providences ; and they h●…d taken notice , that after some hard dealing with Moderation , many disasters had besallen that Island ( which though it were too high presumpti●… to give the reason of , yet is it but piety to take notice of ) as the Apparition of some prodigious Comets , which amazed the Spectators , and were seen in that Island ( whether one and the same , or two , or thr●…e ) for about six moneths together , followed with a sweeping 〈◊〉 , which took away an hundr●…d thousand out of the Capital City ; and the ●…ame City , the y●…ar following , co●…sumed with Fire , for the greatest part of it ; and during all this time , a chargeable and doubtful War with potent Neighbours , consuming what Lives the Pestilence had spared , and what Treasure had escaped the Fire .
    keywords: children; church; country; death; disobedience; experience; extremity; father; god; good; h ●; island; love; man; men; moderation; mother; peace; philodike; philotheos; religion; self; spirit; time; woman; world
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        item: #25 of 30
          id: A29235
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The honest ghost, or, A voice from the vault
        date: 1658
       words: 75658
      flesch: 70
     summary: ●…ou , or I much mistake me , make a sport ●…o buy and sell our Offices in Court ; ●…ur Imposts too you fa●…me for such a sum , And glory in your tricks when you have don . For tell me , tell me , you perfumed Squires , Nere scorch'd with powder but licentious fires ; You , whose perfection doth consist in this , To complement a wanton for a kiss , An●… glo●…ie more in such a bootie gain'd
    keywords: act; age; ape; apes; appeare; art; bankrupt; bee; blood; care; cause; censure; choice; church; city; come; conscience; country; course; court; creditors; day; delight; doe; doth; earth; ere; esteeme; ev'ry; eye; fall; fashion; feare; finde; fortunes; friend; gaine; god; goe; gold; good; got; hand; hath; heart; hee; high; himselfe; hold; honour; hope; house; know; land; late; law; leave; lesse; life; light; like; lord; love; man; meanes; mee; men; nature; nere; new; nought; o ●; owne; pay; person; place; play; prize; reason; rest; seeme; selfe; set; sh ●; shame; shee; shew; sin; sir; stand; state; store; tell; thing; thought; time; tricks; true; want; way; wee; whereof; wife; wit; world; worth; yea
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        item: #26 of 30
          id: A29239
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The penitent pilgrim
        date: 1641
       words: 57236
      flesch: 76
     summary: When I wandred , thou recalled me : when I was ignorant , thou instructed me : when I sinned , thou corrected mee : when I sorrowed , thou comforted me : when I fell , thou raised me : when I stood , thou supported mee : when I went , thou directed me : when I slept , thou kept me : when I cried , thou heard me . Thou hast winnowed me : and as thou found mee affected , thou wrought upon me .
    keywords: bee; chap; charity; comfort; day; deare; death; doe; earth; enemy; eye; eyes; faith; flesh; forth; glory; god; gods; good; hast; heart; heaven; himselfe; holy; honour; hope; know; leave; life; looke; lord; love; man; mee; mercy; nay; o lord; owne; pilgrim; place; saviour; selfe; shee; sinne; soule; spirit; tell; thee; thine; things; thou; thou canst; thy; time; world; ● ●
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        item: #27 of 30
          id: A43604
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: A Preparative to studie, or, The vertue of sack
        date: 1641
       words: 1223
      flesch: 76
     summary: [no entry] 1641 911 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 C The rate of 11 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. A Preparative to studie, or, The vertue of sack This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A43604 of text R22858 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing H1790).
    keywords: doe; preparative; sack; text
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        item: #28 of 30
          id: A48034
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: A letter from a scholar in Oxford to his friend in the country shewing what progresse the visitors have made in the reformation of that university, and what it is that obstructs it.
        date: 1647
       words: 1911
      flesch: 65
     summary: 24 C The rate of 24 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A48034 of text R34524 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing L1435).
    keywords: friend; oxford; text; visitors
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        item: #29 of 30
          id: A64170
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: Grand plvtoes remonstrance, or, The devill horn-mad at Roundheads and Brownists wherein His hellish Maiestie, by advice of his great counsell, Eacus, Minos & Radamanthus, with his beloved brethren, agdistis, beliall, incubus & succubus : is pleased to declare 1. how far he differs from round-head, rattle-head or prickeare : 2. his copulation with a Holy Sister : 3. his decre affection to Romish Catholikes and hate to Protestants : 4. his oration to the rebells.
        date: 1642
       words: 1647
      flesch: 58
     summary: Wherein his Hellish Maiestie (by advice of his great counse [no entry] 1642 1233 2 0 0 0 0 0 16 C The rate of 16 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A64170 of text R13522 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing T463).
    keywords: brownists; deere; maiestie; sister; text
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        item: #30 of 30
          id: A68977
      author: Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.
       title: The prodigals teares. With a heavenly new yeeres gift sent to the soule; contayning many most zealous and comfortable prayers, with deuout meditations: both worthie the acceptance of all Christians, and their expence of time to peruse. By H. G. preacher of the most sacred Word of God
        date: 1620
       words: 27577
      flesch: 68
     summary: This commeth to passe when oftentimes men of immerited ranke obtaine honour : they seeme strangely transported aboue themselues : ancient acquaintance is dashed out of date with their present raysing : They liue as they might euer liue to haue supplicants , and neuer to be petitioners themselues : if these heare a poore mans suit , and doe him right , it is as the vnrighteous Iudge did to the Widow , rather for importunacie , then feare either of God or Man : These men no sooner attaine honour , then they get some face casten in a mould , which may suit with their honour . But thou , O Lord , seest thou the sinnes of men , and wilt be auenged .
    keywords: affections; bee; christ; dayes; death; doe; earth; end; euer; farre; father; flesh; giue; god; gods; good; great; hast; hath; haue; heart; heauen; heere; himselfe; honour; house; life; like; liue; lord; loue; man; mee; men; minde; owne; passions; prodigals; selfe; sinne; soule; spirit; teares; thee; themselues; things; thou; time; vnto; vpon; wee; world
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