        item: #1 of 19
          id: A24384
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: The London almanack, or, A compendium of the year 1673 referred particularly to the meridian of the most famous city of London : together with some antiquities relating to that ancient and honourable corporation, not commonly known to the worthy inhabitants thereof / by Mercurius Civicus.
        date: 1673
       words: 13174
      flesch: 88
     summary: 22 f 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 36 0 57 ♃ ♀ sair weather . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 48 0 43 ♂ ♃ ♂ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8 36 0 〈◊〉 ☽ Apogeon .
    keywords: account; city; day; days; head; knees; london; mercury; moon; year
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        item: #2 of 19
          id: A26200
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Two letters one from John Audland, a Quaker, to William Prynne, the other, William Prynnes answer / by the author of Hudibras.
        date: 1672
       words: 4967
      flesch: 62
     summary: Pil●●●es the Parings of thine ears have been among their Ingredients , and thou are guilty thereof . Verily William thou dost evil and against the light within thee , to accuse thy Brethren of that , whereof thou art more guilty thy self ; for though they break an Act of Parliament , yet thou didst worse , when thou wouldst have made one thy self , after thou hadst engaed thy Faith unto the House , that thou wouldst never lift up thy Heel against them more : Truly thou shewest thy self in this no better then a Jew , in throwing the first stone at them , unless thou wert innocent thy Self , and all thy Fundamental , Municipal , Common , Natural Law , will not serve to prove thee other , who hast been judged by the Laws of the Land , as a Pharise , to weare a Phylactery in publick , and hast had thine Ears bored through according to the Mosaical Law : And I fear thy pretended Conversion to Christianity , is but in order to something else , even as the Mahometans ( they say will not admit a Iew to turn Turk , unless he first become a Christian.
    keywords: art; dost; english; prynne; quakers; tcp; text; thee; thine; thou; william
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        item: #3 of 19
          id: A29226
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       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: #4 of 19
          id: A30529
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Another ballad called the libertines lampoone, or, The curvets of conscience to the tune of Thomas Varner, or 60 / written by the authour of the Geneva Ballad.
        date: 1674
       words: 1440
      flesch: 68
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 47726)
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        item: #5 of 19
          id: A30740
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: The acts and monuments of our late Parliament, or, A collection of the acts, orders, votes, and resolves that hath passed in the House by J. Canne Intelligencer Generall.
        date: 1659
       words: 2949
      flesch: 78
     summary: The acts and monuments of our late Parliament, or, A collection of the acts, orders, votes, and resolves that hath passed in the House by J. Canne Intelligencer Generall. The acts and monuments of our late Parliament, or, A collection of the acts, orders, votes, and resolves that hath passed in the House by J. Canne Intelligencer Generall.
    keywords: acts; day; hath; house; iune; parliament; text
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        item: #6 of 19
          id: A30741
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: The Geneva ballad To the tune of 48.
        date: 1674
       words: 1549
      flesch: 73
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: books; eebo; english; oxford; tcp; text
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        item: #7 of 19
          id: A30743
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Hudibras written in the time of the late wars.
        date: 1663
       words: 23580
      flesch: 76
     summary: He 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 about , and 〈◊〉 , Like Run or Bulls at 〈◊〉 , Do 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from Skulls . , . Some cry'd the Covenant instead Of Pudding Pics , and Ginger-Bread And some for Broom , old Boots and Shooes , Cry'd out to purge the Commons House : Instead of Kitchin-s●uff , some 〈◊〉 , A 〈◊〉 preaching-Ministry ; And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Old s●i●● Coats , or Cloak , No ●uplicer , nor Service book ; A 〈◊〉 harmoni●● in●●●●●●on O ●all dog 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 And 〈◊〉 this All 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 these ● 〈…〉 〈…〉 A 〈…〉 〈…〉 D●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 b●i●g in their Pla●e , And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ?
    keywords: arms; bear; blood; blows; church; crowdero; day; dogs; fall; fight; fit; foe; force; ground; half; head; hold; honour; horse; hudibras; knight; man; men; place; quoth; ralpho; run; self; squire; stout; sword; text; thee; thou; thy; time; way; wit; ● ●
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        item: #8 of 19
          id: A30756
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Hudibras the second part.
        date: 1663
       words: 14054
      flesch: 77
     summary: So they fall to 't with teeth and knives , And throw about 'em for their lives , They little leisure had to prate , And so avoided all debate , To wit , had stomacks like to horse , And had not time to find discourse ; They did so pay shoulder a Mutton , That morsel scarce was left there uppon For Squires , and Charge , whose looks so meager Declar'd that they to eat were eager Quoth Hudibras , Squires take away , Victual your Camps , but do not stay Long by 't ; and hear me , send up Pease , They will our appetites appease ; Dispatch , for business great ( you know ) Oh fie ( quoth she ) are you without A cloth , then down she dropt her clout , And spreaded it to best advantage ( In cloath sometimes there may be scantage ) And so they fell to picking bone , Which was snatcht at by every one , With many a Wink-contrived-slip , And happy he could get a snip , Only for Damsel carv'd was Knuckle , And she as stoutly with 't did buckle ; Quoth Squires , are there no Peason left For us , who are with hunger cleft ?
    keywords: bed; begar; brother; day; doth; good; guill; hand; justice; knights; man; men; pass; quack; quoth; quoth hudibras; shew; sir; squires; tcp; text; thou; time; town; wee; wit; word
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        item: #9 of 19
          id: A30759
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Hudibras, the second part
        date: 1663
       words: 14054
      flesch: 77
     summary: For nail to thumb 's a noted friend , And holds out to the very end , So that if nail a sufferer be , The thumb must share by sympathy ; So much for that , and now to him Y cliped Hudibras the Grim , And yet he 'll smile , but then beware , For sure it is against the hair ; Quoth he , 't is fit we should take care ( Imprimis ) to know what you are , From whence you came , and what you do In England , not a place for you : We have no vagrant People here , Quoth Justice then , for one may see You 're Cobler but in Heraldry ; And if I don't mistake my Note , You basely have abas'd your Coat ; For he can be no Childe of Honour , That shall for favours spurn at th' Donor .
    keywords: bed; begar; brother; day; doth; foe; good; guill; hand; hudibras; justice; knights; man; men; pass; quack; quoth; quoth hudibras; shew; sir; squires; tcp; text; thou; time; town; wee; word
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        item: #10 of 19
          id: A30774
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: A letter from Mercvrivs Civicvs to Mercurius Rusticus, or, Londons confession but not repentance shewing that the beginning and the obstinate pursuance of this accursed horrid rebellion is principally to be ascribed to that rebellious city.
        date: 1643
       words: 13816
      flesch: 24
     summary: And that the Credulous People might not think but that this was done on good grounds , a Letter is writte● from the Parliament Commissioners in Scotland , M. Hampden , M. Fiennes and the rest to M. Pym and the close Committee here , to inform them of a strange conspiracy discovered in Edenburgh , to seize on the persons of the Marquesse Hamilton , and the Earles of Argile , and Lan●ricke : the Committee wisely considering that it was no st●ange thing for Treason to make a step out of Scotland into England , instantly provided against it , ( at least so they would be thought ) by publishing an Order commanding the Iustices of Peace of Middlesex , Surrey , and Southwarke , to secure the City and the places adjoyning from all danger by strong guards , well armed , and give this reason for their Order , Because the Mischievous designes and conspiracies lately discovered in Scotland against some Principall and Great men there , by some of the Popish Faction , gives just occasion to suspect , that they may maintain correspondency here and practise the like mischiefe . And because they saw how Successefull this Course was , and what strange effects it wrought in our City , a Fourth design was , to place some of their Emissaries in all Corporations ( those Nu●c●ries of Schisme and Rebellion ) and in the most eminent parts of the Kingdom ; for this purpose a most specious and pious pretence is held out to the world , the buying in of Impropriations :
    keywords: city; committee; common; councell; day; defence; faction; hath; house; king; kingdome; london; lord; major; men; new; order; parliament; people; power; rebellion; ● ●
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        item: #11 of 19
          id: A30775
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: The plagiary exposed, or, An old answer to a newly revived calumny against the memory of King Charles I being a reply to a book intitled King Charles's case, formerly written by John Cook of Grays Inn, Barrister, and since copied out under the title of Collonel Ludlow's letter / written by Mr. Butler, the author of Hudibras.
        date: 1691
       words: 9721
      flesch: 39
     summary: The plagiary exposed, or, An old answer to a newly revived calumny against the memory of King Charles I being a reply to a book intitled King Charles's case, formerly written by John Cook of Grays Inn, Barrister, and since copied out under the title of Collonel Ludlow's letter / written by Mr. Butler, the author of Hudibras. The plagiary exposed, or, An old answer to a newly revived calumny against the memory of King Charles I being a reply to a book intitled King Charles's case, formerly written by John Cook of Grays Inn, Barrister, and since copied out under the title of Collonel Ludlow's letter / written by Mr. Butler, the author of Hudibras.
    keywords: judges; king; law; man; parliament; people; power; purpose; reason; right; self; tcp; text
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        item: #12 of 19
          id: A30776
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: The priviledge of our saints in the business of perjury useful for grandjuries / by the author of Hudibras.
        date: 1681
       words: 1893
      flesch: 72
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: eebo; english; saints; tcp; text
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        item: #13 of 19
          id: A30777
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: A proposall humbly offered for the farming of liberty of conscience
        date: 1662
       words: 4384
      flesch: 48
     summary: An Ass without Ears , Braying , with this Motto incircled Stat pro ratione libertas : And the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers or any 24 of them in the said Office assembled , may from time to time compound and agree for Liberty of Conscience , with any person or persons , under such Rates and Qualifications , as are hereafter specified . That the said Grand Commissioners and Farmers , or any 24 of them , may constitute and appoint , under the Publique Seal of the Office , Sub-Commissioners , and other Officers , for every Countie within the said Kingdom , not exceeding the number of 12. for each County , whereof 7 to be a Quorum , who may compound and agree for Liberty of Conscience , with any person or persons , select Congregations , Ca●ed , Towns Corporate , Parishes Hamlets , and Uillages , by the great , or otherwise , within their respective Countries , not exceeding the Rates hereafter mentioned .
    keywords: church; commissioners; conscience; england; farmers; liberty; persons; tcp
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        item: #14 of 19
          id: A30780
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: To the memory of the most renowned Du-Vall a pindarick ode / by the author of Hudibras ; where it is to be had, the memories of Monsieur Du-Vall, containing the history of his life and death ; with his last speech and epitaph.
        date: 1671
       words: 2342
      flesch: 67
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A30780) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 52875) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: eebo; english; tcp; text; vall; vvith
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        item: #15 of 19
          id: A34836
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Wit and loyalty reviv'd in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times / by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Berkenhead, and the ingenious author of Hudibras, &c.
        date: 1682
       words: 13862
      flesch: 68
     summary: Wit and loyalty reviv'd in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times / by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Berkenhead, and the ingenious author of Hudibras, &c. Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1148:57) Wit and loyalty reviv'd in a collection of some smart satyrs in verse and prose on the late times / by Mr. Abraham Cowley, Sir J. Berkenhead, and the ingenious author of Hudibras, &c. Cowley, Abraham, 1618-1667.
    keywords: assembler; bishops; church; commissioners; conscience; day; england; farmers; god; good; hath; kingdom; liberty; man; men; nay; new; person; power; publick; tcp; text; time; year
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        item: #16 of 19
          id: A58298
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: A record in rithme being an essay towards the reformation of the law offer'd to the consideration of the committee appointed for that purpose / vvritten by some men of law, at a time when they had little else to doe.
        date: 1670
       words: 2411
      flesch: 64
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A58298 of text R2021 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing R630). no A record in rithme, being an essay towards the reformation of the law, offer'd to the consideration of the committee appointed for that purp Brome, Alexander 1660 2173 1 0 0 0 0 0 5 B The rate of 5 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: doth; law; priscilla; roger; shee; text
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        item: #17 of 19
          id: A78069
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Mola asinaria: or, The unreasonable and insupportable burthen now press'd upon the shoulders of this groaning nation: by the headless head, and unruly rulers, that usurp upon the liberties and priviledges of the oppressed people. Held forth in a remonstrance to all those that have yet sound and impartial ears to hear, and duly weighed in the scales of equity and justice ... Wherein is demonstrated, what slavery the nation must subject it self to, by allowing the lawfulness and usurped authority of the pretended Long Parliament now unlawfully and violently held at Westminster. By William Prynne, bencher of Lincolns-Inne.
        date: 1659
       words: 2326
      flesch: 63
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A78069 of text R203354 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason E985_4). The rate of 31 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: nation; parliament; people; power; subject; text
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        item: #18 of 19
          id: B01384
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: Another ballad: called The libertines lampoone: or, The curvets of conscience. To the tune of, Thomas Venner, or 60. / Written by the authour of the Geneva Ballad.
        date: 1674
       words: 1458
      flesch: 70
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: conscience; eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #19 of 19
          id: B01875
      author: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.
       title: The Geneva ballad. To the tune of 48.
        date: 1674
       words: 1492
      flesch: 72
     summary: Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B01875) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 181660)
    keywords: books; characters; eebo; english; tcp; text
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