        item: #1 of 14
          id: A25564
      author: Grand-Syre Gray-Beard, the Younger.
       title: An answer to old Doctor Wild's new poem to his old friend upon the new Parliament by Grand-Syre Gray-beard, the Younger.
        date: 1672
       words: 1669
      flesch: 71
     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. A25564) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 51093)
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        item: #2 of 14
          id: A25585
      author: T. A., Sir, perfumer to his late Highnesse.
       title: Rump rampant, or, The sweet old cause in sippits set out by Sir T.A., perfumer to His late Highnesse, to the tune of, Last Parliament sat as snugg as a cat.
        date: 1660
       words: 1002
      flesch: 80
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A25585 of text R746 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing A34). Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 94922)
    keywords: highnesse; perfumer; text
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        item: #3 of 14
          id: A33429
      author: Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
       title: The character of a London-diurnall with severall select poems / by the same author.
        date: 1647
       words: 14434
      flesch: 79
     summary: O That I could but vote my selfe a Poet ! Or had the Legislative knack to do it : Or , like the Doctors Militant , could get Dub'd at adventures Verser 〈◊〉 ! Or had I Cacus trick to make my Rimes Their owne Antipodes , and 〈◊〉 the times : F●ces about , sayes the Remonstra●● 〈◊〉 ; Allegeance is 〈…〉 : 〈◊〉 - Colt , 〈…〉 Recorder , Might be a 〈…〉 Order : Had I but Elsing's guift ( that splay-mouth'd Brother ) That declares one way , and yet meanes another : Could I but write a-squint ; then ( Sir ) long since You had been sung , A great and glorious Prince . For it is of that Extract ; onely of the younger Ho●se , like a Shrimp to a Lobster The originall sinner in this kind was Dutch ; Galliobelgicus the Protoplast ; and the moderne Mercuries but Hans-en-Kelders .
    keywords: body; brother; cap; church; day; death; diurnall; doth; end; english; eyes; face; god; good; grace; halfe; hath; head; house; light; man; men; nature; place; poems; scot; selfe; sir; state; sun; sure; teares; text; thee; thou; thy; time; world; ● ●
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        item: #4 of 14
          id: A56845
      author: Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
       title: The Whig rampant, or, Exaltation being a pleasant new song of 82, to a new tune of, Hey boys, up go we.
        date: 1682
       words: 1357
      flesch: 71
     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. A56845) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 60544)
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        item: #5 of 14
          id: A58997
      author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
       title: The second part of the collection of poems on affairs of state ... by A ̲̲̲̲Ml̲̲̲̲, Esq.
        date: 1689
       words: 8712
      flesch: 82
     summary: At Delphos and Rome , Stocks and Stones , now and then , S●srs , Have to Questions return'd Articular Answers . Tho' he changed his Religion , I hope he 's so civi● Not to think his own Father is gone to the Devil .
    keywords: cause; chair; english; good; lord; man; ne'er; state; tcp; text; thee; thou; thy; time; whore; woolch
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        item: #6 of 14
          id: A64512
      author: Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678.
       title: The third part of the collection of poems on affairs of state containing Esquire Marvel's Further instructions to a painter, and the late Lord Rochester's Farewel.
        date: 1689
       words: 10548
      flesch: 83
     summary: In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. Then 't is right : For so we too without a Fleet can fight . Or hast thou dawb a Sign-post , and that ill ?
    keywords: court; dutch; e're; english; head; king; men; new; painter; peace; pett; ships; state; tcp; text; thee; thou
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        item: #7 of 14
          id: A64927
      author: Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.
       title: A view of the times with Britain's address to the Prince of Orange, a pindarick poem.
        date: 1689
       words: 5996
      flesch: 68
     summary: eng William -- III, -- King of England, 1650-1702 -- Poetry. Bishops , Laws and King With an insatiate Arbitrary Pride : Thou heard'st it fed on Human Blood , On Widows , and on Orphans Tears , On Lands of Loyal Commoners , and Peers : And for its Grace , it said Long Prayers ; And form'd what Laws it pleas'd , which past for good : With Ease the restive World this Monster backt , And taught the hard-mouth'd Beast t' obey , Knowing , if once his Hand he slack't , Luxurious Torrents , breaking from the Sea , Are not so wild , so ruinous , as She .
    keywords: britain; heaven; king; laws; majesty; men; prince; religion; text; thou; world
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        item: #8 of 14
          id: A67339
      author: Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
       title: A panegyrick to my Lord Protector by a gentleman that loves peace, union, and prosperity of the English nation.
        date: 1655
       words: 1971
      flesch: 67
     summary: This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A67339 of text R835 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing W507). Waller, Edmund 1655 1788 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 B The rate of 6 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the B category of texts with fewer than 10 defects per 10,000 words.
    keywords: english; lord; peace; protector; sea; text; world
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        item: #9 of 14
          id: A67340
      author: Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
       title: A poem on the present assembling of the Parliament, March the 6th. 1678
        date: 1679
       words: 1543
      flesch: 69
     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. A67340) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 56790)
    keywords: books; eebo; english; tcp; text
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        item: #10 of 14
          id: A67341
      author: Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.
       title: A poem on the present assembly of Parliament, November 9th. 1685
        date: 1686
       words: 1713
      flesch: 70
     summary: Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com).
    keywords: books; eebo; english; november; tcp; text
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        item: #11 of 14
          id: A67500
      author: Ames, Richard, d. 1693.
       title: A dialogue between claret & darby-ale a poem, considered in an accidental conversation between two gentlemen.
        date: 1692
       words: 3878
      flesch: 84
     summary: Will , 't is the very subject we could have wisht for . — a Dialogue between Claret and Darby Ale. — If the Author manages his Subject well , we shall have Diversion enough , no doubt ; but before we Read it , we 'll take Half-a-dozen Glasses a piece to the memory of our absent Friends . He 's much in the right on 't , for Faith Will that Ale you Drink is a most ●ulsom Liquor : Let me feel your Pulse . — Lord ! How hot you are ? and your Face looks as Red as the Moon in Eclipse . — I am resolv'd to undertake thy Conversion , and bring thee over to the Faith again ; and to morrow we 'll Dine at the Rummer in Queen-street and swim in Claret . 1 st Gent.
    keywords: ale; claret; d gent; darby; english; gent; st gent; tcp; text
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        item: #12 of 14
          id: A80112
      author: Dryden, John, 1631-1700.
       title: A Collection of poems on affairs of state; viz. ... / by A- M-l, Esq.; and other eminent wits. ; Most whereof never before printed.
        date: 1689
       words: 10500
      flesch: 74
     summary: Virtue 's a faint Green-Sickness to brave Souls , Dastards their Hearts , their active Heat controuls : The Rival God , Monarchs of th' other World , This mortal Poyson amongst Princes hold ; Fearing the mighty Projects of the great , Shall drive them from their proud Coelestial Seat , If not o're-aw'd : This new-found holy Cheat , Those pious Frauds too slight , t' insnare the brave , Are proper Acts of long-ear'd Rout t' inslave . Bribe hungry Priests to deifie your Might , To teach your Will 's , your only Rule to Right ; And sound Damnation to all that dare deny 't .
    keywords: arms; blood; doth; english; fame; good; heaven; king; land; light; men; self; sir; state; sword; tcp; text; thee; thou; throne; thy; world
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        item: #13 of 14
          id: B03310
      author: Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641.
       title: The Earle of Strafford his ellegiack poem, as it was pen'd by his owne hand a little before his death.
        date: 1641
       words: 888
      flesch: 76
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B03310) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 182880) Early English books online.
    keywords: english; strafford; text
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        item: #14 of 14
          id: B06548
      author: D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723.
       title: The Whig rampant: or, Exaltation. Being a pleasant new song of 82. To a new tune of, Hey boys up go we.
        date: 1682
       words: 1431
      flesch: 72
     summary: (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. B06548) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 183612) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).
    keywords: boys; eebo; english; tcp; text
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