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id: A85782
author: Gunton, Timothy.
date: 1648.0
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title:
  An extemporary ansvver to a cluster of drunkards, met together at Schiedam: made by Timothy Gunton, who was compelled thereto, upon his refusall to drink the Kings health. Whether such impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull, profitable, commendable, or reasonable?

summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A85782 of text R202330 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.12[4]). Whether such impetuous drinking of other mens healths were lawfull, profitable, commendable, or reasonable? Gunton, Timothy.


id: A76432
author: T. B.
title: The president of presidents or, An elegie on the death of John Bradshaw.
date: 1659.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 928
sentence: 63
flesch: 77
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summary:
  T. B. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A76432 of text R211222 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.21[57]). 151 F The rate of 151 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the F category of texts with 100 or more defects per 10,000 words.


id: A89105
author: Lambert, John, 1619-1683, attributed name.
title: The message of John Lambert Esq, in answer to the proclamation
date: 1660.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 972
sentence: 43
flesch: 69
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summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A89105 of text R211572 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.23[46]). The message of John Lambert Esq, in answer to the proclamation


id: A51690
author: Butler, Prince.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1233
sentence: 52
flesch: 62
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title:
  A malicious man makes reasons To the honourable knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled. The humble petition of Prince Butler prays ...

summary:
  (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A51690) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 33844) Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL).


id: A81293
author: Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.
title: Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners petition for peace.
date: 1643.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1123
sentence: 51
flesch: 78
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summary:
  This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A81293 of text R212629 in the English Short Title Catalog (Thomason 669.f.6[122]). 93 D The rate of 93 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words.


id: B02616
author: Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669.
title: Mr. Hampdens speech, occasioned upon the Londoners petition for peace.
date: 1643.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 1126
sentence: 53
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Denham, John, Sir 1643 770 5 0 0 0 0 0 65 D The rate of 65 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the D category of texts with between 35 and 100 defects per 10,000 words. Early English books online.


id: A53563
author: Ouldman, Thomas.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1372
sentence: 55
flesch: 62
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title:
  An out-cry of poets; or, a catalogue of wits to be sold by inch of can.dle [sic], or otherways The sale begining next Tuesday in the Piazza in Covent Garden, about nine of the clock in the morning, and will last till seven at night.

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  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).


id: A35803
author: Person of quality.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 1746
sentence: 75
flesch: 69
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title:
  The Devil pursued, or, the The Right saddle laid upon the right Mare a satyr upon Madam Celliers standing in the pillory : being convicted for the publishing of a late lying scandalous pamphlet called Malice defeated &c. / by a person of quality.

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 109829)


id: A13441
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
date: 1628.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3567
sentence: 142
flesch: 75
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title:
  A dog of vvar, or, The trauels of Drunkard, the famous curre of the Round-Woolstaple in Westminster His seruices in the Netherlands, and lately in France, with his home returne. By Iohn Taylor. The argument and contents of this discourse is in the next page or leafe.

summary:
  A dog of vvar, or, The trauels of Drunkard, the famous curre of the Round-Woolstaple in Westminster His seruices in the Netherlands, and lately in France, with his home returne. A dog of vvar, or, The trauels of Drunkard, the famous curre of the Round-Woolstaple in Westminster His seruices in the Netherlands, and lately in France, with his home returne.


id: A13627
author: Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626? aut
title: A piece of Friar Bacons brazen-heads prophesie. By William Terilo
date: 1604.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4513
sentence: 194
flesch: 83
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summary:
  Now Parats , Pies and Dawes , Are finely taught to prate : And worldes of men of lawe , Are needfull in the state : Where Neighbours liue so vnlike friends , That men would iudge them to be fiends . Now loue goes so by lookes , Men know not what they doo : And wordes are poisned hookes , That catch , and kill men too :


id: A50641
author: De la Garde, Borealis.
date: 1649.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5926
sentence: 75
flesch: 20
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title:
  Mercurius venereus wherein he relates what hapned to him in his severall shapes and transmigrations, and communicates intelligence from all places except the head quarters / by Borealis de la Garde.

summary:
  The next body I got into , was a great masty London Parson , with a red head , which was thus ; this Patriarke was not so much of the Spirit , but he was somewhat for the flesh too , which made his wife , out of pure jealousie send for me , and put me into a caudle , to dispatch him ; but as the devill would have it , and the sins of his Parish , being brought to him one day , as he was reading the Perfect Occurrences , to examine his Hebrew , and con his Intelligence by heart , to help him out with his next thanksgiving Sermon , he swallowed me , but his red head overcame me , it being naturall for one poyson to conquer another , and so I could do him no harme : but he had little need of my help , for he never preached , but he could poyson the people without Mercury : he was a great driver of State affaires , the Presbyterian members rid him , and he rid the City , and begot Petitions , and Remonstrances , no man was a more punctuall expecter of the Northren Letters then he , in hope to be inspired from Scotland ( for the Spirit , as it did from Rome to Trent , comes thence every week in a cloakbag ) and he was once gathering hands to a Petition , to have the day of the Posts arrivall changed from Munday to Saturday , that so the people here might know their duty out of the Pulpit a week sooner : When he inveighed against the sins of his Auditory , he did it with so much scurility , that they could not be more ashamed of them , then they were of him , for he vented Libells in stead of Sermons , whilst they that heard him did pennance , and his Pulpit was the chair of Repentance for the whole Parish : when he chanced to preach before an assembly of Ladyes , he would confute open breasts , and prove black patches to be the marke of the beast , and ever was in league with some Waiting-woman , or Chamber-maide , of whom he learned the name of every pin and knot , the way to put on their cravats , handcharchiefs and cauls , to pin their bought locks to their rolls , and the very ingredients of their washes , dentifrises , and powders to dry sweat ( for it seemes English Ladies must , like beefe , be powdered , to keep them from stinking ) all which served him in stead of Schoole Divinity , which he abhorred as Popery , or Cavalarisme : when he came to any Lords , or Parliament mans table ( whom he preached into great places , as they voted him into livings ) there it was that he chiefly promoted the work of Reformation : he visited every dish more strictly then the University of Oxford , and imposed censures on the wine , & servants , but would not suffer Gluttony to be any of the enumerated cases , nor cause one dish to be suspended from the blessed table : when he was full fraught here ( though most of the wives and daughters of his Classis were at his disposall for their spirituall , and his corporall consolation ) he would sneake into a little blinde bordell in Holborne , where he would have three young wenches whip him ; so great an enemy was he to the superstition of Rome , that what that Church ordained for pennance to take down the flesh , he used to raise it . If a woman of quality be led in Spring garden , by a Gentleman bare-headed , you shall have one of them breake a jest , and cry , why should men be suffered in these dayes of Reformation to worship in Groves ?


id: A96279
author: Wharton, George, Sir, 1617-1681.
date: 1647.0
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words: 5680
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title:
  Grand Pluto's progresse through Great Britaine, and Ireland. Being a diarie, or exact iournall of all his observations during the time of his walking to and fro in the said kingdomes. Found on Dunsmore Heath, and translated out of infernall characters into English verse. By G.W. alias Philoparthen Esdras.

summary:
  Their right hand from their left , they never knew , Nor yet a reason of their faith could shew , O my true servants , you 'bove all I love , Who for to live in darknesse doe approve , And hate the light ; the knowledge of the truth 'T is that 't is that alone doth work mee ruth : For had not learned men the truth discover'd , The sturdie Oxe , the lovely Cow doth mount , Not dreaming to be called to account , The valiant horse performeth natures Lawes , Not fearing he lawes rigor on him drawes ; And is man more inslav'd then beasts , whose state Is unto his great power subordinate ; We will be eas'd of Lawes and bindings over , The Golden Age we will againe recover , The happie time is come , that we shall be Restor'd to our restrained Libertie .


id: A11386
author: Saltonstall, Wye, fl. 1630-1640.
title: A description of time applied to this present time. With times merry orders to be observed.
date: 1638.0
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words: 4119
sentence: 115
flesch: 64
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summary:
  Besides , it is ordain'd , that Mustard and Hartichoaks , or clowted Creame and Uineger shal never be served up together ; also a Table without meat shal be counted no Dinner , & it shal be lawful to rise frō thence without giving thankes ; also for any man to choake himselfe with drinking good ●ack , shal bee very distastefull to the Pallat of Time : and besides , Time allowes none to eate good cheere , but such as have money to buy it . Also , because Time is old , and starke bald behinde , therefore it shall be no offence for such as have had wits , to bring forth bald conceits : and because Time is old , ( as I said ) in his last declining Age , therefore it shal be lawfull for old men to dye in good age , and while they live , to bee honour'd before young Gallants , by the priviledge of Time and Seniority .


id: A89633
author: [Mason, John, of Cambridge].
date: 1648.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 6125
sentence: 431
flesch: 69
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title:
  Princeps rhetoricus or Pilomachia· ye combat of caps. Drawn forth into arguments, general and special. In usum Scholæ Masonensis : et in gratiam totius auditorii mercurialis.

summary:
  But occasionally at this time è re naetâ ; For a negligent young Student of the House had lost his Colledge Bonnet , whose name , together with his losse , renewed the old Schoole-game , The Parson has lost his Cap , and so fell in accidentally to be the Basis of the Counter-plot , and gave the Title {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} . THe habit was uniform , pro more loci , {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} , Gown and Cap , differing in the colour of the Phancy , quasi significator officii , the ensigne of office .


id: A13471
author: Taylor, John, 1580-1653.
date: 1639.0
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words: 7746
sentence: 247
flesch: 70
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title:
  A most horrible, terrible, tollerable, termagant satyre most fresh and newly made, and prest in print, and if it bee not lik'd, the Divells in't.

summary:
  NOr speach nor silence now a dayes protects Men from the Critticks Bolt , he spyes defect●… ( At least pretends so ) in the thought of man As well as in his actions ; shall I than That have a free-borne spirit balke the way , Because a Dogge barkes , or an Asse doth bray ? Or cause some rash foole , such an one as hee That late revil'd the Prince of Poetry Shall rip up thy beginning , and shall raile And find exceptions out ( Sans head or taile ) Then is my manners quite misplac'd , for I Have no mind to commit Idolatry ; Unto a thing that 's out of Reliques made From Drapers , Mercers , and the Silk-mans Trade I 'le bend no Knee , nor shall my Bonnet Wagge , To Velvet Remnant , or a peece of Shagge ; A Plush Plus ultra man in scorne and pride , Such Ioyes , such Popping-joyes my Lines deride : His Tayler made , and shap'd , and trim'd , & trick'd him And ( like a young Beare ) into fashion lick'd him : He put his Corps insuite , and brave Array , And after puts his Bill in 〈◊〉 for pay , Such Things as thos●… Nor will I give For though man Of all the trea●… ●…t hath he not these gifts to man allow'd , ●…at he should be thereby ambititus , proud .


id: A59158
author: Sempill, James, Sir, 1566-1625.
date: 1669.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8283
sentence: 385
flesch: 81
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title:
  A pick-tooth for the Pope: or The pack-mans Pater Noster Set down in a dialogue, betwixt a pack-man, and a priest. Translated out of Dutch by S. I. S. and newly augmented and enlarged by his son, R. S.

summary:
  Then if I think one thing ▪ and speak another , I will both crab Christ , and our Ladie his mother : For when I pray for making up my pack , man , Your Ave Mary is not worth a plack , man. The foolish brain-sick birth of mans tradition : And al 's the works of Supererogation , With Christs true merite , our sole consolation .


id: A59165
author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
date: 1664.0
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words: 6160
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title:
  Apokolokyntosis. Or A mockery upon the death and deification of Claudius Cæsar Written in Latine by Lucius Annæus Seneca the philosopher. Imprimatur, Junii 17. 1664. Roger L'Estrange.

summary:
  The passage is steep and easie of descent , and therefore though he were gouty , he came in a moment to the Gates of Plut●● ; where lay ( as Horace sayes ) that hundred-headed Beast , which presently rose and shook his bristled crest . Claudius Son of Drusus Germanicus , succeeding Caius in the Empire of Rome , is recorded to have been a Prince no lesse Cruel than Foolish ; insomuch that his Mother Antonia was wont to call him a Monster of Men , whom Nature had begun● not perfected : and when she tax'd any man of much foolishnesse , would say , He was more sottish than her Son Claudius .


id: A15652
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: A satyre dedicated to His most excellent Maiestie. By George VVither, Gentleman.
date: 1614.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 8868
sentence: 321
flesch: 79
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summary:
  For though I seeme opprest , and you suppos● I must be faine to crouch to Vertues foes ; Yet know , your fauours I doe now slight more In this distress● , then er'e I did befor● . I doe presume that you will fauour shew me , Now that a Messenger from him you know me : For many thousands that his face nere knew Blame his Accusers , and his Fortune rue : And by the helpe which your good word may d●● .


id: A71323
author: Hall, Joseph, 1574-1656.
date: 1602.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8876
sentence: 437
flesch: 83
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title:
  Virgidemiarum sixe bookes. First three bookes. Of tooth-lesse satyrs. 1. Poeticall. 2. Academicall. 3. Morall.

summary:
  But who coniur'd this bawdie Poggies ghost , From out the stewes of his lewde home-bred coast : Or wicked Rablais dronken reuellings , To grace the mis-rule of our Tauernings ? Or who put Bayes into blind Cupids fist , That he should crowne what Laureats him list ? Whose words are those , to remedie the deed , That cause men stop their noses when they read ? Both good things ill , and ill things well : all one ? Euerie mans head Innes at the horned Ramme , The whiles the necke the Black-buls guest became : The'arms by good hap , meet at the wrastling twins , Th' heart in the way at the Blew-lion innes .


id: A43178
author: Head, Richard, 1637?-1686?
date: 1674.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10407
sentence: 228
flesch: 52
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title:
  The western wonder, or, O Brazeel, an inchanted island discovered with a relation of two ship-wracks in a dreadful sea-storm in that discovery : to which is added, a description of a place, called, Montecapernia, relating the nature of the people, their qualities, humours, fashions, religions, &c.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. 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.


id: A07491
author: Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.
title: The blacke booke
date: 1604.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10278
sentence: 193
flesch: 48
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summary:
  Whell , away I scudded in the mustie moth-eaten habit , and being vpon Exchange time , I crowded my selfe amongst Merchants , poysoned all the Burse in a minute , and turnd their Faiths and Troths , into Curds and whay● , making them sweare those thi●gs now , which they for-swore when the Quarters struck againe : for I was present at the clapping vp of euery Bargaine , which did nere h●ld , no longer then they helde handes together : there I heard newes out of all Countries , in all Languages ; how many Villainies were in Spaine : how many Luxurs in Italie : how many Persurds in France : and how many Reele-pots in Germanie . But ●urning my Legacie to you-ward , Barnaby Burning-glasse , strech Tabacco-taker of England , in Ordinaryes , vppon Stages both common and priuate , and lastly , in the Lodging of your Drabbe and Mistresse : I am not a little proud , I can tell you Barnaby , that you daunce after my Pipe so long : and for all Coun●erblasts and Tabacco-Nashes ( which some call Raylers ) you are not blowne away , nor your fierie thrist quencht with the small Penny-Ale of their contradictions , but still suck that dug of Damn●●ion , with a long nipple , still burning that rare Phaenix of Phlegiton Tabacco , that from her ashes burnt and knockt out , may ari●e another pipefull : Therefore I giue and bequeath vnto thée , a breath of all religions , saue the true one , and tasting of all countries , saue his owne : a brayne well footed , where the Muses hang vp in the smoake like red Herrings : and looke how the narrow all●y of thy pipe showes in the inside , so shall all the pipes through say body .


id: A67504
author: Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.
title: A frolick to Horn-fair with a walk from Cuckold's-point thro' Deptford and Greenwich.
date: 1700.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11058
sentence: 230
flesch: 47
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summary:
  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). Having past by a great Number of these Condescending Mortals , we came to a Field which led to the Entrance of the Dock , about a Stones Cast on this side which , were a parcel of West-Indian-Creolians , lately come on Shore , Cooking in the open Air , an English Porker after the Indian manner , which was attempted to be perform'd as follows : They drove Sticks in the Ground , and Fenc'd in a square place with Old Tarpaulins , leaving one side open for the Wind to Fan the Fire which was made in the middle with Charcole , directly over which lay the Grunter on a Grid-Iron , made of Spits ; which were laid Cross , from side to side ; the part that lay uppermost , being cover'd with the Dripping-Pan , to preserve it from Cooling , and the Fat droping into the Fire , cast up such savoury Fumes from the burning Grease , that the Nossel of foul Candlesticks thrust into a Kitchen-Fire by a Good House-Wife of a Cook , could not perfume her Sluttish-ships Territories with a more Obliging Odor ; and about Six or Eight foot distance , from the main-Fire , was another Fire , to the Windward of the Pig , most Cunningly Contriv'd to Warm the Air , as it pass'd , lest its Coldness otherways might be some Impediment to the Grilliading , or beastly Cooking of their III favour'd Beast , whose Eyes were Roasted in his Head accordinging to the Negroes Cookery , that he star'd like a Dead Pig ; and that side that lay next to the Fire , with the Smoak of the Driping was almost as black as the Charcole beneath it ; that I question not but by the Time it was Ready , it stunk like a piece of Cheshire-Cheese , Toa●ted in the Flame of a Candle , and look'd all over as black as the Rind of a Flitch of Bacon , that has hung Six months in a Country Chimney .


id: A13841
author: Tourneur, Cyril, 1575?-1626.
title: Laugh and lie dovvne: or, The worldes folly
date: 1605.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11574
sentence: 214
flesch: 50
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summary:
  Now in this Towne were many sundrie sorts of people of all ages ; as Old , and young , and middle age : men , women , and children : which did eate , and drinke , and make a noyse , and die : but such as liued , had there , their sundry lodgings , that they might quickly be founde out , when there was occasion of their imploymeut . The Cuckold hangs downe his head : the thiefe hideth his face : the Prodigall fetcheth a déepe sighe : and the Louer with infolded armes , and ( perhappes ) a wéeping Eye , singes a Ballad of his Brainsicknes , to the tune of O man in desperation .


id: A68601
author: Powell, Thomas, 1572?-1635?
date: 1631.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 12559
sentence: 620
flesch: 73
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title:
  Tom of all trades. Or The plaine path-vvay to preferment Being a discovery of a passage to promotion in all professions, trades, arts, and mysteries. Found out by an old travailer in the sea of experience, amongst the inchanted islands of ill fortune. Now published for common good. By Thomas Povvell.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. For ( indeed ) it is not the sound of a great mans name to a Letter in these dayes , wherein they are growne so common , and familiar to our Societies ( of London especially ) can prevaile so soone as the Letter subscribed by the Lord Maior , or other eminent Officer of the Citie , to whose commandement they be immediately subjugate .


id: A46425
author: Higden, Henry.
title: A modern essay on the thirteenth satyr of Juvenal by Henry Higden.
date: 1686.0
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mime: application/xml
words: 12347
sentence: 668
flesch: 70
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summary:
  Sibi sceleris ma●e ●o●iscie ●●fipi●èse Volunt , non ra●●●● abstinere n●q●ui●●● , ad vicis pro●●i● d●icedine ●●m 〈◊〉 con●●●●●●ine capti & p●●pediti . Nocentes aegri miserri●●i sunt , quibu●spes negata●●● , quae omnibus hominibus relicta credebatur .


id: A01793
author: Goddard, William, fl. 1615.
date: 1616.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16293
sentence: 822
flesch: 90
cache: cache/A01793.xml
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title:
  A mastif vvhelp and other ruff-island-lik currs fetcht from amongst the Antipedes Which bite and barke at the fantasticall humorists and abusers of the time.

summary:
  Yet watt yee what still makes them two to parte ? should I but t●ll't , you 'd laugh ●till breake your harte , T is this : when shee had smil'd & done hir beste , Then dus shee frowne , make mouthes , and doe the reste . wee the bluntest are of men Our Elloquence wee vtter with our swordes Makinge our deedes to pollishe o're our wordes But yf thou likst a harshe vnpollisht vaine Why then reade or'e this infant of my braine It knowes not howe to fawne , it wantes his wittes To clawe the backe , like true-bredd parrasitts Its ' like ( as t is ) the Mastif whelpe which bites Those whom it plaies with , more then it delightes It is noe lewe to please a ladyes sight It barkes too loude , t' would wake hir in the night If thou affectst a right-bredd dogg forth ' Beare Then keepe this whelpe : this dogg such beastes will teare Or wouldst haue Raynard hunted to his denn ? Hee le hunt him too 't and fetch him out agenn Hee le seazs vppon the wolfe , ( soe bitten's hee )


id: A10703
author: Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.
date: 1614.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17849
sentence: 376
flesch: 52
cache: cache/A10703.xml
txt: txt/A10703.txt
title:
  The honestie of this age· Proouing by good circumstance that the world was neuer honest till now. By Barnabee Rych Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.

summary:
  Then fie vppon Honestie , that is thus poluted by men , I hope yet amongst women , wee shall finde it more pure and vndefiled . If sometimes wee happen to hyt vppon such necessaries , as are ( indeede ) behouefull for the vse of man , let the buyer yet looke to himselfe , that he be not ouerreached by deceit and subtiltie .


id: A38641
author: Buckingham, John Sheffield, Duke of, 1648-1720 or 21.
date: 1680.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 17441
sentence: 736
flesch: 79
cache: cache/A38641.xml
txt: txt/A38641.txt
title:
  An essay upon satyr, or, A poem on the times under the names of the golden age, the silver age, the brazen age, and the iron age : to which is added, A satyr against Separatists.

summary:
  And as in this , so 't is in every State , Men of low Fortunes envy still and hate The good , extol the bad ; they dis●pprove All ancient Laws , and novelties do love : Disdain their own Estates , and envy those , Whose Wealth above their ruin'd Fortune goes . Custome and Liberty have made mens minde Uncapable of curbs ; that should we finde Laws re-establish'd with a pow'r to sway , Men are more prone to suffer than t' obey .


id: A20460
author: Anton, Robert, b. 1584 or 5.
title: The philosophers satyrs, written by M. Robert Anton, of Magdelen Colledge in Cambridge
date: 1616.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20191
sentence: 526
flesch: 58
cache: cache/A20460.xml
txt: txt/A20460.txt
summary:
  The order of the Orbes caelestiall Are numbred thus : the first imperiall So called of the Greekes , as being a place Most full of holy light and Angels grace , Whose blessed soules from passion doe suruiue Their substance onely being definitiue : Not circumscriptiue as our bodies be , With the aires cincture or concauitie , Their bodies free from any locall span , Of grose dimensions , or precinctes of man ; And therefore in one bodie spirits dwell All in one place , more then large Art can tell : For round about the iust mans life and merits , Million of Angels , and bright flaming spirits , Shall at one time , and in one place vnite , Their most regardant powers infinite , And vnextended in our bodies moue , With subtill motion from their place aboue , Either to saue with a protectors will , Heauens glorious darling , or by their power distill , With whippes of vengeance by their power diuine , In Legions name possessing men and swine . Inuention is an action of the soule , Whose essence starres nor influence cancontroule : Which Mercurie himselfe can neuer carrie , Or take away but prosperously may varie : In giuing inclinations to our vaines , But art and ripe experience quicks our braines , Or rather all three , like three faculties Of sense increase : and reasons properties : As in a foure-square figure may be wrought , A triangle from the same bodie brought : Rests so in man , and do include each other , Nature with art , experience as their mother : All which , if euer they did iumpe in one . Or blest mans reason with infusion : Great Iulius Scaliger in thy spectacle I reade no wonder but a miracle , That with these three so blest thy subtilties .


id: A10279
author: Croshawe, Richard.
date: 1640.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26668
sentence: 822
flesch: 66
cache: cache/A10279.xml
txt: txt/A10279.txt
title:
  Visions, or Hels kingdome, and the worlds follies and abuses, strangely displaied by R.C. of the Inner Temple Gent. Being the first fruits of a reformed life

summary:
  REader , I am no Libeller , what is here written , is written for thy instruction , and not to detract from any mans worth . But Sergeants turne Sergeants to be the vilest of men , and greatly delight in the miserable confusion of others ; so that you all strive in vaine to present comfort to this Wretch , since there is no man so godly , that stayes not in his tallons if he once can catch him , and they and wee may well bee both of an Order , were it not that they are Devils cloathed and shod , but we naked and bare-footed , ( as you are , ) leading an hard life in Hell .


id: A10711
author: Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.
date: 1616.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 28722
sentence: 723
flesch: 59
cache: cache/A10711.xml
txt: txt/A10711.txt
title:
  My ladies looking glasse VVherein may be discerned a wise man from a foole, a good woman from a bad: and the true resemblance of vice, masked vnder the vizard of vertue. By Barnabe Rich Gentleman, seruant to the Kings most excellent Maiestie.

summary:
  As the sonnes of men increased in the world , so Sinne began to multiply so fast , that God repented him that hee had made man. Not that it is any thing lesse behoouefull for my Lord , than it is for my Lady to looke in ; for although women doe vse their looking glasses , but to espie the deformities of their bodily beautie , yet this looking Glasse is composed of a contrarie constitution : for this maketh manifest the diseases of the minde , and discouereth the Imperfections aswell of men as of women , that doth behold themselues in it .


id: A36301
author: Donne, John, 1572-1631.
date: 1652.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 35241
sentence: 1056
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A36301.xml
txt: txt/A36301.txt
title:
  Paradoxes, problemes, essayes, characters written by Dr. Donne, dean of Pauls ; to which is added a book of epigrams ; written in Latin by the same author ; translated into English by J. Maine D.D. ; as also, Ignatius his Conclave, a satyr, translated out of the originall copy written in Latin by the same author, found lately amongst his own papers.

summary:
  And Nature saw this faculty to be so necessary in man , that she hath been content that by more causes we should be importuned to laugh , than to the exercise of any other power ; for things in themselves utterly contrary , beget this effect ; for we laugh both at witty and absurd things : At both which sorts I have seen men laugh so long , and so earnestly , that at last they have wept that they could laugh no more . HE hath a Soule drownd in a lump of Flesh , or is a piece of Earth that Prometheus put not half his proportion of Fire into , a thing that hath neither edge of desire , nor feeling of affection in it , The most dangerous creature for confirming an Atheist , who would straight swear , his soul were nothing but the bare temperature of his body : He sleeps as he goes , and his thoughts seldom reach an inch further then his eyes ; The most part of the faculties of his soul lye Fallow , or are like the restive Jades that no spur can drive forwards towards the pursuite of any worthy design ; one of the most unprofitable of all Gods creatures , being as he is , a thing put clean besides his right use , made fitt for the cart & the flail , and by mischance Entangled amongst books and papers , a man cannot tel possible what he is now good for , save to move up and down and fill room , or to serv as Animatum Instrumentum for others to work withal in base Imployments , or to be a foyl for better witts , or to serve ( as They say monsters do ) to set out the variety of nature , and Ornament of the Universe , He is meer nothing of himself , neither eates , nor drinkes , nor goes , nor spits but by imitation , for al which , he hath set forms & fashions , which he never varies , but sticks to , with the like plodding constancy that a milhors follows his trace , both the muses and the graces are his hard Mistrisses , though he daily Invocate them , though he sacrifize Hecatombs , they stil look a squint , you shall note him oft ( besides his dull eye and louting head , and a certain clammie benum'd pace ) by a fair displai'd beard , a Nightcap and a gown , whose very wrincles proclaim him the true genius of formality , but of al others , his discours and compositions best speak him , both of them are much of one stuf & fashion , he speaks just what his books or last company said unto him without varying one whit & very seldom understands himself , you may know by his discourse where he was last , for what he read or heard yesterday he now dischargeth his memory or notebook of , not his understanding , for it never came there ; what he hath he flings abroad at al adventurs without accomodating it to time , place persons or occasions , he commonly loseth himself in his tale , and flutters up and down windles without recovery , and whatsoever next presents it self , his heavie conceit seizeth upon and goeth along with , however Heterogeneal to his matter in hand , his jests are either old flead proverbs , or lean-starv'd - Apophthegm's , or poor verball quips outworn by Servingmen , Tapsters and Milkmaids , even laid aside by Bassaders , He assents to all men that bring any shadow of reason , and you may make him when he speaks most Dogmatically , even with one breath , to averr pure contradictions , His Compositions differ only terminorum positione from Dreams , Nothing but rude heaps of Immaterial-inchoherent drossie-rubbish-stuffe , promiscuously thrust up together , enough to Infuse dullness and Barrenness of Conceit into him that is so Prodigall of his eares as to give the hearing , enough to make a mans memory Ake with suffering such dirtie stuffe cast into it , as unwellcome to any true conceit , as Sluttish Morsells or Wallowish Potions to a Nice-Stomack which whiles he empties himselfe of , it sticks in his Teeth nor can he be Delivered without Sweate and Sighes , and Humms , and Coughs enough to shake his Grandams teeth out of her head ; Hee l spitt , and scratch , and yawn , and stamp , and turn like sick men from one elbow to another , and Deserve as much pitty during this torture as men in Fits of Tertian Feavors or selfe lashing Penitentiaries ; in a word , Rip him quite asunder , and examin every shred of him , you shall finde him to be just nothing , but the subject of Nothing , the object of contempt , yet such as he is you must take him , for there is no hope he should ever become better .


id: A68132
author: Gentili, Alberico, 1552-1608.
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 50862
sentence: 1745
flesch: 71
cache: cache/A68132.xml
txt: txt/A68132.txt
title:
  The discouery of a new world or A description of the South Indies Hetherto vnknowne by an English Mercury.

summary:
  c The inuentor of the Macaronicall tongue , hee wrote of the gests of Bal●us , Cyngar , Fracasso , Vin●azzo , Seraffus , &c. all in Strambottologicall verse . a Lycanthropi , they are men or women that by sorcery can put on the shapes of wolues , & yet reserue the reason of man. They are fooles ( beleeue it ) that will tie mens manners so firme vnto the starres , that they will leaue nothing to a mans owne power , nothing to the parents natures , nothing to nurture and education .


id: A15623
author: Wither, George, 1588-1667.
title: Abuses stript, and whipt. Or Satirical essayes. By George Wyther. Diuided into two bookes
date: 1613.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 75859
sentence: 1839
flesch: 65
cache: cache/A15623.xml
txt: txt/A15623.txt
summary:
  Shall in mans heart retaine the second place ; Because it shrouds her vile deformed face Vnder Loues vizard , and assumes that name , Hiding her owne fault with the others blame : T is a base passion , from the which doth flow Many base humours ; t is the ouerthrow Of all in whom it enters ; 't is an euill , Worse then to be possessed with a diuell : This 't is that oft hath caused publike strife , And priuate discord ; this makes man and wife Grow each to other cold in their affection , And to the very marrow sends infection ; And as Phisicians say , it makes the face Looke wan , pale , yellow , and doth much deface The beauty of it ; and as for the fight It either dums it or bereaues it quight ; It dries the body , and from thence doth sprout Griefes of the stomack , leprosie and gout , With other such ; beside it doth decay Not life alone , but also takes away , Both memory and vnderstanding toe ; Reade it , weekely , daily , yea and howerly toe : what though it bee thine owne ? thou knowest mans nature to bee so vncertaine , and prone to forgetfulnesse , euen in the best things , that thou canst not haue too many Memorandums .


