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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
blood_n	abel_n	brother_n	cry_v	2,540	4	8.1749	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11537	Vincentio Sauiolo his practise In two bookes. The first intreating of the vse of the rapier and dagger. The second, of honor and honorable quarrels.	Saviolo, Vincentio.; Muzio, Girolamo, 1496-1576. Duello. English.	1595 (1595)	STC 21788; ESTC S116779	158,351	306

it is no meruayle if diuers persons giuing themselues wholye to the bent of their owne indiscretion and wante of iudgement esteeme of thinges cleane contrarye to their nature and qualitye For if a man frame himselfe to leade a ciuill and temperate course of life some will saie hee is a foole if hee be not quarrell-some hee is a cowarde if no gamester hee is of base education if no blasphemer an hipocrite if neither whore-monger nor baude hee is neither man nor courteous but altogether ignorant of the rules of humanity and good fellowship A lamentable state is that where men are so misled by ignorance and selfe loue as thus to ouersmoothe and colour their vices and imperfections with the names of vertues and to thinke any action currant that is doone by them and authorysed by their vnresistable swaye and distempered appetites What is become of the gentilitie and inbredde courtesie of auncient noble Gentlemen where is the magnanimitye of the honourable Knightes of fore-going times whose vertues as they are recorded in histories wherin we read of them so ought to haue beene lefte to their posteritye that in them we might see the image now forgotten of auncient true Nobilitye But since all thinges fall to decaye it is no meruaile though vertue I speake with all due reuetence and fauour bee not found but in few for surelye there be many in whome nothing remaineth but the bare tytle of nobilitye in that they be Gentlemen borne who in their manners wholy degenerate from their auncestors and make no account either of honour or dishonour giuing themselues to such pleasures as their vnbrideled appetite leadeth them vnto Neither can I ascribe any reason to this their slyding from vertue vnto vice contrarie to the course taken by their honourable auncestours but this that whereas while their fathers liued their bringing vp was committed to tutors of good government and discretion their parentes beeing dead they withdrawe themselues from their vertuous kinde of life leauing and reiecting the sage counsailes of their instructors and cleaning to their owne deuises To whom if they amend not and take a better course will lighten shame and destruction Wherfore by way of aduise I wish all men to auoid euill companie which for the most part is the cause of great and infinite losse as well of honor and life as of goods and possessions and to followe vertue bearing themselues with a sweet and curteous carriage towards euery man by which course they shall gaine commendation and credite and shall be esteemed of all men and auoiding all such occasions of dislike as may be offered obtaine a good and honorable reputation Doth not God forbid a priuate man to kill his neighbour as it is manifested in sacred scriptures against Caine to whome God saide that the bloud of Abel his brother cryed from the earth for vengeance against him shewing therby that he abhorreth murder and wil reuenge it in due time Moreouer he created vs naked without anie thing naturally giuen vs wherwith to offend or hurt wheras other creatures haue some of them hornes others clawes others strong and sharpe teeth and others poyson And thus were we created of almightie God to to the end we might liue in peace and brotherlye concorde as the sonnes of God and not as the children of the Deuill who are the inuentours that found out the vse of weapons therewith to offend their neighbours and to maintaine the authoritie of their father the Deuill who was a murderer from the beginning and taketh pleasure in the destruction of men raising discention between families cities prouinces and kingdoms Vpon which occasion the necessary vse of armes hath gotten such credit in the worlde as Kings and Princes haue nobilitated some with the name of Knights for their excellencie therein which name is made noble and that vpon great reason for such men as haue purchased nobilitie by conquering kingdomes for their Princes more respecting their honour and countries good then any other thing and esteeming lesse of life then of death in regarde of preseruing that honor vnblotted which belongeth to Knights ought not in any wise to be destitute of high reward In so much that armes being doubled by so many valorous men it were a great shame for one of noble of-spring not to be able to speake of armes and to discourse of the causes of Combats not to know how to discerne the nature and qualitie of wordes and accidents which induce men to challenges not to bee acquainted with the manner of sending cartels and challenges and how fitlye to answere the same and in a word not to haue so much experience in these affaires as to accorde the parties challenging and challenged bringing them from their hostile threates to louing embracementes and of quarreling foes to become louing freends al causes of disconcontent beeing taken away on either side The ignorance wherof hath in these times bred great mischeefe for many thinke that an iniurie being offred in deed or worde the matter may not with their credits be taken vp before they haue fought not regarding if they bee iniuried indeed that they ought first to examine what hee is that hath doone it and vpon what occasion hee might doe it if in woorde what qualitie the person is that spake iniuriously and whether hee deserue an answer or no. For a man beeing carried away with chollor or wine maye chaunce to vtter that for which his fury being past he will be willing to make any satisfaction wherfore it were fondly done by him that would fight vpon euery worde Neither can I be induced to thinke that there is any iniury which is not accompanied with villanie for which with due satisfaction all cause of fighting may not be taken away But if the iniurie be such that either murder be committed by trecherie or rape or such like villanies then is it necessarye to proceede in revenging it as in due place I will more largely declare In the meane time I thinke it necessary to set foorth some considerations of circumstance belonging to this subiect of quarrels not because I take vpon me to teach or correct any man for that belongeth not to me but onlye by way of aduertisement to warne gentlemen to auoide all dangerous occasions growing for want of fore-sight And firste considering the little vnderstanding and small discretion of manye with the dayly danger which such men runne into by indiscretion it is fitte for a man to consider his owne estate for if hee bee a Gentleman borne hee ought euen for that respect with great regarde abstayne from any acte whatsoeuer whereby his woorthye calling may be stayned hee ought to embrace myldenes and curtesie as one that hath a hart of fleshe not of stone more enclyned to clemencye then to crueltye to the ende his conuersation bee acceptable by reason of his sweete and louing behauiour he must also be in minde magnanimous not base or abiecte as one ill borne