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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	good_a	lord_n	2,726	5	3.8026	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09173	The Lord Marques idlenes conteining manifold matters of acceptable deuise; as sage sentences, prudent precepts, morall examples, sweete similitudes, proper comparisons, and other remembrances of speciall choise. No lesse pleasant to peruse, than profitable to practise: compiled by the right Honorable L. William Marques of Winchester that now is.	Winchester, William Paulet, Marquis of, 1535?-1598.	1586 (1586)	STC 19485; ESTC S114139	64,844	115

what God was He answered Of al antiquitie God is the most ancient thing for all the ancients past neuer sawe him take beginning nor those that shall come after shall neuer see him haue ending He was asked what thing was most beautifull He answered The world bicause no artificiall painting could make the like Againe what was the greatest thing He answered Place wherein all things do stand for the place which containeth all must needs be greater than all Againe he was demanded what knew most He answered Time bicause time was the inuentor of new things and that which reneweth the old What was the lightest thing He answered The wit of man bicause without danger it passed the sea to discouer and compas the whole earth Againe what was the strongest He answered The man that is in necessitie for necessitie reuiueth the vnderstanding of the rude and causeth the coward to be hardie in perill What was the hardest thing to know He answered For a man to know himselfe for there should be no contentions in the world if man did know himselfe What was the sweetest thing to obtaine He answered Desire for a man reioiceth to remember the pains past and to obtaine that which he desireth present The life of Philosophers THe Philosophers liued in so great pouertie that naked they slept on the ground their drinke was cold water none amongst them had any house proper they despised riches as pestilence and labored to make peace where discord was they were onely defenders of the common wealth they neuer spake any idle thing and it was a sacrilege among them to heare a lie and finally it was a law inuiolable amongst them that the Philosopher should be banished that did liue idlely and he that was vicious should be put to death Onely Epicurus gaue himselfe to a voluptuous and beastly kind of life wherein he put his whole delite affirming there was no other felicitie for slothfull men than to sleepe in soft beds for delicate persons to feele neither heate nor cold for fleshly men to haue at their pleasures amarous dames for drunkards not to want any pleasant wine and the gluttons to haue their fill of all delicate meate for heerin he affirmed to consist all worldlie felicitie A principalitie of things THe taste of all tasts is bread The sauor of all sauors is salt The loue of all loues is from the father to the child The histories and liues of priuate men togither with the report of countries and townes PHalaris was deformed of face purblind and exceeding couetous neuer obserued any thing that he promised he was vnthankfull to his friend and cruell to his enimy Finally he was such a one that the tyrannies that were seuerally scattered in others in him alone were altogither assembled one onelie good thing was there in him that he was a fauorer of wise men And in 36. yeeres they neuer found that any man sate at the table with him spake vnto him or slept in his bed nor that any man saw in his countenance any mirth vnles it were some Philosophers or sage men with whom and to whom he liberally put his bodie in trust Perillus being borne in Athens and also being very excellent in mettals came to Phalaris the tyrant saieng that he would make such a torment that his hart should remaine reuenged and the offender well punished This workman made a bull of brasse wherin there was a gate by the which they put the offender in and putting fire vnder the bull it rored in maner as it had beene a liue bull which was not onely a horrible and cruell torment to miserable creatures that endured it but also it was terrible to him or those that saw it Phalaris therfore seeing the inuention of this torment whereof the inuentor had hoped great reward prouided that the inuentor of the same should be put within the bull and that the cruelty of the torment should be experimented on none other sauing in the inuentor shewing himselfe therein rather a mercifull prince than a cruell tyrant Rome that in times past was a receit of all the good and vertuous is now made a den of all theeues and vicious I feare me least in short time will haue some sudden and great fall Cornelia of Rome said You shal see iustice corrupted the common weale oppressed lies blowne abrode the truth kept vnder the Satires silent flatterers open mouthed the infamed persons to be Lords and the patient to be seruants and aboue all and woorse than all to see the euill liue in rest and contented and the good troubled and despised If thou wilt enioie rest in thy daies and keepe thy life pure and cleane thou must obserue these three things First honor God for he that doth not honor him in all his enterprises shall be infortunate Secondly be diligent to bring vp thy children well for a man hath no enimie so troublesome as his owne sonne if he be not well brought vp Thirdly be thankfull to thy good benefactors and friends for the man that is vnthankfull of all the world shal be abhorred And the most profitable of these three although most troublesome is for a man to bring vp his children well Rome neuer decaied vntill the senate was replenished with wise serpents and destitute of simple doues As thou hast by tyrannie made thy selfe Ladie of Lords so by iustice thou shalt returne to be the seruant of seruants Why art thou at this day so deere of merchandise and so cheape of follie Marcus to his schoolmaister said My dutie is to see that you be good and your dutie is to trauell that your disciples be not euill for yoong men on the one part being euill inclined and on the other euill taught it is impossible but in the end they should be vicious and defamed for there is no man so weake nor child so tender but the force which he hath to be vicious is ynough if he will to be vertuous For there is more courage required in one to be euill than strength is required in an other to be good for to the maister it is greater treason to leaue his scholler amongst vices than to deliuer a fort into the hands of enimies for the one yeeldeth the fort which is but of stones builded but the other aduentureth his sonne which is of his owne bodie begotten Aduersitie IF there could be found any estate any age any lande any nation realme or world wherein there hath been any man that hath passed this life without tasting what aduersitie was it should be so strange to heare of that by reason both the dead as liuing should enuie him In the end I find that he that was yesterday rich to morow is poore he that was yesterday whole is to day sicke he that yesterday laughed to day weepeth he that had his hartes ease I see him now sore afflicted he that was fortunate