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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
earth_n	hand_n	king_n	lord_n	5,486	5	4.0501	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00024	Peace with her foure garders Viz. fiue morall meditations: of concord, chastitie, constancie. Courtesie. Grauitie. Eschew euill, and doe good, seeke peace and ensue it.	Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655?	1622 (1622)	STC 1002; ESTC S118662	30,466	62

knowledge to accord Their wrathfull furious Passions euermore Plato the Gods immortall doth adore That they him reasonable made no Beast A Man no Woman But it glads him more That he knew humane Arts and heau'nly best By which he thought himselfe in life and death most blest The Emperour Traiane when his friends him blame As carelesse of imperiall Maiesty Because so mild sweet gentle he became And affable to all his company Said he would so be in high Sou'raignty To others as if else he priuate were He wish'd to find the royall Dignity With whom all good men ought be free from feare But cruell vile malicious neuer should come there Philip who had by Liberalitie Obliged as he thought to him a Nation Receiued nought but Scorne for Courtesie Wherefore his Courtiers mou'd with indignation Perswade their King vnto reuenge and passion Soft said the Prince if these men doe requite Our benefits in such a scornefull fashion They vs for iniuries will more despight True patterne of a prudent patient gentle Knight Is Iury barren then of gentle deed Because I onely of the Nations tell The liues of Abram Isaac Ioseph reade And see how they in Courtesie excell When as betwixt the Heardmen strife befell Abram leaues to his nephew Let the Plaine His Courtesie the Angels greetes so well Their errand gently they to him explaine Yea gracious God to him familiar talke did daigne Most gentle Iacob courteous like thy Sire Though Laban churlishly thee handeled Let all thy patient gentlenesse admire When thou didst see thy Dina rauished And for her Rape a Nation slaughtered Thy gentle Ioseph into Egypt sold Who when he sees his brethren humbeled Could not his heart and eyes from weeping hold The Dreames thus prouing true which he before had told Though Shemei barke Dauid forbids to smite Oh let him curse my sonne me seekes to kill The Lord with Blessings may his Curse require If in his fauour I continue still I shall returne else be it as he will Mephibosheth must haue his fathers land And at his Table eate of Bread his fill Chimham in old Barzellais roome shall stand And nothing be denide him at King Dauids hand But Kings and People all learne gentlenesse Of our most courteous gentle King of Kings Who when he walk'd on earth in lowlinesse And was the Lord and Maker of all things Neuer vs'd bitter words nor threatenings But was to meanest courteous gentle mild The Lord rebuke thee Michael onely sings When Satans malice would haue him beguil'd Of Moses body but he neuer him reuil'd As of the head so of the members learne Mildnesse Humanity and Gentlenesse Speeches morose and countenances sterne Neuer agree with worth and noblenesse Nor to the vessels of true holinesse And Dames that soft and tender are by kind Adorn'd with Natures goodliest gracefulnesse Be gentle humble soft and meeke in mind So you with God and Man shall grace and fauour find No vertue so adornes a valiant man Nor vertuous Dame whom valiant men doe loue As courtesie which best direct them can To beare themselues in all as doth behoue Whether them God hath plast to rule aboue Or wait below it them befits to know Their Duties that none iustly may reproue Their rudenesse in not giuing what they ow Who giues each man his due doth great discretion show Nothing more wins mens hearts than gentle words Nor their affections than sweet lookes delight If Men like Beasts should make the strongest Lords And be enrag'd one at anothers sight Societie of men would perish quight The rules of Policies and States would faile Mens liues should be in hazzard of each wight That them by force or cunning would assaile Yea sauage Beasts against their weakenesse would preuaile Rude manners those that haue them doe infest And grieuous are to all they deale withall But gentlenesse in Angels Man and Beast Is much commended and belou'd of all The Poets want the Gods in heau'n to call Most gentle bountifull and amiable But Fiends and Furies cruell tetricall To first they Temples build and prayers fable Counting th' other dreadfull and abominable If Socrates a froward wife would beare As men ride horses wild that they may know To rule them better that well tamed were Much more should Christians sweetly beare the blow Of proud and cruell worldlings heere below And not to grieue at their prosperitie Though heere they seeme in wealth and blisse to flow Alas such stand in places slippery And in their haughty pride shall perish suddenly Who that most wicked Sect doe imitate That would all friendship and acquaintance shun That they might heere enioy more happy fate And partners of no others losse become One burthen is inough for any one Oh! why should others losses them molest By this is all Humanity vndone And man made more vngentle than a beast The Heathen therefore did such beastlinesse detest The first and speciall Duty which we ow Is Loue to God which we call Piety Next is the Mercy we to men do show And this indeed is true Humanity This is the summe of all Diuinity And this to Piety doth Practice ioyne All loue the Lord in words but doe deny Their hearts and hands to Mercy to incline God grant they both in vs together may combine Chiefe Band amongst men is Humanity Which who would breake deserues eternall palne From one man all deriue their pedigree And therefore Kinsmen all in him remaine From one God we our soules doe all obtaine And so we brethren are and neerer ioyn'd In Soule than Body And we hope in vaine If all into one head be not conioyn'd And feele not all one Spirit working in our minde Inhumane cruell Beasts which take delight Without iust cause Gods image to destroy Torment kill torture cruelly despight When God would haue all liue in amity Oh measure others by thy misery No man without anothers ayd can liue He that denies helpe in aduersitie None at his need vnto him helpe shall giue As none shall be forgiu'n that doth not heere forgiue No man that doth obey Dame Natures hest Can hurt a man much lesse him spoile or kill Learne of the gentle meeke and harmlesse beast How he Society doth couet still The Shepheards gentle Flocks the Plaines do fill Wolues Beares and Tygres loue to Lord alone Where they their yong ones with the fat may fill And forrage all the Countrey for their owne Lo Mercy there is strange where Misery 's vnknowne Such in their Complement are onely kind And where they kindnesse may receiue againe Oh be mine heart to gentlenesse inclind Not for base recompence reward or gaine But for his sake who for my sinne was slaine But ouer-courteously I doe abuse My Readers patience with vngentle straine Yet if he gentle be he cannot chuse But my most willing mind though not my Verse excuse MEDITATION 5. Of Grauitie MY Muse now fares like some Geometrician That hauing view'd on Globe terrestriall The Earth and