Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	edward_n	king_n	prisoner_n	3,115	5	8.4781	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06890	A godly medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerninge a loue towardes God and hys Christe, compyled in frenche by lady Margarete quene of Nauerre, and aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayne Kynge Henri the. viij; Miroir de lâme pécherresse. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.	1548 (1548)	STC 17320; ESTC S111990	38,308	98

A Godly Medytacyon of the christen sowle Concerninge a loue towardes God aÌ„d hys Christe compyled in frenche by Lady Margarete quene of Nauerâ— and aptely translated into Englysh by the ryght vertuouse lady Elyzabeth doughter to our late souerayne Kynge Henri the viij Inclita filia serenissimi olim Anglorum Regis Henrici octaui Elizabeta tam Graece quam latine foeliciter in Christo erudita To the ryght vertuouse and christenly lerned yonge lady Elizabeth the noble doughter of our late souerayne kynge Henry the .viij. Iohan Bale wysheth helth with dayly increace of Godly knowledge DIuerse and many most gracyouse lady haue the opynyons bene amonge the prophane philosophers and christen dyuynes concernynge ryght Nobylyte and no fewar stryues and contencyons for the same Some autours haue vaynely boasted it to take orygynall oâ— the olde Goddes of the Gentyles as euery laÌ„de hath had hys peculyar Saturne Iupiter Hercules yea our EnglaÌ„de here and all Some hath fatt it from the foure generall monarchyes of the Assyrianes Perseanes Grekes and Romanes Some haue attrybuted it to the bolde battayles and bloudshedynges in Ninus of Babylon the first inueÌ„tour of polycyes in warre in our great Albion the Chamesene whych first in thys regyon suppressed the posterite of Iaphet vsurpynge therin the first monarchy in Brute that more than six hondred yeares after defaced of hym the tyrannouse yssue in EbraÌ„ck and Dunwallo in Brenne and Belyne in great Constantyne Artoure Cadwalader Engist Egbert Alphrede wyllyam coÌ„querour soch other for lyke â—â—questes of the Romanes Grekes Galles pyctes Brytaynes Saxons Dancâ— Iryshâ—â—â— and Englyshens The hawty Romanes set not yet a lyttle ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ themselues that they haue ryseÌ„ of ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ Romulus of whom the one most shâ—mefully betrayed hys owne naâ—â—â—â— kyndred and contraye and the other most vnnaturally slewe hys owne brother ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰ worldly domynyoÌ„ Lyke as our walshe ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰ Englande aduauÌ„cynge their successyon or progeny aboue the Englysh wyll nedes come of Dardanus Bute a fonÌ„dacyoÌ„ not all vnlyke to the other These gloryouse champyons for thys farre fatched grouÌ„de of their Nobylyte accouÌ„te all other nacyons and peoples ignoble profane and barbarouse as is to be seane in the monumeÌ„tes of their writers But in the meane season they are not aware that they wndyscretely prefarre cursed Cham to blessed Iaphet by whose posteryte the Iles of the Gentyles were first sorted out in to speches kyndredes and naâ—yons Gene 10. and not by Chams ofsprynge of whome the Troianes and Romanes had their noble begynnynge That the Chame senes had in those Iles was by cruell vsurpacyon tyraÌ„ny as testyfyeth Berosus the Caldeane and therfor that grouÌ„de of Nobylyte is not all the best Ouer and besydes all thys some haue applyed it to renomed byrth or successyon of bloude some to the habuÌ„dauÌ„ce of pleasures worldly some to the mayntenauÌ„ce of great famylyes some to the suÌ„ptuousnesse of notable buyldynges some to the hygh stomake stature of persone some to valeauÌ„tnesse in marcyall feates some to semely maners of courtesye some to lyberalyte of rewardes and gyftes some to the auncyeninesse of longe coutynuaunce some to wysdome lernynge stody for a coÌ„meÌ„ welth with soch lyke And these are not all to be dysalowed for we fynde them in Abraham Dauid with other iust fathers But now foloweth a monstruouse or whether ye wyll a prestygyouse nobylyte The Romysh clergye ymagenynge to exalte themselues aboue the lewde layte as they shame not yet to call the worldly powers haue geuen it in a farre other kynde to mytars masses Cardynall hattes crosers cappes shauen crownes oyled thombes syde gownes furred amyses moÌ„kes cowles and fryres lowsy coates becoÌ„mynge therby poÌ„tyfycall lordes spirytuall sirs and ghostly fathers Thys kynde of Nobylyte dygged out of the dongehyll haue I seane gorgyously garnyshed with the retoryckes of Porphyry Aristotle Duns and Raymundus decretals in the bokes of Iohan Stanbery byshopp of herforde De superioritate ecclesiastica De discrimine iurisdictionum and De potestate poÌ„tificia In the bokes also of Walter huÌ„te an ordynary reader suÌ„tyme in Oxforde De precelleÌ„tia Petri De autoritate ecclesie Yea and amoÌ„ge theÌ„selues they haue moch contended both by disputacyon writynges whych of their sectes myght other excell in the nobylnesse of christen perfection The monkes in publyque scoles by a dystynccyon of the actyue and contemplatyue lyfe haue aduaunced their ydell moÌ„kery aboue the offyce of a byshopp and the fryres their scalde crauynge beggery aboue the degrees of theÌ„ Both. As is largely seane in the brawlynge workes of Rycharde Maydeston Thomas walden Wyllyam Byntre other whych haue written Contra wicleuistas Pro meÌ„dicatione fratruÌ„ In the dayes of kynge Edwarde the fourt Iohan Myluerton prouyncyall of the Carmelytes was full thre yeares a prysoner in the castell of Angell at Rome at the sute of the byshoppes of Englande for the same and lost so the byshopryck of saynt Dauids wherunto he was a lyttle afore elected Thys matter haue I hearde vndre the tyttle of Euangelyck perfeccyon most depely reasoned in their ordynary dysputacions at their concourses coÌ„uocacyons aud chapters as they than called them yea by those whome I knewe most corrupt lyuers HeruÌ„to for fournyshynge out the same the graye fryres added S. frances paynted wouÌ„des the blacke fryres S. Domynyckes bolde dysputynge with heretykes the whyte fryres our ladyes fraternyte and the Augustyne fryres the great doctryne of their patrone In the vnyuersytees afte moch to and fro hath it bene concluded that the order of a prest haue farre excelled in dygnyte the order of a byshopp And thys haue they left behynde them for a most graue and depe reason therupon Marke their more than lucyferyne presumpcyon therin Soch power hath a prest saye they as hath neyther Angell nor yet Man be he of neuer so great autoryte scyeÌ„ce or vertu For a prest by worde maye make hym agayne that by worde made heauen earth A prest maye euery daye both byget hym and beare hym where as hys mother Marye bygate hym beare hym they wolde saye but ones These are their very wordes in a boke entytled De origine Nobilitatis ca. 5. with moch more cyrcumstaunce of matter Oblasphemouse bellybeastes most ydell wytted sorcerers How ydolatrously exalte they themselues aboue the eternall lyuynge God hys Christ Iohan Chrisostome a man taught and brought vp in the christen philosophy defyneth the true Nobylyte after a farre other sort than ded the prophane writers He calleth it not with Aristotle a worthynesse of progeny neyther yet with Varro aÌ„ opuleÌ„cy of ryches but a famouse renome obtayned by loÌ„ge exercysed vertu He is pusaunt hygh aÌ„d valeaunt sayth he and hath Nobylyte in right course that dysdayneth to geue place to vyces and abhorreth to be ouercomen of them Doctryne greatly adourneth a maÌ„ hyghly borne but a godly endeuoure

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