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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	great_a	king_n	receive_v	4,331	5	5.2213	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07590	The mirrour of friendship both hovv to knovve a perfect friend, and how to choose him. With a briefe treatise, or caueat, not to trust in worldly properitie. Translated out of Italian into English by Thomas Breme Gentleman.	Breme, Thomas.; I. B., fl. 1584.	1584 (1584)	STC 17979.7; ESTC S110017	15,331	52

toward the common wealth that there cannot be found a man that is able to Iustifie that euer he sawe thée doe euill or that any euer durste pray thée of any fauour or grace in any cause that was not iust and honest Cato would haue no statue or Image of him self set vp as the notable Romans vsed And by good reason such honour was done hym for amonge all the noble and famous Romaynes it was he alone that would not suffer that any Image of himselfe should be erected or set vp in the capytoll of Rome as the other famous Romaynes did vse for their honour and remembrance to continue Many hauing great maruell why this worthy Cato refused the honour where vpon were great discourses and spéeches in Rome Cato vpon a day being in the Senate house sayd openlie vnto them the cause that I wil not cōsnent to erect my Image in the capitoll is for that I desire that after death my good workes should rather be followed A mans good works rather to be followed then his image to be looked vpon then to goe after beholde my Image and enquire what house or parents I came of and what euill I haue done in my life time and so my euill deserts might cause my statue or Image to be throwen downe to my infamy and dishonour after my death for it happeneth often that those which by variant fortune from bace estate be mounted to great honour come afterwards by the same occasion to be plonged and ouer throwē into vtter ruine and defamy for many be reuerenced and honoured for their great riches while they possesse them which after are mocked when fortune hath abaced them and depriued them of their riches Lucian doth recite that Pompey the great was wonte to say Note Pompeius wordes of the varietie of Fortune my friends we haue little cause to trust the flatterings of fortune as for my parte I haue prooued by experience that obtayned the rule of the Roman empire before I did once pretend it or had any hope to doe it you know how sodainly againe it was taken from me whē I nothing suspected any such hap to come Lucius Seneca being banished from Rome wrot a letter to his mother Albine in which in comforting her he said these words know this for certaine good mother Albine that in my life I neuer gaue credit to or trusted fortune The wise will not presume vpō good hap although there were betwéene me and her many showes of friendlinesse but what so euer she as a traitres consēted to whereby I found my selfe in rest and tranquility it was not done by fortune by will to cease to hurt me but onely to giue me the more great fall and dissimuled assurance of her furious reuenge towards me yea euen with the furies that one campe of them come after another armd against me to giue battayle for all that she giues me either in ryches or honour by her liberality I accept it but lent not to continue but small time the promises that fortune offers me the honours she doth mée and the riches she giues me I lay it by accompte in my house by it selfe that alwayes I looke to lose it euery howre of the day and night euen when it pleaseth her to take all againe without any thing troubling my minde or spirites or making dolorous or heauy my heart any thing at all and further knowe that although I haue bene beholding to fortune yet I haue alwayes determined neuer to put trust in any thing she giues me nor hope in my hearte safely to kéepe it otherwise then for the time to take pleasure in it but no assurance I loue to haue fortune my friend rather then mine enimie but notwithstanding if I lose all that she giues mée it shall grieue mée nothing therefore I conclude finally that when fortune causeth or suffereth my house to be robbed and assayled by the greatest extremity shée can yet shall it not cause me to giue one sigh from my heart We reade that King Phillip the father of great King Alexander A wise kinge that doubted prosperous fortune when he had receiued newes of thrée victories that his Captaines and men of warre had gotten in diuers places he immediatly knéeled down ioyning his hands togither lifting vp his eies to the heauens spake these wordes O cruell fortune Oh most pittifull gods after my prosperous successe I most humbly pray you that after such great glory as you haue giuen mée at this present you will moderate the chastisement I feare will follow How fearefull the king Phillip was and that it may be with such pitty that it be not the cause of my extreame ruine and destructiō for I am certaine that after great felicity and prosperity of this life there followeth great misfortunes and disgraces All these examples afore recited be worthy to be noted and often called to our remembraunce that by thinking on them we may know how little we haue to trust in fortune and how much we haue to feare the flattering fawning and felicityes of this life True it is that we be very frayle by nature therefore fall into many fragilities dayly This world as a traytor doth vse alwayes to giue vs troubles and sorrowes as a recharge after our good happes So that we may by good right call our felicities cawteries or burning diseases in the flesh almost incurable to heale for that the world is suttle to finde euery fraud and mischéefe without giuing vs warning to foresée the sequell that followes As is manifestly séene for we fall into a number of mishappes before we can beware After pleasure payne followeth Yea if it fortune that sometimes we happen vpon pleasures or contentmēts of mind by good fortune as we terme it there followes a daungerous gulfe of troubles and a sea of dolorous thoughts so that we hoping as right worldlings to holde in certenty our good happes riches treasures of this world are suddaynly entrapped and toyled in the nets of misfortune hidden vnder a vaine hope of our good fortunes cōtinuing with vs. As though we had good fortune taken in our netts and so forced to abide with vs as had one notable Captaine Timotheus as poets fayne for that hée was happy in all his enterprises wherefore Timotheus a fortunate Captayne how high great riche or how wise so euer we accompt our selues of this wée may be sure and certaine that all men that be in the world shall find thē selues deceiued in following the world and the practises vsed in the same And such is our folly that after a little good fortune our wittes be captiuated and drowned in our owne conceite that we offer our selues as a prayr to euill haps and froward fortune most commonly irrecuperable O trayterous world which for a short time doest flatter vs and sodainely with the twinckling of an eye doest hunt vs from thée sodaynly thou giuest