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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heart_n	aaron_n	anoint_v	head_n	22	3	5.4514	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10414	A mirrour of monsters wherein is plainely described the manifold vices, &c spotted enormities, that are caused by the infectious sight of playes, with the description of the subtile slights of Sathan, making them his instruments. Compiled by Wil. Rankins. Séene and allowed.	Rankins, William, fl. 1587.	1587 (1587)	STC 20699; ESTC S115638	36,729	52

deceitfull seducer Idlenesse masking after this maner with all things necessarie prouided by his maister especiallie not forgetting his visard of honest Recreation is appointed formost as well deserues his dignitie Next from a lake little inferior in lothsomnesse to the other this porter fetcht Flatterie to place him the second in the same charge which Idlenesse had vndertaken whose plague was little inferior to the other especiallie considering that he was a branche sprong from the same tr●e for what other thing may we expect then impossibilitie to gather Grapes of Thornes or Figs of Thistels the taste of this frute depriuing a man of his sences I will set downe physicke for him which hath alreadie tasted thereof and admonitions to the willing to eschue the same Of all the stinking wéeds that choke swéet flowers growing in the garden of a florishing commonwealth I find none sooner rooted nor more p●stilent then the sensuall séed of flatterie whose branches spred and are nourished with the moist sappe of traiterous deuises whose leaues are fresh and gréene and whose blossoms ga●e and gorgious to dazle their eyes which peraduenture might decerne the secret poison hidden harmes that lurketh vnder the deadlie shadowe of so beautifull a trée The fruits whereof in outward shew pretend loue and by the swéet melodie of sugred words banish all feare of mistrust but inwardlie they are filled with hatred contempt and vnnaturall reuenge Flatterie by his golden pretence of vnfaigned affection entrappeth the simple betraieth the innocent corrupteth iustice and peruerteth the wise and good disposition to vnciuill brutishnesse What may be more contrarie to the ground of humaine societie which is faith in words and constancie in our déeds then this pernitious vice of Flatterers which séeme to be that they are not and are that they séeme not to be whose face is fréendlie whose toong deceitfull and whose lips are smoothe to giue kisses with Iudas What shaddoweth vice with the colour of vertue but flatterie what maketh men suppose themselues in surest safetie when they are in greatest danger but fawning Parasites what vrgeth to securitie a soule drowned in sinne but the pleasant baite of flatterie what disquieteth the peaceable estate of a countrie well gouerned but hearkening to a glosing toong what pricketh the desire of youth to be lewde but soothing Subtiltie what is the spoile of so manie godlie matrones and chaste virgins but rash trust to flie and subtill dealings But it maye be hée which is well furnished with this damnable qualitie and whose delight consisteth onelie in flatterie will obiect that by this Gnatonicall kind of exercise his calling is eleuated his credit aduanced and his wealth well augmented therefore the best kind of fowling Oh hainous practises oh diuelish opinion and oh thrice curssed man which in contempt of God and his lawe studieth to thriue by losse of his owne soule In vaine is the building where the Lord is not the foundation haplesse are those attempts that are not measured by the line of Grace and curssed is the séed sowne in iniquitie For the Lord is truthe it selfe and such as resist the truthe resist the high maiestie of God Happie then are the simple whose waies are righteous whose heart abhorreth flatterie and deceit him the Lord shall annoint with that precious oyle of Aaron and on his head powre downe the heauenlie dew of euerlasting felicitie his trée shall be planted by the water side his leafe shall neuer wither and his fruite continuallie ●●rish Let vs therefore beware of such pernitious Gnatonists who taking vs fréendlie by the one hand haue in the other a naked blade to shed our bloud and smiling in our faces séeke to betraie our soules farre woorsse I iudge them then open enimies for of these we may beware the other we feare not Touching which point I hepe it shall not séeme absurd to rehearse a pleasant fable the words whereof though fained yet the effect presenteth a sence of true meaning The Sheapheard s●metime belike wearied with his charge and desirous to recreate his paine with some pleasure committed the kéeping of his flocke to the diligent suruey of his Dogge whome bicause he thought a profitable seruant he fed euerie daie with good meat but the Dogge like a currish creature not content with his fare at home oft times spoiled a shéepe abroad the better to satisfie his insatiat appetite which the Sheapheard perceiuing contrarie to his woonted manner not like a fréend but a foe came and would haue hanged him Alas quoth the Dogge why are you desirous to destroye me I am your fréend and one of your houshold seruants rather extend such crueltie on the Woolfe who dailie lyeth in waite to deuoure your flocke by me vigilantlie protected nay sayd the Sheapheard I déeme thée more worthie death for his déeds declare him to be my open enimie but thou vnder the coulour of fréendship and deceitfull diligence doost euerie day diminish my shéepe Hereby may we decer●e that farre more heinous is theyr faulte and greater their punishment which vnder pretence of humaine curtesie doo vs iniurie We see then that all is not golde that glistereth nor euerie one to be estéemed a fréend that speaketh faire the deadest water hath the déepest chanell from the finest Flower is gathered as well poison as Honye The pittifull teares of the dissembling Crocodyle are quickelie turned to outrage and sauage crueltie So flattering mates carrie Suger in their mouthes and Gall in their hearts their teares are full of tyrannie and theyr sighes seasoned with barbarous seueritie They cleaue to the coates of highest in authoritie not vnlike the Iuie which créepeth vp the bodye of the mightie Oke and being come vnto the toppe thereof ouershadoweth his boughes with his twined branches The many mischéefes that insue by flatterie would fill whole volumes and my skill vnable to decipher them Yet that the weakest capacitie maye conceiue how mortall the effect is of so vile a cause I iudge it not impertinent to vnfolde an example or two of ancient memorie If the flattering toong of subtile Synon had béene cut off before it song swéet hermonie of pleasing tales into the eares of the credulous Troians then had that famous Cittie neuer felt the force of fire then had not the sillie men like Sheepe béene slaughtered in theyr beds nor then had not the flourishing estate of aged Pryamus béene crossed with a miserable ende If Aristippus famous in that Arte had béene banished the Courte and confines of Cor●●th then had not the noble mind of Dionifyus béene infected with so great tyrannie whose hands still bathed themselues in the bloud of guiltlesse soules For flatterie corrupteth the mindes of Princes dismembreth their authoritie and wasteth theyr treasure We reade that Thymon a Noble man of Athens who by enterteining a crew of soothing seruants became

in the holy scriptures as wold 〈◊〉 whole volumes of admonitions for an vngrateful person to auoide this vice By so much ought this vice to be accoūted detestable amongst mē by howe much it is lothed of brute beasts thēselues for profe of which Aulius Gellius writeth this example One Androgeo a slaue to a Romaine Senator weary of the yrkesome cruelty of hys Lord ran from him and liued as one forlorne amongst wylde Woods and hydious Mountaynes One day amongst the rest sore wearied with trauaile and heate of the parching Sunne he entered into a Caue to rest and ease hys weary limbs whither when he had slept a while came a monstrous and ougly Lyon whose sight so appalled him that he expected nought cls but present death But the Lyon not minding to hurte but séeking for helpe at hys hande contrary to nature came gentlye to him layde hys heade in his lappe and helde out hys foote with pittiful gronings in so much that Androgeo setting feare aside mooued with compassion diligently serched for that wound that so much molested him and at last perceiuing a Thorne déepely pearced in the bottome of hys foote he gladly pulde it out and eased the Lyon of hys payne for which déede the Lyon not onely defended him from the harmes of other Sauage beastes but euery day brought hym store of victualls to relieue hys néedy want But Androgoe weary of hys solitary life and desirous to trauayle further for better fortune was by wandring out of his way vnhappyly apprehended and brought backe to his cruell Maister who prosecuting the Romish lawe condemned him to be deuoured of Lyons And béeing throwne into the Denne amongst them It happened that that Lyon whose foote he lately healed was ready as the reste with their gréedy chaps to haue torne him péecemeale but that he remembred as well hys fauor as the fréendshippe in curing of hys wounded foote and therefore not onely fauned on him but saued hym from the tearing tuskes of those insatiate Lyons At whose gratefull remembraunce as well the young Babes as the aged Senators of Rome admired and therefore ordeyned a Law inuiolable to theyr posteritie that such as encurred the blame of ingratitude should without remorce die that death which was once ordeined for Androgeo A shame is it therefore to humanitie that brutish beasts wanting reason should instruct men to be gratefull to their benefactors But such is the nature of some men that those gifts of reason and vnderstanding which God hath bestowed on them thereby to make them excell all other creatures they conuert by their vicious life and vngodlie inclination to the vnreasonable scence of brutish beasts Of which sort are these Plaiers that like the Uiper forget them that féedes their venom with their poison thereby to increase their stings and to hurt the world which they are borne to offend and vngratefullie reward them that will spend their time for their profit labour for their lust and painefull trauaile to please them whose pleasure as poison spreddeth it selfe into the vaines of their beholders representing the filthie poole of Auernus which striketh dead those which come within the sente of the same For none of the beasts of the field dare drinke in the riuer after the dragon except the Unicorne purge the same from poison with hir horne such is the infectious poison of these men and such danger is it to be néere the view of their vitious exercise he therefore that feares the sting let him auoide the hissing of the harmefull Adder This masker readie with a trice to performe his office amongst the rest wanting nothing but his visard which he may not misse least he misse of his purpose was not so soone thought vpon as presentlie prouided Then with pretended shadowes to couer so deformed a substance to the intent his face might not be knowne by his leopord like spots the markes of Sathan he masked vnder the vizard of Hating harmes to delude those which thorow an ignorant spirit are no lesse willing to follow his vice then he is readie to seduce them to the same Such is the nature of those Plaiers whether grounded by nature or insinuated by some preposterous education I know not but when the chéefe of their mischéefe is put in practise they hate harmes when in effect they deceiue themselues more vnnaturall then the cruell Tygre yet hate they harmes and loth are they to doo good to one man to whome they are all most bound least they should hurte another ther vnto enioined by their vertue of ha●ing harme And thus farre doo I persuade my selfe that nature hath marked these men with such monstrous markes that they would neglect the goods of their dearest fréends by pretending that they hate harmes and therefore are loth to doo good to one least it should hurt another But some man will not sticke to obiect that such minds as I talke of cannot be humaine therefore doo I much iniurie those men to censure so hardlie vpon bare suppositions for there is no man so vngratefull but if he can doo good without preiudice to himselfe or disparagement to his owne estate to another his benefactor he will doo it I answer héerevnto that this obiector is deceiued for such is the vnpartiall sinceritie of these mens minds that they are loth to doo good to some yea their helpers and chéefe coadiutors least they should hurt another and so thereby endammage their owne credits and be found such as they are not but what they are if men delight not to sit in darkenesse which comprehendeth their hearts or would see that which easilie they might they shall sée no vice either commonlie vsed at home or brought as rich marchandize from forren countries but they will be as exquisite in the same as if nature had honoured them so much as they should haue béene the first inuentors of such notable actions Amongst which Ingratitude is no lesse loued amongst them then that which is most f●mous of all for qualities or good deserts And the rather for that so manie examples out of holie scriptures are presidents for those men to doo the like for that which God punisheth they delight in to whose protection I commit them to amend them or else to end them whose examples hurt more then the venemous Dragon dooth with hir poison Ingratitude the third masker is thus set out by their lewd and chéefe domination after such order as alreadie I haue told Next to make vp a fourth was brought vp by y ● hellish kéeper Ougly dissention whose eies sparkled with fier in token that his heart was inflamed with hate still gnashing his filthie téeth and biting his lips in token that his head was exercised in all kind of villanous exploits In his hands he bare two fire brands wherewith he inflicted and scourged his owne miserable carcase