Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
king_n	earl_n	great_a	lord_n	27,730	5	3.6766	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10702	Roome for a gentleman, or The second part of faultes collected and gathered for the true meridian of Dublin in Ireland, and may serue fitly else where about London, and in many other partes of England. By Barnabe Rych souldier.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1609 (1609)	STC 20985; ESTC S115899	39,214	69

much lesse to detect them There be many other Gentlemen both of name and bloud that I know are not to be detected amongst the which some I loue for their honesty some I reuerence for their quality and some I honour for their excellency many wayes expressed but especially in their liues amongst the rest that are now remainant in the realme of Ireland one that hath made himselfe more famous then the rest and therefore aboue the rest in that Region most worthy so to be famed I need not blaze his name for he that hath but learned to know himselfe hath heard of him I might say more but I need not for he hath said more for himselfe then I am able to say For a full conclusion of this I protest that I doe not know any man in EnglaÌ„d a professor of the law either one or other that I do malice there be a number that I do loue and I loue them for their owne vertue and worthines neyther can I speake any ill of any one particular person amongst them of mine owne experience neither haue I heard the abuses of these petty-fogging fellowes more bitterly reprehended then I haue heard amongst Lawyers themselues that are of the most worthiest sorte and best learned in the lawes And now to returne to the subiect that I haue taken in hand I say it is the best gentrie that is attayned by Armes or by learning but best of all by both and hee doth hardly deserue the title of a Gentleman that is not aduanced by one or both they are farre deceiued to thinke that a little wealth or a bare office may make a man worthy of estimation that is not attained vnto by desert or accomplished by vertue to gaine a reputation to bee accounted wise or vertuous many wise and vertuous acts are required but for a man to make himselfe to bee esteemed for a foole one foolish act sufficeth and therefore a man had neede to take heede how hee marries a wife that is of the flanting humour Some do think to aspite to gentility by their welth but that were a base foundation for riches are most coÌ„monly heaped together by corruptions by extortions by exactions by oppressions and by many other like seruile functions And a man would laugh to heare some of these Hogelings if they bee in company what they will attribute to themselues you shall see a fellow that was but lately digde out of a dung hill whose wit and honesty both doth onely consist but in compassing of crownes that will take more state vppon him then hee that is able to manage a princes Army in the field Some others doe thinke that the greatest grace of gentility doth consist in gawdy showes in foolish fashions and to be like Protenus the God of shapes Some their greatest vertue is to poure it in and to put it out againe some doe thinke to bee registred in the Heraldes bookes for wearing hayre of the new cut one will haue it short another will haue it long an other will haue his loue locke or his lady locke or call it what you will that shall hang dangling by his eare an excellent place of Ambuscado to sheltre Nits Lice There be some that in their actions do affect honour who in their ambition will protest of great wonders and what they would bring to passe if they had beene borne mighty which sort of men are commonly much talked of but little cared for when honour doth best show her selfe in him that doth rather seeke merite then hunt after fame yet I haue knowne of some of these aspiring potentates that were ashamed to confesse their own parentage but would challenge their alliance from some Lord or from some knight like the Mule that being demaÌ„ded of his birth being ashamed to confesse that hee was the sonne of an Asse answered that he was cosen Germaine to a Horse In euery wel gouerned common wealth men of learning vertue honesty are aduanced and preferred for dignity in an vnworthy person is like a precious stone that is set in base mettell or like a rusty rapier in a veluet scaberd but opinion is a perilous fellow and I thinke there is not a more cosening thing in the world for it deceyueth Kings Princes Dukes Earles Lords and what is he that is not ouer reached by opinion It draweth most to great fortunes and it is bred and fostered by the breath of the vulgar It preferreth men to dignities to offices places of authority aswell in the time of peace as in the time of warre for where opinion beareth sway shee rules like a God she makes fooles to bee reputed wise cowards to be called couragious and silly ignorant men to be admired for iudgement and skill Opinion is a burre that still cleaueth to the mighty and it is more nice foolish to please then iudgemeÌ„t Opinion is the mother of hypocrisie it is blind it is lame it is selfe conceited and it hath preuailed so farre that we want but another Erasmus to deifie Opinion as one hath already writ in the prayse of Folly Opinion is most smoothed by those that doe affect and hunt after it themselues and that is commonly by men of the basest condition by such as doe thirst after promotion as tale bearers newes carriers and such other and some too thinke to creepe into the very guts of Opinion with drinking a health some to winne Opinion are excellent in discourse at a table they will talke of their owne actiuity how many fraies they made in Fleetstreet what Ladies and Gentlewomen came to visite them when they lay sicke of the tooth-ach and they will sometimes vaunt of a fauour from their mistres that were scorned by the maide and bar them from this or other like talke and they are as vtterly vnfurnisht as a chimnies end in a countrie house without a pudding or a peece of bacon I haue seene some of these fellowes that are of the ietting behauiour that do thinke to reach at opinion by complements and quaint deuises that will dispute of intricate matters that professe to bee seene in all faculties that will speake by distinct spaces and will refute all men by innouation of Method that can sometimes speake well and alwayes liue ill He that swaggereth and sweareth and speaketh not a word but it is full of terrour that threatneth the stabbe or some other deadly blowe that is able to dismember a man with the verie breath of his displeasure that can shake him all to tatters but vpon the point of his tongue that is as fearefull to beholde as the Gentleman that durst not looke in a glasse when hee was angry for affrighting himselfe with the terror of his owne countenance that scorneth to cut vppe the Goose-pie that scorneth to drinke to him that will not pledge him a full cuppe that scorneth sometime to pay his debts all this and more too is but to winne opinion and so from

to dispence his holy mysteries amongst vs to whome wee are not onely to attribute honour but for whome wee are also bound to pray if they doe not make themselues vnworthy of it by their owne contempt by their couetousnes by their pride and by their ambition as there bee some that haue set themselues opposite to the ordinance of the Church that haue set the holy scriptures at a iarre that will many times make the glose to ouerthrow the Text that will cry out for Discipline yet will obey no Discipline that will take vpon them to teach al men yet they themselues wil not be taught that are angry against Bishoppes and would not haue them to be Lordes yet are become so Lady like themselues that they would haue euery one a new fashion particular to himselfe these are to proud in their own conceites these be they that disdaining to yeelde to authority do shew greater pride in their contempt theÌ„ the other can shew in their most ambitious desires Saint Paul writing to Timothie Hee that desireth the office of a Bishoppe that man desireth a good worke I hope the office of a Bishoppe is not altogether without authority and that authority in the Church of God is not altogether vnworthy of honour and where Christ prohibited his Disciples that they should not be caled Rabbi that they should not be called Doctors c. by the opinion of the most learned writers those words of Christ doe not condemne superiority lordship or any other like authority but the ambitious desire onely neither doth he say elsewhere that no man should be great or beare rule amongst them but his words are He that desireth to be great amongst you let him be humbled And Timothie notwithstanding those words spoken by Christ calleth himselfe the Doctor of the Gentiles and Paul in like manner writing to the Corinthians calleth himselfe their Father Now as the holy Scriptures exhorteth the professors of the Gospell to be humble meeke so we ought to render them the first title of honour and to giue theÌ„ precedence in the formost ranke especially to those that do not ambitiously desire it Loe heare now the difference betweene the Disciples of Christ and the followers of Antichrist the one refuseth the prefermeÌ„ts of the world that are offered vnto them by the Deuill and contenteth themselues with their vocation in the ministery the other with the Pope accepteth of al that is offered besides their ecclesiasticall promotions they hunt after temporall iurisdictions other proud titles of the world to vphold and maintain their pride and ambition for the better manifestation whereof I thinke it will not bee out of season to remember a iest that was merily broken by a plaine Country fellow vpon one of the Popes Chaplaines the Bishoppe of Cullen who passing on a iourney sumptuously mounted and gorgeously furnished both himself and al the rest that were in his company was encountered by a rude country fellow who comming to the Bishop after hee had bluntly saluted him he saide my Lord I haue heard speaking of Peter and Paul and of some others that were reputed to be good and godly men I may well commend their goodnes but I will neuer prayse their wit for they were glad to amble about the country on foot for falling followed perhaps with some poore thred bare fellowes like themselues but I see God hath prouided for your Lordship better then for them or your wisedome is the more to prouide so well for your selfe The Bishop that heard himselfe to bee thus pretily nipt returned this answere but sirra said he you mistake your text you thinke I take more state vppon me then is befitting an Apostle but let Peter Paul goe or ride how they list I am not only the Bishoppe of Cullen but I am ouer and besides a Prince Elector and for this state that you thinke I take vpon mee as you thinke it to be too much for a Bishoppe so I know it to be too little for a prince and thus you are answered you haue answered well said the other but good my Lord but one question more if this prince Elector that you speake of do happen to goe to the Deuill for his pride what will become of my Lord Bishop of Cullen We might make the like demaund to the Pope who notwithstanding his humble pâ—etence to bee Seruus Seruorum Dei yet hee assumeth to himselfe the dispose of the whole world not contented with that neither but he further taketh vppon him to haue commaund both in Heauen and Hell to let in and shut out as it pleaseth him but because his intollerable pride is well inough knowne I may be the more sparing it was the bounty and liberality of princes that first begat this ambition in Popes so ambition was it again that first destroyed Religion but for the tru professors of the Gospell I protest I thinke it a sinne to carry any ill conceit against theÌ„ whose praiers vnto God doth so appease his displeasure towardes vs that hee many times forbeareth to punish vs when wee haue worthily deserued it and as the prayers of Moses did rather procure the victory against Amalecke then all the swordes that did accompany Iosua to the fight so I beleeue that the petition of one godly man deliuered with a confident zeale is of more effect then the prayers of a multitude that are but breathed in words and are rather vttered from the mouth then proceeding from the heart Hauing thus placed the Diuine in the formost rank the Souldier is next to be preferred for honor cannot be wanting in those men of valour that haue restored to their country their bloud which their conntrie first gaue vnto them if wee stand vpon birth onely then the most auncient whether in Nobility or Gentility if we stand vpon desert then the martiall man hee that doth deliuer his country from the seruitude of strangers the oppression of Tyrantes that doth countermaund the miseries of ciuill dissentions that doth restraine the pride and ambition of aspiring traitors that doth inlarge their territories defend their liberties vphold and maintaine Iustice and make honorable defence against all inuaders The Souldier is the man that holdeth the whole world in awe and is not onely a sure defence against forraine inuasions but likewise against domesticall rebellions wee need not in this case to seeke after farre fet precedents when wee haue home examples inough of our own who hath not heard of Iack Straw Iacke Cade and of Ket with many others now of later times in Ireland that if the Souldiers sworde had not beene of greater vertue then a writ out of the Kinges Bench to haue brought them before my Lord Chiefe Iustice they would neither haue made appearance nor haue paid fees I say then that the execution of Iustice lieth in Arms but me thinkes I see a Lawyer laugh at this for those that bee of the sorrier sort of Lawyers

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