Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
mercy_n	wise_a	work_n	worldly_a	15	3	7.2282	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00841	A very frutefull and pleasant boke called the Instructio[n] of a Christen woma[n]/ made fyrst in Laten/ and dedicated vnto the quenes good grace/ by the right famous clerke mayster Lewes Uiues/ ; and turned out of Laten into Englysshe by Rycharde Hyrd. Whiche boke who so redeth diligently shall haue knowlege [sic] of many thynges/ wherin he shal take great pleasure/ and specially women shal take great co[m]modyte and frute towarde the[n]crease of vertue & good maners..; De institutione foeminae Christianae. English. 1529	Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.; Hyrd, Richard.	1529 (1529)	STC 24856.5; ESTC S95706	181,174	327

counsayle her that that is good / or put her in remeÌ„braÌ„ce / whan she is maryed / of suche couÌ„sayles as she gaue her / whaÌ„ she was vnmaried but she shal nat mel with her in suche poyntes / as she thyÌ„keth will displease her sonne in lawe She shall nat leade her to churches / nor brynge her home / nor speke to her / if she thynke it be agayne her sonne in lawes wyll Neither let any folysshe woman say to me on this maner what / may I nat speke to myn owne daughter She is thy daughter in dede / but nowe she is nat thy womaÌ„ For what so euer ryght thou haddest to her / thou hast gyuen it ouer to thy sonne in lawe Therfore and thou loue thy daughter / and woldest se her happy / that is to say lyue in coÌ„corde with her husbande / exhorte her alwaye / and gyue her counsaile to obey her husbaÌ„de in euery poynt / nor lette her ones speake with the without he wyll gyue her leaue For who so euer wyll haue more libertie with a mans wyfe / thaÌ„ the husbaÌ„de wyll suffre is an adulterer And who so euer toucheth any thyng of an other mans agaynst the owners wyll / is a thefe She shall loue her son in law none other wise thaÌ„ her owne son but yet she shall reuereÌ„ce hyÌ„ more than her owne son For a woman ought nat to thynke / that she may be as homely ouer her son in lawe / as her owne sonne but she shall desyre his welfare as moche as her owne son / and gyue hym as good counsayle exhortation but yet in suche maner / that she may seme rather to exhorte and require hym / than byd and commaunde hym Of a wyfe well worne in age The .xv. Chaptre A wyfe well shotte in age / shall do as philosophers saye the byrde of Egypte doth / whiche whan hit is olde / purgeth all the fylthy humours of hit body with spices of Araby / sendeth forthe of hit mouthe a wonderous swete breth so a woman / whan she is past the pleasure of the body / and hath done with bearyng bryngyng vp of children / than shall she sauour brethe all heuenly / she shall neither say nor do any thyng / that is nat full of holynes / and that may be example for yonger folkes to take hede of ThaÌ„ as Gorgy as the Rethorycian saythe / her name shall begynne to spryng and be knowen / whan her person is vnknowen than her lyfe / holyly passed before / shall begynne to appere than in dede a vertuous woman shall rule her husbande by obeysaunce / shall brynge to passe / that her husbande shal haue her iÌ„ great auctorite / whiche afore tymes hath lyued euer vnder her husbandes rule Archyppa / wyfe vnto Themistocles / by diligent obedieÌ„ce vnto her husbaÌ„de / optayned of hym suche loue / that he agayne / whan he was the most wyse and most noble man / yet folowed he his wyues mynde / almost in euery thyng and there of came this fasfioÌ„ of argumeÌ„t / whiche in bordes was comen amoÌ„ge the grekes what someuer this childe wyll / they ment Theophantus Themystocles sonne / whom the mother loued tenderly / thaÌ„ argued they thus What someuer this childe wyll / the mother wyll What so euer the mother wyll / Themistocles wyll and what so euer Themistocles wyll / all the cite of Athens wyll and what so euer the cite of Athens wyll all grece wyll Our lorde commauÌ„ded Abraham / to take hede vnto Saras wordes / bycause she was aged / and past the lust of the body Wherfore she wold nat couÌ„saile hym any childishe thyÌ„g / or that he nede to be ashamed of / by the reason of her wanton body Therfore whan a wyfe cometh vnto this estate / and all her children maryed / and her selfe tydde out of wordly busynes / than let her loke to the grounde with her body / yeldyng it vnto the grounde / but with her mynde beholde the heuen / whither her mynde shulde flytte / and lyfte vp all her sensis / her thought / and all her mynde vnto god / and prepare and applye her selfe holly to her iourney / nor thynke nothynge / but that per tayneth vnto her iourney / whiche drawethe towarde But lette her be wyse leste in steade of holynes / she falle in superstion / by the reason of ignorance Let her be moche in holy workes howe be it / yet trust more vpon the mercy and the goodnes of god / nor trust nat on her selfe / as though by the reason of her workes / she myght come thether / as she intendeth / rather than by the benyfite gyfte of god And whyles her harte is lustyer than her body / leaue some of her bodily labour / and labour more with her mynde Let her praye more more intentyuely let her thynke often of god / and more ferueÌ„tly / fastles / and wery her selfe lesse with walkyng about vnto churches Hit is no nede to mynisshe her aged body / and forsake her norysshyng Let her do good vnto other / by gyuyÌ„g them good counsayle Let her do them good also with exaÌ„ple of her lyfe / of the whiche commodite a great parte shall retourne vnto her selfe Here endeth the seconde boke The thyrde boke of the instruction of a Christen woman Of the mournynge of wydowes The fyrste Chaptre A Good Woman whan her husbaÌ„d is deed / ought to knowe / that she hath the greatteste losse daÌ„mage / that can bechaunce her in the worlde and that ther is taken from her the hart of mutual and tender loue towarde her and that she hath loste nat only the one halfe of her owne lyfe as lerned men were wonte to saye / whan they had loste them / whom they loued derely but her selfe also to be taken from herselfe all to gether / perisshed Of this cause maye come honest wepynge / sorowe / and mournynge / with good occasion / and waylynge nat to blame Hit is the greattest token that can be of an harde harte and an vnchast mynde / a womaÌ„ nat to wepe for the dethe of her husbande Howe be it there be .ij. kyndes of womeÌ„ / whiche in mournyÌ„g for their husbandes / in contrarye wayes do bothe a mys That is bothe they that mourne to moche / those that mourne to lyttel I haue sene some womeÌ„ no more moued with the dethe of theyr husbandes / than it hadde bene but one of lyght aqueyntance / that hadde dyed whiche was an euident sygne of but colde loue vnto theyr husbaÌ„des Whiche thyÌ„g is so foule / that none can be more abhomynable / nor more cursed And if a manne aske them / why they do so / or rebuke them / they answere agayne / the nature of the couÌ„trey so requireth And the same excusis laye they for them / that vse to put the cause of theyr vices in some planet / or

the sepulture / and royalties of the funerall / be rather the consolations of them that lyue / than any ease to the deed For if solemne buryeng myght helpe an iuyll man any thyng / than shulde poure buryeng orels none at all / hyndre a good maÌ„ but we se far contrary / nor the great royalte of sepulture dyd nat ease the payne of the ryche man / spoken of in the gospell nor hit was no rebuke to the lazer man / that his body lay on the erthe abiecte and nought set by For after warde the ryche man was punysshed in hell for his yll lyuyng / and the lazer was refresshed in the lap of Abraham / had his rewarde for his lyfe innoceÌ„tly vertuously spente Neither I wolde nat that sepulture shulde be put awaye For holy fathers / as Abraham / Isac / and Iacob / and Iosephe / whan they dyed / commauÌ„ded moche of theyr buryeng And Tobias was preysed of the angel of god / bicause he had burted deed people But all the ornameÌ„tes of sepultures ought to go to the profet of them that be deed / and nat to them that lyue For he that is deed must make his rekenyÌ„ge to god only / whiche reioyseth of the merites of them that be deed / done before in theyr lyues / and of the clene pure myndes of them that be alyue Ther is no shewe of ryches nor pride pleasant to hym / but holle trust and hope in hym / and charite with thyn eueÌ„ Christen For if thou gyue almys / thou shalte haue almys and if thou be mercifull / thou shalte receyue mercye Therfore make frendes to thy selfe and to thy louers / that are deed / with thy worldly treasure / that thou mayste fynde in the other lyfe them that shall receyue the in to eternall herborowe For our lorde in the gospell gyueth paradise to them / that gyueth the workes of mercy and denyeth hit to them / that denye the workes of mercy Also he teacheth the wayes of gyuyng almes / that thou gyue none of thy goodes to them that be of great habylyte / and maye quyte the / or do a better tourne for the agayne but gyue to poure folkes and beggars / that be nat able to do as moche for the agayne and so thou shalte haue great rewarde of god Thanne howe moche is hit better to cloth poure strangers / than thy ryche kynsfolkes / and poure lay men / than riche prestis and that that is speÌ„ded on waxe and costly sepultures / to be bestowed on poure wydowes / and fatherles children / and suche as lacke And moche surer and more plentuous aduantage shall comme hereof And in the day of thy weping / thou shalte remember them that euer wepe / beyng opressed with necessite their teares shall folowe thyn their mirthe shall chere the. Thy frende that is deed shall finde them atournees and aduocates / moste pleasant to the iudge eteruall / to pleade his matter / and be as diligeÌ„t in his peryll as in theyr owne Nowe it appereth well inough / what I iudge of those wydowes / that disceyue their creditours of theyr payment / to brynge forthe theyr husbandes royally / orels do nat accomplysshe and perfourme the wyll and bequestis of the deed maÌ„ / whiche thyng ought to be done speciallye I nede nat to declare here / howe moche men be bouÌ„de to the payeng of theyr dettes / nor howe moche the fulfyllyng of testameÌ„tes ought to be regarded For the true and durable honour of the corce standeth in mennes hartes / nat in the pompe of sepulture / or tombes of marble and metall / costly wrought For men saye well by the buryeng of a good maÌ„ / be it neuer so poure and pray for hym / and curse sumptuous tombes / and that the more spitously / if the money be ill gotten / that it was made with Of the myndyng of her husbande The .iij. Chaptre LEt a wydowe remeÌ„ber / and haue styll before her eies in her mynde / that our soules do nat perisshe together with the body / but be losed of the bondes of our corporall grocenes / and be lyghtned from the burden of the body / and that death is nothyng / but a seperation of the soule from the body / and that the soule departeth nat so from the body in to an other lyfe / that it clerely gyueth ouer our matters here in this worlde / they haue bene ofte tymes harde of them that were on lyue / and they knowe moche of our actis and fore times by the shewing of angels / that go betwene Wherfore a good wydowe ought to suppose / that her husbaÌ„de is nat vtterly deade / but liueth / both with lyfe of his soule / whiche is the very lyfe / and besyde with her remembraunce For our frendes lyue with vs / thoughe they be absente from vs or deade / if the lyuely image of them be imprinted in our hartes / with often thynkyng vpon them / and dayly renewed / and theyr lyfe euer waxe fresshe in our myndes And if we forgette them / than they dye towarde vs. The bretherne of Valeria Messalina / that was Sulpicius wyfe / asked her after her husbandes deth bicause she was yet in the flowers of her youth / and helthfull of body / and therto goodly of beautie whether she wolde marye agayne Nay verily sayd she for Sulpicius is still alyue to me And this was the sayeng of a pagane / nat assured of the eternall lyfe Than what shulde a christen woman do Lette her kepe the rememraunce of her husbande with reuerence / and nat with wepyng and let her take for a solempne and a great othe / to swire by her husbaÌ„des soule / and let her lyue and do so / as she shall thynke to please her husbande / beynge nowe no man but a spirite purified / a deuine thynge Also let her take hym for her keper and spy / nat only of her dedes / but also of her conscience Let her handell so her house householde / and so bryng vp her children / that her husbande may be glad / and thinke that he is happy to leaue suche a wyfe behyÌ„de hym And let her nat behaue her selfe so / that his soule haue cause to be angry with her / and take vengeaunce on her vngratiousnes Cyrus the elder kynge of Perse / whan he dyed as Xenophon wryteth / commaunded his sonnes to kepe his memory with deuotion and purenes / for cause of the honour of the god immortall / and the worshyp and the immortalite of his soule Let the wydowe make an ende of wepyÌ„g / leste we shulde seme to mourne for our folkes / that are departed / as thoughe we counted them clene deed / and nat absent Of the chastite and honestie of a wydowe The .iiij. Chaptre IN gyuyng instruction to a christen woman / whom may a man do better after / than saynt Paule / that sayd /

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