Selected quad for the lemma: parliament_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
parliament_n	england_n	king_n	reign_n	4,400	5	8.1197	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38567	Moriæ encomium, or, The praise of folly written originally in Latine by Des. Erasmus of Rotterdam ; and translated into English by John Wilson.; Moriae encomium. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Wilson, John, 1626-1696.	1668 (1668)	Wing E3208; ESTC R15059	80,052	172

Co●de●ius in English 8. D. Fulks Meteors 8. Malteus Artificial Fire-works N●es Gunnery Fire-works C●●o Major with Annotations Mel Heliconium by A. Ross 8. Nosce●te ip●um by Sir Joha Daw's 8. The History of Vanna and P●●is 4. The History of L●z●rillo de T●●●●s The Posing of the Accidence Man become guilty by John Francis S●●alt and Englished by Henry Earl of M●●mon●h A●la Lucis or the House of Light Christs Passion a Tragedy by the most learned H●gh G●otius C●●is learned readings on the S●at 21. H●n●y 8. Chapter 5. of Sewers The Rights of the People concerning Impositions stated in a learned Argument by a late eminent Judge of this Nation An exact Abridgment of the Records in the Tower of London from the Reign of K. Edward the second to K. Richard the third of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings Reign and the several Acts in every Parliament by Sir Robert Cotten Kt. Baroner The Garden of Eden both parts or an accurate description of Flowers and Fruits now growing in England by Sir Hugh Plat. The Life and Reign of Hen. 8. by the L. Herbert fol. France painted to the life in four Books the 2d Edition Skea de significatione verborum 4. Flamma Sine fumo or Poems without Fictions 12. A learned Exposition of the Apostles Creed by Wil. N●colson B of Glocester fol. Davids Harp strang and tuned or an Analysis on the Psalms by William Nicolso● Bishop of Glocester fol. R●sult of false Principles 4 Moriae Encomium OR The Praise of Folly An Oration of feigned matter spoken by Folly in her own Person AT what rate soever the World talks of me for I am not ignorant what an ill report Folly hath got even amongst the most Foolish yet that I am that She that onely She whose Deity recreates both gods and men even this is a sufficient Argument That I no sooner stept up to speak to this full Assembly than all your faces put on a kind of new and unwonted pleasantness so suddenly have you clear'd your brows and with so frolique and hearty a laughter given me your applause that in troth as many of you as I behold on every side o● me seem to me no less than Homers's gods drunk with Nectar and N●penthe whereas before ye sat as lumpish and pensive as if ye● had come è Trophonii specu from consulting an Oracle And as it usually happens when the Sun begins to shew his Beams or when after a sharp Winter the Spring breathes afresh on the Earth all things immediately get a new face new colour and recover as it were a certain kind of youth again In like manner by but beholding me ye have in an instant gotten another kind of Countenance and so what the otherwise great Rhetoricians with their tedious and long-studied Orations can hardly effect to wit To remove the trouble of the Mind I have done it at once with my single look But if ye ask me Why I appear before you in this strange dress be pleas'd to lend me your ears and I 'le tell you not those ears I mean ye carry to Church but abroad with ye such as ye are wont to prick up to Jugglers Fools and Buffons and such as our Friend M●das once gave to Pan for I am dispos'd awhile to play the Sophister with ye not of their sort who now adays buzle Young-mens heads with certain ●empty notions and curious trifles yet teach them nothing but a more than Womanish obstinacy of scolding but I 'le imitate those Antients who that they might the better avoid that infamous appellation of Sophi or Wise chose rather to be call'd Sophisters Their business was to celebrate the Praises of the gods and valiant men And the like Encomium shall ye hear from me but neither of Hercules nor Solon but mine own dear Self that is to say Folly Nor do I esteem those Wise-men a rush that call it a foolish and ●nsolent thing to praise ones self Be it as foolish as they would make it so they confess ●●t proper and what can be more than that Folly be her own Trumpet For who can set me out better than my self unless perhaps I could be better known to another than to my self Though yet I think it somewhat more modest than the general practice of our Nobles and Wise men who throwing away all shame hire some flattering Orator or Lying Poet from whose mouth they may hear their praises that is to say meer lyes and yet composing themselves with a seeming modesty spread out their Peacocks plumes and erect their Crests whilst this impudent Flatterer equals a man of nothing to the gods and proposes him as an absolute pattern of all Virtue that 's wholly a stranger to 't sets out a pittiful Jay in others Feathers washes the Blackmoor white and lastly ex musca Elephantem suells a Gnat to an Elephant In short I will follow that old Proverb that says He may lawfully praise himself that lives for from Neighbours Though by the way I cannot but wonder at the ingratitude shall I say or negligence of Men who notwithstanding they honour me in the first place and are willing enough to confess my bounty yet not one of them for these so many ages has there been who in some thankful Oration has set out the praises of Folly when yet there has not wanted them whose elaborate endeavours have extol'd Tyrants Agues Flyes Baldness and such other Pests of Nature to their own loss of both time and sleep And now ye shall hear from me a plain extemporary speech but so much the truer nor would I have ye think it like the rest of Orators made for the Ostentation of Wit for these as ye know when they have been beating their heads some thirty years about an Oration and at last perhaps produce somewhat that was never their own shall yet swear they compos'd it in three dayes and that too for diversion whereas I ever lik't it best to speak quicquid in buccam venerit whatever came first out But let none of ye expect from me that after the manner of Rhetoricians I should go about to Define what I am much less use any Division for I hold it equally unlucky to circumscribe her whose Deity is universal or make the least Division in that Worship about which every thing is so generally agree'd Or to what purpose think ye thould I describe my self when I am here present before ye and ye behold me speaking For I am as ye see that true and onely giver of wealth whom the Greeks call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Latines Stultitia and our plain English Folly On what need was there to have said so much as if my very looks were not sufficient to inform ye who I am Or as if any man mistaking me for Wisedome could not at first sight convince himself by my face the true index of my mind I am no Counterfeit nor do I carry one thing