Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	allege_v	holy_a	word_n	2,182	5	3.9148	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02288	Bellum grammaticale a discourse of great warand dissention betwene two worthy princes, the noune and the uerbe, contending for the chefe place or dignitie in oration : very pleasant & profitable / turned into English by W.H.	Guarna, Andrea.; Hayward, William, fl. 1570-1576.	1569 (1569)	STC 12419; ESTC S2699	32,552	96

of amitie so strong that desire of superioritie may not breake And therfore the olde Dennis vsed not causelesse to saye that euen he that hath the Lordshippe in his lap hath cause himselfe to feare and to beware of friendes seing that it is certaine that euery man loueth rather to be serued than to serue other As these two Kinges on a time were at a banquet in the middest of the hoate Summer neare to a pleasaunt cleare spring hauing the water bancke on the one side and the other most pleasant and singulerly shadowed with the braunches of gréene Willowes high Plane trées after they had sufficiently banquetted warmed with wine and lightned wyth drincking a question arose betwene thē to weete whether of thē two were greatest in aucthoritie of most importance to performe Oration Then the Verbe minding to holde the worthiest place was sharpelye withstoode of the Noune affirming that without him Oration and speach might not be that through him altogither the same is vnderstoode and of better grace And what dost thou saide he without me in Oration if I withholde me a parte neuer so litle the hearers vnderstande thée no more than one that were dombe spake not Gather awhile a small part of speach wythout me and do that the hearers may vnderstande that which thou speakest Doubtlesse if I be not there for an Interpreter none maye so much as gesse the least thing of thy meaning Moreouer thou shouldest note that in so much as I am elder than thou so much more am I approoued worthiest Who is he that knoweth not the Noune before the Verbe Or who is he that is ignoraunt how the beginning of the Noune is more auncient than the Verbe It is infallible that God made all things who if hée made all made also the Verbe Nowe God is a Noune and not a Verbe wherfore nowe of consequence by the Noune were all things made yea Oration it self was made of God and so the Noune As for thée O thou Verbe that arte so proude thou hast thy calling of me hast thou neuer red that among the Sonnes of Women is not a greater than Iohn Baptist this is Gods sentence it is not lawfull to go against it Wherefore if none be greater than Iohn for that it is writen that his name is Iohn and agayn that his name was Iohn it is apparaunt to be seene that there is not neyther may any thing else be greater than the Noune I coulde alleage to this matter sixe hundreth places whereby it is prooued clearer than the day that as in worthinesse and antiquitie euen so in autthoritie chiefe place the Noune is preferred before the Verbe Al which things I sette and leaue a part to the ende that men thinke me not to precede the Verbe more thorow much babling than of iust cause O Poeta aunswered the Verbe I maruayled before nowe why that Diuine Plato had expulsed thée out of hys common Weale But nowe knowing how shamelesse and light thou art so to intermixe the holy scripture among thy follies I know well that the learned wise Plato iudged rightlye of thée For had not he exiled thée with manye other forth of the reipublike that he ordayned thou haddest by thy false ceremonies fearefull Goddes and other things corrupted the ciuile maners of his citizens For what pernicious thing durst not thy great pride arrogance enterprise and attempt Yea seing that by thy deuised deceiptes and false writhed witnesses thorowe force writhed from holy scripture thou laborest to cast me down frō the dignitie of the chiefest place which I haue long time in this lande possessed But certainly for that it shall not séeme to thée that thou alone arte learned I will easlye alleage more manifest and plaine testimonies of the same holye scripture that maintaine mine aucthoritie I wil set here for most the very beginning of that euangelicall Scripture where it is thus saide In the beginning was the worde and the worde was with GOD and God was the worde Open thyne eares nowe wherefore hidest thou thy face so God saide he was the worde and moreouer all things are made by him And withoute him nothing was made It is not therfore the Noune then that made all things but the Verbe Againe god was a Verbe and not a Noune Moreouer by the Worde the Heauens were made firme and sure and all their powers What wilt thou now say There is no meane to defend thée by holy allegations but thou maist perceiue them to make for me and not for thée But let vs bend to those poyntes that aptliest tende to our cause Tell me I praye thée whence commeth to thée this folly and madnesse And whence hast thou so sodainly taken such stomacke and heart of grace that thou darest vsurpe vpon thée the worthiest place in Oration Knowest thou not that all comelinesse beautie and swéetnesse commeth of me alone and that the Noune is alwayes ruled of the Verbe not that the Verbe is ruled of the Noune The comelye featnesse of the Verbe is that that beautifieth and enricheth Oration and if I gouerne thee not therein thou shalt be halfe handed and of no force Knowest thou howe to make a construction wherin forthwith the chief place is not giuen me Beholde all men knowe that I onely that holde the seigniorie ouer the Verbes can without the aide of any other make perfect Oration Wherefore then speakest thou so impertinentlye And as Horace sayeth why throwest thou so thy proude and disdainfull sixe cornered words who art thou what art thou of what force or howe great not of such aucthoritie as thou boastest of I am sure that so goest puffed and swollen that it is maruell thou burstest not in the middest I am thou wilt say the King of the Nounes But what is thy name thou wilt aunswere Poeta And what is Poeta other then a pratler a seller of gaudes a deuiser of fables a maister of mischiefe a brabler a Lyer a dronckerd a foolish dolte that coloreth that which is truth and putteth forth falshoode and such a one as by thy pratling fillest and perturbest all the worlde Which also by thy chat vsurpest so much aucthoritie among the common and simple sort that thou darest striue for the dignitie against the renoumed stocke of the Verbes Folishly do those fathers that giue thée their children to be taught of for what is in thée whereby the youth maye be encited to grace and vertuous encoragemēt but the Stewes of the adulterous Iupiter the ielosie of Iuno and the Whoordom of Venus and of the Ruffian Mars and such goodlye deuises imagined of thine owne brayne that hauing droncke a little more than well thou as filled with a deuine ghost and ouerladen with wine madlike or diuelishly darest mixe heauen with earth earth with heauen At these wordes Poeta the King all fiered in Ire not able to suffer the shame nor the iniurie that was sayde of hym