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soul_n	life_n	live_v	spirit_n	13,616	5	5.5781	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B12220	Essayes or rather, Encomions prayses of sadnesse: and of the emperour Iulian the Apostata. By Sir William Cornewallis, the younger knight.	Cornwallis, William, Sir, d. 1631?	1616 (1616)	STC 5778; ESTC S105079	38,445	91

but are sought of her for such is the lust of Fortunes benefits as whilest the body feeleth her selfe able to purchase her desires and to gorge her senses she abandons herselfe to all sensualities and reioyceth in her owne fulnesse to you then vpon whom none but fayre winds haue euer blowne in this careire of your supposed happinesse can you see for all your high and ouertopping places your end and resting place Or are you not rather the arrowes of the Omnipotent arme that are yet flying not at yours but at his marke and are no more owners of your owne purposed ends then you were guilty of your owne beginnings In the meane time effeminated with your prosperity and as it were still sucking vpon the brest of Fortune if she turnes her backe and retires how miserable doth shee leaue you Still bleating after the teat and like those nice creatures that become tame with taking their bread from others hands vnable to administer to your selues the least helpe or comfort Wee doe see that Nature and all her productions support them and her selfe by incessant changes and reuolutions generation and corruption being to the earth like riuers to the sea in a restlesse current and perpetuall progresse doe wee see the flourishing and falling not only of Kings and Princes but of Kingdomes and Commonwealths Citties Trophies and whatsoeuer the vaine imagination of man hath contriued for the ouercomming of time and can we vpon some small remnant of Fortunes bounty thinke to establish a perpetuity of mirth and pleasure No no he that takes not this time to prouide for a world and in the midst of his pleasures doth not thinke how fraile and transitory they are will pay dearely for his iollity when surprised by death or some disaster they leaue him in an instant so much more miserable then others as he hath depended vpon such vncertainties without which his life is most lothsome vnto him and with which death most fearefull and abhorred But to what end is all this tendred to the adorers and louers of mirth Their heads and hearts are all ready filled with their own delights which must be consumed by affliction before the precious balm of Sadnesse can either enter or worke Fabius said he feared more Minutius victories thē ouerthrows which may be rightly applied to the generall disposition of man his successes infecting him with an ignorant confidence intoxicating his reason with presumption and ostentation which are such dayly effects of worldly prosperities as they that thinke themselues Lords are often the vnworthiest sort of slaues and their opinionatiue happinesse the most wretched misery not vnlike the madde Athenian that imagined himself possessed of al whē indeed he was true honor but of his own distemper lunacy To young men there belongs more pitty aswell because nature hath her hand in this their thirst of pleasure they beeing yet by the heate of bloud and the quicknesse of their spirits and the strength of their senses iolly and gamesome as also that it must be time and the wounds and skars gotten by their wretched carelesnesse that must make them capable of aduice since as Plutarch sayth their heady passions and pleasures set ouer them more cruell and tyrannous Gouernours then those that had the charge of their minorities now who is it that leadeth this distracted dance of youth but mirth for whose sake and pleasures they are inseparable companions what is irregular indiscreet vnlawfull dishonest nay what lawes either of mans natures or Gods are in these apprehensions strong enough to containe them within their bounds Galba in his adoption of Piso amongst his other prayses sayth you whose youth hath needed no excuse a commendation so rare and glorious as there needed no more to illustrate his name and fame to all posterity for who els vnlesse fettered and chained with nature or fortune but in their first wearing the fresh garment of youth haue not soyled and spotted it as their whole life after though painefully and industriously directed hath not bin able to wipe out their faults and refresh the glose of their reputation hence it is that Delicta inuentutis meae ignorantias meas ne memineris Domine is taught by all and vsed by all so ineuitable a disease is youth of which we need no witnesse since euery mans conscience doth iustifie it the generality and antiquity hauing made it veniall and by consent we bind none from these slips and stumbles but old men and and women the rest passe the musters so farre from checking as they produce many of their follies as the markes of spirit and generosity and by their will would make of an old vice a young vertue who can hope now to deliuer this flourishing season of youth from these Caterpillers since mirth and pleasure allures opinion animates and community hides them from the sight of themselues and actions this it is that makes nothing more currannt then to pay one another with our faults and no man trusts so much to his owne vertue as to his neighbours or Companions vices wee repose our selues in the defect of others and no man striues further then to be comparatiuely good we aduance our selues vpon ruins and thinke our selues well because another is worse O lame shift O drunken remedie I will then say but this to those young men that will heare me Since you know not the way to true happinesse and contentment ask not of them that are yet in the race but of them that haue passed it propose vnto your selues some patterne to imitate nisi ad regulam prauam non corrigas and to strengthen your iudgements behold those that haue already acted their parts take one of these admirers of mirth and pleasure and an other that hath euer made his reason the taster of all his actions and compare these together and then chuse which of them you would be there cannot thus farre off bee so corrupted a iudgement as not to know the best the difference is then a little time hoc quod senectus vocatur pauci sunt circuitus amorū Behold then the match for a few yeeres to boote this vicious hatefull person is taken that deuoured his owne honour and reputation and with his pleasure swallowed euen his very soule and that liues now but in his infamy rather then that well ordered spirit that hath left a true and perfect circle of a discreet gouern'd life and death and left the world heire of many rich and worthy examples who in this consideration but must crie out with the Psalmist O what is man that thou art so mindfull of him c or why hauing taken our iudgements thus halting should wee reply vpon it carrying vs through the world that in our entrance hath thus stumbled and fallen he hath then the first signe of recouerie that in this his beginning mistrusts his owne wayes and dares offer his wounds to the Surgeon it is an incurable ignorance that dares not

the Caesars I Desire to haue the picture of famous men by mine eare not mine eye I preferre the Historian before the Painter I get nothing by the fashion of his face but by the knowledge of his life the pen is the best pensell which drawes the mind the other that tells you the stature and proportion of the body may delight not profit giue me therfore their works if writers if not their liues written by others thus thinke I of bookes the issue of our minds all which are not without some profit for there is no soule altogether barren but especially those that are able and doe write in earnest those binde the whole world to them for they dissolue their spirits to make theirs more precious and by the helpe of time haue made that excellent cordiall that the soule disgesting may recouer and bee preserued against our naturall disease ignorance I sucked not long enough of my Schoole-master to proue a Commentor The Authors digression of himselfe I cannot fetch words from their swadling bands nor make them interpret the quality of the things knowne by them I tract them not nor set a brand of them when I meete them nor compare the words of one Author with another if I can make ioyning worke of the matter I goe contented for I worke not for words and thus nature hath framed me I will not goe to surgery for an alteration for me thinkes it becomes a gentle spirit well to leaue the drosse and fly to the matter he writes not vnder the hard restraint of feare or gaine but gallantly giues the World the trauels of his minde and it is gallantly for a Mercinary liberallist is in little better state then a Renegado let him then that courts his censurers with sweet titles for feare of bitternesse or him that sends his booke of a voyage in hope of gaine tend this cutting vp words and such stuffe but he that writes so purely as to want these let him run into things of worth and fetch secrets out of the entrals of actions I haue read History but they seldome doe any more then make the times confesse some vpon History most simple some better others dangerous but this Dialogue hath of the vertue of both and little of their idlenes full of excellent obseruation and withal quick so wel did the stomak of mine vnderstanding like it that she boyled longer then ordinary here is the digestion It is not my maner to be busie about the maner of the feast the place nor other circumstances let it suffice the Author makes Romulus inuite his successours to a feast at whose entrance Sylenus Iupiters buffone hits them where they were left vnarmed by Vertue I promise neither method nor antiquitie but after my fashion thus Iulius Caesars entrance First Iulius Caesar enters of whom Sylenus bids Iupiter beware lest he plots his deposing for hee is sayth hee great and fayre thus dangerous is the neighbour-hood of Ambition Caesars ambition for all other affections that are wont to maintaine amity are not here for Ambition loues nothing but it selfe nor pitties nor regards so both commending his reason and passion to bee slaues to this humour is good onely for that to all other dangerous Besides the humour he had two instruments belonging to it he was great and faire alas what account should we make of our reason since she suffereth the vainest occasions to beget the seriousest purposes Is it not pitifull that Valour should be beholding to the Drumme and Trumpet and flying of the colours and the glittering of Armour Yet is it and I thinke few spirits but amongst the rest haue found these the inflamer of courage no lesse absurd is the election of a Magistrate by his beautie Not good to elect a Magistrate for his beauty yet is it common for that Whorish affection to preuaile the which rank'd with this greatnesse ouercomming sufficiency when men whose euidence lyeth in their titles shall possesse places where wisedome is behoueful patrias laudes sentiat esse suas Of al which there is to be noted the basenesse of our choyce the sluggishnesse of our reason for not forbidding the banes And lastly how they throw themselues into the hands of Fortune with managing these high things so basely In the description of Octauius entrance Octauius entrance I note Poetries power he makes him appeare in diuers colours which me thinks His Poetry and Policie doth here more handsomely then the plaine truth for it had not bin so fit to haue sayd Policy sutes his forme like the occasion and alters as it alters of him Sylenus Papae quam varium hoc animal such must be policy for his trade is with the diuers dispositions of man and according to them must be diuers Then Tiberius with a graue cruel countenance Tiberius entrance who he after paints full of scarres and scabbes as testimonies of his tyranny and intemperance to whom Sylenus Longe alius mihi nunc quam ante videres His tyranny and intemperance But me thinkes his Verse is not rightly applyed for Tyrants are euer deformed mary feare in their liues makes it inward after their deaths apparant thus pretily doth time mock mortality first tying one partie and suffering the other to beate them then the losed tyed and the tyed losed thus tyranny and subiection tyranny as long as it lasts buffets his vnderlings but death at last giues the loser a time of reuenge when he woundeth their memories without feare or danger After Silenus assaults his abominable life in the Iland Caprea in no life doe the blemishes of life appeare so visibly as in Princes whose height and power as it may do much so is it most obserued I wonder hee lets him scape for Seianus his doting vpon whom was much more impardonable then the simple Claudius because the former professed craft the other alwaies gouerned by smocks and slaues At Claudius entrance Claudius entrance he repeats a Comedy and after complaines of Romulus for suffering him to come without Nacissus His committing his affaires to others Palantus and his wife Messalina thus it happens with them that beare the names of great places and lay their execution vpon others thus with them that are so tender hearted as to bee led by others thus haue I often obserued seruile conditions to vndermine their masters there being great losse in granting to the will of intercessors for the gift is theirs the thanks anothers wherefore it is the duty of discretiō to reserue to themselues the occasion of importance and he that giueth to be vnknown himselfe to him that he giues Now comes Nero and his harpe Neroes entrance delighting with playing on the harpe nothing is so fast tyed to vs as our faults we are neuer mentioned without them they hackney our names to death and neuer leaue spurring them till they haue killed them This man saith Silenus imitates Apollo