Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	fish_n	great_a	sea_n	3,519	5	6.8793	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17027	The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, the arte of faire writing vvherein is comprehended the whole necessarie rules thereof; by which anie who is capable and carefull to learne, may without the helpe of any other teacher, under God, both bee informed concerning the right writing of the most usuall characters in the world; and perfectly instructed how to write one of the most frequent in Europe, called the secretarie. ... By His Majesties scribe, Master David Browne.	Browne, David, fl. 1622-1638.	1622 (1622)	STC 3905; ESTC S105906	110,703	284

although thine owne Writ merite Commendation yet take none to thy selfe but persevere in well-doing till others giue thee the same and when thou hast gotten it accept not thereof as a thing belonging unto thy selfe but unto GOD whose Instrument and Steward thou art in that Respect for thou neyther hast nor canst haue anie thing but that which thou receivest neyther yet when thou hast received this amongst the rest must thou keepe it unto thy selfe but let the whole prayse of the gift redound to the giver thereof for as standing water which hath no passage to the great Ocean soone putrifieth and as men casten into the bottome of the sault Sea and Fishes on the face of the drie Land soone die so doeth all prayse due to the Creator which is kept or stopped by any creature and why it is no wonder indeede because it is out of its owne right Element O LORD since Thou hast thought it requisite This to complete conjoyne Thy Blessing now And it avow to come of Thy Spirite Beeing so meete a Patterne to follow To Thee O LORD For the which and all Thy Mercies great With one accorde Bee rendred Prayse of everie estate FINIS THE PRINTER TO THE READER AND BVYER of this Booke IT may bee Gentle Reader that you thinke the Price of this Booke too much for so little a Volume yet if you will consider the Causes wherefore it must bee so you will allow thereof the better which bee foure First because hee who selleth it intendeth God willing to bee r●adie and present or one in his name whensoever it shall please you to inquire for the same for it is better to sell in such sort as hee who selleth may liue and keepe the Town nor at so low a rate as he must leaue the same and disappoint you when you aske for such a one as is not to bee found Secondlie if you reade this Booke orderlie and diligentlie from the beginning unto this place I hope you will not finde it deare neyther but within the value Thirdlie though it were otherwise it may not bee solde anie cheaper at this first Impression because there is but a few Printed for an essay upon an haste and by guesse as it were partly since it is the Authors first Travels and partly in respect of the tedious writing of so manie Characters and much Writ upon each Booke after the Imprinting of the matter thereof And fourthlie because the Author maintayneth two or three daylie to fill up and write in all the foresayd Exemplare Letters and Words in everie Extract which it no small travell and charges in comparison of tbose Bookes which haue nothing in them but such as is set downe and printed all at ones with one travell But indeed within few yeares God willing when this Impression is solde and newe Types bought to supplie the travels nowe made with the Penne and the Booke reformed and Printed the second● time then it may perhaps hee solde at a farre lower rate though much better of it selfe to the which time I entreate you to haue patience and bee content with it as it is and not only dispence with any apparent Dearth thereof now but also excuse any fault you finde eyther in the Author in downe-setting and correcting or in Mee in the Imprinting and th●n I hope wee shall please you better both in Travels and Price Thus in the meane time and for ever I wish you to fare-well Imprinted at Sanct-Andrewes By Edvvard Raban Printer to the Vniversitie there And are to be solde in EDINBVRGH by Iohn Burdon at his Shoppe beside the Trone on the South side of the Streete For sixe Shillinges Sterling the piece

but beeing utterlie demolished and then re-edified both better and in a better forme it will at length obtaine the first at the least bee most in use and in greatest request and so the best VVorke whether it bee the first or last will winne the greatest commendation howe manie soever bee to presume for the same as the farthest caster of the double Cannon hath more popular prayse in presence of manie Contenders and Spectators than of few for when one essayeth his Strength and Skill and neyther having an equall to match him nor a token set up before him demonstrating some farre cast or throw of another the moste hee can doe at that time is eyther to surmatch himselfe in striving to cause everie cast freethe another or to set up some signe farre or neare to essay at another time without purchasing of anie present applause Indeede there are some common Preceptes of this Arte both universall and oft written by divers VVriters which so farre as I haue seene found right I re-iterate and confirme heere as few olde buildinges bee altogether so ruinous but either some Stones or Timber thereof may serue to helpe the newe and on the contrarie such Preceptes as bee otherwayes or agree not with this Character as it is now practised I reject altogether as more unfit for anie use than the verie Redde or off-scouringes of olde Buildinges for the one cannot doe so much as helpe to defende the Arte whereof it would appeare to bee a parte but the other although it cannot bee steadable to the walles of newe worke yet it may suffice to fill up a parte of the Rampart thereof and so ayde the same with some kinde of Fence So eyther these Preceptes haue beene wrong from the beginning or else the use of them is changed thorow long continuance of time wherein everie thing changeth except the Blessed Creator of all thinges as the moste exquisite humane Invention of olde is mightilie both metamorphosed and augmented now by some cunning Translator not that the Author thereof hath beene inferiour to him in Skill as wee must charitablie judge for the Author thereof had no Patterne at all to followe and therefore so long as his foundation standeth hee is worthie to haue place at the least his VVorke if his Name bee supprest whereas the Translator and augmenter catcheth sometimes a three-folde advantage first by inspection of the foundation layde by the foundator next by inspection of newer Editions made thereof at the least of the practises of Generations or Times betwixt the Author and him and thirdlie by the practise of the translator and augmenters owne time and that perhapes in a farre later age But these precepts immediatelie before mentioned are so few unnecessarie difficill and confused that few can bee able to practise them aright without the belpe of an instructor and although each one easilie might they coulde attaine thereby to no perfection in Faire Writing without much farther instruction and so the most complete necessarie plaine methodicall and consequentlie the best Worke out of all question will bee thought the rarest Worke and at the highest rate what Worke or whose Worke so ever it be only if GOD be the principall efficient or true Author thereof IV. It is objected by some that this Arte being published will apparentlie make such a conformitie of Writ everie where that it will bee hard to discearne one Manu-script from another and so make the Subscriptions of Evidences doubtfull I answere that is a verie naked Assertion for two causes first although it could be possible that all the Writers hencefoorth who are to bee in the World might be taught in one Schoole by on● Instructor and with constant Rules alike yet such would be the naturall disparitie of each ones particulare forme of doing from another that as each one differeth in Phisiognomie or face which is not one of the least of GODS miraculous Workes so also in Chirographie or forme of Letter howsoever the contrarie would appeare at the first view as manie people not well acquainted haue mistaken others oftentimes at the first thorow appearance or similitude of gesture yet with narrower marking and viver attention haue so found it otherwayes that they haue excused themselues of that their errour Indeede there hath bene some evill inclined ones who haue studied to use or rather abuse their skill in affectating counter fetting of some particular mans forme of Writ and yet could not write well anie pleasant forme rather than to hold them with a generall solide Character but it is farre easier for a faire Scribener to follow one of the most curious universall formes that is nowe used than anie particular mans ragged forme though they were both alike lawfull whe●eby it is evident that the writing of diverse generall formes of writ is one thing and the following of particular mens writ is another and whosoever holdeth the contrarie opinion doeth greatlie erre I confesse how manie so ever that bee well mynded doe write one matter with one forme of Letter may all agree in the substance thereof though they differ in the manner of the doing even as a whole Classe of Theologues teaching one Text or six severall Authors writing one subject in farre distant places at one time may all agree in effect though they differ in Method and yet not know one of another And last it is not altogether the Subscription of Evidences that verifieth the trueth of the matter thereof but in like manner the Seale of the Subscriber and Testification of the Witnesses which were present at the Subscribing and so though it were granted that all mens Writ might bee conforme as is unpossible ever since the confusion of Languages at the desolation of the Tower of Babell there bee diverse Lawes established almost universallie Glorie bee to GOD not onelie to keepe everie man in his Right but likewise to punish condignlie those who doe wrong V. It is alleadged by sundrie That it is impossible that the Arte contained in this Booke can bee so good as personall or ve●ball instruction foorth of the mouth of a Professor and therefore the single or bare use of the the same cannot bee verie profitable for the Youth and such like alleadgeances I answere If anie thing that is thought impossible to bee done ever come to passe it is both the more regarded and admired when it commeth so I hope contrarie to their hope that the like shall befall it for an ordinarie and commo● thing hath but a light and bare applause although the even● even prooue good Who thinketh it anie cunning to draw Water out of a Fountaine where it aboundeth to worke anie common labour on drye land or beare weightie burthens after the ordinarie manner by manie and strong means But there bee some few private men who haue found out wayes to convoy Water to a drye Citie worke under the Sea transport great Stones and Timber by fewe and weake meanes but verie

haue anie disposition to learne the reading of this Booke will with the helpe of God furnish thee Skill to write and diligence will soone bring foorth habite thereof for if it please God to blesse but one graine of Seede it will increase an hundreth folde then despise never a meane beginning if it bee good suppose it bee hard But whether thou make choyse of the great Alphabet which comprehendeth the small or the small alone presume never to learne anie Capitall Letters till thou in some measure be perfect of the Single and Double both by writing of them severallie in Alphabet and joyntlie in writ and that not onelie because they are easier to learne but because all writ standeth more by them than by the Capitals and so the more needfull to bee had for in anie matter eyther written or Printed thou wilst finde aye ten Single and Double Letters at the least for one Capitall Heere may arise a Question Howe can the Capitals bee learned by the ensuing Alphabet seeing it containeth none but the sortes of A To the which I answere They may bee learned thereby for two causes first who will not confesse but any judicious person though he shold never travell out of his Natiue Countrey may sufficienthe understand the Situation and forms of all the Empires and Kingdomes of the Worlde by diligent consideration and often perusing of the Vniversall Carde and yet it containeth not so much as one of the least but is contained it selfe in little rowme Then why may not they farre better consider one thing suppressed by another which is expressed Secondlie it is not mine intention eyther to set downe Patternes of diverse sortes of Characters heere how beit I haue manie prepared nor yet all the Capitals of this same Character but rather holde mee by the Arte it selfe and that for foure respectes First because there bee so manie Printed Bookes both alreadie extant and daylie setting foorth which doe containe all sortes of Characters Capitals and fayre Writ that it were litle more needfull than to carrie water to the Sea if Expences should be bestowed on the Founding Ingraving of Yrons for them or anie others but such as cannot bee wanted nor omitted for the drift of this Discourse requireth onelie the exhibition and demonstration of some for the better consideration and practising of all And therefore and for the reasons immediatelie preceeding I speake in the Variations and Degressions of Letters and other places of this Booke heereafter as plainlie of all Capitals understoode by the 4. onelie which bee exprest as if they were all expressed together in one Catalogue Secondlie because this Booke serveth as a Grammar to all writing and consequentlie to the right following of all the sortes of Exemplares which bee comprehended in such as the aforesaide Bookes and so i● of another nature than they bee for it containeth no moe sortes of Letters nor Exemplares than may sufficientlie explaine and prooue the Rules thereof even as DISPVTERS Grammar being a perfect Abridgement of the whole Latine Language since thereby as one of the best all Poesies and other Workes in Latine bee both conceived and followed demonstrateth no moe Exemples nor authorities than may explicate and interprete the Rules thereof for if Grammars did comprehende all the matter of thinges at length wherof they briefelie treate they would cease to be Grammars I meane concerning the use of them and that for too great prolixitie in stead of compendiositie because then each one of them would bee of so hudge a Volume that the understanding of the whole Language and Treatises of the Bookes whereat they aime would bee assoone apprehended by the capacitie of Students as the Grammar it selfe and so then both alike tedious to learne and consider Thirdlie because anie who intende not to instruct others haue store of Exemples in this selfe same Booke containing also diverse Capitals which Exemples may serve for Exemplares both of Capitals and Writ and therefore if they rightlie peruse these Exemples and the Abridgement of this Arte following hereafter they will neede no Exemplare-Booke at all But as for those who desire to bee better grounded they must proceede more formally in using of the meanes that is first striue to understand the former part of this Booke before they come to these Exemples next endevour to conceiue them and the Rules whereof they arise severallie when they come thereunto and in the third rowme employ some faire writer to extract all the Exemples of this Booke on a sheete of cleane paper and make one Exemplar of them al to resemble for it has these rules which other Copies want And though it be not all of one Matter because the sentences thereof are diverse yet it is so much the better for resemblance of the Letters whereof it is composed because it is so much the worse both to bee gotten and kept in memorie for while as a student learneth to write it is the Letter and not the Matter to follow but having or being learned it is the Matter and not so much the Letter whereunto hee must haue regarde And fourthlie for shortnesse and avoyding of prolixitie for if all the Capitals which belong unto the Secretarie were insert heere in such manner as I first intended it would make the Alphabet so great and seeme so difficult that it would affray at the least hinder manie at the first sight from esseying thereof who had not some reasonable beginning before Hee is not a wise Instructor or eyther hath little to instruct or desireth fewe to profite by that which he hath who showeth foorth the whole secrecie and curiositie of his Skill unto his Disciples at the first thinking then to teach them the same but by little and little as they are in anie measure perfect in one thing to demonstrate and adde thereunto another and so foorth daylie as it were to beguile them by drawing and leading them aye farther and farther on till they eyther learne all or the moste necessarie Documents and Experiments which hee hath to teach It is true Capitall Letters are more difficill to imitate than the Single and Double but having first learned the Single and Double the Capitals then become easie to resemble It would bee verie hard to cause a Rudimenter make a Right Theame or Latine Verse but having learned the Rudimentes and proceeded orderlie thorowe all the Grammar Theame yea Verse if hee haue the Poeticall Veine will become as easie then to make as Litera was of before to decline So there bee manie thinges which seeme unto Gazers verie admirable and wonderfull thorow appearance of curiositie beeing completed which if they had seen eyther in the beginning or in the midst of the doing or before the accomplishing they would haue beene so farre from admiring the same that they could haue holpen and beene partakers of the action therof themselues And though there cannot nor needeth not bee such Rules prescribed for Capitall Letters