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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	age_n	young_a	youth_n	135	3	7.9470	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00320	Bellum Erasmi· Translated into englyshe; Adagia. Chil. IV Cent. I. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.	1534 (1534)	STC 10449; ESTC S101675	33,471	81

BELLVM ERASMI translated into englyshe LONDINI IN AEDIBVS THO. BERTHELETI AN. M.D.XXXIII CVM PRIVILEGIO Dulce bellum inexpertis IT IS BOTHE an elegante prouerbe and amonge al other by the writynges of many excellent auctours ful often and solempnely vsed Dulce bellū inexpertis that is to say Warre is swete to them that know it nat There be some thinges amonge mortal mens businesses in the whiche how great danger and hurte there is a man can not perceyue tylle he make a profe The loue and frendshyppe of a great man is swete to them that be not experte he that hath had therof experience is aferde It semeth to be a gay and a glorious thynge to iette vp and downe amonge the nobles of the courte and to be occupied in the kynges busynes but old men to whom that thing by long experiēce is wel knowen do gladly absteyne them selfe from suche felicitie It semeth a pleasant thyng to be in loue with a yonge dammo sell but that is vnto theym that haue not yet perceyued howe moche grefe and bytternes is in suche loue So after this maner of facion this prouerbe may be applied to euerye busynes that is adioyned with great peryll and with many euyls the whiche no man wyl take on hande but he that is yonge and wanteth experience of thynges Aristotle in his boke of Rhetorike sheweth the cause why youthe is more bolder and contrary wyse olde age more fearefull for vnto yonge men lacke of experience is cause of great boldnes and to the other experiēce of many grefes ingendreth feare and doubtynge Then if there be any thynge in the worlde that shulde be taken in hande with feare and doubtynge ye that oughte by all maner meanes to be fledde to be withstāde with prayer and to be cleane auoyded verily it is warre than whiche nothynge is eyther more wycked or more wretched or that more farther of distroyeth or that nere hand cle●eth sorer to or dothe more hurte or is more horrible and brefely to speke nothyng dothe worse become a man I wol not say a christen mā then warre And yet it is a wonder to speake of howe nowe a dayes in euery place howe lyghtly and howe for euery trifelynge mattier it is taken on hande howe outragiously and barbarously it is gested and doone not onely of hethen people but also of christen men not onely of seculer men but also of pristes and byshops not only of yonge men and of them that haue none experience but also of old men and of those that so often haue hadde experience not only of the commons and moeuable vulgare people but mooste speciallye of the princis whose duetie had bene by wysedome and reson to sette in a good order and to pacifie the light and hasty mouinges of the folishe multitude Nor there lacke neyther lawyers nor yet diuines the which put to theyr fyre brandes to kendel these thinges so abomynable and they encorage them that els were colde they priuely prouoke those to it that were wery therof And by these meanes it is come to that passe that warre is a thynge nowe so well accepted that men wonder at hym that is not pleased therwith It is so moche approued that it is counted a wycked thynge and I had almoste sayde herisie to reproue this one thynge the whiche as it is aboue al other thynges moste mischiefful so it is most wretched But howe more iustly shulde this be wondred at what euyl spirite what pestilence what mischiefe and what madnes put firste in mannes mynde a thynge so beyonde measure beastly that this moste pleasant and reasonable creature man the whiche nature hath brought forth to pece and beneuolence whiche one alone she hath brought forthe to the helpe and succour of al other shuld with so wylde woodnes with so madde rages ronne heedlonge one to distroye an other At the whiche thynge he shall also moche more meruayle who so euer wold withdraw his mynde from the opinions of the common people and woll turne it to beholde the very pure strengthe and nature of thynges and woll aparte beholde wel with philosophical●ies the image of man on the tone syde and the picture of warre on the tother syde Then first of al if one wold cōsider wel but the behauour shap of mās body shal he not forthewith perceyue that Nature or rather god hath shaped this creature not to warre but to frendshyppe not to distruction but to helthe not to wronge but to kyndenes and beneuolence For where as nature hath armed al other bestis with their owne armure as the violence of the bullis she hath armed with hornes the ramping lion with clawes to the bore she hath giuē the gnashīg tuskes she hath armid the elephāt with a long trūpe snoute besyde his great huge body and hardnes of the skynne she hath fensed the Locodrill with a skynne as harde as a plate to the Delphin fyshe she hath gyuen fynnes in ●tede of a dart The Porcopin she defendeth with thornes the ray and thornebacke with sharpe prickels to the cocke she hath giuen stronge spurres Som she fenseth with a shel some with a harde hyde as it were thycke lether or barke of a tree Some she prouideth to saue by swyftnes of flyght as douues And to some she hathe gyuen venome instede of a weapon To some she hath gyuen a moche horrible and owgly loke she hath giuen terrible eies and grountynge voyce And she hath also set amonge some of theym continual discention and debate Man alone she hath brought forth all naked weke tender and without any armure with most softest fleshe and smothe skynne There is nothynge at all in all his membres that maye seme to be ordeyned to warre or to any violence I wolle not seye at this tyme that where all other be●stis anone as they are brought forthe they are able of theym selfe to gette their foode Man alone cometh so forthe that a longe season after he is borne he dependeth all together on the helpe of other He can neyther speake nor goo nor yet take meate he desyreth helpe alonely by his infant crieng so that a man may at the leest way by this coniect that this creature alone was borne al to loue and amitie whiche specially increaseth and is faste knytte together by good turnes done eftesones of one to an other And for this cause Nature wold that a man shuld not so moche thanke her for the gyfte of lyfe whiche she hathe gyuen vnto hym as he shulde thanke kyndnes and beneuolence wherby he myght euidently vnderstande hym selfe that he was all to gether dedicate and bounden to the goddis of gracis that is to say to kyndnes beneuolence and amitie And beside this nature hath gyuen vnto man a countinance not terrible and lothly as vnto other brute bestis but meke and demure representynge the very tokens of lo●e and beneuolence She hathe gyuen hym amiable eies and in them assured markes