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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	day_n	life_n	write_v	2,996	5	5.3115	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08000	The descripcion of the sphere or the frame of the worlde, right worthy to be red and studyed on, of all noble wyttes, specially of all those that be desyrous to attayne any perfecte knowledge in cosmography, or true descripcion of reagions, townes, or countrees, / set forth by Proclus Diadochus, and Englysshed by wyllyam [sic] Salysbury..; Sphaera. English. 1550	Proclus, ca. 410-485.; Salesbury, William, 1520?-1600 ?	1550 (1550)	STC 20398.7; ESTC S94797	10,819	46

¶ The descripcion of the Sphere or the frame of the worlde ryght worthy to be red and studyed on of all noble wyttes specially of all those that be desyrous to attayne any perfecte knowledge in Cosmography or true descripcion of Reagions Townes or Countrees set forth by Proclus Diadochus and Englysshed by wyllyam Salysbury Ptholomeus ¶ To his verye louynge Cosyn Iohn̄ Edwardes of Chryke Esquyer Wyllyam Salysbury wissheth longe lyfe in contynuall health WHere as of late dayes ye haue wryten vnto me to prouyde you some booke tractyng in Englysshe of the description of the Sphere of the world Nowe at the laste I come in with myne answere whiche euen as it shal not altogyther lyke you So I trust yf ye haue a respect to my beneuolence It shall not vtterly myslyke you I walked my self rounde aboute all Poules churche yarde from shop to shop enqueryng of suche a treactyse neyther coulde I here of any that eyther wrote of this matier proposely nor yet occasionaly But what trowe you dyd I than by my fayth syr I returned backe euen the same way but wondrynge moche at the happe and asked agayne for the same workes in latyn wherof there were .iij. or foure of sondry Aucthors brought and shewed vnto me amonge all which for the breuyte and playnes I chose Proclus his doynge And this a Goddes name entended I than for thac complyshement of your wyll to traducte into the Englyshe tonge That was M. Thomas lynacte But wolde God that he whiche translated it into the Latyn had taken so moche payne for his countrey sake as to englishe the same also Englyshe was his natyue tonge Greke and Latyn as well knowen where as Englyshe to me of late yeares was wholy to learne the Latyn not tasted of the Greke not once harde of whom although euen at this present I might rather and true lye with lesse reproche denye to haue any knowledge in at all than to professe the perfect phrase of any of them three Why than shall I attempte for any mans pleasure to go aboute to translate a Science vnknowen out of a tonge vnknowen into a tong no better knowen vnto me Surely I am very loth to do it But yet because perhaps ye be so perswaded that I can do som what therin and paraduenture wold take it for vnkyndnes that I wolde not take in hande to proue the feyct to the vttermost of my power I wyll therfore wrest it rather than truely turne it and that for lacke of farther connynge I can do none other that you may be assured that yf oughte be well done in this matier it floweth out rather of the vehement loue and feruente affection that youre manyfolde demerytes hath most depely engraffed in my hart than of any lernynge that I alredy was endued withal Moreouer I know well that you stamer somwhat both in the Latyn tonge and in this science also and so do I in settyng forth of the same wher fore you shall better vnderstand me than a perfecter doer therin And where you ar els excedyngly well sene in all Geometrycall Deuyses where you excell in all humaynefabricature and where you farre passe all other men in vnyuersall knowledge fyne and subtyle practice in all the Mathematicall sciences yet beyng almoste Ygnoraunt for the seldomnes of the science in the speculacion of the wonderful goodly and dyuine fabricature of the world do so feruētly desyre some knowledge therin I can no lesse but further you therto to the vttermoste of that small smatter that I haue Promessynge farther that yf I perceyue you to profectē any whytte therby I wyll GOD wyllynge the same be more earnestly dylygent herafter in perusyng my sayd attemptes Thus fare ye well At Thames Inne in Houlborne Anno dūi 1550. ¶ To the gentyll reader IN this of all other sciences gētle reader I dare best entermedle as wel in wrytynge as otherwyse not that I of all men can best skyll on it or that I can comprehende the celestyall reasons the subtyle ymaginacions and the dyuyne mysteries of the Arte. But because I knowe wel all the professours of it to be so fre and so gentyll harted and of suche excellent humanytee and naturall Iudgement that they wyll rather gladlye accepte and take in good worthe my good wyll and all others which offer them selues into the nombre of theyr retinue than reiect despute and set at nought where as the lewde maners of some that professe other Scyences is to gnarre snuffe and snatche at whom soeuer shall vtter ought of his minde specially yf it swarue but a heare bredth besyde the lyne of theyr phantasy in theyr faculties euen as thoughe they were neuer ygnoraunt them selues therin eyther by the reprehension of other they myght attayne greater glory and estymacion eyther els that they clayme to them selues a pryuate propertie in the Scyences onelye but whiche so it be it is small commendacion worthy Yet because I am in a maner thorowlye perswaded that the doers in this heauenlye knowledge wyll rather gently and brotherly correcte a faulte where faulte is than malyciously espye out two for one I wyll be so vn shamefastly bolde as to sette before them this messe of these myne vnrype fyrste fruytes trustyng moch more to theyr gentylnes than in the worthynes of the preparacyon of the banket ¶ Of the Axtree and the Poles THe * Thoro we met Diameter of the worlde is called his Axtree diameter is a syne that denideth any fygurt into ij equall partes wher aboute he moueth and the endes of the Axtree are also called the Poles of the worlde Of whom one is called the north Pole the other the South Pole The Northern is he that is alwayes sene in our habytacion And the Southern is that whiche is neuer sene aboue our Horizon And there be certayne places on earth where as the Pole that is euer in our syght can not be sene with them that dwell there And the other Pole whiche is euer out of our syght is in syght to them Agayne there is a place on earth where both the Poles haue euen lyke sytuacion in the Horizon ¶ Of the Circles of the Sphere SOme of the circles of the Sphere beparallels some be oblyque some other go crosse ouer the Poles The † Equal dystaunce parallels are they that haue the same Poles as the world hath And there be .v. parallel circles The Artik the Estiuall tropik the Equinoctiall the Brumal tropik the Antarctik The Arctik circle is euen the greatest of all those Circles that we haue contynually in syght he scarce lye toucheth the Horizon in one poynete and is altogether preuented aboue the earth And all the starres that are included in this circle neyther ryse nor set but a man shall espye them all the nyght longe kepe theyr course rounde aboute the Pole And that Circle in our habitacion is drawen of the further fote of ‡ The