Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	find_v	king_n	law_n	2,835	5	4.8368	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11769	The philosophers banquet Newly furnished and decked forth with much variety of many severall dishes, that in the former service were neglected. Where now not only meats and drinks of all natures and kinds are serued in, but the natures and kinds of all disputed of. As further, dilated by table-conference, alteration and changes of states, diminution of the stature of man, barrennesse of the earth, with the effects and causes thereof, phisically and philosophically. Newly corrected and inlarged, to almost as much more. By W.B. Esquire.; Mensa philosophica. English.	Scot, Michael, ca. 1175-ca. 1234, attributed name.; Anguilbertus, Theobaldus, attributed name.	1633 (1633)	STC 22063; ESTC S100623	106,565	400

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inferior_a to_o love_v seneca_n likewise_o in_o his_o six_o book_n de_fw-fr clement_n there_o mention_v how_o when_o augustus_n the_o emperor_n be_v debate_v with_o himself_o how_o he_o may_v be_v best_o revenge_v of_o one_o that_o have_v plot_v his_o death_n ask_v counsel_n of_o his_o wife_n who_o thus_o advise_v he_o do_v quoth_v she_o as_o the_o physician_n do_v who_o when_o usual_a remedy_n profit_v not_o assay_v the_o contrary_a so_o thou_o have_v not_o prevail_v by_o severity_n assay_v what_o may_v be_v do_v by_o clemency_n which_o say_v he_o so_o well_o like_v of_o that_o he_o embrace_v it_o and_o after_o wink_v at_o the_o fault_n to_o punish_v it_o upon_o this_o resolution_n this_o fact_n will_v only_o make_v thou_o love_v for_o fear_n but_o happy_a monarch_n still_o be_v fear_v for_o love_n chap._n xxiii_o of_o wicked_a woman_n after_o the_o death_n of_o ninus_n ninivy_n king_n of_o assiria_n semiramis_n his_o wife_n succeed_v in_o his_o stead_n suppress_v 24._o year_n that_o kingdom_n with_o slaughter_n incest_n and_o luxury_n this_o woman_n burn_v in_o lust_n and_o thirst_v after_o blood_n among_o many_o of_o her_o incestuous_a act_n and_o slaughter_n when_o she_o have_v tire_v other_o and_o weary_a herself_o she_o commit_v incest_n with_o her_o ownesonne_n as_o wicked_o conceive_v as_o shameful_o bring_v forth_o and_o seek_v to_o cover_v her_o private_a ignominy_n with_o a_o general_a wickedness_n and_o refuge_n she_o ordain_v that_o between_o parent_n and_o child_n no_o reverence_n nor_o ceremony_n be_v to_o be_v use_v that_o marriage_n shall_v be_v unnecessary_a for_o that_o every_o one_o shall_v take_v who_o he_o best_o like_v free_o to_o use_v or_o dismiss_v at_o his_o pleasure_n the_o wi●…e_n of_o scylla_n be_v open_o unchaste_a pompey_n the_o great_a conqueror_n of_o the_o whole_a world_n have_v a_o woman_n cato_n infect_v with_o that_o sin_n cato_n the_o censor_n have_v a_o wife_n but_o of_o mean_a birth_n yet_o incontinent_a and_o proud_a which_o no_o man_n will_v have_v think_v can_v happen_v to_o cato_n agrippa_n write_v of_o one_o messelina_fw-la a_o woman_n so_o incontinent_a that_o she_o prostitute_v herself_o in_o 24._o hour_n to_o 22._o several_a man_n at_o the_o common_a stew_n at_o last_o waste_v in_o body_n but_o not_o satissy_v in_o mind_n she_o return_v justine_n likewise_o mention_v how_o grippus_n the_o son_n of_o demetrius_n have_v with_o great_a danger_n &_o peril_n deliver_v &_o free_v his_o country_n &_o kingdom_n &_o escape_v danger_n abroad_o be_v seek_v to_o be_v in_o trap_v by_o his_o mother_n at_o home_n who_o for_o her_o ambition_n and_o unnatural_a desire_n to_o reign_v have_v most_o unwomanly_a for_o that_o end_n prepare_v a_o cup_n of_o poison_n to_o present_v he_o in_o recompense_n of_o all_o his_o travel_n as_o have_v likewise_o in_o his_o absence_n make_v away_o his_o brother_n which_o grippus_n suspect_v distrust_v the_o impiety_n of_o his_o mother_n command_v she_o to_o drink_v which_o she_o not_o refuse_v drink_v and_o be_v poison_v chap._n xxiv_o of_o marry_a woman_n juli●…_n the_o wife_n of_o pompey_n the_o great_a and_o daughter_n of_o caesar_n when_o she_o behold_v her_o husband_n return_v from_o the_o field_n with_o his_o garment_n all_o besmear_v with_o blood_n such_o a_o instant_a terror_n possess_v she_o that_o she_o present_o fall_v in_o labour_n and_o be_v untimely_o deliver_v of_o her_o conception_n with_o her_o grief_n and_o sorrow_n and_o the_o loss_n of_o the_o whole_a world_n when_o hamelius_fw-la be_v upbraid_v of_o some_o woman_n that_o he_o kiss_v for_o his_o stink_a breath_n he_o ask_v his_o wife_n why_o she_o tell_v he_o not_o of_o it_o she_o answer_v i_o shall_v so_o have_v do_v but_o that_o i_o imagine_v all_o man_n breath_n of_o that_o favour_n therefore_o it_o be_v very_o like_o her_o mouth_n never_o come_v so_o