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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	good_a	life_n	write_v	3,155	5	5.4448	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A73281	Anthropophagus: or, a caution for the credulous. A morall discourse vpon the 25. verse of the 26. chapter of the Prouerbs of Solomon. Written by E.S.B. of D. and sometimes fellow of S.l.C. in C.	Sutton, Edward, b. 1597 or 8.	1623 (1623)	STC 23495.5; ESTC S124887	40,887	45

not the ruine of others What should I say of these kind of Flatterers they are Dominis arrisores reip arrosores their masters Spaniels and the Common-wealths Wolues put them in your Pater-noster let them neuer come in your Creed pray for them but doe not trust them Though they speake fauourably beleeue them not Thus hauing coupled these Hell-hounds two and two together New-gate fashion I le leaue them to the gallowes and come to the third and last kind of Flatterer which hits and wounds thy good name and this is a Claw-backe a Pick-thanke a Whisperer * Vitium est homini alios vilos facere qui suo merito placere non possunt placere velle aliorū comparatione one that for the pleasing of some will back-bite and detract from others this sort doe Famam ex infamia comparare climbe to merit praise by the stayres of others disgrace Though they speake fauourably beleeue them not The old Romanes built two Temples the one of which they dedicated to Vertue the other to Honour and ioyned them so artificially together that no man could come into that of Honour but he must first come through Vertue Considering how men are inclined to honour they did it to incite their young men to vertuous actions But now the Temple of Vertue is so little frequented that whereas the path that led to it was wont to be well trodden is now growne greene and another way found to that of Honour by some back-doore not so well knowne in * Virtutem Genii duo semper in orbe sequuntur Hic bonus ille malus gloria inuidia Owen Epig. the elder time the other doore is fast shut vp by a Porter called Enuy and her seruant Detraction that hardly one among a thousand can come to Honour that way This made Plato commend the law of the Lidians that punished Detractors with the like punishment as they did Murtherers for one takes away the life of a man the other his name reputatiō * Pro. 22.1 which are more worth saith Solomon then any worldly wealth For what is so precious to a man as his fame which to good men is aboue all his goods and life it selfe For riches and life are things brittle and flitting our goods going often away before vs and our liues alwaies with vs but our Fame is that which alwayes doth eternize vs that * Virtus post sunera viuit onely remaines when we are rotten why this Fame this Treasure of the wise this life-enlightning Gemme Calumniating Flattery doth daily seeke to obscure and vtterly to deface A mans Eye and his Honour are two tender parts the one cannot abide the rough touch of the hand nor the other endure the smart ierke of the tongue As therefore by the owners they are carefully preserued so by others that deale with them they should be tenderly vsed * Cum actum est de nomine actū est de homine He that hath an ill name we say is halfe hanged for when a mans good name is done himselfe is vndone the back-biter therefore that raiseth an ill name is halfe a hangman to his neighbour poisoning as with dead Cantharides with his venemous tongue the box of precious ointment of his neighbour which is his chiefe treasure and with the sharpe Rasor of his tongue cutteth his throat and pierceth his sides as it were with swords and speares * Pro. 26.22 for they goe downe into the bowels of the belly as Solomon speaketh In the body of man the most necessary member is the Heart the goodliest instruments are the Eyes the parts most delicate are the Eares but the * Humano membrum non est in corpore linguâ Nobiliusue bonâ mobiliusue malâ Owen Ep. thing where most danger is is the tongue for if it cannot preuaile ad interitum hominis yet will it spend it selfe ad interitum nominis if not murther yet murmur If these bandogs of hell cannot come to bite they will barke and if their stings cannot reach yet their mouth shall sputter out their venome and to please one they will soyle and blacke the reputation of another with the filthy slime of their malitious and viperous tongues It is a good rule that S. Bernard giueth vs to gouerne our Tongues by Let * Sint verba tua rara vera ponderosa para contra mul iloquium vera contra falsiloquium ponderosa contra vaniloquium Bern. thy words saith he be few true substantiall many words false words vaine words become not a Christians lippes Inuectiues * De inimico uc loquaris malum si cogites against other men are euer euill but the worst when they are false The first murtherer of all mankind was also the first lyer Two horrible vices and alike bloudy For a man had better be murthered then belyed haue his person slaine then his fame Flye therefore from lying thy selfe and flye from lying-flattery in another as from an Aspe the poyson of whose sting is mortall For I would haue thee vnderstand that a man may sinne euen in speaking the truth when iust circumstances forbid it but he that tels a lie cannot but sinne and there is no circumstance can cleare him For * Cor lingua foederat naturae sanctio veluti in quodam certo connubio ergo cum dissonent cor locutio sermo concipitur in Adulterio Nature hath knit the Heart and the Tongue together in the bands of mariage that which the Tongue brings forth without or contrary to the Heart is the birth of adultery Speake then the truth from thy heart but wrong not thy brother with a needlesse truth There are many of these * 1 Sam. 23.19 Ziphims that to curry fauor with Saul betray Dauid but let such know that * 1 Sam. 22.9 Doegs truth was worse then * Ioshua 2.5 Rahabs lye and * Gen. 9.22.25 Ham is cursed for declaring his fathers nakednesse though true take heed much more of slander And yet this is a common practice in these miserable daies out of the same fountaine as to send forth the sweet water of blessing God so the brackish water of malediction or speaking euill of our neighbours But so much as thou falsly detractest from thy brothers good name before men to please men so much is detracted from thine before God in heauen to the razing of it out of the booke of life which hee hath written Calumny is so called à Caluendo * Iust Lips which being an old and obsolete word implyed as much as to abuse or deceiue The Grecians named her 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that very properly because she pierces stickes and strikes through with the all-harming dart of her venome tongue And therefore the Spartan being demanded whether his sword was sharpe enough or no replyed More keene then Calumny intimating thereby that no edge of iron and steele could compare in keennesse