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book_n	holy_a	read_v	scripture_n	8,342	5	5.9261	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09195	The compleat gentleman fashioning him absolute in the most necessary & commendable qualities concerning minde or bodie that may be required in a noble gentleman. By Henry Peacham, Mr. of Arts sometime of Trinity Coll: in Cambridge.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?; Delaram, Francis, 1589 or 90-1627, engraver.	1622 (1622)	STC 19502; ESTC S114333	134,242	209

life Beleeue you with Chrysostome that the ignorance of the Scriptures is the beginning and fountaine of all euill That the word of God is as our Sauiour calleth it the key of knowledge which giuen by inspiration of God is profitable to teach to conuince to correct and to instruct in righteousnesse And rather let the pious and good King Alphonsi●s be a president vnto you and to all Nobilitie who read ouer the Bible nor once nor twice but foureteene times with the Postils of Lyra and Burgensis containing thrice or foure times as much in quantitie and would cause it to be caried ordinarily with his Scepter before him whereon was engrauen Pro lege Grege And that worthy Emp. great Champion of Christendome Charlemaigne who spent his daies of rest after so mnay glorious victories obtained of the Saracens in Spain the Hunnes Saxens Gothes and Vandals in Lumbardie and Italy with many other barbarous Nations whereof milions fell vnder his Sword in reading the holy Scriptures and the workes of the Fathers especially S. Augustine and his bookes De Ciuitate Dei in which hee tooke much delight Whom besides it is recorded to haue beene so studious that euen in bed he would haue his Pen and Inke with Parchment at his Pillow readie that nothing in his meditation nothing might ouer-slip his memorie and if any thing came into his mind the light being taken away a place vpon the wall next him was thinly ouer-laid with●Waxe whereon with a brasen pin he would write in the darke And we reade as oft as a new King was created in Israel he had with the ornaments of his kingly dignitie the Booke of the Law deliuered vnto him signifying his Regall authoritie was lame and defectiue except swaied by Piety and Wisedome contained in that booke Whereunto alludeth that deuice of Paradine an Image vpon a Globe with a sword in one hand and a booke in the other with Ex vtroque Caesar and to the same purpose another of our owne in my Minerua Britann● which is a Serpent wreathed about a Sword placed vpright vpon a Bible with the word Initium Sapiemia CHAP. 6. Of stile in speaking and writing and of Historie SInce speech is the Character of a man and the Interpreter of his mind and writing the Image of that that so often as we speak or write so oft we vndergoe censure and iudgement of our selues labour first by all meanes to get the habit of a good stile in speaking and writing as well English as Latine I call with Tully that a good and eloquent stile of speaking Where there is a iudicious fitting of choise words apt and graue Sentences vnto matter well disposed the same being vttered with a comely moderation of the voyce countenance and gesture Not that same ampullous and Scenical pompe with emptie furniture of phrase wherewith the Stage and our pettie Poeticke Pamphlets sound so big which like a net in the water though it feeleth weightie yet it yeeldeth nothing since our speech ought to resemble wherin neither the curiousnesse of the Picture or faire proportion of Letters but the weight is to be regarded and as Plu●arch saith when our thirst is quenched with the drinke then we looke vpon the ennameling and workmanship of the boule so first your hearer coueteth to haue his desire satisfied with matter ere hee looketh vpon the forme or vinetrie of words which many times fall in of themselues to matter well contriued according to Horace Rembe●● dispositam vel verba invita feq●untur To matter well dispos'd words of themselues do fall Let your stile therefore bee furnished with solid matter and compact of the best choise and most familiar words taking heed of speaking or writing such words as men shall rather admire then vnderstand Herein were Tiberiu● M. Ante●ie and M●cenas much blamed and iested at by Augustus himselfe vsing euer a plaine and most familiar stile and as it is said of him Verbum insolens tanquam scopulum effugiens Then sententious yea better furnished with sentences then words and as Tully willeth without affectation for as a King said Dum tersiari studemus eloquendi formula subterfugit nos clanculùm apertus ille familiaris dicendi modus Flowing at one and the selfe same height neither taken in and knit vp too short that like rich hangings of Arras or Tapistry thereby lose their grace and beautie as Themistocles was wont to say not suffered to spred so farre like soft Musicke in an open field whose delicious sweetnesse vanisheth and is lost in the ayre not being contained within the walles of a roome In speaking rather lay downe your words one by one then powre them forth together this hath made many men naturally slow of speech to seem wisely iudicious and be iudiciously wise for beside the grace it giueth to the Speaker it much helpeth the memorie of the hearer and is a good remedie against impediment of speech Sir Nicholas Bacon sometime Lord Chancellor of England and father to my Lord of S. Alb●n●s a most eloquent man and of as sound learning and wisedome as England bred in many Ages with the old Lord William Burgbley Lord Treasurer of England haue aboue others herein beene admired and commended in their publique speeches in the Parliament house and Starre-Chamber for nothing drawes our attention more then good matter eloquently digested and vttered with a gracefull cleere and distinct pronuntiation But to be sure your stile may passe for currant as of the richest alloy imitate the best Authors as well in Oratorie as Historie beside the exercise of your owne Inuention with much conference with those who can speak well nor bee so foolish precise as a number are who make it Religion to speake otherwise then this or that Author As Longolius was laughed at by the learned for his so apish and superstitious imitation of Tully in so much as hee would haue thought a whole Volume quite matred if the word Possibile had passed his pen because it is not to be found in all Tullie or euery Sentence had not sunke with esse posse videatur like a peale ending with a chime or an Amen vpon the Organes in Paules For as the young Virgin to make her fairest Garlands gathereth not altogether one kind of Flower and the cunning Painter to make a delicate beautie is forced to mixe his Complexion and compound it of many Colours the Arras-worker to please the eyes of Princes to be acquainted with many Histories so are you to gather this Hony of Eloquence A gift of heauen out of many fields making it your owne by diligence in collection care in expression and skill in digestion But let me leade you forth into these all-flowrie and verdant fields where so much sweete varietie will amaze and make you doubtfull where to gather first First Tullie in whose bosome the Treasure of Eloquence seemeth to haue beene locked