Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	wit_n	young_a	youth_n	29	3	7.6045	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19606	The nosegay of morall philosophie lately dispersed amongst many Italian authours, and now newely and succinctly drawne together into questions and answers, and translated into Englishe by T.C. Seene and allowed.; Bouquet de philosophie morale. English	Meurier, Gabriel, d. 1587?; Crew, Thomas, fl. 1580.	1580 (1580)	STC 6039; ESTC S105132	39,847	132

another without violence Q. What are the three euilles not able to be suffred A. Fire water and a woman Q. Of what is prudence composed A. Of things good and euill Q. VVhat is prosperity A. A stage play or pastime of fortune Q. VVhat is the possession that is least sure in this worlde A. Riches without wisedome Q. VVhat kind of beauty most delighteth vs A. That which is of it selfe naturall and without arfe Q VVhat is the way to kéepe good men safe from euill A. Distance of place Q VVhere to serue riches A. To ayde the good and hinder the wicked Q. What is that which ouercommeth all thinges A. Time Q. Wherein lyeth the glorie of riches A. In vsing them well not in hauing them Q. To whom doeth a man ofte become bounde and yet oweth him nothing A. To him vnto whom he telleth his secrete Q. What is the lightest and swiftest thing that is A. The heart and thought of man Q. Who is sister to Justice A. The Lawe Q. Who are the wisest Liers in this worlde and most to be praysed A. They saieth Diogenes which tell folkes they wil be marryed and yet remain single Q. What is that wich boyleth without fire A. A youthfull blood Q. Who is the most foole in this worlde A. He that thinkes himselfe most wise Q What is the strongest thing in this worlde A. Necessitie Q. What is the greatest vice that a vicious man can haue A. To be shorte in trueth and large in lying Q. Of what essence or quality are mundane riches A. They are gotten with care preserued with feare and lost with dispaire Q. What is Sicknes A. The scourge both of body and soule Q. What thing soonest maketh a merchantman rich A. Credite and keeping of promise Q. Who is he that in giuing receiueth A. He that giueth to the deseruers and needie Q. What is a medicine against all mischiefe A. Patience Q. What is religion A. A true knowledge of the seruice of God with good obseruance of his Lawes Q. What is the thing that soonest depraueth and marreth young wittes A. Wanton talke and yll examples Q. What are those dead that are quicke and make fooles wisemen causing Asses calues and sheepe to become men A. They are bookes replenished with good admonitions examples and preceptes Q. What is that which destroyeth the memorie of euill A. The contemplation of goodnes Q. What should good fathers and maisters teache children A. That in their youth which they would haue them doe in their age Q. Why is pouertie of some men had in great commendation A. Because it maketh men industrious watchfull and vertuous Q. What number of freendes or enemies should one haue A. A little number of freends and no enemies at all Q. What is the noblest part in a man A. Reason for by the same he doth that that is iust and deliuereth him selfe from sinne Q. VVhereunto may the errour of a maister captaine or prince be compared A. To a shipwrack or a ship that by breaking drouneth himselfe and others Q. VVhat is the sharpest weapon that is A. A wicked tongue Q. VVhat thing is most delectable A. That which a man most desireth Q. How may a man know the wicked A. By comparing them with the good Q. How is the vertue of a man tryed A. By aduersity as golde is by fire Q. What is the property of an honest man A. To knowe how to doe good and euill good to the good and euil to the wicked Q. What are the two good thinges of little or no estimation A. The beauty of an harlot word wisdome or counsell of a poore man Q. Where lieth the treasure of a foole A. In his tongue that is to say in euill speaking Q. How should a child behaue himself towardes his father A. If the father be gentle he should loue him if not he shoulde suffer him Q. What are those two thinges that make a man ouercome A. Pacience a sure trust in God Q. How may a man escape all euils A. In not obeying saith Diogenes women Q. Why doe olde men dye with lesse payne then young men A. Because their senses are already debilitated Q. VVhat is maruell A. The sister of ignorance Q. What kinde of couetousnes is most commendable A. To be couetous of time when it is well employed Q. How is a true freende knowne A. At need and in a doubtful matter Q. VVherein consisteth true amitie A. In vnitie and equalitie of wilus whether it be in louing and liking one thing or loathing and hating another Q. What kinde of warres are good A. Those which beginne without feare continue without perill and ende without damage Q. What are the good turnes which become euill A. Those which are euilly placed or bestowed vpon vngratefull and naughtie persons Q. Which are the best houses in a citie A. Those which harbour the feare of God in them and where the gaine surmounteth the dispense Q. What are those kind of people which dye twise A. They which are kilde with their own proper weapons Q. Of whence spring good lawes A. Of euill customes as good order doth of disorder Q. By what meanes may one best fortifie a citie A. By the concorde of the citizens Q. For what cause did the olde Sages counsell young men not to take a rich wife A. Because that if shee be rich shee will not be content to be a wife but wil be a maister or a mistresse in commaunding chiding correcting and brauling Q. VVhat way should a man take to become humble A. He ought to consider the thinges of him yil done Q. For what cause doe the Sages think that the Image of vertue ought to be hanged vp A. To shew that she ought not to sleepe Q. How may a man of base birth make himselfe noble A. In liuing vertuously Q. Howe may a man liue to get him a good fame A. He must liue in opinion that all his enimies still here and sée what he doth and saith Q. At what time shall one know a good brother A. At the diuision of his fathers Patrimony Q. How should one speake to wise men A. Soberly modestly and reuerently Q What Countrey shoulde wée account best A. That which is gouerned by the good and the gibets flowred with the euil Q. Howe should a man become a king A. In gouerning himself subduing his affections to the yoke of reason Q. VVhat are the conditions of a good maide seruant A. Shee ought to be careful faythfull patient neate and pleasant Q. VVhat are the true poyntes which shew the conditions of a man A. His speech his cating his attyre his practize and company kéeping shew his life Q. VVhat are the foure thinges inestimable and vncomparable A. Science health vertue and libertie Q. What are the soure thinges that sconest deceiue men A. Fayre speech great giftes desire of gaine and little knowledge Q. What are the foure thinges that presage an euill ende