Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	world_n	worship_n	year_n	30	3	3.8741	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19207	The vvelspring of wittie conceites containing, a methode, asvvell to speake, as to endight (aptly and eloquently of sundrie matters: as (also) see great varietie of pithy sentences, vertuous sayings, and right morall instructions ... Out of Italian, by W. Phist. student.	Phiston, William.	1584 (1584)	STC 5615; ESTC S108604	54,217	104

THE VVELSPRING of wittie Conceites CONTAINING A Methode asvvel to speake as to endight aptly and eloquently of sundrie Matters as also see great varietie of pithy Sentences vertuous sayings and right Morall Instructions No lesse pleasaunt to be read then profitable to be practised either in familiar speech or by writing in Epistles and Letters Out of Italian by W. Phist Student Wisedome is like a thing fallen into the water which no man can finde except it be serched to the bottome ¶ AT LONDON Printed by Richard Iones dwelling at the Signe of the Rose and the Crowne néere Holburne Bridge 1584. ¶ To the Right worshipfull Maister Dauid Lewes Doctor of the Ciuill Lawes one of the Maisters of her Maiesties Courte of Requestes highe Iudge of the Admiraltie and Maister of S. Katherins R. I. wisheth cōtinuall health both of body soule increase of godly worship in this world eternall felicitie in the Heauens through Iesus CHRIST RIght worshipfull Sir it may seeme a point of great presumption in me to cōmende into your protection this small booke beeing another mans labour and yet notwithstanding the first fruites of my poore Presse sithens the comming in of this newe yeare but these few thinges being duely cōsidered may I trust deliuer me from the blemish and suspect therof One thing is the absence of the Author who not only deliuered the Copye hereof vnto mee to be printed but also committed the dedication of it to bee disposed by me to my best liking Another cause is the wittie conveighances handled in the woike but principally the heartie affection and duetifull good will that I beare to your worship with an assured hope that you will accept it in as good parte as my faithfull meaning is towardes you For sometimes a prettie Conceight well contryued may content a wise mans minde no lesse thē a graue and great booke Yea otherwhiles a seely Subiet applyed to good purpose is not onely acceptable but also commendable A litle flower if it haue a good scent is worthie smelling a litle stone if it bee precious and therwithall well set deserueth to be worne a poore Pamphlet if it tende to some good effect may haply at some conuenient time be worth the reading I beseech you therfore giue a poore Welwiller leaue to present your worship with this small Collection out of dyuers notable workes to the helpe and profit of many English Readers not any thing hurtful to the learned in other lāguages and although the Phrase do not fully satisfie the Curious it will I hope sufficiently delight and content the wise for the further contents whereof I referre your worshippe to the Authors Epistle and then to the worke it self most humbly praying your worship to receiue the same into your protection and Patronage as an infallible token of my good will towardes you and to continue the iust defender thereof against the scornefull crewe of MOMVS his backbytinge Mates to whome all good thinges are continually in contempt And I shall dayly praye vnto God for your worship longe to continue in health to the pleasure of Almightie God and the great desire of all your Welwillers Your VVorships most humble to commaunde Richarde Iones The Authors Preface THe Conceites or Deuices of our mindes expressed either with Pen or by Speaking do tende to this ende namely that they may Perswade And to Perswade is as much as that one man should make others beleeue that our talke or the thing whereof we reason is either True or False and our Reasonings or Speeches be either publique or priuat Publique are those that are vsed vniuersally to the people also to those that gouerne the people Priuat bée sutch as are vsed with Priuat Persons which bée assembled together and they be of thrée sortes for they bée either of Thinges present of Thinges passed or of Thinges to come Present do comprehende Vertues which are praised or on the contrarie side Vices which be blamed Thinges past as Manslaughters Rapines and all the offences and debates which are brought into iudgemēt in which consist to Accuse and Defende Thinges to come are those in which we haue néede first of Counsell afterwarde of Election or making choice The first kinde is called Demonstratiue the second Iudiciall the third Deliberatiue all which notwithstanding that they do chiefly respect publicke persons yet they be ordinarily vsed toward priuat persons the which do many times giue counsell amongst themselues doo Accuse doo Prayse and Reprooue Other sortes of reasoning as to Reioyce to Bewaile to Complaine and all others bee reduced vnder some of the three aforenamed kindes haue for their ende to Perswade the which is sometimes brought to passe with reasons either Probable or Apparent and sometimes with moouing mens affections which things be principally giuē by nature and afterward ruled and fitted out with that wonderfull order which is shewed vs by Aristotle and by other both auncient and late excellēt Wryters who through their rule and order obserued haue been the occasiō that the fruites of many Authors shall liue for euer out of whome I haue taken some part of these Conceites or Deuices which I haue vnderstoode to be most learned most méete and proper to applye vnto all kindes and manners of Speaking or of Writing familiarly and those that were most briefe déeming that in the qualitie and not in the Quantitie of wordes and of Sense doth consist the Elegancie of a commendable Speech or Writing and that heerby we may in what Reasoning soeuer it be or in writing receiue light of Inuentiō and with such Eloquēce adorne our matter as shall containe fit Numbers comely Figures Metaphores Similitudes Sentences Aucthoritie and Examples as those do shew foorth that I haue here placed in order and to make serue with fewe and with many according as shall be most conuenient either in Writing or in Speaking because one discours of Wordes one Letter or Epistle shall not haue occasion to weaue together all these common places it shall be expedient that they be of iudgement and haue regard how to apply euery Sentence in his due place according as Time and the Matter doth require they which shall go about to imitate any thing herein Those Sentences which I haue gathered out of Auncient and famous Authors their names for the most part are coted in the Margent others which haue béene partly the inuention of late Writers partly mine owne I haue not coted Thus wishing for a frenedly acceptaunce in recompence of my frée goodwill I cease Farewell in the Lorde The Wel-spring of Wittie Conceights c. ¶ The Maner to expresse by word or writing how we reioyce and what it is TO reioyce is a conceipte of the minde that groweth of the pleasure which we receiue of those things that delight vs like as contrariewise to be sory groweth of the displeasur that grieueth vs. And this Cōceipt expressed in words or in writting is deuided into