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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	write_n	write_v	writing_n	326	4	8.8356	4	false

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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

bodies end would determine that but after the soule once lives it never dyes it dwels in the body and governes it as the Pylot in the Ship directing it from haven to haven the Soule is all this while imprisoned in the body and yet to it some bodies are pallaces to others streightned prisons according as one writes one She who 's saire body no such prison was But that a Soule might well bee be pleas'd to passe An age in her And so further speaking of the freedome of the Soule in death saith then Think that a rusty peece dischargd is flowne In sunder and the bullet is his owne Q. Wherefore is the Soule of man called the Lanthorne of God A. For the Light that is infused into it by God in whom all the Divine faculties dwell and therefore for the most part is put for the whole man for mens cuiusque es est quisque Of secret writings The Ephesians Act. 19. 19. had certaine writing and magicall notes which they used in every place and alwayes came away victors It was the Ephesians that used curious and unlawfull Arts which when Saint Paul heard of them and to that end wrote bitterly against them they gathered their bookes together and in open view burned them which in estimation were worth fifty thousand peeces of silver Suetonius reports in the lives of the twelve Coesars Eoistles of his to be so obscure and secret that they could not bee read but by former Intelligence for one letter went in the roome of another as D for A and so of the rest Q. What is the most faithfull messenger and yet carries with it both reoson and speech A. An Epistle or Letter of which one writes Discere fit charum quamvis primo sit amarum But it Letters of secrecie shall be intercepted then to prevent that Pliny writes of an herbe called Goats Lettuice which with the milke thereof writing on any ground-worke or paper and dust strewed afterward on and dryed may be perfectly read Likewise to write with new milke is a safe way and deceives the eyes putting but a little cole-dust upon it and then what could not be seene before is apparantly read Likewise to write with the juyce of an Onion being wet may be perfectly read and not before discerned and this was practised by one of the gunpowder-Traytors out of the Tower in a letter written to Garnet the letter was common for the body of it that was ordinary complement but the margents contained the mysterie so discouer ed and found out Q. What is that the more feet it hath the slower it goes the fewer the more upright and swist it walkes about the world and hath twice ten hornes A. A man not yet come to his Staffe Q. Whether is it better to bee sprung from good parents or to bee good in enes selfe A. To bee good and not to live by anothers blood or fame according to the Poet Miserum est aliena incumbere fama To live by others breath I hold a sickly state And if I were to chuse a wife I such a choyce would hate As had not many living goods for me to tast and see But onely such as now are dead in th' ancient pedigree Q. What doe we most love and best esteeme A. Those things we hardest atchieue according to the Poet Quod venit exfacili faciles segnesque tenemur Quod spes quodque metu torsit habare juvat Englished But light wee reckon that wee slightly gaine Valuing the subject as it costs us paine Q. What small garment is that which is made of cheape wooll and yet of most incomparable price A. The Episcopall Robe which was used to be given gratis from the Antients and of it selfe is of small value yet now with the inchanted Roses the Agnus Deies the Apostolicall breves the exorcises swords and woodden crosses it costs many thousands before it sits on the Popes backe The Pope saith that for Layickes to read the Scriptures in a knowne tongue is to set pearles before Swine Q. What was the most monstrous Embassage that hath beene heard of A. An Embassage came to Rome by three Embassadours the one whereof was troubled with the Gout the other with wounds in his head and the third with tremor in the heart which Cato observing said to the Senate laughing Here is an Embassage come without head or heart or feet Q. Why hath God given us two of all members of the body A. That if by any accident the one faile it may bee supplyed by the others helpe and therefore wee haue two hands two legges two feet two eares two eyes but but one Soule to shew the incomparable value thereof that it is more worth then all the world for what shall a man giue for the ransome thereof Q. Whether is the lighter plague that of the Sword or of the tongue A. That of the Sword for that onely wounds the body but this the soule the tongue is many times accessory to murder stirres that fire that nought but blood can quench Saint Bernard saith the detractors tongue is a threefold lance that at one blow wounds three the speaker hearer and him that is detracted further hee saith the Detractor hath the Divell in his tongue the hearer in his eare the consenter in his heart it is sayd betweene the heart and the tongue there should bee a marriage for it is Uerbum in c●…rde before it bee Uerbum in ore and those words that are spoken by the tongue without the consent of the heart are said to be conceived in Adultery Q. Whether is our Country or our parents to be more honoured A. It is the answer of a Wiseman that our Countrey that our Countrey was before our parents and therefore first to be honoured Q. May it be one Ship should compasse the whole world A. That with wonder have our eies beheld in our noble Countryman Drake and so hath the sound of the Gospell gone over the whole world so that now we beleeve the end of the world not to be farre off ●…he number of 40 is a time re●…keable in holy Scriptures for penitency and affliction for 40 dayes Christ fasted for our sinnes 40 yeares wandred the people in the wildernesse 40 dayes had the Ninivites to repent 40 dayes continued the waters of the flood c. Q. Doth money make a rich man A. It doth not but the contrary for that is never too little that is enough and there is never enough where there is not content though too much for our happinesse or infelicity is of our owne making Q. When doe enemies profit us and friends hurt us A. That is done so when as an enemy justly reprehends us it profits but when a friend falsly praiseth us it hurts us Q. Of what Nations consisted the foure Empires Assirij primiregnarunt postea P●… Post Persas Graeci Germani 〈◊〉 dominantur Englished The Assirian first the Persian then began The Graecian next the