Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	blood_n	death_n	life_n	1,450	5	4.3647	3	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

most enemies to peace and chiefe causers that we haue not alwaies peace within our selues A. Auarice ambition enuy wrath and pride Q. By what meanes chiefly may a man maister and rule himselfe A. In rebuking that in himselfe which he blameth in another Q. VVhat is the first poynte of folly A. To repute himselfe wise Q. To what art or sort of life and science ought a father to aduance and put his children A. To that which by nature they are most inclined vnto being in this worlde profitable and in the other worlde auailable Q. What are the twoo thinges which most vere and trouble a man A. Yre and enuie Q. To whom should we in no wise vtter our secretes A. To him that is angry when we pray him not to reueale them Q. What are the true tokens of a foole A. To be angry too much and without a cause to laugh without measure and vppon no occasion Q. What beaste is that which byteth most venomously A. Of wilde beasts it is a backbyter and amongest tame the flatterer Q. What is the right propertie and nature of Fortune A. To feare the valiant vertuous and couragious and foyle the verlet vitious and coward and if she shewe herselfe fauourable to make many become fooles drunken blind and puffed vp with pride Q. How should a maister behaue himselfe with his seruantes A. Not to be too familiar with thē to admonish thē often therwithal not to discorage them from doing well not to be too seuere nor too parciall but to consider how hee was vsed himselfe Q. By what meanes may a king make himselfe a Monarch A. By good counsel eloquence liberalitie and martiall discipline Q. How should the wiseman liue with the foole A. As the Phsition doth with the patiēt Q. What is the best remedy that a man can vse being depriued of a thing which hee helde deere and esteemed A. To perswade himselfe it is not lost but lent or else payde away as being none of his owne but borrowed Q. What doe most men now a dayes in the worlde A. One sorte search without cease and find nothing another sort finde so much that they are wearied and yet not satisfied Q. What is the best way to auoide surfetting A. The rich man to liue soberly and the poore man to labour diligently Q. How should one behaue himselfe not to be deceiued in this worlde A. Eyther to flee the company of men altogether or else presently to dye Q. What are the three best giftes that man can haue heere on earth A. An art or facultie to preuaile against Fortune health and liuelines of his body and person and lastly vertue force of his minde and courage Q. VVhich are the foure purses most requisite to him that goes to law A. The first is good counsel the second is money the third craft and subtiltie and the fourth diligence and patience Q. VVhat is mans life without doctrine A. A tree without fruite and an Image of death Q. VVho is the wisemans gouernesse A. Patience Q. And who the fooles A. Folly Q. VVhat are those thinges amongest al other that merit the palme of inconstancie A. The sea the winde the moone time loue fortune and the common people Q. What is he on earth that most resembleth God A. The iust man Q. How is a noble and valiant courage to be mainteined A. By labour exercise and trauell Q. For what cause is old age feared so much A. Because shee comes ordinarily accompanied and seldome or neuer alone Q. What shoulde we seeke to agyne at ech mans handes A. Their fauour and freendship that can neuer hurt vs. Q. Why is man aboue all wilde beastes whatsoeuer reputed most cruell A. Because being as he is often inobedient to reasō he exerciseth his cruelty against man his like wheras contrarie the Lyons Tygers serpents and such like are freends to their owne sexe and not enemies Q. What effect shoulde worldely welth chiefly haue A. To free their possessours from labour and calamitie Q. What force or efficacie hath knowledg and learning A. To induce the good to waxe better and the ill to waxe no worser Q. What is he in this worlde that can doe all thinges A. The only verruous man Q. What foure thinges are those which ech man coueteth to get and no lesse desireth to preserue A. Health for his person riches for his house honour in a common weale and life euerlasting in another world Q. How should a Prince behaue himself towardes his Subiectes A. Like a good Gardiner that gathereth the leaues and not the rootes or a good shepherd that keepeth his sheepe carefully from the woolfe and sheeres them at time of the yeere not cutting their skinne off Q. What are the elements and grounds of all euill A. Enuie pride auarice and ambition Q. How comes it to passe that Phisitions thinke they may kill their patientes without reprehention A. Because the grounde couereth their workinges Q. What is anger or furie A. A certaine briefe kinde of rage or folly Q. What lawes were those which Draco commaunded inuiolably to be obserued and written with mans bloode A. To stone Rogues and vacabounds being healthfull and ydle and to put to death the vnthankefull Q. What is the whole course and propertie of mans life A. To be borne wéeping to line laughing and to dye sighing Q. What is one of the principallest causes why regions cities and prouinces doe rebell often against their Souereignes A. The negligence of the gouernours who in place of shepheardes and good kéepers doe commit the flocke vnto rauening wolfes and gréedy dogges Q. What are the thinges that one true fréende shoulde wish to another A. Safetie health honour prosperitie Q. When wil the good time come again A. When wee are gone and good men in our places Q. What is the spéediest way to become rich A. To appouerish the appetites and bee content with that which one hath Q. What is frendship A. It is saith Cicero the Sunne of the worlde without the which the whole worlde should lye in darkenes and without order Q. What is the true way to become euery day better and better A. To enquire of wisemen and our familiars what folkes say of vs and if they praise vs rightly to perseruer without being proud of it in well doing if not to amende our life and make that they may say well of vs. Q. What is the chiefest refuge that an offender still hath A. To sweare and lye Q. From whence procéedeth now adaies such aboundance of wicked persons and wickednes in the world A. From the lacke of good persons and goodnes Q. Who is the particular Emperour and guyde of euery mans lyfe A. His owne conscience and vnderstanding Q. What is the greatest gifte and torment that a man can giue his enemie in reconciling him selfe to him in amitie A. To giue him his daughter in marriage to the ende that shee may torment him

Cooke A. He that eateth alwaies when hunger oppresseth him Q. What are the bad thinges that driue a man out of his house A. A bad wyfe smoke raine and want of victuales Q. Why doe women cloath and couer themselues so sumptuously A. Because fowle thinges séeke to couer themselues still sooner then faire things Q. What are the richest fairest Iewels that a woman can haue A. A vertuous husbande and vertuous children Q. What is a faire childe A. A glory to the wife and a suspition to the husband Q. What is aduersitie A. The mother of Temperaunce the Nourse of Glory and a spurre of vertue Q. Why did the auntient learned men and sages disdaine to be called doctors A. Because they saide and affirmed that vertue had néed of no other title thē her own Q. To what may one compare a vertuous man speaking dishonestly A. To an vnclean vessell ful of pure wine Q. What was the cause that Socrates often exhorted and permitted his schollers and youthes to looke themselues in glasses A. Because in beholding their owne beautie and elegancie of their bodies they might studie to make their mindes conformable to the same by good disciplines and if in the glasse they appeared fowle and deformed they might studie how to amend that deformitie by vertue Q. Why did Licurgus forbid the Lacedemoniens to banket A. Because in banqueting men loose their iudgmēt by drinking their grauitie by speaking and their health by eating too much Q. What was the order and obseruance at Mariages of the Lacedemoniens A. To haue onely nine persons in company to giue wine to him the held his peace Q. Where should a man séeke his goods A. Where his friendes are Q. What is the most dangerous ignorance that may be A. Neither to know God nor himselfe Q. Wherein lyeth the force of an army A. In counsell in the happe of the Captaines in the heartes of the Souldiers in the situation of the fielde and chiefly in the will of God Q. VVhat are the thinges best for him that wil make good chéere A. A mery hostesse laughing breade leaping wine trembling fleshe and weeping cheese and weightie Q. What is the thing that maketh Alquimiftes fooles poore and insensed A. Mercury Q. How commeth it to passe that flatterers haue commonly so great credite with Princes A. Because they are so amorous of them selues they loue to heare thēselues praised and in this they resemble the Dwle that hath her eye sight dimmed at midde day Q. How should a man proceede in correcting or reprehending another man A. As the Phisition doeth in healing his patient that is to shewe him selfe sweete and pleasant and not a reuenger for the phisition that killeth his patient is not a phisition but a hangman or executioner Q. Who is the father that when the sonne offendeth inuiteth him too offende againe A. He which winketh at his fault and pardoneth him Q. What is the best glasse a man can vse A. His owne thought for therin he may sée both his fayrenes and his foulnes Q. What is the life without learning A. A tree without fruite a day without sunne a night without moone and starres a house without a man and a body without a heade Q. Who is he that may easily vanquishe his enemie A. He that demaundeth nothing but reason Q. When is the season that a woman thinketh woorst A. Then specially when she is alone and ydle Q. What are those commonweales or kingdomes that easily fall to decay A. Those where tyranny raineth and policie is of no power Q. What are the thinges that diminish pride A. Sicknes and pouertie Q. What is the way to leade a happy life A. To put a bridle to the tongue the hands the belly and carnall lustes Q. Who is the seruant that may say to his maister I force thee not thou art seruant to my seruant A. A poore man seruing a couetous carle so said Diogenes to Alexander the great Q. What is the beast that beareth a man both aliue and dead A. The horse for he caryeth a man on his backe and being dead they make shooes of his skinne Q. What ought Princes to entertaine to the end to haue continuall peace A. Equalitie Q. What are the thinges that a man ought warily to take héede of A. Of wine of fire of water and of a woman Q. Of what effect is seruice A. It obtaineth friendes Q. What are the fruites of flouth A. A Melancholy life miserie pouertie and dispaire of himselfe Q. What is the thing that makes a man most wise A. Dayly experience Q. What is the recreation of the Soule A. Sapience Q. What ought a good Pilgrim to haue A. An eloquent tongue a true hand and a cleane mouth Q. For what cause shoulde one neither praise nor dispraise the world A. Because he that praseth it too much may easily lye and he that dispraiseth it is in daunger of punishment Q. What are the things that depriue a man of his temporall faculties A. Fortune sicknes and his foes Q. How ought we to vse our selues towardes our friendes A. To praise them openly and reprehend them secretely Q. Wherewith onely is prosperitie accompanied A. With folly with aroganeie and with enuie Q. Why do we sée Philosophers at princes gates sooner then Princes at Philosophers gates A. Because Princes knowe not what they haue néede of Q. Why did the wise man say that it were better to be a begger then a foole A. Because a begger hath néede of nothing but of money but a foole hath néede of humanitie and vnderstanding Q. What are the déedes of charitie A. To honor God to loue his neighbour to helpe the oppressed and chastize the wicked Q. What is death A. It is a plaie of craft and not of force wherein if the player be skilfull he gayneth a great deale for a little Q. VVhat is a shippe properly A. A wandering house without foundation Q. VVhat is a remedie against enuy A. To banish prosperitie Q. VVhat is the best meane and way for a prince to become rich A. To make first his treasure of wise men and then he shall become riche for as the wicked and malitious destroy and impouerish a prince so the wise enrich him with kingdomes and Empires Q. VVhy ought a prince to knowe well his subiectes and vassalls A. To the end he may chastice the euill and rewarde and fauour the good Q. VVhy ought we to haue death still before our eyes A. To the end we forget not our saluation Q. VVhat are the three things amongst many that men loue and haue in great reputation A. Health of the body abundance of riches and conseruation of their good name and honour Q. VVhat is the beautie of a woman A. A very mourning dewe Q. VVhat is the cause motiffe which most encourageth a valiant man to hazzard his life A. The safegarde of his rencome Q. VVhat are the thinges which shews the condition