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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	good_a	soul_n	2,711	5	5.0049	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01286	A booke of christian ethicks or moral philosophie containing, the true difference and opposition, of the two incompatible qualities, vertue, and voluptuousnesse. Made by William Fulbecke, maister of Artes, and student of the lawes of England.	Fulbeck, William, 1560-1603?	1587 (1587)	STC 11409; ESTC S105667	32,626	90

found either in sea or on the earth they did not tarry til hunger or thirst ouertook thē but they did preuēt these by an arteficial appetite before the diluge the onely treasure on the earth was wine the people did eate and drinke maried gaue in mariage rise vp to play and vsed all kinde of dalliance euen vntill the daye wherein the windowes of Heauen were opened vpon them till the waters had oueflowed and disfigured the earth that the very shard of a drinking cuppe could not be séene in the worlde It is a verye vnnaturall thing that the belly béeing made by nature a place of excrements shoulde bee made an Idol but it is a greater shame that the Idoll of the beastlie Cyclops shoulde be made a God to Christians which the true GOD will at the length confounde together with all them also that make it a God It is straunge to sée the appetite of man that whereas beasts are contented with that food which nature hath appointed for them and take no more thereof then that quantity which nature hath alotted vnto them man should so far surpasse the limits of reason and reuerence due to nature that with an vnsatiable desire he followeth those things which are discommodious pernitious and pestilent vnto him And although in the kinde of beasts the Lion is most i●cōtinent most rauenous and gréedy of his pray and be ●ide this hath ā excessiue appetite which cannot be stanched without great superfluitie of nourishmēt yet for the space of thrée daies or at the least two two daies after he is fully satisfied the Wolues when they are gaunted with hunger do eat rather earth and clay then they will violentlie rush vpon the beastes of their owne kinde This abstinence is greater then Mirianis who though she were of singular behauiour amongst the Iewes yet could not abstain from gnawing the bones of her owne childe and man to augment the gréedy worm whereof he is possessed doth inuent and vse daily sauces sirupes brothes mixtures that may pricke his stomacke forwarde to craue more then it may well containe wherby there ariseth such superfluitye and such superabundance of naughty humours in the bodie that there bee more then fiftie kindes of diseases ingendred in the eies and by such varietye of tastes wee are prouoked to drinke so much that a great nūber of diseases as Catarres rewmes swellinges goutes dropsies doe shake the foundation of our healthe and the whole frame of our bodie and if the body were only cloyd with the inconueniencies that arise of surfeiting the riot of banquets were more tollerable and lesse reprouable but sith Corpus onustum Hesternis vitijs animū quòque praegrauat ipsum The bodie stuft with hosterne cates doth ouercharge the minde Our trenchers are to be washed with our teares our tables whereat we sitte drinking beluing and carousing are to be accounted engines and snares laid by the deuils subtiltie to intrap our soules our costly viandes are to be accompted the lures of gluttonie our musicall and swéete sounding instruments which are prepared to make the minde more cheerfull and frollicke are no better to bee esteemed then alluring Sirens which eate them whom they delight and kill them with their téeth whom they haue called with their tongues It were infinite to number the greate mishappe that hath chaunced the outragious crueltie that hath bin committed after that the minde hath bene ouercast with the miste or exhalation that riseth from the stomacke surcharged with delicates The Cittie of the Troyans was drowned in wine before it was burnt by fire Hierusalem was ouerflowen of gluttonie and drunkennesse before it was ouerrun of the Romanes and Turkes the Aegiptians were not so much ouercom'd by armed men as by the banquettes of Cleopatra Catiline did besiege Rome with a troope of pleas●res before he did threaten it w t an army of souldiers Dido was first inchanted of Liber Pater before she was bewitched of the boy Cupid Nero was filled with the wines of Campania before he was poysoned w t the counsail of Anicetus ther was in his stomack a flood of Nectar before ther was Furor in mente or Ferrū in manu y e principal cause why y e Persians were enemies to the Lidians was because of the good cheere that they found iu Lidia Now if any man thinke that the mind being a substance immateriall cannot be infected by any contagiō procéeding frō the body he shal perceiue his iudgement to be erronious both by cause by example the soule I graunte might liue-like an angell in the body it doth as yet shine in the corporall lumpe but tanquam coelum in coeno Like an heauen in a dunghill It is so nigh the bankes and borders of this earthly Tabernacle nay it is so inclosed within the walles gates thereof that it must of necessitie be defiled with the dust that ariseth within the walles but to finde out the reason I will vse a very briese discourse which notwithstanding shall carrye some taste of Philosophie There be some thinges that belong to the soule alone as reason meditation reminiscence some thinges to the bodie alone as heauinesse augmentation diminution and that strēgth which the Latines call Robur the Graecians Ischus One thinge there is which is common both to the soule and the body and that is Appetitus or vis concupiscentiae The appetite or force of concupiscence which being an ambidexter or parasite both to the soule body inueagleth the soule by the senses of the body deceiueth y e body by the liking of y e soule for when the minde hath made y e maior proposition of the sillogisme Whatsoeuer is pleasant and sweet is to be liked of the bodie by the force vertue of y e senses maketh the minor proposition Dainty cheare is pleasant and sweet the appetite doth straightway conclude Ergo Dainty cheare is to be liked off the natural carnal mā hauing learned this lesson triūpheth in his own conceit is both waies bent either to cōfute y e Stoicke or defend y e Epicure but y e modest wel iudging mind can make a distinction of pleasant thinges as also of pleasure there is a pleasure that is Dulcis decocta Sweet and liquid which melteth as soone as it féeleth the heat of y e mouth is digested as soone as it is deuoured so that being not able to abide y e stamp of y e téeth it is rather to be accoūted superfluous drosse thē substātial mettel Ther is another plesure y ● is Austera solida Sincere and sound which though it be not as pleasant as spice yet it is as necessary as salte though it do not slide through the bodye as through a conduite yet it descendeth into the minde as y ● euening shower into the caues of the earth the true pleasure is neither painted with colours nor blanched w t cookery