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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	body_n	great_a	nature_n	1,832	5	4.9469	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02153	Perimedes the blacke-smith a golden methode, how to vse the minde in pleasant and profitable exercise: wherein is contained speciall principles fit for the highest to imitate, and the meanest to put in practise, how best to spend the wearie winters nights, or the longest summers euenings, in honest and delightfull recreation: wherein we may learne to auoide idlenesse and wanton scurrilitie, vvhich diuers appoint as the end of their pastimes. Heerein are interlaced three merrie and necessarie discourses fit for our time: with certaine pleasant histories and tragicall tales, which may breed delight to all, and offence to none.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1588 (1588)	STC 12295; ESTC S105812	37,452	59

that selfe loue hang●s in the heart not in the habite that Plato durst say Calco fastidium-Diogenis meaning that the poore Cynick was as insolent in his patcht cloake as Alexander the great in all his roy●ltie Enuie of all othervites hee did eschewe as a cancker so p●stil●nt to an honest minde that it suffereth quiet not so much as to pry into the motions of the heart Couetous h● was not as one that sought by his handes thrift to satisfie his owne necessitie and if any surplusage were graunted by good lucke hée slept not soundly on saturday at night till he his wife and his neighbours had merilie and honestlie spent it at a homelie banquet He wanted nothing as one that against all spight of Fortune opposed patience and against necessitie content And yet Fortune that she might not be thought to iniu●ious in lieu of all her other dissauours lent him a wife of his owne conditions whome he loued more then himselfe for the poore woman although she was barren and had no children yet was she of a verie pure and perfect complexion and witha●l of such good b●hauiour first in loue and dutie to her husband and then in friendly and familiar conuersation with her neighbo●rs that shée was thought a wife fit for so honest a husband These two thus beloued of all the inhabitants of Memphis prescribed them selues such an order of life as diuerse men of great calling sought to be carefull imitators of their methode for suffring no priuate iarres to come within their poore cottage as a thing most preiuditiall to an Oeconomicall estate no sooner had thes● two past away the day he at his hammers and she at the Bellowes for boy they had none but that sitting them selues to supper they satisfied nature with that their labour did get and their calling allow and no sooner had they taken their repast but to passe the rest of the euening merely they fell to pleasant chatte betwéene them selues sometim● discoursing of what came first in their heads with Pro cōtra as their naturall logick would graunt them leaue other while with merie tales honest and tending to some good end without either lasciousnesse or scurilitie thus euer they passed away the night and for that the Egyptians as a great monument kept diuerse of their discourses which some by chance had ouerheard and put downe as a Iewell in their librari● I meane as their recordes doe rehearse to set downe in brief two of their nightsprattle which although homely tolde yet being honestand pleasant I thought they would bread● some conceipted delight to the hearers and therefore thus The first nightes discourse NO sooner had Perymedes and his wyfe Delia for so was her name ended their dayes worke and taken their repast but sitting safely in their simple cottage by a little fire Perymedes begā thus solemnly and sadlie to enter into a discourse I can not thinke wife but if we measure all our actions with a true proportion that wée haue supt as daintely as the proudest in all the Cittie of Memphis for the ende of delicates is but to satisfie nature which is so partiall in hir desires that were not our vitious mindes drowned in gluttonie content would seale vp hir request with a very small pittance but such is the course of the world now a dai●● that euerie man séekes with Philoxenus to haue his necke as long as a Crane that he may with more pleasure swill in the sweete tast of their superfluous deinties But wife since I can remember here in Memphis Psamnetichus our king was of so sparing a diet that being demaunded by an Ambassadour what Caters he had for his houshold made answere his Cooke and his stomake in seeming by this that his Cooke bought no more in the shambles than woulde satisfie what his stomack desired But now wife euery meane man must be so curious in his fare that we are rather to be counted Epicurians than Egiptians and our Chaldees haue more skill in a cup of wine than in a ●ibrarie which superfluitie bredeth both beggerie to manie and diseases to all For so they drowne them selues in the bottomlesse sea of gluttonie as at last they make their bodies a subiect for the Physition thinking that the temperature of their complexions can neuer be well affected vnlesse their stomacks bee made a verie Apotecaries shoppe by receiuing a multitude of simples and drugges so to settle their wauering constitution those men that wed them selues to such inordinate excesse finde diuerse and sondrie passions to torment the stomack and all the body which no sooner paynes them but straight as experiēce is a great mistresse they calculate the nature of the disease and straight ●●ye to purging to phlebotomie to fomentacions such medicinall decretals according to the interiour or exteriour nature of the disease where as perhaps some slender fault is the efficient cause of such a momentanie passion better to be cured by time than physick But excesse in diet wi●e bréedeth this restlesse desire and so manie are the diseases incident by our owne superfluities that euerie one had néede to haue an Herball tied at his girdle well I haue heard my father say that he was but one daie sicke in all his life time being then also through ouer much labour fallen into a feauer And this perfect temperature of the bodie did not procéed● from the diuersities of potions and daintie delicates but by a true proportion of exercise and diet which Zeno the Philosopher noted well to be true who beeing of a verie weake and tender constitution subiect oft to sickn●sse yet neuer kept his bed Being demaunded of a Lacedemonian what preseruatiues he did vse Zeno willing to be briefe in his answeres shewed then a péece of bread a dish of water with a strong bowe of Stéele meaning by this Enigma to discouer vnto them that he raced out his diseases by exercise and fasting as two especiall pointes necessarie for the perfecting of mans health You say truth husband quoth Delia for oft haue I heard my mother say that thrée thinges are the chiefest delicates which who so vseth shall liue long and happely Hunger quiet and mirth but to auer your sayings to be true euerie one séekes to attaine the contrarie which causeth such sodaine death perilous diseases mo perish by gluttonie than by the sworde for in steade of hunger men séeke to satisfie nature with excesse for quiet enuie at others happinesse presentes a stratageme for mirth melancholie and couetous humours how most gréedily to gaine thus euerie one séekes that time and experience proues most preiudiciall but the time hath bene yea Perymedes and within my remembrance when the inhabitantes of Memphis knewe not what ryot and ill diet ment but euery man applying him selfe to frugalitie coueted to be thought honest and vertuous where as nowe a daies the meanest doth desire to be thought proud and sumptuous While Numa Pompilius banished excesse out of Rome