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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	breath_n	lend_v	still_a	32	3	17.1930	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59328	Notes and observations on the Empress of Morocco revised with some few errata's to be printed instead of the postscript, with the next edition of the Conquest of Granada.	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.	1674 (1674)	Wing S2702; ESTC R5544	101,196	102

to be Calms or Storms and so fresh Gales are Calms with him or else he believes that Ships have really those Souls which Hametalhaz alludes to if in still water without help of Wind or Tide they can Roul of themselves As if that Breath and motion lent a Soul Here he makes the effect produce the cause whereas it is a Soul that lends Breath and motion he makes Breath and motion lend a Soul as if sight could lend Eyes if so then sight must be before Eyes Now why the Soul is the cause of Breath and motion I believe he cannot resolve us for 't is much disputed whether the Soul be any thing else but Breath and motion viz. in Irrational Creatures all senses being made by a flux or motion of Spirits through several Organs to the Brain And so the Soul is but a notion or term of Art used to signifie that Breath and motion And if Don Critick makes this learned Discant that the cause is prior natura than the effect by his own argument Things are before Names and by his rules of priority Breath and motion cause a Soul And with that Soul they seem taught Duty too Here this Soul is lent by instruction they are taught a Soul and with it taught Duty Why taught a Soul what does the Pronoun that point to but the lent Soul in the foregoing Line Their Top-sails lower'd their heads with Reverence bow As if they would their Generals worth enhance From him by instinct ta●ght Allegiance The Ship learns by instinct that is it learns from another by having it naturally of it self Why it learns from another Let the question be answered out of the Authors words by what taught Allegiance By instinct From whom From him viz. the General and then pray examine the reception of instinct and find this Line Nonsence dear heart and eris mihi magnus Apollo though Instinct in all cases be what a man has naturally in himself yet that instinct never produces actions but from some circumstance or cause extra hominem For example some men have an ●●tipathy against a Cat and by instinct though they see her not shall tremble and sweat or the like when they come near her and though by nature they have this Antipathy yet 't is from the presence of the Cat that instinct operates they would not tremble were she not there If the Poets Ships which he by his As if in the first Line only fancies of e'm not affirms of e'm for the affirmative would be Non sence Instinct and Allegiance being inconsillent with inanimate Creatures If his Ships I say are fancied to have a Sympathy with their General and by instinct can express their Allegiance when he expresses his certainly though their supposed innate Virtue of expressing their Allegiance be in themselves yet the Power of expressing it is from him For if he did not express His they could not exercise their Sympathetick quality and express Theirs with him But perhaps he 'll find fault with the English and tell us to say That such a thing is taught to do this or that by instinct does not please him But as for that let it pass If he be so hard to please he is not worth the humouring Whilst she loud Cannons eccho from the shore Their flaming Breaths salute you Emperour From their deep mouths he does your Glory sing He 〈◊〉 his Glory and with their mouths that is the Cannons Mouths Which is like its fellows Non-sence For no man can sing with another mans mouth Therefore not with a Cannons mouth a very Poetical reason I hope the modest Commentatour will tell us as he tells the Poet he studied this Non-sense with another mans Brains that here he had the help of the Breathen for no less then a Triumviri of Poets could have produced so weighty a With Thunder and with Lightning greets his King But two Lines since he call'd it salute an Emperour and thus these mannerly Ships salute an Emperour but greet a King and in saluting he says ●hey but flash in the Pan only If Cannons were so well bred in his Metaphor as only to flash in the Pan I dare lay an even wager that Mr. Dryden durst venture to Sea But when Greet's the word then the Thunder and Lightning comes I observe which is very often objected through the Play he finds fault that in a Scene or a Speech the Poet uses the words Monarch King Prince Soveraign Emperour and all for the same person another time Destiny Fate and Providence for the same thing as here salute and greet and this forsooth is impardonable I believe he means to bring Poetry to the rules of the Law and having once spoke of a King we must cry at next occasion to name him the aforesaid or abovenamed King party to these presents I wonder where the excellency of a tongue would be which lies in the copiousness of words to express the same thing by if this Confinement were imposed on its●●reest subject Poetry But I find he has clearly design'd the Authors ●verthrow and being possest with an absolute certainty of his Ruine by this fatal blow prescribes him Laws after the rate of severe Conquerours to Vanquisht Enemies such as they would be unwilling to be tyed to themselves Thus to express his Ioys in a loud Quire He s●renaded the King with a Quire of Guns S●renading and greeting are proper Sea term I have lookt o're the Speech and can find no such term as s●renading in it but that 's no matter the sense and terms of expressions are all one in his Dictionary Greet indeed is crept in very timely for a lash and though it signifies saluting however 't is no Seamans word and therefore Nonsense There indeed he was too blame for making his Hametalhaz a Courtier and no Tarpolin Larbord and Starbord with a score more of such words would have made excellent Drydenism and no Bombast and the Ships had been Ships which here they are not And consort of wing'd Messengers of fire Singers sure and not Messengers make a Consort To answer him in his own s●renading Phrase if by his argument a Gentleman should play on a Violin under a Ladies Window he must Ipso facto turn Fidler and no Gentleman for he can be nothing but a Fidler that plays on a Fidle But then if I should call him a Fine Gentleman 't is worse Nonsense still for 't is not his fin● Cloaths but his Fingers that play on his Instrument as 't is the Voices not the wings that make this Consort give it Sugar-Plums give it Sugar-Plums But how are they Messengers of Fire Did the Fire blow the Guns up into the Air or was every Corn of Powder a wing'd Messenger Then their Wings were very small To distinguish particular Corns of Powder in the Discharge of a Cannon requires a younger Eye-sight than Mr. Commentatours Hadst thou Brains in thy Head dear Heart when thou couldst talk of writing