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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	good_a	let_v	1,459	5	4.0417	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18761	A prayse, and reporte of Maister Martyne Forboishers voyage to Meta Incognita. (A name giuen by a mightie and most great personage) in which praise and reporte is written diuers discourses neuer published by any man as yet. Now spoken of by Thomas Churchyarde Gentleman, and dedicated to the right honorable M. Secretarie Wilson, one of the Queenes Maiesties most honorable Priuie Counsell.	Churchyard, Thomas, 1520?-1604.	1578 (1578)	STC 5251; ESTC S105049	13,491	49

haue hope to spread Gods glorie farther then euer hath bin by our common knowledge vnderstoode or our highest senses and reasons could reache vnto And surely this is a true testimonie of greate goodnesse intended that our Nation in suche a christian sorte and maner refuseth no hazarde nor daunger to bryng Infidelles too the knowledge of the omnipotente God yea albeit great wealth and commoditie maie rise to vs of their labours yet the purpose of manifestyng Gods mightie woorde and maiestie among those that feed like monsters and rather liue like dogges then men doeth argue not onely a blessed successe but perswadeth a prosperous and beneficiall retourne For admitte that no further gaine then Goddes glorie were looked for and that our peaceable Prince nourisheth people only to that respect as mēbers instruments for the redeeming of many a loste soule we ought to imagin there can not be a greater grace nor a more richer and precious thyng expressed in this vngracious tyme and season And those that offereth to do their best in the furtherance of christian religiō are sure diyng or liuyng in that determination to attain the vnspeakable and wished ioyes thei desire besides here to remaine with immortal fame whiles the worlde lasteth The cause and constancie of suche as shewe any courage at all either springes from a deuine delite in good doyng or a worldly desire of well wō credite valiantly gotten And the coward Spirite of those that dare attempt no hazardes comes from a feble iudgement or a weake womanish bodie that trembles to take in hande any stoute or manly enterprise Fortune herself giues place to any inuincible courage and the fortitude of the mynde cōquers countries and ouercōmeth the greatest conquerors that is vnder the cloudes I read of the firste greate Turcke Otthoman and others with all their successours an incredible discourse and yet by their mightie monarchies am forced to beleeue their dignities and destenie did muche depende vpon their resolute myndes The greatnesse of Alexanders hart was no whit inferiour to the greate and good Fortune he possessed And so generally to speake of the forwardnesse of man and woorthie laude that folowes vertuous actiōs I could occupie your eares with the hearing of many a noble historie and proue thereby that nothyng is comparable to a couragious determination For as many aucthours affirme and mannes actions declare that man is but his mynde so it is to bee daily tride that the bodie is but a mix ture of compoundes knitte together like a fardell of fleashe and bondell of bones and vnited as a heauie lumpe of Leade without the mynde in the sillie substaunce of a shadowe We see a marueilous boldnesse in some horsses that with the least motion of rodd or sticke will take hedge or diche whē a royle of a greater stature is a fraied of a little bushe Among Birdes in like maner is a wonderfull difference and yet the Cocke in his combate surmounteth them all But Man the Kyng of all creatures by force and discretion gouernes what he pleaseth and cōpasseth thinges that the base expectation neither can comprehende nor dare not attempte Now vnder correction was not this a valiaunt aduenture to take in hande a voyage neuer sailed before but by one Gabotha whiche hereafter I will speake of and in this sailyng to incounter suche huge mountaines of Iee and passe the same so orderlie and so soone without any probable certaintie of a happy successe and safe retourne Albeeit that Maister Forboysher had asaied the dāger with some good signe of benefite not long agoe Yet the course was so combersome and the passage so perilous that few men were willyng to make a triall of the iourney till these Gētlemen and their couragious cōpanions of their owne good will tooke vpon them to see the vttermost of the matter and to abide the bronte of all that might happen And when thei were vndersaile beholde how obediently and painfullie thei behaued them selues and forgettyng delicate and fine feedyng tooke what was fitte for the tourne and stoode contente with what portion was appointed as men resolued to suffer a little scarcitie and sorrowe in hope of aboundance and greate pleasure to come And agreed in felloweship so faithfully y it was to bee iud ged y one Mother had sent so manie children abroad to shew what mutuall loue ought to be among brethren And in verie deede the greatest conquest can bee made is the victorie and masteryng of affections for the auoydyng of contencious tumultes and brablyng curiositie whiche here tofore hath hindered not onely great seruices but also hath bredde greate mischiefes and wounded a common wealthe with an infinite number of beggerie botches and incurable diseases By vnion and amitie wee are taught bothe by the Bee and the Ant a lesson woorthie notyng and so suckyng in season the fruite of our labors with sugred pleasures our paines be recompensed Now returnyng to my former discourse I would a little touche by your licence the hardie and brutishe maner of the people lately discouered for it seemeth by their bold and beastly fashion that thei dare do any thing that their consceites will allowe or courage of man maie execute Firste thei aduentured by struggelyng and strengthe to ouercome man to man any one of our companie and as I heare saie xiiii of them gaue charge vpon xxx of ours and stoode stoutely to their enterprise Hauing with their able bodies suche a kinde of agilitie and swiftnesse as is to bee wondred at Besides thei haue a dissemblyng pollicie to seeme lame when thei pretende a mischief and carriyng suche a dreadlesse mynde and desperate intention thei rather flyng themselues headlong into the Sea from the top of a mightie mountaine then yeld to the mercie of any that maie subdewe them This is a straunge kynd of stoutnesse and peraduenture procedes frō some wronges thei haue suffered by some other Nation then ours whose crueltie hath made them so fearfull to come in handes That thei haue no skill of submission nor will not learn to knowe the courtezie of a Conqueror Which resolution in thē though barbarous it seeme showes a settled opinion thei haue in their force and liberties and vtters a miraculous manlinesse to abounde in that brutish Nation The more praise and renowme shall thei haue that seketh to reforme these foolishe hardie Infidelles and retourne too grope and finde out the commodities of that place and cōditions of the people enhabityng there And as touchyng the singulare gaine that maie growe by their trauailes that goeth thether I remitte that to the triall all readie hadde and Iudgemente of those that can looke depely into the bowels and bothome of suche causes and businesse assuredly beeleuing by that I haue seen and heard that many good thynges will fall out to vs by the iourney Then lette vs with wishyng well be furtherars and fauourars of that noble enterprise whiche frō the begin nyng of our age was neuer brought