Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	bring_v	great_a	reason_n	1,648	5	4.3830	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02288	Bellum grammaticale a discourse of great warand dissention betwene two worthy princes, the noune and the uerbe, contending for the chefe place or dignitie in oration : very pleasant & profitable / turned into English by W.H.	Guarna, Andrea.; Hayward, William, fl. 1570-1576.	1569 (1569)	STC 12419; ESTC S2699	32,552	96

rimus as tener and saluber To others for that they had lost simus was giuen limus as humilis facilis gracilis similis agilis and to vetus was geuen veterrimus Among trées were certayne Nounes that quiting thē selues manfully by a sodayne miracle chaunged altogether at once their kinds becōming of females males euery one astonied at the sodayne case demaunded whence came suche transformation to them of them were rubus and oleaster which Titus sayth were euyll and vnluckie tokens and therfore affirmed he that they ought to be cast into the bottome of the sea or else to be exiled out of the lande of Grammer But the king Poeta iestyng at the fende superstition that they had in the miracles dyd prohibite all and euery of them to harme or any way to hurt them saying that it was not an euyl signe or vnhappy accident to be chaunged from women into men sayng that out of anoughty and croked kind they were turned into a good and better From certaine Nounes heteroclites fighting against the Verbes defectiues were cutte away both coddes and cullion in the plurall numbre from whiche peryll God saue vs so that afterwarde there was in that number founde neither man nor woman but chast neuters whiche doubtlesse is a thyng greatly to be pitied Their names were sibilus auernus infernus menalus supparus baltheus tartarus dindimus other had better chaunce for when in the same number they were neuters wer glad forth with to sée them become males as porrum rastrifr●num and coelum But these sayde po●mum and rastrum as they went thorowe Rome founde in the markets of Agona their neuter plurals there they bought thē againe with a great summe of money and gyuing leaue to the mules loued better to hold them to them there Balsamum among all Nounes and trées above only a neuter by reason wherof seyng that he coulde not beget nor bring foorth yong is in so great scarsitie that he is no where séene but in the lande of Iuda which is the cause as sorowefull he yeldeth his fruict all in teares as for other Nounes that were bereft of their plurall neuter receaued the feminine for amendes as epulum ostreum vesper and cepe But truth is of all creatures the oysters only were neuters but aboue al aucthors Plinie the poetes holde them for neuters wherefore Ouide sayeth thus Ostreaque in conchis tuta fuere suis so that afterwarde they gayned so that they became as muche feminine as neuters others that were of the doubtfull gendre receyued the masculine in their plurall numbre as Cardo bubo and suche lyke other that were spoyled of all their cases plural abode euer since dismembred and maymed among whom were sumus limus funus puluis sanguis mundus pontus sol sal and vuus all of the masculine gendre Hardly is séene any tyme more than one Sunne in the firmamēt but when it happeneth so it is not naturall but rather wonderful likewise also certayne feminines lost their plurall cases as lux sitis labes mors vita fames tabes gloria fama salus pax humus lues tellus senecta soboles iuuenta indoles proles These fought so febly in the hoast That all their plurals there they lost Other feminines lost at the sayd conflicte their singular nūber as argutiae habenaebigae blanditiae cunae delitiae exequiae excubiae exuuiae phalerae facetiae genae gades insidiae indi●ciae caleridae lachrymae latebrae minae many others Other neuters were spoyled of all their plurals as coenum foenū auus solū pus and virus Furthermore other wer put frō al their singuler frends as arma castra exta cunabula cōchilia crepundia pas●●a moenia mapalia magnalia ilia seria precordia and sponsalia yea and almost all the names of feastes as Naturnalia Dionisia Aphrodisiae B●●cha●lia Floralia and Neptunalia and all the names of metals especially aurum argentum which euery one laboured to take prisoner and likewise aes s●ta aera in three cases In lyke maner for the great heate and alteration of the combat the measures were spoyled of the pluralitie of their liquors except of wines and honies which to the plurall cases were spared to the ende that they myght do kyng Poeta service with newe wines for that he loued them well Oleum and frum●●tum by like misfortune were so gluttonnous that thorowe the great scarsitie that was in the hoast they wer not found in pluralitie Other aboad shortened in the ende of their geyltines and d●tines plurall as ●hrathura 〈◊〉 and sera Yet neuerthelesse all Nounes had not the worse part for diuers of 〈…〉 of the spoyle of their enimies 〈…〉 ●herof they were of greater authoritie 〈◊〉 before so that some receyued other nominatiue cases beside their former 〈◊〉 w●tch also hath arbos honor which hath ho●os od●r which hath odos cucumer which hath cucumis cin●● which hath einis and pulue● which hath puluis Notwithstandyng they occupy these not alwayes but kepe this share for hie feastes as for trim nice decking for honor sake Plaga albeit through hurring he bled yet wanne he foure other senses without accompt of the first that signifieth a woūd or hurt as whē he would say the arming cord of a net also a great space of the heauen and earth called clima also a great kind of linen such as the old matrones of Rome ware when they went in the citie also for a bed or any part of a bed Opus the same day wan there thrée senses for opus signifieth earth vnder opus he giueth ayde vnder opibus riches The gerundes and supins bicause they were so often fled to the enimy were amerced to fine after the treatie of peace was made betweene both the sayde kings through the earnest complainct and supplication of Demosthenes who alleaged the lawes of Solon by which it was commaunded that such wer to be put a part from all honor and offices that in any sedition had not holde the part of the one nor the other for that such a one thinketh altogether of his owne businesse and re●keth not of the common wealth the greatest part then in the lande of Grammer lyued after the lawes of Athens Afterwarde therfore the king of the Verbes left to the gerundes no more but only thrée cases takyng away from them for the trespasse of their default al their other cases To the supins only were reserued but two whiche greatly greued all them of Grammer sharpely blaming such a sort of foolish preceptes of Solons lawes as much as the fonde reasons of Demosthenes whom they iested at saying that he had left his cunnyng at home his distaffs bandes and woull and that he had not fained squint eied disease in vaine to haue yerely reuenues and preferment bycause he hop●d not to haue so much money of the gerundes supins as he sometime had had of Harpalus Surely yf I woulde describe forth all