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
A72221	The grammar warre. Or The eight parts of speach, noune, pronoune. verbe, participle, aduerbe, coniunction, preposition, interiection, altogether by the eares Together with the lamentable burning of a petty schoole.; Bellum grammaticale. English	Guarna, Andrea.; Spencer, John, d. 1680, attributed name.; Hayward, William, fl. 1570-1576.; I. S.	1635 (1635)	STC 12421; ESTC S122613	26,974	73

inriched for he had foure significations as to draw out to wound to heare and see and diuers other such like and all they when need is are reduced into one Pasco receiued two vnderstandings to feed and bring vp Vaco albeit he medled not much among the fighters for as Socia saith in Plautus the fiercer they fought the faster he fled neuerthelesse fortune that oftentimes giueth reward to the slothfull would enrich his cowardise with the best of the spoiles for as he espyed certaine of his enemies that were fled and gone away he crept out of his Cabin and cloaked them in his fist who after bought them againe with a great summe of siluer and he wan beside his owne former sense seuen other to weete to vnderstand to leaue of to serue to be superfluous to be lawfull not to haue and to be empty Studeo wan three significations as to solicite to desire earnestly and to bee very painefully busied Pango receiued three senses as to sing and hath giuen him panxi in his preter-tense to make truces and hath giuen to pepigi to fasten and ioyne together Sapio from that day had two senses to weete to giue knowledge and to be wise Fero one of the foure annomales gained three senses as to vphold to desire and to beare Confiteor had three senses to praise to purge and to make manifest Supero receiued seuen senses by reason of the great authority that hee had among the Verbes as to remaine in part to ouercome to bee neere to goe further to escape to ouerliue and exceed Some Verbes there were which hauing lost their owne preter-tenses had of their king the goods of other Verbes Passiues which were slaine at the battell as Audeo Fido Gaudeo Soleo and Fio. These pestiferous and perillous perillous lying Verbes which always haue in their heart and minde other then in the mouth albeit they had no part of the prey yet ought not they and their names to bee left in obliuion but spoken of to the end that euery one might know them and so beware Seeing that alwayes vnder the colour of a cloake of the actiue they beare the passiue voice They are called exulo veneo nubo liceo and vapulo This last of all is the most wylie and subtillest and therefore so much wiser as the boy is so much the more heede will hee haue to decline his wylie ambushes If hee haue good care to keepe his posteriors Now seeing wee haue already shewed as well as wee are able that which happened to the Verbes it seemeth good in our accompt that wee speake also of Nounes Ouersight was made in and thorow the hoste of the Nounes and it was found how fortune had beene as much diuerse to one part as to another and to the end that wee begin by the positiues there was certaine of them that being hurt in their Comparatiues receiued dressing and cure through the diligence of certaine expert Phisitians as melior minor dexterior sinisterior plus magnificentior and muneficentior all Irregular and descending of the second Declension But Pius arduus egregius tenuis and such-like lost their owne Comparatiues The Nounes ending in er lost imus in their Suparlatiues And for the same they had rimus as tener and saluber To others for that they had lost simus was giuen limus as Humilis facilis gra●dis similis agilis and to vetus was giuen veterrimus Among Trees were certaine Nounes that quitting themselues manfully by a suddaine myracle changed altogether at once their kinds becomming of females males every one astonied at the suddaine case demanded whence came such transformation to them Of them were rubus and oleaster which Liuius saith were euill and vnluckie tokens and therefore affirmed hee that they ought to bee cast into the botome of the Sea or else to bee exiled out of the land of Grammar But the King Poeta ieasting at the fond superstition that they had in the miracles did pro●ibite all and euery of them to harme or any way to hurt them saying that it was not an euill signe or vnhappie accident to bee changed from women into men saying that out of a naughtie and crooked kind they were turned into a good and better From certaine Nounes Hetroclites fighting against the Verbes Defectiues were cut away both cods and cullion in the Plurall number so that afterward there was in that Number neither man nor woman but chast Neuters which doubtlesse is a thing greatly to bee pittied Their names were Sibilus Auernus Infernus Menalus Supparus Baltheus Tartarus Dindymus Other had better chance for when in the same Number they were Neuters were glad forthwith to see them become males as Porrum rastrum frenum and coelum But the said porrum and rastrum as they went thorow Rome found in the markets of Agon● their Neuter Pluralls and there the● bought them againe with a great summ● of money and giuing leaue to the males loued better to hold them to them there Balsamum among all Nounes and trees abode onely a Neuter By reason whereof seeing that hee could not beget nor bring forth young is in so great scarcitie th●● hee is no where seene but in the land o● Iuda which is the cause as sorrowfull he yeeldeth his fruite all in teares As for other Nounes that were bereft of their Plurall Neuter receiued the Feminine for amends as Epulum ostreum vesper and cepe But trueth is of all creatures the Oysters only were Neuters But aboue all authours Plinie and the Poets hold them for Neuters Wherefore Ouia saith thus Ostreaque in co●chis tuta fuere suis so that afterward they gaired so that they became as much Feminine as Nenters others that were of the Doubtfull gender receiued the Masculine in their Plurall number as Cardo bubo and such like Other that were spoiled of all their Cases Plurall abode euer since dismembered and maymed among whom were Fumus imus fimus puluis sanguis mundus pontus sol sal and vnus all of the Masculine gender Hardly is seene any time more then one Sun in the firmament but when it happeneth so it is not naturall but rather wonderfull likewise also certaine Femi●ines lost their Plurall Cases as Lux sitis ●●bes mors vita fames tabes gloria fama ●alus pax humus lues tellus senecta sobo●es inventa indolis and proles These fought so feebly in the host That all their Pluralls there they lost Other Feminines lost at the said conflict their Singular Number as Argutiae habenae bigae blanditiae cimae delitiae exequiae excubiae exuviae phalerae facetiae g●nae gades insidiae induciae calendae lachrymae latebrae minae and many other Other Neuters were spoiled of all their Pluralls as Coenum foenum aeuvm solum pus and virus Furthermore other were put from all their Singular numbers as Arma castra exta cunabula crepundia pascua moenia mapalia magnalia ilia seriaprae coma precordia and