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	king_n	see_v	1,770	5	3.2429	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56780	The worth of a peny, or, A caution to keep money with the causes of the scarcity and misery of the want hereof in these hard and mercilesse times : as also how to save it in our diet, apparell, recreations, &c.: and also what honest courses men in want may take to live / by H.P. ...	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1641 (1641)	Wing P949A; ESTC R12154	24,730	40

ill if your purse hath been lately purged the Doctor is not a leisure to visit you yea hardly your neighbours and familiar friends but unto monied and rich men they slie as Bees to the willow palms and many times they have the judgements of so many that the sick is in more danger of them then his disease A good and painfull Scholer having lately taken his orders shall be hardly able to open a Church doore without a golden key when he should ring his bells hence it commeth to passe that so many of our prime wits runne over sea to seek their Fortunes and prove such Vipers to their Mother-Countrey Have but an ordinary suit in Law let your Cause or Case be never so plain or just if you want where with to maintain it and as it were ever and anon to water it at the root it will quicklie wither and die I confesse friends may do much to promote it and many prevaile by their powerfull assistance in the prosecution There was of late years in France a marvellous faire and goodly Lady whose husband being imprisoned for debt or somthing else was constrained to be his Sollicitor and in her own person to follow his suits in Law through almost all the Courts in Paris and indeed through her favour gat extraordinary favour among the Lawyers and Courtiers and almost a finall dispatch of all her businesse onely she wanted the Kings hand who was Henry the fourth of famous memorie he as he was a noble witty and understanding Prince understanding how well she had sped her suit being in the opinion of most men desperate or lost told her that for his part he would willingly signe her Petition withall he asked how her husband did and bad her from himselfe to tell him That had be not pitch'd upon his hornes he had utterly been spoil'd and crush'd So that hereby was the old Proverbe verified A friend in Court is better then a peny in the purse But as friends go now adayes I had rather seek for them in my parse then in the Court and I beleeve many Courtiers are of my minde Againe to teach every one to make much of and to keep money when he hath it let him seriously think with himselfe what a miserie it is and how hard a matter to borrow it and most true it is that one faith Semper comitem aeris alieniesse miseriam That miserie is ever the companion of borrowed money Hereby a man is made cheape and undervalued despised deferred mistrusted and oftentimes flatly denied Beside upon the least occasion upbraided therewith in company and among friends and sometime necessitie drives men to be beholden to such as at another time they would scorne to be wherein the old saying is verified Mis●rum est debere cui nolis And on the contrary how bold confident merry lively and ever in humour are monied men they go where they list they weare what they list they eat and drink what they list and as their mindes so their bodies are free they feare no City Serjeant Court-Marshalls-man or Countrey-Bailiffe nor are they followed or dog'd home to their ordinaries and lodgings by City-shopkeepers and other Creditours but they come to their houses and shops where they are bidden welcome and if a stoole be fetch'd into the shop it is an extraordinary favour because all passers by take notice of it and these men can bring their wives or friends to see in Court the King and Queene at dinner or to see a Maske by meanes of some eminent man of the guard or the Carpenter that made the scaffold The Common and Ordinarie Causes why men are poore and want money THere must by the Divine Providence in the body of a Common-wealth be as well poore as rich for as an humane body cannot subsist without hands and feet to labour and walke about to provide for the other members the rich being the belly which devoure all yet do no part of the work but the cause of every mans poverty is not one and the same Some are poore by condition and content with their calling neither seek nor can work themselves into a better fortune yet God raiseth up as by miracle the children and posterity of these oftentimes to possesse the most eminent places either in Church or Common-wealth as to become Archbishops Bishops Judges Commanders and Generalls in the field Secretaries of State Statesmen and the like so that it proveth not ever true which Martiall saith Pauper eris semper si pauper es Aemiliane If poore thou beest poore thou shalt ever be Aemilianus I assure thee Of this condition are the greatest number in every kingdome other there are who have possessed great estates but those estates as I have seene and knowne it in some families and not farre from the citie have not thrived or continued as gotten by oppression deceite usury and the like which commonly lasteth not to the third generation according to the old saying De male quasitis vix gaudet tertius haeres Others come to want and miserie and spend their faire estates in waies of vitious living as upon drinke and women for Bacchus and Venus are inseparable companions and he that is familiar with the one is never a stranger to the other Vno namque modo Vina Venusque nocent Some againe live in perpetuall want as being naturally wholly given to idlenesse these are the droanes of a Common wealth who deserve not to live Qui non laborat non manducet saith the Apostle Paul Both countrie and citie swarmeth with these kinde of people The diligent hand saith Salomon shall make rich but the Sluggard shall have scarcity of bread I remember when I was in the Low Countries there were three souldiers a Dutchman a Scot and an Englishman for their misdemeanors condemned to be hanged yet their lives were begd by three severall men one a Brick-layer that he might help him to make bricks carry them to walls the other was a Brewer of Delft who beg'd his man to fetch water and do other worke in the Brewhouse now the third was a Gardiner and desired the third man to help him to worke in and to dresse an Hop-garden the first two accepted their offers thankfully this last the Englishman told his maister in plaine termes his friends never brought him up to gather Hops but desired he might be hang'd first and so he was Other having had great and faire estates left unto them by friends and who never knew the paine and care of getting them have as one said truely gallop'd through them in a very short time these are such of whom Salomon speaketh who having riches have not the hearts or rather the wit to use them these men most aptly Homer compareth unto the Willow tree which he calleth by a most significant Epithete {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in Latine Frugsp●rda or loose-fruit because the palmes of the Willow-tree are no sooner ripe but