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	let_v	see_v	1,452	5	2.8237	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19444	The anatomie of baseness. Or the foure quarters of a knaue flatterie, ingratitude, enuie, detraction.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1615 (1615)	STC 587; ESTC S100156	12,544	40

THE ANATOMIE Of BASENESSE Or The foure quarters of a Knaue Flatterie Ingratitude Enuie Detraction He that hath these foure parts neede no more haue To be recorded for a complete Knaue Imprinted at London for Richard Redmer and are to be sold at the West dare of Paules at the signe of the Starre 1615. TO THE TRVELY enobled both by Vertue and birth Sir ROBERT SYDNEY Knight of the BATH I. A. wisheth the reward of his Vertue honour in this world Glorie in the next Honourable Sir TO immitate the common methode of Epistolizers in this kinde were rather to write of you then to you which course though I affect not J cannot altogether neglect though I shall thereby either wrong you or my selfe for in publishing though sparingly my knowledge of your worth to the world such to whom you are vnknowne will so much iniure mee as to taxe me with what I condemne in others flatterie whereas some to whom you are no stranger will censure mee as much on the cōtrary to haue dealt with you rather according to the pouertie of my abilitie then to the fulnesse of your merite Jt will peraduenture seeme strange vnto you if this poore worke chance to come to your view what assurance of your good acceptance begot such presumption in me as to dedicate the same vnto you J must first answere I haue not done it mercenarily for then I would haue presented it to your hand nor vaine-gloriously for then I would either haue craued your allowance or subscribed my name but freely and honestly out of that respect which I owe to that innate Goodnesse which I know to be in you Though I forbeare out of some respects to haue my name published yet I can acknowledge the Booke to be mine without blushing If it bee by anie ill digested the fault must be in the taker not in the Author it was written with a right hand and I wish it may not bee sinisterly intertained by any but if som wil needs be so forward the care is taken In you I am made so confident by that I might iustly vse Honourable Noble Worthy or some such high Epithete but I will rather say Honest a poore phrase will some thinke and vertuous disposition which accompanies you that I must account it may happinesse that I liue to knowe a second whose brest Goodnesse makes her habitation yet pardon mee if I say I enioy not this happinesse without some touch of griefe I shall not neede to implore your protection though your pardon I acknowledge I haue presumed and know you can and will remit the errors of Affection in him that is The wisher of your Honour and honourer of your VERTVES J. A. THE ANATOMY of Basenesse OF THE FLATTERER THey that compare the fawning Parisite vnto the Spaniel do the curre much wrong for he will often heare his masters tongue When in the field he follows his delight Yet neuer quest but th'ecchoing Sicophant at euery word by his weake fauourer spoken cries good 't is true and this is held a token Of much respect and loue though from the haunt Of worth and merit his base nature range as farre as falshood from the strong built nest of Truth and Goodnesse which in euery brest Should like two twinnes be nourisht but t is strange To see how this poore worthlesse humour liues euen in those bosomes where good bloud and parts haue their abiding poisoning generous Arts With that to which no language spoken giues An Epithete too bad and to those men if I may tearme them so whose only words such sweetnesse to the flattered eare affoords To yeeld a fitting title by my pen I am as much vnable as vnapt to imitate their basenesse which indeede had I not chanc't t' haue heard into my Creede Could nere haue come but it hath often happt To sownde within the compasse of my hearing whereby mine eares as to the pillory seem'd to be nailde in such grosse flattery Yet in their checkes no signe of shame appearing It may seeme strange yet I dare say 't is true that I haue blusht to see their impudence while they vn-man-like seem'd to haue no sence Of their owne basenes of this thriuing crue I haue observ'd both Sexes to be free too free in some respect though in some kinde more bound then slaues for our best part the minde Was chiefly giuen diuinest things to see And not to be by ought that shares with vs in the short course of our mortalitie so fetter'd least vnhappily it be Depriv'd of its best good in being thus Haue I not heard one tell the Crowe shee 's white and Midas-like preferre the pipe of Pan before Appollo's harpe wherein this man Who thus from Art and Nature teares their right Thus from the Phrygian differs Midas weares as the reward and badge of ignorance th' eares of an Asse but 't is the others chance To thriue by clawing th' ignorant Asses eares Haue I not heard some tell the prodigall 't is for his honour to be bountifull and with applause commend the humorous Gull In all his actions I haue seene them fall And kisse the feete of a great golden calfe whose very best of his admired worth was by a Taylor to the world brought forth To whom his Honour ought his better halfe Let a man chafe though no iust cause there be and then obsequious Apes will fret as fast as had they seene a verier slaue t' haue past By then themselues or be your humour free And Iouially dispos'd they 'le Ianus-like straite shew a cleerer face where you may see the true proportion of hypocrisie Drawne to the life which loues as others like Many yeeres since the famous Chaucer writ that these same men which beare a double visage are as meere monsters in good Natures linage And for good mens societie vnfit Like your Camelions these will change their hew as you your colour be it good or ill change nere so oft yet you shall finde them still From what they were transforme as fast as you Seeme to be most vnlike your selfe or speake what you least thinke they ' le be and speake like you tell them they 're Knaues they le smile and say so too Faine your selfe ill they 'le sweare they finde you weake TO THE FLATTERED FOnd Man that suck'st the pleasing poyson in which from the Syrens vnsuspected tongue Is kindly offer'd to thine eare wherein are all the drugges and dregges of vildnesse wrung Assure thy selfe if in thy bosome liue ought that deserues the name of worth 't is knowne More then thy selfe nor shalt thou neede to giue Fame a reward to haue thy mercy blowne For 't is her care the more she findes thee slow or carelesse whether thy desert shall be Knowne vnto any but thy selfe or no to sownd the louder so to honour thee Thorough her golden Trumpet good mens throats Or if thine eare shall loue and itch to heare Thine owne praise sung in smooth and