Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	call_v	law_n	sin_n	1,595	5	5.0127	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04235	A princes looking glasse, or A princes direction, very requisite and necessarie for a Christian prince, to view and behold himselfe in containing sundrie, wise, learned, godly, and princely precepts and instructions, excerpted and chosen out of that most Christian, and vertuous Basilikon dōron, or his Maiesties instructions to his dearest sonne Henrie the prince, and translated into Latin and English verse (his Maiesties consent and approbation beeing first had and obtained thereunto) for the more delight and pleasure of the said prince now in his young yeares: by William Willymat.	Willymat, William, d. 1615.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625. Basilikon doron.; Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, 1594-1612.	1603 (1603)	STC 14357; ESTC S107563	29,566	96

That court to comely order you may bring For which to traine it vp in christian feare A carefull mind and watchfull you must beare 50 That courtiers may their life deuoyde of blame In sight of common sort to vertue frame Your princely eie with carefull watch must warde For els noe crime so vile your royall guard Can possiblie commit but by abuse Your subiectes hence to sinne will take excuse 51 Let court consist of auncient men and graue Discreete and wise let such high places haue And next of younger lordes of noble race Whome trayning vp in court you may them grace But chiefly choose of those whose auncient blood Hath not beene staind with treacherous false-hood 52 Your household seruants choose of honest fame Whose life is sound and also voide of blame Els will the people thinke that you retayne Like persons to yourselfe in manner vaine Herein let Dauids counsaill still you guid Who choose the iust with him for to abid 53 Let those I say your gracious fauour find Which vnto your parents haue beene kind For reason faith that they that haue beene true To them the like they will performe to you Such as by age are made vnceruiceable Bestow on them rewardes most honorable 54 Loue trust reward and still to those be kind Which to your parents bare a faithfull mind Whome parents earst did hate for treacherie In them repose you no fidelitie And him that to your parents was vnkind Trust not least that the like in him you find 55 Of courtyers flattering baites in time beware A stayne vnto your court such Gnathoes are An haynous vice condemn'd of ech degree From which see that your Princely house be free A vice that noble Princes bringes to woe And stately kingdomes great doth ouerthrow 56 Receauers of your rentes and of your fee Choose honest men and those of meane degree That when a reconing iust you shall demaund None dare attempt biddinges to withstand Thus shall you free your person from debate And worke the surety of your royall state 57 No stranger borne in stately office set For that be sure will daily hatred get And cause your countrie men with spightfull mind Both you and him to hate against their kind Wherefore your in borne men for counsaill chuse As fitting best but forreyners refuse 58 That seruaunts be of noble stemme descended Of whome you purpose still to be attended Take chief delight for that shall worke good will And enuie drowne and procure saftie still And yet one profit more you shall purchase That vertue is conioynd with noble race 59 Take narow view that courtiers doe obserue Your lawes decreed take heed they doe not stray For how can lawes a broad be duly kept When as your househould trayne doe them neglect 60 When courtiers doe against your lawes offend Your punishment to them doe more extend Then to the vulgar sort by open wrong As though by you they thought their causes strong Your subiectes poore let none of them oppresse But striue your selfe such wronges for to redresse 61 Both strange and homely with your seruants be As you perceaue ech mans desertes agree A man that is a quarreller detest And count him in your courte a deadly peste Preferre to roomes next to your person those That will refuse your secretes to disclose 62 Permit not any of your how should trayne The causes of their kindred to maintaine But if they will their quarrells needes defend Away from courtly office let them wend For since you ought to good men to be iust No factious seruauntes sure maintaine you must 63 Let seruants learne obedience to your will Not leaning much vnto their wittes or skill And as offences great when they haue made You may chastice and iustly them disgrade So seeke not them to chaunge at euery yeare Vnlesse apparent cause there doc appeare 64 As seruauntes doe deserue reward them soe With honours giftes with punishmentes also Employ ech man in order in his place As nature hath him deckt with giftes of grace But vse not one in euery thinge least pride Infect and he of others be enuied 65 Who plainely deales abhorring flattering lyes Loue him the best who will not truth disguises Such as backbite with slaunderous mouthes most vile Those whome they deadly hate from court exile Commaund all those to loue as breethren deare Whome you maintaine about your person neere 66 Peace in your royall courte keepe and maintaine Enuie expell out of your noble trayne Let modestie find fauour loue and grace Let insolencie haue noe resting place Humilitie let growe defend and saue But pride represse with countnaunce sterne and graue 67 Such orders braue and decent in their kind In seruice for your person be assignd That strangers when they doe to court aspire With Shebaes Queene your wisdome may admire When they such orders in your servaunts see And in your house such royall maiestie 68 The greatest weale or woe here in this life That man befalls is mariage of his wife Which thing man in his power doth not possesse But as it pleaseth God to curse or blesse To marriage then your selfe wisely prepare And in your choise haue still a speciall care 69 To mariage that you may prepare aright From fleshlie lustes abstaine with all your might Your bodie let noe whoredome foule deslower Vntill your louing wife thereof haue power All burning lustes warely you must expell And chastitie see that therein doe dwell 70 Though some of whoredome lightly doe esteeme A tryfeling sinne and veniall doe it deeme Yet must you iudge ech slippe and error smale Which God condemnes by lawe and sinnes doth call Not as the world doth judge most voide of awe But as the lord who first did make the lawe 71 In mariage choyse respect the causes three For which it was ordain'd from God on high First to auoide foule filthie fornication And next for childrens godly procreation And last for mutuall ioy and helpe indeede That each of other had in time of neede 72 For douries great or glittering beauties grace For wealth that rules almost in euery place Take not a wife by natures want nor yet By fading yeares for childrens birth vnfit For this a double trespasse in a king Both for his owne and peoples weale would bring 73 Both freindes and dowries great and beauties glee Somewhat in mariage must respected be So that the causes principall before Exprest of you regarded be the more And these set you in rancke or second place As waiting maides the first some what to grace 74 You shall not take in marriage bond a wife Of knowne conditions vile or vicious life Who hath not beene in vertues schoole vptrain'd But from her tender youth with vices stain'd For woman was ordayn'd from God on high A helpe to man and not a crosse to be 75 A chiefe regard vnto your selfe propound To marrie one in Christes religion sound For if therein from you she shall dislent Great