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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	case_n	civil_a	law_n	1,412	5	4.9298	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29868	Religio Medici	Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing B5166; ESTC R4739	58,859	162

the world without this triviall and vulgvlar way of coition It is the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life nor is there any thing that will deject his cold imagination more then when he shall consider what an odde and unworthy piece of folly he hath committed I speak not in prejudice nor am averse from that sweete sexe but naturally amorous of all that is beautifull I can looke a whole day with delight upon a handsome picture though it be but of an Horse It is my temper and I like it the better to affect all harmony and since there is musicke even in the beauty and the silent notes which Cupid strikes farre sweeter then the vocall found of an instrument For there is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony order or proportion and thus farre we may maintain the musicke of the spheres for those well ordered motions and regular paces though they give no sound to the eare yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony Whatsoever is harmonically composed delights in harmony which makes me much distrust the simetry of those heads which declaime against our Church musicke For my selfe not onely for my Catholike obedience but my particular genius I am obliged to maintaine it for even that vulgar and Taverne Musicke which makes one man merry another mad strikes in me a deepe fit of devotion and a profound contemplation of my Maker there is something in it of Divinity more then the eare discovers It is an Hieroglyphicall and shadowed lesson of the whole world Creatures of God such a melody to the eare as the whole world well understood would afford the understanding In briefe it is a sensible fit of that harmony wch intellectually sounds in the eares of God it unties the ligaments of my frame takes me to pieces dilates me out of my self by degrees me thinks resolves me into heaven I wil not say with Plato the Soule is Harmony but harmonicall hath its neerest sympathy unto musicke thus some whose temper of body agrees and humours the constitution of their soules are borne Poets though indeed all are naturally inclined unto Rime This made Tacitus in the very first line of his story fall upon a verse and Ciccro the worst of Poets but disclaiming for a Poet fall in the very first sentence upon a perfect Hexameter I feele not in me those sordid and unchristian desires of my profession I doe not secretly implore and wish for Plagues rejoyce at Famins revolve Ephemerides and Almanackes in expectation of malignant effects fatall conjunctions and Eclipses I rejoyce not at unwholsome Springs nor unseasonable Winters my Prayer goes with the Husbandmans I desire every thing in its proper season that neither men nor the times be out of temper Let me be sicke my selfe if sometimes the malady of my patient be not a disease to me I desire rather to cure his infirmities then my owne necessities where I doe him no good me thinkes it is no honest gaine though I confesse it to be the worthy salary of our well-intended endeavours I am not onely ashamed but heartily sorry that besides death there are diseases incurable yet not for my own sake or that they be beyond my art but for the general cause sake of humanity whose common cause I apprehend as mine own And to speak more generally those three Noble professions which al civil Common wealths doe honour are raised from the fall of Adam are not any exempt from their infirmities there are not onely diseases incurable in Physicke but cases indissoluble in Lawes Vices incorrigible in Divinity if general Councells may erre I doe not see why particular Courts should be infallible their perfectest rules are raised upon the erroneous reasons of Man and the Lawes of one doe but condemn the rules of another as Aristotle the fourth figure because though agreeable to reason yet was not consonant to his owne rules and the Logicke of his proper principles Againe to speake nothing of the sinne against the Holy Ghost whose cure not onely but whose nature is unknowne I can cure the gout or stone in some sooner then Divinity Pride or Avarice in others I can cure vices by Physicke when they remaine incurable by Divinity and shall obey my pils when they contemne their precepts I boast nothing but plainely say we all labour against our owne cure for death is the cure of all diseases There is no Catholicon or universall remedy I know but this which thogh nauseous to queasie stomachs yet to prepared appetites is Nectar and a pleasant potion of immortality For my conversation it is like the Sun without all men and with a friendly aspect to good and bad Me thinkes there is no man bad and the worst best that is w●ile they are kept within the circle of those qualities wherein they are good there is no mans minde of such discordance and of so jarring a temper to which a tuneable disposition will not strike a harmony Magnae virtutes nec minora vitia it is the posie of the best natures and may be inverted on the worst there are in the most depraved and venemous dispositions certaine pieces which remaine untoucht which by an Antiperistasis become more excellent or by the excellency of their antipathies are able to preserve themselves from the contagion of their enemy vices and persist entire beyond the generall corruption For it is also thus in natures The greatest Balsames doe lye enveloped in the bodies of powerfull Corrasives I say moreover and I ground upon experience that poysons contain within themselves their owne Antidotes and which preserve them from the venom of themselves without which they were not deletorious to others onely but to themselves also But it is the corruption that I feare within me and the contagion of commerce without me It is that unruly Regiment within that will destroy It is I that doe insert my selfe the man without a Navell who yet lives in me I feele that originall canker corrode and devoure me and therefore Defienda me Dios de me Lord deliver me from my selfe is part of my Letany and a first voyce of my retired imaginations there is no man alone because every man is a Microcosme and carries the whole world about him Nunquam minus solus quam cum solus though it be the Apophthegme of a wise man is yet true in the mouth of a foole for indeed though in a Wildernesse a man is never alone not onely because he is with himselfe and his own thoughts but because he is with the devill who ever consorts with our solitude and is that unruly rebell that musters up those disordered motions which accompany our sequestred imaginations and to speake more narrowly there is no such thing as solitude nor any thing that can be said to be alone and by it selfe but God who is his owne circle and can subsist by himself all others besides those dissimilary and