Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	case_n	defendant_n	plaintiff_n	1,918	5	10.3007	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04794	Flovvers of epigrammes, out of sundrie the moste singular authours selected, as well auncient as late writers. Pleasant and profitable to the expert readers of quicke capacitie: by Timothe Kendall, late of the Vniuersitie of Oxford: now student of Staple Inne in London	Kendall, Timothy, fl. 1577.	1577 (1577)	STC 14927; ESTC S107994	86,662	304

naught yea alwaies proue you shall That to muche euen of hunny hurts and bitter seemes as gall Against stepdames TO decke his stepdames tōbe with flowers and garlandes comes the sonne Sure thinkyng now that with her life her hatred had been doon The tombe downe totteryng on hym falles and killes hym by and by Loe liuelesse toumbs of stepdames curst learne cankred crueltie Of the contempt of Fortune MY restyng rode is founde vaine hope and hap adue Loute whom you liste with chaunge Death shall me rid from you A controuersie betwene Fortune and Venus WHile Fisher fisht at waters side for fishe that there did swim A riche mans daughter hym behelde and fell in loue with hym So that she linkt with hym to liue now he that was before Base barren bare and beggarlike doeth now abounde with store Dame Fortue by smilyng gan saie I praie you whiche of vs Now mistres Venus you or I was cause this hapned thus Otherwise WHile Fisher caste his line the houeryng fishe to hooke By hap a riche mans daughter on the Fisher caste her looke She fride with franticke loue thei married eke at last Thus Fisher was from lowe estate in top of treasure plast Stoode Fortune by and smilde how saie you dame quoth she To Venus was this conquest yours or is it due to me The seuen sages names saiynges and countryes in seuen verses THe Cittyes 7. whereas the 7. wise masters rare VVere borne their names and saiyngs 7.7 verses shall declare Cleobulus of Lindia said a meane doth all excell VVise Pittacus of Mittelen said measure beares the bell Chilon of Lacedemon said take heede thy selfe to know Of Corinth Periander said to anger be thou slowe Sage Solon the Athenian said for ay respect the ende VVise Thales of Milesium said nought promise to thy frende Last Bias of Priaenium said all thinges to mischefe bende The report of the multitude not to be regarded SOlace and comfort thou thy selfe nought peoples talke esteeme One man deemes well of thee of thee an other ill doth deeme Or thus SOlace and comfort thou thy selfe care nought what people prattle This man talkes well with thee that man against thee still doth tattle Of a foole THe friskyng flees that feed on ●leshe by night a foole in bed did trouble twinge bite The foole put out the candle nay quoth he I le matche ye now no more you shall me see Of a foolish Astronomer WHile Thales looked round about to vew the starres in skie He hedlong fell into a ditche and there did grouelyng lye A beldam commyng after hym beheld hym how he fell A countrie wife that went to fetche faire water at a well When as she came vnto the ditche where lurden like he lay She mockt hym and with tremblyng voyce she thus began to say Fie foolish fealow as thou art why dost thou vew the skie Why staarst on Starres that stately stand and letst mean matters ●ye The fates of other men to showe I deeme thee farre vnmeete When buzzard blynd thou canst not see what is before thy feete When Women profite ALthough all women kinde be nought yet two good dayes hath she Her marriage day and day of death when all she leaues to thee Of Castors Nose WHen Castor diggs a spade his Nose is vnto hym A Trumpet when he sleepes a Sithe and Sickletrim When as he gathers grapes an Anker when he sailes A Culter when he plowes that cuts and neuer failes When as he taketh fishe a fishhooke all the while And when he would haue fleshe his Nose a fleshhooke vile When as he graues in wood a grauyng knife and when He prunes and dresseth trees a graffyng knife as then A chipaxe looke when as the Carpenter he plaies A passyng picklock when to open lockes he saies And what so Castor doth he can not misse his snoute His nose must be the toole his woorke to bryng aboute Of a foule wife THe wretche that married hath a dowd an ougly dame Shall still haue night though day be bright and firie Phoebus flame To one hauyng a long nose STand with thy snoute against the sunne and open wide thy chaps And by thy teeth we shall decerne what t is a clocke perhaps Of a deaf Iudge a deaf plaintife and a deaf defendant BY hap a man that could not heare that borne was deafe by kinde Another cited to the court much like hymselfe to finde Whose hearyng sense was quight bereft the Iudge that of the case Should giue his verdit was as deafe as deafest in the place To court they came the plaintiffe praid to haue his vnpaied rent Defendant said in grindyng I this werie night haue spent The Iudge beheld them both awhile is this at last quoth he Of all your sturred strife the cause you both her children be And therefore her to helpe and ayde looke that you both agree Of Marcus a sluggard MArcus a sluggard slepyng dreamd a long race that he rund For feare he so should dreame againe long after slepe he shund Against one very deformed TO paint the minde t is counted hard the corps to paint t is light But now in thee so foule deformd it falles contrarie quight For nature thine doth plaine bewraie the manners of thy mynde And therefore how thy mynde is bent but easie t is to finde But now thy foule misshapen limmes how may they painted be And portraid out when euery man doth loth to looke on thee Against a drunkerd WIth sweet perfumes flowers my graue doe you not gratifie Wine fires vppon a stone to spend t is cost in vaine perdie Aliue giue you mee these not dead with ashes wine to minge What is it morter but to make not wine to mee to bringe Of drunkennesse LIke men we still are meeke at night when we haue typled well But when we rise at morne at hurst then are we fearce and fell Otherwise AT night when ale is in like frends we part to bed In morrowe graie when ale is out then hatred is in head Againe of the same MEn hauyng quaft are frendly ouernight In dawning drie A man to man a sprite Against a miser ALL call thee riche I call thee poore goods make not riche perdie This prudent Apollophanes could tell as well as I. If thou thy riches vse thy self thy riches thyne are then But if thou saue them for thyne heire thei are for other men Of Chrisalus couetous RIche Chrisalus at point of death doeth mourne complaine and crie Was neuer man as he so lothe to leaue his life and die Not for because he dies hymself his death he doeth not force But that his graue must cost a grote to shroude his carrion corse Of a riche miser A Misers mynde thou haste thou hast a princes pelfe Whiche makes thee wealthie to thine heire a beggar to thy self Of Aulus Auarus RIche Aulus countyng what a charge his daughter was to hym Did throwe her in the sea to