Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	child_n	great_a	parent_n	1,520	5	8.2359	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19300	The English schoole-master teaching all his schollers, of what age soever, the most easie, short, and perfect order of distinct reading, and true writing our English-tongue, that hath euer yet beene knowne or published by any. And further also, teacheth a direct course, hovv any vnskilfull person may easily both vnderstand any hard English words, ... Deuised for thy sake that wantest any part of this skill, by Edward Coote, Master of the Free-schoole in Bury St. Edmond.; English schoole-maister.	Coote, Edmund, fl. 1597.	1630 (1630)	STC 5714; ESTC S113503	60,601	96

Scholler of whom thou maist enquire and doe not thinke it any discred it to declare thy want being in a matter pertaining to Grammar or other such things as those of thy condition are vsually vnacquainted with rather assure thy selfe that all wise men will commend thee that desirest knowledge which many reiect but they which refuse to be directed I know are such as delight in their ●o●tish ignorance like Scoggius Priest who because he had vsed his old Annumpsimus for these do●en yeares would not forsake it for the other new Assumpsimus though it were neuer so good Two things generally you must marke for the vse of this Booke first the true vnderstanding of it in the ●atter secondly the manner of learning it if thou be onely a Scholler then the order of teaching it if thou be also a Teacher And for the first where I professe to teach with farre more ease and pleasure to the learner And therefore with greater speed than others vnderstand the reason Thou hast but two principall things to learne to spell truly any word of one syllable and to diuide truly any word of many For the first I haue disposed syllables so in the first Booke howsoeuer at the first sight they may seeme common as that thou canst meete none but either thou hast it there set downe or at least so many like both for the beginning or end as that none can bee propounded vnto thee that thou shalt not be skilfull in And I haue so begunne with the easiest proc●eding by degr●es vnto harder that they first learned all the other will follow with very little labour These syllables knowne because all words bee they neuer so long or hard be made of them thou hast nothing to learne but to diuide them for which I haue laid downe so easie and certaine Rules beleeue me that haue tryed as that thou shalt neuer ●rr● in any hard word I doubt not but thine owne experience shall finde this true and so my promise in that point performed to the full Maruell not why in this first booke I haue differed in writing many syllables from the vsuall manner yea from my selfe in the rest of the worke as templ without e tun with one n and plums not plummes c. My reason is I haue put there no more letters than are of absolute necessitie when in the rest I haue followed custome yea often I write the same word diuersly if it bee vsed indifferently the better to acquaint thee with any kind of writing Touching the speeches at the end of the 1 2 4 7 and 8 Chapters regard not the matter being vaine but my purpose which is to bring thee to present vse of reading words of one syllable which thou hast learned to spell and so thou maist haue nothing in the second booke to learne but onely diuision of words and other hard obseruations The titles of the chapters and notes in the margent which I would alwayes haue thee diligently read and marke will make these things more 〈◊〉 vnto thee Also where I vndertake to make thee to write the true Orthography of any word truely pronounced I must meane it of those words whose writings determined for there are many wherein the best English-men in this Land are not agreed as some write malicious deriuing it from malice other write malitious as from the Latin malitiosus So some write Germane from the Latine some Germaine from the French Neither doe I deale with proper names strange words of Art in seuerall Sciences nor the vnknowne tearmes of peculiar Countries if they differ from ordinary rules vnlesse sometimes vpon some speciall occasion I know ere this thou thirstest that art a Teacher to heare how thou maist with more ease and profit teach a hundred Schollers than before forty follow my aduice and I warrant the successe Let euerie one of thy Schollers for the best thou hast shalt learne that heere which hee neuer knew neither needeth he any other for English prouide and vse this Booke then diuide thy Schollers in 2 3 or 4. sorts as thy number is for moe thou needest not although thou hast a hundred Schollers place so many of them as are neerest of like forwardnesse in one lesson or fourme as in Grammer Schooles and so goe thorow thy whole number not making aboue foure companies at the most so that thou shalt haue but foure Lectures to heare though thou hast a hundred Schollers whereas before thou hadst forty Lectures though but forty Schollers Then when thou wouldest heare any fourme call them forth all be they ten twenty or more together heare two or three that thou most suspectest to be most negligent or of dullest ●onceit and let all the other attend or let one read one line sentence or part another the next and so thorough so that all doe somewhat and none know when or what shall be required of him encourage the most diligent and tenderest natures And thus doubt not but thou shalt doe more good vnto twenty in one houre than before vnto foure in seuerall lessons For the apposing each other as I haue directed in the end of the second Booke emulation and feare of discredit will make them enuy who shall excell By this meanes also euerie one in a higher fourme shall be well able to helpe those vnder him and that without losse of time seeing thereby hee repeateth that which hee lately learned Now touching the framing and sweet tuning of the voyce I haue giuen thee this helpe I haue added for prose all sorts of stile both dialogue and other and for verse Psalmes and other verses of all the seuerall sorts vsual● which being well taught will frame thee to the naturall reading of any English But here I must make earnest request vnto all carefull Ministers that as they tender the good education of the youth in their Parishes they would sometimes repaire vnto the Schooles of such Teachers as are not Grāmarians to heare their children pronounce and to helpe such with their direction that desire to vse this Booke in their Schooles for it is lamentable to see into what ignorant handling silly little children chance which should at the first bee most skilfully grounded which is the onely cause of such wofull ignorance in so many men and women that cannot write without great error one sentence of true English therefore let Parents now be wise vnto whom they commit their children But to returne to my teaching Tradesmen If thou desirest to be informed how to teach this Treatise marke diligently the directions giuen in all places of the Booke and as thy Scholler is in saying his lesson marke what words he misseth and them note with thy pen or pin and let him repeat them at the next Lecture and so vntill he be perfect not regarding those where he is skilfull And let his fellowes also remember them to appose him in them in their appositions But mee ●hought I heard thee say that my reasons