Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	day_n	young_a	youth_n	101	3	8.1088	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10138	The schoole of honest and vertuous lyfe profitable and necessary for all estates and degrees, to be trayned in: but (cheefely) for the pettie schollers, the yonger sorte, of both kindes; bee they men or women. by T.P. Also, a laudable and learned discourse, of the worthynesse of honorable wedlocke, written in the behalfe of all (aswell) maydes as wydowes, (generally) for their singuler instruction, to choose them vertuous and honest husbandes: but (most specialy) sent writte[n] as a iewell vnto a worthy gentlewoman, in the time of her widowhood, to direct & guide her in the new election of her seconde husband. By her approoued freend and kinseman. I.R.	Pritchard, Thomas, fl. 1579.; Wied, Hermann von. Brefe and a playne declaratyon of the dewty of maried folkes.; Kingsmill, Andrew, 1538-1569. Viewe of mans estate. Selections.	1579 (1579)	STC 20397; ESTC S115267	56,077	90

is Virilitie in Latten called vir to the whiche worde addinge a sillable tus Vertue is denominated as of Vir Vertue In this age Vertue must abounde for yeres yelde courage the minde is fit to further out Vertue In this age man must be fully clothed with the habite of Vertue as Prudence Iustice Temperance and Fortitude Prudence to instructe him to season his speeche there with to recorde déedes doone to dispose present affayres to suruey prudently all his businesse in his vocation to commendable ende For it is the parte of an vndeseréete man to say I had not wist or to prooue a Troian wise too late Terence saith in Adelph It is a poincte of wisdom not to looke to present but to foresee future casualties Iustice shal schoole him to pacience concorde humanitie faithfull dealyng the grounde of Vertues Temperance to obserue a meane in all enterprises sobrietie modestie and chastitie Fortitude not of body but of couragious minde and valiaunt stout stomacke to countenance forth the fury and fiercenes of fawning fortune with a goodly grace beeing pittifully pinched with pouerty especially to kepe vnder foote wicked wrath odious indignatiō of mad meaning mindes with rules of reason Plato adiudged him most valiaunte that coulde gouerne him selfe spurred to anger The last Caueat and rule rated for virilitie is so to behaue him selfe as he wisheth to bée estéemed of accompted and to labour to leade his life in loyall league of honestye hatinge accesse to the hatefull hue that dighteth man with dire defame and spiteful spots of stayned stem of liuing Olde Age béeing the sixt and last leaue taking for the excellent experience and trim tryall had in expired lot of life must be so furnished with the guiding gouernaunce of Prudence that they so compasse all and singuler their affaires in such wise and subtill forte as younge impes may be instructed therwith Cicero reporteth that olde men in his dayes were so expert and skilful in the common wealth that the guided and gouerned the same without any cause of strife or occasion of Warre Romulus the bountifull builder of Rome chose an hundreth olde Fathers whom of Senectus he called Senates to rule the same that their christall like lyuinge might bee an excellent example of prooued probitie to the youth thereof and they as Princely pictures and Images of honourable honesty had highted homage of surueyinge the same And although they knew this yrkesome age to bee rotten ripe to season and dounge the ground yet least the nature of man inthraled to the soueraignties of subtill Sathan shoulde bee blinded therewith they had ꝓrotrahed vppon their Iudiciall Seates this Posie Remember man that thou art but dust daily drawest on thertoo Further there was an olde withered wretch paynted resemblinge these bendinge backes to imbrace their Mother the ground ready to the graue that beholdinge it they might not choose but execute Iustice aright The view of olde age kept them backe from pinching the poore or iniuringe their Neighbours they followed Horace his good aduice for deprauinge them selues of worldly blisse they gyrded them to their Graues daily expecting the onset of dolefull Death What decencie is due to God and honestie towardes all men Chap. 4. THe true tutche of Vertue doth not consist in the knowledge and science therof but in exhibiting the same to reclaime the retchlesse or rather the gracelesse Groomes that flowrish the Flag of Vices and sinne And Cicero sayth in dooinge thereafter which maintayneth the stay and state therof Séeinge therefore that the excellent essence and beautifull béeing of vigent Vertue consisteth in action and daily déede of honesty I will shew how the actes of man haue their course or ought to bee directed towardes God and man and euery sortes of people Vertuous obeysance towardes God. HOnesty towards God martired for the wicked transgressions of spightful meaning man cruelly crucified rufully racked lothesomly lashed with stinginge stripes by lewde forlorne sinners consisteth in prayer and pietie towardes his personage in humble inthralment to his mercy crauinge at his handes to washe and mundises with the Well water of meare mercy our soule soncke by reason of the fraight of sinne and surge of sorrowes to the pit of Perdicion and gapinge gulfe of dread and dampnation To request with trickling teares as Dauid did that hee of his benignant beautie will rid vs of that heauy heritage and duetie due by our rufull race runned from the stocke of Adam Lactantius in his thirde Booke ascribeth vs a seconde duetie or seruice towardes our Sauiour That is to bée feruent in his cause reuealers of true Religion and publishers of practiced pietie For this onely cause and seruice to God were wee borne and created was learning inuented and all things fashioned and framed of Christ In this is wisedome as Liuie and Valerius witnesseth and as Paule teacheth and all other thinges vayne and transitorious ¶ Our dutie towardes man. CHriste in his Gospell saith Loue the Lorde thy God and thy Neyghbour as thy selfe By which we learne that the first duetie is to him wards The second towards mankinde Lactantius listning to the wordes of the Gospell affirmeth the first function of Iustice to be due to God the second to man which beeinge so if a man waxe cruell to his Brother or tirannously tire him with vexacions greefes or other anxieties of minde let him perswade him selfe to bee forsaken of God his Sauiour and to soiorne in the daungerous Denne of Dampnation least wee should be ignoraunt of our duetie Paule that precious Pearle of the Church and posting Preacher of God sheweth that wée must cloath the naked harbor the vagrant bury the dead féede the hungrie visite captiues with comfort giue drinke to the tirstie which forrunners of fayth bringeth blisse to the faithful soule of man In dooing these thinges wee should prooue our selues second Gods kinde and curteous amorous fortherers of firme and fast fréendship one to another abhorring fightinge brawlinge spite enuie mallice as prouokers of death and frying in the Fornace of Sathan Towardes our natiue Countrey PHilolius in his fourth Booke affirmeth that the olde Philosophers did set more by their natiue soyle than by their Parentes Therfore Plato sayd that our Countrey chalengeth part of our life for we are borne to prosite the same and that fiue wayes The first in trauelling for the honour and ryal renowne of the same The instinct and inclination of nature foretelleth the same For if wee come in place where our Countrey is defaced by twatlinge mates or detected of crime Nature aduersant to such assertions wil boyle in man and the fresh floish of blood appearinge in mooued moode will bewray the same and cause conflictes of parties as often times it hath beene knowen the like accidentes to come to passe Secondly in instructing the same with politicke councell which I take to be addicted as perticuler function to Preachers who of nature ought to labour therein for

habitte of perfection and edge of excellencie to passe him whome firste I braued with bragges Erasmus highly had in honour for his knowledge and iollie iudgement in faculties by reason of brode blowen blaze of commendation had a boye of ripe witte presented by his fréendes to declayme beefore him The fréendely furtherers of the buysied boye expectynge his iudgement were answered by him Timely ripe timely rotten But the ouerthrow of ripe conceauinge commeth by securitie and ouer great confidence therein for trusting to the maturitie of wit they so longe linger in laysinesse that either they amit and quenche the qualitie thereof or with strayning it with extraordinarie meanes mayme and marre the same ¶ Of instruction AS an Horse or Coult be he neuer so tame and apte of nature cannot serue that vse of man without breaking So a man bée hee neuer so ingenious and inritched by wit and ripe conceauing without preceptes and institution can not scale nor ascend the high and haughtie Hil of Pernassus to bée acquainted with the Ladies of learninge nor climbe the craggie Cliffes and clymates of knowledge which position Cicero sincerely fortifieth saying That instruction doth corroborate and fortifie the gyfte of wit and nature and for that cause Gentilis commaunded first Schooles to bée errected in Athence a Cittie in Greece that the couente of youth might bee there instructed Aristippus a learned Philosopher compared the vnlearned to a stone and béeing demaunded by a foolish Father what learninge auayled his Sonne hee answered that a stone had no place in their Theators or place of preheminence meaning the vnlearned The Ethnickes studious of erudicion and knowledge kept an instructor in their houses to trayne vp their youthes in the pleasant pathe of Nurtur and knowledge which thing so well lyked the Athenians that it was as Law enacted that the children which were not traded vp in erudicion ought not to fauour their Fathers or tender curtesies to them inféebled with age To attaine the treasure of Vertue and gaine the gladfome guift of Discipline there bee two kindes of instructions one mute the other sowndable mute as when wee study our selues discoursinge without wordes the carued carracters and woorkes of others The other when the instructor or teacher with sounding voyce openeth the misteries and hidden hardnes of others labors This last manner of instructing the learned lore aboue others commend Pythagoras Empedocles Democritus and Plato his Peregrinations sayling ouer Surge and Sirtes of Seas to heare Lectures verifie the same who were not content to like of their priuate studies Least I should spend my winde in waste in discoursinge of instruction and passe the Campe in which youthes and others ought to bee trained vp I decipher them as foloweth Pithie Poemes heroyicall holsome Histories Princely Philosophie sacred and sincere Scripture the salue of sinfull sores and pathe to Paradice The gracious Grecians thought only Poets to be wise and therfore in honest Poetrie did first season the tender ingenie of Impes the better to aspire to furder felicitie of Science And Horace singularly séene in the art in his Epistles exhorteth Children to be first instructed in Poetrie as an Instrument necessary to pollice and file away the imperfection of lisping nature and that it soweth and planteth in their heedy heades the seede of Sapience wisedome and knowledge Diodorus sayde it was a fine and famous thinge for man by others crymes and faultes to cure him of that care and medicine and heale his infirmities which the reading of Histories Monumentes déedes of other men shall guide vs to doo Baeroaldus sayth that Histories inflameth a man to honestie enamoreth him with vertue reprooueth the wicked and exileth vice To stand vpon choyce of Philosophie the very Ecimologie of the worlde which wée interpret and conster a Louer of knowledge or imbracer of wisedome foretelleth all Bookes of that noble Science to bee spectant to surueye the lyfe of man As the Ethickes of Aristotle impugning the rebellion of vice brydling the frensie fits of flaming flesh with the bit of Nurture and manners The Pollitickes instructe vs called to the function of a Magistrate to minister Iustice to the exilement of vice and inhaunsing of Vertue Lactantius writ a worthy worke of Diuine institutions Erasmus of the institutinge of a christian Prince with infinit others commodious for the regiment of the lyfe of man. Lastlye fitly furnished and decently decked with institutions of the surueyed Sciences wee must imploy our selues to viewe the valleys of sacred Scriptures which teache vs to know our Sauiour and him onely to worshippe which as Lactantius writeth is the true Philosophie Pouertie impareth not Vertue EXperience hauing taught mée a silly sort of foolish fellowes to withdraw them selues from studie to heede handy craftes I thought by excellent examples and rated reasons to heale that passion of infirmitie and to fortifie their faynting fittes the better to abide the yoake of knowledge Apuleus sayth in his time none became famous but such as were annoyed with nakednesse and cloyde with carefull dyet from the houre of birthe And hee boldely blazeth this commendacion of Pouertie that in those dayes it was the builder of Citties the maintainer of Equitie and Science Wée reade a worthy example of Cleanthes a Philosopher who pinched with pouertie in youth in the night season haled vp water in Buckets which hée sould in the day to maintaine his studie If our English Fathers were so inflamed with the loue of Learninge no doubte our Realme royally ruled would bée a precious patron to all Europe Seneca sayth Vertue to haue a sting meaning labour which plucked awaye by sufficiencie of knowledge batheth the bier in blisse Here may rise a question whither the vnlearned may attaine Vertue or no the which question is resolued by Tullie in his Orations who saith that hee had societie with a multitude of men both godly honest and vertuous yea altogeather voyde of knowledge I annexed this Sentence to my matter least desperation should bee infixed gréeuously ingrafted in the harts of vnlearned dottrels Of vse and exercise IF a man bee armed with the fine furniture of bountifull Dame Nature beautified with the gaye Gownes of Witte and Disposition yet if Diligence bee dismiste and Practice put aside all is vaine for the beeinge and continuance of Vertue is in action and exercise Cicero whose doughty diligence aduaunced to dignitie and high calling among the Romaines instructeth vs in his Rhetorickes that preceptes and rules of disciplines anayle nothinge without daily diligence and paynefull practice therof Lactantius in his thirde Booke writeth that Artes bee learned and layde for that gotten agréeable practice and conuersation may arise therof For Tullie sayth it is a small praise to know Vertue and not to doo therafter Man mindefull of Vertue and studious thereof must imitate the busie Bées who in flagrante Sommer flee abroade tastinge of diuerse Flowers and of each pickinge reléefe store vppe and heape much Honny So

things ther is a merry meane and bounds for to be kept The which to passe or to impaire no vertue may bee reapt WHen the seauen wise Philosophers imprinted their sapient and politicke Posies vpon the walles of the Senat house Cleobulus Lyndus one and chéefe of the number with his fine fingers writ this sage Sentence The meane is best in all thinges as an instruction worthy aduertisement and impression in the memory of man. Another Caueat I will adioyne that in talking wee doo not carpe nor quip some silly soule as subiecte to vice or infirmitie which other of sharper intelligence espie in vs for Diogenes warned vs to exile our presence that vice which wee reproue as foule and fulfome in an other And Cicero sayth that hee ought to be spotlesse that with dire defame surueyeth others infirmities If a man view both endes of the Wallet he shal be so ouer charged with the weight of vices packt behinde that hee will not annoy with nippes others of honester lyuinge For it behocueth a man to pull the beame out of his owne eye ere hee can espye the mote in his Brothers As annexed to this cryme I admonish the gentle Reader that hee be setled in state not pufte vp with the blissull blast of fawning Fortune nor dolefully indure distresse imitating Socrates who was neuer mooued to heare of his heauy happes nor prowde praysed for excellent exploytes Plato was demaunded how a wise man was knowen He answered hée that is not angry beeinge discommended nor prowd for adhibited prayse And why because that pride and wrath bee the extreames of Vertue and the faire mannered man knoweth them not If a man perpend and consider the euent of pleasure and sawning blisse of froward Fortune hee had more neede to follow the deede and dooinge of Hermolaus who in prosperitie mourned than others that glow and glory therein For after faire weather commeth rayne and there is no such fulnesse but after comes as great an ebbe Fortune is variable as appeareth by Camenus a ritche man who so bathed him selfe in blisse and aboundaunce of wealth that hee neuer tasted of woe or mischaunce Vpon a time for repast he went to see silly Fishermen castinge their Nettes and fingering their trash to feede his humors his Signet fell into the Sea well sayd hée now I know that euil Fortune doth raigne The second day as they drue their Nettes they caught a goodly Cod which for a rare and goodly guift they imparted vpon the Gentleman His Cooke gobbetinge the same in his entrayles founde his Maisters Signet who with excéedinge gladnesse and chearefull grace presented it to his Maister who blinded with the blisse of Fortune ioyfully receaued it imparting vpon his Seruaunt a iolly Iuell named Nihil and perswaded him selfe that Fortune so fauoured his Maistership that hee could not miscarry in any exployte or attempt To bee fully resolued of desembling Fortune hee tooke a corde I meane a Halter and in a brauery assayed how it became a ritch man or how that gallant cheyne would fit Fortunes heire or dandled dottrell standing vpon a stoole Fortune burthened and laden with the care of this life champion like hee tisped his féete beside Fortune frowning at his folly suffered her long lulled lubber to stranguish and hang to death Thus ought wee to conceaue no pride in felicitis nor dispaire in distresse and pouertie It was wel and wisely sayd of Plautus in Amph. that it séemed good to the Gods that after pleasure should succéed paine as after labor ease This excellent example may batter the buildinges of Fortune in our daies and may disgrace them inhaunsed therby Wherfore let euery man labour to liue vertuously to the example of others And as coye Curtezans and daintie Dames haue their glistering Glasses to beeholde and correcte their attier or cumly countenance so should euery man haue a godly person for a patterne to liue by whose steps studied on shuld guide him to vertue Of the diuersitie of ages and yeares and what manners is proper to them KNowinge by the aduertisment of Terence and other learned Authors that change of yeares requireth discrepancy of manners and alteration of condicions I thought it to bee woorth the while to Chronickle in the skirtes of this base Booke the seuerall duties of all ages Findinge in Authors the yeares of man to bee deuided into sixe seuerall wayes and manners of lyuing I will anchore and annexe to them their proper functions And first to begin with Infancie or Babeship who for weakenesse of nature is not reformable though sinfull therfore we wil commit his gouernance to the discretion of his Mother or Nurce Next and second is childehood hauing the vse of speaking whose toungs and mindes like a Painters cloth is fit for to receaue euery hue or colour Wherfore their sences are to be seasoned with the verdure of Vertue euen from their Cradels for the new vessel wil tast euer or long of the first lickor they must than be taught to prooue and grow a Christian as they doo in strength and yeares Apuleius saydithe childe that prooueth strong in bones by benefit of bountifull nature and a Mouster in manners to be better vnborne then to haue fruition of life to comaculat with defame vnperfect behauiour his pleyfers fréends For one rotten shéepe annoyeth a thousād In Greece it was vsed that the Father Maister was punished for the childes offence if fondly they fauoured crime committed worthy chasticemente and correction Diogenes espying a Scholler playing the wanton with his staffe beate his Maister If pampering Parents were at this day so executed it would fare better with youthes and teachers They will not follow the right path of education of children set forth by Philel who in his Booke of Education of children instructeth foolish Fathers mad Mothers to instruct their children to know God their Creator to bee obediente to them in word and déede to be humble to their Superiors gentle to their equals milde in manners not teachinge thē to bable to lie to be slothful to go slouenly in their aparrel vnwasht or fulsome any way if vortuously they bée traded vp béeing tender twigs impes they must of necessitie grow to persection of manners in tract of time The thirde age is called of the Latenistes Iuuentus of Iuuo for the childe passinge the time of seauen yeares is able to ayde his Parentes accordinge to the english of Iuuo to ayd In which Quintilian writeth that such as bee vsed in that time and yeares to curious cates confectes sweete meates will euer looke for the same and iudgeth that to be the cause of murthers theftes and roberies For youthes so delicately nusted comminge to mans estate wil by hooke or by crooke come by and maintaine the same for such as be vsed to delicate diet except good qualities adorne and boulster it out their sugred lust will condempne their bodies Wée reade of one Maxillus a Noble man whose princely Parents