Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	natural_a	supernatural_a	1,915	5	10.5176	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00396	Campaspe, played beefore the Queenes Maiestie on newyeares day at night, by her Maiesites children, and the children of Paules.; Alexander and Campaspe	Lyly, John, 1554?-1606.	1584 (1584)	STC 17048A; ESTC S94063	28,033	58

and saide nothing Melissa his maid told me it was his manner and that oftētimes she was fain to thrust meate into his mouth for that he wold rather starue thē ceasse studie Well thoght I seeing bookish men are so blockish so great clarkes such simple courtiers I wil neither be partaker of their cōmons nor their commēdations Frō thence I came to Plato to Aristotle and to diuerse other none refusing to come sauing an old obscure fellowe who sitting in a tub turned towardes the sunne reade Greek to a yong boy him when I willed to appeare before Alexander he answeared if Alexander wold faine see me let him come to mee if learne of me lette him come to me whasoeuer it be let him come to me why said I he is a king he answered why I am a Philosopher why but he is Alexander I but I am Diogenes I was halfe angry to see one so crooked in his shape to be so crabbed in his sayings So going my way I said thou shalt repent it if thou cōmest not to Alexander nay smiling answered he Alexander may repent it if he come not to Diogenes vertue must be sought not offered and so turning himself to his cel he grunted I know not what like a pig vnder a tub But I must be gone the Philosophers are comming Exit Plato It is a difficult controuersie Aristotle and rather to be wondred at then beleeued how natural causes should worke supernatural effects Arist I doe not so much stand vpon the apparition is seene in the Moone neither the Demonium of Socrates as that I cannot by naturall reason giue any reason of the ebbing and flowing of the Sea which makes me in the depth of my studies to crye out O ens entium miserere mei Plato Cleanthes and you attribute so muche to nature by searching for things which are not to be found that whilest you studie a cause of your owne you omitte the occasion it selfe There is no man so sauage in whom resteth not this diuine particle that there is an omnipotent eternal and deuine mouer which may be called God Cleant. I am of this minde that that first mouer which you tearme God is the instrument of all the mouings which we attribute to nature The earth which is masse swimmeth on the sea seasons deuided in themselues fruits growing in themselues the maiestie of the skie the whole firmament of the world whatsoeuer els appeareth miraculous what man almost of meane capacity but can proue it naturall Anaxar These causes shal be debated at our Philosophers feast in which controuersie I wil take parte with Aristotle that there is Natura naturans yet not God Craterus And I with Plato that there is Deus optimus maximus and not nature Arist Here commeth Alexander Alex. I see Hephestion that these Philosophers are here attending for vs. Heph. They were not Philosophers if they knew not their dueties Alex. But I much maruaile Diogenes shoulde be so dogged Heph. I doe not think but his excuse wil be better then Melippus message Alex. I will go see him Hephestion because I long to see him that would commaund Alexander to come to whom al the world is like to come Aristotle the rest sithence my comming from Thebes to Athens from a place of conquest to a pallace of quiet I haue resolued with my self in my court to haue as many Philisophers as I had in my camp soldiers My court shal be a schole wherein I wil haue vsed as great doctrine in peace as I did in warre discipline Arist We are al here ready to be commaunded glad we are that we are commaunded for that nothing better becommeth kings thē literature which maketh them come as neere to the Gods in wisdome as they do in dignitie Alex. It is so Aristotle but yet there is among you yea of your bringing vp that sought to destroy Alexander Calistenes Aristotle whose treasons againste his prince shall not bee borne out with the reasons of his Phylosophy Arist If euer mischiefe entred into the heart of Calistenes let Calistenes suffer for it but that Aristotle euer imagined any such thing of Calistenes Aristotle doth denie Alex. Well Aristotle kindred may blind thee and affection mee but in kinges causes I will not stande to schollers arguments This meeting shal be for a cōmandement that you all frequent my courte instructe the young with rules confirme the olde with reasons lette your liues be answerable to your learnings leaste my proceedings by contrary to my promises Hephest You sayde you woulde aske euery one of them a question which yester night none of vs coulde aunswere Alex. I will Plato of all beastes which is the subtillest Plato That which man hetherto neuer knew Alex. Aristotle how should a man be thought a God Arist In doing a thing vnpossible for a man Alex. Crisippus which was first the day or the night Crisp The day by a day Alex. Indeede straunge questions must haue straung answeres Cleanthes what say you is life or death the stronger Clean. Life that suffereth so many troubles Alex. Crates how long should a man liue Crates Till he thinke it better to die then liue Alex. Anaxarchus whether doth the sea or the earth bring forth most creatures Anax. The earth for the sea is but a parte of the earth Alex. Hephestion me thinkes they haue aunswered all well in such questions I meane often to trie them Heph. It is better to haue in your courte a wise man then in your ground a golden mine Therefore would I leaue war to studie wisdom were I Alexander Alex. So would I were I Hephestion But come let vs go and giue release as I promised to our Thebā thralles Exeunt Plato Thou art fortunate Aristotle that Alexander is thy scholler Arist And you happy that he is your soueraigne Crisip I could like the man well if he could be contēted to be but a man Ari. He seeketh to draw neere to the Gods in knowledge not to be a God Plato Let vs questiō a litle with Diogenes why he went not with vs to Alexander Diogenes thou didst forget thy dutie that thou wentst not with vs to the king Diog. And you your profession that you went to the king Plato Thou takest as great pride to bee peeuish as others doe glory to bee vertuous Diog. And thou as great honor being a Philosopher to bee thought courtlike as others shame that be courtiers to be accounted Philosophers Arist These austere maners set a side it is wel known that thou didst counterfeate monye Diog. And thou thy maners in that thou didste not counterfeite money Arist Thou hast reason to cōtemn the courte being both in body and mynde too crooked for a courtier Diog. As good be crooked and endeuour to make my self straight from the court as to be straight and learne to be crooked at the court Crates Thou thinkest it a grace to be opposite against Alexander Diog.