Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	evil_a	good_a	suspicion_n	1,645	5	12.6412	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14627	A comedy or enterlude intituled, Inough is as good as a feast very fruteful, godly and ful of pleasant mirth. Compiled by W. Wager. Seuen may easely play this enterlude. The names of the players. ...; Enough is as good as a feast	Wager, W. (William)	1570 (1570)	STC 24933; ESTC S111566	30,348	54

A Comedy or Enterlude intituled Inough is as good as a feast very fruteful godly and ful of pleasant mirth Compiled by W. Wager ¶ Seuen may easely play this Enterlude The names of the Players ¶ Vvorldly man. for one Prologue Heauenly man. for one Contentation Temeritie Ignorance Sathan for one Inough Hireling for one Inconsideration Seruant Rest Prophet for one Precipitation Tenant Plagues Phisicion for one ¶ Couetousnes the Vice for an other IMPRINTED AT LONdon at the long shop adioyning vnto S. Mildreds Church in the Pultrie by Iohn Allde ¶ Prologus I Knowe that this worshipful Audience Is at this time togither congregate Of our practise to haue intelligence And with the same them selues to recreate God graunt vs grace the same wel to publicate But for them that haue slept at Parnassus This facultie is more méet for them then for vs Pandite pierides vestro sacra ostia vita ¶ Open your holy doores O pleasant Muses Direct our tungs to speak eloquently Vertues to praise and to touch abuses Deuiding either of them plain and directly That it may appéer to all our Audience euidently That this matter which we now go about By your inspiration was first found out ¶ Oh that with some grace you would vs inspire And dele with vs as with Orpheus you delt Then should all affections haue their desire For through his Musick he made stones to melt No kinde of pain in Hel then the soules felt For he played so pleasantly with his Harp That they forgate their paines gréeuous and sharp ¶ Tantalus forgate his hunger and thirst Sisiphus loft of rolling his Stone Ixion tormented among the wurst Forgate his whéel that he was hanged on The woman Belides left woork anon Whose labour was continually to fil a Tun Whereout by clefts the licour stil dooth run ¶ These fables wherfore doo I call to minde Truely because I desire with all my hart That our English Méeter may be of such kinde Bothe to leaue all gréeuousnes and smart And also to be pleasant in euery parte That those which come for recreation May not be void of their expectation ¶ Poets fained Mercurius to haue wings bothe on his hed and on his heeles also For liuely and swift he was in all things Appéering rather to flée then to go Of him they fain many goodly things mo But for our purpose this shall serue this season and why I speak you shall knowe the reason ¶ Mercurius is the God of eloquence By whome I vnderstand the ministers of talke Such must haue the wings of intelligence In their heds before their tungs to far doo walke The daunger of rash spéech they must wisely calke When where and to whome they speak they must note Before that any thing passe out of their throte ¶ As Mercurius hath wings vpon his hed So hath he wings on his heeles redy to flye When affections standeth in reasons sted Reporters of tales vse eft soones to lye The heeles affections doo also signifye The wings doo alwaies reason comprehend Which vnto Vertue ought to condescend ¶ Few woords to wise men are sufficient Without a cause I giue not this monition Vnto good men it is plain and euidient That many men haue that lewd condition By their euil words to bring good men into suspition By their vndiscrete talke they doo much harme Because they want reason thir tungs to charme ¶ Let this passe and go we to the Argument Which we wil declare in woords generall Now such as haue a learned iudgement Knowe that among the Poets comicall In breef sentence it was vsuall To showe the whole contents of the Comedye In the argument which did wel verily ¶ But our tungs hath not so comely a grace In that point as hath the Latin and Gréek We cannot like them our sentences eloquently place That our Poets to their Orators may be like As they knowe wel which for such matters doo seek But to doo our best indéed we wil not neglect Trusting that wise men the same wil accept ¶ Our title is Inough is as good as a feast Which Rethorically we shall amplyfye So that it shall appéer bothe to moste and least That our meaning is but honestie Yet now and then we wil dally merily So we shall please them that of mirth be desirous For we play not to please them that be curious ¶ For a Preface I fear I am to long But I haue said that I wil say now The Worldly man is frolike lusty and strong Who wil showe his qualities before you Stowt he is and in any wise wil not bow Beholde yonder he commeth into this place Therfore thus I finish our simple Preface Finis Enter Worldly man stout and frolike Vvorldly man BEcause I am a man indewed with treasure Therfore a worldly man men doo me call In deed I haue riches and money at my pleasure Yea and I wil haue more in spight of them all A common saying better is enuy then rueth I had rather they should spite then pitty me For the olde saying now a dayes proueth trueth Naught haue naught set by as dayly we see I wis I am not of the minde as some men are Which look for no more then wil serue necessitie No against a day to come I doo prepare That when age commeth I may liue merily Oh saith one inough is as good as a feast Yea but who can tel what his end shal be Therfore I count him wurse then a Beast That wil not haue that in respect and sée As by mine owne Father an example I may take He was belooued of all men and kept a good house Whilst riches lasted but when that did slake There was no man that did set by him a Louse And so at such time as as he from the world went I mene when he dyed he was not worth a grote And they that all his substance had spent For the value of xij pence would haue cut his throte But I trowe I wil take héed of such They shall go ere they drink when they come to me It dooth me good to tel the chinks in my hutch More then at the Tauern or ale house tobe ¶ Heauenly man. God careth for his as the Prophet Dauid dooth say And preserueth them vnder his merciful wing The Heauenly I mene that his wil doo obay and obserue his holy commaundements in all thing Yet not for our sakes nor for our deseruing But for his owne name sake openly to declare that all men héer on Earth ought to liue in his feare VVorldly man. This same is one of our iolly talkers That prattleth so much of Heauen and Hel Oh I tel you these are godly walkers Of many straunge things they can tel They passe men yea Angels they excel Sir are you not called the Heuenly man I haue been in your cōpany ere now but I cānot tel whan Heuenly man. Yes certainly Sir that is my name Vnworthy of any such