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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	lord_n	5,077	5	3.6205	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10156	The prompters packet of private and familar letters fitted (in sundrie formes) to mens seuerall occasions and according to the qualitie of persons. Not vnworthy imitation of the most: but most necessarie for such as want either facultie or facilitie to endight.		1612 (1612)	STC 20432; ESTC S102576	41,284	157

your owne possession and you haue as little néede of fortaine vertnes as the sea hath of the water of little riuers Héereupon I will leaue to be a further trouble vnto you but not to assure you that I desire to liue no longer than I shall desire To serue you Thankfull acknowledgement of kindnesse vnto ones Sonne SIr the fauours you haue latelie done me are of such effect and merit that I shall neuer be at quiet till I haue made some requitall of them I am ashamed you should be so troubled with this sonne of mine whom I haue charged to obey you in all things as my selfe and I pray you doe so much as haue an eye vpon him as if you were his Father I thanke you very kindly for the apparell you haue made him and the money you haue paied for him you may accommodate him with the rest of it as you shall thinke good For for my part I giue you all power ouer him séeing you are pleased to take the trouble vpon you and so wishing but to méet with some good occasion to acknowledge how much I am beholding vnto you I commit you to God A priuate taxation of the publike ingratitude of great persons toward such as haue best deserued of them SIr Wheras you think it strange that I write no oftner vnto the Lady you wot of I haue alwaies told you and now tell you again that which I was wont to say of great Lords at such time as they deserued it at my hands that I remember their greatnesse and reputation no longer than they are mindfull of my necessities Hée that makes no reckoning of me teaches me to neglect him he that looks vpon me with respect giues me occasion and desire to serue him so that I alwaies goe as others goe and no otherwise You may alledge the many commodities of their fauour and countenance and I may answer that it were an idle thing for me to trouble my head with a matter I am not sensible of Do vt des facio vt facias saies the loue of Lawers but hauing done so many seruices and neuer receiued so much as a taste of liberality is the composition of a water able to quench the fire of an hundred Aetnaes much more to discourage mée that otherwise am most readie by all offices of courtesie to kéepe the good will of such as please to honor me with the friendship of which number to you as to one of the most especial with all affection I commend mee and bid you farewell Excuse for not saluting a friend passing by vs endeuouring by the way to wipe away his imputation of pride and of forgetfulnesse SIr you told my Cosen that either I was growne proud or had forgotten you because I passed along by you the other day and did not speake Now this I perceiue was the cause why you came not along with the rest of the company to honour mée with your presence But you shall vnderstand that when I met you I was so farre out of patience with the ingratitude of a wicked friend which was newly parted from me that I continued a whole wéeke together without the remembrance not onely of you but my selfe which together with the knowledge you are to haue of my naturall humors may sufficiently excuse me to either of your opinions Besides I could not forget a Gentleman well deriued happily married liuing with all modesty of his owne a friend to euery man not medling nor making with any one that is contented with his estate loues vertue and the vertuous passeth away his time with choice of good companie is perfect in mind and memory but of body to my great griefe somwhat weak and indisposed Now iudge Sir whether I remember you or no and be no longer perswaded that either I am proud or forgetful of you whose many courtesies haue bound me to be alwaies Your affectionate friend and Seruant A sad commemoration of some worthy friend deceased To my singular good friend M. c. SIr the griefe of my kinsmans death hath gotten so much interest in my apprehension that the comfort I was wont to giue vnto others is not able now to doe my selfe any seruice Reason disswades mee from sorrow and sense prouokes mée to teares my power is small the frailty of the flesh great I desire to obey vnto the one the other I cannot resist so that in the sedition of so many contrati●ties I neither vnderstand nor sée any thing may content mée In regard of him I haue no cause to complaine he lead the life of a good man and died the death of the righteous for as the Romane Orator saith It is hard to liue well and dye ill But for my part I haue asmuch reason to lament as his vertues were without number and end Howbeit if for mine owne particular I should grieus wheras for his I am much to reioyce I shal be thought rather enuious of his good then a friend of his happines I assure my selfe also that you take no pleasure in the death of so curteons and worthy a Gntleman nor in the losse you haue made of one that for your owne good parts and my sake loued you as a friend and respected you as vertuous But not to bée a cause either of more trouble to you or heauinesse to my selfe I will cease to speake further of him and commending you to God very kindly take my leaue A gratefull acknowledgement of an especiall fauour from any great man To my very Honourable good Lord the Lord c. MY Lord I haue receiued the commendations you were pleased to send mee by my brother C. than the which there is no fauour I could more desire Henceforward I shall begin to think better of my selfe séeing so noble and honourable a person hath thought mee worthy of a place in his remembrance which intruth was more requisite for a continuance of your goodnesse then for any merit at all of mine Howsoeuer I giue your Lordship as humble thanks for it as possibly I may albeit I am perswaded that neither with words nor effects I shall euer bée able to satisfy so great an obligatiou This fauor hath cleared mee of some doubt I was in for that I receiued no answere to the letter I wrote not long since in congratulation of your Lordships so deserued aduancements together with an humble presentation of my seruices but now I perceiue the cause of it procéeded either from the fault of your Secretary or the negligence of the post being alwaies well assured that no greatnes whatsoeuer could elate your mind more then it would be deiected by any aduersity the worst of time could bring I haue nothing to adde hereunto but an humble entreaty that as you were pleased to remember mee with your commendations so you would vouchsafe to honour mee with your commandements thereby to giue action to the desire I alwaies haue of appearing vnto the world how much I

matter enough to kéepe you from idlenesse you néed no better a raiser of you vp in a morning than a suit Are you proud and disdainfull I warrant you shall haue sufficient cause to court not onely the Iudges but your Counsell and Atturney nay by my faith their very Clerke If of a dull and heauie disposition you shall méet with store of inuention how to kéepe you out of your enemies danger If shamefast necessitie will teach you rather to bée impudent than otherwise If couetous no helpe for it in the world like this for there is no commoditie in the land beares such a price as the law doth A man is to passe thorow so many hands and euery finger ketcheth somewhat Besides for the desire wee haue to obtaine our ends we neuer thinke what it will cost vs till we come to the bottome of our purses I am sure I haue made deare experience of all this And they are great blessings I must néeds say but God kéepe you from them Well I haue iested enough it is time for me now to tell you in good earnest that I thinke there is no passion more eager or that fils our heads so full of proclamations as this doth I will not except the three torments of our spirit loue ambition and auarice for in this there is a mixture of the two last accompanied with a desire of reuenge which produceth very maruellous effects in vs. The Italian saith that no man knowes what pleasure it is to bee reuenged but he that hath receiued the iniurie A prettie controuersie compounded in a wittie complement SIr I know not whether I should excuse the slacknesse of my pen or accuse your negligence For my part the trouble of my continuall emploiment well knowen both to you and euery man may iustly cléere me of this fault but the leasure and good commoditie you alwaies haue to write cannot free you from blame Neuerthelesse not to cast away our money in suits which you know are euerlasting full of hazard and subiect to the inconstancie ambition and wickednesse of the most part of the Lawyers of these times I am contented to stand to the iudgement of your owne conscience or if you will like good Merchants that haue cléered accounts let vs make generall releases so that neither shall remaine debtor to the other But if you will néeds goe to Law I am agréed for hauing reason for my Atturney and truth for counsell in my cause if by the power of bribes you corrupt not the Iudges I doubt not but to haue a verdict of my side Now of these two waies I leaue the best to your election assuring you that albeit you haue ouercome mee with offices of courtesie yet haue you not gone beyond mee either in loue or iudgement to know that I owe more to your good will than euer I shall be able to furnish But if an honest minde alone could serue for paiment of so many obligations make account I should easily satisfie greater debts than these Whereupon I inuoke the grace of time that may bring me some such opportunitie as may thorowly approoue the sinceritie of my heart to your experience In the meane space let mee intreat you to giue mee occasion to doe you seruice for I cannot receiue a commandement from any friend vnto whom I more desire to obey than your selfe with the assurance whereof I will héere conclude and commit you to God A briefe answer to a bitter Complaint vpon a false ground SIr I am sorrie for the wrong you doe your selfe in complaining of mée without cause I thought we should haue séene you héere in the Countrie ere this and it gréeues me you came not as well in regard I haue lost the occasion to giue you the entertainment of my house as that I might haue fréed you from this passion of profit which so detaines you from discerning the truth But since I cannot doe it in person you are to vnderstand by this paper that I haue nothing to doe now in the Office where you are assigned the paiment of your pension I haue past it ouer vnto another who can giue you satisfaction if hée will Wherefore you haue no reason to say you will plaine of mée seeing I haue done nothing but that I should If this will not content you within seuen or eight daies at the farthest I shall bée at London where we may meet and conferre more at large of matters In the meane time commending me vnto you I commit you to God An earnest and elegant intreaty importuning the assistance of some friend in any matter of importance and that with expedition To my honourable friend Sir Henry T. SIr I will beginne with the saying of Plato and Marcus Cicero because I perswade my selfe that the authoritie of such personages and the efficacie of their words will bée of more power and estéeme with you than mine although to incite you to any office of courtesie whereunto a naturall addiction makes you forward enough of your selfe I cannot thinke there is néede of more than a bare and simple intreatie Man say they is not borne for himselfe alone but for his Countrey for his parents for his friends and for all other men And euen as Nature the vniuersall Mother of all things created doth not produce so many kinds of beasts herbes trées fruits metals and stones for her selfe onely but fréely imparts vnto vs of those her riches so we that are to imitate her liberalitie must not bée sparing of those abilities and meanes which either fortune or our owne vertue hath acquired vs for the good and reléefe of others This being so I cannot doubt that you in whom is such a concurrence of excellent parts will bée wanting to the necessitie of my present affaire And albeit the qualitie of my deserts the integritie of my heart the respect of my seruices and other points appertaining to the iudgement of liberalitie cannot induce you thereunto yet let the loue and obedience I haue euer born you supplie all other defects But that my Letter may not runne out all into preface nor you be wearied with the long narration of a matter well enough knowen to you alreadie I will referre the rest to the sufficiencie and trust of M. H. For séeing you vnderstand my occasion I must hope you will bée pleased to take order for it as with much facilitie and very commodiously you may And because that obtaining this grace if withall expedition bée not made it would bee as good as time lost may it please you hauing taken vpon you the one to vndergoe the trouble of the other which will bée of that import in my behalfe that bée assured I shall bée your perpetuall debtor for it notwithstanding any satisfaction in the world I can euer bée able to make Sir Richard G. in the exercise of this fauour as in all other generous actions will not faile to second you since I am so desirous to