Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	great_a	time_n	5,928	5	3.4202	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00349	The ciuilitie of childehode with the discipline and institucion of children, distributed in small and compe[n]dious chapiters / and translated oute of French into Englysh, by Thomas Paynell.; De civilitate morum puerilium. English. 1560	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Paynell, Thomas.	1560 (1560)	STC 10470.3; ESTC S2112	34,026	110

asmuch honour vnto those that hath taught vs the maner of well lyuing as to those that haue geuen vs the begynnyng of life Other waies be thou assured thou shalt haue a scolemaister in vaine if likewise thou haue him not a true frend Forthermore be thou continually attentife vnto hym Learn the beste thinges euen from the begynnyng and foundacion It is an extreme foly to lerne those thinges that willingly we wyl forget Hearken not only dilygently vnto the maister whan he dothe interprete but also very feruētly And be not contente onely to ensue and folowe him that disputeth but labour if thou maiest to passe him And to retain the better his good trases and meanes of speaking put them in wrytyng as a treasure of thy memory If thou be ignorant trust not to thi learned bookes Forget not the thynges that thou hast heard aswel alone and perticularly as in compani Deuide the day in houres by the which thou shalt stay the thing that thou shouldst rede Beyng not cōtent with this thou shalte remembre to geue parte of the tyme to thy secrete thoughtes and contemplacion The exercise whiche is as a certain strife and battell of the spirites doth principall shewe the force of the minde and doth amake it and augment it Be not geuen to the studye of the nyght and oute of tyme and season for they suppe vp and consume the spirit and are greatlye hurtefull to bodely health But the begynning of the day is frendly to muses and proper and meete to studye The maner of studying by ●odolphe Agricola TO order his study he must principally take hede to two thyngs The fyrst is to consider to what studye thou wylt goe The second is by what meanes thou maiest greatly profytte in that that thou hast chosen As touchyng the fyrst poynt yf thou haue suffyciente goodes and a competente spirit and wyt I counsell thee to geue thy selfe wtall thy force might to the best sciences In the rest thou shalt learne the artes of thy childehoode If thou haue red any thing in good authors laboure to translate them into thy mother tōgs by proper wordes and hauing the self same significacion to the ende that whan thou wouldest saie or write any thing conferryng by longe usage thy vulgar tonge with the Latin thou maist prōptly and commodiously expresse the conceite of thy minde by that which is vnto thee natural for to speake Latin afterwardes more easilye Furthermore yf thou entende to make any thyng it shall be good and mete to forme in thy spirite and minde the selfe same matter in thy mother tonge as largely and as elegantly as thou maist afterwardes to pronounce it in Latin purely with proper significacion to the intent that all may be spoken clerely and largely The signes of a good nature TO be not onely cōtinually about and with the masters but also to study bisely diligētly To hafite his companions beyng beste learned Also wholy to abstayne from the company of those that menne esteme to be hurtfull as well for their maners as for their renowme To haue no maner of debate nor strife but only of letters To comprehende lightly and to take that thing that is shewed and taughte and to kepe it faithfully to folow fortunately and to pronounce elegātly To take hede that in speaking he dooe not precipitate his purpose to breake it in hys tonge to murmure betwene his teeth but to accustome hymselfe to pronoūce euery woorde distinctly clerelye and from point to point To bee ashamed that other shuld passe him but rather labor to passe and excede other Not to be angrye whan he is corrected to reioyce whan he is praysed To studye that there appeare no foolishenes no disorder no vile nor no sharp thing in him Not to haue an vnshamefaste forehead the browes lift vp the eyes bolde hardy the tonge affectate the visage iucōstant Finally that ther be not foūd in his face in his countenance nor in his goinge nor stāding vpright any molestious or odious thyng The maner of repeting the lesson THere bee some that labor principally to learne their lesson word by worde but that I like not for it is a laborious thyng and in a maner without any fruite or profyt To what purpose is it nedeful to saye that word by woorde that he vnderstandeth not as the Popiniay do the. Thou must incontinently reade ouer agayne the lesson that thou hast hearde and so that thou deprly doe plante the whole sentence in thy mynde Furthermore thou shalt returne agayne to the beginning and begyn to searche out euery worde and onely the thynges that pertayn to grammer that is to wit know whether there be any verbe of obscure deriuacion or doubtfull whether there be any coniugacion he throgleth how that it maketh in the preterpersitence what supine it hath what they be of whome it is deriued What he hath the descende of hym and what construccion he may haue what it signifieth and other like thynges This done thou shalt runne ouer it agayne searchyng principally the thinges that doeth pertayne to the crafte of Rhethorike If there bee anye good thing or elegant and wel spokē note it with a marke or wyth a lyttle starre Take good hede to the cōposiciō of verbes and searche the beautifulnesse of the oracion fynde the intente of the authour and by what reason he hathe spoken euery thyng Whan thou fyndest any thing that doth please thee beware as men saye that thou passe not beyonde the loge Staye thy self consider the reason why thou doest take so great pleasure in such oracion what it should meane that thou hast not done so much in other Thou shalt find the thou wast moued to do it for som subtilite or ornamēt of the oraciō or by som harmony of the cōposiciō to be short for some other reasō If thou find any adage sētēce or soin olde prouerb or fable history or some pleasant similitude or as thou shalt think to be spoken shortlye subtily or wittily kepe it in thy mind as a tresure for vse imitaciō After that let it not loth thee at all to repete it ouer .iiii. times for the writinges of learned mē made with a good spirit with great watch haue this in them that being redde and redde agayne a thousande tymes they dooe please more and more shewyng dailye newe miracles to those that dailye doe meruall at them Prayse not the thyng without a cause the commeth customablye into thy tables because that at other tymes thou hast not takē hede vnto it the like shall chaunce muche more by readyng of good authours Thou shalte reade it therefore foure tymes and take good hede to that that may be commodious for Philosophy lykewyse to Morall Philosophye and whether there be any ensaumple that pertayneth to good maners But is there any thing in this worlde whereout a mā may not draw som ensāple or som figure