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	know_v	think_v	3,328	5	3.8263	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19444	The anatomie of baseness. Or the foure quarters of a knaue flatterie, ingratitude, enuie, detraction.	Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.	1615 (1615)	STC 587; ESTC S100156	12,544	40

suffer yet not so But it may liue to see their ouerthrow VVho moale-like heaue vnseene till at the last Their working be discouer'd and they cast Out of their hollow trenches and withall Trod on by them whom they desir'd might fall Then shall your sable Cacodaemon be Hang'd with a twigge vpon some willow tree To all which Enuious vndermining slaues I wish no fairer Ends no better graues OF THE DETRACTER THis comes in last because he comes behinde those whom he wrongs though in his doing so the diuell cannot him in skill foregoe Vnto the last but this This last I finde To be as neere alli'd in Basenesse as a brother can be to a brother twinne in feature though as oft Nature therein Proportion them so like that each doth passe For other Only this one difference I note this last allow'th more freedome to his tongue then Enuie doth and other men are stung By him more then himselfe he makes his throate An open graue where his contagious breath labours to blast the spotlesse fame of such whose Reputation it shall chance to touch Nor can the hand of Reconciling Death Free men from this iniurious Monsters sting which through the bowels of the earth doth pierce and in the quiet vault appeares more fierce Then Death the graues sterne tyranizing King Were a man here as free from actuall ill as when he first mov'd in his mothers wombe or as the man that calls the Heauen his home Guiltlesse of sinne yet would this trie his skill If in a bul-rush he can finde a knot or from pure hony which the harmlesse Bee suck'd from those flowers which like it selfe was free Straine poison'd iuyce where if he finde one iot Which he can iudge doth relish of a weede from which the toylsome Bee cheerfully flies home to the hiue with hony-laden thighs He straite concludes no good can thence proceed So strange is the distraction of this Tom of Bedlam that all places times and men without distinction seeme alike for when The furious rayling fit comes on him from His stinking stomacke hee ' le belch forth such geere such filth and with such violence as though he meant to cast his rotten garbage so He ioyes to make his loathsomnesse appeare This what shall I terme him will deuoure your bread call you his master crouch with cap in hand professe he falls if you shall faile to stand Yet curse you liuing ioy when you are dead He ' le be the Herald of your Infamy and scandalize your worth though you haue bred him to the shape of man euen from a shred This is a blacke-one full of trechery To the Detracted THough Wolues against the siluer Moon do bark they blemish not her brightnes nor the spight Of bauling Curres which she disdains to mark can any whit eclipse her of her light So mai'st thou slight the railing of ill tongues if a cleere shining conscience be thy guard Which to defend thee from the worst of wrongs will as a wall of brasse be found as hard Men are by Nature apt to blame and hate such as distaste what they approue as good If thou dislike to heare a Parrat prate and tell a tedious tale of Robin-hood He ' le shoot Detractions boult against thy braine terming it shallow barren poore and dull Because not vented by a windy vaine empt'ing it selfe to make thy mouth shew full But wiser men then he assures thee no They are most fooles say they that vse most words That silence argues folly 't is not so for vertues branches no such fruite affords Admit a Turke should call thee Infidell wouldst be offended or imagine that One dubbe thee knaue in whose owne heart doth dwell basenesse enough to make him wondred at By all that know him shall the first perswade thee that thy Religion knowes more Gods then one Or to denie the sacred power that made thee or t'giue his honour to a carued stone Or can the second force thee to confesse through his report thou art as base as he If none of these thou wilt their power 's the lesse thy worth the more by their detracting thee An honest fame like spice the more 't is brus'd sauours the sweeter which when we are dead Will be the sweetest seare-cloath can be vs'd to wrap vs in it will out-last the lead Wherein that bodie lies in which did liue a spotted conscience a detracting spirit Which to it selfe an earthly heauen did giue and of Heauens ioyes it selfe did disinherite TO THE DETRACTER THink'st thou it makes thy Reputation faire if by thy muddy tongue thou canst impaire An other mans looke how a murtherer can whose fatall hand shall kill an other man Adde to his owne by shortning others daies so by detracting others growes by praise Perchance thou feed'st thy selfe with a conceipt that euery man that heares thee raile doth straite Belieue that all thou sayst is true for that they contradict thee not I le tell thee what In my opinion thou shouldst rather feare it makes them tremble and amaz'd to heare How diu'lishly thou second'st what thou say'st with oaths and curses or admit thou mai'st Light vpon some who knowing not thy vse may be perswaded that from some abuse Offer'd to thee proceeds thy railing fit Yet all the glory thou enioy'st by it Is they 'le note thee euerafter for a creature which all good men should abhorre Or say thou shalt some man to some depraue who know him honest think'st thou for a knaue They can do lesse then iudge thee and beware thou rayl'st to no men that iuditious are For they ' le soone finde that thou dishonest art and therefore know thou tak'st no good mans part Whose prayse they iudge is equally the same Where Iust men doe applaud or thou defame I might haue spar'd my breath in wishing thee to men of iudgement not to be too free For thou art chiefly carefull in this point to plie his eare whose iudgement's out of ioynt By whom as yet was neuer vnderstood how any cause could but the first be good Whose ignorance I thinke might argue rather Th' Vicar of fooles will prooue their ghostly father And as for thee thou dost resolue I know thou must die mad thy braine 's distemperd so Which will be for thy credit when thou 'rt dead for some will lay the fault vpon thy head And say thy braine inforc'd thy tongue to raue Better be thought a mad-man then a knaue FINIS Qui ducis vultus non legis ista libenter Omnibus iuuideas liuide nemo tibi Mart. Beneficìa malè locata malefacta sunt * Non ita claudenda est res familiaris vt eam benignitas aperire non possit nec ita reseranda vt pateat omnibus Taelis benignitas vanitati est coniunctior quam liberalitati Cic. Virtus laudatur alget * Naball Dulcis odor lucri Vix sunt ho● hoc nomine 〈◊〉 quamque lup●● plus seritatis bent perfud● maenus frate● sanguine fr●● Inuidus non ● nu● discruciat● aliena felicita quàm su● inf● tuni● Inuidia virtute parta gloria non inuidia putanda est Hic niger est c. Loquacit a● certissimū fatuitatis argumētum Eras