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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	life_n	see_v	2,826	5	3.2572	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38571	Twenty-two select colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus pleasantly representing several superstitious levities that were crept into the Church of Rome in his days.; Colloquia. Selections. English	Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1689 (1689)	Wing E3213; ESTC R6620	185,131	300

precious Eu. This Lamp must be for Chrysoglottus a Reader as insatiable as Tully's devourer of Books Ch. This is a double obligation First for the Choice of the Present it self and next for the means of keeping a Dreamer waking Eu. The Standish belongs to Theodidactes who writes much and to excellent purpose and I dare pronounce these Pens to be happy that shall be employed to the honour of our Saviour by so great a Master The. I would ye could as well have supply'd me with Abilities as ye have with Instruments Eu. This is a Collection of some of Plutarch's choicest Morals and written in a very fair Character They have in them so much Purity of thought that it is my Amazement how such Evangelical Notions could come into the heart of an Ethnique This I shall present to young Euranius a Lover and a Master of the Language This Clock I have reserv'd for Nephalius as a thrifty dispenser of his Time. Neph We are all of us to thank you not only for your Gifts but for your Complements Eu. But I must return you double thanks First for taking these small things in so good part And Secondly for the Comfort I have receiv'd from your learned and pi●us Discourses What Effect this meeting may have upon you I know not but I shall certainly find my self both the wiser and the better for 't You take no pleasure I 'me sure in Fiddles Fools and Dice after the common Mode wherefore if you please we 'l pass away an hour in seeing the rest of our little Palace Ti. The very thing we were about to beg of you Eu. To a man of his word there 's no need of entreating This Sommer-hall I suppose you have had enough of It looks three ways you see and which way soever you turn your Eye you have a most delicate Green before you If either the Wind or the Sun be troublesome here are both Shutters and Chassies to keep them out Here do I eat in my House as if I were in my Garden for the very walls have their Greens and their Flowers intermixt and 't is no ill Painting Here 's our Saviour at his last Supper and here you have Herod's bloody Banquet Here 's Dives in the height of his Luxury little thinking how soon he 's to be torn from his delicates and cast into Hell And here 's Lazarus beaten away from the Door and soon after to be receiv'd into Abraham's Bosom Ti. We do not well know this Story Eu. 'T is Cleopatra in a Contention with Anthony which should be most luxurious She has drunk the first P●arl and now reaches out her hand for the other Here 's the Battel of the Centaurs and here Alexander the Great with his Lance through the Body of Clytus These Examples do as good as Preach Sobriety to us at the Table and give a man a loathing for Gluttony and Excess You shall now see my Library 'T is no large one but furnish'd with very good Books Ti. You have brought us into a little Heaven every thing shines so Eu. You have now before you my chiefest Treasure You saw nothing but Glass and Tin at the Table and I have in my whole house but one piece of Plate and that is a Guilt Cup which I preserve most religiously for his sake that gave me it This hanging Sphere gives you a prospect of the whole World and this wall shows you the Situation of the several parts of it more at large In those other walls you have the Images of all Eminent Authors The rest are numberless In the first place here 's Christ upon the Mount stretching forth his hand Over his head comes a a Voice from Heaven saying Hear him The Holy Ghost with out-stretch'd-wings and in a Glory embracing him Ti. A work worthy of Apelles as God shall bless me Eu. Near the Library there 's a little Study but a very pretty one and 't is but removing a Picture in cold weather and there 's a Chimney behind it In Summer it passes for a part of the solid wall Ti. Every thing 's as clear here as Chrystal and what a Perfume's here Eu. Above all things I love to have my house neat and sweet and this may be done with little Cost To my Library there belongs a Gallery that looks into the Garden and adjoyning to it I have a Chappel Ti. The place it self deserves a Deity Eu Let 's go to those three Walks now above the other that I told you look'd into the Kitchin-Garden These upper walks have a prospect into both Gardens but only through windows with shutters especially in the walls that have no view into the Inner Garden for the safety of the house Upon this wall on the left hand having fewer Windows in 't and a better light There is painted the whole Life of Iesus out of the Story of the four Evangelists to the Mission of the Hely Ghost and the first Preaching of the Apostles out of the Acts with such notes upon the places that the Spectator may see near what Lake or upon what Mountain such or such a thing was done There are also Titles to every Story with an Abstract of the Contents as that of our Saviour I will be thou clean Over against it you have the Tipes and Prophesies of the Old Testament especially out of the Prophets and Psalms which are little other than the Story of Christ and his Apostles told another way Here do I sometimes walk discoursing and Meditating with my self upon the unspeakable Counsel of God in giving his Son for the Redemption of Mankind My wife or some friend at my Elbow perhaps that takes delight in Holy things Ti. 'T is impossible for a man to be weary in this House Eu. Provided it be one that has learn'd to live with himself Upon the upper Border are all the Popes heads with their Titles and against them the heads of the Caesars as Memorials of the History At each corner there 's a lodging Chamber where I can repose my self within sight of my Orchard and my little Birds There 's an Out-house you see in the furth●st nook of the Meadow there in Summer do I Sup sometimes and make use of it upon occasion of any contagious sickness in the Family Ti. Some are of opinion that those Diseases are not to be avoided Eu. Why do men ●shun a Ditch then or Poison Do they fear this the less because they do not see it Neither does a Basilisk see the Venom that he shoots from his own Eyes In a good cause I would not stick to venture my Life but to do it without a cause is madness as it is Cruelty to bring others into danger There are yet other things worth the seeing here but my wife shall shew you them Entertain your Eyes and your Minds as long as you will and be in this house as if you were at home There 's some business calls me away here into