Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	king_n	lord_n	6,936	5	3.8165	3	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19864	A briefe discourse of the Spanish state vvith a dialogue annexed intituled Philobasilis.	Daunce, Edward.	1590 (1590)	STC 6291; ESTC S109300	31,421	60

who leading vs as a Buphal by the nose seeke our health as he that sought his wife against the streame yet in these calamities we enuie not but reuerence your godly and flourishing peace which is great knew you the vse thereof and most rare prouided you she were not deuoured of ease Philoba This happines is not continued by our policy but according to the eternall prouidence of the soueraine law-giuer neither can the same be altered by any constellation fatall computation of yeares or mightie preparation of our enimies but by the Angell of the great Councell who moderateth not either after the will or manner of men howsoeuer they dreame of times or nations as your Heraults haue done of the forme of your Armories which resembling three swords signifie say they persecution to your kings princes people which coniecture with many like I condemne as being ill rules for the multitude who are easily deluded by phanaticall men who hunt onely for ostentation though it be to the daunger of themselues and their countrie Philopo Our Heraults perhaps deale herein like some Phisitions who discerning not their patients infirmitie attribute it either to witchcraft or their last diet but we who can best yeeld the reason of our disease say sin to be the cause and the Epilepsi of our late king in discipline the signes thereof who hauing taken no other Phisicke then the flatterie of diuerse great Lords and officers of the crowne felt not in that resolution the heauy hand of his mothers gouernement contrarie to the custome of our Nation and Salick Law then which we for antiquitie and our common quiet iudge not any more excellent Philoba Pardon me though I esteeme that law without praise of either Philopo Though it standeth not with the humours of your Nation yet ours reuerently receiueth the same as an honorable testimony of Pharamunds prudence who for our stronger vnion ordained that Law that we by meane thereof beholding in the families of our Princes which we call of the blood the race of our kings might be void of those factions with which your Nation and others either haue or may hereafter take hurt Philoba You lead me as Sibylla Cumana did Eneas to view a phantasticke apparition of men or as Syrus taught old Demea the way to his brother Philopo Not so but as the great artificer shewed the Assyrian his counterfait of the foure Monarchies or as our first parent learned that his cohelper was flesh of his flesh and bone of his bones the vnion not being vnlike betweene the Prince and people they differing neither in religion law custome or language all which are neuer consequent if women attaining the royall seate yeeld the same to straungets for though the goodnes of Nature be not extinguished in them by those matches yet are they not their superioritie being restrained masters of their owne affections neither will their husband so naturally regard their new subiects as were requisite as well for that in seeking to place their men of court in the highest roomes they expell the naturall subiect which alteration neuer happeneth without great daunger to the state as also for that they whom they prefer of their owne traine being ignorant of the lawes language and rites of the people are in respect thereof either remisse in the execution of iustice or so inclined to their owne profite that the common weale taketh no lesse hurt thereby then if it were wasted with sundrie enimies those states which haue fallen into the Spaniards hands by the like meane which are all they haue in Europe some part of Spaine and the higher Nauarre excepted being seruile presidents of this argument especially Naples Millain the lower Germanie where the meanest companion being a stranger liued with greater libertie than the nobilitie being natiues of the Country Philoba It is cleare that the gouernement of those places if it be not reformed answereth not the dignitie of free men but such is the policie of Spaine rather to be feared then loued which Paradox hath hitherto made good their affaires in Italy as the continuall aid the Duke of Florence yeeldeth the king and the faithfull seruice of the Duke of Parma to him hath made apparant notwithstanding that in the States of both though the one were his alie and the other his cousen germaine he hath intruded seuerall garisons of Spaniards thereby to keepe both the Princes at his deuotion in what sort therefore he either hath or will vse straungers that so neerely regardeth the Princes of his house may be greatly doubted But to returne to your Salick Law which profiteth so little in commoÌ„ opinion that many of your owne people feare not to publish the vaine title of a Lorainer to that Crowne he being neither Frenchman Pair of France or Prince of the bloud but one who for effecting his purpose would bring in a proud nation to supply the French nobilitie which act contrarying the diuine law that commandeth you to choose no straunger to your king what is to be said thereof and of your Salick lawe seeing to conspire against the holy ordinance that iudgeth daughters for want of sonnes and not strangers capable of gouernement but that the one by the effects is full of impietie and the other not onely vnprofitable but also most daungerous by those warres it draweth on your countrie Philopo As we may graunt you the first part so denie we the second though the ouerthrowes giuen to Philip and Iohn de Valois are made equall with any that hapned betweene the ancient Gauls and Romaines since which great slaughters that law being theÌ„ sealed with the bloud of many valiant persons hath so freed vs from all alterations of succession that few nations can therein compare their happinesse with ours the same answering the holy decree you named which forbiddeth the election of forreÌ„ Princes most like by a secreat consent to ensue if daughters succeeded But what letteth the later law being of more Maiestie should not in a cause of kings cancell the first specially ordained for priuate persons and withall the inordinate passions of women who being lesse qualified than men are therefore more vnapt to rule Philoba To graunt their defection maketh not against my purpose the like happening also to men Philopo I would their vertues were equall and you not lead with a partialitie of humors Philoba I am not but with the matches of your second Henrie with the house de Medicis and of your third Henry with the Lords of Guise after the fancie of which families your affaires haue since then bene gouerned and France by meane thereof either named Itagallia or la France perdue euen to the losse of him who fearing a long time to displease those Lords gaue them oportunitie to offend himselfe To impugne therefore the succession of daughters and to allow your kings marrying such by whose authoritie all things are administred it being not material by what sexe foriners

man or horse their fields being extremely parcht with the Sunne till the returne of the Equinoctial Who therefore mindeth to inuade Spaine hauing no acquaintance with that ayre it behoueth him to take the field in March or at the least in Aprill so councelled Iohn the king of Portingale his father in law the Duke of Lancaster who hauing in few weekes conquered Galitia after contended only with the aire scarsitie of the fields the Spaniards hauing brought their corne hay and other prouisions into their walled townes by meane whereof he lost twelue Barons foure score knights and two hundred Esquires besides the common souldiers and horse of seruice Yet are not these discommodities of aire or countrie or losse of so many great personnages and resolute men to deterre vs hereafter we being not to measure at any time our attempts by the euents but by what reason they were enterprized which being of late to diuert a capitall and stubburne enemie are necessitie commanding oportunely to be renued nothing being impossible to a prudeÌ„t deliberation accoÌ„panied with true fortitude Say then noble countrimen with resolute Cato speaking to his souldiers in the deserts of Libya These are my mates in armes vvhom dangers onely leade But what heare I Great is the Hesperian god Plutus Spain not onely abounding with fruitfull fields and rich mines but with such men as haue bene parentes of all good customes It suffiseth but let this be tried by Lazarillo di Tormes he being lesse partiall then Hieronimo Ruscello Rodirigo di Toledo or Taraphe and by the trauellers in Spaine who find nothing in their hosteries but a mat to lye vpon and a candle to bring them to bed It is no good consequent there be birds because there is a nest or he is a gentleman for that he neuer leaueth riding But graunt the South of Spaine may be compared with the fruitfull parts of Italie and that some of them were of like seede as Pallas yet it maketh no more for the fertilitie of the rest and good breeding of that people then the teeth of an Aethiopian for the whitenesse of his bodie Neither doth the varietie of their mines proue the fatnesse of the soyle but the contrarie for all mettals being ingendred by influence of the Planets of which they haue their properties and apt temperature of the earth inclined to the disposition of those Planets of which she is impressed do shew the nature of their cause by their effects which being in the third and fourth degree of drought prooueth their ground more barren vnlesse in some part then any region about them Moreouer their mines which by men skilfull in minerals are likened to trees hauing rootes trunkes boughes branches blossomes or floures they haue bene wasted by sundry nations in all ages as the mines of seacole and kannel which haue their bounds are subiect to an end First the Phoenecians had for things of small price great store of their mettall by the helpe whereof they erected diuerse colonies in Sicilia Sardinia Libya and Spaine it selfe Secondly the Carthagenians did trafficke their brasse with the Tyrians inlarged thereby their commodities in other mettall their Empire against the Libyans Sicilians and Romaines Lastly the Romaines mined many furlongs with great vaults in sundrie parts of Spaine an argument of scarsitie in their time and that the birds were then flowen which is now a cause also the king of Spaine preuaileth little for the lower countries treasure as some hold being the sinewes of warre As for this opinion that other nations should take light froÌ„ their courtly port martiall behauiour it is vaine argueth a yearely pention Antonio di Gueuarra affirming that to giue perfection to the Spaniards it behoueth to draw him that is bred in the mountaines to be trained in Castill which I gesse is for no other cause then that the Montanese is by nature rough and the Castillian efeminat but what state this man will beare let them report who haue either seene beggers set on horsebacke or haue beheld a mans head placed on a horses necke c. This my self can say that I haue knoweÌ„ fifteene huÌ„dred Biscaies which people Florus nameth the chiualrie of Spaine at their first landing in Antvvarpe to be men contemptible of person filthy in apparell and rude in behauiour and within one moneth after they had tasted the pay of that towne and relished the cates of that contrey to be terrible of countenance magnificall in gesture and seeming of so hautie conceit as though all things were vile which they esteemed not and therefore dare auowe that who so was entertained with their customes prospered as a tree embrased with iuie This barbarous naturall of the Spaniard was better knowen to Hanibal then to men of our time for he after his discomfiture at Cilla hauing some Spanish horsemen remaining and fearing in respect of their vertuous training their readines to chaffer the state of their friends fled with on horseman in two dayes two nights to Adrumetum distant froÌ„ the battail three thousand furlongs which commeth to three hundred seuentie fiue of our miles an argument he loued and trusted them well from whom he fled in such hast It is a ground that a compound is lesse perfit more daungerous for nature then a simple if therefore those Spaniards which descended only of Tubal haue in respect of their parent or soile but the image of perfect men what shall we thinke of the Spaniards of these dayes which are confected of the pilferers of the wold truely that there is no vice in which they haue not a surplussage aboue anie other nation of the earth I meane the South of Spain now containing Catalonia Aragona Castilia nueua Valenza Granado and Andaluzia to which only the Romans before Polybius time gaue the name of Spaine As for Galitia and Portingale the one taking name of those French men that in the time of Charles the great entred Spaine against the Mores the other of those French and Normans that in the yeare 700. past against the Sarasins as also the Biscais descended of those Gauls which were called Celtae and of those Spaniards named Iberi as Diodorus in his sixt booke of antiquities and Lucan in his fourth hooke make mention I number them a part as being ech way more honorable then the rest But to returne to the South of Spaine the rest not being knowen to the learned antiquitie the Goths and Alani being of those Scythians that dwelt neere the riuer Danubius who in the time of Honorius came vnder the leading of Gensericus into Spaine inhabited that part which is now called Catalonia a word compounded of both their names and was at the first named Gottalania Of these Scythes who haue their name as vacantes scyphis are descended those that inhabit Castilia nueua and Arragon named at the first Terracona Next to these is the prouince of Valenza

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