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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	life_n	time_n	2,672	5	3.2697	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18411	Euthymiæ raptus; or The teares of peace with interlocutions. By Geo. Chapman.	Chapman, George, 1559?-1634.	1609 (1609)	STC 4976; ESTC S104931	19,902	46

eares will nothing pearse That 's good or elegant but the sword the herse And all that doth abhorre from mans pure vse Is each mans onely Siren only Muse. And thus for one God one fit good they prise These idle foolish vile varieties Int. Wretched estate of men by fortune blest That being euer idle neuer rest That haue goods ere they earne them and for that Want art to vse them To bee wonderd at Is Iustice for Proportion Ornament None of the Graces is so excellent Vile things adorne her me thought once I sawe How by the Seas shore she sat giuing lawe Euen to the streames and fish most loose and wilde And was to my thoughts wondrous sweet and milde Yet fire flew from her that dissolued Rocks Her lookes to Pearle turnd pebble and her locks The rough and sandy bankes to burnisht gould Her white left hand did goulden bridles holde And with her right she wealthy gifts did giue Which with their left hands men did still receiue Vpon a world in her chaste lappe did lye A little Iuory Book that show'd mine eye But one Page onely that one verse containde Where all Arts were contracted and explainde All policies of Princes all their forces Rules for their feares cares dangers pleasures purses All the fayre progresse of their happinesse here Iustice conuerted and composed there All which I thought on when I had exprest Why great men of the great states they possest Enioyd so little and I now must note The large straine of a verse I long since wrote Which me thought much ioy to men poore presented God hath made none that all might be contented Peace It might for the capacitie it beares Be that concealed and expressiue verse That Iustice in her Iuorie Manuell writ Since all Lines to mans Peace are drawne in it For great men though such ample stuffe they haue To shape contentment yet since like a waue It flittes and takes all formes retayning none Not fitted to their patterne which is one They may content themselues God hath not giuen To men meere earthly the true Ioyes of heauen And so their wilde ambitions either stay Or turne their headstrong course the better way For poore men their cares may be richly easde Since rich with all they haue liue as displeasde Int. You teach me to be plaine But what 's the cause That great and rich whose stares winne such applause With such enforc't and vile varieties Spend time nor giue their liues glad sacrifice But when they eate and drinke with tales iests sounds As if like frantique men that feele no wounds They would expire in laughters and so erre From their right way that like a Trauayler Weariest when neerest to his iourneys ende Time best spent euer with most paine they spend Pea. The cause is want of Learning which being right Makes idlenesse a paine and paine delight It makes men knowe that they of all things borne Beneath the siluer Moone and goulden Morne Being onely formes of God should onely fix One forme of life to those formes and not mix With Beasts in formes of their liues It doth teach To giue the soule her Empire and so reach To rule of all the bodies mutinous Realme In which once feared She then takes the Helme And gouernes freely stering to one Port. Then like a man in health the whole consort Of his tun'd body sings which otherwise Is like one full of weiward maladies Still out of tune and like to Spirits raisde Without a Circle neuer is appaisde And then they haue no strength but weakens them No greatnes but doth crush them into streame No libertie but turnes into their snare Their learnings then do light them but to erre Their ornaments are burthens their delights Are mercinarie seruile Parasites Betraying laughing Feends that raisde in feares At parting shake their Roofes about their eares Th' imprison'd thirst the fortunes of the Free The Free of Rich Rich of Nobilitie Nobilitie of Kings and Kings Gods thrones Euen to their lightning flames and thunder-stones O liberall Learning that well vsde giues vse To all things good how bad is thy abuse When onely thy diuine reflection can Th●● lights but to thy loue make good a man How can the regular Body of thy light Informe and decke him the Ills infinite That like beheaded Hydra's in that Fen Of bloud and flesh in lewd illiterate men Aunswere their amputations with supplyes That twist their heads and euer double rise Herculean Learning conquers And O see How many and of what fowle formes they be Vnquiet wicked thoughts vnnumbred passions Poorenesse of Counsailes howrely fluctuations In entercourse of woes and false delights Impotent wils to goodnesse Appetites That neuer will bee bridl'd satisfied Nor knowe how or with what to be supplyed Feares and distractions mixt with greedinesse Stupidities of those things ye possesse Furies for what ye lose wrongs done for nonce For present past and future things at once Cares vast and endlesse miseries wolne with pride Vertues despisde and vices glorified All these true Learning calmes and can subdue But who turnes learning this way All pursue Warre with each other that exasperates these For things without whose ends are inward peace And yet those inward Rebels they maintaine And as your curious sort of Passiue men Thrust their heads through the Roofs of Rich Poore Through all their liues and fortunes and explore Forraigne and home-affayres their Princes Courts Their Counsaile and Bedchambers for reports And like free-booters wander out to win Matter to feede their mutinous Route within Which are the greedier still and ouershoote Their true-sought inward Peace for outward boote So Learned men in controuersies spend Of tongues and tearmes readings and labours pend Their whole liues studies Glorie Riches Place In full crie with the vulgare giuing Chace And neuer with their learnings true vse striue To bridle strifes within them and to liue Like men of Peace whome Art of Peace begat But as their deedes are most adulterate And showe them false Sons to their Peacefull Mother In those warres so their Arts are prov'd no other And let the best of them a search impose Vpon his Art for all the things shee knowes All being referd to all to her vnknowne They will obtaine the same proportion That doth a little brooke that neuer ran Through Summers Sunne compar'd with th' Ocean But could he Oracles speake and wright to charme A wilde of Sauadges take Natures Arme And plucke into his search the Circuit Of Earth and Heauen the Seas space and the spirit Of euerie Starre the Powers of Herbs and Stones Yet touch not at his perturbations Nor giue them Rule and temper to obay Imperiall Reason in whose Soueraigne sway Learning is wholly vs'd and dignified To what end serues he is his learning tryed That comforting and that creating Fire That fashions men or that which doth inspire Citties with ciuile conflagrations Countries and kingdomes That Art that attones All opposition to