Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	great_a	love_n	love_v	4,041	5	6.5654	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09799	Three [morall] treatises no lesse pleasau[nt] than necessary for all men to read[e,] wherof the one is called the learned prince, the other the fruites of foes, the thyrde the porte of rest.; Moralia. Selections. English	Plutarch.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1561 (1561)	STC 20063.5; ESTC S110436	42,324	138

woorthy wight To whom all fate gaue place alon Whilste fortune gaue her childe suche might But this straunge kinde of felicitie or happines did consiste in harnesse horses and hostes of men gathered aboute hym and therefore heare nowe againe the inwarde voice of his sorowfull mynde crying oute againste the insolency of suche glory In grieuous cares and deadly smart Thus Ioue hath wrapte my woofull hart And therefore he compted those most happy that were free from all perill neuer aduaunced to honor but dyed wythout glorie With these and suche like kind of discourses a man by litle and litle pull out of his minde that iniquitie which is alwaies complaining and blamyng fortune and eleuate his desperate mynde whiche whilest it hath others in admiracion doeth reiect and abase it selfe and al that it possesseth For truely it doth greatly breake the quiete state of the mind whē a man towardes the atcheauing of anye thing doth force himself aboue his power and as it were beareth a greater sayle then his proporcion requireth For beyng led by a litle reioyceing hope we rashelye promyse great thinges to our selues and then if the successe doe not aunswer therto accordingly we accuse fortune oure Aungell of vniustnesse and partialitie Whereas we ought rather to condemne our selues of small discretion and foolish rashenesse As though we shoulde bee angrye with Fortune because we cannot shoote an arrowe out of a plowe or hunt the Hare with an oxe as though some vniust god did hinder those that vainlye wente aboute to hunte the Harte in chariottes and not to bee rather angry with oure owne madnesse and foolyshnesse in attempting to bryng to passe thinges vnpossyble The cause of this erroure is none other but onely selfe loue for whylest menne that loue themselues to much dooe attribute with greate comparyson the chiefest honour in all places to theym selues they waxe so headye and so stubburne that they leaue no enterprise vnattempted Nor it is not ynoughe for them to be ritch eloquente and pleasaunt compaignions at the boord yea to be frended with kinges to beare rule and office except they maye haue also the best dogges the fairest horses cockes quayles with other like birdes of pleasure for els they can neuer bee quiete in minde Dionisius thelder was not contented to be the greatest and most mightie Tiraunt that was in his time but thinking it al to litle and far vnworthy his estate because he was not also so good in vercefying as Philoxenus the Poet nor so eloquēt as Plato he was moued thereby to wrathe whiche ouercame him And therefore he banished Philoxenus into Latumias sent Plato to be sold in Aegina But Alexāder did not so at such time as he contended with Brison whose chariot should runne swiftest for thei say he was highly displeased with Brison because that Brison to flatter him did not his best but suffered hym to win the race Wherefore Homer speaking of Achilles and Vlisses did verye well to geue eache manne his due prayse in this wise Of all the greekes there was not one In chiualrye that could him passe But lawe to pleade suche one there was As hym excelde who was alone Megabisus perses cōming on a time into Apelles shoppe began to talke I know not what of the arte of paynctyng whose vnskylfull pratynge Apelles not suffering sayde thus vnto him Before that thou dyddeste vtter thy selfe by thy talke wee hadde somme good oppynion of thee beecause thy garmentes of Golde and purple did beautify and set furth thy silence But nowe the very boyes of my shoppe whiche grinde my coolours dooe laughe at these thy foolyshe bablynges Some thinke that the Stoykes do mock vs for that they doe not onely constitute and ordaine their wiseman whiche they faine vnto themselues to be prudent iust and valyaunt but also they call hym an Oratour an Emperoure a Poet and fynally a kinge and yet these glorious men abouesaide be not ashamed to attrybute al these names to themselues And if thei perceiue at lengthe that they cannot attayne to them all they bee immediatelye greued and dooe take it verye heauelye Whiche thing how reasonable it is thei themselues may easily see Sythe they knowe that the goddes themselues bee cōtente eache one with his peculier and sōdry name As this god because he hath the rule of warre and battayle is surnamed Emialius and that other because he is God of prophecies Mantous another for that he is God of gayne and lucre Cerdous Wherfore you shall read in Homer howe that Iupiter forbad Venus to intermedle with warrelyke affayres as thinges not appertayninge vnto her and commanded her to take cure and charge onely of matters of weddyng of bedding and of pleasure Beside this some of those thinges whiche seeme woorthie to be desired of vs are of a contrary nature one to another As for example it behoueth hym that endeuoureth himselfe to studye eloquence or any other of the liberal sciēces to be quiet and free from all worldlye affaires For office in the citie and the frēdship of kinges are woont to cause muche businesse and often to cal away the mind from his determinate purpose Also the aboundaunt vse of wine and fleshe maketh the body strong and mete to wrastle but it maketh the mynde weake frayle Finally in gathering and heaping vp of riches a man must vse great diligence tēcrease them and as great carefulnesse in kepyng them Cōtrarywise the despising of them and to set nought by them is a great helpe and furtheraunce towardes the studye of Philosophy and as it were the first practising of thesame Wherfore al men cannot haue al thinges And therfore it behoueth euery man tobay the preceptes of Pittachus that therby he may learne to knowe himself and so to consult with nature to folow her as his guide by applying himself to some one certayne thing rather then by passing from one kinde of life vnto an other to force nature The horse is mete for the cart the oxe for the plowe the Dollphin for the ship and the fierce mastife for the wilde bore For if a manne would be grieued because the mightye stronge Lyon cannot bee lyke a litle fawnyng dogge daintelye fedde in a widdowes lappe truelye he myghte bee wel compted for a very foole And he likewyse shoulde not one whit be better that would take vppon him bothe at one time to wryte of the worlde and to searche oute the naturall causes of thynges lyke as Empedocles Plato or Democritus dyd as also attende to embrace an olde woman for rychesse sake as Euphorion dydde Or elles would bee like vnto those that were wonte to spende the most part of the nyghte in bankettyng and reueling with Alexander as Medius did and yet to thynk such plesure to be nothing at al except for rychesse he myghte bee also no lesse notable then Ismenia and for vertue no lesse famouse then Epaminondas Those that runne for the beste game bee