Selected quad for the lemma: cause_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	know_v	reason_n	see_v	3,559	5	3.2116	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02774	A nevv letter of notable contents With a straunge sonet, intituled Gorgon, or the wonderfull yeare.	Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.	1593 (1593)	STC 12902; ESTC S106136	17,344	34

publique vse passing memorable for a point or two exceeping monstrous And that is the very disgrace of the Sonnet that the Stile nothing counteruaileth the Subiect but debaseth a straunge body with vulgar attire and disguiseth a superlatiue Text with a positiue Glosse As it is it is your owne to dispose or cancell at pleasure and albeit the writer promise nothing for promise he accounteth an Obligation yet if he fortune to surprise you with a sorry amendes let it not be vnwellcome that commeth in the name of good-will and such a good-will as is lesse affraide of the Plague then of Vnthankefulnesse He that is desirous with the first to be cōtinually made acquainted with your publique Intelligences from or of whatsoeuer kingdomes or States will haue a mutuall regard of frendly correspondence by some returne of priuate Nouels or other recompense as any his vacation yeeldeth leysure or any his opportunity presenteth occasion Touching his present Exercises or other actions you know enough that know why the Asse sleepeth the Fox winketh Or recall to minde our sweet Table-philosophy of the for dead Libbard a very gentle and silent creature and you neede no other inckling Peraduenture some-body may finde that the roughest awkest things are not so cūbersome to other as they may prooue irkesome to themselues There is a learned kinde of Feare that preuenteth many mischiefes and they are iudiciously wise howsoeuer valiant rich or powerable that dare not vse other otherwise then themselues would be vsed Men may stand vpon brauing termes and puffe-vp their owne swelling veynes but when wilfulnesse is in the tide Discretion is in the ebbe Some haue repented them no lesse then fower and twenty houers in a day and a night for one froward word Suerly a man were better shift his footing then stand stifly in his owne light and who would not rather say to his Tongue Tongue thou art a lyer or to his penne Penne thou art a foole then vndooe himselfe vtterly and shame himselfe euerlastingly You might heare of the new Treaty or motiue and it is not the first time that I haue discouered a broode of witts like the famous well in Idumea whose water one quarter of the yeare was as muddy as the muddiest kennell an other quarter as bloudy as the bloudiest slaughterhouse the third as greene as the greenest grasse the fourth as cleere as the cleerest conduict Euery exchaunge for the better doth well and it is a good signe when pudled waters grow cleere if they grow cleere and disordered wittes become tractable if they become tractable Haue they not cause to doubt that know the variable nature of that Syrian well and haue seen so many dogged things returne to their vomit A good bargaine and a gentle Offer would not be refused but he that cōsidereth the fittes of Aprill and the panges of September hath reason for a demurrer and he that hath seene as lunatique creatures as the Moone must be pardoned though he suffer not himselfe to be coosened with the legierdemaine of a iugling Conuert Did I neuer tell you of a grauer man that wore a priuy coate of interchaungeable colours and for the Art of Reuolting or recanting might read a Lecture to any retrograde Planet in Heauen or Earth Is it not possible for a wilde Asse of a fugitiue and renegate disposition in such a point to resemble the tamest Foxe Or are not Bookes with vnstayed readers and running heads like vnto those wondrous waters that being dronke of birdes as Theophrastus reporteth or of sheepe as Seneca writeth chaunged them from white to blacke and from blacke to white After a sterne and ruthfull Tragedy solemnely acted who deeplyer plunged in sober and melancholy dumpes then some good fellowes that from a pleasant and wanton Comedy finely played returne as merry as a criket and as light as a feather When the sweet Youth haunted Aretine and Rabelays the two monstrous wittes of their languages who so shaken with the furious feauers of the One or so attainted with the French Pockes of the other Now he hath a little mused vpon the Funerall Teares of Mary Magdalen and is egged-on to try the supplenesse of his Patheticall veine in weeping the compassionatest and diuinest Teares that euer heauenly Eye rained vpon Earth Iesu what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Supererogation haue they atchieued Riot● 〈◊〉 was wont to roote so deeply that it could hardly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and where reckelesse Impudency taketh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not very hastily to be dispossessed I was say●●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to a Spring of rankest Villany in February 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Diuinity in May May they not sur●●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that wonder how Machiauell can teach a Pri●●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be religious An other question or two 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were at my tounges end But what 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 talke any-more of Paradoxes or impossibilities when He that penned the most desperate and abominable Pamflet of Straunge Newes and disgorged his stomack of as poisonous rancour as euer was vomited in Print within few moneths is won or charmed or inchaunted or what Metamorphosis should I terme it to astonish carnall mindes with spirituall meditations vpon one of the most sacred and godfull arguments that the holyest deuotion could admire in the profoundest traunce of rapt and Seraphicall Zeale I will not stay to maruell at the miracles of predominant Causes the Holy-ghost is an omnipotent Spirite that can mollifie the flyntyest minde and breath a soule of Heauen into a hart of Hell If vnfaynedly he hath stripped-of the snakes skinne and put-on the new man as he deuoutly pretendeth let him be constant and not blaspheme his most-reuerend Sauiour with counterfait Teares if he playeth at fast and loose as is vehemently suspected by strong presumptions whom shall he cunnycatch or crosbite but his Cast-away selfe as holly as a holly-hock But I thanke God I haue some-thing else to dispute and if young Apuleius be not still the sonne of old Apuleius and Pierce still as diuine as a wilde Vine I haue said nothing but commend the sweet art of relenting Humanity and embrace the good nature of a good Nature that sheddeth the pure Teares of Repentance The more notorious the offence and the more vnsatisfiable the Iniurie was the more fauorable and liberall he is that with honest termes and reasonable conditions may easely be entreated to pardon thesame that is to bestow a great benefit insteade of a great reuenge and to loose the exercise of many weekes to gaine the recouery of one lost sonne The best is I am not yet a Fly in the cobweb of the Spider and in a mating age none are free from the check bu●kinges Or if kinges peraduenture finde themselues somewhat shrewdly mated alas we poore subiectes must be content to be checked may dayly learne of our betters to smoother with patience that we cannot quench with order and will not extinguish with disorder Socrates professed nothing and I professe lesse then Socrates yet this I