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A05562 Politeuphuia VVits common wealth. N. L. (Nicholas Ling), fl. 1580-1607.; Bodenham, John, fl. 1600, attributed name. 1598 (1598) STC 15686; ESTC S108557 193,341 576

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property of a Seruant to feare his Maister with hatred but a Sonne feareth his Father for loue Ambrose Neyther strength nor bignesse are of anie value in a fearefull body They that desire to be feared needes must they dread them of whom they be feared VVhom many feare they doe hate and euery man whom he hateth he desireth to see him perrish Feare is the companion of a guiltie conscience A Maister that feareth his Seruant is more seruile then the Seruant himselfe It is a deadly feare to liue in continuall danger of death It is meere folly for a man to feare that which he cannot shunne It is a naturall thing in al men to leaue their liues vvith sorrow and to take theyr deaths with feare It is better to suffer that vvhich wee feare then by feare to liue in cōtinuall martirdom To demaund how many and not where the enemies be is a signe of cowardly feare Feare followeth hope wherefore if thou wilt not feare hope not A●sculapius It many times happens that the parties not willing to ioyne in loue doe consent agree together in feare It is farre better to feare thy choice then to rue thy chaunce He that feareth euery tempest is not fit to be a trauailer The sword dispatcheth quicklie but feare tormenteth continually Feare standeth at the gates of the eares and putteth back all perswasions Plato The more a man feares the sooner he shall be hurt Too much feare opens the doore to desperation He that through his cruelty is much feared of other men vvalketh in small assurance of his owne life The feare of death to a wicked person is of greater force to trouble him then the stroke it selfe Cic. A fearefull man neuer thinks so well of any mans opinion as hee dooth of his owne conceite and yet he will be ready to aske counsell vpon euery trifling cause It is a lamentable thing to be old with feare when a man is but young in yeares It becōmeth nor a Commaunder in Armes to be a man of a fearefull disposition Hee is woorthy to be counted a valiant and couragious minded man in whom the feare of an honest death can strike no signe of terror It is the property of a wise man with a quiet minde patiently to beare all things neuer dreading more then he need in aduersity nor fearing thinges not to be feared in time of prosperity but those things which he hath he honestly inioyeth and those things which he possesseth not he doth not greatly couet It becommeth a wise-man to be heedefull but not to be feareful for base feare bringeth double danger It is requisite for all men to knowe God and to liue in his feare But such as worship God for feare least any harme should happen vnto them are like them that hate Tyrants in their harts and yet study to please them because they would in quiet keep that they possesse Multos in summa periculamisit Venturi timor ipse mali fortissimus ille est Qui prōptus metuenda pati sicōminus instent Et differre potest Nos an xius omnia cogit Quae possunt fieri facta putare timor Of Famine Defi. Famine is a vehement hungrie desire of eating as thirst is of drinking which as Galen saith in his third booke of naturall Faculties stifleth and ch●aketh the stomacke with euill and noy some humors and dissolueth destroyeth the strength thereof it begetteth lothsomnes filleth all the body full of outragious and filthy diseases BArraine Scithia is Famines Country and the place of her aboade the sterill fruitlesse top of mount Caucasus Famine and dearth doe thus differ dearth is that vvhen all those things that belong to the life of man for example meate drinke apparrell lodging other things are rated at a high price Famine is when all these necessaries before named are not to be got for money though there be store of money God is the efficient cause of famine and sinnes the impulsiue or forcing causes which the holy Scripture setteth downe to be these Atheisme Idolatry cōtempt of Gods word priuate gaine periury and oppression couetousnes cruelty pride drunkennes and surfetting aud neglect of tyth-paying There was a generall dearth throughout all the world in the dayes of Claudius Caesar according to the prophecie of Agabus because the world was then like vnto the Emperour giuen ouer to all impiety drunkennes and ryot Famine and the pestilence are such fellow-like companions that the Grecians distinguish them but by one letter calling the pestilence Loimos and the famine Limos Famine is more intollerable then the pestilence or the sword therefore when God gaue Dauid his choice of these three euils he chose the pestilence as the easiest to bee endured After famine commeth the pestilence In the yeere 1438. Thuringia was oppressed with so great a famine that throughout al the Region the streetes in Citties and Villages lay full of deadbodies through putrefaction of which a plague followed whereby many thousands perished Eusebius in his ecclesiasticall history vvriteth that vvicked Herod King of the Iewes ended his wretched life as well by famine as the lousie euill Erisicthon for his impious sacriledge vvas plagued with such miserable extreame famine that hee vvas constrained to eate his owne flesh In the time of famine mice dogs horses asses cha●●e pels hides sawdust haue beene vsed for good sustenance at the last mans flesh yea that which is not to bee spoken without trembling the mothers haue beene constrained through hunger to eate theyr owne children as in the siege of Samaria in the first siege of Ierusalem vnder Nabuchadnezzer and in the last vnder the Emperour Vespasian and his sonne Titus Famine caused Abraham to flie from Canaan into Egipt from Gerar to Abimeleck It caused Iacob in his old age to flye to his son Ioseph in Egypt It caused Elimelech with his wife and children to leaue Israell and to flie into Moab and the Sunanitesse vvoman to leaue her owne Country The people of Egipt in Pharaobs time whē the great samine was were vrged to offer vp themselues in bondage and all that they had for Corne. Vrspergensis writeth that the great famine which befell in the yeere eyght hundred and ninety-eyght made men to eate and deuour one another Pliny sayth in his eight booke chapter 57. that when as Hanniball besieged Cassilinum a Citty in Italy in the Citty by reason of extreame scarsitie a mouse vvas solde for two hundred peeces of money and yet hee that sold it dyed for hunger and the buier liued Calagmiam a Citty in Spayne where Quintilian vvas borne beeing besieged of Cneus Pompeius endured such a samine that when there was no other liuing creature left in the Citty the inhabitants eate theyr owne wiues and children Fate for biddeth famine to abide wher plenty dwelleth Famine is like to the eating and deuouring Vl●er called Estiomenus called of Courtiers who commonly more then others are subiect thereunto the VVoolfe
stepdame into the house Quintilian VVe ought to giue good examples to children because if they see no vncomlines they shall be inforced to follow goodnes and vertue Xenophon The Lacedemonians aunswered Antipater that they vvould rather dye then giue him their children which he demaunded for hostages so great account made they of theyr education Amongst the Lideans such children as were not vertuous were disinherited Some haue written that at Rome in auntient time it was ordayned that children for the first fault should be told of it for the second punished for the third hanged and the Father banished Such as leaue great riches to their children without seeing them brought vp honestly are like vnto them that giue much prouender to young horses but neuer breake them at all for so they wax fatte but vnprofitable Socrates Hee which maketh his sonne worthy to be had in estimation hath done much for him although he leaue him but little wealth The Romaines had a good custome to put theyr chyldren to those whom they woulde haue them to imitate Chyldren ought to learne that which they should doe when they are men Agesil Cornelia coūted her children to be the chiefest treasure and riches which she had No punishment can bee thought greatenough for that child which should offer violence to his Parents vvhom if there were occasion offered he should bee ready to defend with losse of his owne life Striue not in wordes with thy Parents although thou tell the truth Solon being asked why he made no lawe for Paracides aunswered that he thought none would be so wicked Caereus in vitium puer est monitoribus asper Magnam vim magnam necessitudinem magnam possidet religionem paternus maternusque sanguis ex co si qua mucula concepta est non modo elui non potest verum eó vsque permanat ad animum vt summus furor atque amentia consequatur eum Of Youth Defi. Youth is the fourth age of man then doe men grow in body in strength and reason in vice and vertue and at that age the nature of a man is knowne and wherevnto hee bendeth his minde which before could not be discerned by reason of the ignorance of his age YOuth that heeretofore delighted to try theyr vertues in hard Armors take nowe theyr whole delight and content in delicate and effeminate amors VVantonnesse libertie youth and riches are alwayes enemies to honestie The deeds that men commit in their youth were neuer yet found so vpright and honest but it was thought more praise-worthy to amend them then declare them Youth going to warres ought to feare nothing but good and euill renowne Eurip. In the old time there were certaine persons chosen out of diuers good Townes which they called Sophronists who had a continuall charge and care to controle moderate and rule the manners of youth It is very requisite that youth bee brought vp in that part of learning which is called humilitie A man followeth all his life long his first addressing in his youth as if a tree blossom not in the spring it will hardly beare fruite in autumne As the Cipres tree the more it is vvatered the more it withereth the oftener it is lopped the sooner it dyeth so vnbridled youth the more it is by graue aduise counsayled or due corrections controled the sooner it falleth to confusion VVhere vice is imbraced in youth there commonly vertue is neglected in age Youth for the most part followeth wanton vvit too vvilfully neuer preuenting perrils while they are past nor dreadeth dangers vntill they be halfe drowned Youth fiereth his fancie vvith the flame of lust and old age fixeth his affections with the heate of loue Young yeeres make their account onely of the glistering shew of beauty but gray haires respect onely the perfect substance of vertue The minde of a young man is momentarie his fancie fading his affections fickle his loue vncertaine his liking as light as the winde his fancie fiered with euery new face and his minde moued with a thousand sundry motions lothing that which of late hee did loue and liking that for which his longing minde doth lust frying at the first and freezing at the last The follies that men cōmit in their youth are causes of repentance in old age Cupid alloweth none in his court but young men that can serue fresh beautifull to delight wise that can talke secrete to keepe silence faithfull to gratifie and valiant to reuenge his mistresse iniuries It is not loue but sorrow not mirth but displeasure not tast but torment not delight but despight not ioy but annoy not recreation but confusion when in a louer there is not both youth and libertie The prime of youth is as the flowers of the Pine tree which are glorious in sight vnsauorie in the smell Youth if it blush not at beautie and carrie antidots of wisedome against flatterie follie will be the next hauen he shall harbor in He that in youth guideth his life by reason shall in age finde the ready foote-path from ruine Theopom There is nothing sweeter then youth nor swifter decreasing while it is increasing Young VVillowes bende easily and greene vvitts are intangled suddainly So tutor youth that the sinnes of age bee not imputed to thee Pythag. Impardonable are theyr offences that for heaping vp of riches forget to bring vp their youth in honest manners Youth well instructed maketh age well disposed Hee is most perfit which adometh youth with vertues Hermes Noble wits corrupted in theyr youth vvith vice are more vngracious then pesants that are borne barbarous The better that a child is by byrth the better ought he in his youth to be instructed The impression of good doctrine stampt in youth no age nor fortune can out-weare Examples are the best lessons for youth VVhen young men will sport and recreate themselues let them beware of ryot and remember modestie The humor of youth is neuer to think that good whose goodnes he seeth not S. P. S. The death of youth is a shypwrack Youth ought to vse pleasure and recreation but as naturall ease and rest The instructions which are giuen to youth ought not to be teadious for beeing pithie and short they will the sooner heare them the better keepe them Young men are no lesse bound to their Tutors for the vertues they teach them then to theyr parents for the lyfe they gaue them It is most requisite that Princes prouide vertuous Tutors to instruct theyr chyldren in theyr youth that they may be after them the better able to gouerne their kingdoms Semper magno ingenio adolescentes refraenandi potius á gloria quam inuitandi sunt amputanda sunt plura illi aetati siquidem efflorescit ingerij laudibus Vicina est lapsibus iuuentus quia variarū aestus cupiditatum feruore calentis aetatis inflammatur Of Musicke Defi. Musicke is an insearchable and excellent Art in which by the true concordance of soundes a