Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15631	A collection of emblemes, ancient and moderne quickened vvith metricall illustrations, both morall and divine: and disposed into lotteries, that instruction, and good counsell, may bee furthered by an honest and pleasant recreation. By George VVither. The first booke.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.; Passe, Crispijn van de, ca. 1565-1637, engraver.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1635 (1635)	STC 25900A; ESTC S118583	146,635	294

them who most need instruction may be made use of to stirre up the Affections winne Attention or help the Memory I approve and make use of to those good purposes according as my leisure and the measure of my Facultie will permit that Vanitie might not to worse ends get them wholly into her Possession For I know that the meanest of such conceites are as pertinent to some as Rattles and Hobby-horses to Children or as the A.B.C. and Spelling were at first to those Readers who are now past them And indeed to despâ—se Meane Inventions Pleasant Compositions and Verball Elegancies being qualified as is aforesaid or to banish them out of the world because there be other things of more excellencie were as absurd as to neglect and root out all Herbes which will not make Pottage Or to destroy all Flowers whâ—ch are lesse beautifull than the Tulip or lesse sweet than the Rose I that was never so sullenly wise have alwaies intermingled Sports with Seriousnesse in my Inventions and taken in Verball-conceites as they came to hand without Affectation But having ever aymed rather to profit my Readers than to gaine their praise I never pumpe for those things and am otherwhile contented to seeme Foolish yea and perhaps more foolâ—sh than I am to the Overweening-Wise that I may make others Wiser than they were And as I now doe am not ashamed to set forth a Game at Lots or as it were a Puppet-play in Pictures to allure men to the more serious observation of the profitable Morals couched in these Emblems Neverthelesse if some have sayd and thought truly my Poems have instructed and rectified many People in the Course of Honest-living which is the best Wisedome much more than the Austerer Volumes of some criticall Authors who are by the Common-sort therefore onely judged Wise because they composed Books which few understand save they who need them not In these Lots and Emblems I have the same ayme which I had in my other Writings and though I have not dressed them sutably to curious Fancies yet they yield wholsome nourishment to strengthen the constitution of a Good-life and have solidity enough for a Play-game which was but accidentally composed and by this Occasion These Emblems graven in Copper by Crispinus Passaeus with a Motto in Greeke Latine or Italian round about every Figure and with two Lines or Verses in one of the same Languages periphrasing those Motto's came to my hands almost twentie yeares past The Verses were so meane that they were afterward cut off from the Plates And the Collector of the said Emblems whether hee were the Versifier or the Graver was neither so well advised in the Choice of them nor so exact in observing the true Proprieties belonging to every Figure as hee might have beene Yet the Workman-ship being judged very good for the most part and the rest excusable some of my Friends were so much delighted in the Gravers art and in those Illustrations which for mine owne pleasure I had made upon some few of them that they requested mee to Moralize the rest Which I condiscended unto And they had beene brought to view many yeares agoe but that the Copper Prints which are now gotten could not be procured out of Holland upon any reasonable Conditions If they were worthy of the Gravers and Printers cost being onely dumbe Figures little usefull to any but to young Gravers or Painters and as little delightfull except to Children and Childish-gazers they may now be much more worthy seeing the life of Speach being added unto them may make them Teachers and Remembrancers of profitable things I doe not arrogate so much unto my Illustrations as to thinke they will be able to teach any thing to the Learned yet if they cast their eyes upon them perhaps these Emblems and their Morals may remember them either of some Dutie which they might else forget or minde them to beware of some Danger which they might otherwise be unheedfull to prevent But sure I am the Vulgar Capacities may from them be many waies both Instructed and Remembred yea they that have most need to be Instructed and Remembred and they who are most backward to listen to Instructions and Remembrances by the common Course of Teaching and Admonishing shall be hereby informed of their Dangers or Duties by the way of an honest Recreation before they be aware For when levitie or a childish delight in triflâ—ng Objects hath allured them to looke on the Pictures Curiositie may urge them to peepe further that they might seeke out also their Meanings in our annexed Illustrations In which may lurke some Sentence or Expression so evidently pertinent to tâ—eir Estates Persons or Affections as wâ—ll at that instant or afterward make way for those Considerations which will at last wholly change them or much better them in their Conversation To seeke out the Author of every particular Emblem were a labour without profit and I have beene so far from endeavouring it that I have not so much as cared to find out their meanings in any of these Figures but applied them rather to such purposes as I could thinke of at first sight which upon a second view I found might have beene much betterd if I could have spared time from other imployments Something also I was Confined by obliging my selfe to observe the same number of lines in every Illustration and otherwhile I was thereby constrained to conclude when my best Meditations were but new begunne which though it hath pleased Some by the more comely Vnâ—formitie in the Pages yet it hath much injured the libertie of my Muse There be no doubt some faults committed by the Printer both Literall and Materiall and some Errors of the Gravers in the Figures as in the Tetragrammaton in the Figure of Arion and in the Proprieties due to some other Hieroglyphicks but for the most part they are such as Common-Readers will never perceive and I thinke that they who are Judicious will so plainly finde them to be no faults of mine that leaving them to be amended by those to whom they appertaine and You to accept of these Play-games as you please I bid you Farewell The Occasion Intention and use of the Foure Lotteries adjoyned to these foure Books of Emblems STultorum plena sunt omnia The world is growne so in Love with Follie that the Imprinting of over-solid and serâ—ous â—â—atises would undoe the Book-sellers especially being so chargeable as the many costly Sculptures have made this Booke therefore to advance their Profits rather than to satisfie my owne Iudgement I was moved to invent somewhat which might be likely to please the vulgar Capacitie without hindrance to my chiefe End And though that which I resolved on be not so Plausible to Criticall understandings yet I am contented to hazzard among them so much of my Reputation as that comes to I have often observed that where the Summer-bowers of Recreation are placed neare the Church it drawes

him whose vertues are of little price And whose estate was gotten by his Vice You shall behold another Mushrome there Walke with our Lords as if hee were their Peere That was well knowne to be but tother day No fit companion for such men as they And had no other meanes to climbe this height But Gaming or to play the Parasite Yet though he neither hath his Trade nor Lands Nor any honest In come by his hands Hee oft consumes at once in Games or Cheare More than would keepe his Better all the yeare Yea many such as these thou shouldst behold Which would bee vext if I describe them should For thus unworthily blind Fortune flings To Crowes and Geese and Swine her precious things The best good-turnes that Fooles can doe us Proove disadvantages unto us STULTORUM ADIUMENTA NOCUMENTA ILLVSTR. XVII Book 4 A Foole sent forth to fetch the Goslings home When they unto a Rivers brinck were come Through which their passage lay conceiv'd a feare His Dames best Brood might have been drowned there Which to avoyd hee thus did shew his wit And his good nature in preventing it Hee underneath his girdle thrusts their heads And then the Coxcombe through the water wades Here learne that when a Foole his helpe intends It rather doth a mischiefe then befriends And thinke if there be danger in his love How harmefull his Maliciousnesse may prove For from his kindenesse though no profit rise To doe thee spight his Malice may suffise I could not from a Prince beseech a boone By suing to his Iester or Buffoone Nor any Fooles vaine humor sooth or serve To get my bread though I were like to starve For to be poore I should not blush so much As if a Foole should raise me to be rich Lord though of such a kinde my faults may be That sharpe Affliction still must tutor mee And give me due Correction in her Schooles Yet oh preserve me from the scorne of Fooles Those wicked Fooles that in their hearts have sed There is no God and rather give me Bread By Ravens LORD or in a Lions Den Then by the Favours of such foolish men Lest if their dainties I should swallow downe Their smile might more undoe me then their frowne Though weaknesse unto mee belong In my Supporter I am strong TE STANTE VIREBO ILLVSTR. XVIII Book 4 ALthough there bee no Timber in the Vine Nor strength to raise the climbing Ivie-twine Yet when they have a helper by their side Or prop to stay them like this Pyramide One roote sometime so many Sprayes will beare That you might thinke some goodly Grove it were Their tender stalkes to climbe aloft are seene Their boughs are cover'd with a pleasant greene And that which else had crept upon the ground Hath tops of loftie trees and turrets crown'd This Emblem fitly shadowes out the Natures Of us that are the Reasonable-creatures For wee are truely by our nat'rall-birth Like Vines undrest and creeping on the earth Nor free from spoyling nor in case to beare Good fruits or leaves while we are groveling there But if new-borne by Grace streight borne are wee From earthly creepings by that Living-tree Which here was planted meerely to this end That by his pow'r our weaknesse might ascend And hee our frailtie to himselfe so takes So of his might the partners us hee makes That hee in us doth seeme to hide his pow'rs And make the strength hee gives appeare as ours Continue Lord this Grace and grant wee may Firme hold on our Supporter alwayes lay So climbing that wee nor neglect nor hide His Love nor over-climbe it by our Pride Thus our yet staggering weaknesse shall at length Bee fully changed into perfect Strength Be wary whosoe're thou be For from Loves arrowes none are free FERIO ILLVSTR. XIX Book 4 GOod Folkes take heede for here 's a wanton Wagge Who having Bowes and Arrowes makes his bragg That he hath some unhappy trick to play And vowes to shoot at all he meets to day Pâ—ay be not carelesse for the Boy is blinde And sometimes strikes where most he seemeth kinde This rambling Archer spares nor one nor other Yea otherwhile the Monkey shoots his Mother Though you be little Children come not neere For I remember though 't be many a yeare Now gone and past that when I was a Lad My Heart a pricke by this young Wanton had That pain'd me seven yeares after nor had I The grace thus warn'd to scape his waggery But many times ev'n since I was a man He shot me oftner then I tell you can And if I had not bene the stronger-hearted I for my over-daring might have smarted You laugh now as if this were nothing so But if you meet this Blinkard with his Bow You may unlesse you take the better care Receive a wound before you be aware I feare him not for I have learned how To keepe my heart-strings from his Arrowes now And so might you and so might ev'ry one That vaine Occasions truely seekes to shunn But if you sleight my Counsells you may chance To blame at last your willfull ignorance For some who thought at first his wounds but small Have dyed by them in an Hospitall On whether side soe're I am I still appeare to bee the same QUOCUNQUE FERAR ILLVSTR. XX. Book 4 THis Cube which is an equall-sided-square Doth very well in Emblem-wise declare The temper of that vertuous minded man Whose resolutions nothing alter can For as the Cube which way soever plac't Stands ever in one posture firmely fast And still appeares the same in forme and size Vpon what side or part soe're it lyes So men well formed by the Word divine And truly squar'd by vertuous Discipline Will keepe though changes them shall turne wind The forme and firmnesse of an honest-minde If digging deepe his Fortunes lay him there Where he his owne and others weights must beare There many yeares compelling him to lie Opprest with dis-respect or povertie Hee keepes the place to which hee stands enjoyn'd And brooks his chances with a constant mind If shee remoove him thence and set him up On temporall Prosperities high top The Squarenesse of Plaine dealing hee retaines And in the same integritie remaines Nor coveting vaine Wealth or false esteemes Nor being any other than he seemes Although by Nature wee are wondrous hard Lord let us into such like Stones be squar'd Then place us in thy spirituall Temple so That into one firme Structure we may grow And when we by thy Grace are fitted thus Dwell Thou thy selfe for evermore in us Deformitie within may bee Where outward Beauties we doe see BELLA IN VISTA DENTRO TRISTA ILLVSTR. XXI Book 4 LOoke well I pray upon this Beldame here For in her habit though shee gay appeare You through her youthfull vizard may espy Shee 's of an old Edition by her Eye And by her wainscot face it may bee seene Shee might your Grandams first dry-nurse have been This

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