Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	better_a	life_n	live_v	5,110	5	5.5526	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09791	Tho. wyatis translatyon of Plutarckes boke, of the quyete of mynde; De tranquilitate animi. English	Plutarch.; Wyatt, Thomas, Sir, 1503?-1542.	1528 (1528)	STC 20058.5; ESTC S110511	21,620	56

no speche that soner rebuketh thaffectionate ê‘te of the mynde whaÌ„ it is drawen ouertwhartly with affectioÌ„s whan it snatcheth the byt of reson iÌ„ the teth thaÌ„ that that warneth vs of our comen naturall necessites vnto whiche necessite man is borue entangled as the body groweth whiche shall gyue vnto stryuing fortune a knot sure of all other thinges that ar most chefe grettest They say Demetrius whan he sacked the town of MegareÌ„sisâ— asked of Stylpo if any of his goâ—des was taken froÌ„ him to whom he answered I sawe no body take away myn for wher as fortune hath suffred all her thiÌ„ges to be taken froÌ„ her yet haue we no such thiÌ„ges iÌ„ vs as nother the grekê caÌ„ do nor suffre it is nat therfore mete so moch to forsak nature as hauyng no streÌ„gth nor sufferauÌ„ce to matche fortunes violeÌ„ce wher as we knowe rightwell that that that iÌ„ man may be hurt with fortune is but a lytell and the worst parte of vs frayle ouerthrowen with euery impression by deynte tendernesse and that we our self haue the power ouer the better partes wherin be set those grettest good thinges as in an vnslypper place and where also true glory leruiÌ„ges studys ê‘tayniÌ„g to vtue haue their beiÌ„g nother mortall nor byreueable by no streÌ„gth thus I say knowiÌ„g our selfes of vnuyncible miÌ„de for trustiÌ„g to our self ê it becometh vs to be assured agayn thiÌ„ges to come to saye that to fortune that Socrates fayniÌ„g did say by Auitus Melitus his accusers truly ê™ he to the iugê Auytus and Melitus may slee me but to do me hurt or displeasure they can nat for tho fortune might ouerthrow hym with dyuers sicknesses take froÌ„ him his riches or accuse hym to a tyrant or to the people yet might she nat truely make hym yll or faynt herted or fearfull or altred of his mynde or els make hym malicyous but onely a good man endued with manlynesse and corage of the mynde at a worde she might nat bereue him the right order of the mynde whiche truely profiteth more to man for the ledyng of the lyfe than the craft of sayling for to passe the sees For the maryner be he neuer so coÌ„ning can nat by any meanes redresse the fury of the water nor repulse the assaut of the feirce wynde no more than get a hauen where he wolde whan so euer he wolde retourne from the see No nor this cometh nat to him by craft that whan he is taken with tempest coÌ„stantly and vnferfully to handle the necessite herto it helph nat that whilst he dispayreth nat for place for his craft takyng iÌ„ the sayle driueth as he may with the teÌ„pest the coward now sitteth down with wriÌ„ging haÌ„des from all this geâ—e whyle the mast is drowned with force of winde he shaketh with treÌ„bling fere but in a wyse man an ordred miÌ„de with the body briÌ„geth faire wether that is to say with contynence and tempre of fode and labour wipyng away the causes of sicknesse and if there be any outwarde cause of trouble in the whiche a mans mynde is ron as iÌ„ the roky flaâ—tes with quicke pullynge vp the sayle yarde as Asclepiades saith it passeth ouer And if so be it enâ—rese and growe more than can be socourd or suffred by man the hauen is nat fer of and there resteth to the to swym out of the body as out of the ship boote whan it wyll holde no more Truly foles nat so moche for the desyre of lyfe as for the feare of dethe hangiÌ„g on the body cleue fast with claspyng haÌ„des no notherwise than Ulixes dyd haÌ„g on the wylde figge tree whan he feared the russhing of the horelpole Caribdis whom Homer saith was so nere taken in the see of Sycill that he coud nother stoppe by reason of the wynde that shoued hym nor yet get out so dyd that let him and as tho he held the wolfe by the ere 's as the prouerbe saith coud nother hold the ire for werynesse discomodite of the chauÌ„ce nor let it go for fere of the dredfull pyll But if any maÌ„neuer so lytell coÌ„syder the nature of our soule and doth recken with hym selfe the passage from the state of this lyfe to be to a better or at the lest to no worse by deth truly he hath alredy no lytell forderaunce for his iourney that is to saye the contempt of deth For who that what with valyaunt vertue whiche is the properte and peculyarite of man and what with ordriÌ„g assuredly the mynde agaynst for rayne and straunge thinges whiche coÌ„e besyde nature mightely to ouerthrowe our proper thynges may lyue so plesaÌ„tly that he may say I may go I may go my way surely at the first tym with the good leue of god whan I wyll whan I pray the other greuous or coÌ„brous or troublous thyng can happen vnto him Of trouth what soeuer he is that saith this worde I haue preuented the o fortune and all thy entres were they neuer so streyte I haue stopte this man nat with berres nor nayles nor byldinges hath coraged and streÌ„gthed hym selfe but rather with decrees of philosophy and rules of wisemen whiche also be open so redy for euery maÌ„ that they nede but only the takynge Nor we may nat take away byleue in those thynges that haue ben left to our remembraunce of our elders nor dispeyre in nothyng of theÌ„ as tho thei were nat possible to be folowd but as it is mete to loke vpon them and to marueyle moche of them as it were by grace wondringe of them so must we make our selfes by confyrmynge vs to their folowing lyklihodes of them that by beginnynges set in small thynges as sayeng gretter and gretter we may profite to the hyest But we must diligently loke that we put nat the thoughtes of these thinges out of our mynd nor that we let to tourne oft these thinges in our thought and as they say to thinke on them with all our hert Nor this busynesse endeth no gret labour for as a certeyn swetnesse of the mynde noyeth vs and hath taught vs with slouthful and vnexercised tendernesse and hauntynge most prone thynges of lest busynesse by an naughty fauour hath taught it selfe out of vndelightsome thynges to turne it selfe to eche plesant thyng so lykwise if any man vse to fayne in his mynd the ymages of sicknesse of labour of exyle to gader vnto him the streÌ„gthes of his reason to discus diligently eche by hym selfe this man this sâ—all without fayle se that those thynges for the most part ar vayn and dispiâ—able that seme heuy ferefull and horrible and to say trouth threten more with their loke than they do in the departyng But many abhorre that worde of Menander that any man a lyue may nat glorie in â—ayeng this I wyll nat suffre for that they knowe nat what it aueyleth for to auoyde heuines to thynke and to vse to

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