Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	call_v	great_a	life_n	5,322	5	4.1291	3	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06881	A treatise of the good and euell tounge With the vnstablenesse of the same, and also with the abuses thereof. With a discourse of the punishment which the Lord hath shewed on al those which through swearing and periuring themselues, haue broken Gods commandements: as by this treatise most plainely appeareth. Made by Iohn of Marconuille gentleman.	Marconville, Jean de.; T. S., fl. 1592.	1592 (1592)	STC 17313; ESTC S119680	18,834	60

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Licimacus offred to the Poet Philippide al that lay in his power to do to whoÌ„ the Poet said My Lord the best benefite I can receiue of you is neuer to know your secrets this thing was not obserued of Fuluius who knowing a great secret of the Emperour Octauius did impart it to his wife she disclosed it to diuers others which hir husband often laid reprochfully to hir charge whereof shee being impatieÌ„t in a frantike fury slue hir self so did hir husbaÌ„d Fuluius An exaÌ„ple not far vnlike to this is recited by Pliny of the Philosopher Anazerxes who be reft himself of his tunge teeth also that he wold not reueal a certain secret which the tyrant Nicocrion sought violently to wrest from him The like we reade of Zenon a Philosopher which chose rather to cut of his tongue then to disclose his freendes councell The Athenians made an Image of the dust of a Lionesse in the remembrance and honour of a certaine wanton woman called Lionesse who hauing familiar company with Harmodius and Aristogidon tyrants and enimies to the Athenian estate concealed from theÌ„ a certaine couert conspiracie for which cause she is pictured without any tongue to giue notice of hir secrecy The seruants of Plocius Plancus as Valerius writeth endured sharpe torments and strappadoes because they would not vtter where their maister had hid him selfe to his enimies who sought to haue slaine him Acgisilaus king of Sparta greatly marueiled when it was told him to a condemned man which for anye crueltie that was done vnto him woulde neuer speake a worde The seruant of Cato the orator hauing seene a certaine trespasse committed by his maister to the death woulde neuer vtter it A Romaine Tribune demaunded on a time of Metellus a valliant captaine what hee ment to do concerning a conflict which was at hande He aunswered if I knewe that my shirt had intelligence of that I pretend to do I would straight waies cast it in the fire When Darius was ouerthrowne and vanquished by Alexander conueied him selfe into a close corner they which saw this and knewe where he was woulde not bewray him although they suffered the most bitter paines that could be inueÌ„ted Horace amongst his conuiuall constitutions willeth that euery man should kepe close that which is said and done at bankets It was a custome among the Athenians that when they were assembled at a feast the grauest man of them all did alwaies keepe the dore saying to them that entred there take heede sirs that not one word be blowne abroad of all that is done here The order of Pithagoras discipline was chiefely to inure his disciples to secrecie to the which ende a long time they kept silence and he had neuer any Scholer but he sat mute two yeares at the least that thereby they being accustomed to secretnes might learne neuer to speake but when necessity did compell them Aristotle being asked what was the most difficult thing for a man to rule sayde to holde his peace Saint Ambrose amongst the principall groundes of vertue hath placed Taciturnitie The ancient Egiptians reuerence Harpocrate for the god of secrecy So did the Romaines Angenora as goddesse of the same silence whom they painted closing her mouth with her fynger in token of secrecie For to conclude this matter of silence Quintus Curtius sheweth vs that the Percians had a custome which might not be broken which was to punish aboue all offenders him that had bewraied anie secret committed vnto him Further such is the prouidence of nature in the situation of our members that she hath assigned to ech one his right roome aswell for the dignitie and decoration of the bodie as for the commoditie and vse of the members The braine which is the very feate of reason the most worthie part of man is placed all aloft in the head as in an imperiall throne there to prescribe and beare rule ouer the inferior partes the tongue which is the interpreter of the inwarde thoughtes of the hart is setled in the middest of both to the ende it should be vnder the braine and not far from the hart whoÌ„ also the same nature hath enclosed and hedged in with teeth and lips as it were within a defeÌ„sible bulwarke that it might not be ranging vnaduisedly for this cause the Poet Hesiodus compareth the tongue to a hidden treasure which should not be vsed but when necessitie doth constraine The Prophet Esay reioyseth aboue measure of the good gift he had in his toung saying God hath giuen mee a pleasant tongue a tongue rightly instructed that it should declare his words in due and coÌ„uenient time to the comfort of them that be in misery but to the slothfull he hath framed my speeches more pearcing then the two edged sword By our tongues saith Saint Iames wee praise God To his purpose I remember a storie of a man coÌ„demned to death by an inferior Iudge before his death to be bereft of his toung the poore fellow appealed to the parliament of Tolosa there vttering his humble petitions said that the principall cause that moued him to appeale was for that hee was condemned to haue his tongue cut off afore his death which God had giuen him to praise his name that it were great wrong that he should bee destitute of so good a member at the last instant of his life Now if men maruell at a litle fish called Remora which is in length scarce halfe a foote nor in breadth fiue inches who notwithstanding mauger the rage of the surging seas and blustering winds is able to stay a ship in the middest of his course as though it were tied fast with an ankar Then with more iust reason wee may wonder at the tongue who being so litle a member can stir vp so manie millions of men and incencing countrey against countrey and Citie against Cittie for this cause the Poets haue fained of old that Mercury had a magicall rod called Caduse which in deede was nothing else but an eloquent tongue whereby he perswaded or diswaded men at his pleasure And for this cause they sayd of olde that Amphion forced great rockes to moue out of their place by the sweete sound of his Harpe So did Orpheus cause okes and elmes to leape for ioy of his harmony wherby it is signified that the swet melody of their cloqueÌ„ce could prouoke and stir vp the most lumpish dullards of the world In like maner the ancient freÌ„ch men fayned that one Hercules Selticus who hauing a litle chain through the top of his tongue wherunto was tied a great number of mens eares he led them whether pleased him Wherby he ment that by the dexterity of his talke he made men to incline to what part he listed Some men attributed to Socrates some to Pericles such a pleasant toung that they could transforme their hearers And for this cause were called flexanimi because they turned the minds of men euen as they

of the tongue is in Gods hand Prou. 16. ONe of the principall pointes that maketh a wise maÌ„ to be knowne is rightly to gouerne his tongue and aptly to coÌ„duct his speech for it is commonlie seene that the stroke of the tongue is more dangerous then the dent of the speare Insomuch that this wound may easily be salued but the hurt which the wicked tongue leaueth behinde him is alwaies incurable Wherefore the sage Sirach saith That hee may be worthily couÌ„ted happy which neuer offeÌ„ded by his vnruly tongue And this is hee which by the assertion of Saint Iames is iudged a perfect man It is a thing by custome incident to humaine things that from whence we cull any commoditie from thence oftentimes wee gather also manie mishaps and miseries for as it is apparant that the starres and celestiall bodies are most necessarie to the sustenaunce of this our life whereof dependeth all the properties and inclinations of these inferior bodies yet out of them issueth extreeme calamitie which wee may hardly auoid by any aduise as when it happeneth vs to be borne vnder a peruerse climate or coÌ„stellation through the beneuolence of the aire wee drawe our breath and enioy our vitall spirites but when it is infected it fretteth euery corner full of maladie wailings and mortalities men cannot want the diuers vtillities which the sea and waters daily conueieth vnto them yet when with might maine they surmount their appointed limits they damnifie many thousandes in one moment whereof the inhabitants neers the Riuer of Loire may be very good witnesses by the inspeakable losse which lately chaunced to them thereby in the yeare of our Lord God 1570. The life of man cannot be continued without the vse of fire yet who can vtter the soden frights dreadfull Tragedies which it hath brought forth of the earth mother nurse of all growing creatures comes ruines tremblings earthquakes gapings pestiferous exhalations which sore annoieth mankind euen so is the tongue as it is coÌ„ducted for if it be well guided there is nothing better nothing more pleasant but if it be suffered to run at randon nothing is more perillous The tongue God wot is a litle member of slender substaÌ„ce notwithstanding in it is conreined fire water souerein salue deadly poisoÌ„ destructioÌ„ saluatioÌ„ for in this world cannot be fouÌ„d a greater mischief theÌ„ a venimous tung nor a more better thing then friendly wordes and workes agreeable to the same For this cause the renowned wise Byas or as some others will haue it Pytacus sent the toÌ„gue of a certeine beasâ— allotted to be sacrificed to a King of Aegypt called Amasis for the verie worst and best member of the beast Thereby to giue vs notice that in a man nothing is more excellent than the vse of a wel tempered tongue nor nothing more villainous then a vyperous tongue Socrates the most vigilant Historiographer sheweth howe on a daie Pambus a silly sot deuoid of knowledge bethought him to goe to a certeine famous Doctor to be instructed better furnished in his defects who after he had heard the first verse of the 38. Psalme c. I will direct my waies that I may not offende in my tongue rose vp vpon the sodeine tooke leaue of his maister and departed saying That he desired to learne nothing more so that he might accomplish in his deedes the contents of this one verse Signifying â—ereby that the chiefest perfection the â—st propertie perteining to a man is to â—orderate his tongue for ouermuch babâ—e is euer subiect to controlment and he â—â—at warely weareth his tongue sheweth â—â—mselfe to be wise and he that gards his â—outh and tongue gards his own soule Plutarch compareth these prating parâ—ts to emptie vessels which being sounâ—ed yeeldes a lowder noise then those â—hich are wel fraught with good liquor Isocrates in his booke dedicated to Deâ—onicus saith That there are two times â—t for talking the one when necessitie â—oth vrge vs the other wheÌ„ a man speaâ—eth of that whereof he is verie wel skiled It was obiected to Cherillus for what â—ause Lycurgus had made so fewe ordiâ—ances Hee replied that the multitude of â—wes and statutes was nothing needfull â—o men that are spare of speech Wee are â—aught by the Phylosopher Zenon that â—ature hath giuen vs two eares to heare â—ur fill but one onely tongue to speake seldome Whervnto accordeth S. Paul saying Bee you quicke in hearing bâ—slowe in speaking Sueton also recordeâ— that the principall cause whereof Octâ—uian aboue all other fauoured and faâ—cied Mecaenas was for the great tenperance hee vsed in his talke Cicero râ—citeth Cato the Oratour woulde neuâ—â— leaue in writing anie his Orations affiâ—ming that if it chaunced him to repeâ—â— ought that hee had said hee woulde nâ—â— be vpbraid with his writing which he could not denie Cato the Censor beeinâ— snapt at for his too much sobrietie iâ— talke insomuche that his taciturnitiâ— was of most men thought worthie â—reprehension aunswered that the hoâ—ding of his peace should not offende anie man considering his life was innocent and altogither without blame foâ— then hee vsed to speake when heâ— might or longe bee silent Into thâ— same reproach fell Heckades anoble Oratour of Greece because hee sat mute â—eeing inuited to a solemne banquet where others chatted and iangled out of â—easure which Archidamidas perceiâ—ing aunswered in the behalfe of Hecâ—ades to him that scoffed him for holâ—ing his peace Art thou ignorant saide â—ee that those which can wisely speake â—an also warely holde their peace when â—hey see the times and tides not apt for â—â—lke Hee therfore which will speake must â—vel consider before hee open his mouth whither the wordes hee is about to vtâ—er may in time to come bee preiudiciall vnto him hauing alwaies in minde the â—ncient Prouerbe Lingua quÃ² vadis Tongue whither wilt thou Amongest many goodly examples of â—oo much talke that which is written of â—he Poet Ibyque seemeth verie fit for our purpose who beeing sharpely assayled and besette on all sides with a route of carelesse and roysting robbers in a place far secluded from sucker where he could not be seene or heard of anie man the poore Poet this distressed Ibyque seeing himselfe readie to bee sacrificed no knowing where to complaine appeal for iustice sawe a company of Cranes iâ— the aire to whom he called aloud O you Cranes be you witnesses of the fraud and villany that I here receiue after his death all passed a long time before it couldâ— bee knowne who was guiltie thereof till on a dismoll day that men assembled themselues to a Faier where also the murtherers of Ibyque made their appearaunce it chaunced that at the same time certeine Cranes came that way one of the same murderers smiling said to his companions behold where flies the witnesses of the Poet Ibyque which thing being noted of one that stood by suspected them of the fact committed wherof incoÌ„tinent he

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