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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	cause_n	great_a	life_n	4,477	5	4.3520	3	false

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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 whō 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 impatiēt in a frantike fury slue hir self so did hir husbād Fuluius An exāple 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 thē 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 inuēted 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 whō also the same nature hath enclosed and hedged in with teeth and lips as it were within a defēsible 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 cōuenient 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 cōdemned 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 cloquēce could prouoke and stir vp the most lumpish dullards of the world In like maner the ancient frēch 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