Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	daughter_n	king_n	wife_n	4,569	5	6.4342	4	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06341	The prouerbes of the noble and woorthy souldier Sir Iames Lopez de Mendoza Marques of Santillana with the paraphrase of D. Peter Diaz of Toledo: wherin is contained whatsoeuer is necessarie to the leading of an honest and vertuous life. Translated out of Spanishe by Barnabe Googe.; Proverbios. English	Santillana, Iñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de, 1398-1458.; Googe, Barnabe, 1540-1594.; Pedro, de Toledo, Bishop of Málaga, d. 1499.	1579 (1579)	STC 16809; ESTC S108829	87,267	250

great griefe and mourning bewailed his offence Hee committed adulterie with the wife of Vrias who was mother to Solomon for the which greeuous offence the Lorde was more offended with him then for all that euer hee did as is to be seene at large in his life The Doctour SExtus Tarquinius was the sonne of Tarquinius the King as Liuie in the first of his Decades writeth The like is affirmed by Saint Augustine in his boke of the Citie of GOD Valerius Maximus and many other auncient writers No lesse was Lucretia famous for her vertue then was this Tarquine to be abhorred for his wickednesse Amongst many that haue written of the woorthinesse of this Ladie none doeth so greatly delite me as M. Iohn Galensis in a booke that hee wrote of the foure principal vertues whoÌ„ I only determin to folow His words as I haue translated theÌ„ out of the Tuscan tongue are these Well woorthie of immortall and euerlasting remembraunce is the noble vertuous Lady Lucretia Who refusing to liue any longer did rip out the stain of the villany and violence done vnto her with the death of her owne person The maner wherof S. Augustine telleth in his boke of the citie of God saying that Sextus Tarquinius came with Collatinus the husbande of Lucretia to a house of his called CollatinuÌ„ where they found Lucretia vertuously disposed amongst her maidens and women the only Paragon of her time most commended of all others was this Lucretia Whom when the sonne of Tarquinius king of the Romans had throughly behelde he was presently inflamed with disordinate and wicked loue towardes her whereuppon within a fewe dayes after accompanied only with one man he returneth vnknowne to Collatinus vnto the aforesaide place where he was honourably entertained and receiued of Lucretia who made him great cheare and lodged him according to his estate supposing that she had had her friende and not her enimie in her house Tarquinius being now a bed al a fire with the flames of beastly desire perceiuing that they were all fast a sleepe in the house taking his swoorde in his hande leapeth out of his bed and goeth directly to the chamber of Lucretia whom he founde fast a sleepe where laying his hande vpon her brest he said vnto her Lie stil Lucretia I am Sextus Tarquinius yf thou makest any noise thou shalt die for it Wherewithall the Lady beeing with great feare awaked and seeing no succour about her nor any waye too escape death Tarquinius beginneth to disclose vnto her his great affection and somtime with faire woordes intreating her and sometime againe terribly threatning her assaieth all the waies that he can deuise to bryng her to graunt to his desire But when he saw that she was by no waies to be remooued from her stedfast and chaste minde and that the terrour of death coulde nothing preuaile he casteth about againe and thinkeeth to boorde her on an other side and saith vnto her I will tel thee what I will doe if thou wilt not consent vnto me I wyll first kill thee and afterwards kill an euil fauoured knaue that I haue heere in the house and laye him in bedde with thee whereby it shal be reported to the worlde that thou wert taken in shameful and filthie adulterie And with this feare he ouercame the chaste minde of the vertuous Ladie and hauing obteined his desire with great disdaine departed Wherewith the poore Lucrecia beeing now ouerwhelmed with sorowe and pensiuenesse for her great and greeuous mishappe sendeth with al speede possible to her father her husbande and all other their friendes at Rome earnestly desiring them to come vnto her with as muche haste as they coulde VVho when they were come Lucrecia all heauie and sorowfull in her bedde at their entring into the house fell into a great weeping and when her friendes began to salute her and to bid her bee of good comfort Alas quoth she What comforte can there be to a woman that hath lost her chastitie and lookeing stedfastly vppon her husbande shee cried out and saide O Collatinus the feete of a straunger hath been in thy bed But I sweare vnto thee of a trueth only the body is defiled for the mind was neuer consenting and that shal my death presently declare And therefore I require you all to shewe your selues men and not to suffer this horrible act to remaine vnpunished Sextus Tarquinius was he whom I receiued not as an enimie but as a supposed friende who hath this laste night depriued me and you also yf you be men of al ioy VVhen shee had vttered these wordes they all beganne to comfort her and to tel her that her offence was nothing beeyng forced and constrained thereunto and that where there was no consent there coulde be no offence VVhereunto Lucrecia replied and saide As for that looke you to those thinges that concerne your selues I though I dooe cleare my selfe of beeing guiltie of any offence yet doe I not discharge my selfe of punishment There shal neuer chaste woman take occasion to be euyll by the example of Lucrecia And with these wordes plucking out a knife that she had secretly hidden and thrusting it to her hart she fell downe dead whereat both her husbande and Brutus her father makyng great lamentation presently drewe out the knife out of the wounde being al stained embrued with blood which knife Brutus takyng in his hande sware to reuenge the iniurie and the death of his daughter and to destroy both Tarquin the king his wife and his children either by fyer by swoord or by al the waies that he might and neuer to suffer any of the kindred to reigne in Rome VVith which he gaue the knife to Collatinus and so from one to another Whereby this mourning chaunged into wrath and desire of reuenge they all made promise to folowe Brutus and taking with them the body of Lucretia they brought it to Rome and laide it in the middest of the market place to the ende that the horrour of so strange a facte might stirre vppe the people to reuenge it At the sight wherof the people were straight in armes and folowing Brutus they thrust out of Rome Sextus Tarquinius who after miserably died in prison 4â— No lesse was worthie Scipio Commended for the deede That from his chaste and worthie mind Did worthily proceede Then for his valiant manly actes Esteemed in his daies By which he to his Countrey got A neuer dieyng praise The Paraphrase of the Marques COrnelius Scipio as Valerius rehearseth in his thirde booke hauing taken the Citie of Carthage was tolde by his souldiours that in the sacke of the Towne there was taken a young maiden of woonderful beauty great parentage who was affianced to a Gentleman of the nobilitie which as soone as he vnderstoode he commaunded that the Damsel her husbande and her parentes should be brought before him and caused the young maide safe and vntouched to be deliuered vnto them

mother to the Virgin Mary and wife to Ioachim a woman of great sanctitie and vertuousnesse of life An other of the same name was sister to Queene Dido a woman of great commendation among the heathen both of them as wel she of the Hebrues as the Heathen were worthy to be had in continual memory Dido as appeareth by her true story was the daughter of King Belus sister to Pigmalion wife of Sichaeus who after the death of her husband made a vowe neuer to marry againe forsooke the countrie where her husband was murdered by the meanes of her traiterous brother Pigmalion comming into Affrica founded the stately Citie of Carthage Where while shee purposed to liue a sole and a chaste life beeing required in marriage by the King Hiarbas and vtterly refusing she was by the saide Hiarbas strongly besieged and brought to so hard a poynt that seeing no other way to escape and to preserue her chastitie chosing rather to die then to liue thus violated threw her self into a great flame of fire so ended her daies This story although Virgill doe otherwise declare yet is he not considering the liberty of a Poet greatly to be blamed Virginea with what earnestnesse she was required by Appius Claudius to conseÌ„t to his dishonest and vnlawfull lust is sufficiently declared by Liuie in his second Decade and likewise by Iohn Boccace in his Booke Of the fall of Princes where it is at large declared with howe great constancy the chaste mayden preserued her virginitie 54. Prefer a life with libertie aboue all other things A vertue great it is and worthy of the paines it bringes A shamefull great reproch it is without it for to flye An honourable thing it is for such a good to dye The Paraphrase THe auncient Philosophers were of opinion that all the Vertues were to be reduced into the number of foure which they named Cardinall or principall vertues whereof they accounted to bee chiefe Fortitude or manhood which as Aristotle in the thirde of his Ethicks testifieth is so much the more excellent and praiseworthy as the subiect and matter wherwith it dealet his dreadful and difficult for manhood hath for his obiect or contrary Death which is as Aristotle saith the last of all dreadfull and terrible thinges beside the great dangers and sharp and cruell aduentures So as by reason of the difficultie or hardnesse of the obiect there are but few that happen to attaine to this vertue And as it is written in the Ciuil lawe those that lose their liues for the libertie of their countrey are counted to liue for euer for muche better is it for a man to dye freely in fight for the libertie of his Countrie then escaping to liue with a shamefull and cowardly flight And as the Prouerb heere saith and they be the very words in effect of Aristotle in the 3. of the Ethicks The death that is honourable is to be preferred before a dishonourable life which the Marques doth plainly set foorth by examples following 55. Oh what a death had Cato dyed if it had lawfull beene And had not by the iust decrees of God beene made a sinne No lesse doe I the worthy fact of Mucius heere commend That Lyuie in his story hath so eloquently pende The Paraphrase AFter that Pompey was ouerthrowen by Caesar at the battail of Pharsalia had retired him selfe to Lesbos where his wife Cornelia lay passing from thence to Aegypt was slaine by the hands of Photinus and Achillas at the coÌ„maundement of king Ptolomei who was at that time his seruant Cato who saw that the side of Pompey went in such sort to wrack as was not by any meanes to be recouered fled vnto the citie of Vtica where fearing by some misaduenture to fall into the handes of Caesar his mortall enemie he presently dispatthed him selfe Mucius Sceuola was a man of great courage among the Romanes who when Porsenna the King had with a great power besieged the Citie determined with a noble minde to raise the siege and to bring his matter to better effect went secretly alone out of the Citie with full intent to kill the Kinge and happening to spye in the Campe a Secretary of the Kings appareled in Princely roabes supposing that it was the King thrust him thorowe the body with his swoorde wherevpon beeing presently taken by the Guarde and such as stoode by hee was shackeled and brought before the King who demaunding of him what foolishe presumption had brought him to this misery he aunswered that not onely hee but diverse others to the number of an hundred more had professed by solemne othe for the deliuerance of the Citie to doe their vttermost indeuour in killing of the king Whervpon Porsenna giuing credite to the words of Mucius Sceuola presently raysed his siege commaunding that Sceuola should foorthwith be burned who when hee was brought vnto the fire thrusting out his hand with a valiant courage into the flame there held it til such time as the whitenes of the bones the flesh beeing scorched away appeared and when he was asked what made him to vse such crueltie to his owne fleshe he aunswered that since his hand had failed of his vertuous purpose it was good reason that it should suffer such punishment for so greate an offence 56. For sonne if thou do much esteeme thy selfe and seekst to liue Thou neuer shalt receiue the crowne that mightie Mars doth giue But if thou doost abandon all faint hart and foolish feare Thou shalt not want the honour nor the state thou seekest to beare The Paraphrase ACcording to the true opinion of both the Astronomers and the Catholike diuines we are not in such sort constrained by the starres to doe any thing as we bee thereby depriued of our owne will to doe of necessitie that which they foreshowe but by inclining vs to doe certaine actions they moue al our bodyly forces to do such things as they signifie Which doth not so farre inforce vs but that as Ptolomy saith in his Centiloquium A wise and a vertuous man may rule reigne ouer the starres That is though the starres doe stirre and moue a man to doe euill yet the partie him selfe hath sufficient power if he will to doe wel But the olde people beeing ignorant of this vertue and seeing the Planet Mars did mooue men to be venterers and souldiers held opinion that he was the onely god of battailes and that hee aduaunced and rewarded all such as were valiant and venterous which olde maner of speaking is here by the Marques at this time followed And most certaine it is that such as make much of them selues doe shunne as much as they may the comming into any perill or daunger Of which sort of people Seneca in his first tragidie speaketh where he saith That great yeeres and gray heares happeneth to faintharted and such as loue to sleepe in a whole skin For such manner of persons will be sure to

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