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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	day_n	die_v	soul_n	6,945	5	5.0141	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18304	Precepts, or, Directions for the well ordering and carriage of a mans life, through the whole course thereof: left by William, Lord Burghly, to his sonne, at his death, who was sometimes Lord Treasurer of this kingdome. Also some other precepts and advertisements added, which sometimes was the iewell and delight of the right Honourable Lord and father to his country Francis, Earl of Bedford, deceased. In two bookes; Certaine precepts	Burghley, William Cecil, Baron, 1520-1598.; Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, attributed name.; Cyprian, Saint, Bishop of Carthage, attributed name.	1636 (1636)	STC 4899; ESTC S118517	27,423	208

Lord commander many times of another mans purse PRECEPT 8. How to carry a mans selfe toward his Superiours and Inferiours TOward your Superiours be humble yet generous with your equals familiar yet respective towards your inferiours shew much humility with some familiarity as to bow your body stretch forth your hand uncover your head and such like popular complements the first prepares way to advancement the second will make you knowne for a man well bred the third gaines a good report which once gained may easily be kept for high humilities are of such respect in the opinion of the multitude as they are easilier won by unprofitable curtesies than by churlish benefits yet doe I not advise you overmuch to affect or neglect popularity PRECEPT 9. How farre to disclose a mans secrets TRust no man with your credit or estate for it is a meere folly for a man to inthrall himselfe further to his friend than that he needs not feare him being his enemy PRECEPT 10. BE not scurrilous in conversation nor Stoicall in your wit for the one makes you unwelcome to all companies as the other puls quarrels on your head and makes you hated of your best friends Iests when they doe savour of too much truth leave a bitternesse in the mindes of those that are touched And although I have already pointed at these inclusive yet I thinke it necessary to leave it to you as a caution because I have seen many so prone to quippe and gird as they had rather lose their friend than their jest and if by chance their boyling braine yeeld a quaint scoffe they will travell to be delivered of it as a woman with childe but I thinke those nimble apprehensions are but the froth of the wits An Addition of some short Precepts and sentences not impertinent to the former GOE as thou wouldst be met sit as thou wouldest be found weare thy apparrell in a carelesse yet a decent seeming for affectednesse in any thing is commendable in nothing and indeavour to be so farre from vaine-glory that thou strive in any thing rather to be in substance without shew then in shew without substance 2 Strive not to inrich thy self by Oppression Usury or other unlawfull gaine for if a little evill gotten shall not onely melt away it selfe like deaw against the Sunne but shall likewise consume with it selfe that which was more lawfull how then shall it hast without stay when all the whole lumpe is corrupted Surely if experience faile not with a swifter speed than either by the prodigall hands of a third or second Heire and for such a one that ungodly dies rich well hee may have mournens to his Grave but shall be sure to finde few Comforters at his judgement 3 Be industrious and studious in thy youth knowing that if by thy Labour thou accomplish any thing that is good the labour passeth but the good remaineth to thy comfort as if by the contrary for thy pleasure thou shalt doe any thing that is evill the pleasure passeth but the evill remaineth to thy torment and withall because it is a lesse paine to be studious in thy youth than a griefe to be ignorant in thy age Corrupt company is more infectious than corrupt ayre therefore be advised in thy choise for that Text of thy selfe that could never so be expounded thy companion shall as thy commentarie lay open to the world and withall because we see it by experience That if those that are neither good nor evill accompany with those that are good they are transformed into their vertue If those that are neither good nor evill consort with those that are evill they are incorporated to their vice If the good company with the good both are made the better if the evill with the evil both the worse For according to the Proverbe Such as the company such is the condition 4 Whatsoever good purpose thou intendest at thy death that doe in thy life for so doing it shall be more acceptable to God and commendable to man for he that gives when he cannot hold is worthy of thankes when one cannot chuse besides in so doing thou shalt see thy intent brought home to thy aime and nere craze the Conscience of Executor or Over-seer to pervert it thou deceased to some sinister respect or private end Whatsoever thou shalt purpose be silent in thy intentions lest by the contrary thou be prevented and laughed to scorne 6 Strive to subdue the affections of thine owne heart which are oftentimes harder than to conquer a Kingdome and forbeare whatsoever is deare unto thy body being any way prejudiciall unto thy soule 7 Abuse not thy body in youth by surfet riot or any other distemper through an over-weening ability of strength for youth and nature passe over many infirmities that are growing till their age 8 Live vertuously that thou maiest dye patiently for who lives most honestly will dye most willingly and for thy longer daies and better health upon earth afflict not thy body with too much unnecessary Physick but furnish thy minde in time of plenty to lay up for it selfe and others in time of want for surely that mans end shall be easie and happy that death findes with a weake body but a strong soule 6 Nor be thou dismayed though thou groane under the hand of sicknesse for as sometimes it purgeth the body from nocent humours so doth it often times the soule from more dangerous security and the rather with this thought that by the Physitians owne rule and our too common experience there is no perfect health in this world but a neutrality between sicknesse and health as no absolute pleasure is more than to avoid paines according as one thus writeth to the same purpose There is no health Physitians say that we at best enjoy but a Neutrality And can there be worse sicknesse than to know That we are never well nor can be so 10 The eyes are the instruments of lust therefore make a Covenant with them that they betray not thy heart to vanitie 11 Be ever diligent in some vocation for continuall ease as it is more dangerous is more wearisome than labour and it is no freedome to live licentiously nor pleasure to live without some paine 12 Indifferent superiority is the safest equality as the sobrest speed is the wisest leisure 13 He is worthy to fall that tempts himselfe and therefore shunne occasion of Evill and thou hast halfe overcome thine enemy 14 Labour to keepe a good Conscience to thy Comforter for he that is disfurnished therof hath feare for his Bed-fellow Care for his Companion and the sting of the guilt for his torment 15 In all thy attempts let Honesty be thy ayme For he that climbes by privy deceit shall fall with open reproach and forget not in thy youth to be mindefull of thy end For though the old man cannot live long yet the Young-man may dye quickly 16 The waste of Time is a deare expence