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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	grace_n	life_n	sin_n	23,865	5	5.0638	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02909	A Helpe to memory and discourse with table- talke as musicke to a banquet of wine : being a compendium of witty, and vsefull propositions, problemes, and sentences / extracted from the larger volumes of physicians, philosophers, orators and poets, distilled in their assiduous and learned obseruations, and which for method, manner, and referent handling may be fitly tearmed, A Second misselany, or helpe to discourse.	Basse, William, d. ca. 1653.; Phillips, E.	1630 (1630)	STC 13051.3; ESTC S3795	55,194	175

〈…〉 Thy Wife shall bee as the fruitfull 〈…〉 d lastly herby thou hast found out 〈…〉 uardian for thy house and goods 〈…〉 er of thy Seruants a comforter in 〈…〉 nd misery and the full accom 〈…〉 of thy ioy and felicity Away there 〈◊〉 ye haters of women for it is verified 〈◊〉 by the Oracle of God that they are 〈◊〉 dfull necessary behouefull The Author●●●y whereof without further question here ●eales vp the controuersie And as another saith He that hath no wife is as a man vnbuilt wanteth one of his ribbes is like Ionas in the middest of the Sea ready to be ouerwhelmed with euery surge and billow but then comes a wife like a ship and wafts him ashore and so saues him from perishing Of whom the Poet thus further addes Prima fuit mulier patuit cui ianua lethi Per quam vitaredit prima fuit Mulier English As by a Woman entred Death by sinne So by a Woman Life and Grace came in Q. What was the Wise-mans counsell for the choyce of a Wife A. Non solùm est oculis ducenda sed auribus Vxor Not to choose a wife by the eye that is for beauty a brittle and fading dowry but by the care that is from the good report and commendation of others Q. What comparison haue the Ancients made betwixt the Woman and the Ribbe and what reasons haue they thereupon framed for their much Loquacity and babbling A These That first as the Ribbe is a bone hard crooked and inflexible so is a Woman in her will like the forme thereof crooked and peruerse and hardly inclining to the desire of her husband and for their much loquacity hereupon they ground their reason That as if you put a company of bones or ribbes into a bagge they will rattle and clatter together but if you put certaine lumpes of earth therein the metall of mans creation they meet without noyse or iarring violence But we pursue this argument no further because we haue formerly toucht vpon the same in another kind and place Q. Who was hee that had that one woman that was to him both mother sister and wife A. Euphorbus of whom the verse follows Me Pater è nata genuit mihi iungitur illa Sic soror coniux sic fuit illa Parens Q. What is the true law of friendship A. To loue our friend as our selfe and neither more nor lesse but so to which purpose is here inserted a story of a certaine wise woman that had but one onely sonne whose society in the way of friendship many desired to him she gaue three Apples willing him to giue them to his three friends when they were hungry in the way to be cut diuided among them In the doing wherof the first cuts his Apple in two in equall parts giuing this lesse to the womans sonne and reseruing the greater part vnto himselfe The second likewise vnequally diuided his but yet gaue the bigger to this womans sonne and kept the lesser for himselfe but the third diuided his equally reseruing iust the one halfe that he gaue which being told to his mother she bade him choose the last for his associate because the first was vniust to another the second to himselfe and he onely vpright in his diuision Q. Who was hee that first forbade Priests marriage and whereupon did he afterwards alter that constitution A. P. Greg. 1. was the first that proceeded in that restraint But when afterwards hee heard to be found the heads of 6000. infants that had beene drowned in the riuer Tiber he then sighing repelled his decree and said It is better to marry then burne Q. Whence proceeds it that those creatures that are most vsefull and beneficiall to man are so fruitfull and plenteous whereas those other wilde rauenous and cruell are more rare and retired A. This proceeds meerely from the prouidence of God and his goodnesse to mankind for otherwise how would it be it there should be as many wolues as sheep which though killed and eaten daily are notwithstanding plentifull as diuers others of his good creatures whom he multiplieth aboue measure As for example likewise The Hare whom all doe hunt and pursue yet her kinde is not diminished in regard of her fruitfulnesse which is such that when she is with young shee againe coupleth hauing within her some of a former maturity already hairy others naked without their furre others not yet formed and yet others conceiuing whereas the Lyon a cruel creature brings forth but one in her whole life time Q. What little creature is that that hath the softest body but the hardest teeth of all other A. The white worme the body whereof is more soft then wooll yet with her teeth doth she pierce the hardest Oake Q. What Artificers are those that haue most Thieues come vnder their hands A. Not Taylors nor Myllers as the old saying is but Barbers for euery thiefe and Knaue to disguise themselues falls vnder their hands Q. What was S. Chrysostomes opinion concerning Dancing A That where dancing was there was the Diuell neither saith hee to that end did God giue vs our feet so want only to abuse them For if we shall answer for euery idle word shall we not likewise for euery lasciuious and idle motion of the body which tend onely to folly and lust Hereupon was annexed a story of a certaine dancer whose ambitious actiuity was such that forsaking the ground hee would needs shew his trickes in the Ayre to the which purpose hauing there fastned a Rope hee beginning after his accustomed manner to caper and dance his footing failed him and downe he fell whereat some laughed when among the rest a Foole not standing farre off fell a weeping of whom a reason being required he thus answered I weepe because Jam counted a foole yet haue more wit then this Dancer because I know that it is written in the Psalme that not the Ayre but the Earth is giuen vnto the sonnes of men vpon which I content my selfe to tread not atttempting further as Icarus and Dedalus and some others as wel as this fellow that hath payed for his presumption Q. What two things are those that many desir● before they haue them and when once possest with a greater desire would bee depriued thereof againe A. Old age and Marriage the latter whereof hath oft beene compared to a Feast where those that are within and full would faine come out and those that are without empty would faine come in Q. In what things doth laudable Old age most solace and make glad it selfe A. In the remembrance of an honest fore-passed life and in the hope of a better n●●re succeeding Q. Whence was it that of old Bacchus or the God of Wine was pictured like a Childe A. Thence it was because the drinking of wine puts care and troubles out of the minde and in stead thereof fills it with mirth and lightnesse making men free from sorrow louiall