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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	world_n	write_v	young_a	72	3	5.7510	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37911	The fellow-traveller through city and countrey	Edmundson, Henry, 1607?-1659.	1658 (1658)	Wing E181; ESTC R38856	87,865	322

fool the more wise I am still accounted and on the other side I have a boy that sets his wits to seem wise and yet every one takes him for a very fool CXXVI When Cardinal Pool was at Rome there was discourse of a young Nobleman there who was commended by some for his learning and ingenuity but taxed more by others because he was bold and censorious and would be too ready extempore to answer Quodlibets Unto whom the Cardinal replies Do not you consider that Learning in youth is like New wine in the must while it is working it boils and swels yeelds barm and froth and must have his vent but when it is purged and setled it becomes excellent and wholsome wine CXXVII Marcellus Virgilius saith merrily that Old men carry their Ears in their bosome therefore in his time they had auricular helps their feet in their hands and their teeth in their girdle He had questionlesse added and their eyes in a box if spectacles were not a later invention of which they that are not assured may consult Pancirolus CXXVIII Another used to say that old men were endowed by Nature with three speciall prerogatives that they can see more that they can do more that they command more These you will take to be rather three Paradoxes till you look within the mystery First They see more for because of the weaknesse of their sight they see all things double Then they can do more for being to get up on horseback and having their foot in the stirrop they can draw the saddle quite round unto themselves And lastly They command more for of ten things which they ask for ten times over they will scarce be serv'd in one CXXIX One Roderigo Carrasio a Citizen of Valentia being fourscore years old was learning to play upon the Flute There passed by his house an acquaintance of his who asked of his Servants who that was in his house learning to play They told him it was their master O saith he perhaps Roderigo hath heard News that he is to be provided for balls and Revels in the other world CXXX M. Herbert out of Gerson brings in a Frenchman asking another man in Latine Quot annos habes how many years old are you the man answered I am of no years at all but Death hath forborn me this fifty And he writes there that an holy man in the primitive-times being asked how long he had lived made this answer A few years to God but between fourty and fifty among gnats and flies Of the differences of young men and old men in body and minde See briefly but fully the L. Verulam in the close of his History of Life and Death CXXXI There coming an Embassadour from Millain to Florence Laurentius of the house of Medices caused to be brought in a childe of five or six years old of a strange wit far above his age And every one wondring at his answers and to hear what he could do Laurentius ask'd the Embassadour what he thought of the childe Certainly said the Embassadour as he grows in years he will grow the more sottish for commonly such little ones that are so witty when they are grown men prove block-heads The childe hearing him presently turns to the Embassadour and said Sir when you were a little one you should have had a very great wit Tempora quippe Virtutem non prima negant non ultima donant A like reply we have heard of one to whom it being objected in scorn that his Beard came before his wit his answer was Yours is a mannerly beard and stayes for your wit CXXXII One being asked how he came to be so gray on his head and there was not one gray hair in his beard answered that is no wonder for my Beard is twenty years younger then the hairs of my head CXXXIII One being observed by Cardinall Pool to be very curious to a hair in his beard and it being told him by one of his house that it might well be neat for he bestowed every moneth two Duckats in trimming If it be so said the Cardinall his beard will shortly be more worth then his head CXXXIV One Alexander a Sophister being sent in Embassage from Seleucia to Marcus Antonius when in his speech he saw him not sufficiently attentive to him he spoke out aloud Hearken to me Caesar do you not take notice of Alexander Antonius being moved with this as a reprehension answered I do hear thee and know thee very well thou art that Alexander that powderest thy hair and stinkest of perfumes CXXXV Philip of Macedon put one of his Officers out of his place for colouring his Beard and said He that is not true to his own hairs how shall I trust him in my businesse CXXXVI King James saith In clothes I would have a Fashion should chuse a man and not a man the Fashion But commonly a Fashion comes from some great one out of fashion CXXXVII Augustus the Emperour would very sharply finde fault with his daughters gawdy and gay clothes and say That bravery and finenesse in apparell was but a banner of pride and a Nest of lust Pars minima est ipsa puella sui and many times the feathers are more worth then the bird CXXXVIII Cicero's daughter used to go in a manly great and stalking gate on the other side his son in Law in a dancing wincing and ambling pace Cicero once meeting his daughter trotting along said to her Daughter go softly as your Husband goes and so jeered them both at once CXXXIX Cicero's Son in Law Lentulus was but little in stature and wore a very long sword Cicero seeing him said Who hath tyed my Nephew to his sword Cicero's Brother had his Picture drawn to the breast in great dimensions though he himself was but a little man Cicero spying it as he passed by it by chance said My half Brother is greater then the whole one CXL One that thought himself a proper man by being tall jesting upon another whom he did overlook said to him that he must be the Pawn in the Tables yes said the other little low man and to make the Jest compleat you must be the Rook. CXLI One that looked asquint being told by one in scorn that he did not see right Indeed saith he I am afraid I shall never see thee right Another having a blemish in one of his eyes being asked by another With which of his eyes he could see farthest answered Even with whether it please you for sooth CXLII Cardinall Woolsey sent one to Fox B. of Winchester who had advanced the Cardinal into the Kings favour for to move him to resigne to him his Bishoprick because of his age and blindenesse The Bishop not willing to put off his clothes till he went to bed sent him this Answer Though Age hath made me blinde not to know white from black yet I can discern right from wrong and I can espy what before I could not perceive his