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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	advantage_n	great_a	time_n	1,691	5	3.1967	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02774	A nevv letter of notable contents With a straunge sonet, intituled Gorgon, or the wonderfull yeare.	Harvey, Gabriel, 1550?-1631.	1593 (1593)	STC 12902; ESTC S106136	17,344	34

simple that hauing so heauy causes of diffidēce and so light causes of credulity would runne hastily into the trapp or suffer himselfe to be presently intangled in the snare Parly is a suttle Sophister Flattery a tickling sollicitour and Persuasion an inchaunting witch I cannot but listen vnto them with an itching eare and conceiue as it were a tang of pleasure in mine owne displeasure but without Legempone wordes are winde and without actuall performance all nothing Had I not more Premisses of distrust then promises of trust or were he not euer to be presumed a bad fellow that hath once played the bad fellow with a witnesse nothing but contrary proofe can reuerse that iudgement yet Lawyers loue reall cautions and they that would be loth to be enticed by white and defeated by blacke are curious of their security Truce was euer a redoubtable freind Suspicion hath cause to looke vpon Recōciliation with a ielous eye Reconciliatiō is a sweet word but entire Reconciliation a rare thing a straūge restoratiue whose sweetnesse lyeth not in the tip of the tongue or in the neb of the pen but in the bottome of the hart in the bowells of the minde the minde that daily emproueth itselfe the onely deepe Polititian inscrutable hypocrite Whose inwardest secrets notwithstanding are not so profound or close especially in the shallow brest of inconsiderate youth but they may in sort be sounded discouered by a cunning obseruation of Circumstāces Some essentiall points I reserue to miselfe bur M. Wolfe knoweth who knoweth not great Penmen and Pamflet-marchants play much vpon the aduantage of the time and care not who be their enemy so the Terme be their frend Which of vs can tell but there may lye the drift great Pollicy of the new motion I haue earnestly and instantly craued personall conference but that should seeme to make little for his purpose or might haue bene graunted with lesse suite All must be done by the mediation of a third and a fourth and such an intercourse as I may probably haue in some ielousie though I conceiue well of the interposed persons There hath already bene a large expence of time charges continually runne matters of more importance lye dead in the neast the burned finger hath reason to startle from the fire and he that hath bene once abused would not willingly be abused twice and Security cannot be too precise or scrupulous and I would there were no Cunny catchers in London Till a publique iniurie be publiquely confessed and Print confuted in Print I am one of S. Thomas disciples not ouer-prest to beleeue but as cause causeth and very ready to forgiue as effect effecteth They that know the daunger of Truces and the couen of Treatyes vt supra must begge leaue to ground their repose vpon more cautels then one and to proceede in termes of suspence or Pause till they may be resolued with infallible assurance For mine owne determination I see no credible hope of Peace but in Warre and could I not commaunde that I desire I am persuaded I should hardly obteine that I wish I loue Osculum Pacis but hate Osculum Iudae and reuerence the Teares of Christ but feare the Teares of the Crocodile Shall I be alittle plaine Methinkes the raunging Eyes vnder that lōg haire which some would call ruffianly haire should scarsely yet be bathed in the heauenly Teares of Christ or washed in the diuine Teares of Penitence Irish haire and weeping Irish are no white Crowes in these countryes and although there be no Wolfes in England yet there be Foxes in the hole I would be loth to aggrauate the least or greatest particular against a Penitentiall soule but still to haunt infamous or suspected houses tauernes lewd company and riotous fashions as before for to this day his behauiour is no turnecoate though his stile be a changeling is a greater liberty in my small diuinity then accordeth with that deuoute and most holy-holy profession Lord how curious was the wiser sort euen of the heathen Philosophers in the neat exquisite choice of their pure diet vndefiled society Virgin manners Vnstained discourses and vnspotted actions What so clarified as their witt so purified as their minde so sweetened as their conference so vertuous as their instruction so powrefull as their experiments so exemplary as their life so vnblemished as their fame I know not who weeped the Funerall Teares of Mary Magdalene I would he that sheddeth the Patheticall Teares of Christ trickleth the liquid Teares of Repentance were no worse affected in pure deuotion then those Philosophers in morall Conuersation Were I not content in some little hope of his finall recouery either in deede or in shewe to do him a meritotious sauour by concealing his vtter discredit I could easily and would notoriously make him ashamed of some his late Sayings and Doinges ô Lord how Vnbeseeming the Teares of Christ Alas how likely to forerunne a miserable destiny Let him reforme his publique redresse his priuate enormities with a sincere vowe I sweare him frendship or let him rest quiet I am quiet Otherwise I may possibly be induced to pay him home with an immortall reuēge that hath plagued his own tōgue with desperate blasphemies in iest ô Christ of how horrible cōsequence without Teares in earnest There is a great distance betwixt Hell and Heauen the Diuell and God Rakehells and Sainctes the Supplication to the Diuell and the Teares of Christ the Straunge Newes of Villany and the miraculous Newes of Repentance the Herald of Warre and the Ambassadour of Peace the publique Notary of Lyes and the Register of Truth the Diuels Oratour and Christes Chauncellour Though Greene were a Iulian and Marlow a Lucian yet I would be loth He should be an Aretin that Paraphrased the inestimable bookes of Moses and discoursed the Capricious Dialogues of rankest Bawdry that penned one Apology of the diuinity of Christ and another of Pederastice a kinde of harlatry not to be recited that published the Life of the blessed Virgin and the Legende of the Errant Putana that recorded the history of S. Thomas of Aquin and forged the most detestable Blacke-booke de tribus Impostoribus mundi O monster of extremityes and ô abomination of outragious witt It was his glory to be a hellhounde incarnate and to spoile Origen of his egregious praise Vbi benè nemo meliùs vbi malè nemo peiùs Some surmounting spirites loue to arreare a huge opinion of their excessiue validity pro or contra Hyperbolicall Vertues it is Aristotles Epithite are heauenly miracles and hideous Excellency an heroicall wonder like the Labours of Hercules and the Bountyes of Errant Knightes but superlatiue knauery is a ranke Villain and Vgly Blasphemy a foule Diuell tormented with his own damnable mouth It is not puffing or blustring in bombasted termes or Babilonian Phrases but the fine and sweet course of Vertue of industry of Beaudesert