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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	great_a	horseman_n	1,315	5	9.9866	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06163	Catharos. Diogenes in his singularitie Wherein is comprehended his merrie baighting fit for all mens benefits: christened by him, a nettle for nice noses. By T.L. of Lincolns Inne, Gent: 1591.	Lodge, Thomas, 1558?-1625.	1591 (1591)	STC 16654; ESTC S109562	41,902	68

me Philoplutos my ioyntes are not stiffe my face without furrowes my body without sicknes my life without hate and why I satisfie Nature without surfet I am not carefull of worldly things which bewitch men I am not curious of delicates to increase diseases neither enuying any man am I enuied by any man Is not this a trim felicitie in this life to be lorde both ouer himself and his affections Now heare me further Philoplutos thou must bee liberall they that haue full handes must haue frée hearts who distributeth his store in earth heapeth vp store in heauen There is nothing nicknameth the mighty more than niggardise It is one of the vanities most vaine vnder the sunne as the wiseman teacheth to heape vp without reason to kéepe with care and to die in contempt All the victories of Alexander made him not so famous as his bounty to Aristotle Neither liueth Scipio so much in his conquestes as in his liberalitie to the learned What auaileth it to build rich Towers which are subiect to wind fire force and engines to erect huge Piramides to plant faire vineyards these are but the scabs of superfluite which posterity perhaps become more continent will blame as the ruines of the great buildings of Constantine before him Vaspatian and diuers other Romanes Ah Philoplutos if thou wilt build a Pallace of eternity entertaine learned writers about thée in whose lines thou and thy posterity shall liue when the Rauen shall builde in thy brauest habitation I know thou art in the way to honour by reading and practising the liues of the auncients thou hast become a great staffe to the state Séeke therefore as carefull of thy common weale after thy death to raise vp by thy liberality those ripe wittes who may when thou wantest profit the commonweale so shalt thou in time to come be thoght a Mecoenas els now pointed at for a miser And next to the learned with the pen forget not those who deserue with the Pike they are members which while the Persian Monarks kept in maintenance and exercise they became Masters of the whole world Sesostris of Egypt had hee not had these helpes and restrained them in continence and maintained them in credit his father had lost all before he had wonne anie thing It was an old custome of Philip to loue Parmenio in that he was a good Leader Aiax had his place in the Grecian wars as well as Nestor and souldiers must be considered of as well in peace as in warre I know Philoplutos thou buiest a warme gowne against Winter and linest it well thou tylest thy house against stormes and lymest it well thou fencest thy grounds against cattell and kéepest them well and wilt thou not in like care prouide against the winter of enuy some able soldiers to preuent the enemie But thou wilt say souldiers are euery where to be gotten for money Athens is full of men wee haue store of munition why then should we care But what said Hanniball to Xerxes who demanded if his huge Armie armed in golde were not sufficient to ouercome the Romanes Yes said Hannibal smiling this were sufficient to ouercome the patientest and dastardest hart that liueth much more the Romaines meaning hereby that pompe is not the terrifying neither the multitude the amating of the enimy But resolute courages séeing great prises before them behaue themselues as those at the games of Olimpus they stretch strings and heart strings in expectation of reward Had not Darius a huge Host brauely furnished A milion of horsemen to attende on him and what then Alexander with thirty thousand experienced Macedons ouerthrew him Then what is a multitude We sée by experience that the olde Oxe trained to the yoake draweth better than the yongest Heighfer and that vse and experience hauing the Maistery in al things cannot be outfaced in military discipline Stretch pollicie to the highest point in Salomons daies beeing the wisest prince that liued maintaining as great peace as euer was the Captaines and the Officers of the Host were maintained so were they in his fathers daies in all good states the maintenance of souldiers is the planting of peace for the exercise and value of the souldier bréedeth feare in the enemie The Tartarians that inuaded Asia and some part of Europe and whose conquests are famous in India at first were a contemptible Nation But when Clangius the Smith had first brought them in exercise then beautified them with honours what Nation either heathen or Christian durst looke vpon them The Spanish haue as hot courages as we the Almaines are as bigge boand men the French as pollitique all these more exercised then we be as populous and more what want they then to be our Maisters what haue wee but hope and security which may deceiue Athens as it did Siracusa which was taken by a handfull of men in despight of the whole Iland Beléeue me Philoplutos there is no inconuenience more in this Citie than to sée Brokers dining at our Merchants tables and souldiers begging at euery mans dore To sée Tailors well paid for inuenting a new fashion soldiers scorned at for presenting a strong fortification If our Athenians will looke for no change then let them thinke to liue in no world If they be assured there will come change then let them be prouident against the change of the world In nature and the naturall constitution of the body the hands are as souldiers to execute the resolutions of the heart and the heart from hir vitall conduites sendeth bloud to warme the hands Such affinity and alliance ought to be betwéen the Gouernour that ruleth and the souldier that executeth there must some swéete shower of gold come out of his Coffers to refresh them or they waxe dul they are deuoured with idlenes so that when they should defende the heart their fingers are numbde they cannot fight because they want the vse of féeling Looke to this Philoplutos bee not accused for this cause the selfe care they saye suketh all The faire Lambes are onely reserued for selfe care the vines drop Nectar for selfe care the trees yéeld fruit for selfe care thus selfe care hath the swéete of all things whilst poore soldiers sweat fight and fast with care and all for care But the prouerbe is true care preserueth all things therefore self care is not pollitique in leauing the souldier nothing But the day passeth Cosmosophos haue at thée Smooth thou no more left the Gods smite whose eares since they are open to heare praiers will stir vp his wrath to reuenge your pernicious cruelties Flatter not your selues with opinions of delay for danger is no hireling he commeth as well in the dawne as in the darke leaue thy corruptions Simonies Briberies extorcions annihilations exceptions paradoxes policies these are the steppes to thy sinne These are the mischiefes that haue incited Achitophel Iudas to hang themselues who being not able to endure the violence and horror of their miquities thought it better to kill themselues than to abyde their deadly corment These are the furies that agitated Orestes These are they which as Cicero witnesses will breake thy sleepes because thy conscience beates thy braine and procures thy bane being therfore worldly wise so long as to extreme age became godly wise at last Let not worldly occasions detaine thée Twere better for thée to daunce in thy I acket than to be hanged in thy Iirkin Thou must not say I am enforced to deceiue others in that I must liue for by this life thou atchieuest death It is better to be poysoned with Socrates than to flátter with Aristippus Shut the doore before the stéede be stolne Looke before thou leap Feare before thou fall Repent before reuenge come The day is spent I am wearie with speaking The houre of meditation bids me leaue you Go you to your sumptuous leastes Leaue Diogenes to his chaste fast To morrowe if you visit mée againe I will rip vp nowe griefes Till when get you gone and if you forget good Lessons the diuell go with you for goodnes is departed from you Philo Farewell Diogenes as our occasions serue we will séeke thée out meane while I pray thée mittigate the austerity of thy tongue for it is too busie Dio Nay some sickenes fall vpon thy fingers for they féele too soone Cosmo Good Diogenes be patient he speaketh for thy best Dio God better him and thée too or else the best is noughts Philo Come let vs leaue him when hee leaueth his crabbednes the Sunne will want clearenes Dio And if you want craft the sea will lack water FINIS