Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	city_n	great_a	siege_n	1,089	5	8.9397	5	false

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A12622	An epistle of comfort to the reuerend priestes, & to the honorable, worshipful, & other of the laye sort restrayned in durance for the Catholicke fayth.	Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595.	1587 (1587)	STC 22946; ESTC S111067	171,774	436

In the scriptures what straunge punishmentes reade we of the deluge of Noe of the powring downe fyer and brimstone vppon Sodome and Gomorrha of the opening of the earth to swallow in Dathan and Abiron and a deuouring fyer to consume their confederates How wonderfull were the plagues of Egipt the turninge of the waters into blood giuing to their thirst more punishing remedyes then the punishmeÌ„t it selfe The horror of scrauling froggs leauing no place nor person vnannoyed the fierye stinging gnattes encombringe lyke clowdes the ayre as well within as without the howses the most bitter and viperous flyes that not contented to sting without with extreeme torment gnawed them selues passage into the verye intrayles leauinge no parte of the sinner vnreuenged The sodeyne death of the cattell of all the Egiptians the mattering sores blistering byles and botches the wonderfull hayle myngled with fyer that kylled man and beast wheresoeuer it fell The cloudes of locustes that couered lyke sande all the earth deuouring the verye rootes of the herbes and plants that the hayle had spared The fearfull and palpable darcknesse the kylling all the first begotten both of man best and finally the drowning of Pharao and his innumerable armye in the redd sea I omitt the slaughter and mortalitye of men Of the Bethsanites for curioslye beholding the Arke of the Philistyns for robbing it from Gods people of the Israelites for Dauids numbringe of them The deuouring the disobedient Prophett by a Lyon the children that scoffed at Elizeus with wylde beares Achabs soldiers with fyer from heauen The turninge Loth his wyfe into an image of salte finally infinite other reckoned in the Scripture I will come to the straunge reuenges of God mentioned by other authors first what vntolerable vsage hath there ben of diuerse people by the rage and furye of Barbarous tyrantes what spoyle of their goods shedding of their bloode oppressing of innocentes persecutions of the Godly deflowring of virgins Abusing of matrones compulsion vnto wickednesse and terrifyinge from all vertue What inconueniences and miseryes haue insued by warr what alteration of estates subuersioÌ„ of Kingdomes slaughtering of men destroying of cittyes and confusion of all order And to put one example what a tragicall straunge vengeance did God shew vnto the Iewes for their horrible sinne in murdering Christ at the last destruction of Hierusalem To omit their rifling and spoyle by diuerse roman magistrates their seruilitye vnder straungers the surprising of other cittyes of Iurye the driuing all the inhabitants into that one cittye of Hierusalem the onlye taking of it was the occasion of suche miseryes that were they not registred by such authenticall writers it were almost incredible that so manye and so straunge calamityes coulde befall in so shorte a space First the famine was so greate that not onlye they of the same familye were at weapons for a bitt of meate but the soldiers that lyke hungrye wolues ranged about the cittye if in anye place they felt but the sent of vittayle they rushed in with drawne swordes and were readye to ripp open the bellyes and bowels of their owne citizens to fetch out the meate which they had eaten and fedd vppon that lothsome stuffe so brutishlye gotten imbrued in the bloode of the first eater as vppon a deyntye delicate dish The childreÌ„ were at defiance with their owne parentes the brothers sisters mortall enemyes the father and mother at deadlye foode with their owne ofspring all readye to murder one an other for euery bitt that anye of them putt into their mouth So farr did the extremitye of hunger abolishe all feelinge of naturall affection yea that which is more man was enforced to chew beastes dunge after they had eaten vpp the fleshe to take their repast vppon their most filthye excrementes Others fishing raking in the sinckes chanels from theÌ„ce gatherd though for to thincke most detestable bestlye yet to them in those termes not vnpleasant foode Some fedd vppon the lether of their bucklers and shoes others on trampled and broken haye finallye men vsed to all varietye of viande and delicious fare were now driuen to so base and abhominable dyett as the brute beastes them selues by nature would abhorr I leaue it to your consideratioÌ„ what mortallity strange diseases this famine was likely to breed But yet besid this were ther at the same time such ciuil mutinies such domesticall vprores amongest theÌ„ selues that euen Titus theire mortall enemye who laye in siege about their citye hearing of their mutuall slaughters for all his vnplacable enmitye was deepely moued with compassion saying that they needed no foreyne enemyes to worke theire confusion so bloodye were the tragedyes they reysed among them selues Neyther was this the greatest of their miseryes For afterward besyde the vnmercifull hauocke that the romaines made of the Iewes when the citye was taken there was found an other thing that bred occasion of a greter and most cruell massaker For the Iewes vnwillinge to enrich their enemyes with their treasure and thincking to saue somewhat from the generall spoyle swallowed into their bodyes so much golde perle and prcious stone as nature woulde beare which thinge the Romanes afterwarde fyndinge out by their excrementes they left rifeling their houses in most barbarous sort began to ransacke their bodyes bowells So that wheras they thought their bodyes their surest coffers they found by a rufull experience their owne follye who when they might with theire treasure haue tedeemed theire lyues they so horded it vp that neyther they coulde vse it to their owne profite nor the enemye spoyle them of it without spillinge their lyues Finallye besydes battering downe the walles the defacinge of the citye the burninge of the temple there were as Iosephus reporteth partly by famine partly by the sword put to death an eleuen hundred thousand Iewes besydes fourscore and ten thousand other the relques and onlye remnant of that nation that were scattered and most miserablye dispersed in to diuers partes of the world And the glory of the temple after an eleuen huÌ„dred yeres standinge and the people of all other most famous strong and glorious after the honour of so manye ages ended in this most shameful opprobrious sort Much like vnto this was the destruction of Carthage which after seuen hundred yeres glorye maiesty was in the end ouerthrowen the walles were turned into duste and the citye burning continuallye for the space of seuentene dayes together had not onlye the buildinges and treasures therof consumed into ashes but was also a funerall pyle to the Queene and her two sonnes and diuers other desperate multitudes that rather chose to be fuell of theire countrye fyer then captiues of their fâ—reyne enemyes Of which Orosius sayeth Nomssime miseris ciuibus passim ã€ˆâ€¦ã€‰ vltima desperatione iactentibus vnus regus tota ciuitas fuit cui etiam nunc sitiâ— ã€ˆâ—Šã€‰

vigill and the fast here For otherwyse he that will feast it here in ioconsye and disporte after this lyfe ad sepulchra ducetur et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit He shal be led to the graues in the heape of the deade shall keepe a perpetuall vigill in hell They obserued that as S. Basill sayeth the huge and noble cityes furnished with glory of munition with aucthoritye of great personages and all plenty both at home and abroade at the length shew in the onlye ruines the signes of their auncient nobilitye The shipp also that hath often escaped many shipwrackes a thousand tymes crossed the seas with great aduaÌ„tage of the shipmeÌ„ in the end iustled with a blast is shattered in peeces Mightye armyes that haue often coÌ„quered in warr haue afterward bene made a miserable and bloodye spectacle to their enimies All nations Ilandes enhaunced to great power swaye haue decayed in time or chaunged their libertye with bondage Finallye what hauocke losse ruyne or miserye can be reckened wherof this wretched world hath not shewed some example yea and that in the lyfe of the godlye All thinges therfore bendinge here to decaye and beinge taynted with deathes consuÌ„ption The Sayntes in mourninge sorte agreablye to dyinge and passing persons liued in a continuall farewell as men that all wayes stoode vpon the departure from these earthlye solaces litle regardinge the thinges that they were to leaue and hauinge their hartes setled vpon the felicity that they tended vnto And as men that at noone daye desire to see the starres goe downe into a deepe and darke well from thence the easier to discrye them so they desyring to haue the eyes of their harte perpetuallye fixed vppon the starres of heauen that is the glorye of the Sayntes descended in to that profounde obscure and base kynde of lyfe sequestring them selues from the lyght and pleasure of these inferior comfortes yea and delyghtinge in griefes the better to conceaue of future happynes Consider how low Iob went when he cryed Putredini dixi pater meus es mater mea soror mea vermibus I sayde vnto corruption thou art my father and to the wormes you ar my mother sister Consider how low S. Paule went when he sayde Esurimus et sitimus nudi sumus colaphis cedimur tanquam purgameÌ„ta huius mundi facti sumus omnium peripsema vsque ad huc We are hungrye we thyrst and we are naked and beaten with buffets yea and that which is more we are made the refuse of this worlde and drosse of all euen vntill now How farr went Dauid when he sayde Ego sum vermis non homo opprobrium hominum abiectio plebis I am a worme and no man the stale of men and the castawaye of the people They were not ignorant that euery valley shal be filled and euerye mountayne hill humbled They knew that the waters of grace springing into lyfe euerlasting rest not on the hyghe and steepe hilles but in the bottomes and lowe valleyes according to that Qui emittit fontes in conuallibus inter medium montium pertransibunt aquae Who letteth out his fountaines in the valleyes and his waters shall passe in the middest betweene hils They well vnderstoode how conuenient a thinge it is and conformable to the state of this lyfe recumbere in nouissimo loco to sitt downe in the last place as Christ counsayled For as S. Augustine sayeth Excelsa est patria humilis via ergo qui quaerit patriam quid recusat viam Aloft is our countrye but lowe is our waye who therfore seeketh the couÌ„trye why shuneth he the waye O howe much are the worldlinges deceyued that walke in magnis mirabilibus super se in greate thinges and in marueyles aboue them selues that reioyce in the time of weepinge and make their place of imprisonmeÌ„t a pallace of pleasure that think these examples of Sayntes follyes and their endes dishonorable that thincke to goe to heaueÌ„ by the wyde waye that onlye leadeth to perdition Well maye we to these saye with S. Augustine Quo itis peritis nescitis non illac itur quo pergitis quo peruenire desideratis Nam vtique beati esse desideratis Sed misera sunt ad maiorem miseriam ducunt itinera ista quae curritis Tam magnum bonum querere per mala nolite si ad illud peruenire velitis huc venite hac ite Whether goe you you perishe and you perceyue it not that is not the waye to the place you goe vnto and to which you desire to arryue for your meaninge is to be happye but miserable are they and to more miserye leade they those iorneyes which you runne seeke not so greate a good by euill If you meane to atchiue it hyther must you come this waye must you goe The path to heauen is narrowe rough and full of weerisome and tyeringe ascents neyther can it be trodden without greate toyle And therfore wronge is their waye grosse their error and assured their ruine that after the steppes and testimonyes of so manye thousand Sayntes will not learne wherto settle their footinge It were enough to haue the example of Christe onlye who as S. Augustine noteth cryeth alwayes vnto vs. Qua vis ire ego sum via Quo vis ire ego sum veritas Vbi vis permanere ego sum vita Which waye wilt thou goe I am the waye Whether wilt thou goe I am the truth Where wilt thou staye I am the lyfe And if this waye leade vs through austere and paynfull passages if this trueth teach vs the trace of humilitye if this lyfe be not atchiued without a doleful dyinge pilgrimage Then Vae vobis qui ridetis quia flebitis beati qui lugent quoniam ipsi consolabuntur Woe be vnto you that laugh for you shall weepe happye are they that morne for they shal be comforted For as S. Gregorye sayeth Qui honoratur in via in peruentione damnabitur quasi per amoena prata ad carcerem peruenit qui per praesentis vitae prospera ad interitum tendit He that is honored in his iorney shal be condemned at his iorneyes end and he commeth as it were by pleasant medowes to his prison that by the prosperitye of this worlde runneth to his ruine For in trueth the contentments of this lyfe haue true miserye fayned felicitye assured sorowe doubtfull delightes rough stormes timorous rest solace full of sadnesse and hope full of hazarde They are lyke fayre wether in winter nothing durable lyke a calme in the sea alwayes vncertayne Like the stedines of the moone that is ouer in chaunginge They resemble the Coâ—â—â—rices egge fayre without foule within Nabuchodonozors image that had the face and hed of golde but earthen and brittle feete or the sweete riuer that runneth into the salte sea Sordes eius in

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