Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
england_n	king_n	lord_n	scot_n	6,936	5	9.4593	5	true

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01764	The vvorthy tract of Paulus Iouius, contayning a discourse of rare inuentions, both militarie and amorous called imprese VVhereunto is added a preface contayning the arte of composing them, with many other notable deuises. By Samuell Daniell late student in Oxenforde.; Dialogo dell' impresse militari et amorose. English	Giovio, Paolo, 1483-1552.; Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.	1585 (1585)	STC 11900; ESTC S103128	65,159	144

shining vertues There succeeded this Gouernour in Lombardie Charles of Ambouse called for the dignitie of the office he bare in the Kings court great Master and Lord of Chamon He was of a pleasaunt disposition and much addicted to loue yet by his visage a man would haue iudged him rigorous and by his Cholorique wordes fierce and angry notwithstanding he delighted to courte Ladies and tooke greate pleasure in feasting banquetting dauncing and in Comedies which life was not liked of King Lewes For he lay then sporting in these delightes when hee should haue succoured Mirandula besieged and taken by Pope Iulius He gaue for his Impresa a sauage man with a Clubbe in his hand and aboue him this Latin posie Mitem animum agresti sub tegmine seruo thereby to assure the Ladies that he was not so rigorous as he seemed to the outward vewe The foresayde inuention to many seemed good but notable in my conceipt was that of Francesco Sensauerino Earle of Gaiaza who in emulation of his Brother Galeazzo at the comming of the French men into Italie departed from the Duke Lodouico and ioyned with them not without breach of his honor for that such a departure caried some suspect His Impresa was set on the Coate armour of a hundred Launces which he obtayned of the King it was the Trauayle wherein Smithes vse to put in wilde horses when they shoe theÌ„ with this mot Pour dompter folie to signifie that he would tame a certaine enemie of his which was of the like wilfull nature There was also among the French men a famous Captaine of tried valure named Edward Stuart of the blood royall of Scotland called my Lord of Aubinie he as being Cosin to King Iames the fourth gaue a Lyon rampant in a fielde argent all sowne with buckles imbrodered on his Cotes and Ensignes with this mot Distantia iungit Signifying that he was the meane and the buckle to hold vnited the King of Scots and the King of Fraunce to counteruaile the forces of the King of England the naturall enemie of the French men and Scots Dom. It seemeth good to me my Lord that you returne againe to our Italians at the least to those as we say of the second ranke since you haue alreadie from the beginning spokeÌ„ of the most famous to whose glorie few dare presume to aspire now at this daie for neither the Colonesi nor Vrsini haue any of their progenic which wil tread their steppes in the practise of Cheualrie And it behoueth those Princes which seeke to equall them selues in honor with Francesco Gonzaga Alphonso d' EstÃ¨ Giacopo Triuultio or with the Signiori Regnicoli to striue with restles labour and industrie but now they it seemeth are in declining for that at this day honors and dignities the rewardes of Cheualrie are giuen into the handes of Straungers And if the Earle Ferrante Sensauerino Prince of Salerna a man decked with notable vertues doth not resussitate the honour of his Kingdome I see not what hope there is of other Princes in Italie Iou. There is some hope in deede of him whereof he gaue great likelihood in the Battel of Cerosola where it was manifest that thorow his pollicie retiring a little back he made in greate parte frustrate the victorie of the French men And it maie be said that he preserued the state of Millan and Piemont for the Emperour which was no small commendation in so great disgraces Dom. Tell me my Lorde doth this Prince beare any Impresa in my opinion he should not want being so gallant a Knight Iou. Truely I neuer saw any Ensigne of his neither any amorous deuise whereof I meruaile hauing in his house the excellent Poet Bernardo Tasso Also in his countrey the Duke of Amalfi of the house of the Piccolomini a courteouse and valiaunt Knight and aboue all an excellent Rider and very skilfull in iudging of a good and couragious horse being exhorted in my presence by the Lord Marquise of Vasto his Cosin to leaue the pleasures of Sienna whereof he was Gouernour and to goe with him vnto the warres of Piemont he aunswered the spirit was willing but the flesh was weake but what mcaneth saith he that place of Scripture Nemo nos conduxit Vpon that the Marquise made him Generall of the light horsmen in the warres of Piemont And the Duke before he departed requested me a denise for his Ensigne to this effect that the Marquise had before saide vnto him that three things were conuenient for him which should take on him the like office which are courage liberalitie and vigilancie Doe not you sayd I put him in remembraunce of liberalitie neither courage sith he hath learned them both of you neither of vigilancie for that he is of this nature to rise before day either to goe to the chace or at least to get him out of his bed whereat he smiling sayd the vigilancie I meane comprehendeth all care and industrie a man vfeth to the end he be not taken at vnawares or els to seeke how to take his enemie at the aduauntage WhervpoÌ„ I figured for his Impresa a Crane holding vp her left clawe wherein she clafpeth a stone for a remedie against sleepe which thing Plinie recordeth of these Birdes being merueilous watchfull and thereunto added this briefe Officium natura docet Dom. Tell me my Lorde were there none amongst the Nobilitie of the Regnicolo more auncient then this man which did beare any goodly deuise Iou. I remember but two the one of Andrea di Capua Duke of Tremoli and the other of Tomaso Caraffa Earle of Matalone The Duke in his flowring age being made Captaine generall of Pope Iulio died in Ciuita Castellana as was thought by poyson giuen him of some which enuied his honor He bare for his Impresa a bundle of darting Iauelines to signifie that he wanted not weapons to keepe the enemies from approaching him his mot was Fortibus non deerunt The Countie of Metalone the Generall of King Ferandino had for his deuise Romaine Ballance with this mot of the holy scripture Hoc fac viues which seemed very extrauagant for that the Ballance serueth to waigh many things and it was skorned by Mons. di Persi Brother to Mons. d' Alegria who discoÌ„fiting the Aragonian Campe at Eboli got the Ensigne of the Generall and sayd in good faithe my Enemie hath not obserued that which was written about his Ballace for that he hath not well waighed his forces with mine And sith we are entred among the Neapolitans whose Princes seeme to degenerate froÌ„ their auncesters in not going to the warres which I think is because the honors and dignities due vnto them are giuen to straungers yet I say there waÌ„teth not men of the second forme both noble and valiaunt who by their valure aspire to honour Amongst whom is Signior Giou Baptista Castaldo famous for a thousand freshe and notable experiences being General of the Campe of Charles the Emperour

diuers sauage beastes depainted after diuers fashions The same author reporteth that Pompey the great did beare for his Enseigne a LyoÌ„ with a sword clasped in his claw We find also in the remaynes of old antiquities many to haue like signification to our moderne Impreses as appeareth in that of Vespasianus which was a Dolphin intangled with an Anchore with this posie Festina lentÃ¨ A sentence which Octauianus Augustus was wont often to vse But leauing apart these examples of antiquitie of this the famous Palladines of FraÌ„ce can yeld testimony the which in trueth for the most part were not fayned and we see in that wherein the writers agree that euery one of them had his peculiar Impresa or Enseigne As Orlando the chesse Rinaldo a Lion Denise a Ladder Salomon of Bretaigne the Eschequier Oliuer a Griffon Astolphe a Leopard Ganelon a Faulcon The like wee reade of the Knights of the round Table of Arthure that renoumed King of England Those which are famosed in the Spanish histories as in Amadis de Gaule PrimaleoÌ„ Palmerin Tirante vsed the like And nowe in this later age in the time of Federicke surnamed Readbeard began the age of Ensignes of families called Armes giuen by Princes in guerdon of honorable exploytes atchieued in the field Whereupon there grewe such singulare and fantasticall inuentions or Ensignes and Pictures vpon Helmets to enhaunce the honour of valiant Knights as may well bee seene by diuers Pictures in the Church of newe Saint Maries at Florence But now in our time after the comming of Charles the eight and Lewes the twelft into Italie euery one which followed the warre imitating the French Captaynes sought to adorne himselfe with goodly popous Imprese wherewith the troupes of horsemen being separated company froÌ„ company made so resplendent shew hauing their vpper garments embrodred with siluer bossed with beaten gold and in their breast and back the Imprese of their Captaines in so much that the shewe of the men of Armes yeelded a very poÌ„pouse rich spectacle in the battel was tried the couragious force of their coÌ„panies Dom. I perceiue my Lorde that your memory is fresh and therefore may it please you to recount vnto mee of all such as you your selfe haue seen because I know that you haue knowne all these Captaines by sight which are contained made famous in your historie and perfectly hold imprinted in your memorie the brauery of their ornaments Iou. I will not faile to declare you all these things and truely in delating hereof I seeme to my selfe to become a youth again wherein theÌ„ so much I delighted that it seemed a presage that I should write their historie But before I come to repeate the particulars it is necessarie that I manifest the general properties which are required in making a perfect Impresa which is a thing very difffcult and proceedeth of a sharp wit and rich inuention nourished by the worthy writings of auncient men Knowe you then Master Lodouico that an iuention or Impresa if it be to be accounted currant ought to haue these fiue properties First iust proportion of body and soule Secondly that it be not obscure that it neede a Sibilla to enterprete it nor so apparant that euery rusticke may vnderstand it Thirdly that it haue especially a beautifull shewe which makes it become more gallant to the vew interserting it with Starres SuÌ„nes Moones Fire Water greene trees Mechanicall instruments fantasticall birds Fourthly that it haue no humane forme Fifthly it must haue a posie which is the soule of the body which ought to differ in language from the Idioma of him which beareth the Impresa to the ende the sence may bee the more couert It is requisite also it bee briefe yet so that it may not breede scrupulous doubts but that two or three words may fit the matter well vnlesse it bee in the forme of a verse either whole or maymed And to make apparent these properties you shal vnderstand that the body and soule aboue mentioned is meant either by the mot or by the subiect and an Impresa is accounted vnperfect when the subiect or body beare no proportioÌ„ of meaning to the soule or the soule to the body As Cesar Borgia Duke of Valentia vsed this soule without a body Aut Caesar aut nihil Meaning hereby that he would shewe his manhoode and make trial of his fortune Whereupon after he was vnfortunatly taken and beheaded in Nouara Fausto Maddalena a Romaine sayd that the posie was verefied in the last part of his Distich Borgia Caesar erat factis nomine Caesar. Aut nihil aut Caesar dixit vtrumque fuit And truely in his greate and prosperous estate the Posie was most wittie and worthie his Nobilitie if it had bene applied to a proportioned Subiect as was that of his brother Don Francesco Duke of Candia who had for his Impresa the Mountaine Chimera or Acroceraunes strikeÌ„ with the lightning of heauen with these words out of Horace Feriunt summos fulmina montes Which likewise was verified in his vnhappie end being strangled and throwne into Tiber by Caesar his brother Contrariwise a faire bodie or subiect is as ill beseeming if it bee without a soule as was that of Charles of Bourbon CoÌ„stable of FranÌ„ce who bare depainted a Hart with wings meaning thereby that his naturall swift running was not sufficient but that he would flye into euery difficult and daungerous hazarde The which Impresa albeit the beauty of the goodlie beast which was pompouse seemed yet blinde wanting a Posie which should giue it light which ministred occasion of sondrie interpretations among which this one was most sharply giuen of a French Gentleman called Motta Augruing who attended on the Pope when woful newes came of the discomfiture of the most Christian King at Pauia talking of the disloyaltie of Bourbon sayd to Pope Clement Bourbon although he seemeth to be a betraier both of his King CouÌ„trey meriteth yet some excuse in hauing shewen before what he ment to do by bearing in his Coate of Armes a Hart with wings meaning therby that he minded to flye into Bourgonie which he could not doe with his feete had he not had winges and therefore this Posie was bestowed vpon him Cursum intendimus alis The like defect had the Impresa of the Ladie Hippolita Fioramonda Marquise of Scaldasole at Pauia who farre excelled all the Gallants of our time both in beautie and amourous curtesie who often wore in her Sky colored Sattin robes Candleflyes all dispersed wrought in embrodery of gold but without a mot warning thereby the amourous that they approach not too neere her fire least it happen to them as it doth to that flye which ventureth so nere the flame that it burneth itself And being requested of the Lord of Lesui beeing a braue and valiaunt Knight and at that time a practiser in the arte of Ryding to manifest vnto him the meaning of

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