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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	brutus_n	caesar_n	cassius_n	975	5	13.7578	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07129	Youths instruction. Composed and written by William Martyn Esquire. Recorder of the honourable citie of Exeter	Martyn, William, 1562-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 17530; ESTC S102312	67,049	142

may quickly be diseased Finally in his owne reputation he is not such a one as he is indeede Barland Aphoris 1 51. but he is lesser then himselfe yet greater then he who is great in his owne eyes It is not true humilitie for a man to reuerence his elders nor to dignifie his superiors nor with good respects to reckon of his equals for this is rather to bee deemed and esteemed a dutie but to preferre before himselfe such as are honest and vertuous yet in estate and in degree are lower and inferiour vnto him this and none but this is true and absolute humilitie A bucket before it can be filled withwater must descend into the well and men by humilitie and with humble spirits must first descend into the lowest roomes of their meeke hearts before they can be truely wise Vt nemo te euertat cadas sponte that no man may be able to throw you downe fall of your owne accord Be humble that no stout stomacke may find any occasion or haue any power to make you lower then you will make your selfe to be so shall your humilitie raise you with more assurance of continuance then ambition or pride can Salomon saith Pride Peru. 29.23 that a mans pride shal bring him lowe but that the humble in spirit shall enioy glorie This was approued by wofull experience to be true by all the famous and most renouned Citties in Greece euerie one of them proudly cōtending against theother by force of armes for preheminence and soueraignty by meanes whereof all of them in a short time were by their enemies ruinated and subuerted Nunc seges est ybi Troia fuit The ambitious and vnbounded haughtinesse of Caesar was the cause of the warres in Rome Pompeys pride weakned the Romans strength and hastned his owne death for ambitious mindes make great men to attempt many desperate things and they are dangerous in the common weale The prophet Dauid telleth vs Ps 18.27 Ps 31.23 that the Lord casteth downe the proude lookes and that hee rewardeth aboundantly the proude doer Before destruction saith he the heart of a man is hauty Ps 18.12 Dau. 4. So was Nebucadnezzers heart before hee was cast from his princely throne and compelled by the sentence of God to eate grasse in the field like a beast for the space of seuenyeares vntill that by his punishment he acknowledged God and became humble And so was Hamans heart who being glutted and surcharged with those vnspeakable honors which were vnworthily and without iust deserts conferred vpon him by Ahashueroth the king Ester 7. was hanged vpon his owne gallows at the same time when in his malice and in his pride he intended to haue insulted wickedly vpon the death of Mordocai and vpon the bloudie massacring and murdring of Gods people the Iewes And sowas Absoloms heart 2 Sam. 18. who in his pride traiterously and against nature affecting his fathers crowne kingdome was in his flight suddenly hanged by the haires of his head on a tree 2 Regum cap. 18. et cap. 19. vntill his bodie was pierced through with three speares by Ioab his mortall enemie And so was the heart of Senacherib who trusting in his owne strength and in the multitude of his men of warre impiously and proudly blasphemed the great name of the liuing God but was forthwith plagued with the losse of the greatest part of his huge armie not long after was murdred as he sacrificed in the temple of Nisroch his God by Adramelech and Sharezar his owne sonnes And so were the proude harts of Cesar who in his ambitious humor scorned an equall and of Pompey who disdained to admit of any superiour vntil Pompey was compelled by Caesar to flie into Egypt where he was trecherously slaine by his false friend Sledan 31. and that Caesar was by Brutus and Cassius assaulted and murdred with penkniues in the senate house And so was the heart of that monster among men Caligula who caused the Gods of the Grecians to bee brought vnto Rome where he himselfe wore their ornaments and crownes and would be adored as a God And so was the heart of the proud wife of the Venetian duke named Dominico Seluio sister to Niceforus the Emperour Historia Italica who vsed ordinarily to wash her bodie in baths made of the dewes of heauen but was before she died choaked and poisoned with the noisome stench of her owne rotten and putrified flesh You may reade that the Grecian monarch vsed the dining table of Darius the late monarch of the Medes and Persians being al made of beaten gold for his footstoole as he sate at meate And that Pope Alexander the third Harim Schedul 102. proudly treading vpon the necke of the first Fredericke abusing peruerting the attributes of our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ conuerting them by way of application to his owne pride said with king Dauid but with a wicked meaning Super Aspidem et basiliscum ambulabis et conculcabis Leonem et Draconem Thou shalt walke vpon the Aspe and basiliske Ps 91.13 Harim Schedul fo 192. Sledan 83. and shall tread the Lion and the Dragon vnder thy feete Did not Pope Gregorie the seuenth compell the noble Emperour Henrie the fourth in the depth of an vnseasonable winter to attend and to wait at his gate barefooted by the space of three daies before he would giue him any audience and absolue him being excommunicated because hee had conferred bishoprickes on diuers men without the Popes leaue or consent according the old and auncient rites priuiledges and customes of the Empires These and such like monstrous effects of pride doe make men in their owne eyes to seeme to be immortall Gods when as indeede they are no better then reprobate fiendes and incarnate deuils and instead of being famoused for many vertuous qualities to be infamed with perpetuall ignominie and shame For like as a planet by how much the higher it is by so much the more slowly it attaineth to the full compasse of his sphere so by how much the more a proude man is elated and puffed vp with vaine glorie and ambition the further off he is from his end which is or ought to be God as it appeared by Lucifer and his bragging angels who in their vsurping pride coueting and desiring to be Gods were suddenly cast downe from heauen and transformed and changed in to hideous fearefull and loathsome hagges of hell Therefore my sonne you must be warie that you clime not too hie least the boughs failing you by which you striue and struggle to ascend you fall downe flatte vnto the ground vnable and hopelesse to arise any more If you carry greater sailes then your barkes can beare you shall vndoubtedly be drowned in the high seas of your owne pride When pride possesseth a mans heart it poysoneth the whole man like as a deuouring canker hauing festered and putrified one principall member