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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
friend_n	planet_n	saturn_n	venus_n	952	5	12.2454	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14293	The golden-groue moralized in three bookes: a worke very necessary for all such, as would know how to gouerne themselues, their houses, or their countrey. Made by W. Vaughan, Master of Artes, and student in the ciuill law,	Vaughan, William, 1577-1641.	1600 (1600)	STC 24610; ESTC S111527	151,476	422

of heauenly bodies wee shall finde that Mercurie Luna Sol and Iupiter are friendes to Saturne and that Mars and Venus are his enemies All the Planets sauing Mars and Saturne are friendes to Iupiter Finally among friendes al things are common for A friend is a second selfe Howe a man should know his friend Chap. 58. MAny there bee that meeting by chance either in trauelling or at ordinaries do beleeue that frō that instāt a sure league of friendshippe is established betweene them which in good truth can neuer bee so by reason that in the time of triall there is no more effect of such friends then betweene the Crowe and the Kite of whom as the Fable goeth when it happened to the one to bee bare of plumes and would needes borrow some the other answered that hee had no more then was sufficient for him Of this ranke was King Richard the second of this Realme who in the yeere of our Lorde 1398. created Henrie Bolling brooke Earle of Darby Duke of Hereford and foure other Earles at that time made hee Dukes and parted landes among them thereby thinking to haue gotten firme friendes But boughtfriendes are seldome sure as being like vnto Arabian ●auens who so long as they are full doe make a pleasant noyse but being emptie they yeelde a fearefull crie So in like maner it chanced to this King Richard as being shortly after deposed by the Duke of Hereford afterwarde King Henrie the fourth whom as I say de before he had friendly aduaunced to that honour Wherefore a man that would bee circumspect and know his friend must principally knowe these positions First lette him consider whether his friend bee ambitious because that Ambition is fearefull and for the least crosse of fortune wil forsake true friendship Secondly whether his friend bee couetous for that Couetousnesse selleth friendshippe faith and honestie Thirdly let him prooue his friend aforehand in matters of importance for if he then go forwarde with a readie affection hee may bee assured of him against the next time but if hee once stagger or seeme colde that way hee knoweth what he hath to doe Of Flatterie Chap. 59. FLatterie is hardly discerned from friendshippe by reason that in euery motion of the minde it is glozingly intermingled with it but in their deedes they are meere aduersaries for flatterie dissenteth from it in al vertuous actions This a wife man will soone espie and that especially by these tokens First a flatterer is accustomed to prayse a man before his face and yeeldeth his consent with him in all matters as well bad as good Secondly a flatterer is wont to commend the deformitie of his friend when hee is present and to admire his stammering voyce Thirdly A Flatterer when a man hath neede of him turneth his backe Fourthly a flatterer will take vpon him at first to contradict a man by little little hee will yeeld as vanquished and will shake handes with him these bee the properties of a Flatterer of whome let euerie honest man beware for as the Poet sayth Wicked poyson lurketh vnder the sweetest honey And it is better to fall among a companie of crowes then to come among Flatterers because they will not pecke a man till hee bee dead whereas Flatterers will not spare to deuoure a man being aliue Obiection A flatterer will smoothe and consent with you in all things therefore hee is not vitious Answere A flatterer is either An Ape by imitation for hee will soothe a man so long till hee hath gotten somewhat by him A shadow by deceite for he quickly passeth A Basiliske by stinging for with his very sight hee woundeth a man Of Ingratitude with a remedie against it Chap. 60. BEcause ingratitude is the greatest token of all vices and because the earth bringeth foorth nothing worse then an ingratefull man I will anatomize both the vice and the louer thereof First in respect of our vnthankfulnesse towardes GOD and next in consideration of so many ingratefull wretches that liue in these accursed dayes Our first Parents hauing receiued vnspeakeable benefites at the handes of GOD as beeing created by him after his owne likenesse and then constituted as Monarchs ouer all other liuing creatures shewed themselues ingratefull for the same by eating of the forbidden Apple Whose examples wee imitating doe persist or rather surpasse them in ingratitude as in forgetting GODS exceeding loue when he spared not his onely begotten sonne but gaue him euen to shamefull death for our saluation Moreouer wee are vnthankfull vnto him for his singular care and fauour which hee exhibited in opening our stone-blinde eyes and in lifting vs out of the darke pitte of errours wherein our forefathers by the illusions of the fiende and of his member the Pope were enthralled and in a maner sunke Wee are vnthankfull towardes men when wee deface with forgetfulnesse the good turnes which wee haue receiued of our friendes This abominable kinde of vsage is at this instant too much practised by our owne countrymen and Neighbours for it so comes to passe that the greater the benefites are the greater most oftentimes is the ingratitude and I knowe not who among the rest bee more vnthankfull then children towardes their Parents and Schollers towardes their teachers who in steede of thankes doe recompence them with disobedience lyes curses slaunders and what not O detestable sinne not the fowles of the ayre who altogether are ignorant of reason haue euer exercised the same Wee reade that A yong man falling by chaunce among theeues and crying out was saued by a Dragon who by him being nourished straightway knewe his voyce and came to helpe him It is sayde of the Storke that so often as shee hath yong ones shee casteth one out of her nest into the chimney for a guerdon and rewarde vnto him that suffered her to lodge there Oh I would that all they which delight in the contrarie had beene subiect to the Persian King for doubtlesse then they would repent them of their ingratitude when they should see their neckes in the halter The Persians knewe that the man which of benefits receiued proued vnthankfull was not worthie to liue Lette men therefore beware whom they accept into their fauour and houses for it may be their ghestes will become as gratefull vnto them as the Adder whome the husband man finding almost dead in the snowe brought home and cherished Which Adder being thus entertained within a while after in lieu of his fostering infected all the whole house with his poyson Now touching a preseruatiue against this vice of ingratitude mine opinion is that men haue a good respect howe they bestow their benefites Seeing it is impossible for a wise man to bee vnmindfull of a good turne and if they conferre their giftes vpon fooles they are worse then mad because they shall perceiue in the end that a fooles acquaintance will stand them in no steade Of hatred