Selected quad for the lemma: ground_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
ground_n	fruit_n	good_a	tree_n	4,708	5	8.6623	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16804	The vvil of vvit, vvits vvill, or vvils wit, chuse you whether Containing fiue discourses, the effects whereof follow. Read and iudge. Compiled by Nicholas Breton, Gentleman.	Breton, Nicholas, 1545?-1626?	1597 (1597)	STC 3705; ESTC S104696	57,843	108

but with Arte it dooth better What sayde Cicero Plus ego togatus quam armati decem He did more in his Gowne then ten in their coate Armours Ceda●… armatoga concedant laurea lingu●… Let the Gunne giue place to the Gowne and giue the braue tongue the Bay tree Was not Cicero ●…ratorum prestantissimus an excelent Scholer Cataline was a braue Souldiour but yet Cicero and his side gaue the ouerthrowe Againe howe should the Fame of your gallaunt Souldiours remain●… in Memorie had there not béene Schollers willing for the good will they bare them to set them out with such a grace of glorie that all men should be glad to reade and heare them yea and a number to followe them But euerie man must not nor can bée a Souldiour for some must be at home for diuerse causes of importaunce appertinent vnto the Common wealth which in their kinds are as worthie honour as the Souldiour The Souldiour Not so I graunt that it is necessarie for some to sit by the fire side while the other fetch Wood and Cole But they are slouthfull while the other take paines and whether is more worthie honour labour or idlenesse Againe when the Souldio●…s of Rome had playde the men in the ouerthrowe of Cataline Was it not a fault in Cicero to shewe such arrogancie in his spéeches to take vppon him more effect then ten men in Armour eyther hee ment it merr●…ly by some odde ten persons that neuer came out of the Towne to the battaile because yet hée sayde somewhat vnto the Souldiours to encourage them and they that were away neither sayde nor did anything And so hee meant it to the discommendation of their Cowardise in kéeping farre enough from the fight Or else he meant hée pr●…ted more himselfe then any ten Souldiours in the Campe. But happie it was for him that the day went of his side though the victorie came not by his eloquence I graunt hee did great good with his perswasions for in déede good wordes will moue much especially in good causes as that was besides God is good and he dooth commonly giue the good victorie and if he suffer them to be ouerthrowen it is for a further good he meanes them Nowe therefore if he had giuen the chiefe glorie to God and the rest to the valiaunt Captaines and Souldiours in my iudgement he had done wel but to come out with Plus ego me thinkes he played the foole Ipse Againe whereas you speake of the great fauour of Schollers that they doo vnto Souldiours in setting foorth their famous deedes I must giue them commendation for their paines but for Honour confesse who deserues more Honour the man that dooth the déede or he that wrytes of it when it is done I graunt Learning an ornament and a necessarie appertinent vnto a Souldiour Otherwise in deede it is harde for him to bée a good Captaine for by Learning he knowes vpon what cause it is good to beginne warre and warre offered vpon what cause it growes and if it bee without cause howe good then is the defence Else if a Souldiour will vpon a fagarie or madde humour in the heade goe showe his great businesse and little wit hee knowes not nor cares not vpon whome where or for what cause I will say his foolishnesse makes him vnworthie of the name of a Souldiour his deedes worthie to bee put in obliuion and himselfe vnwoorthie honour Therefore I confesse a good Captaine had neede to ●…ee somewhat a Scholler ere he take 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hand 〈◊〉 y●…t in his Scholership not so worthie honour as when he hath shewed him selfe a Souldiour Marrie this I allowe of the vnlearned the Scholler is to bée honoured and the Souldiour to be beloued But yet I say still the Souldiour is to bée honoured both of the Scho ler and the vnlearned of the Scholer for his Wisedome with valure and of the other for his ●…outnesse with vertue Now what say you for the Scholler The Scholler This I say the grounde I thinke was before the Grasse the tree before the fruite the Plaine song before the Deskant and so foorth The ground I must confesse is worthie loue for bringing foorth Grasse so is Grasse to be loued for the Cattailes sake that it feedes which wee 〈◊〉 by Nowe if the ground brought out nothing but Mosse then were it little to be loued againe the Grasse cut and not well handled would doo little good and were worthie as little loue The Tree were ill would beare no Fruite and the Fruite ill would please no taste the Plaine song were plaine stuffe without Deskant and the Deskant were a madde péece of Musicke without Plaine song to be the ground But as the ground for the Grasse so the Grasse for his ●…wéete iuyce the Trée for the Fruite and the Fruite for the sweete taste the Plaine song for swéete Deskant and the Deskant for skill are loued So is the Scholler for ●…is Learning and the souldiour for ●…ertue to bée honoured a like and if any more then other the scholler for that hee findes by Learning what is Honour howe it is to bee gotten howe maintained and what to be esteemed Hee sees whether his bodie bee to his minde and if it bée then if both bée fit to abide the life of a souldiour then dooth hee proue a Famous fellowe if God send him good fortune If not why then hee takes in hand Law Phi●…cke or Diuinitie the most excellent study whereby to win no lesse honour during life then Fame after death By learning comes knowledge by learned knowledge comes a man of meane countenance to giue counsaile vnto Princes By learning is seene what sinne is howe it is hated of God and wh●…t hurt it doth to man by learning is Uertue founde and howe it is beloued of God and honoured of the best minds and so ought to be of all men by learning comes the knowledge of the nature of many things and the vse of the same by learning can the Phisition cure the souldiour beeing sicks or hurt by learning dooth the man of Peace knowe the law of Armes In summe I know no man excellent in anie thing without learning which is the grounde of all excellencie If then learning be excellent the tune that is spent in that is most excellently well bestowed which time may be well called the Schollers time and the scholler for so well bestowing that time most worthie to bée honoured Now what say you for the Souldiour The Souldiour Marrie this I say the better the grasse the more is the ground esteemed and till the grounde beare grasse what was it to be estéemed but as barrain and therfore a thing of little woorth but when it brings foorth good grasse then it is called a fatte grounde good ground so forth Marrie if this grounde lie in a colde corner it will be long ere the grasse spring and being come vp it commonly proues sower and dooth not so soone nor

so well fatten the Cattell as other that lyeth somewhat néere the sunne Againe if the grounde lye verie high and neere the sunne then is the Grasse so parched with the heate that there is little swéetenesse left ●…n it for the Cattell Then must it be kept with watering to coole the heate and to refresh the roote of the grasse withall Againe the cold grounde must be often dunged thereby to giue it more heate and with that warmth to comfort the roote of the grasse that it may the better come vp Now I do not denie but these grounds may bee both indu●…erent good in their kinds after they haue beene wel vsed as I say But the ground is to be considered of according to his nature and if the grounde be of nature to beare grasse and such common hearbs as will feede Cattell it is not to be despised But if it bee of nature to bring foorth flowers hearbes rootes and fruites for man himselfe to feede on is it not to bee made account off farre aboue the other Yes surely And this minde am I of that at the first Creation when God had made the Earth hée gaue it a secret nature to bring forth Fruits but many sundrie grounds sundrie kinds of Natures which according to the same are to be esteemed God when he had made the grounde he saide let vs garnish it with Grasse Flowers Hearbs Trees and Fruits and so foorth Nowe he thought it not worthie the looking on till it had brought foorth the Fruites Flowers and Hearbs which his heauenly Maiestie had giuen it a secret Nature to bring foorth to beautifie it selfe with all Which Flowers and fruites some hee sawe heere some there and according to the Fruites hee estéemed the plotte of grounde whereon they grew therefore say ●… the ground is to be thought off according to the goodnesse of the fruits which naturally and not by helpe it brings foorth The Trée was before the Fruit but till such time as it brought foorth fruite what was it but a stocke not worthy the proyning Now there are diuers Trées which according to the nature of the Soyle wherein they grew bring ●…h fruites Nutmegges Cloues Cinamon Ginger Mace Pepper Orenges Limons Pounde Citrons Pomegranets Grapes and Suger in Canes Melones Abricockes Artichockes Prunes Raysons And for Rootes ●…ringos Potatoes and a number of other too long to recite The colde Countries yéelde watrishe fruite as Plums Peares Apples Cherries and such like The temperate Soile bringes foorth fruite neyther too watrishe nor yet too drie but betwixt both Nowe the Trees are to bee thought off according to their fruites is not the Cinamon trée to be estéemed aboue the Apple trée is not the Damson Trée to be made accoumpt off aboue the Blackthorne trée Is not the Pippin tree to bee esteemed aboue the Crabbe trée The Abr●…ocke aboue the common Plum and the Cherrie aboue the Hauthorne berrie Yes out of doubt according to the sweetenesse of the taste is the fruite to beloued In the Garden of Paradize there were diuers fruite Trees and fruites but one théefe that was to bee honoured aboue all other for féeding whereof man was driuen out of the grounde and forst with toile to get his liuing abroade in the world with Gods high displeasure Therefore some Trées are aboue other to be honoured Plaine Song is good Musick but not so good as when the Deskant is made to goe with it Now there are diuers grounds which according to the Deskants are to bee estéemed What swéeter hermony then among the Byrdes of the field what Byrd so ●…uch honoured as the Nightingale and why but for her sweete chaunge 〈◊〉 When shee first begins to record it is a pretie birde But when she sing●…s out in the midst of Maie about midnight the weather faire a●…d 〈◊〉 a fine bushe Oh ●…s a heauenly noise to h●…are the sweete wretch So the Scholler 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Learning for his sight in diuers Artes. But now men are borne vnder diuers Planets as some vnder Iupiter those are imperious fellowes those are good to bee Princes some vnder Saturne they are frowarde of Nature and good to make Lawiers some vnder Venus they are good to make Solicitors of Loue some vnder Mercurie and they are good to bee Secretaries for they are commonly ingenious some vnder Sol those are hote fellowes those are good to make Marriners they may best abide the colde of the Water some vnder Luna and they are weake of Nature and subiect to much sicknesse those are good to make Phisitians to helpe themselues and other that hath néede of them some vnder Mars and they are the men that prooue the gallant Souldiours Now if the Scholler bee borne vnder that Planet of Prowesse and in his time of studie bee addicted to follow that which hee sees worthy Honour which both reason perswades his minde and Nature leades his body too is not he worthy to bee honoured aboue the Scholler that is weake of Nature and vnfit for any exercise of great honour Yes surely My selfe haue studied a little in diuers Artes but euer I was most bent to this Art of war whē I scarce kn●…w what a Gun meant me thought it did me good to heare it shoot off and see the fire it did me good to looke on a swoorde blade ere I knewe whither it shoulde haue a hut or not What shall I say I loued a Drumme and a Fy●…e better then all the fi●…ling Musicke in the worlde and growing to some yeeres I woulde practise now and then a little of Warlike exercises till in the ende the delight therein drewe me quite from my Booke So that when I had learned first to serue God and howe to serue him to doo no man wrong and take as little as I might I left my schoole fellowes and foorth I got to seeke aduentures Now Lawe I haue inough for my selfe as I saide I will doo no wrong and take little And among Souldiours Stafforde lawe Martiall lawe killing or hanging is soone learned For Phisicke I haue ●…uough I knowe a little Turpentime will heale a great cutte a Cobwebbe and Salt or Bole Armonick wil ●…int a bleeding If I be ill at ease I fast it out I doo as Hogges doo neuer eate meate till they see whither they shall liue or die Tush sicknesse comes by ill dyet then learne by one surfet to vse the better order twise for it but Souldiours vse is to kéepe no dyet but to abide all hardnesse therefore they commonly are not sicke but vpon the bullet which if it light in the breast they lye not long on it so that they haue no neede but of the heauenly Phisitian to craue his heauenly Mercie to purge their soules from sinne that it may appeare pure and acceptable before him at the day of Iudgement And new minding not to say much more in this matter What say you for the Scholler The Scholler Syr I must néedes