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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
hand_n	david_n	king_n	saul_n	6,232	5	10.0779	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08907	The heroicall deuises of M. Claudius Paradin Canon of Beauieu. Whereunto are added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and others. Translated out of Latin into English by P.S.; Devises héroiques. English	Paradin, Claude, 16th cent.; P. S., fl. 1591.	1591 (1591)	STC 19183; ESTC S119509	55,195	420

forme of a blasing starre glittering on euerie side with arrowes as it were in fashion of a round circle for a continuall admonition to implore and call for Gods direction and mightie arme in this his voyage and iourney Vnica semper auis But alwayes one Phenix in the world at once Like as the Phenix wherof there is but one at any time to be seene Theoph. is a rare bird so all good precious things are hard to be found These armes the famous and renowmed woman the L●dy Helionora of Austria vsed which was the widow of Francis king of France ΑΠΑΑΝΩΣ Without all falshood or deceipt The french arming sword in the hands of an armed man with the inscription of this Greeke word ΑΠΑΑΝΩΣ doth at this day in the place of the armes which the Lord Constable vsed signifie faith Riens ne ́ est plus Plus ne ́ est riens I haue no more ioy no more comfort remaineth to me Valentina of Milan sometime Dutch●sse of Orleans had great cause to passe her dayes in great heauinesse and mourning both for the death of her husband Lewis ●●other to king Charles the sixt as also for the same kings vnfortunate phrensie whereof we spake before in the handling of his a●mes which vsed to come on him at certain times and when it tooke him he knew not any of his friends no not the queene his wife but only this Dutchesse Valentina whom he called when he was in this extremitie his sister Whereupon there was a rumour blowne abrode that the Duke the father of this Valentina hauing sometimes bene ouerladen with drinke had caused some poyson or charmed potion to be giuen him which report this Valentina tooke verie grieuously yea so grieuously indeede that in place of all consolation and ease of her mourning she vsed for her cognizance an earthen pitcher in fashion like a water pot on the mouth whereof was the character of this letter S. signifying perhaps these words concerning the same Dutches Solā saepe seseipsā sollicitari suspiraréque that is being alone shee accustomed to mourne and to sigh with her selfe togither with these words subioyned Nil mihi praeterea Praeterea mihi nil Which is nothing remaineth to me nothing haue I more The which emblemes with the like inscriptions are to be seene described in many places in the Franciscan friers church at Bloyes and in the same Dutches chappell where she lieth buried in a tombe of brasse and also in the porch or entrie on euery side of the quite of the same church Pour vn aultre non To none other Andreas Lauallus the french Admiral was wont to giue for his ensigne a burning Ore which is yet to be seene in the suburbes of the cittie Melus It is also a signification of feruent and dutifull zeale towards the king and countrie and especially in that iourney that they tooke by sea through the great Occean Fata viam inuenient Fortune shall shew the way This simbole of the Labirinth which the Lord of Boisdaulphin archbishop of Ambrune vseth may perchance signifie that we are lead by the grace of God to finde the way that leadeth to eternall life the same giuing the thread as it were of his holy precepts into our hands which when we haue once taken hold of and do follow we turne away from the dangerous wandrings and feareful by wayes of this world Quid non mortalia pectora cogis Filthy loue constraineth men to commit all wickednesse Cleopatra taking it grieuously Plinie and also in great disdaine that Marcus Antonius should make triall so oft of her loue vpon a time at a banquet and merrie meeting whether it were to giue him occasiō neuer to be distrustfull any more after or for some other cause she began to delight him verie voluptuously after her old fashion that she vsed namely with diuers and sundrie garlands of flowers whose leaues were all besprinckled with poyson Some of the which she wearing vpon her head picked them out and brusing them a little cast them into his cuppe or goblet perswading him to drinke it off But whilest he was about to do it she putting her hand to it said thus Oh my sweete heart Antonius I surely am the woman which if I could liue without thee haue now a iust occasion to do that which by your curious trials you seeme to feare And hereby we may see what may be the audacitie and impudent boldnes of a shamelesse woman In sibilo aurae tenuis In the muttering of the gentle aire Musicke is of it owne nature an enimie to melancholy and therefore is able to qualifie any furie that riseth of a vehement melancholie Wherefore she is able also to driue away heauines and dulnesse which proceed of blacke choler being ouerwhelmed and suffocate with flegme With the which one hath recorded that once he saw a man sore troubled and so sound and fast on steepe that you could by no meanes get a word of him but onely by a harpe sounding in his eares at the pleasant harmonie whereof he lifting vp his head laughed answered to their demands Which thing is an argument that there is no small affinitie betwixt Musicke and the soule Elizeus the prophet hath plainely declared the same vnto vs 4. King 2 when to call againe his propheticall spirite and to make supplication to God for a remedie of his people that then were like to perish with extreme thirst he commanded one that had skill to play on the harpe to be called for vnto him and in that sort obtained at the hands of God that which he desired in his prayers and supplications And what say you to Dauid the Musitian who is now dead rotten 1. King 17 Did not he comfort and recreate King Saul his soule being vexed with an euill spirite when as so long as he played vpon his harpe the wicked spirite left to molest him Therefore this consonant musicke hath a certaine diuine grace in it for as much as it doth not onely restore helth to bodies that are sicke but al●o sti●reth vp the soule to contemplation comforteth the same and maketh it heauenly as it were wherefore it is an enimie euen to the verie diuels which doubtlesse are nothing else than desperation deiection of the soule feare and an obstinate desolation Finally as in Musicke of different voices there is made tunable musicke so of men also that are of one minde there may be made a consent of contrary natures and manners which God accepteth aboue all other things that may be obserued or kept Finem transcendit habendi He passed the ordinarie meanes of getting and possessing riches The wicked couetousnesse of Calephas Baldacensis chiefe bishop of the Mahomets law wrought a verie euil end for himselfe for being taken in wars Haalon prince of Tartaria commanded him to be handled according to bis insaciable greedinesse that is that insteede of his daintie dishes nothing should be set before