Selected quad for the lemma: heaven_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	church_n	earth_n	triumphant_a	4,427	5	11.4398	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B07975	Natvral and morall questions and answers. Intermingled with many prettie and pleasant riddles, and darke sentences / written by A.P. ; with a manner of ordering the body for health through euery month of the yeare, and for dieting it for a seuen-night after blood-letting. Written in Latin verse by Ioachimus Camerarius.	A. P.; Camerarius, Joachim, 1534-1598 Victvs et cultvs ratio.	1598 (1598)	STC 19054.5; ESTC S94569	41,291	139

it and by foresight to resist forraine inuasion Quest. Who are onely to be called resolute souldiours Answ Those that are determined either to die or els to obtaine the victory Quest What is a cheefe fault in warre Answ Feare of death Quest. How did antiquitie represent vnto vs the issue of good things Answ They made an image holding in the right hand a cup and in the left hand an eare of corne with a sprig of Poppy signifying therby that he easily is brought asleepe that is contented with the fruits of the earth Quest What seruice is most in request and being performed is least considered and most hated Answ Treason Quest What time is most desired and obtained is most accused Answ Age. Quest. What men are cheeflie deceiued Answ Those that looke for two contrarie thinges at one time namelie for pleasure and the reward of vertue Quest. What is that in the morning goeth vpon foure legges at noone vpon two and in the euening vpon three legges Answ Man for in his infancie hee creepeth vpon hands and feet in his youth hee goeth straight without any helpe or stay and in his age vseth besides his legges the aid of a staffe to support his body Quest. What thing is in the day time as round as a hoope and at night long as a Answ A girdle about a man or womans body Quest How many waies is violence cheefly committed Answ Two waies either by deceit or by force the one is the practise of the Foxe and the other of the Lyon and both of them are most farre from humanitie Quest. Why is vertue had in so small account Answ Because shee is plaine and cannot dissemble Quest Why dooth vertue reiect all glosings Answ Because truth needes no shaddowes Quest What men are most ingratefull to themselues and least hurtfull to other men Answ Those that are couetous and enuious for as these pine away at other mens welfare and prosperitie so the other endanger their soules to leaue rich perhaps vnthankfull heires behind them Quest. Why is heauen said to haue a low gate Answ Because those that shall enter into it must first stoope low and learne humilitie Quest Why did Antiquitie in their churches place a crosse vpon the entrance of the quire Answ Because the body of the church did represent the church militant vpon earth and the quire the church triumphant in heauen to teach vs hereby that no man would come from the one into the other vnlesse hee did suffer first crosses and persecutions Quest. What is a friend Answ Another selfesame Quest What is commonly the end of a dissolute life Answ A desperate death Quest. What is a cheefe signe of a Princes clemencie and a token of his great courage and magnanimitie Answ To despise the whisperings of vnthankfull men and patiently to suffer the rage of enuy Quest Which are the cheefest ornaments of women Answ Shamefastnesse Quest. How might a foole resemble a wise man Answ In hiding of his folly by silence Quest. What three things doe men most couet Answ Riches Pleasure and Honor. Riches bee the nurses of sinne and iniquity Pleasures the guides to calamitie And Honor the pompe of worldly vanities Quest. Why are pleasures so much to bee abandoned Answ Because their first entring is counterfeit and deceitfull and their departure is griefe and repentance Quest What thing in this world is alwaies without rest Answ A guilty conscience Quest What is it that men most doe hunt after and oftentimes prooueth most deceitfull Answ Womens fauor Quest. What is it that women most feare yet of it do most desire the occasion Answ To be with child they most desire and fear most the hour of their deliuery Quest What doe children most hate and yet is most profitable vnto them Answ Correction Quest. What is lesser then a Mouse and hath more windowes then a house Answ A Thymble Quest. What vice is most likest to the apples of Tantalus Answ Hypocrisie For as the Apples of Tantalus seemed in sight most beautiful and yet prooued but shadowes so this vice although it beareth a glorious shew of perfectiō yet is nothing els but a meer and a deceitfull illusion Quest Why is it amongst men now adaies so much practised Answ Because it is the highest degree of dissembling and therefore is accounted a sure step to promotion Quest. What men transforme themselues into angels of light and are nothing but Diuels incarnate Answ Hypocrites Quest What men promise thēselues many vaine things Answ Courtiers and such as liue in continuall hope Quest What thing in the latter minute of his age waxeth yong againe Answ The Moone Quest Who is the mother of all mankind Answ The earth euen by the Oracle of Apollo for this Oracle being demanded by certaine Princes that were in controuersie for the kindome of Aegypt who should succeed the late King deceased answered that he should not only be installed King of the kingdome of Aegypt that first should kisse his mother but should likewise become monarch of all Asia This answer being reported by the Priest vnto the Princes that were then attending without vpō the Oracle Darius hauing heard it stept suddainly from his horse and kist the ground saying that the earth was the mother of al mankind The princes that could not deny it made and created him King who afterward conquered all Asia and became quiet monarch of many kingdomes Quest What is it that taketh least pleasure in company Answ Pride for it hateth his betters enuieth his equals and despiseth his inferiors Quest What is it that being aliue is altogether dumbe and being dead yeeldeth a most sweet harmonie Answ A Lute or any kind of instrument made of wood Quest Which is the best remedy for things that are not to be recouered Answ Obliuion or forgetfulnesse Quest. What is chiefly to be commended in a warrior Answ To be in fight terrible and in conquest mild Quest. What surfeit is most dangerous and least auoided Answ The surfeit of sinne Quest. Who kill their mother ere they be borne in the reuenge of their father that begot them Answ Vipers for as the male and femall ingender by the mouth so the damme being kindled with lust in the art of Venery bites of the males head and the yong ones ere they be borne gnaw their mothers belly open to come forth and so doe kill her Quest What is it that soonest waxeth old Answ A benefite for nothing is sooner forgotten then a good turne and nothing longer remembred then an iniury Quest What are Vsurers Answ The Horseleeches and Caterpillers of the Commonwealth Quest. What is the least and yet the profitablest thing in a Garden Answ A Bee Quest. What wind bloweth no way to profite and is noysome to all the neighbours Answ The foisting of a dogge the smell whereof is noysome to all the companie that are neere it Quest Vpon what men are almes deedes worst bestowed Answ Vpon blind men