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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
heaven_n	day_n	keep_v	sabbath_n	2,391	5	9.7137	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09207	The truth of our times revealed out of one mans experience, by way of essay. Written by Henry Peacham.	Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643?	1638 (1638)	STC 19517; ESTC S114189	39,175	216

gaind Now if I part with this let mee beleeve and assuredly say with the Phylosopher A privatione in habitum nulla est regressio I may another day come by and view saying with a sigh of mee and mine Fuimus Troes This was ours once how have I wronged you my poore Children who will feede and entertaine you but you are like to wander up and downe and seeke untimely death in the errors of your lives and for my selfe who will relieve me when all is gone I would bee loath to depend upon any being of a generous and free spirit and debere quibus nolis miserrimum these times are grown so cunning flinty hard that necessitous men can hardly borrow five shillings o f their best friends and acquaintance And how many great heires have I knowne to have begged dyed in Ale-houses and barnes surfeiting of that aboundance which hath beene lefe them These the like notions mature Discretion should have suggested and beene mistresse of the Key before the house had beene parted withall Out of the heate of thy youth unknowne to thy parents or friends thou matchest thy selfe to some snout-faire young thing ●ot worth a gr●at whereby thou art sure ever after to be dis-esteemed and undervalued Discretiō hadst thou been acquainted with her would have told thee nil temerè doe nothing rashly and how marriage with ones calling and profession is the greatest action he shall undertake in his whole life and like a stratagem in warre in which hee can erre but once and how beautifull soever she bee the Dutch women can tell you Market● moreover in stead of honourable many times or worshipfull Kinred and alliance you shall have on her side a needy kindred alwayes relying upon you by begging or borrowing lastly after the spring-time of her beauty and your amorous desire is over you begin to loath her more than ever you lov'd her hence proceedes your perpetuall discontent home bred quarrels scoffes jeering from the neighbours a weary life to servants and to conclude a parting or divorcement between your selves which Discretion had you beene a scholler in her schoole would have easily taught you to have prevented Let these two examples in stead of many other shew the inestimable value of Discret●on in all our actions I will now come to speake of Discretion wee ought to have in speech and discourse An ill tongue in the holy Scripture is compared to a two edged sword bitter words to arrowes slanderous and malicious to the poyson of Aspes and it is the instrument many times of life and death as well to the soule as the body wherefore the old AEgyptians dedicated their Persean tree whose leaves are like tongues and the fruite or apples like hearts unto Isis meaning hereby the tongue and heart agreeing together should be consecrated to God onely and his honour and not in profaning or blaspheming his sanctified name usuall even in these dayes among children in the streetes or slandering and lyingly traducing others behinde their backes wherefore we shew our Discretion in nothing more than in our speech and discourse and hence came the word Loquere ut te videam for a naturall foole so long as he is silent for ought we know may be the wisest man in the company and a great wit by too much babling and suffering his tongue to runne at randome oftentimes prooves a more foole than hee speaking their pleasure of Princes Statesmen and Bishops raising them higher or lower as Dutch-men do their coine to their owne advantage hence they crave pardon being questioned of their eares that heard them● and stand in awe even of strangers waiters upon them Homer at●ibutes it as a prime vertue in Vlysses that his words were few but to the purpose I confesse the Table as with good dishes so should bee ●urnished with good discourse● for mirth at feasts and banquets hath ever been commended and I deny not but where men of severall dispositions meete something 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 may slip beyond the bounds of Discretion and these impertinencies and quicquid inter pocula liberius dictum fueret in mappa projiciatur cum micis as Erasmus holdeth sitting without more adoe having learned as much of Horace Ne fidos inter amic●s Sit qui dicta foràs eliminet And Plutarch in Symposiasis saith it was a custome among the Lacedemonians that when they invited any kinse-man or friend unto their houses they with a finger would poynt to the doore or porch and say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No words must come from hence which was the law of Ly●urgus hence proceedeth it that in many places as well in England as the Low Countries they have over their Tables a rose painted and what is spoken under the Rose must not be revealed the reason is this The Rose being sacred to Venus whose amorous and stolen sports that they might never bee revealed her sonne Cupid would needes dedicate to Harpocrates the god of Silence● hence these not in elegan verses Est Rosa flos veneris cuius quo surta laterent Harpocrati matris Dona dicavit amor ●nde rosam mensis hospes suspendet amicis Convivae ●t sub 〈◊〉 dictatacenda sciant And for the same reason ●erusa Oblivo were dedicated to B●cchus meaning what had beene done or spoken freely among merry cups should either have been quite forgotten or very slightly punished Of common ignorance THe world hath taken so much upon trust from credulous and superstitious antiquity that now adaies it will hardly beleeve common experience whereof I will produce some neither unpleasant nor unprofitable examples There are many that beleeve and affirme that the Manna which is sold in the shoppes of our Apothecaries to be of the same which fell from heaven wherewith the Israelites were fedde forty yeares in the wildernesse which cannot so be by these reasons 1. That Manna in the wildernesse was miraculous this of ours naturall falling from the heaven in ●aire cleare and hot daies at certaine seasons of the yeare in Calabria and upon mount Libanus 2. That Manna in the Wildernes●e was kept but onely one day excepting the Eve of the Sabboth when it remained uncorrupt for two daies together ours in shops will abide a yeare more sweet and good 3. That was a meat ours a medicine to loosen the body withall most excellent to purge choler and ours so unfit to use for food that if we eate much and continually of it our bowels will melt within us and wee dye forthwith Now from that affinity likenesse it hath from the other in some things it borroweth the same name that is the whitenesse the taste of an honey-like sweetnesse and the place whence it commeth that is the aire It is called in Hebrew Man derived either from Mana to prepare because it 〈◊〉 prepared by God himselfe or else because when the Israelites saw it first fal one said to the other Man hu What is