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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
honour_n	earl_n	lord_n	viscount_n	2,547	5	11.7917	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02096	Euphues his censure to Philautus wherein is presented a philosophicall combat betweene Hector and Achylles, discouering in foure discourses, interlaced with diuerse delightfull tragedies, the vertues necessary to be incident in euery gentleman: had in question at the siege of Troy betwixt sondry Grecian and Troian lords: especially debated to discouer the perfection of a souldier. ... Robertus Greene, in artibus magister.	Greene, Robert, 1558?-1592.	1587 (1587)	STC 12239; ESTC S105910	61,311	96

Euphues his censure to Philautus Wherein is presented a philosophicall combat betweene Hector and Achylles discouering in foure discourses interlaced with diuerse delightfull Tragedies The vertues necessary to be incident in euery gentleman had in question at the siege of Troy betwixt sondry Grecian and Troian Lords especially debated to discouer the perfection of a Souldier Containing mirth to purge melancholy holsome precepts to profit maners neither vnsauerie to youth for delight nor offensiue to age for scurilitie Ea habentur optima quae Iucunda honesta vtilia Robertus Greene In artibus magister LONDON Printed by Ihon Wolfe for Edward White and are to bee sold at his shop at the litle North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne 1587. TO THE RIGHT HONORAble Robert earle of Essex Ewe vicount of Hereford and Bourghchier Lord Ferrer● of Chattley Bourghchier and Louayne maister of the Queenes maiesties horse Robert Greene wisheth increase of honor and vertue THe Egyptians right honorable seeing the counterfait of Mercurie figured with his Caduceus in his ryght hande offered for sacrifice nothing but bay leaues● in that they knew such oblations best ted his humor Such as sought to beautifie the temple of Pallas set vp for Iewels bookes shields for that the goddesse did most patronage learning and souldiers Hectors delight was martiall discipline and they presented him with horse armour noting by these presidents how all haue sought in their presents to keepe a decorum hauing by happe chaunced on some parte of Ephues counsell touching the perfection of a souldier sent from Silexedra his melancholie cell to his friende Philautus new chosen generall of certaine forces wherein vnder the shadow of a philosophicall combat betweene Hector and Achilles imitating Tullies orator Platoes cōmon wealth and Baldessars courtier he aymeth at the exquisite portraiture of a perfect martialist consisting sayth hee in three principall pointes wisedome to gouerne fortitude to perfourme liberalitie to incourage I thought good right honorable hauing heard of your noble vertous resolutions not onely in laudable and honorable qualities generally inserted in your Lordships mynde but especially in the fauour of warlike indeuours following the steppes of your honorable father whose life and actions left an admiration of his Vertues to present your Lordship wyth this homelie gyfte vnperfect as the halfe formed counterfaite of Apelles and shadowed with such bad collours as might I not excuse my boldnesse in that blinde men are euer most rash and honorable men euer the most courteous I should the more grieue at my inconsidered presumption but two especiall coniectures doe somewhat salue the sorrow of my forward follie the first the report of your approoued courage and valour in the lowe Countries shewed in the face of your enemie maintained with such a magnanimious resolution as the foe was faine to confesse Vertue in his aduersarie the seconde your Lordships courtesie in acceptaunce of good wil from the meanest th'one manifesting your desire to be thought an honorable souldier biddeth mee hope that as Alexander did vouchsafe of Misons rude vnpolished picture of Mars for that the prince delighted in wars so your honor will giue a glance at this toy if not for the workmanship yet for that it treateth of martiall discipline the other assures mee that amongst many other I shall though without desert ●aste of your Lordships honorable courtesie in vouchsafing such a meane and vnsauorie present wherewith if I be fauored as I hope well my labour hath his reward and my desire his content in which assured hope resting I commit your honor to the almightie ¶ To the Reader GEntlemen by chance some of Euphues loose papers came to my hand wherein hee writ to his friend Philautus from Silexedra certaine pinciples necessary to bee obserued by euery souldier coniecturing with my selfe the opynion of the man would bee not onely authenticall but pleasing and that the tyme required such a discourse as necessarie I thought not to conceale his censure but to participate what I had to your courteous fauours although intēded by him for the pryuate vse of his deerest friend hoping as euer I haue done to find your courteous acceptation and that you will for Euphues sake vouchsafe of the matter and requitall of my trauell make some fauorable coniecture of my good meaning which hoping to obtayne I rest satisfied● A Philosophicall combat betweene Hector and Achilles wherein in the persons of the Troian and Gretian Lords are in fowre discourses in-riched with fowre delightfull Hystories the vertuous mindes of true nobilitie and gentility pleasantly discouered HElena the haplesse wyfe of vnhappy Menelaus beawtified frō aboue to inflict a mortall punishment vpon men beneath honored in Gréece more for her beawty then hir honesty a fault which fondlings account for a fauour fulfilling the dreame of Hecuba that she hatched a fierbrād which should bring Troy to cy●●ers through her lawlesse consent to Paris so troubled the quietn●sse of Asia that Priamus ●lowrishing as prince of ●●at part of the worlde was with his sonnes and daughters brought to ruine the ende of voluptuos appetites which they mayntained with the sworde For Agamemnon copartner of Menelaus gréefe as friendship is the ●rind to reueng ayded with all the Kings Princes Dukes and Knightes of Gréece intended a resolute leg●r to the citie of Troy which conti●ued ●wo yeares without truce by sundrie assaults 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 had d●uo●r●d of both part●s 〈◊〉 my vahaunt captaynes that by common consent after a frie●dly par●●● they res●lued vpon a truce for thirty dayes during which time the Tr●ian Ladies resembling Proserpina that must of necessity taste a gra●ne of the forbidden Pomgranate namely Andromache Cassandra and Polixena accompanied with Hector Troilus Aeneas Helenus and diuers other of royall parentage went to sée the Gretian tents peopled with their enemies Fame the spedy discouerer of new●s bewraying their intent to the states of Gréece Achilles amongst the rest ●or that the report of Polixenas beawty had made a conquest of his affections in that the ●are leadeth to the inwarde senses as well as the eye craued of the Gouernour and generall of their forces hee might bee honoured with the intertaynment of the Troians his request graunted accompanied with his Myrmidones he went to meete them in this manner First marched on before the rest a hundreth and fifty on the most gallaunt Coursers that Greece did afoorde their caparisons of Greene Ueluet interseamed with stars of Golde about which was writ●en thus impre●ze Lux tenebra Next to these Achilles mounted vpon an Arabian courser couler Blacke whose furniture was blewe Ueluet fringed with Golde whereon was curiously embrodred the Target of Pallas with a Gorgons head his impreeze Sic Amor. His companions weare Vlisses Diome Patroclus with many Lordes of great valour and progenie The Gretians thus marching on in order met Hector who was fi●st of his companie whose very face harboring an extraordinary kinde