Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09799	Three [morall] treatises no lesse pleasau[nt] than necessary for all men to read[e,] wherof the one is called the learned prince, the other the fruites of foes, the thyrde the porte of rest.; Moralia. Selections. English	Plutarch.; Blundeville, Thomas, fl. 1561.	1561 (1561)	STC 20063.5; ESTC S110436	42,324	138

content with theyr rewarde and dooe easilye suffer the wrestlers to enioye to theymselues those Crownes of glorye that they haue wonne Haste thou gotten Sparta sayeth Solon to bee thy Countrey then adourne it wyth good lawes and ordynaunces But we would not sayeth the same Solon chaunge with you oure vertue for youre richesse For vertue is a stable thynge and the propertye thereof maye bee possessed But rychesse are onelye graunted too mannes vse for a time passinge oft from one to another Strato the naturall Phylosopher when hee hearde that Meuedemus had more scholers then he said is it so muche to be maruayled at the more desier to bee washed then to bee annointed Aristotle writinge to Antipater said that AlexaÌ„der was much to be praised and extolled not onely for that he had the rule and empire ouer manye nacions but also for that he had a better opinion then others of thinges appertaignyng to god And therfore if men would thus perswade with themselues that theyr owne things ought to be reioyced in to be praised and not to be so litle set by thei should not so pine away in maruailyng at other men But nowe though there bee none of vs al that thinketh the vine mete to beare figges nor the olyue tree to brynge foorth grapes yet do we continually accuse our selues and with vnthankful satiablenes vexe and greue our selues yea we be wery of our selues except we maie bee chief so well amongst the riche as also among thelloquent at whom in peace as abrode in warre aswel amongst the Philosophers as the souldiers and againe amongst the flatterers as amongst those that be true and of a faithfull free simplicitie and finally so well amongest the couetous sparers and as the prodigall spenders And yet we see with oure eyes howe maruaylously well nature dothe teache vs the contrary For as nature hathe ordeyned sundry wyld beastes to lyue by soÌ„dry kindes of foode and not to bee all fed either with seedes fleshe or rootes but diuers to eate of diuerse meates euen so likewise the selfe same nature hath geuen to mankind dyuerse kindes of life as some to be herdmeÌ„ some plowmeÌ„ some foulers and some fishers wherefore it behoueth euery one of vs to take that whiche we perceiue is moste meete for vs and wholye applyinge oure selues to that to depart from the possession of those thynges whiche we know do apperteigne to others For otherwise Hesiodus should be vnwise to speake in this sorte The potter doth himself with potters aye compare And eke the smith his like in arte texcell dothe care But nowe menne doe not contende one with another in lykenesse of arte or facultie but the riche with the eloquente the nobles with the riche and the lawyers with the subtile sophisters Yea free meÌ„ gentlemen and suche as bee descended of an auncient stocke bee amased and dooe maruaile so muche at the good successe promocion that manye tymes players of merye interludes and commodies on stages tumblers and slaues haue in kinges courtes that whilest thei thinke all their owne honest qualities not to be estemed they vexe themselues with great grieffes and sorowfulnesse of mynde whiche at length dothe kyll them But howe euerye man hath in his own mynde a storehouse or receptacle and as it were a flowynge fountayne both of quietnesse and of carefulnesse and hathe also the vessels wherof Homer speaketh full of all kynde of good and euyll not as hee sayeth layde at Iupyter hys Doore but placed wythin the soule the dyuersityes of menne whiche wee see to bee dyuerslye ruled by affections of the mynde dooe ryghte well declare For fooles doe not onely passe ouer good thynges whiche be presente but also dooe neglect those that bee paste So muche are theyr carefull myndes bente to that whiche is to come But wise menne contrarywise reuoluing thynges throughe good remembraunce before their eyes doe cause those thinges that as yet bee not to bee at hande yea and to bee presente in deede Whereas to fooles because thynges present do chauÌ„ce in a momente so sodainelye as they can not almoste bee perceyued it semeth that we haue nothynge nor that anye thynge apperteigneth vnto vs. And as the Rope-maker whiche is paincted in Pluto hys Temple for slouth suffreth his Asse that standeth by hym to eate vp all the corde that hee of hempe hathe twysted euen so the vngratefull and sluggishe forgetfulnesse of manye takynge awaye the commodyties receyued of thinges past and cancellynge all the noble actes and woorthye enterpryses all the sweete tyme spente in quyete Studye free from all worldly affaires all the plesaunt and merie societies and felow lyke liuynge together of frendes and finallye cleane abolishyng all that parte of the lyfe that euer was geuen to anye myrthe or pleasure wyll not suffer I saye one self life to be made and knit of thynges paste and present but by seperatyng the life past from the lyfe present and agayne the lyfe present from the lyfe to come maketh for lacke of callyng suche thinges to remembraunce all thinges to seeme as though they had neuer bene done Those that in the scholles of Philosophers doe take away thencrease of bodies affirmyng the substaunce to vanish away by continuall wasting of breath doo seme to proue that euerye one of vs dooe alter state of body dayly decay by woordes But suche as do forgette thynges past as though theyr memorie failed them and will not repeat one thing often those do not in woordes but in deedes make themselues euery day more miserable and poorer then other Depending of the time to come as thoughe thynges of a yere paste and of late dayes yea and of yesterdaye apperteigned nothing vnto theÌ„ yea and as thoughe those thinges hadde neuer chaunced vnto them So that the quiet estate of the mind is by this meanes disturbed And as flies creapyng vppon verye smoothe and slippery glasse doe slide and yet in rough and cranyed places doe easily sticke Euen so menne doe fal from merye and pleasaunt thinges and doe take sure holde on the remembraunce of heauye and sorowefull thinges Yea rather as by report there is in Olinthios a certaine place called of the propertie thereof Cantharoletron into the whiche when the great betleflyes bee once entered they cannot fynde the waye out againe but after that they haue many times tumbled to and fro and gone oft aboute in vaine at length doe dye so men being walowed into the remembrance of misery aduersitie caÌ„not afterward help themselues out nor yet once take breathe And therfore as painters in their tables are wont with faire glistering coulours to couer and to ouerlaye those coulours that be duskishe and not to be seen So it behoueth menne in their myndes wyth thinges woorthye of remembraunce and praise to presse down and to ouerwhelme all suche sorowfull chaunces as are not to be spoken of For thinges paste cannot be vtterly abolyshed nor yet dothe it lye in mannes power wholy to beware

whom what where when With Linx his eyes he doth beholde Thy lyfe thy frende and seruaunte aye Thy dedes and thoughtes right manifolde Thy name to harme if that he maye Thys profyt eke by foes we haue Our frendes oft tymes we doe not minde They may be sick and layde in graue Vnwares to vs lyke men vnkinde But of oure foe both day and night We thinke and dreame such is our choyse His grief or bane to haue in sight Which onely doth our mindes reioyce If thou be sick or much in det Falne out with wife with mayde or man Yea no mishap can thee beset But it thy foes eft sone knowe can Lyke rauening birdes that putryd fleshe And not the sounde far of can smell So they thy illes to spye be freshe And all thy griefes with eye full fell What greater gaine may be than this Hereby to learne in suche a sort Our life to leade as none there is That ill therof may once report For as sicke men that wary be In meates and drinkes that may offende In wordes and dedes euen so doe we Take hede that they the best pretende Wherby we come in schole to dwell Of customes good and excellent For reason rules thaffections fell Wherto our myndes be alwales bent Yea through long time and exercyse It bredes in vs such stedfastnes That learne we can none other guise But aye to liue in holynes The townes that long haue bene beset With enmies stout on euery side Haue derely learnde by losses gret To kepe good watche in euery ride And eke their lawes and ordinaunce To execute with iustice aye The humble sort for to aduaunce The proude to chast that nyll obay Euen so fare those that forced bee Through spightfull foes both negligence And slouthfulnes alwaies to flee Whereby they liue without offence For custome shall them bring with spede To suche a trade of doyng well That if they goe as reason lede In errour none they can long dwell VVhen minstrels of one sute and bande In open place doe musicke make VVithout all feare and care they stande And to their play no hede doe take But when their skyll they doe compare VVith straungers that professe lyke art They sharpe their wittes and haue great care That euery one may doe his part Of instrumentes and eke of stringes They seke where they maye haue best choyce And oft doe proue how with suche thinges May best agree both hande and voice Euen so it fares with him whose lyfe And honour bothe muche spighted is By those that sekes with hatefull strife Hys thinges to blame that be amis Full ware is he in busines And eke foresees therof the ende For when we erre malitiousnes Regardes the foe more than the frende When Carthage was all torne and rent And Greece subdude the Romaines thought Themselues full safe their foes thus shent They were all gladde and feared nought But Scipio did then repreue In perill most be we quoth he When no foe is that may vs greue Whose feare should make vs slouth to fle One asked once Diogenes How he might best reuenged bee Of all his â—oes both more and les That from all care he mighte be free Diogenes right wisely tho To him gan saye no dent of knife Can greue so much thy cruell fo As for to see thy perfit lyfe What grudge what griefe the common sort Conceiues to see the go odly horse And coursing dogges which but for sport To kepe their â—â—es do litle force What playntes what sighthes dolfull sownds Their spightfull breastes to heauen do yelde To see their pleasant garden growndes Or store of corne to growe in fielde How much more then would they lament To sâ—e their foe to be full iuste In worde and dede to vertue bent Of sober life and free from lust And eke to budde out of his brest That fraighted is with holynes Such domes and councels as are best To ease eche heart in heauynes The tonges of them that conquerde bee Are bounde from speache saith Pindarus And yet these wordes as you shall see To all be not approbrious But only do suche men reproue As nedes must yelde vnto their foes In all those vertues that behoue A perfit man for to disclose For suche thinges faith Dimosthenes Do binde the tonge in torment aye And stoppes the mouth of them doutles That thinkes more ill then they dare saye Enforce to shewe thy selfe therfore Sith in thy power it doth consist Thy lyfe to guide by vertues lore Their wicked tonges for to resist And when thou wouldst faine put thy foe In great dispaire take not the waye By haynous wordes as others doe His name to persecute I saye Ne beastly man ne filthy foole Doe thou hym call but rather seke In suche a sort thy selfe to schoole That none thy doynges maye misleke Be true thy selfe in woorde and dede Be modest styll and chast also Shewe curtesy in tyme of nede To suche as haue with thee to do And if it shoulde so come to passe That nedes thy foe thou must reproue For any fault yet in that case See first thy selfe thou doe wel proue Examine eke with diligence Thine inward partes if they be free From all suche vire and negligence as in thy foe thou semste to see For els perhaps thou maist geue cause To some ill tonge that standes thee by With voyce full soft to saye this clause Recited in a Tragedie Beholde I saye this foolishe man That takes in hande the woundes to cure Of other men and yet nought can His owne redresse I you assure But if he call thee ignoraunt Learne wisedome then by industrie Thy faynty heart if he doe taunt Let stoutnes shew thou wilt not flie If he thee checke for lecherie Auoide eche sparke of filthines Out of thy breast full spedilie and learne to liue in holines More foule or grieuous nothing is Then for a man suche faultes to checke As all the shame therof ywis Againe shall turne vpon his necke For as rebounde of glittering light The feble sight doth moste offende Euen so most grieuous is the spight Which trueth beates back froÌ„ whence it wende The mistie cloudes vnto the winde that blowes Northeast doe aye resort The wicked life euen so we fynde To her doth drawe all ill report If any man in Platoes sight Had vilye done straight thence would he And softly say may any wight Such one as he me force to be But when thou haste with wordes of ire Thy foe yprict for his offence Beholde thy self and eke desire Thy lyfe tamende with diligence Of spightfull wordes so shalt thou drawe Muche fruite to thy greate welth and gaine Though some it thinke ne right ne lawe To vse such wordes of great disdayne The common sort do laughe and smyle VVhen any balde or crooked man Do others taunt and oft reuyle For such defectes as themselues han VVhat greater scorne then woulde it bee If thou suche faultes

For trouble is compaignyon to the voluptuous and delicate lyfe and waxeth olde with the poore miserable lyfe But as those that be fearefull of a weake stomake and not hable to brooke the Seas when they saile on the Seas wyll remoue manye tymes out of a lyttle Bote into a great shippe and from thence into a galey thinckynge therby to be immediatly easid of their griefe vntyll such time they feele that they profite nothing in so doinge because that wheresoeuer they go they cary with them that Chooler fearefulnes whych is wythin theÌ„ Euen so the ofteÌ„ chauÌ„ge of soÌ„dry kindes of life cannot delyuer the mynd froÌ„ suche grieffes and troubles as these be That is to saye Ignoraunce and lacke of Experience foolishe rashnes lacke of knowledge and power to vse thinges presente in their due kynde For these be the thinges that vâ—xe both ryche and poore and trouble so well the maryed as the vnmaryed Nor none other cause then thys doth make suche as haue forsaken the citie for to dwell in the Country to be wearye againe of the Countrey and to retourne eftsones into the Cytye These thinges also cause many men whiche by great helpe and importunate sute haue placed themselues in kynges Courtes anone after to repente their laboure so bestowed A sicke man as Ion sayeth is a verye vnpleasaunt thinge for he cannot abyde his wyfe he blameth his Phisicion and is angry with his bedde Yf hys friende commeth to vysite him he dothe but trouble hym And if he departe from hym he dothe againe offende him But after that hys dysease begynneth to asswage and to be somewhat more temperate Then commeth healthe by litle and lytle makinge all thinges delectable and pleasaunte In suche sorte that whereas the daye before he dyd lothe newe layde Egges deintye Brothes and the fyneste breade that might be gotten The nexte daye after can hungerlye eate a peece of common bread with a few cresses Of suche importaunce is a good discorse in all chaunges of the life thonely force wherof procureth the happye lyfe It is sayed that when Alexander hearde the Philosopher Anaxharcus affirmynge in disputation that there were innumerable worldes he weapte for sorowe And beynge demaunded by his frendes what iuste cause he had to wepe he aunswerid Haue we not iuste cause quod he to weepe sythe there be so manye worldes and we be not as yet lordes of one But Crates the porely clad Philosopher contrarywise consumed all hys life to the laste daie in sporte laughter as though they were all festiuall dayes Agamemnon likewise kynge of the Micens was not a little troubled for that he had the rule of so manye men Of whom Homer talking saieth thus Thou knowest righte well Atreus son That clepid is Agamemnon Whome moste of all with Labors great Ioues pleasure is to vexe and freat When Diogenes the Phylosopher was in the markette amongst others to be solde and was commaunded by the Cryer which should sell him to rise vppe He woulde not so doe but ieasted wyth the Cryer demaunding of him if he brought a fishe to sell whither he would bydde it rise vppe or not So litle he estemed hys mysserable state Did not Socrates lykewise being in prisoÌ„ fast cheined fettred stoodye wisedome and dyspute of phylosophye amongst his disciples and Scholars But looke agayne on thother syde howe Phaeton clymyng vp into the heauens with weeping teares complayned because that no maÌ„ would geue him the gouernement of his fathers horse chariot As the shooe is wont to be wriethed and turned to serue a crooked foote and not contrarywise the foote to fitte a crooked shooe Euen so the state and disposition of the mynde must make euery kinde of lyfe that is offred semblable and agreyng to her selfe Nor it is not custome as some men affirme whiche maketh pleasaunte the lyfe that they haue chosen as best for themselues But rather wisedom maketh thesame life best and moste pleasaunt Therefore lette vs firste labour to pourge to purifie and to make so cleane as is possible the flowyng fountayne of the tranquilitie of the minde whiche is within vs to thintent that we may make all outwarde thinges commyng vnto vs by chaunce plyant and apte to serue the purpose through our patient sufferance For though thinges doe not succede well accordyng to oure desire yet it behoueth not vs to be angrie therwith sithe angre thereto nought appertayneth Yea he is to be praised that by arte and pollecy can soonest redresse suche euyll successe And therefore Plato compared mans lyfe to the dice playe in the which although the player oughte to desier euery beste caste yet howe so euer it chaunceth he muste take skilfull heede to dispose eche caste in the beste wyse that he can according as the chaunce will beare it Of whiche two thynges the one that is the chaunce of the dye consisteth not in oure power But the other lyeth in vs to perfourme That is to saye if we be wise to take pacientlye whatsoeuer chaunseth and tappoynte euery one his right place in such sort that whatsoeuer chaunseth well may bee applied to most aduauntage that whiche happeneth otherwise to leaste damage But foolishe men and vnexperte in knowing howe to liue be like vnto a diseased body whiche can neither suffer heate nor colde For in prosperitie they be fresh and gaye and looke pleasauntlye But in aduersitie they bende the browes and looke all frowardlye And therefore both states doe trouble them yea rather in them both they trouble themselues And no lesse also bee they troubled in those thinges which of them selues are thoughte to bee good Theodorus which surnamed is Atheus was wonte oftetimes to saie that he reached furth his woordes with the ryghte hande but they receaued them with the left euen so fares thignorant sort which when fortune many tymes woulde come vnto them on the right side they moste vndecentlye turnyng themselues awaye doe place her on the lefte But muche better doe the wisemen whiche lyke as bees doe make honie whiche is of all thynges moste sweete of Thyme the driest hearb and of most bitter Iuyce So they of most harmefull thinges doe choose oute many tymes some thinge that is to them bothe meete and profitable Whiche thynge is most chiefly to be studied and with much exercise of the minde to bee laboured For as he that when he had throwen a stone at a snarlyng bitche and missing her vnwillynglye by chaunce hit his stepdame saide vnto hymselfe that his throwe was not altogether euill bestowed eueÌ„ so wheÌ„ chaunce chaunceth not according to our desier we maie amende it and apply it to some other vse Diogenes was banished out of his couÌ„trey and yet this had none euyll successe for the same banishemente gaue hym firste occasion to studie Philosophie Zenon Citicus being become of a Philosopher a notable riche merchaunt by misfortune loste all that he had saue one shippe whiche afterwarde when he heard

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